Ah soap opera aging. To a lot of men, it probably feels like their kids grow that fast, because they don't spend that much time with them. One of the small number of things in Angel that I kind of liked was that they made that magical growing up of the child involved explicitly magical, and then no one in universe quite knew how to deal with it.
Oddly, I'm in the middle of writing an mpreg fanfic (about a non-operative trans man, at least he has a reasonable claim to all the right equipment for child-baring) and while I've been contemplating the appeal of mpreg for so many people, and I've been wondering (if given most fic writers seem to be girls) if it has something to do with us ladies wanting to portray the things we go through, and scare and intimidate a lot of us, like pregnancy and motherhood in fictin, and boy characters in canon just tend to be more interesting because of endemic cultural system.
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Date: 2010-09-04 10:01 pm (UTC)Oddly, I'm in the middle of writing an mpreg fanfic (about a non-operative trans man, at least he has a reasonable claim to all the right equipment for child-baring) and while I've been contemplating the appeal of mpreg for so many people, and I've been wondering (if given most fic writers seem to be girls) if it has something to do with us ladies wanting to portray the things we go through, and scare and intimidate a lot of us, like pregnancy and motherhood in fictin, and boy characters in canon just tend to be more interesting because of endemic cultural system.