I truly appreciate that you said that it’s based on a defunct wolf theory of hierarchies - too many folks still think it’s a thing and I feel bad for the researcher guy who spent the rest of his career trying to undo his mistake 😅
I'm 3 minutes in and I'm already rolling on the floor. I had read my fair share of A/B/O fanfics - I did not know there are books. This is disturbing. I really thought this is just an AO3 thing, damn... Thank you for the Halloween scare.
omg girl, there's so much more 😭 there's manga, a tv drama, and even an upcoming anime about omegaverse ☠ it has completely broken out of the fandom bubble and idk how to feel about it 😭
There’s a growing trend in a/b/o fiction I’ve noticed (specifically bl comics, bc that’s what I’ve read lololol) of more healthy relationships, which I very much appreciate. I think I’ve only read one straight a/b/o novel and haaaated it because of the unhealthy possessiveness (which, I think in certain circumstances, can be done in a way that isn’t toxic) 😅😅
yes its very sweet, i kind of like the new trope of the alpha being possessive by nature but doing their best to push it aside or channel it in more healthy ways because they don't want to hurt or upset their mate
As someone who has read a lot of comics and manhwa, I have to admit that the two most wholesome ones I've ever read were a/b/o bl comics. Which I did not expect.
🐺 I genuinely didn’t expect there to be so much sweetness in this? At the beginning, I couldn’t have imagined you would have liked it, but I guess the actual stories were surprisingly good 🐺
ngl it's always funny to me the whole introduction to the omegaverse bc its either good (many times bc they get introduced to it by a book) or absolutely horrible (mostly bc they find it thru a fanfic) 😂
A/B/O pre-dates SPN ..... apparently, the Star Trek fangirlies of the 80s wrote it for their fics on Spok and Kirk!!!! Also, the way you described it all with such seriousness was hilarious!!! 😂😂
Sara 😂😂 I'm cackling. This was so educational and informative I didn't know how much I didn't know 💀. The thuds from the bubble wand pointer really help get the point across 🤣
Don’t know if it qualifies as omegaverse but the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward has a ton of similarities. Main characters are Vampires but doesn’t follow the usual tropes. Includes nontoxic relationships and fated love, bonding, social hierarchy, etc. Also lots of great character development and world building. Would highly recommend ❤🐺
omg slay babe you found a subgenre that suits you! I kinda like omegaverse and fated mate adjacent tropes when done well, theres something nice about the closeness of mates and learning to love someone you didn't necessarily choose for yourself, its nice
There was a gothic soap called Dark Shadows in the 60s that kind of employs some of these Omegaverse elements... Alpha: Barnabas Collins (vampire) and Angelique (witch), Beta: Victoria Winters (outsider.. ingenue), Julia Hoffman (outsider, scientist), and Omegas: Josette Collins (object of obsession for Barnabas.. and Angelique's victim.).
as someone who has read (and maybe.. perhaps... written....) quite a bit of a/b/o fanfic, i am DYING. you explained this all very well, i'm impressed 😭😭
Okay I’m finishing watching and I’m now curious if there is a sapphic side to the omegaverse as so far it seems somewhat hetero or gay/bi man centric - now I think I want to write one and I don’t know how to feel about this development 😂
Oh but Lola and the Millionaires is the sequel to Baby and the Late Night Howlers! I guess you don't have to read Baby's story to read Lola's but you'll understand her much better if you do.
Hilarious video! I'm not into ABO, but I have read other books by Kathryn Moon and have really enjoyed them. She does a good job balancing shmex with plot.
I'll never get into omegaverse because the idea of getting/being pregnant is very alien to me (I'm a cis woman who doesn't want children), and the idea of male pregnancy makes me positively nauseous. But I'm glad to see that there are some stories that don't deal with the toxic waste that's nowadays so popular in books.
