This post is not about mpreg

[ambersweet]

I finished the first Ribbed Sock and I'm now going back and forth debating whether to immediately cast on the second, or finish the damned Seafoam Shawl. After I finished the sock, I got three more rows done on the shawl. I really just need to be working on a project that doesn't feel like the most tedious thing ever. My Knitpicks order should be here tomorrow! So I can get started on that. Except that they'll probably leave the box at the office and I won't be home until after the office closes, so I'll actually have to wait until Thursday. THURSDAY CANNOT BE HERE SOON ENOUGH.

I'm in a weird mental state right now; I'm writing a paper for my Women as Healers class, and I'm still in the transition stage between reading the source material I'm going to talk about and the beginning of the actual writing process. This apparently means that I'm profoundly dissatisfied with every sentence I produce, because I've written this paragraph three times and it still feels awkward. Like I shouldn't be talking about a paper I haven't started? I'm not sure. But the paper is (going to be) about the medicalization of childbirth through the lens of a nurse-midwife's memoir and a science fiction short story about mpreg. (My degree requires reading the weirdest things!) Pregnancy is a very gendered thing, even when it's not.

Thinking about this story makes me wish I had enough time to re-read Ethan of Athos and add in commentary about pregnancy in the Vorkosiverse. Maybe I will do that on the train tomorrow; I'm pretty sure I have it on my ereader (which I cleverly failed to bring to work with me). Science fiction and pregnancy! A fascinating topic.

Poking around, I just found an article on Junior, and now I'm thinking about writing my paper about mpreg. I love this class.

Comments

[nightmachinery]

Vorkosiverse? Hi. I'm in love with you.

[finch]

If you need any references to mpreg in myth or folklore you know I've got you covered, right?

[wandererriha]

XD This class gets more and more awesome every time I head about it.

[novel_machinist]

This really sounds interesting at least!

Sure beats the Legolas MPreg I found once.

[ambersweet]

Normally I don't like mpreg - because it's ridiculous, and the story doesn't generally explain it in any way, and because it contributes to the erasure of women that you see in badly-written id fic slash. But getting to write a paper about it is just awesome.

[ambersweet]

This is totally my favorite class. Maybe ever.

[ambersweet]

Cordelia is one of my favorite characters in the history of ever. To the point where I quoted her in my paper, just because I could.