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[labellementeuse]

Okay, so good things about tonight (or at least, anticipated things.)
7:30 pm Joey
8:00 pm Scrubs
8:30 pm Lost

(So Joey will be funny rubbish, Scrubs will be good, Lost... I don't know. I know a LOT of people who are raving about it. So... well, we'll see. :P) Oh yeah, Lucy, DON'T FORGET LOST tonight (She totally will. I have to ring her.)

Bad thing about tonight:

So I was having this conversation with gabbysun about mpreg, how creepy and badfic it is, and she asked who could have possibly thought of it. And I was going to say "Obviously someone TOTALLY DERANGED" (I'm sorry. Mpreg creeps me right out of my skin and all the way to Auckland. *shudders*) BUT THEN I REMEMBERED. There is a really, really good, very vivid and striking science fiction short story that I have read. It was by one of the masters- probably Asimov or Bradbury, but I'll take side bets on LeGuin and anyone else you feel like- and it's about a woman- alien- spider- who sleeps with men and leaves them pregnant. I suspect this to be the origins of mpreg except I can't prove it because that's ALL I can remember. I'm going nuts, people. So yeah, help me. Old-ish story, and the title may- stress that may- have been "Black Widow." Quite vivid physical detail of the pregnancies, disturbing but good. I remember it very well except, of course, for the author, title and collection bits. *eyeroll* So help? Please? f-list?

Comments

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

I TOTALLY DID.

Thanks for reminding me. Ring anyway afterwards and tell me what you thought of the story. (I sent it to Meg, who said that it was good and I should let you badger me into writing more often, and I went OMGWTF where's Meg and what have you done with her?)

[sixth-light.livejournal.com]

BTW, you're thinking of the Anne McCaffrey story, in the collection Get Off The Unicorn. Or if you're not, there are two stories exactly the same out there. You're right, it was good - her random short sci-fi stories are excellent, better than a lot of her novels.

[persephone-kore.livejournal.com]

There's also another one where it's played for fun -- mostly -- that's not bad; unfortunately I can't remember much about it except that it was lightish in tone and people teased the couple about what position they'd been using.

Of course, there's also Zeus/Semele and Dionysus (Zeus sewed Dionysus into his thigh when Semele was incinerated) and Loki, although on at least one occasion Loki was female when he was impregnated with and gave birth to Sleipnir the eight-legged horse.

(So concluding that the Lone Power could have been both Loki and Baldur led to an Implication regarding his mount in SYW....)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* Are you SURE?

Huh.

Fine then. It was still really good.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Ooh, also, Athena! Totally forgot about her (although it avoids the real problems with pregnancy, I mean, she cut her way out of his forehead, not quite the same.)

(o.O I am now kind of disturbed. I mean. O.o Panteonic family tress are so, so stuffed up. In a beautiful way, of course.)

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA I AM SO SO SO GOOD.

I love remembering stuff when you forget. Allow me to bask a little. *basks*

[mipol.livejournal.com]

Man, 'Lost' sucked

[megaffe.livejournal.com]

you definatly are thinking of McCaffery - I didn't think it was very god though, all creepy about space-spiders *shudders*

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

*raises eyebrows* I kinda liked it? It wasn't, um, subtle, but I definitely didn't think it sucked.

[mipol.livejournal.com]

I don't know...I just didn't get what there was to like about it. It was just pretty lame imho.
why did you like it? I'm not going to start an arugment with you or anything :) I'm just curious because I know a number of people do raelly like it.

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

Well, some of it was... I mean, the whole "I'm a doctor" thing? AHAHAHAHAH. (I totally wanted to tell him he wasn't in Guatemala, but then doctors always do that to me...)

why did I like it? Um, I don't know, I just really enjoyed it. It scared me... but then everything scares me... but, hmm, okay, I thought the way they portrayed the aftermath of an airplane crash was pretty good- apart from the improbability of the number of surivors. um... some other stuff... gtg though.

Rysade

[(Anonymous)]

"it's about a woman- alien- spider- who sleeps with men and leaves them pregnant"

*ROLLS EYES* If that's the case, I'd place my bets on Andre Norton, the man-hating She-viper...

Re: Rysade

[labellementeuse.livejournal.com]

In some ways, you are such a guy.

I do not mean that as a compliment, Think male chauvinist pig. ;)

*sigh* it's not, I mean, you misunderstadn that point of the story, I think. Men can be parents without being emasculated, and I mean, teh story wasn't about their emasculation, really,. it was just this creepy idea that I thought might be the insiration for mpreg.