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80hdean · 3 years

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it’s midnight and im back on my mpreg bullshit

akfjdkfj the non-cringey mpreg corner of this fandom (which seems to be like, um, four or five people lmfao it’s hard to know) is really rad and I appreciate the different angles everyone approaches it from, whether it’s baby-trapping someone (@autisticandroids’ mpregpocalypse), or it’s the body horror atrocity that happens when one is pregnant (postpartum prometheus by @dragqueendean & @nifedick), or it’s the angst angle of giving destiel the Most babies in the most tragic way possible (@astermacguffin’s au), these are all great!! I genuinely enjoy all of them for various reasons.

what I’m still not getting, though, is why it’s always cas being impregnated. I mean, the obvious answer is that it’s easy to invent some sort of handwavey angel magic that allows him to do pretty much anything with a fetus. but angel magic aside, are there character reasons for not inflicting this curse upon dean?

bc from where I’m sitting, it seems like a very entertaining way to cause dean Physical Suffering and Psychic Agony, as well as the gold mine of conflict between his fear of fucking up any life he’s responsible for and his deeply buried desires for that picket fence life he thinks he doesn’t deserve/isn’t cut out for.

I suppose that last part is arguable. It’s just one potential interpretation of the dean the show presents. resonates with me, so I ran with it but I don’t assume that’s ubiquitous.

perhaps the other issue is the characterization of cas, bc gender fuckery aside (i.e. I will not argue that carrying a human fetus is feminizing or whatever), gestating a human or human adjacent being inside a human vessel is difficult and strenuous and does make someone more vulnerable for a decent chunk of time (the degree of this varies widely, obviously). I kinda felt like towards the end of the show at least, cas had been beaten down so far physically/metaphysically (given his dwindling grace and decreasing mobility (though this is a rare hc of mine that I’ve never seen discussed on tumblr so it’s not a huge part of this argument)) that it is less interesting to me to make him more vulnerable? dean, in contrast, seems as strong and powerful as ever.

the other aspect is that to make dean pregnant you would either need to do more handwavey angel magic (which, sure why not what makes one magic more plausible than another?), or you’d have to make dean a trans man and deal with the fallout of that. I don’t think making dean trans is the issue, though, at least not in the tiny corner of spn fandom I find myself in, at least not for transphobia reasons. perhaps it’s just that the consequences of inflicting pregnancy on a trans man are arguably worse than on an angel, and therefore would be more difficult to parse and write in a non shitty and non cringe way.

or maybe it’s just me, succumbing to the brain worms? but I kinda think the extra consequence flavor is what makes the idea so spicy~

#mpreg #for blacklisting purposes #for the record i am a trans person with fetus gestation equipment pre-loaded onboard my vessel so #is this just my new horrible way of dealing with my mental afflictions by inflicting them upon fictional characters?#maybe so #who can say #I do genuinely enjoy the thought of torturing dabbnatural dean in this specific way though #mostly as revenge for how he treated jack but also bc part of me wonders if it would help him reconnect w humanity lol #babies as the solution for all middle aged crises #also I think it would be a very interesting way to force dean and cas to reconcile from their divorce OR split forever #due to irreconcilable differences and they’d have to have split custody of dean’s spawn #I just I guess I want someone to tackle the mpreg issue through the trans lens #bc trans men can and do get pregnant/have kids and 1) it should be normalized to reduce stigma/ increase access to quality medical care #and 2) ALSO be treated with the necessary horror/gore/fear response that it elicits in plenty of ppl w gestation equipment #both kinds of ppl exist and sometimes if you’re real special you get be both at the same time and just live with the screaming conflict #did I show my entire ass in this post? yeah. whatever. shame is for the weak.#I’m team ‘give dean a baby’ forever alright #magpie dot txt

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