Hot flashes too

[resonant]

Wonder if anybody's written an omegaverse story about the end of fertility? No more floods of natural lubrication, no more heats.

Do relationships survive omegapause?

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[aerye]

I sort of love you right now. ::g::

[resonant]

Wish it were as easy to actually write a story as to pose a hypothetical ...

[metaphortunate]

I don't read much in omegaverse (no judgment! Just doesn't call to me, usually) but I would read this so hard. :)

[resonant]

I'm not so much a fan, either, except that heats have much the same appeal as sex pollen stories, which I love. But you have to wonder: if you'd had the equivalent of sex-pollen dosage every cycle since puberty, what would it do to your sex life when that went away?!

And Martin Freeman (just to choose one example) is in his early forties; his characters don't have infinite years of estrus ahead of them.

[oracne]

I can't get into omegaverse but that story, I would read.

[resonant]

Me too! [looks around]

[delphi]

That...is seriously tempting me as a prompt. I've actually written a story that involves an omega's last surprise heat in the midst of menopause, but in that case the character had lived a largely celibate life and was sharing his heat for the first time in middle age, with an alpha partner that everyone else likewise considered too old for courtship. I kind of would like to write a sequel with the two negotiating a sex life outside the mating cycle.

[karmageddon]

Interesting

[delphi]

It's here if you happen to read Hobbit fic. I'm not an omegaverse reader or writer by habit, but I really enjoyed playing with the trope. As the question above illustrates, it's a fun one to poke at and subvert.

[resonant]

Cool! I love to see stories that aren't about people between the ages of 16 and 34.

[delphi]

Well, admittedly that's 99% of what I write. I like characters with some experience under their belts.

I know omegaverse gets a lot of stick (and rightly so on some fronts), but it was a ridiculous amount of fun to write.

[blueraccoon]

I think I love you.

[resonant]

I think I'm a little rattly, but maybe it's contagious.

[king_touchy]

Omegapause is an amazing word. I would like to read such a story.

[resonant]

I thought I'd coined a brand-new term, but then I googled it and discovered that it was also in norabombay's omega primer, and that came first, alas.

[killabeez]

Best post all day. ♥ Omegapause!

[resonant]

Not sure more realism is really what fans of omegaverse are looking for ...

[springwoof]

you have the most fascinating "I wonders"....
That does sound like it would be an interesting story...

[resonant]

It is just hypothetically possible that I might have scribbled out some John Watson Omegapause while I was supposed to be reindexing loans.

[myalexandria]

OMEGAPAUSE. Jesus.

I don't generally read omegaverse stuff because I find it kind of gross, but every now and then a really good writer will do one and I'll read it. There's a hockey one I like that focuses on the heat/sex-pollen part and not on the lubrication or knotting.

However, I now badly want an update to that hockey story....

[resonant]

Well, it's more of that stuff I go on about sometimes where "first time" is not even remotely the last intimacy barrier that a couple will face. Also the fact that I'll be 50 in May.

[myalexandria]

One of my favorite stories of yours is that DS one with the apple butter.

[cluegirl]

Omegapause... I do actually adore you. And I'm sorry, I'm pretty sure I'm writing in a fandom you're not interested in right now, but I am TOTALLY gonna jump on that grenade for my Changeling 'verse! And I intend to credit you with the bunny, as well.

[resonant]

Grayfan takeover!!!

[taliahale]

I know this is an older post, but I just read something that sort of qualifies and remembered this post so--

The End of Cycles by ac_123. It's Hannigram, so it's not precisely my cup of tea (cannibalistic serial killer+mentally unstable patient of said cannibal doesn't read healthy relationship to me), but it's a fascinating tale nonetheless.

Synopsis: Hannibal Lecter is an Omega on the verge of menopause. Will Graham is an Alpha with the most obvious crush in the world. Throw in a few dead bodies, some urine, and Hannibal fucking around with everyone and you get the most dangerous courtship in the world.

There you are: omegapause.