Hah. Well, the spaceship thing specifically wasn't mindset, it was identity; that entire braintic came about as a way of trying to contrive a universe where if Word of God said someone was asexual, you couldn't make them not asexual without explicitly going against canon in a major way. ...I mean, if we're thinking about the same spaceship idea. (If not, I have no idea what you're referencing. :P Has it been lost to wherever forgotten braintics go?)
A/B/O is... weird, but interesting, and I would probably be more of an expert on it if it wasn't traditionally a smut trope. It's based in the incorrect (but popularly-known) wolf ethology that says packs are broken up into alphas, betas, and omegas, with alphas at the top and dominating the rest of the pack, while omegas are at the bottom of the heap and more submissive. The genre is basically "humans do that in an explicit and biological way!", which pings on some interesting xenofictive buttons, plus my love of power dynamics. But... again, it's something that I don't read a lot of, because the venerable trope of A/B/O is "omega goes into heat; alphas literally cannot resist mating with an omega in heat; smut and/or drama ensues." Which, this kink is not my kink.
Which is also kinda where approaching it from the point of view that alpha, beta, and omega are modes people operate in comes from, because I find it a lot more interesting than "this person is an alpha; this person is inherently submissive and physiologically more fuckable" and such. (Apparently the first fic of the genre wrote self-lubricating omega anuses into the fanon. Which, y'know, okay, though after some thought I concluded that this was also the sort of thing that could be glandularly controlled – nothing says that you can't just stick that into everyone, and have lubrication controlled by, say, the heat process – and also concluded that this was the kind of detail I would be unlikely ever to need to write out.) (I also kinda twitch at the casual association of lubrication, fuckability, and submissiveness, but considering that almost all I know about a/b/o is from fandom osmosis and not reading actual works in the genre, I don't know how it's actually handled. I could just be skimming the surface conceits and getting all twitchy about them. So rather than rail too much about things I don't fully know about, I'm just going to take the things that interest me and run off to play with them.)
FOR I AM THE QU– well, no, I am not the Queen of Blades, but I'm probably at least a scion of asexual-tinted fanfiction by now. Anyway, chop chop, THE SWARM REQUIRES ITS ACE FICTION, and such.
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A/B/O is... weird, but interesting, and I would probably be more of an expert on it if it wasn't traditionally a smut trope. It's based in the incorrect (but popularly-known) wolf ethology that says packs are broken up into alphas, betas, and omegas, with alphas at the top and dominating the rest of the pack, while omegas are at the bottom of the heap and more submissive. The genre is basically "humans do that in an explicit and biological way!", which pings on some interesting xenofictive buttons, plus my love of power dynamics. But... again, it's something that I don't read a lot of, because the venerable trope of A/B/O is "omega goes into heat; alphas literally cannot resist mating with an omega in heat; smut and/or drama ensues." Which, this kink is not my kink.
Which is also kinda where approaching it from the point of view that alpha, beta, and omega are modes people operate in comes from, because I find it a lot more interesting than "this person is an alpha; this person is inherently submissive and physiologically more fuckable" and such. (Apparently the first fic of the genre wrote self-lubricating omega anuses into the fanon. Which, y'know, okay, though after some thought I concluded that this was also the sort of thing that could be glandularly controlled – nothing says that you can't just stick that into everyone, and have lubrication controlled by, say, the heat process – and also concluded that this was the kind of detail I would be unlikely ever to need to write out.) (I also kinda twitch at the casual association of lubrication, fuckability, and submissiveness, but considering that almost all I know about a/b/o is from fandom osmosis and not reading actual works in the genre, I don't know how it's actually handled. I could just be skimming the surface conceits and getting all twitchy about them. So rather than rail too much about things I don't fully know about, I'm just going to take the things that interest me and run off to play with them.)
FOR I AM THE QU– well, no, I am not the Queen of Blades, but I'm probably at least a scion of asexual-tinted fanfiction by now. Anyway, chop chop, THE SWARM REQUIRES ITS ACE FICTION, and such.