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Omegaverse, also known as A/B/O (an abbreviation for "alpha/beta/omega"), is a subgenre of speculative erotic fiction, and originally a subgenre of erotic slash fan fiction. Its premise is that a dominance hierarchy exists in humans, which are divided into dominant "alphas", neutral "betas", and submissive "omegas". [ 1 ]
The rut tends to last somewhere between 20 and 45 days. [13] This varies on latitude, which affects the timing of spring and autumn and which can give elk a longer calving season and a longer rut. [14] During the rut, elk frequently use areas around fresh water, and tend to bed in heavy timber five to six hours per day.
The earliest use in English was with a meaning of 'frenzied passion'. In 1900, it was first used to describe 'rut in animals; heat'. [10] [11] In British English, the spelling is oestrus or (rarely) œstrus. In all English spellings, the noun ends in -us and the adjective in -ous.
I couldn't check Fazekas's 2014 masters theses that Duggan quoted (I got a 502 proxy error), but in the later paper used as a source on Wiki, Fazekas traced the Omegaverse chronology and wrote "Omegaverse fan fiction originated in the Supernatural fandom between the summers of 2010 and 2011" and that "On November 9, 2010, another anonymous user ...
Pregnant male seahorse. Male pregnancy is the incubation of one or more embryos or fetuses by organisms of the male sex in some species. Most species that reproduce by sexual reproduction are heterogamous—females producing larger gametes and males producing smaller gametes ().
Omega (US: / oʊ ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə,-ˈ m ɛ ɡ ə,-ˈ m iː ɡ ə /, UK: / ˈ oʊ m ɪ ɡ ə /; [1] uppercase Ω, lowercase ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet.
Alpha male and beta male are pseudoscientific terms for men derived from the designations of alpha and beta animals in ethology.They may also be used with other genders, such as women, or additionally use other letters of the Greek alphabet (such as omega).
Lich is an archaic English word for "corpse"; the gate at the lowest end of the cemetery where the coffin and funerary procession usually entered was commonly referred to as the lich gate.