Talk:Mpreg

Another draft

User:Freedom4U/Future articles/Mpreg has another draft with potentially useful content. Fieari (talk) 23:15, 27 January 2025 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Hilst talk 20:29, 14 February 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that a fandom scholar called male pregnancy stories "conventional"?

• Source: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/135/141 in several places, including "These texts explore Sam and Dean as fathers and homemakers, depicting family life, with all its traditional trappings, but without women. When pregnancy is brought into the equation, it brings concomitant narrative and social conventions, resulting in conventional stories set in a very unconventional universe."

• ALT1: ... that Arnold Schwarzenegger was pregnant in the 1994 film Junior? Source: https://screenshot-media.com/culture/internet-culture/mpreg-erotic-genre/ "In 1994, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s blockbuster hit Junior explored the possibilities of male pregnancy. As part of a fertility research project, Schwarzenegger’s character implanted an embryo onto the wall of his peritoneal cavity—thereby giving birth to a healthy baby girl."
• ALT2: ... that even mpreg enthusiasts disapprove of "ass babies"? Source: https://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/651/544 "One birthing technique that readers are highly unlikely to run across is anal delivery of what is notoriously called an "ass baby." ... Amy said that any author trying to take herself and her writing seriously would not use anal delivery because "the rectum is inherently funny—it wouldn't work for mpreg that wants to be anything other than crack fic""
• Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Kit Nascimento
• Comment: I'd appreciate input on the hooks here. I'd like something that doesn't just rely on shock value or "look at those weirdos". I don't love any of these - #1 is slightly misleading, in that the full quote is "conventional stories set in a very conventional universe, #2 focuses entirely on the movie which isn't in conversation with the rest of the mpreg genre, and the last one is rather sensationalist.

Created by Rusalkii (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 5 past nominations.

Rusalkii (talk) 05:18, 30 January 2025 (UTC).

• Update: I got someone to release an image, so it could run with the image currently in the article. I'm not sure how much it adds as an image hook, leaving that up to reviewers opinions. Rusalkii (talk) 02:35, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

I am amazed that we did not have this article before and jealous that I did not get to write it! New, substantial, comprehensive, and fun. DYK material par excellence. Arnold is not mentioned in the article, so we cannot run that (though he most probably should be mentioned), and I find ALT2 far better anyway. It is the single most hilarious hook I have ever read. Surtsicna (talk) 16:05, 1 February 2025 (UTC)

What about, "... that mpreg enthusiasts typically disdain breastfeeding?" Or something else from one of the various anti-breastfeeding quotes covered in the article. Fieari (talk) 07:42, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

Not confident enough in my writing skills to add it myself. But Bloodchild could be a great example to add. It is an earlier work featuring mpreg, and exhibits many themes and narratives common to the genre 2600:1014:B04C:CC9B:D130:4EA7:17F1:20A8 (talk) 16:42, 21 February 2025 (UTC)