Ok so i used to absolutely despise mpreg in anything but since reading the Harry/Draco mpreg in the Harry potter universe it has grown on me massively. but only because its in a fantasy world to begin with and the deffinitions of why they got pregnant are actually plausable in these types of fictions. When an author brings it into catagories like scrubs and house i think it starts being ridiculous
What do you think?
I think that figuring out the biology of it's going to be an absolute bitch. For a start, in order to have all the necessary equipment for a pregnancy, you no longer qualify as wholly male, but rather hermaphroditic. If you don't have all the necessary equipment... well, we're taking a sharp left turn into H. R. Giger contry, and the scenery there ain't pretty.
Think I'm with Lois McMaster Bujold on this - artificial uterine replicators as a voluntary option for any and all pregnancies, kthxbai. Amny natural occurrence resultig in pain so severe that your body automatically erases it from your memory needs some serious outsourcing, pronto.
I think minus the fact that its pretty much imposible that sometimes it helps bring two characters together but sometimes it just gets ridiculous. Plus some MPreg ones for Jack/Ianto are good because Jack is like a different specie so it kinda works. I dunno wether I like it or not to be honest :)
Junior is one of my favorite movies, with fanfiction, though... surely not my favorite. I'm a scientist, and even though science is far in pregnancies and all, it's entirely impossible, so no.
Oddly enough, according to a throwaway line in the first episode of Torchwood, Jack did once get pregnant, and disliked it immensely. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more like a Doctor Who fanfic...
Not too keen on MPreg, never really liked it...
...in any form. :| I jsut don't see the point in MEN getting pregnant o-o.
muahahahah FEEL THE PAIN MEN -evil laugh-
I was really skeptical of it, but this one FMA fanfic with Roy getting pregnant was very well done. I guess it depends on if you can pull it off, really. :S
I think because it was part of the plot though, and Roy being a Chimera made it work out.
...I kinda like it. :D
Haven't read any Mpreg but trying to figure out how it could possibly work makes my brain hurt -_-'
Imo, empreg just feels kinda silly to me, therefore i can't write it.
Can be pretty entertaining in a crack fic tho :D
Imo, empreg just feels kinda silly to me, therefore i can't write it.
Can be pretty entertaining in a crack fic tho :D
I've read mpreg in lord of the rings, and it kinda makes sense, cos they're not human. but in harry potter, they're still humans, so it kinda makes me uneasy :S
A fun thought for you: the male equivalent of the uterus is the scrotum. That's where a male pregnancy would most likely begin.
Sweet dreams.
I find it quite odd and disturbing...even in a crack fic...o_o
i saw a film called Junior, and he was like preggy, but men cant get pregnant, unless they're a tranny who refused to get her uterus taken out. its pointless.
unless of course you're doing something like Daniel X, where you get aliens, the alien eqivilent of the male species may be able to give birth to kids... depending of course.
for some time i had absolutely no idea what mpreg meant until i decided to read one. story wasn't too bad but i did find it some what... odd to say the least
One other thing...
>>12 How does them not being human justify it? Elves, dwarves, and hobbits are all described as having clearly-defined genders, so what would be the point of the guys also being hermaphrodites? Unless, of course, you're discussing a construct-race like the Orcs, in which case all bets are off... though I must question WHY one might be posessed to write an Orcish mpreg fic, if I were not too afraid of actually getting an answer.
well at times i find it creepy but that's ownly if the writer is bad, if the writer is good and it's well written MPreg can be cute, i know of 2/3 nu!trek fics that are MPreg that work because it being set in the 23rd century
@Iaculus- I write orcish mpreg every day. It fills me with joy.
Also, this thread has touched on a minor peeve of mine- the confusion of difference between 'sex' and 'gender'. Your gender is the role you're socialised into, while sex refers to your reproductive organs. So you could be male in terms of gender and yet you could have a child, but not if you were male in terms of sex. I see 'gender' mixed up with 'sex' all the time, in a similar way to 'jealousy' and 'envy', and 'myth and 'legend', so I thought I should mention it.
Outside of a crackfic, I don't think it would work, although with enough explinations, maybe... Not something I'd be interested in though.
i find the whole idea of mpreg a tad disturbing. While i agree that it can sometimes make sense in worlds like harry potter where magic can be used, i just don't feel comfortable reading it.
I undersrand why people enjoy it though because it makes sense to want to see a pairing have children of their own but i just don't feel comfortable with it.
Nothing makes me twitch more than an mpreg. Maybe it's because I've never come across one that was well written, but the idea of giving birth in general is...eugh.
And then you have the brat kids to deal with >_>; Not my cup of tea at all.
Well, I like m-preg in the Bleach fandom. I wouldn't like it if it were in, as you say the Scrubs fandom, or Dr Who. That's just taking it too far.
I'm trying to think why I like m-preg... I like my guys to be guys, but something about it... Hmm... it's a very clear biological indication of fertility... I feel kinda guilty for finding it sexy =(
Good examples of MPreg are nathan-p's Reality Check, and HigherMagic's Threefold. It can work when it's well-written, but it usually only fits into a fantasy or semi-fantasy fandom in my experience.
There is only one mpreg story I managed to read all the way through. Birth is enough to make me go errr already. Mpreg? No. Just no. Not my cup of tea at all.
Well for me it really does depend on which Fandom... With Transformers I can handle it because to me it's a matter of: Alien Robots, therefore Genderless.
