u/Aluxonbreak

I’ve been working on a couple of stories lately with nontraditional couples like: Male Alpha/Male Alpha and Male Alpha/Male Beta.

Does/did anyone else here try to figure out how to write open-door scenes with these couples, how to deal with the rut and knots? If yes, wanna share? :)

1. Are Alphas in your world even capable to form a knot with another designation or only omegas (in mine, they can. It’s more attraction and the feeling of ‘this is my person’ and the body wanting to have a child although logically in male A/A and male A/B pairing it’s impossible).

2. Do you write male Alphas/male Betas receiving the knot as ‘fine’ or is there some sort of preparation necessary? (In mine all designations aside of male/female alphas are quite unequipped to receive a knot; therefore a preparation and care IS necessary for the partner not to be injured).

3. Can your alphas withhold the knot (aka not go all the way)? In mine: yes - have some crazy disciplined little masochistic alphas sometimes haha.

Anyhow; whoever wants to dive into this discussion with their own worldbuilding/ideas/question is welcome :))

Hey! Pretty specific thing I am searching for, not sure if it exists… Currently reading ’Never stay gone’ by Tal Bauer and although I love his books and his style I’d like to read something even more focused on the crime solving, but still keep the ‘crime solving duo gay romance’.

- Modern day (or end of 20th century but no victorian era please)

- More plot than smut (open door scenes are fine as long as they aren’t 1/2 of the book)

- Male author if possible

- The plot makes sense, has research behind it…

- big plus if it’s a series :)

Hello, I’m looking for a rec for a verse couple, the genre doesn’t matter much although I do prefer fantasy/sci-fi but can also be something else.

It has to have a meaningful plot, yearning/slow burn.

The ‘vibe’ (most aren’t verse though) I loved so far:

- ‘Ocean’s Echo’ and ‘Winter’s Orbit’ by Everina Maxwell

- ‘A Strange and Stubborn Endurance’ by Foz Meadows

- ‘The House in the Cerulean Sea’ by T.J. Klune

- ‘When the Tides held the Moon’ by Venessa Vida Kelley

- ‘A Marvellous Light’ by Freya Marske

- ‘Open, Heaven’ by Seán Hewitt