Hellooo, so this answer is gonna be a little rambling but like most of my headcanons I like loosely basing this stuff on real biology except dialed up to eleven. So I usually give pre-heat stage symptoms similar to pms and a sharp drop of estrogen like headaches, insomnia/fatigue, fluctuating appetite etc and the actual heat would be like a cranked up ovulation since that is the biological drive of these cycles even if the story wasn’t about breeding kink lol. But I also say “loosely” because if all omegas (regardless of primary gender) are menstruating we run into a slight timing problem. Pre-heats are usually when we make the characters suffer right before they get what they need during their heat, but realistically if you are ovulating during a heat your pre-heat would be when you are feeling Good because there is an increase in hormones again. If I make pre-heat essentially pms there should normally be several days between the period and ovulation and yet in fics pre-heat is sometimes only hours before the real thing, so that’s where the fantasy comes in!! Similar for pre-ruts, we can take symptoms of rising testosterone in preparation to a potential mating like increased libido, high bp, also insomnia, aggression, mood swings etc. But the case for ruts is way easier because I don’t have to math out where and when the uterine lining for the potential pups is going lmao (this goes for female alphas too, because I like basing biology on second gender more than first since that’s the point of this universe, like a female alpha doesn’t have a womb in my head and they do have cocks although smaller than male alphas because of some level of estrogen from their primary gender, think of it almost like being on HRT. Same for male omegas, they have wombs but also t-dicks unlike female omegas etc etc. What about betas? Hm I think maybe they are more intersex and their genital traits vary widely and depends on the specific individual/plot). Hopefully that answered your question I confuse even myself sometimes djkshdjka

Not you asking this while the omegaverse fic I’m working on At This Very Moment has omega chn/alpha jngn 😂 Unfortunately they are a side pairing to minsung :/ but jngn’s crush on chn, and his wish to catch the older omega during the quadrennial mating run before chn graduates is a Crucial Plot Point! Which might be interesting for you, hopefully lol.

Honestly, I don’t see myself being able to write a fic where jsvng isn’t somehow part of the main romance 😔 I tend to latch on to one character in every fandom and in this one it’s absolutely hannie… But I love playing around with different combos for the other pairings in the background (I think for jngn I’ve done jeongchan, jeonglix/jeongchanlix, seungin, and hyunin so far?) so I’m open to doing different ships people suggest!

Thank you so much <3 I usually get spontaneously prompted by friends or funny tweets, so I don’t plan things in advance too well, like I don’t have a solid workflow yet in terms of technique… I sketch pretty messy at first, and then sketch over that a few more times, and only after that I have sth more coherent to actually do lineart on (which I don’t love doing lol I think I’d like a less clean style?). Then flat color, then rendering kinda based on vibes and prayer honestly, since like I said I don’t have a good practice yet. And I use WAY too many layers which I’m trying to cure myself off of T^T I’m learning as I go! I do think drawing so much since getting into kpop again helped me lol it’s true when they say you really need to get obsessed with that one guy to get better afsgsgsh I’m happy to discuss techniques or brushes or whatever if you ever have specific questions, this was kind of a broad answer.

Like besides my staunch anti-censorship stance around kpop rfp that gets my friends cancelled on here on a weekly basis? Lol. Hmm, like I think the whole industry is fucked up on a lot of levels from borderline abusive managements to scary parasocial fans, and the consumerism built into it that bleeds even to fan works, and I wish idols could unionize or society around them move forward an inch or sth lmao but that’s an opinion any sane person would hold imho? Idk if I have any “cancellable” hot takes wrt kpop at large besides the fiction thing, I don’t do stan wars either so I don’t have a “oh I secretly hate this group” opinion I just forget them if the music don’t hit ¯_(ツ)_/¯