#pregnancy cw

[lazylittledragon]

did somebody say dadkarios

[ammoniteflesh]

I think this season of yellowjackets has been doing some rlly clever stuff with Shauna's pregnancy, specifically examining the ways pregnancy gets fetishised.

Shauna's pregnancy is a group event, it's a baby shower Shauna never agreed to, it's Lottie touching her body without consent, it's Misty and Crystal planning a song as if this isn't going to be intensely traumatic, it's 'OUR baby'.

So much of Shauna's dream sequence is just her and the baby - getting to have intimacy, and solitude, 'I just want to enjoy this moment'.

It may not be 'real' but the group DOES cannibalise her baby, in the same way Shauna cannibalised Jackie before ever touching her corpse. They're cannibalising the story of her baby, taking it in and using it for fuel.

And, of course, the instant her baby is dead, they all turn away. The camera turns away.

[kathaynesart]

You have me anticipating that Holiday Special SO FRICKING BAD 😭. No pressure or asking you to hurry up at all, just saying that I'm like super super excited to see what happens hehehe. Unless it turns out you aren't posting it or somthin. But anway, I love your comic and Im obsessed with how well you draw the turtles and April and Cass, you know? THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS COMIC INTO MY LIFE 😍

Ahh! Thank you so much and thank you to all the kind messages I have received in the past few months! I wish I had the time to respond to them all but sadly life has been busy! I promise I've been working hard on the next update too! I have 14 of 18 pages completed and I really really want to get it done by this weekend if I can! In the mean time have a panel to tie you over!

They weren't prepared.

[jingsyuans]

pregnancy cw

an idea where jing yuan steps away for a moment and when he comes back he sees you, his pregnant spouse, twisting someone’s arm and yelling at them to hell and back. something happened- maybe the stranger tried to hurt the baby. jing yuan’s first instinct is to step in, remove you from the situation, and take charge. So, that’s exactly what he does- with a little bit of difficulty. You’re very very pregnant and also very very mad and almost fight your husband as he carefully tries to placate you and pry you away from the scene. Once everything is said and done and the stranger is dealt with properly, you’re still huffing and puffing when he comes back to you.

And Jing Yuan bribes you back to a better mood with plenty of love and treats. It takes awhile, but your mood swings are intense and one of them eventually sweeps you away from the anger.

And what he will never tell you is that while he was rightfully concerned and even a little proud of you, he was also very, very into it. Impressed. Turned on. Something like that.

Who knew seeing you go mama bear would be so hot?

(The reason Jing Yuan never tells you is because he’s a skank. He knows you so well, which means he knows exactly what to do to make you pissy at him. So while you’re shooting stream out of your ears whenever he makes you angry, he’s just twirling his hair and biting his lip)

[thepeelucof87]

👍

[soulprompts]

an unexpected arrival. (A PROMPT LIST!)

so a lovely anonymous angel asked for a list of prompts relating to an unexpected pregnancy, and i made a list! i have two other lists over on my other blog that i'm gonna reblog over here, but there may be some slight overlap with these; however, unlike the other two lists, these focus exclusively on the unexpected part. DON'T ADD TO THIS LIST, DON'T CLAIM IT AS YOUR OWN! but do have a tonne of fun with them!

" so, remember last week, when i had the flu and i couldn't leave my house? turns out it wasn't the flu. i'm pregnant. "

" i'm telling you about this baby because you deserve to know. that's all. i don't expect anything from you. i don't need you to step up or whatever. i just thought you ought to know. "

" i'm sure you don't need to be reminded, but... getting pregnant wasn't exactly part of the whole life plan. "

" you're sure? i mean, you did the test properly? maybe it was a false positive. or, or maybe you didn't read the results right... "

" a baby... well. that certainly complicates things, doesn't it? "

" i don't even know if i want kids. "

" could you please just stop reminding me that this isn't part of the plan?! you think i don't know that?! we're having a baby, i'm terrified enough without you reminding me! "

" look. i'm/you're not the first person to get pregnant, and i/you won't be the last. we're gonna figure it out, alright? "

" my place isn't even close to being big enough for a baby... they need so much stuff. cribs, prams, diaper stations... and my neighbors complain enough as it is, they'll evict me if i have a screaming baby as well... "

" hey... why don't you move in with me? i've got plenty of space, and my walls are thick, so the baby could scream as loud as they want. you could stay as long as you like. "

