Today's brainrot
Jun. 19th, 2023 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetMe: *shaping dough at work, casually thinking about how to describe a particular fanfic that ended up going in a very racist direction*
Me: ...This is an omegaverse fanfic, why do I keep trying to describe the POV omega character as "the uke"?
Brain: Same difference, honestly.
Me: ...What.
Brain: Hadn't you noticed? Omegaverse omegas and alphas are basically ukes and semes for Western media fandom.
Brain: I mean, it's not a perfect 1:1, but it's pretty damn close! And yeah, a non-zero number of people are doing subversive things with omegaverse, but a non-zero number of yaoi/BL manga-ka also do subversive things with seme and uke roles, so.
Me: ...Okay, this is going to get its own post, because I am not going to derail an important post about anti-Black racism in fandom with this.
(I don't know if I'm actually going to make a post about the fic in question, but wow did the author make one hell of a racist decision with it.)
Me: ...This is an omegaverse fanfic, why do I keep trying to describe the POV omega character as "the uke"?
Brain: Same difference, honestly.
Me: ...What.
Brain: Hadn't you noticed? Omegaverse omegas and alphas are basically ukes and semes for Western media fandom.
Brain: I mean, it's not a perfect 1:1, but it's pretty damn close! And yeah, a non-zero number of people are doing subversive things with omegaverse, but a non-zero number of yaoi/BL manga-ka also do subversive things with seme and uke roles, so.
Me: ...Okay, this is going to get its own post, because I am not going to derail an important post about anti-Black racism in fandom with this.
(I don't know if I'm actually going to make a post about the fic in question, but wow did the author make one hell of a racist decision with it.)
