Apropos of nothing in particular...
Sudden thought: knotting trope fic with Giles/Buffy. Would possibly read knotting fic if it involved Buffy. Or I'd take Xander/Buffy. Anything but the Generic Any Two Guys Slash versions of it that I've seen.
Note that I mean knotting fic specifically, not the Alpha/Omega thing which is the usual gender essentialist idfic, but not the kind of idfic I personally enjoy. Unless you write it het with the woman topping, which would be amusing. Turn Gor around and have all those muscled men writhing around naked longing to be pegged.
Right, just going to leave you with that image. Carry on.
Note that I mean knotting fic specifically, not the Alpha/Omega thing which is the usual gender essentialist idfic, but not the kind of idfic I personally enjoy. Unless you write it het with the woman topping, which would be amusing. Turn Gor around and have all those muscled men writhing around naked longing to be pegged.
Right, just going to leave you with that image. Carry on.
I tried googling for a definition, but just ended up on scary RPS sites that still didn't explain.
What is knotting?
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Knotting: the penis swells up into a knot after penetration, preventing the couple from parting until the top is fully sated or subsides at last because __fill in your explanation here__. It's a forced intimacy trope in some ways: can't end contact for hours post-fucking, or must keep fucking. Also a little bit animalistic. Also allows a lot of scope for descriptions of penetration by a large thing, from either perspective.
You can see how this offers a lot of slashy fun.
It often comes along with something called the "Alpha/Omega verse" trope. Alphas are manly men who top. Omegas are bottomly men who go into heat and must be fucked, and are irresistably drawn to the alphas to whom they have no choice but to submit because it is biology. There might or might not be a category of Betas who look on this writhing around with detachment. Lots of attraction there in that trope, as you can imagine.
I can't actually imagine how that stays interesting. Which is not to say I don't believe it can; I just can't imagine. You know how I loves me some forced intimacy, but the sexin' tends to work better with a breather between... and some positional variation. Wouldn't it just end up being thrust-thrust-thrust?
Even the potential for Xander to panic and being stuck this way while Giles gets stroppy and impatient doesn't tug me.
Alpha/Omega sounds like more of a draw. Especially if Giles and Xander are both Omegas in heat, writhing and begging Buffy for attention.
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And now of course I must write a knotting fic to prove it can be done in a way that maintains interest. This is why I'm making the Grand Tour of fandom's cliches, one at a time: proving to myself that they're all secretly interesting and the foundation of good stories. I probably won't be able to bring myself to write a five things fic, though. I'm really tired of metafiction.
If you like, we can team up to cover the Grand Tour. I've covered Five Things and Second Person and KidFic, three of fandom's great horrors.
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There are one or two things out there like this - not Buffyverse - but not nearly enough. Alas. I have ambitions of writing a longish female!alpha/male!omega fic, but it'd be pretty light on the porn, which I gather is what you're looking for. Also, again, not Buffyverse.