#or “dont talk to me im busy creating shrimp genders. and relationships. and making up history for legalising orientations that dont exist”

[tryingahandinholdingapen]

in my experience there's essentially two types of omegaverse fics

the first type is, as you said, gender roles on steroids but that's kind of a side effect/smaller aspect of the main thing which is either "let's write something very dead dove and/or straight up dystopian" or "let's write some serious smut (usually heavy on the breeding kink)"

the second type is "let's do the most insane worldbuilding ever and also, instead of doing gender roles on steroids, let's deconstruct gender or at least make this very queer" because like omegaverse automatically assumes at least six sexes (alpha male+female, beta male+female, omega male+female). And between that and the fact that who can reproduce is different, and the idea that people probably need to take off work for heat/ruts, you can potentially do a lot of interesting stuff with "okay, how would they deal with that? what does the average situation for raising kids look like? do they have many more normalised types of romantic/sexual orientation, if you include 'secondary genders' (the omega/beta/alpha stuff) as well as 'primary' gender? how might society see different orientations?

also, actually, no I lied there's not just two types there's also a third type which is "this person just wants to write fluff with added unrealistic scent stuff". this refers to both nonsexual versions of omegaverse universes, and to fics which are very clearly just "my OTP is m/m or f/f but I want them to have biological child(ren) and write fluff about it"

Amazing how the most woke side of the internet created omega-verse stuff, but it’s like gender roles on steroids????