Similarly with any Alien species that associates as Male but does't really have a Gender (Maybe they reproduce asexually or whatever...) I can be okay with it.
With Humans... I'm not really sure how I stand on that since it has happened in reall life. (He had a sex change but chose to keep his female organs so that he could still have Childeren. But he's still Legally a Male. He can grow a bread, etc...)
'Grow a brwad'?
I understand what you meant, but now I have this disturbing mental image of some guy wandering around with a baguette protruding from his chin.
'Grow a bread'?
I understand what you meant, but now I have this disturbing mental image of some guy wandering around with a baguette protruding from his chin.
How do they 'associate as male' without a gender? Did you mean 'without a sex'?
Disturbing at thought but I'm slowly finding myself getting curious due to a joke between me and a fic-friend XD
I don't like male pregnancy fics. So far, I've read one which worked. In it, the male who got pregnant was amusingly the seme, and his vagina was located at his belly button, so it made somewhat sense. Also, he could only be pregnant once. It was done tastefully, and was both amusing and deep in story.
Don't get me wrong, it's not the Yaoi aspect, it's the fact that two guys can have a kid and it's because they were having anal sex that it happens.
'His vagina was located at his belly button, so that made somewhat sense.'
No. No, for oh-so-many reasons, the main ones being:
a) HIS vagina
b) Located at his belly button
c) Misuse of the word 'somewhat'.
You sure it just wasn't a transgender?
I don't like Mpreg because it gives me the image of a well loved male character going through a very unnatural and painful process. Not only that, but a purely male character being bent in that way... in the words of Ohno from Genshiken, "it spoils the integrity of the character". the idea of harry potter giving birth to twins is scarring, not to mention hilairious.
Yeah, I'd say that giving birth without the requisite equipment would ruin anyone's integrity... structural or otherwise.
Unless they can come up with a pretty good explaination on how the guy was able to get pregnant without a vagina, ovaries and the correct hormones, I don't see why it is there.
Then again, fanfiction is fanfiction, so as long as some people get a kick out of it, I don't mind its existance.
I just choose not to read it.
Though, I have never really come across it much, since I rarely read yaoi.
@35: Yes, the mpreg was transgender. That was the point I was failing to get across. ><"
this is a very interesting thread. i kinder laughed all the way through. okay now here is something i would like to share, i have written an mpreg fanfic before called DADDY LEFT US, and from the reviews i have recieved no one complained about it. well that still doesnt excuse it. but the point i am trying to give is that the pregnancy was very critical to the whole plot, because i had the idea of the story with hetero pairing, but i decided to turn it into yaoi and trust me, coming up with the explanations of the pregnancy was painful. but i think i came up with something that made sense somewhat...
with that, i absolutely dont hate mpreg, as long as they can actually explain how it happened, i have no problem with it.
sometimes i fear my open mindedness...
40> Could've just come out and said it bluntly XD hinting doesn't come across well without the suggestive tones...which don't convey over the internet.
I read MPreg when I need a good laugh, since I can honestly say that the majority of people who write it come up with no plausible reason for it, and due to the lack of thought, the writing is usually shabby and full of fail.
That said, I know there are some good authors out there who write it, but honestly, since I don't like MPreg, I wouldn't want to read a well written one - I read it for the lulz.
If you can get the biology and theory right, it works. -Usually only in magic fics though- the magic does all the work, and it makes sense... eg Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Merlin... but not human ones like NCIS, CSI, Gossip Girl, Bones, etc...
Oh, almost forgot:
A good M-Preg is the Indago series, a Harry/Draco creature fic. It works BECAUSE IT IS BELIEVABLE... Go read it (out indago in google... there are three fics in the series, each very good...)
'Believable M-Preg'. Also known as 'oxymoron'.
I find that in M-Preg makes the men way too like woman. I mean come on, in Harry Potter for example I find:
a) They always make one person dominant. This is really not realistic in a relationship between say Harry/Draco as, Harry's fought the Dark Lord for Christ's sake, it's unrealistic to think that he would put up with Draco ordering him around... This is kind of an against slash argument.
b) The men who are pregnant start acting like some woman. You know, really emotional etc. Just because they are pregnant doesn't mean they will completely change the way that they are. I can understand that there are hormones and stuff, but at the end of the day THEY ARE MEN GETTING PREGNANT it's not even possible!
c) Yeah, men don't get pregnant, they don't have the parts. Even if they magically have a womb or something like that, it just wouldn't happen, also what kind of sick person would make a spell which would give a man a vagina.
That's just my thoughts.
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I agree with you with the sudden male acts female part. Not that I think men can't be soft, but when a real hard man suddenly becomes nothing more than a quivering school-girl because he's gay, then that just doesn't make sense. I don't see Draco covering behind Harry or vice versa.
Of course, men don't get pregnant but say, providing Draco and Harry wanted a kid, they might stumble across a dark magic spell that makes one. Depends how desperate they wanted a child. (And this goes back as to how much thought is imputed into the story.)
@Ellipsis (47), I actually lol'd just now.
I agree with the idea that mpreg works well in a fantasy world (eg LOTR or HP). I actually like mpreg fics that are well written. It's nice to have the pregnancy storyline but used with a slash pairing (which i prefer). Generally, I just disregard the HOW of the mpreg (I am a scientist and agree it doesn't make sense. i think it makes most sense in HP where you can just explain it away with magic). However, most mpreg fics are badly written, which doesn't help the case for that genre of fics.