#PHEREMONES

[stoicmike]

Easy to mistake that someone is flirting with you when they aren’t. Or the reverse. -- Michael Lipsey

[despondent-beauty]

My family needs to stop reminding me to take a shower. Like... the point of not showering isn't to smell like flowers, Grandma. I LIKE smelling like a musky, needy little omega dragon boy. How will the alphas know when I'm in heat/receptive if I shower???? It'll rinse all of my pheromones away?????? Ofc I shower after my cycle each month so that I don't keep stale rut scent on me... but ffs, I'm trying to get some cock. They need to know when I'm breedable somehow???

THINK before you speak 🙄🙄🙄

[hellomystraightlacedfriend]

Hi there! I was wondering if you have any comic examples of spider woman using her pheromones and how they effect others? I think I've seen a few comic posts on your tumblr about it but it's hard to find.

Yes, there are definitely comic examples of Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew as well as Veranke when she was impersonating Jessica Drew) affecting people with her pheromones.

Writer Mark Gruenwald was the first person to introduce the idea of Jessica Drew having these kind of pheromones, during his run of her solo series. Essentially, he was providing an explanation for something the previous writer Marv Wolfman introduced: that people were instinctively afraid of Jessica Drew. She made their skin crawl.

So, the first emotion we really see Jessica Drew causing in other people is fear (this is similar to another later introduced pheromone user Akihiro [who formerly went by Daken] whose uncontrolled pheromones seemed to create negative emotions in those around him as a child.)

This is not something Jess is doing on purpose/something she has control over. And people's fear of Jessica Drew creates problems in her life, as no one will employ her. She ends up finding out at a clinic that it is her potent pheromones (caused by her spider DNA) that are interfering with her life.

Her pheromones cause most women to be uncomfortable around her, and most men to be attracted to her and fear her at the same time. But as I mentioned in another post, people who are not straight seem to be immune to her pheromones. (At least they are not afraid of her, and gay men are not attracted to her.)

Jess ends up taking pills to suppress her pheromones, but not before she is attacked by the mutant Nekra Sinclair, who was running the clinic. To Nekra's surprise, Jess' pheromones created feelings of affection and trust in her. Nektra was angry with another pheromone user for betraying her, so she created an immunity pill for such pheromones and decided to test it out by taking it and then killing Jess. But the pill's effect wore off during the fight, leaving Nektra vulnerable - since all her power came from anger/hate.

Another person who was possibly affected by Jess' pheromones is S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Jerry Hunt, Jess' first boyfriend in America. He became absolutely obsessed with her after briefly seeing her in London and tracked her to L.A. Even though he did not know her at all, he believed himself to be deeply in love with her and also said she meant more to him than anyone he knew.

This isn't really confirmed as the effects of Jess' pheromones, but it makes sense. Though again, this wouldn't be something Jess had any control over. In any case, their relationship doesn't last long, as Jess is not as keen about Jerry as he is about her, so she doesn’t follow him when S.H.I.E.L.D. sends him back to London.

Jess takes the suppressing pills, but (in Chris Claremont's run) she finds that she has to keep upping her dosage to have the same effect, while at the same time the pills are having negative affects on her other powers as well.

Jess decides to take a break from taking the pills, and this is the first time we see Jess use her pheromones more as a tool. She's going to investigate a plant, and pretends to be an interviewee to do so. But she notices the man interviewing her is really into her because of her pheromones, and she leans into it, using the man's attraction to get more information. However, she is absolutely disgusted when he ends up kissing her.

Her pheromones are basically ignored after this, until Bendis' first New Avengers run. Where Veranke, posing as Jessica Drew and with the same powers as her, uses her pheromones to get a foe to stop fighting:

Veranke/Spider-Woman then has to explain her pheromones to the team and that she's learned to control them.

Jessica Drew is first really shown to have control over her pheromones in Kelly Sue DeConnick's run of Avengers Assemble. Where Jess claims to be able to control the Hulk with her pheromones and then proves it by getting him to make her a sandwich.

Later in this same run, an angry Hulk has a huge parasite growing inside him, and Jess is sent into the confined area he is in, to see if she can control him long enough to administer an antidote. Which she is able to do, though it was really quite tense.

