#also ooh slight redesigns ooh

[emioliravioli]

slowly clawing my way out of this art slump with the homos

[agerefandom]

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34. Copy and paste an excerpt you’re particularly fond of.

Ooh. Hard question! I had to reread a couple fics I remember being my favourites. I quite like this passage from ‘Heading Home Again,’ which was a non-agere Marvel AU that I wrote a couple years back. 

“Peggy was old, and her skin felt like rose petals. Her eyes were sometimes distant, and wrinkles spread from them like starbursts. Steve had never been more aware of his own body, the way that his skin was unmarked by the years he had lost. Peggy had married. She had lived a life. Steve had been frozen.”

35. Ramble about any fic-related thing you want!

*taps fingers against each other like a villain* 

Okay I’m gonna put this under the cut because it’s got some nsfw mentions  BUT I’ve been redesigning a common fanfiction AU and I��d love to babble about it. (lots of people use the AU for nsfw fics but I think it has potential outside of that as well!)

Right so ‘omegaverse’ is a thing that exists, right? It’s a fanfiction AU where people have more animal traits. Usually, people pay most attention to sexual traits, and more specifically, they divide pairings into ‘alpha/dominant/top’ and ‘omega/submissive/bottom’. 

And I think that’s silly! It’s basically just taking heteronormative binaries, making them ‘sexy,’ and then applying them to queer couples! 

Soooo anyways I’ve been considering a redesign that’s more inclusive of poly or alpha/alpha, omega/omega pairs and it’s been really fun! 

Betas: the pack-members, the most numerous of the ‘dynamic genders’ (alpha/beta/omega: the ‘social genders’ are male/female/etc), comprising a little over half of the population. They’re more sensitive to scents than Omegas and Alphas, and have more conscious control over their own pheromone output, usually to calm down the others. Very pack-loyal, they like having a defined family group, which can be romantic or platonic. 

Alphas: the protectors, tend to be more active and are less adept at sitting still or small detail-oriented tasks. Deeply bound to their pack, but tend to choose a single mate within the group (not always, but usually). They have very blunt pheromones: anger, fear, territory marking, happiness. Very protective of everyone in their pack. 

Omegas: the child-bearing gender: intersex and physically fluid, they can have children with any of the dynamic or social genders. Many omegas identify as male or female, but others don’t. They have subtler scents, able to communicate slight shifts in mood and opinions through pheromones. But they can also direct others through their scents (ie. protect, run, etc.). They’re much less pack-bound than Betas and Alphas, unless they bondmate with one of the other dynamic genders. On their own, or in Omega pairs, they drift between packs freely. They’re also more seasonal than the others, tending to nest in the winter and sun themselves in the summer. 

Thank you so much for letting me rimbleramble! I have been considering this muchly.