You know, when I go looking for ABO fics, I'm usually only interested in them insofar as I want them to hit certain kinks or play out certain tropes. So I was actually quite surprised to find that this story is quite thoughtful in considering gender roles and the ramifications of that in a way that a lot of the ABO fic I've read hasn't necessarily done.
I also had to smile at the implication that Sean and Viggo are on some level surprised to be in an Alpha/Alpha relationship, when both of them clearly married Alpha women, and Viggo has Alpha/Alpha parents. ^_^
I really liked how you folded in Sean's serial monogamy as perhaps an indicator of his trying to fit the mould set out for him without actually denigrating those relationships. Very deftly done.
And I also really liked how Viggo and Sean acknowledged that their dirty talk, while hot, is also a little horrifying in practise. ^_^ That was a nice touch, I thought, since that's really at the base of a lot of dirty talk.
So, yeah. I'm really enjoying this, and absolutely fascinated with what you're doing with the genre!
Dirty talk is a guilty pleasure because it is the most horrifically politically incorrect and inappropriate thing ever. It's like flinging your kinks out to dry. :3 I think Viggo would definitely be twitchy about that - at least, in how I see him - but Sean is just like EH, FUCK IT, IT SOUNDED AMAZING. DO IT AGAIN. :3
Also, I have been writing sex for literally over seven years. No matter how kinky the sex, it gets incredibly, immensely boring to write the same thing over and over again. Tab A, slot B, whatever. (I do love reading it though, because man, there are plenty of authors out there who can write scorchingly hot sex that never gets boring.) So I am far more fascinated about the societal ramifications. A lot of ABO fic basically takes a homosexual relationship and makes it acceptable and natural, and in the process, they make it entirely heterosexist (or heteronormative; I think in this case both terms work the same way, ff). That bores the flying fuck out of me. If I want to write het sex, I would write het sex, but I'm writing men, people who are equal to each other, and that has always been a stickler point with regards to relationships regarded to be 'normal'. I just wanted to play with that within ABO verse, in which the equality is literally biologically-induced (and not just 'men are strong protectors', because not all men are physically strong -- which is another fascinating part of ABO, in which the Alpha males are naturally strong, how does that happen?) within a society where equal relationships are biologically impossible between most conventional pairings. Plus you have pregnancy as making someone vulnerable, and how would a pair of Alphas like Sean and Viggo deal with that while keeping that equality of their relationship? It's not obvious in this part, more in the next bit, but Sean basically isn't seen as a 'good Alpha' anymore because he gets pregnant, because humans don't really change that much despite society having shifted so.
I am babbling my head off and I clearly overthink porn tropes.
I also had to smile at the implication that Sean and Viggo are on some level surprised to be in an Alpha/Alpha relationship, when both of them clearly married Alpha women, and Viggo has Alpha/Alpha parents. ^_^
I really liked how you folded in Sean's serial monogamy as perhaps an indicator of his trying to fit the mould set out for him without actually denigrating those relationships. Very deftly done.
And I also really liked how Viggo and Sean acknowledged that their dirty talk, while hot, is also a little horrifying in practise. ^_^ That was a nice touch, I thought, since that's really at the base of a lot of dirty talk.
So, yeah. I'm really enjoying this, and absolutely fascinated with what you're doing with the genre!
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Also, I have been writing sex for literally over seven years. No matter how kinky the sex, it gets incredibly, immensely boring to write the same thing over and over again. Tab A, slot B, whatever. (I do love reading it though, because man, there are plenty of authors out there who can write scorchingly hot sex that never gets boring.) So I am far more fascinated about the societal ramifications. A lot of ABO fic basically takes a homosexual relationship and makes it acceptable and natural, and in the process, they make it entirely heterosexist (or heteronormative; I think in this case both terms work the same way, ff). That bores the flying fuck out of me. If I want to write het sex, I would write het sex, but I'm writing men, people who are equal to each other, and that has always been a stickler point with regards to relationships regarded to be 'normal'. I just wanted to play with that within ABO verse, in which the equality is literally biologically-induced (and not just 'men are strong protectors', because not all men are physically strong -- which is another fascinating part of ABO, in which the Alpha males are naturally strong, how does that happen?) within a society where equal relationships are biologically impossible between most conventional pairings. Plus you have pregnancy as making someone vulnerable, and how would a pair of Alphas like Sean and Viggo deal with that while keeping that equality of their relationship? It's not obvious in this part, more in the next bit, but Sean basically isn't seen as a 'good Alpha' anymore because he gets pregnant, because humans don't really change that much despite society having shifted so.
I am babbling my head off and I clearly overthink porn tropes.
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