BONUS! FEED DROP - Mind the Tags - Ready or Knot: Our Deep Dive into the Omegaverse

What's the story?! Well, this week, Emily and V suffered a tech tragedy and lost their entire episode at the eleventh hour. Fortunately, our friends, Other Emily and Vee from Mind the Tags, came to our rescue with an episode that we loved and think you will, too! Listen to the episode opener to find out all about the TWIFH Lost Episode, and then stay with the track to get into them guts of the omegaverse with Other Emily and Vee. Thank you so much for saving our bacon, friends!

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Mind the Tags -- Ready or Knot: Our Deep Dive into the Omegaverse

Join Emily and Vee as they explore the fascinating world of the omegaverse, including its common tropes and origin in Supernatural real person fanfiction (RPF). Emily discusses some of the motivations authors have shared for writing omegaverse fics, and both Emily and Vee wax poetic about the magical time that was 2010.  

Topics include: Omegaverse, alpha/beta/omega dynamics, Supernatural, inaccurate wolf science

Sources from today's ep:

• [Data] The 100 most popular tags on AO3 in 2024 by batcat229
• Alpha/Beta/Omega on Fanlore
• a (very necessary) deep dive into the omegaverse by Rowan Ellis 
• The Unofficial Guide to the Omegaverse by Velvelyami
• Starbucks Slick Recipe 
• Who Invented the Omegaverse Anyway? by Cherry
• Supernatural kink meme from 2010
• I ain't no lady, but you'd be the tramp. by tehdirtiestsock (thatotherperv)
• Omegaverse Litigation on Fanlore

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