DELICIOUS

[dev_chieftain]

I just had Jack-in-the-Box tacos for the first time ever and they're amazing. They are like crack. I want more already and I'm not even hungry!

In less delicious news, sometimes things like this happen:

Fandom: I want this m/m or f/f couple to have a baby! You can have them be transgendered, or do mpreg/immaculate conception, lol, I don't care!
Dev: Adoption exists! What the heck!

or this:

Fandom: Oo, best idea! Let's have X character in Y crossover to a thing you've never heard of!
Dev: Can there be another fandom for crossovers or something? I don't care about Y fandom and you are GETTING YOUR CONAN IN MY LUPIN

or this:

Fandom: Lol it's better when X character is a girl because he's so girly anyway!
Dev: YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT
Fandom: Ok um then how about turning that butch girl into a dude? I bet then she'd be hot!
Dev: *sob*

Have revived Lebowski-icon because it is appropriate, though I couldn't quite make it perfect using the upload-image/crop feature. I'll fix it when I get home, perhaps!

But really, seriously, those tacos were amazing.

Oops, another edit, because someone at work mentioned the Oscars and what's going on.

Okay, so right, I check the news and find multiple articles about how fabulous Hugo is, how it's an amazing story about a filmmaker in decline, how he misses the good old days and blah blah blah.

You know what, I'm fine with everyone attributing Heath Ledger's last film credits to The Dark Knight. That movie is not that amazing, nor is his performance in it really much to write about (come on; he's doing a Jack Nicholson impression, okay? We can all tell), but you know, lots of people saw it so they see that as his last film.

But SINCE we're not attributing Ledger's final, amazing performance to the film it actually occurred in, can we at least deny Hugo the award that The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus deserved? Here is a film that does what people are telling me Hugo does, but better. Plus, it actually DID contain Ledger's final performance.

I would probably like Hugo, to be honest, because I liked Shutter Island and have nothing against Scorsese. But really? Seriously? Why are all my favorite creative minds always the ones who get shoved off into the background? Scorsese and Gaiman outshine Gilliam and Wolfe, and I feel sad to see it. Shouldn't they all be celebrated?

Bah, whatever.

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[dev_chieftain]

Well, see, I have seen mpreg done well. It was on a show called Sliders! I don't know if you have heard of or care about Sliders, but they had an episode where they ended up in a universe where women would die if they didn't transfer their children surgically to their partners for the mid-to-late trimesters before returning the baby/womb for delivery. In that universe, Remy's alternate turns out to be the husband of an important politician, and she's at that step of pregnancy. AU Remy has disappeared or died or something, so he takes on the baby for her for a couple of months to save her life. It's still a funny episode (with pregnancy humor....I can't remember if I found it funny or was bothered by it, honestly, but I think it was funny!) but it does what you're saying Wolfy does, puts that kinda serious spin on there. It's a good example of mpreg and I believe there's probably a lot of mpreg out there that finds a neat balance between silly and serious. I just don't have a desire to look! I don't really like pregnancy as a story device.

[captainbubbles]

Haven't finished reading this comment but I wanted to jump in with the EEESLIDERS love before I did. EEESLIDERS.

There was an episode of Enterprise that had canon MPreg. I can't remember the episode that well beyond the fact that Trip was embarassed and that the Klingons thought it was funny, but I remember being pretty gleeful I saw it because, lol, canon mpreg.

But I'm pretty used to MPreg being a pretty small niche of interest, and good MPreg that isn't just about reinforcing gender stereotypes being an even smaller niche, so it's cool. I wasn't saying HOW DARE YOU NOT LIKE THIS THING THAT I ENJOY IN A SPECIFIC SETTING or anything.