#but I mean. it's not like I'm holding the authors at gunpoint ordering them to think about idk train infrastructure or something

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Sometimes I think about omegaverse too much because like

There are some settings where it's common for the pack alpha to be the one responsible for punishments, usually spanking. So whenever a member of the pack does something wrong, they talk it out, but even after they admit to everything, apologize and say they won't do it again, the head alpha still administers spanking. Everyone understands and acknowledges that This Is The Best Way. Even when a pack member is so upset and defiant that they actively resist/fight the idea of being spanked, it happens to them in the end nonetheless.

And like... the impies... are fascinating.

BECAUSE: what does it mean in the context of children?

(I feel like omegaverse in general, despite all this "omegas get pregnant regardless of the primary gender" stuff, rarely thinks about children/teenagers as people. Merely concepts. I've read a fic where one's secondary gender presentation occurred in their very late teens, if not somewhere around university, and I just... this is similar to people only seeing in color once they meet their soulmate -- in their teens if they're lucky, even later if they're not. Like. Author I love that you're having fun but you did not spend five SECONDS considering this idea beyond "ooo it would be cool".)

Do people just... think spanking is good and works? Or the opposite: do they raise their children in a non-violent way, while spanking their partners? No, that makes no sense, the children would see that and wonder what's up. Is spanking only a thing in childless packs? Is spanking only a thing in packs that specifically are into that? But I haven't really seen any fics that would make it clear enough; it's usually a person going from a violently abusive pack to one that's "better" because it only uses spanking according to the packs rules. It's always "what, no, oh my god, we're not LIKE THAT... our violence is wholesome"

And I mean, I'm not saying spanking done by adults to adults is hashtag always bad abusive etc etc, it's just that I wish there was something more done with it? Another fic I've read (that I currently can't remember literally ANYTHING ELSE about, rip) had a character that, even after talking everything out in detail, including the proportion of whose fault it was, explanation for why the sides acted like they did etc, and forgiveness, still felt incredibly anxious and understimulated, and needed physical punishment to feel like "something" has occurred to make things okay again. It was a result of trauma, and I really liked it because usually you'd see authors making this part of the character magically healed by a gentle and loving partner who refuses to even think of violence -- but here, instead, the character's partner understood that this was the way their mind worked, and did their best to accomodate that in a safe and consensual way.

But most fics I've read don't really... do that. It's like, oh hi Steve, welcome to our pack, we're all really niceys to each other but if you are very mean to someone we are going to spank you on your bare ass. Well, and if you do something really bad, we're going to spank you until your ass is glowing like a stop light and you yourself are crying your eyes out! And everyone nods along like yes, this is normal and understandable, of course alpha, proceed alpha.

This is 100% because I simply am not the target for omegaverse stories (I don't like mpreg, I don't like tradwifey fuckhole omegas and dominant possessive alphas, and also it pisses me off when everyone smells like an explosion in a perfume store and it's supposed to be a good thing) and keep on reading them despite that, but the most interesting thing in omegaverse (or any "what if the world had catboys"-adjacent alternate universes) TO ME is the worldbuilding and it kind of :( that authors just ehhhh whatever it away so often.

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fucking yikes im so sorry you get these kind of notifications, and of course theyre anonymous😒 coward cant even say it with their chest about a FICTIONAL character, in something completely optional to read. anyway, im a big fan and i reread your fics all the time! ppl complaining about gojo being ooc for being a bottom make me giggle everytime tho like no shit? fr?? gojo fucked canonically in the manga?? whens THAT getting animated and which chapter was it. can you link me 👀👉👈

and again, its not the source material. Its fanfic shared with you, not made for you. Its like walking into an ice cream parlor and demanding a steak, except even worse because the food is free!!! No one is holding you at gunpoint to sit down and read the whole thing huffing and puffing about how "its not what you ordered." and if you didnt read it, why are you here.🧍‍♂️

and imo the market is oversaturated with top gojo and bottom gojo satosugu. You're doing the lords work righting the scales one yuuji at a time🥰

"No one is holding you at gunpoint to sit down and read the whole thing": You'd think so, but some of these people do act like I'm at their house holding their entire family hostage while they read my fic with bloody tears streaming down their face.

Listen, if I had that kinda power, I'd manifest in my friends' houses to cuddle them to death. And hopefully cow-eye them into feeding me (looking at you specifically @eusuntgratie).

Delulu anon is the only one who's been a dick about it so far (and I think that one's just got several screws loose), but variations of this happen enough in my comments that I've constructed whole mental categories.

There are the nice ones, who basically say some variation of "I'm not usually into bottom!Gojou, but I'll read it from you." That's great! I generally take any version of "not my thing, but you're an exception" as a compliment, and the commenters generally mean it that way. There are also the neutral questions about who tops, usually before the fic gets explicit (yes, even in the fics where Gojou goes "fuck me, Yuuji ❤" well before the porn), and while opening my email to just that, without a peep about the fic so far, is about as appealing as eating burnt toast, I do answer and leave it be. It's fine.

And then you have the people with main character syndrome who cannot seem to conceive that any goyuu fic author would gleefully and exclusively write top!Yuuji. I've had people act like they're doing me a favor by reading my fic or assume it will be switching at the least. There was one...memorable occasion where someone liked the deaging fic overall but didn't like top!Yuuji, so they told me they'd be "stealing" the concept. Deaging is a bog-standard trope, so that's stupid as shit, but fucking Christ, the audacity. That was, IIRC, a fairly popular PWP author, so it's not even that they need any help to get eyeballs on their work.

There's just this persistent disbelief in the goyuu fandom about someone (me, I'm someone) writing top!Yuuji over and over. And it's clearly not that JJK fans just cannot conceive of Gojou taking it up the ass; like you said, there's plenty of it in satosugu, and I have it on good authority that nanago and sukugo are the same. It's just the combination of Yuuji and Gojou that gets this "one way only" attitude, and yeah, I know precisely why, but I've been in fandom for some 15 years now, a decade of it on Ao3, and JJK is the worst about it I've seen.

Sorry for the *gestures above* rant, but every goddamn month, this shit happens, and I am clinging to civility by the skin of my teeth.

But, far more importantly, please know that it put a bigass smile on my face to know that you like to reread my fics. Thank you, anon 😘