I don't despise it, I guess, since I keep reading it. I just can't figure it out. Clearly someone really enjoys it but I can't suspend my disbelief that much. There's no uterus! There's, and this is key, no vagina! How does it work? And even if I was willing to accept the hand waving that happens during birth (seriously, the last one I read had Harvey in stirrups. Can I get a look because this is truly a medical mystery that I need solved.) So, hand waving the biological factors, I don't think men, if capable because of hand waving, would handle pregnancy in the same way. At all. Like at all. And yeah, this one totally had Harvey fucking Specter (okay, I don't know if you watch Suits but imagine me boggling. Cause I'm totally boggling.) crying, and being sentimental over other people's children. Having grown up drenched in Western stereotypes of gender roles, I can almost see the other character, Mike, being the pregnant (and thus, chick) one, but Harvey? He would have had an abortion, suffered manfully for about five seconds, compartmentalized any residual emotion and moved on with life.

Criticism of this particular fic aside, mpreg in general seems like epic Mary Sue insertion fic, more than any OC with lilac eyes and a flowing mane of hair who simultaneously saves the world while being saved herself by a knight in shining armor. I can see no other explanation. Honestly, it kinda makes me want to give it a go. Like, with the right fandom and the right scenario. It'd have to be sci-fi and involve magic gone wrong or alien abduction or medical experimentation. And horror, right? To not be Mary Sue, the guy would have to be horrified. Unless *cackles* so you have a scientist who has figured out how to self-fertilize like a nematode and decides to self-experiment since he certainly isn't getting FDA approval. And then is delighted when he ends up pregnant. Maybe for next Hallowe'en.