Ngl I was very surprised by the end of the video to see you enjoyed the books lol, but I am glad! Tbh I have read omegaverse for a couple of years and I dont even care what ppl think, I am an adult and I like what I like. However I mostly read MM/FF/queer books as I am queer myself so I cant comment on MF omegaverse lol. Anyway, about the Kelex book, I started by the second book of that series for some reason lol, now I will go back to it to start it from the actual beginning. I thought the universe they created was intriguing and the writting was good, which are the two things I always want in any book. Regarding some contents, I'd say omegaverse is different for every author, meaning that each can change/have their own rules though the most 'basic' ones are shared. I am curious to see if you maybe keep reading more from this subgenre. Thanks for the vid!
I've never actually read a published book with omegaverse, but I don't read much ABO fanfic either. It's not normally something I gravitate towards. I do enjoy pack dynamics though. The ones that have found family vibes. It can be really sweet when done right. This video makes me want you to do a video reading fanfics though.🐺
Omegaverse is totally unhinged but so fun! As a RH girlie, I love my omegaverse books, especially the ones that are non-shifter and have some bullying/grovel going on. Those are my fave. I love the angst that comes with the rejected mate trope. Would recommend Pack Darling by Lola Rock and FOR SURE the Ironside Academy by Jane Washington.
No, the wolf thing actually came after the heat/rut thing, which in turn came from Dark Angel which had Jensen Ackles from Supernatural as a mutant with cat DNA whose female counterpart was shown to go into feline heat. Supernatural fans found out and started the building blocks, then the werewolf people and the mpreg people came in and added the rest. So it's more a mix of catboy heat/werewolves/vague wolf stuff and getting cis men pregnant every so often
Having been someone who's interacted and read omegaverse for years I wasn't phased by the explanation, however, my friend who wasn't very well versed was extremely confused and scarred. I found this very funny lol
i’m literally so glad you liked lola and the millionaires because it’s one of my favorite books (probably a 4.5 ⭐️ for me because i related a lot to lola about the not feeling good enough stuff and whatnot) and i was prepared to defend it WITH MY LIFE…. but i didn’t need to so thank you for being open minded about omegaverse and the books that go with it!!! :)
Thank you for this lesson, I have been seeing related tags in fanfiction and not understanding it well enough to decide whether I was interested in reading it. 😂
Random tangent, but I wonder when that Lola and the Millionaires was written because I can't remember the last time I saw a romance have millionaires instead of billionaires. Millionaires are so ten years ago.
I got spammed with omegaverse advertisement a few months back (the books and fanfics) and blocked them all because it was getting out of hand and also, no thanks, I'm not interested. Now I'm watching this video and I swear, if this screws up my advertising algorithm again you are getting the bills for my mental health! 😂
I enjoy your fun recaps of books and genres so much and that you're not afraid to say it like it is. And respect that you fought your way through that sub genre 🎉 I personally like the sweet omegaverse and Kathryn Moon is top nodge in that and the fantasy genre in general. I read a couple of her books/series now and her characters are well developed and the relationships are built on respect and communication. Her style of writing smut doesn't hurt either 😅 another good sweet omegaverse writer is Grace McGuinty and her Manix series. I absolutely can't recommend Addison Cane and most of the dark omegaverse stories. They so often take the fmc agency away in horrible ways it's sickening. Thanks for the work you put in explaining the omegaverse.
Going through booktubers Katie mentioned in her "best books of 2023 according to booktubers" video right now. I feel dirty for immediately seeing your omegaverse video and going "Yes, I'll watch that". XD I read fanfics with it, though more story-focused ones than PwP. Loved the board and bubble wand XD And I might get Lola & the Millionaires.
I was not expecting you to like these! Lola is my favourite omegaverse, the surrogate one is now waiting for me on my Kindle 😄 I saw your tbr video I think, where you mentioned Squeak, so I read it and actually quite liked it! Although... If you want another book recommendation from the same author, Unhinged is hilarious 😂 Completely ridiculous, but so funny if you go into it with the right expectations 🚪🐺
Sara: “I left ‘Knotting’ blank cause I thought it’d be fun for us to draw it together.”
Me: “IHATEITHEREIHATEITHEREIHATEITHERE!!!!!!!!!”
🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺
I was terrified bro 😭
She is the bravest among us😭 fighting in the trenches fr🐺
lmaoooo
for the longest time i thought everyone knew of the omegaverse until i saw people's reactions to it in the book community lol
Some of us never read fanfic 😂
@@sarawithoutanH i just wasn't aware this was a fanfic original though 😂
I also thought Omegaverce is a thing untill this very moment. 😂😂😂
@@bee5624Wattpad has a lot of original Omegaverse books 😂
I truly appreciate that you said that it’s based on a defunct wolf theory of hierarchies - too many folks still think it’s a thing and I feel bad for the researcher guy who spent the rest of his career trying to undo his mistake 😅
I bet he never would have expected it to take this turn 😅
@@crystaldollhouse the poor guy 😂
that man really tried his damnest to make people understand he fucked up and society as a whole just chose to ignore him lmao
This is why I can't stand it lmao
I'm 3 minutes in and I'm already rolling on the floor. I had read my fair share of A/B/O fanfics - I did not know there are books. This is disturbing. I really thought this is just an AO3 thing, damn... Thank you for the Halloween scare.
omg girl, there's so much more 😭 there's manga, a tv drama, and even an upcoming anime about omegaverse ☠ it has completely broken out of the fandom bubble and idk how to feel about it 😭
I’ve read WEBTOONs of them…
fr, this existing outside Tumblr and AO3 feels somehow illegal lmao
lindsay ellis has a cracking vid on this entire thing...
they just did a live action abo series
getting educated about the omegaverse at the ripe hour of 7:30am was certainly not on my 2023 bingo board but here we are
Get a man that makes you bows. He’s a gift
Truuuue
There’s a growing trend in a/b/o fiction I’ve noticed (specifically bl comics, bc that’s what I’ve read lololol) of more healthy relationships, which I very much appreciate. I think I’ve only read one straight a/b/o novel and haaaated it because of the unhealthy possessiveness (which, I think in certain circumstances, can be done in a way that isn’t toxic) 😅😅
yes its very sweet, i kind of like the new trope of the alpha being possessive by nature but doing their best to push it aside or channel it in more healthy ways because they don't want to hurt or upset their mate
As someone who has read a lot of comics and manhwa, I have to admit that the two most wholesome ones I've ever read were a/b/o bl comics. Which I did not expect.
I love that. Have any recs?
As an ABO fanfic veteran i applaud how well researched the breakdown in the beginning was
Yes! The whole beginning I was really impressed by how they didn't miss any points and how accessible and clear the explanations were.
Never have I ever heard bussy said so seriously I DIED
I'm so blessed to live in a world where people say the word "bussy" various times in a video for thousands of people to hear.
🐺 I genuinely didn’t expect there to be so much sweetness in this? At the beginning, I couldn’t have imagined you would have liked it, but I guess the actual stories were surprisingly good 🐺
Honestly so wholesome!!
This isn’t my favorite type of story, but in the fanfiction world, I have read some surprisingly wholesome ones! And some good but horrifying ones.
“It’s giving The Human Centipede” … spits out coffee 🤣
Okay but now we are going to need all these niche erotic and/or romance sub-genres tier listed
😂 I def should rank all the books
Btw the s3x stuff is based on how dogs actually reproduce (source: i took an animal repro class)
Oh boy, only 8 minutes in and I'm already scared for my sanity. Sara, what have you done to youself? 😅
😂😂😂
I'm scared too
“you may be wondering, what is the omega verse?”
the way i CACKLED.
The way my jaw DROPPED TO THE FLOOR when hungry like the wolf started playing. i’ve been joking about that song being about a/b/o for years 🏃♂️
The anatomy lesson was freakin' hilarious. 😭
I'm a grown woman with decades of $xual experience but why am I blushing right now?🤭
I'm an accountant, so today while making monthly statements I learned today what knotting is and I sure was not expecting that at 6:30 in the morning.
