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About me: Zipper (they/them), 20s, aro-ace
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My writing tag is #zipwrites. My current-ish projects are The Olβ Ball and Chain,Β The New Roux, and On the Wing. Everything I post is some form of rough draft. Some go through more variations than others.
Archive of my writing: thezipperzone.blogspot.com
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Likes: lab whump, medical whump, hero and villain whump, dehumanization, kidnapping, captivity, pet whump.
Squicks: nsfw, cannibalism (please donβt ask me about these things)
My archived (unfinished, no longer being updated) whump series are The Animal Iβve Become,Β The Apprentice, Roux & Ambrose, and Box Bastards.
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i have a question for you all (well, probably more a select few of you, actually). i know the absolute basics about the omegaverse. my question is: should i learn more about it before attempting to write it? and follow-up question: do i have any followers who are willing to answer some other questions for me π
It's possible to write omegaverse with the absolute basics, though I personally like to read as many variations of things as possible to pick and choose which I like best when creating something of my own. Which I think is true of most writers of Omegaverse, as I've yet to read any writers who write it exactly the same/with the same worldbuild as another.
That being said, if you want to ask me questions, I'm happy to infodump! I'm not an expert by any means, but I do know at least a decent amount, I think.
alright so this question might be made moot by the whole "everyone does it differently" point, however, my biggest question is:
does gender never matter in omegaverse? because in most of the conversation i see around the genre (and i acknowledge that the written reality might be different), it seems that the alpha/beta/omega system is the in-universe replacement for the male-female binary and other gendered dynamics. like, gender is present but it's not that important, was my understanding.
regardless of your answer i'll probably be throwing that out the window, but i am curious about the answer.
Oh boy oh boy oh boy, I cannot say how much I got so excited to see this question you have, along with your tags, lol. My favorite things to read (not really watch because like, most of the watching stuff is usually the same like, 3 stories told by different people, that I've seen anyway) is when the omegaverse is explored with "gender vs assigned sex vs a/b/o dynamic" and all the intersectionality fun! Especially when you've got things with like purity culture whump thrown in and stuff like that. Oh, so good!
Gonna put this under a cut because I have a feeling it's gonna get long lol
First, this tag here? #Omegaverse worldbuilding? Very good for seeing other's input on Omegaverse stuff. Feel free to browse for anything I maybe forgot or just didn't think about in my ramble here.
So, depending on how you go about it, I guess dynamics can be a replacement, in a way. But more often that I've seen it in my personal reading rabbit holes, it's more like an added characteristic. Like being blonde or being gay or needing glasses.
When gender is present, oh my goodness, it can be so impactful and important depending on how the hierarchy of society is set. Since internalized misogynistic societies are the most common in what I've seen, I'll make a little ranking here from "most valued" to "least valued" (at least in the general populace viewpoint of those worldbuilds).
#1 combo- Alpha males (valuable, the "leaders", the "strongest")
#2 - Beta males (neutral, but men, so they're important)
#3 - Beta females (neutral, not as "valuable" as men, but not an "emotional omega")
#4 - Alpha females (strong, but women and "unnatural")
#5 - Omega females (valuable, vital to reproduction, but emotional and malleable)
#6 - Omega males (disgusting, basically a woman but worse)
Now, take this with a grain of salt because I've seen the rankings change depending on situation and who's involved and all that, but generally that's how it goes when ranked like that for certain stories. Add in if they're trans or gay or anything out of "cis+hetero" and you've got even more fun intersectionality to play with.
Other things that can effect it are how you have things ratio-ed. I've seen it before where Betas make up 1/2 the population, Alphas 1/4, and Omegas the other 1/4. Or you could have it in even 1/3s. Some people even add in other omegaverse dynamics, such as sigmas, but I really don't know as much about those to talk about them (though I know there's a few posts out there explaining additional dynamics).
There's also the consideration of how Betas themselves are seen in your worldbuild. Like, I've seen them ignored as the "neutral" party, the focus going solely to the Omegas+Alphas, the Betas basically just a footnote. And I've also seen where Betas are more fleshed out. They're not just "neutral", they're the negotiators, the compromisers, the ones thinking with a clearer head when the other two are more hormonal.
