Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return, I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them. (Or at least I'll tell you something about it.)
Well, you're right - that's a fic I'd never write.
But if I were going to write Mpreg, it would be to make a point about abortion. Guys don't menstruate, and guys don't get knocked up, so Jim has no freakin clue that he is until the pregnancy is pretty advanced. Oh, sure he'd been sick but that was just stomach-flu. 'Cause, pregnant? That's just nuts. And when he finally did find out? Carrying it to term is so not an option. His body just isn't made for that, you know? He can't give birth: it will literally kill him, and the alternative is major surgery. No, this one's a no-brainer.
But it's too late for a chemical abortion and somehow the word of his condition has leaked out and apparently even to his friends he's not a person any more. Random people think they have the right to grab his belly and get all offended when he tells them to fuck off. Other random people keep stopping him to give him advice or their totally unwanted opinions. The worst is those idiots who assume he's happy about this horror. At least Blair gets it. If Blair wasn't on his side, he'd go crazy and open fire in the bullpen.
What really hurts is his friends. It's hard enough to find a clinic that will take care of this problem for him, but to have even friends treating him like a murderer who should be arrested...it's crazy. This thing is unwanted and best case scenario it's going to permanently change his health and his life. He's a grown man who is fully competent - doesn't he have a right to take care of this quietly? Apparently, not. It seems even his friends think he's suddenly incompetent to make his own decisions about anything. Not to mention having to fight his way through a crowd of protesters just to reach the clinic.
And when he finally gets there? The doc tells him they can't just do the procedure right away. That's illegal. No, he's got to look at pictures of the parasite inside him and then he's got to wait a few days just in case he changes his mind. How crazy is that?
...and so on. I'd have to do some real research about the idiotic hoops women have to jump through.
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Well, you're right - that's a fic I'd never write.
But if I were going to write Mpreg, it would be to make a point about abortion. Guys don't menstruate, and guys don't get knocked up, so Jim has no freakin clue that he is until the pregnancy is pretty advanced. Oh, sure he'd been sick but that was just stomach-flu. 'Cause, pregnant? That's just nuts. And when he finally did find out? Carrying it to term is so not an option. His body just isn't made for that, you know? He can't give birth: it will literally kill him, and the alternative is major surgery. No, this one's a no-brainer.
But it's too late for a chemical abortion and somehow the word of his condition has leaked out and apparently even to his friends he's not a person any more. Random people think they have the right to grab his belly and get all offended when he tells them to fuck off. Other random people keep stopping him to give him advice or their totally unwanted opinions. The worst is those idiots who assume he's happy about this horror. At least Blair gets it. If Blair wasn't on his side, he'd go crazy and open fire in the bullpen.
What really hurts is his friends. It's hard enough to find a clinic that will take care of this problem for him, but to have even friends treating him like a murderer who should be arrested...it's crazy. This thing is unwanted and best case scenario it's going to permanently change his health and his life. He's a grown man who is fully competent - doesn't he have a right to take care of this quietly? Apparently, not. It seems even his friends think he's suddenly incompetent to make his own decisions about anything. Not to mention having to fight his way through a crowd of protesters just to reach the clinic.
And when he finally gets there? The doc tells him they can't just do the procedure right away. That's illegal. No, he's got to look at pictures of the parasite inside him and then he's got to wait a few days just in case he changes his mind. How crazy is that?
...and so on. I'd have to do some real research about the idiotic hoops women have to jump through.
Not that I'd ever write this fic.
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Which is a fucking shame because I would so absolutely read that. Wow.
*applauds*
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The problem I have with MPreg is it's never bloody *realistic*.