The cackle I let out at your drawing on the board ! This was outstanding !
never thought I’d be putting omega verse on my tbr
😂
unrelated, but your boyfriend getting into leatherworking is so adorable, y'all are such cootie patooties
finally someone explained the omegaverse in a way my dumb mind can understand it
It's kind of hard to wrap your mind around tbh
ngl it's always funny to me the whole introduction to the omegaverse bc its either good (many times bc they get introduced to it by a book) or absolutely horrible (mostly bc they find it thru a fanfic) 😂
A/B/O pre-dates SPN ..... apparently, the Star Trek fangirlies of the 80s wrote it for their fics on Spok and Kirk!!!! Also, the way you described it all with such seriousness was hilarious!!! 😂😂
haven't watched the video yet but I'm already scared for you Sara lolol
😂
Sara 😂😂 I'm cackling. This was so educational and informative I didn't know how much I didn't know 💀. The thuds from the bubble wand pointer really help get the point across 🤣
Seeing someone who is both not a furry nor in that fandom explain knotting is freaking hilarious
I've never felt so informed, entertained, and nauseous all at once before, 10/10 excellent video
Don’t know if it qualifies as omegaverse but the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by JR Ward has a ton of similarities. Main characters are Vampires but doesn’t follow the usual tropes. Includes nontoxic relationships and fated love, bonding, social hierarchy, etc. Also lots of great character development and world building. Would highly recommend ❤🐺
This cork board has me cackling omg
I had zero context to what this was when I clicked and I’m 4:15 in… the omegaverse sounds lit so far I am all strapped in for this
I only read A/B/O fanfics but I love that you loved the books! Ik people say it’s cringe, but it can be written well 😭🐺
omg slay babe you found a subgenre that suits you! I kinda like omegaverse and fated mate adjacent tropes when done well, theres something nice about the closeness of mates and learning to love someone you didn't necessarily choose for yourself, its nice
I’d pay for this legitimate biology class.
There was a gothic soap called Dark Shadows in the 60s that kind of employs some of these Omegaverse elements... Alpha: Barnabas Collins (vampire) and Angelique (witch), Beta: Victoria Winters (outsider.. ingenue), Julia Hoffman (outsider, scientist), and Omegas: Josette Collins (object of obsession for Barnabas.. and Angelique's victim.).
I'm so excited for this one! Sara you are a national treasure.
🐺 Ngl if you did another omegaverse video I'd tune in
I second this!
this is it. the best video on youtube. deserves 10x monetization 🐺
Okay, now that I've watched the first review part, i can definitely say that its extremely different in manga/webtoon.
You might like Baby and the Late Night Howlers! I think that’s been my favorite one so far
as someone who has read (and maybe.. perhaps... written....) quite a bit of a/b/o fanfic, i am DYING. you explained this all very well, i'm impressed 😭😭
Okay I’m finishing watching and I’m now curious if there is a sapphic side to the omegaverse as so far it seems somewhat hetero or gay/bi man centric - now I think I want to write one and I don’t know how to feel about this development 😂
It's really hard to find any! I actually tried for this video
@@sarawithoutanH alright *cracks knuckles* time to start
@@AHealthyDoseofFran How's it going?
This SENT me. The seriousness with which you described this in detail… impeccable. Also I can’t handle that it’s called rutting 🤢
The way this video FLEW by and I was like "no, Sara, give us more!" 5/5 star video 🐺
🐺
"Omegaverse, Omegaverse
You have no idea what's in store for you!"
"this could be a bussy"
I'm dying this is amazing and very informative for people who might not know about omegaverse (that's not me lol)
🐺 ngl I really did not expect this to go as well as it did for you 😳
I just appreciated the wholesome vibes 😂
Oh but Lola and the Millionaires is the sequel to Baby and the Late Night Howlers! I guess you don't have to read Baby's story to read Lola's but you'll understand her much better if you do.
Hilarious video! I'm not into ABO, but I have read other books by Kathryn Moon and have really enjoyed them. She does a good job balancing shmex with plot.
I'll never get into omegaverse because the idea of getting/being pregnant is very alien to me (I'm a cis woman who doesn't want children), and the idea of male pregnancy makes me positively nauseous. But I'm glad to see that there are some stories that don't deal with the toxic waste that's nowadays so popular in books.