Of course how much stake you put in traditional gender vs omegaverse dynamics and how their behaviors effect each other is indeed another factor. If you don't put as much stake on gender, then yeah, dynamics can replace them. But if you put them on equal footing? Then it's a whole fun matching and combination game, lol
Feel free to ask more questions if need be! This was so much fun and I mean that so very genuinely. I rarely get to indulge in my omegaverse infodumping, so this was such a pleasure to do. :D
hey do you think. after bailey learns that zipper can just die and get resurrected with all their injuries healed. that he might string them up in the basement and go at them with a baseball bat.
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god itβs so sad living in an allocentric world. There are so many relationships that are so complex and nuanced that are all put under the label of βromanticβ and immediately all the intrigue is taken from it. Like donβt you realize that these relations are actually ENHANCED by the fact that they are not romantic or sexual?
okay but it's so unfortunate how much bailey has hurt zipper and how much zipper hates his fucking guts BECAUSE they actually have so many overlapping interests. i.e. kinks. river gets so squeamish about a lot of the stuff zipper likes (gore and surgery, mostly) but bailey is INTO that shit. imagine fumbling so bad that the person who would've been so incredibly into you will now never touch you in a million years, not even with a ten foot pole.
tbh im not entirely immune to a villain with a tragic backstory but i do think villain origins are a lot more interesting when the focus is less "here is the original sin, the first big bad thing that happened to them that made them who they are" and more "here is the first time a person who maybe otherwise felt powerless in their life realized that they could hurt someone and get away with it"
you can get a lot more mileage out of analyzing a truly abhorrent character through the lens of like. what sort of conditions would allow or even incentivize this kind of cruelty? what kind of person benefits from those conditions and how? over the more typical who hurt them type analysis. imo.
Anyway this disability pride month I would like to shoutout disabled folks whose creativity has suffered because of their condition. Iβm talking people with hand tremors and pain that stop them from drawing, knitting, and playing instruments. People whose thinking has become so disorganized that nothing they write makes sense to other people. People with chronic pain who can no longer dance. People so over medicated in a fruitless attempt to maintain stability that the wells of their imagination have run dry.
I see you and I love you. You are more than your creative output. You are not a shell of what you used to be. You are a whole, complete person, regardless of what your creativity has been, is now, or will be in the future.
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in general you can do a lot with torture tapes for living weapons if your future caretakers are investigating the enemy's weapons development without knowing it's y'know. People
Newly disabled Whumpee applying for benefits after the whump. Having to fill in questionnaires about everything Whumper took from them: their mobility, their independence, their safety. It's all in black and white in so much detail, and now someone in an office is going to read through it and decide if they've lost enough to be worthy of any help.
What if we were two sides of the same coin. What if i lived in your shadow all my life but found comfort in the darkness and dont know what to do once youre gone. What if youre the only person who understands. What if you have have no idea what i went through. What if we went through the same traumas but ended up with oposite conclusions about our suffering. What if i dont recognize you anymore. What if i see the ghost of my former self reflected through your eyes. What if it never had to go this way. What if this was the only way things were ever going to go
The truth of the matter is that if youβre going to seriously pursue writing, not every line can go hard. It canβt be hard 100% of the time, or the hard just becomes soft. Sometimes the line just has to get the writing from point a to point b.
y'all i'm giving myself whiplash this week for how many different projects i'm cycling through. like technically this is par for the course for me but goddamn.
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child assassin whose main birthday present/celebration is being "finally old enough for" their first kill. they knew it was coming (though they tried not to be presumptuous), and they tossed and turned with a pit in their stomach the night before. but everyone's nervous before a big milestone, right? once Whumper is there, so proud and excited for them, it's easier to be properly excited and grateful too.
i think it's compelling if this isn't an overtly evil and harsh 100% of the time whump setting (though i do love a pedal to the floor evil scenario). i'm stuck on the thought of Whumpee getting, like. cake. a genuine celebration with their caregivers (whumpers). presents, but clearly things tailored towards their assassin role; weaponry and associated equipment, exercise gear, etc. presents for the person Whumpee is expected to be. and of course, "getting to" kill someone, framed as an honour and in fact a treat.
