Huh. The knotting stories I've read, the knot doesn't go in. It doesn't swell up until they're already in and are about to ejaculate. But I'm hardly seasoned in the trope.

Other fandoms have it, though--I'm assuming it would have leaked into here somehow, given...given everything.

I know I've seen this around, but I don't remember which around, so I apologise if I'm reposting here--my vision is blurry again and it's hard to read: [link] Brian Buckley video with Jared and Gen.

It should, if done correctly, follow this: [link]

Of course, I suppose I am asking for too much for research into how knotting works in nature in a trope with self-lubing assginas and MPreg.

But still.

Which reminds me, Jilli, I still need to draw the 19th century anatomy style assgina. For reasons.

Is anyone doing it correctly? And what makes that correct? I mean, I know it's real, but this is human gay knotting, so already making some changes.

I haven't come across a single example of the baculum yet, and I think it's weird to call those fics wrong for that lack.

Every knotting fic I've seen has the penetrator hard (no baculum) but the knot swelling after insertion, which leaves them tied together for a while.

I can't believe I just typed that.

Actually, at least one fic was werewolves, and they knew that fucking/knotting was not going to result in little cubs. They just wanted to be together.

Amy and I are maybe not reading the same fics (I don't read werewolf stuff), but that's the methodology I've come across pretty consistently.

Oh, and copious self-lubing.

Which reminds me, Jilli, I still need to draw the 19th century anatomy style assgina. For reasons.

Sentences I never expected to have addressed to me.

Oh, I just remembered there was someone in the SPN novel thread who wasn't a fan, and decided to complain about an excessively photoshopped picture of one of the Js. Two people responded and said "Nah, they are that pretty, though."

Clearly there are some disgustingly overworked pictures, but there was something about what the person was complaining had been altered that also made me think...no, but that's true.

I just came back from staring at this again, and I think that if you find yourself in a position where you do have to shop a picture of one of them? Go kill the photographer, so they don't do any more crap work, mmkay? You should be able to get by without it.

Gah! The story that I was liking had a kinda pouty Cas dry Dean out, and now Dean is musing on how his father would have beaten him up for being gay.

SO much less enjoyable than I'd anticipated, in one chapter.

For some reason this makes me wonder if someone has done a D/C "Its a wonderful life" fusion. I don't want to read one; I just wonder if it has been done.

If I ever write Omegaverse, which I won't, because I do still have some shame left, there will totally be a baculum in the Alpha male. Beta and Omega males will not have them. The Alpha female will have an enlarged clit with an os clitoridis, and reproduction between Alpha females and Omegas will involve something similar to the cloacal kiss in birds and other cloaca-cursed animals.

Signed,

Used to write an occasional column for her high school newspaper on animal sex.