I am one of those who generally shudders at mpreg. I find it, on the whole, a sneaky way to feminize one of the characters so that you have more of a traditional Barbara Cartland-type of romance. It seems to be a way for some writers to write slash (which I believe they feel conflicted about, it turns them on and it also embarasses the shit out of them). Mpreg is a way to satisfy traditional mores and get a guy in there. Some fics I've read I actually felt were almost homophobic.
That said, I have read a few pieces that were NOT like that. Yes, it worked as a character and a plot device and nothing else. Things that Change is an EXCELLENT example of that. A superb piece that rocked my world. I wrote a very detailed response to the author about why it was so antithetical to most mpreg pieces and why it was one of the few mpreg that had me screaming and clapping wilding at the end. It was a superb, superb piece on a relationship. That happened to have kids somewhere in the plot.
Why? For those reasons. It was a brilliant, insightful analysis of a relationship, where the mpreg was the McGuffin. Not a pathetic attempt to turn one of our boys into a girl.
Write a good piece of fic, I'll be there clapping along with the others.
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Date: 2006-06-03 09:45 am (UTC)That said, I have read a few pieces that were NOT like that. Yes, it worked as a character and a plot device and nothing else. Things that Change is an EXCELLENT example of that. A superb piece that rocked my world. I wrote a very detailed response to the author about why it was so antithetical to most mpreg pieces and why it was one of the few mpreg that had me screaming and clapping wilding at the end. It was a superb, superb piece on a relationship. That happened to have kids somewhere in the plot.
Why? For those reasons. It was a brilliant, insightful analysis of a relationship, where the mpreg was the McGuffin. Not a pathetic attempt to turn one of our boys into a girl.
Write a good piece of fic, I'll be there clapping along with the others.