With A/B/O the nonsensical aspects at least are directly producing extra payoff forthe kink
I suspect this is why I can't suspend disbelief: the primary kinks involved are not quite my kinks, they're just adjacent to some of them. If my own kinks aren't getting any of the payoff, I'm not distracted enough to summmon up the right nonsense-filtering goggles. Every now and then I do find an A/B/O fic that veers off into the stuff that's more my territory... but a lot of that is actually tied to the worldbuilding issues (I groove hard on people making choices that run counter to their biology!) so if they're not addressed at all I just can't muster the enthusiasm. :D
The names thing has so much potential for the kinds of things I like (worldbuilding in general, but also a huge heaping load of identity issues/names & naming theory/opportunity for misuse or repurposing), but rarely lives up to its potential. When I want soulmates fic, I tend to go for the non-word versions, or at least the "first words spoken" version, rather than names, because I want something different from that! There's less depth to those, so I don't have to get annoyed by the depth being ignored. :D (Where's my soulmates-with-names fic that explores modern notions of naming? Who got their soulmate's AOL username, or hacker name, or silly nickname bestowed by their BFF at age nine? Which trans person worries for years that their birth name will be on their soulmate's skin... or that it won't, and thus they'll never be found? Where's all the female characters being weirded out by how, as soon as they marry their soulmate, their soulmate's mark will change to show his last name... and does that NOT happen to some, in the modern age? Where is that one person whose Name has changed like twenty-five times in eighteen years, and their struggle to work out why?)
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I suspect this is why I can't suspend disbelief: the primary kinks involved are not quite my kinks, they're just adjacent to some of them. If my own kinks aren't getting any of the payoff, I'm not distracted enough to summmon up the right nonsense-filtering goggles. Every now and then I do find an A/B/O fic that veers off into the stuff that's more my territory... but a lot of that is actually tied to the worldbuilding issues (I groove hard on people making choices that run counter to their biology!) so if they're not addressed at all I just can't muster the enthusiasm. :D
The names thing has so much potential for the kinds of things I like (worldbuilding in general, but also a huge heaping load of identity issues/names & naming theory/opportunity for misuse or repurposing), but rarely lives up to its potential. When I want soulmates fic, I tend to go for the non-word versions, or at least the "first words spoken" version, rather than names, because I want something different from that! There's less depth to those, so I don't have to get annoyed by the depth being ignored. :D (Where's my soulmates-with-names fic that explores modern notions of naming? Who got their soulmate's AOL username, or hacker name, or silly nickname bestowed by their BFF at age nine? Which trans person worries for years that their birth name will be on their soulmate's skin... or that it won't, and thus they'll never be found? Where's all the female characters being weirded out by how, as soon as they marry their soulmate, their soulmate's mark will change to show his last name... and does that NOT happen to some, in the modern age? Where is that one person whose Name has changed like twenty-five times in eighteen years, and their struggle to work out why?)