" should... we get married? i mean, that's what you do, isn't it? when someone's having a baby? "

" okay, we're not getting married. i mean, i appreciate the gesture, but... there's plenty of single parents out there. what's one more, right? "

" god... we are so stupid. i mean, seriously! any idiot knows that condoms aren't 100% effective! if we're dumb enough to forget that, how are we meant to look after a baby?! "

" you... you're kidding, right? this is a joke? it's a fake pregnancy test, some weird, slightly out of touch belated april fool's prank? "

" it's honestly insane that we didn't figure it out sooner... i mean, those were some wild cravings, right? "

" when you say late... do you mean like, a few days? or are we talking... months? "

" no, no, this... it changes everything. EVERYTHING. i... i don't know if i'm ready for this, i don't think i'm parent material, i... "

" hey. you're not alone. you got that? it takes a village, right? i'm gonna help you every step of the way. we all will. this kid, if you choose to go through with it... they'd be okay. "

" you know i support you. whatever choice you end up making. i will always be by your side. okay? "

" if this is some weird idea of a joke, i have to tell you, it's not funny. i mean, you're having a baby AND i'm somehow the dad? a little much, no? "

" no, i want to step up. it took two of us to make this baby, and i want to make sure you know that, if you go ahead with this, there's gonna be two of us to raise them, too. "

" the father doesn't believe that the baby is his. "

" okay. so screw the father. i'm going to be here to help you. okay? we'll parent this kid so well, they'll never want to know who their real dad is. "

" so... you wanna tell me who the father is? "

" the surprise baby is actually not just one baby. we're having twins/triplets/etc. "

" hey, hey... don't worry, okay? it's alright. it's all going to be okay. condoms break, yeah? it's no biggie... "

" what do you mean, you think?! haven't you taken a pregnancy test yet? "

" that's a lot of pregnancy books you got there... got something you want to tell me? "

" have you told the father yet? "

" i guess, seeing how you rushed over here so fast to tell me the news, that you think the baby is mine? "

" look, we both made plans, right? and obviously shit happens, but... a baby is a pretty massive deal. "

" how many other people have you told about the pregnancy? "

" what do you want to do? "

[calamaricollie]

Guess I'm finally exposing these doodles to the public LOL, A series of silly events lead to me trying to draw a shitten and going haywire with the doodles, I've drawn a shitten and her name is Lari :>

@artoutforblood Here since you let me tag u :p more traditional drawings under the cut

Only did one and the name Lari came from a friend, She'll definitely get siblings in the future tho

She calls the lamb "Baba" because of their bleats :3 Also while Nari and Lamb are out there trying to get her first words to be their sounds respectively Leshy is out here like "It'd be way funnier if her first word was a cussword lmao"

Last one isn't exactly Lari as much as the Bishops reaction, Heket says this but the moment she saw her she was set on being the cool lesbian aunt lol

These are all for now, I was about to work on a proper ref for her lol (PSSST Bones I haven't read the new chapter to your fic but I see it focuses on the Bishops reactions, I'm curious to read it and see how different or similar we both did them lol, tho admittedly I went for it more as a jokey thing :3)

[softerhaze]

lil garden party for egg day 🌷🐣🐰

me, watching paloma be aggressive and mean to the literal flower bunny: omg.....my baby ;----;

....no comment

[cirrus-ghoulette]

Thinking about Cumulus getting pregnant but everyone forgets to tell new summon Phantom how babies are formed and what pregnancy is.

He thinks that the rest or the pack doesn't care about her because she's been getting sick every day for MONTHS, but nobody's worried about it??? Nobody thinks she should go to the infirmary????

Her diet has completely changed, she's stopped drinking, and no one thinks this is weird? She keeps eating weird food combinations, too. Ready salted crisps covered in melted chocolate. Bananas dipped in ketchup. She just... Crunches on ice a lot, too.

Clearly Dew and Swiss know something is up, because they don't smoke around her anymore, instead choosing to go outside if they want a cigarette. But that's all they're doing??? If something is so wrong that they can't smoke around her, then she needs to go to the infirmary.

Sunny's weirdly protective of her, too. Constantly clinging to Cumulus, rubbing her scent over her at all times. That's new.

And finally, there's the bloating. Swelling? Whatever it is, Cumulus' stomach has slowly been growing over the months. She's constantly complaining about having to take out her clothes to fit around the tummy, and then once she can no longer fit into her old clothes, she's complaining about having to buy new clothes to fit around the tummy. And no one finds this huge growth in her stomach weird???

