Hey Fangirls! In the first of their three-part series on A/B/O, also known as the Omegaverse, M and Bea detail the history surrounding this complex yet strangely logical trope!

fic!Club: "The Lotus Eaters by aldora89

https://archiveofourown.org/works/277853/chapters/440466

Research:

https://www.dailydot.com/irl/omegaverse-abo-fiction/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv193rr0q

https://kristinabusse.com/pdf/Busse,%20Kristina%20-%20Pon%20Farr%20Mpreg,%20Bonds,%20and%20the%20Rise%20of%20the%20Omegaverse%20(in%20Fic%202013).pdf

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268743.2017.1394215?scroll=top&needAccess=true

https://archiveofourown.org/works/8240798?view_full_work=true

https://archiveofourown.org/works/403644/chapters/665489

https://archiveofourown.org/works/1022303/chapters/2033841

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Alpha/Beta/Omega

"I ain't no lady, but you'd be the tramp" by tehdirtiestsock https://cfamiliaris.livejournal.com/12861.html

https://sciencenorway.no/ulv/wolf-packs-dont-actually-have-alpha-males-and-alpha-females-the-idea-is-based-on-a-misunderstanding/1850514

https://archive.org/details/SchenkelCaptiveWolfStudy.compressed/page/n1/mode/2up

Lindsay Ellis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhWWcWtAUoY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3v5wFMQRqs

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