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Mpreg should be taken more seriously, at least when it's done seriously, because let's face it, as an idea, it can be a very serious thing.

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darthhellokitty.livejournal.com

This would've been badfic with or without the mpreg. I mean, that was the LEAST of it!

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Badfic will be badfic, *grin*, nothing one can do about that.

I was being more, "in general".

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reproduction is kind of A Thing, yeah
even before the gender/identity issues etc

it would also help if people didn't seem to think that having started on one impossibility they might as well throw them all in at once. It sort of splats the plausibility to have the whole thing magically sped up for convenience and result in a near-instant adult with immortality and super powers, just for instance.

... I just realised how many comics I've read with that plot.
... *Superboy* was the result of that plot.
... *headdesk*

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The "near-instant adult with immortality and super powers" reminded me of another Connor, Angel's kid. But see, even lame ideas can be done in a good way.

Superboy was a fun thing. I'm sure it made a lot of clex mpreg writers very happy.

I started a few serious mpreg fics in my day, serious to the point of research and calling my sisters. But never finished any, sadly.

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yeah, come to think...

... I guess the thing is sometimes it's done as a way of avoiding a story (don't want to write about kids just to have them have one) and sometimes it's done as a way of creating stories.

if 'and then there was superbaby! the end' is the whole thing, not very satisfying.

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I have this HL 'verse (don't mock please) with a kid - no mpreg, just a kid, from baby to... about 20s, but probably a lot after in bits. It's a huge project, in my terms anyway, and is aaallll about child and parenting.

No idea why I do it.

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no mocking

why we write any of these? because the bunnies bites us?

half of mine are just so I stop getting nightmares about them.

... er, possibly less relevant to baby stories.

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How about baby stories involving Kronos? ;)

but no mpreg on him, or he'll kill me.

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Dude! I have one of those! In NTB-verse. I keep wanting to write it, but getting intimidated away.

...come to think of it, I do get Tessa pregnant only to kill her in that. And yet, how much *cooler* the story would be if she *lived* and she and Kronos raised Duncan's kid *together*...

Hmmmm.

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*blinky*

huh...

Yeeeeah... scarily I can see that.

Kronos raising a kid would end up kind of like Holtz&Connor or the Winchesters or Scary Bat God or something - really dedicated fighter daddy teaching all about the power.

But then there would be Tessa, artist lady and actual liking humans person.
... who does sculpture, which reminds me of the only good bit from that book series where the guy is really good with blades so he does killing and carving.

... I do not need other people's baby bunnies. nope.
*wanders off*

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Please! Take my bunny! Please?

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*would use the buried in bunnies Zatanna icon but apparently have not uploaded it to useable place*

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The story would indeed be cooler if you could somehow prevent Tessa from dying in it.. I'm just not sure how :)

Also your icon is joy.

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I don't know. I mean, I'd either have to go silly with it or die of the angst, but basically (if I remember the set=up right) you'd have:

Tessa Noel, ass-kicking and awesome artist left bitter and pregnant after mysterious stalker followed her home and forced her in to sex, resulting in her fiancee leaving her and personal ruin;

And Kronos, rockin' immortal left half out of his mind with grief after same mysterious mortal showed up and killed his One True Love for no apparent reason.

Together, they fight crime.

(And seek vengeance on the mysterious dark man who ruined both their lives! And find healing together through art and gratuitous violence! And also sex!) It would be up in the air whether the baby was pre-immortal or not, though. It'd be harder to justify Tessa living if it was, but it would also be harder to justify Kronos not just killing them both outright.

And thank you! I couldn't resist the temptation after I read that comic.

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I can see him being very Darla about mpreg
... only without the self-staking part. Except as a really unusual form of painkiller.

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Very Darla in the protective sense, or in the trying so hard to get rid of it sense?

And he does like sharp things through the heart, so you never know ;) Might stake the other party involved, though.

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yes ;)

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darthhellokitty.livejournal.com

That was the most FUCKED UP thing I've read in YEARS. I don't know why I kept going - like it was going to IMPROVE?

But that, for sure, was the last straw. Especially since, of course, that as brother and sister they have EXACTLY THE SAME GENES AND DNA!

My brain needs a nap.

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if you ever figure out how to stop reading fic, do share the secret ;-)

... I managed to skim read most of it, but ignoring it?
... It's like how I'm still reading DC comics.
*sigh*

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Well, I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that I'll be able to not read any further installments of "Things I Hate About the 21st Century", which has gradually become more and more disturbing.

Hahaha, my honeymoon with TW fic is SO over!

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I think I did manage to stop reading that one, come to think. Something about it seeming like all the wrong things to complain about? I not bother remembering it.

I don't know as I had a honeymoon, just canon withdrawal and subsequent fic overdose...

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.... if there was only one *canon* it ever happened in, it would be much less disturbing.

*muttermutterstillbittermutter*

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... *appreciates the no-children part of Highlander Immortals more*

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And yet! How many fic writers have mortal women getting pregnant just so they can have immortal babies and die? Oh yes!

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