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[fangirl_says]

Pursuant to my recent post regarding my complete inability to post a WIP because I CAN'T FRIGGING STICK WITH ONE STORY LINE LONG ENOUGH, I'm now binge-watching The Handmaid's Tale and toying with the idea of a Sherlock a/b/o set in something like the THT verse. As one does, if one is me, apparently.

And wow, this show is as good as I'd heard. I haven't read the book in probably 25 years, so a lot of what happens is at least vaguely familiar to me. I'm also remembering how much the book effected me; I was in a funk for days. And now? Wow, how much more plausible is the world of Gilead now than it was when the book first came out, y'all? It's honestly horrifying to realize that in many ways, we're closer to that dystopia today than we were a quarter-century ago.

I really think I want to write a Sherlock au in that universe. But maybe it doesn't have to be a/b/o au as well; I've been thinking about a universe in which mpreg is simply a fact. Are there fics that involve mpreg that are not omegaverse? I'm not sure I've read anything like that since the LOTR fandom's heyday, and I honestly didn't pay much attention at the time since it wasn't my thing.

Also, why do I need to spend so much time thinking about what I want to write? Why is it so hard just to write it?

And do y'all think anyone but me wants to read something like this?

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[out_there]

Are there fics that involve mpreg that are not omegaverse?

There used to be, but these days omegaverse seems to have taken over.

Mind you, while I enjoy watching The Handmaid's Tale it's so unrelenting and frightening that I don't think I could bear to read it in fic form. And yet, I suspect that it's an interesting enough idea that it would definitely appeal to some readers.

[fangirl_says]

Unrelenting and frightening is probably the best description I've seen of it, tbh.

[diandrahollman]

I would embrace the a/b/o. I have lost count of the number of times I have compared that genre/trope to Handmaid when defending it from antis.

[fangirl_says]

They really do seem to fit together, don't they?

HMT

[elwinglyre]

I really loved HMT when I first read it too over 25 years ago. I remember not being able to put it down and finishing it on my lunch break at Burger King of all places.

That being said (I'm also an old LotR fandom person), I haven't read many male pregnancies stories that aren't omega verse, but they are out there. Why not go for it? I love thinking about it too, but love writing it just as much.

I have a couple of sadly abandoned WIPs that really need endings. I keep saying I'll do it (and people occasionally ask me to finish them). I feel awful about one in particular, but sometimes you just can't get that lovin' feeling back.

So do it. I'd read it. I love dystopian au fiction.

Re: HMT

[fangirl_says]

It's so cool that you were in LotR fandom as well! It really is a small internet. :)

Thank you so much for the encouragement. I'm thinking 'why not,' too. It couldn't hurt to try, anyway.