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chibifukurou:
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hellotailor:
“Coffee shop AUs redefine escapism from wild fantasies about dragons and space travel to the comforting ideal of having a steady job and supportive relationships. For a generation who came of age during the Great Recession, living in a time of constant political trauma, it’s not hard to understand the appeal.”
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How coffee shop romance became fanfic’s hottest genre
This is a good article but also I didn’t read carefully before sharing with someone to whom I am attempting to explain the varied and wonderful nuances of fandom
And my lack of close reading means I have now spent an afternoon attempting to explain Omegaverse to a coworker without becoming a walking, talking sexual harassment suit.
Omegaverse explained for the laymen (in a way that hopefully won’t get you brought up on harassment charges): Omegaverse is an AU idea that’s fairly popular. It’s basically what if humans had Ponfar and people of all genders could get give birth and sire kids.
Once again laughing so hard I’m crying. But at Sam this time.
Or you could tell them fandom is obsessed with romance by blood type.
Actually I came pretty close to @chibifukurou‘s version, though we did get deep into a discussion of how many genders there are in ABO fics (”So there are three genders?” “Technically six in most, since you have an ABO alignment but retain your sex characteristics.” “But why would you – “ “DO NOT ASK ME.”) and also the possible ancestry of ABO fics in mpreg.
She was actually super astute about the gender politics of ABO, slash, and mpreg, so it went….more well than it would have with someone else. But yeah until I said “Pon farr” I was havin’ a real hard time explaining the whole concept of heats.
I’m about 80% sure ABO actually came into fandom from a canon, like, there was a series of novels featuring this concept, but I don’t know the details.
Being a fandom old, I remember they originally migrated over from werewolf fandoms.
copperbadge:
arsenicjade:
chibifukurou:
copperbadge:
hellotailor:
“Coffee shop AUs redefine escapism from wild fantasies about dragons and space travel to the comforting ideal of having a steady job and supportive relationships. For a generation who came of age during the Great Recession, living in a time of constant political trauma, it’s not hard to understand the appeal.”
—
How coffee shop romance became fanfic’s hottest genre
This is a good article but also I didn’t read carefully before sharing with someone to whom I am attempting to explain the varied and wonderful nuances of fandom
And my lack of close reading means I have now spent an afternoon attempting to explain Omegaverse to a coworker without becoming a walking, talking sexual harassment suit.
Omegaverse explained for the laymen (in a way that hopefully won’t get you brought up on harassment charges): Omegaverse is an AU idea that’s fairly popular. It’s basically what if humans had Ponfar and people of all genders could get give birth and sire kids.
Once again laughing so hard I’m crying. But at Sam this time.
Or you could tell them fandom is obsessed with romance by blood type.
Actually I came pretty close to @chibifukurou‘s version, though we did get deep into a discussion of how many genders there are in ABO fics (”So there are three genders?” “Technically six in most, since you have an ABO alignment but retain your sex characteristics.” “But why would you – “ “DO NOT ASK ME.”) and also the possible ancestry of ABO fics in mpreg.
She was actually super astute about the gender politics of ABO, slash, and mpreg, so it went….more well than it would have with someone else. But yeah until I said “Pon farr” I was havin’ a real hard time explaining the whole concept of heats.
I’m about 80% sure ABO actually came into fandom from a canon, like, there was a series of novels featuring this concept, but I don’t know the details.
Being a fandom old, I remember they originally migrated over from werewolf fandoms.
