I do read mpreg, but there are rules, and it is very universe dependent. Magic makes things go wrong, OK. Ancient technology interferes, OK. Joe and Jack from the local PD get together and have a baby, Ummm - what? Even with intersexed/hermaphroditic people, I want to be made to believe and understand it, because I am in a health profession, and I know it's really not possibly.
I think it boils down to a couple of things - 1)I am not going to read and enjoy any story unless the author can convince me of its validity (at least within the parameters that they have established) and mpreg has an even higher barrier to the suspension of disbelief that most stories. 2)As a health professional and someone who has been dealing with infertility issues for almost 15 years now, I have higher levels of knowledge and therefore expectations when it comes to pregnancy fic in general.
However, the point of my little ramp, is that you did manage to take a "real world" fandom and successfully manage a type of mPreg, and do it in an enjoyabloe way. part of it is the way that you have fully captured the characters, in a sense keeping us distracted by the pretty, and also you came up with a solution that is just enough "science" and a huge amount character-based, in a way that drew us in, just like Jim was in the above conversation - because you keep all of Blair's talking swirling around us - in a good way.
i think the length of this is great, and fitting to the subject without getting bogged down, or letting us lose the thread or think about it *too* much, and if you could pull off a few other short pieces in this universe, I would happily read them.
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I do read mpreg, but there are rules, and it is very universe dependent. Magic makes things go wrong, OK. Ancient technology interferes, OK. Joe and Jack from the local PD get together and have a baby, Ummm - what? Even with intersexed/hermaphroditic people, I want to be made to believe and understand it, because I am in a health profession, and I know it's really not possibly.
I think it boils down to a couple of things - 1)I am not going to read and enjoy any story unless the author can convince me of its validity (at least within the parameters that they have established) and mpreg has an even higher barrier to the suspension of disbelief that most stories.
2)As a health professional and someone who has been dealing with infertility issues for almost 15 years now, I have higher levels of knowledge and therefore expectations when it comes to pregnancy fic in general.
However, the point of my little ramp, is that you did manage to take a "real world" fandom and successfully manage a type of mPreg, and do it in an enjoyabloe way. part of it is the way that you have fully captured the characters, in a sense keeping us distracted by the pretty, and also you came up with a solution that is just enough "science" and a huge amount character-based, in a way that drew us in, just like Jim was in the above conversation - because you keep all of Blair's talking swirling around us - in a good way.
i think the length of this is great, and fitting to the subject without getting bogged down, or letting us lose the thread or think about it *too* much, and if you could pull off a few other short pieces in this universe, I would happily read them.