Since then, we haven't really seen Jess use her pheromones much. There were a couple of ineffective times in Strikeforce and Spider-Woman (2020), but yeah, nothing close to controlling the Hulk.

[wxndswept]

🫂 Dev at Ruan Mei to jumpscare her.

Send 🫂 to just hug my muse. No reason. Hug them. (Accepting)

"Ah!"

That was a noise she did not want to make, at least in front of Devona. The woman's touch was colder than one would think. Combined with Ruan Mei's increased body temperature since boarding the Myrmdion, she was more prone to getting caught off guard like this. To make matters worse, she never had a chance to figure out why she was like this.

"P-please be mindful of any physical contact." Even now, she was sensitive, unfocused, and hot. What was it about this place? "If I'm distracted while holding volatile chemicals, it could spell danger for the entire ship.

She really needed Yuuki to come back.

[rot-room]

[taperwolf]

Ants do a lot of communication via pheromones, right? There's the whole leaving scent trails thing, and there's the experiments with dousing a live ant with "dead ant" pheromones and watching it be treated like a corpse. Do we have knowledge of other targetable pheromones? Are there synthetic pheromones or other aromas that read like danger to ants? Could you treat buildings with ant-detectable odors to keep them out?

(Right now we're dealing with the tail end of a minor infestation coming from somewhere behind our stove. I'm not morally opposed to using ant baits and such, which is what we've done here, but when I'm washing down the counters with a vinegar solution every time there's a straggler wandering across them, I just got wondering if there isn't a more preventative approach.)

[astrologysaysno]

[Hi, Hello, like 8 people wanted more of what I wrote about Strange Omega Qinghua so I guess I'm delivering on that]

[The Prequel]

To Shang Qinghua, scenting is a useless phenomena.

He understands it theoretically. It's the process in which an item is marked with the pheromones of an individual to indicate an underlying social context.

The problem is, he has no idea what it's actually like.

Despite his omega status for his secondary gender, he has never actually participated in the process. Being scent blind, the smell of pheromones is something he is unaffected by, and as something that's so key in the use of social interactions, it forces Shang Qinghua to really be able to understand other cues to give a tell on how things work.

For the major characters, he doesn't need a tell. He has wrote them down with painstaking detail, dedicating chapters and paragraphs and enough words that it would make a novel feel like a drabble in comparison. He can see the twitch in Liu Qingge's hand whenever he wants to hunt, the movement Shen Jiu's fan does when he's pissed, and the way Yue Qingyuan's smile becomes a little more lifeless whenever the Qing Jing Peak Lord passes him silently.

For the characters he didn't write, he sometimes fumble. He can't smell them sometimes when they hide their anger but after years of practice, he can tell when they're mad.

It was what made him advantageous when it came to deals. Though he could never tell when a merchant was happy with the deal or not, he would be unable to be intimidated by scent. The scent of particularly aggressive suppliers who uses their scent to pressure their business partners into agreeing to a more lucrative agreement find trouble with Shang Qinghua, he simply sits casually, as if the room that is heavily intoxicated with the scent of danger was only a figment of your imagination.

But scenting itself is an instinct, an instinct that Qinghua does not have. Sure, he can emit pheromones, but it's a rocky attempt at best, and uncontrollable at worst, with the scent of these pheromones coming out at random with no clear way to start or stop. Scenting is an intentional process that relies on a person's innate ability to imbue an object with the smell of them.

It's not like he can smell it anyway.

It's why, despite his Omega status, he has never shared his scent with other omegas. it would be impossible to properly practice normal omegaverse customs without the capabilities to do so.

In my idea of the Omegaverse, people give and mark their scents to each other regularly to indicate their belonging to a pack, whether it be something such as a family, or an organization like Cang Qiong. Many have tried to gift Shang Qinghua these in the form of pillowcases, robes, or accessories.

But ignorant to his own place in the world and the way people feel about him, he takes this as his role on An Ding to be inadvertently assigned as an outer disciple in charge of the laundry; and being charged with the task of becoming the Peak Lord of An Ding by the system, he swallow his pride to take it in stride, washing vigorously and returning them back to the person in pristine and sterile condition.

