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stardust_rifle) wrote2021-01-10 08:14 pm
stardust_rifle) wrote2021-01-10 08:14 pm
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I'm thinking about the kinds of queerness that I like to see explored in fiction, and I keep coming back to this fucking Jrock Omegaverse fanfiction and one character from it in particular- Mitsuki.
(a note- in this post, i will be using the term "venusexual" to refer to omegas who are attracted to other omegas. this is a term i made up for my own omegaverse aus, also, i will be using the word "transmasculine" to refer a "trans-alphan"? identity.)
In the fic, Mitsuki is portrayed as an omega who's exclusively into other omegas, but he's set apart from the other venusexuals in the fic with his behavior- he is repeatedly and explicitly compared to an alpha when it comes to the behavior he tries to emulate, he uses heat suppressants during his eventual boyfriend's heat (which the other O/O pair does not do), and a few comments use "trapped in the wrong body" language to refer to him.
This, to me, seems to give off transgender/genderqueer vibes, but his story isn't about that. It doesn't really "clear up" anything regarding his identity. He's simply allowed to exist in the story, taking on socially alpha roles, and his story is about simply finding his happiness, which isn't associated at all with discovering whether he's "really" hard butch or transmasculine, but finding a community who accepts him for who he is.
I find this to be more personally fulfilling than any sort of queer narratives that are focused on identity and not experience.
Anyways, this was a hell of a lot of words to say "I like ambiguous queerness".
(a note- in this post, i will be using the term "venusexual" to refer to omegas who are attracted to other omegas. this is a term i made up for my own omegaverse aus, also, i will be using the word "transmasculine" to refer a "trans-alphan"? identity.)
In the fic, Mitsuki is portrayed as an omega who's exclusively into other omegas, but he's set apart from the other venusexuals in the fic with his behavior- he is repeatedly and explicitly compared to an alpha when it comes to the behavior he tries to emulate, he uses heat suppressants during his eventual boyfriend's heat (which the other O/O pair does not do), and a few comments use "trapped in the wrong body" language to refer to him.
This, to me, seems to give off transgender/genderqueer vibes, but his story isn't about that. It doesn't really "clear up" anything regarding his identity. He's simply allowed to exist in the story, taking on socially alpha roles, and his story is about simply finding his happiness, which isn't associated at all with discovering whether he's "really" hard butch or transmasculine, but finding a community who accepts him for who he is.
I find this to be more personally fulfilling than any sort of queer narratives that are focused on identity and not experience.
Anyways, this was a hell of a lot of words to say "I like ambiguous queerness".