pardon the intrusion but this has been bugging me for WEEKS and it's not in the FAQ. What is the meaning of "mpreg"?
figured you kids would be the ones to ask and this would be the place to ask it. thanks!
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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
lisah - Feb 03, 2003 10:47:40 am PST #3280 of 10000
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Dana - Feb 03, 2003 10:48:19 am PST #3281 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Oh, are you sure you want to know?
Okay.
It's a strange genre of fanfic which involves male pregnancy.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2003 10:49:02 am PST #3282 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Male PREGnancy.
You were probably better off not knowing.
lisah - Feb 03, 2003 10:50:15 am PST #3283 of 10000
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oh that's too funny. there really is something for everyone. and i'd really don't want any part of that thing. i don't think...
Fay - Feb 03, 2003 10:58:31 am PST #3284 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Thing is, though, that right off the top of my head I can think of three instances of genre shows/movies actually featuring MPreg. Not fanfic - the shows themselves.
I've not read any MPreg fanfic & don't have any particular urge to (unless someone I knew to be an excellent writer were to tackle it, in which case, sure, whatever) but I know it's out there - still, I do feel the need to point out that Enterprise and Alien Nation both featured MPreg, as have various crappy movies and shows like that Arnie vehicle with Emma Thompson. For example.
Um.
t /totally oversensitive to potential ridicule of fanfic.
sumi - Feb 03, 2003 11:02:08 am PST #3285 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Didn't Angel almost feature mpreg? (In Epiphany, I think.)
Am-Chau Yarkona - Feb 03, 2003 11:06:16 am PST #3286 of 10000
I bop to Wittgenstein. -- Nutty
I've not read any MPreg fanfic & don't have any particular urge to
What- you're not intrested in those LotRs Mpregs I found?
I do feel the need to point out that Enterprise and Alien Nation both featured MPreg
I don't watch Alien Nation, and normally I don't bother about Trek, but by all the gods of fanfic, that episode of Enterprise was funny. And, as you say, canon mpreg.
lisah - Feb 03, 2003 11:10:11 am PST #3287 of 10000
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Oh i'm not ridiculing at all! More permutations of human behavior and relationships (and, er, biology?) in all kinda fiction the better. I would never presume to tell anyone what they could or could not write about. I just think it's funny that "mpreg" is an established genre, such as it is. I was wondering about it because it kept popping up in other discussions, unrelated to fan fiction. Mostly punning off of "mpeg".
esse - Feb 03, 2003 11:10:11 am PST #3288 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
It was good, one of the few Enterprises I've had the pleasure of watching. Very funny. He reminds me of McCoy in the nicest way.
Theodosia - Feb 03, 2003 11:11:20 am PST #3289 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Futurama just had an mpreg story a couple of weeks ago. And Quantum Leap also did at least one where Sam leaped into a pregnant woman.