...I will not answer this question, as it is against my religious principles.
That's a good excuse, right? Okay, to be perfectly honest, I don't even know, and I don't want to know.
Oh God! Natural light!Now I'm curious. What are these "Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics" you speak of?
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...
I'm just going to include a link because there's SO much stuff to it (most of which I didn't even know tbh).
I suspect mpreg exists 'cause a lot of slash fiction is written by girls, and most amateur authors aren't particularly good at writing the opposite sex.
Of course, this hypothesis relies on the admittedly sexist assumption that a lot of girls are very interested in the babies end of the relationship equation.
edited 3rd Oct '14 11:38:08 AM by Pannic
...What? I'm not sure what you mean by that first line. Slash writers (that are girls) write mpreg because they don't know how to write male characters?
That...sounds like two separate issues.
"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."I have no more hope for humanity...
Super Robot! SUPER ROBOT! ◥▶◀◤ Also, if some of my posts don't make sense, please take note that I might lack sleeTo describe the behavior of humans within the context of a largely discredited behavior model for wolves (it was based on their behavior in captivity, under high stress; it turns out it doesn't reflect their behavior in the wild) is not a reasonable act.
edited 3rd Oct '14 12:58:05 PM by Night
Nous restons ici.
I believe that was directed at my first post, actually.
You may disagree with religion if you wish, but I still don't think that it's a bad excuse, given the circumstances. *shiver*
edited 3rd Oct '14 12:59:03 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!I don't get what people see in pairings between two characters who hate each other. I don't mean Belligerent Sexual Tension. I mean people whose only interaction is literally trying to kill each other. Especially if one or both of them have a better supported partner.
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There's a shit ton of passion in that. The whole "The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.'' So maybe the hate leads to hate-sex and the hate-sex leads to the anger settling back a bit?
And, let be honest, the villain is likely better written than the love interest. People are more likely to use the characters they're more comfortable with/have more information on.
"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."As someone once observed to me of their own divorced parents, "You can tell how much they loved each other, how passionately, by how passionately they hate each other now and how deeply betrayed they feel."
Of course the problem is that doesn't actually defuse like most people want it to.
Nous restons ici.You know, I would probably have a better opinion of those pairings in which people hate each other if I had ever seen, or read, one in which the pairing was actually played straight, seriously, and for drama, instead of the two characters spontaneously loving each other with no logical explanation.
And, like it was said, this isn't Belligerent Sexual Tension. This is characters who genuinelly loathe each other, and who would never consider the other an adequate partner even if they were the last two humans alive. Or even just characters who dislike each other without having any sort of positive interaction.
For some reason, this seems to me like it's more common with Good aligned females dating truly rotten villains. Draco in Leather Pants seems to be the usual culprit.
Oh, and these stories also come with a heavy dose of bashing.
And that, ladies in gentlemen clothes, is what I want to ask y'all.
I don't get what people see in bashing. What do people see in bashing?
himitsu keisatsu seifu chokuzoku kokka hoanbu na no da himitsu keisatsu yami ni magireru supai katsudou torishimariCatharsis Factor, definitely, as long as the bashing is based around a character's canonical flaws rather than something entirely different. Which leads me to: if you hate a character enough to devote a story to bashing him, why would you make up flaws to use against him instead of basing them off the source material?

This is about plot devices, plot lines, groupings, etc. that you don't understand the appeal of and would like some other fans in the know to explain it to you.
For example, you've never read stories with polyamory or slash (specific random pairings or in general) or certain kinks or coffeeshop A Us in it but you see them everywhere and wonder why so many people enjoy reading/writing about them.
You're welcome to ask a new question or reply to one that's been asked.
My question: What is the appeal of the Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics trope? I get that it allows for an easier way to explain away mpreg and random sex scenes but is there more to it?
"Yo, those kids are straight up liars, man. All I told them to do was run product. And by product, I mean chewing gum."