it's kind of beautiful, in a way

ladyvyola wins.

From this thread:
Er, I mean, we may have to leverage the add-on value of masculine uterine-equivalents across the synergistic core competencies of end-game scenarios to maximize our survival in a post-crisis marketplace and ensure continuation of operations of key personnel.

This is about.... (pick one)

1.) Merlin AU business practices
2.) The feasibility of melding apocalypses with domestic animals.
3.) I'm scared. Please die in a fire, seperis and ladyvyola.
4.) Mpreg, of course.

Comments

[druidspell.livejournal.com]

4, and thus 3 and possibly 2.

[quietus-x.livejournal.com]

It sounds like post-apocalyptic MPreg to make sure Arthur still has kids.

That would be an interesting fic... sort of. "HOLY FUCK CATASTROPHE AND NOW THERE ARE NO SUITABLE WOMEN FOR ARFUR TO IMPREGNATE SO TO PRODUCE AN HEIR MERLIN MUST BEAR HIS CHILD."

...

*cringes*

[seperis.livejournal.com]

I would totally write that. Well, at least the apocalypse part. With zombies!

[quietus-x.livejournal.com]

DO IT.

=D The world needs more zombie apocafic! (Actually, I read a really good Watchmen zombie apocafic, just recently...)

[ender24]

#4, of course.
and arthur and merlin got the domestic animals pregnant.
or vice versa.
could have something to do with fuzzy logic and superstrings.
SGA is also somehow involved. key personnel sounds military.

[tricksterquinn.livejournal.com]

I vote mpreg. Possibly where there is sale of masculine uterine-equivalents.

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

It can't be all of the above?

(And randomly, my problem with mpreg, the bit that throws me right out of the fic, has nothing to do with the whole men-don't-have-wombs thing. That's a big enough impossibility that it's easy to to fuzz over. My problem is the spine-- human women have specially reinforced spines to deal with pregnancy. Men don't. Pregnancy would possibly cripple them, but they'd certainly be unable to walk or, you know, remain upright*. For some reason, that's the thing more than anything else that throws me out of mpreg.)

*It's a walking upright thing. Quadrupeds don't need to worry about this.

[shinetheway.livejournal.com]

So...the answer is to make the guy into a quadruped? [grins]

The scary thing is, THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE. [absolutely does not provide a link to the wolf-mpreg Merlin fic of which she has read a whole chapter]

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

Oh, the internet. Whatever you think someone will already have done it first, and photoshopped an illustration to go with it.

(And you know, this is a human evolutionary feature. May not apply to elves, vampires, werewolves, aliens... oh, this just does not make it any better, huh?)

[feanna.livejournal.com]

I think this could be worked around, especially in fics where magic is the whole cause of the pregnancy. In those cases I would just assume that the spine was reinforced too. But there are also the cases of women with spine-conditions carrying children to term. I'm sure they probably had problems, but it's definetely possible.

On another note, I knew that women's and men's lubar-sacral joints are different and that men should they get pregnant would have to give birth via c-section or something like it (or magic) because of the shape of their hip-bones, but I didn't know that there were additional significant differences in the reinforcement of the spine. You learn something every day. Thanks

[jamjar.livejournal.com]

It's pretty nifty. The curve in the lower back is spread out over 3 vertebrae (rather than 2 in men) to help weight distribution, and having the joints behind the spinal cord about 14% larger in women then men and orientated better to better brace the weight.

Which basically means that -apart from everything else- you don't tip forward from carrying 7lbs or more of baby in front of you all the time.

(And the thing is hand-wave-magic pregnancy with the lack of womb? I'm fine even though that's a much bigger thing than the back, and yet it's the back that does it in for me.)

[bathsweaver.livejournal.com]

...

#1 and 4?

::HOPES VERY HARD::

[out-there.livejournal.com]

2, would be my guess. Although you could arue for 4, but I think it's 2.

[ariadne83]

#4 all the way

[quickthorne.livejournal.com]

Mpreg, with an added twist of apocalypse.