I know this isn’t the typical fare for this blog, so I understand if it doesn’t get posted, but I felt this needed to be highlighted to a wider audience than my own.
The rise of ABO fic is not the death-knell of a fandom. Far from it. Some of us (not all) simply want to explore gender identity within the safety of much-loved characters.
ABO isn’t everybody’s cup of tea. I get that. That’s fine. I refer you to the ancient fanfic edicts of “don’t like, don’t read”, or taking it one stop further, in the words of a valued member of my fandom “don’t yuk on other people’s yums”.
I’m sure I’m not the only ABO writer getting this, and as much as this comment stung (it was more personal than the previous trolling I got), what made my day was watching my fandom rally around and ever so politely smackdown this commenter. Much love to them all.
[image ID: an ao3 comment that reads “Why is it when a fandom dies, that this omega/alpha/fuckknowswhat shit is always the last thing left standing? The decent authors migrate elsewhere but the weirdo’s remain. Like cockroaches.”]
I’m not going to post this as a comment of the day because, like you said, this isn’t what this blog celebrates. In fact, this is the type of comment that makes me wonder why this person even clicked into the fic in the first place.
A/B/O isn’t for everyone. Neither is fluff or hurt/comfort or whump or any other genre of fic. I’ve never actually read an A/B/O fic myself, but I’ve been learning more about the genre in the last year or so and I think I could probably find some very interesting stories there. I’m just not reading much of any kind of fiction at all right now. My brain is too occupied with the real world, unfortunately for me.
Much like RPF, A/B/O gets a bad rep in fandom and in the wider non-fandom world. People don’t understand it and so they mock it. They reduce it down to the most shocking stories and think everything is like that. Even if it were, that wouldn’t be a reason to hate on it. It certainly isn’t a reason to compare fellow fans to cockroaches.
I would encourage people to take a breath and reconsider before they post this kind of message - especially in an author’s comment section. Why ruin someone else’s day when you really don’t have to? If something isn’t what you want, just leave quietly and let the people who do like it enjoy it in peace.
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