I'm the same as you (pregnancy disgusts me 😭) and I'd say that there are maaaaaany a/b/o books and fics without mpreg :)
Omg died when the work board came out. This is going to be good 😂❤
Ngl I was very surprised by the end of the video to see you enjoyed the books lol, but I am glad! Tbh I have read omegaverse for a couple of years and I dont even care what ppl think, I am an adult and I like what I like. However I mostly read MM/FF/queer books as I am queer myself so I cant comment on MF omegaverse lol. Anyway, about the Kelex book, I started by the second book of that series for some reason lol, now I will go back to it to start it from the actual beginning. I thought the universe they created was intriguing and the writting was good, which are the two things I always want in any book. Regarding some contents, I'd say omegaverse is different for every author, meaning that each can change/have their own rules though the most 'basic' ones are shared. I am curious to see if you maybe keep reading more from this subgenre. Thanks for the vid!
I've never actually read a published book with omegaverse, but I don't read much ABO fanfic either. It's not normally something I gravitate towards. I do enjoy pack dynamics though. The ones that have found family vibes. It can be really sweet when done right. This video makes me want you to do a video reading fanfics though.🐺
I'm sure you could find some Percy Jackson omegaverse to read 👀
@@sarawithoutanH I think you can find omegaverse in any fandom at this point. 😅
Omegaverse is totally unhinged but so fun! As a RH girlie, I love my omegaverse books, especially the ones that are non-shifter and have some bullying/grovel going on. Those are my fave. I love the angst that comes with the rejected mate trope. Would recommend Pack Darling by Lola Rock and FOR SURE the Ironside Academy by Jane Washington.
OMG, please make more of this series! I love your reactions❤❤u are hella funny
I love when people discover the omega verse
as someone who's read quite a bit of omegaverse ffs, i thought it was ONLY limited to the pits of AO3 and Tumblr ☠☠
I’m living 🫶 read the Viking omegaverse Sara 🔪
I honestly will 😂
Lit what I was going to rec. I read the first two last week in...record time while on vacation and...adored them.
Love to see the return of the froggy bubble pointer 😂
Sara: "Alphas go in..."
me: "podcasts"
Sara: "...to something called a rut"
me: "oh"
As a canine neuro behavioral biologist... I have so many questions. Is this really what people think wolves are like??
No, the wolf thing actually came after the heat/rut thing, which in turn came from Dark Angel which had Jensen Ackles from Supernatural as a mutant with cat DNA whose female counterpart was shown to go into feline heat. Supernatural fans found out and started the building blocks, then the werewolf people and the mpreg people came in and added the rest. So it's more a mix of catboy heat/werewolves/vague wolf stuff and getting cis men pregnant every so often
TL;DR - a bunch of people saw a Jensen Ackles in a show with werewolves and thought "I need to make that man pregnant"
@@katharineeavan9705 rut is a thing seen in Elephants though.
Having been someone who's interacted and read omegaverse for years I wasn't phased by the explanation, however, my friend who wasn't very well versed was extremely confused and scarred.
I found this very funny lol
i’m literally so glad you liked lola and the millionaires because it’s one of my favorite books (probably a 4.5 ⭐️ for me because i related a lot to lola about the not feeling good enough stuff and whatnot) and i was prepared to defend it WITH MY LIFE…. but i didn’t need to so thank you for being open minded about omegaverse and the books that go with it!!! :)
🐺 I'm so happy that you found some wild books that weren't full of toxicity and manipulation lol
Thank you for this lesson, I have been seeing related tags in fanfiction and not understanding it well enough to decide whether I was interested in reading it. 😂
this series is keeping me alive!!
And I thought I was the brave one for reading Wet Hot Allosaurus Summer... 🤣
YES! I didn't know I was waiting for this, but i know now!