This has caused strain and even a punch to the face for Qinghua, with him wrongly assuming it was simply his destiny to be mistreated. Of course he's treated like dirt, ut's probably why he became a traitor in the first place. Time passes, and he slowly gets less and less of these gifts and continues his unprecedented distance to the people of his peak.

Maybe it was why it was so easy for the people in the caravan to throw him to the man who would one day be his demise, a sacrifice for a world that values the people of their pack so highly, that seems to place such a significant weight over protecting their own.

(He hears the whispers that pity him, that suspect him, that makes guesses on why he survived, all of which center around his distance. That the demon had came for Cang Qiong specifically and his detachment gave him an out to lie about his allegiance and pass himself off as a bystander who was just unfortunate enough to be there. He seems pitiful enough, why not let him live.)

Maybe it's also why Mobei-jun has such a hard time trusting him for so long. You would assume from a man that said he would dedicate his entire life to you, that he would give everything to be your servant, he would be unashamed in being part of your pack. That he would show a visible attempt at indicating that. Pride for your pack is important in such a territorial world.

He's grated that his subordinate seemingly refuses to show his loyalty by keeping his scent, that whatever he has marked will be scrubbed into sterility.

(Shang Qinghua was once asked by his fellow disciple what that scent was, and it clicked pretty fast that Mobei-jun was marking his things. He stays up late and scrubs and replaces everything regularly, praying that the system gives him a hand if it wants the plot to stay on course.)

[sabbathbloodysabbeth]

alpha Eddie playing the guitar so loud to the point that his amp normally makes half the trailer vibrate. When omega Steve finds himself in the room, forced to put on ear protection because “the louder I play the better it sounds, but I don’t want to make you deaf Stevie.” It’s pretty much his way of playing his music the way he wants while accommodating Steve. Though Eddie is so used to how much his room vibrates that he barely reacts when it starts. Steve on the other hand has to cross his legs as the amp is sitting right next to the bed and pretty much making the bed vibrate intensely. Eddie only stops when he smells Steve, who is completely embarrassed. Though it does end up with Eddie placing his amp on the bed for better vibrations and he’ll never be more proud then when he makes Steve cum with the talent of his fingers but never touching him.

When Eddie goes off on tour for the first time he decides to buy himself a new amp. Though before leaving he has Steve sit on it and marinate it with good luck a few times.

Happy pheromone Friday 😉I did post this a bit earlier in a community and after much thought this is the post I want to kick my first pheromone Friday with. If you want to participate here’s my ask box send away! (I haven’t gotten any yet, but if I don’t i’ll post another Drabble I’ve written :)

[the-northern-continent]

“It’s a pride demon. Probably sensed Solas’ ego.”

The pride demon: *immediately sticks to Rook like a magnet*

Solas himself: *sticks to Rook like a magnet*

Every other pride demon in Thedas: *sticks to Rook like a magnet*

Yeah. Yeah, Varric. It definitely sensed Solas’ ego.

[realpokemon]

how infest an apartment with skorupis

this is not a good coping mechanism

[zellaspinna]

they’re giving Teen Wolf and Twilight reallness… do you guys see the vision..

[captainjonnitkessler]

Guess who's about to find out if they are allergic to wasps as well as bees!!

[hawnks]

Japanese versus US omegaverse is so funny. No girl, we’re not on suppressants, we can’t afford them 🫶

[lemon-russ]

First Cato Sicarius, and now the Lion? Guilliman is gonna have to start using a stick to beat men away his ambassador. Assuming he doesn't take her for himself first.

Oh my gods the implication that it's the same ambassador. It is NOW.

Canon Ambassador really does have an aoe field of psyker energy that makes giant men need her carnally and breaks their brainwashing and penises. How else could this keep happening.

[thlayli-ra]

Not even Shinsuke can resist the little red trunks!

[hypernigma]

i'll say this to fucking death but i don't want ivy to be sleek and seductive in her next film adaptation. she needs to be gross. she wants humanity wiped out (to start out with) she does not have time to fucking groom herself. she is earthy, she has fungus growing out of her, she smells of rot and dirt and dew, this is how she reaches her peak you must understand.