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Beta Release by destinationtoast
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
28 Jun 2014
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Everyone knew, from the time they were very young. They knew how it was for alphas and omegas. Spend a day on any playground, and you’d learn.
Mary shares the standard beta beliefs that ayos (alphas and omegas) can only be relied on to produce drama and babies. Then an unexpected encounter with two stealth ayos opens her eyes to a number of things.
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31 Aug 2015
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Toast's incredibly thoughtful o'verse with the nursery rhyme, vestigial vaginas, pseudopenises, and that amazing chunk where Mary's shoved up against all her ideas about ayos--also, the word ayos.
Things to chew over: non-heat sexuality (none? or is that simply the prevailing narrative?); non-straight orientations--as in most o'verse the ideas of "heterosexual" and "homosexual" don't hold up well when there's more than one acceptable gender configuration (unless it's not acceptable? Are things hard for A/O F/F couples? Tangentially, are things hard for A/O F/M couples (in contrast to A/O M/F couples)--not, I suppose, for their couplehood, but for the fact of being an alpha and a woman--or is the association of alpha with manhood something I am carrying with me into this 'verse, and its residents wouldn't grok why I'd do that?)
and of course, as always, what does transness look like in this world? (What does intersex look like in this world, where the hard lines we assume exist between "male" and "female" are already so blurred?) A/B/O are not assigned at birth the way M/F are, it looks like, so someone's relationship to the hormonal cycles they end up presenting with would be drastically different from their relationship to their SAAB. What is it like to have an aspect of your gender unknown to you until puberty?
I wonder if prevailing narratives around trans people are like, well, she always wanted to present as an alpha, she really believed she would, she was certain of this from childhood, but she ended up going into heat; she's a trans alpha ?? Like the real world treats those of us who discovered/grew into/chose our identities later in life: our stories don't fit the Accepted Trans Narrative and so obviously we're faking for attention; same for a transayo person who figured it out well after their presentation.
I feel like the two kinds of transness would be considered separately? Like, there'd be transpresentation people (transayo? (and now you know I'm writing this all out of order)), and transgender people, which are clumsy our-universe terms to approximate what I mean, but, uh, okay. Like. There are going to be MAAB women and FAAB men; and there are going to be PAAP (presented-alpha-at-puberty) omegas and POAP (presented-omega-at-puberty; what unfortunate acronyms) alphas. I think the Prevailing Narrative is that a trans person is only ever trans along one axis (a cis woman PAAP omega, for example) to better fit the expected correlation between alpha and male? Or is trans along both axes only when the result fits that expected correlation (a MAAB PAAP omega woman) (consider, again, whether this expected correlation even exists, or if that is my own bias...)--but of course the Prevailing Narrative is just that, and while there are trans people whose narratives mesh with the Prevailing Narrative, there are also plenty of trans people whose narratives don't mesh with the expectations. A trans woman who's perfectly happy to continue identifying as an alpha; a cis PAAP omega man. (Keep on considering whether this expected correlation exists!! Don't just assume it does!)
I might have more thought about transness in this 'verse if I deliberately come at it with the assumption that that expected correlation I'm imagining doesn't exist, but I'll try that on later... For now I have one last huge question to chew on: WHAT DOES BEING NONBINARY LOOK LIKE
Or rather, separating the two axes of transness: being nonbinary looks just like it does in our universe: vast, varied, infinite, and widely misunderstood. What does it look like to be nontrinary, though? (LOOK I GET TO USE THAT WORD oh I'm so happy, I had to cut it from the fic I coined it for but I love it love it loveee itttt) The same? Do people identify with other letters of the Greek alphabet ("Are you alpha, beta, or omega?" "No. I'm delta." "no, I'm theta" "no, I'm omicron"), and what does that mean to them?
("You can only be alpha, beta, or omega! That's all there is, that's all there ever has been, that's all there ever will be!" "suuuure, except you're ignoring the fact that the Greek alphabet came into existence how many thousands of years after humans did? That even once that alphabet was created, there were (and still are!) plenty of cultures with other ways of thinking about these things, and that white colonists forcibly eradicated traditional non-trinary genders as part of the systemic destruction of the cultures they were/are a part of!" hashtag descendant of colonizers talking about the thing)
well that became a braindump of epic proportions.
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Cecil murders Kevin.
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25 Aug 2015
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fuck fuck fuck okay seriously do not fucking read this at night, do not read this if you're alone, just, just don't do it, save yourself
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"The colloquial name is bloodstone," says the man from StrexCorp's Acquisitions division. "Heard of them?"
Carlos shakes his head. "No, but I'm not a minerologist. Are you certain this wasn't intended for the geology department?"
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Carlos is a loyal company employee, who has never been to any place called Night Vale and never met anyone named Cecil…which doesn’t explain the mysterious woman appearing in his lab, or these dreams he’s started having…
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Carlos had noticed Cecil's voice before, of course, but he'd never noticed Cecil's voice.
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Every Part, No Exceptions by DelightfulExcess (SevereStorms) for NikiPaprika
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
07 Apr 2015
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Carlos is chubby because sometimes people just are. Cecil likes it because sometimes people just do.