This video took three, maybe four, decades off my life. Thank you for your service
🐺 I’ve only ever read fanfics set in the omegaverse, never books, but now you really got me intrigued… 🤭
i’ve read only a few omegaverse fanfics and i haven’t touched the genre since. thank you for informing me. very entertaining. 😅
6:50 that actually looks like a cartoon dog with a Mexican hat and mustache
When the UA-cam moderators find this video that's what I'm telling them it is
I feel like I learned so much…. 😭 and I don’t know how to feel about it
watching this with my boyfriend to see his facial reactions to knotting
That moment when you inadvertently find a new kink ☠
As an artist who frequents Twitter, I already knew about a lot of these terms, but I had NO idea it was this layered- What a uh, interesting history
I love BIOLOGY Lessons
😂😂😂
Hahaha i loved this video. Omegaverse is one of my favorite genres. They are so silly and fun but have a lot of heart and heat to them! (pun intended)
I've heard of Squeak before, it sounds funny. That's one I might read for the laughs.
I laughed so hard at the drawing part. 😂
SHE SAID BUSSY ON CAMERA 😭😭😭💀💀💀
it's the technical term 😌
Random tangent, but I wonder when that Lola and the Millionaires was written because I can't remember the last time I saw a romance have millionaires instead of billionaires. Millionaires are so ten years ago.
Maybe Kathryn Moon is ethically against billionaires
@@sarawithoutanHMaybe we're actually getting to that point where it's illogical that every gu is an proud, yet insecure billionaire.
I got spammed with omegaverse advertisement a few months back (the books and fanfics) and blocked them all because it was getting out of hand and also, no thanks, I'm not interested. Now I'm watching this video and I swear, if this screws up my advertising algorithm again you are getting the bills for my mental health! 😂
7:25 Listen, not to tattle on myself, but how dare you assume br**ding k*knees will like knotting. 🤢
Other than that, you are so brave for doing this.
hahaha
i love kathryn moon bc of her tempting monsters series ✋🏻😭
i thought omegaverse started with star trek? that one episode where spock and kirk fight because spock needs to mate or something
BEEN WAITING FOR THIS LOL
Shoutout to Howl, and just Lungs in general 🎼 👏
Ao3 & wattpad readers rn: *trying to look inocent*
I will not be reading these but soo happy to see you enjoying it!! 🐺
😂 listen I'm not gonna make omegaverse my top genre but I'll continue to dabble
ngl Bad Alpha is so entertaining! Not as wholesome as Lola, but still very fun
Girl, now I'm asking myself why I decided that I could watch these video while trying to sleep 💀
I only read manga/webtoon in the subgenre and depending on what you read it can be pretty nice.
But i don't want to read fanfics, that scares me D:
I enjoy your fun recaps of books and genres so much and that you're not afraid to say it like it is. And respect that you fought your way through that sub genre 🎉 I personally like the sweet omegaverse and Kathryn Moon is top nodge in that and the fantasy genre in general. I read a couple of her books/series now and her characters are well developed and the relationships are built on respect and communication. Her style of writing smut doesn't hurt either 😅 another good sweet omegaverse writer is Grace McGuinty and her Manix series. I absolutely can't recommend Addison Cane and most of the dark omegaverse stories. They so often take the fmc agency away in horrible ways it's sickening. Thanks for the work you put in explaining the omegaverse.
Ohh is Addison cane the one who tried to copyright omegaverse for herself?
yesssssssssssssss this about to be good
Going through booktubers Katie mentioned in her "best books of 2023 according to booktubers" video right now. I feel dirty for immediately seeing your omegaverse video and going "Yes, I'll watch that". XD I read fanfics with it, though more story-focused ones than PwP.
Loved the board and bubble wand XD And I might get Lola & the Millionaires.
She forgot us sigma males 🐺🐺💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
I was not expecting you to like these! Lola is my favourite omegaverse, the surrogate one is now waiting for me on my Kindle 😄 I saw your tbr video I think, where you mentioned Squeak, so I read it and actually quite liked it! Although... If you want another book recommendation from the same author, Unhinged is hilarious 😂 Completely ridiculous, but so funny if you go into it with the right expectations 🚪🐺