At this point, Phantom's too anxious to bring it up. It must've been explained to him previously and he's just forgotten. Must've been explained that actually, Cumulus is unwell, and that explains why everyone is so chill with the sickness and the swelling and the weird diets. He doesn't know.

Hopefully someone explains it again to him soon.

[nitewrighter]

Okay so I've been thinking about this for a while. So back in the 80's John Byrne overhauled the Superman origin story to come up with the concept of Krypton as this cold, technologically-driven planet--and this was partially so that the ship Superman arrived on earth in was an artificial womb so that he would kind of, technically, be 'born' on Earth (which honesty cuts into a lot of the pathos of Krypton and Lara and Jor as parents and also cuts into the 'Superman as immigrant' narrative which we've come to love so much). And this did end up influencing Superman lore because, hey, Krypton as a technologically-driven society that is deeply flawed but also convinced of its own perfection is still really interesting.

Cut to Snyder making 'Man of Steel' in 2013 where he asserts that Kal-El is the first "natural" birth on Krypton in centuries. So basically because Snyder wanted to work in more of his Christ metaphor for Superman ("His birth is a HUUUUGE DEEAL"), you end up back with the lore that yes, Kal-El was a (born) baby when he got put in his rocket and thus it's back to an immigrant narrative.

Anyway, ANYWAY, my point is, even though both these writers were working from a weird conservative place that fundamentally misunderstands major points of Superman's character (In Byrne's case, Superman as an immigrant, and in Snyder's case, Superman as Jewish/Space Moses) it has resulted in what may be my favorite implication of Superman Lore: That Jor-El and Lara were considered pervert freaks for having a baby the old-fashioned way. If Krypton never blew up, Kal-El would have grown up relentlessly bullied, like "That's Kal-El, his parents had him by having sex, without input from the proper committees, he came out of a vagina, what a freak."

Sidenote but I'm actually really enjoying the "House of El" YA graphic novels right now, because it's basically Lara and Jor going, "The only way to save Krypton is by inflicting ADHD on random teenagers."

[taiturner]

#the girl scouts did not prepare her for this

[lazylittledragon]

You said that with Dadstarion he coped with Dorian being pregnant surprisingly well but what about Gale?? I can see him and Cyra trying to Logic their way around the horrors of it all

i think they would’ve been fine!! probably a mix of excited and horrified.

[luveline]

Cute hotch blurb where the whole team suspects the reader and Aaron are having a baby, and they’re right of course because reader and hotch are never as subtle as they think. Just obsessed with Girl dad! Aaron at the moment. It’s too cute. 😭

"No," Hotch says as you both enter the room, making your way to the bullpen, where he drops you off each day, "I'm not saying that, all I'm saying is you need the extra vitamins."

You put your stuff down at your desk a little ways off from the main body of profilers. Hotch here would kiss your cheek politely and keep on to his office, professionalism his main motif, but he doesn't.

"I'm not going to drink cod oil."

"I don't want you to drink cod oil," he says, and he laughs, a rare treat to hear at work.

The sound attracts the attention of Morgan and Emily, who are already here for the day. Reid's desk is empty.

"I want you to take vitamins coated in cod oil," he says.

You laugh yourself and it's lovely, you and Hotch were meant to be together if only for how often you make one another smile. You wrap your arms around his waist which isn't unusual, you're not a stickler for workplace etiquette like he is, but what is unusual is the swiftness with which he hugs you in return, briefcase behind your back, free hand smoothed over your neck.

You're a hug sponge, but Emily can count the amount of times she's seen you initiate a kiss on one hand, and it shocks her when you kiss a line up to Hotch's mouth. She slaps Morgan on the arm and he glares at her before realising what it is she's drawing his attention too, your clinging affection.

"Sorry," you say.

"No, don't be sorry."

You and Hotch share a sickly sweet smile. He chucks you under the chin and turns to start up the stairs, and it is a generosity that Emily waits for him to shut his office door before she starts on you.

"What was that?" she asks.

You cover your face with both hands. "Emily, please don't."

"Are you getting married again? I haven't seen you guys this loved up since you came back from your honeymoon."

Surprisingly, you look caught. Like you are actually getting married again, which is impossible. You don't have to be a profiler to jump to the next conclusion.

"Don't tell me you guys are having a baby," Morgan says, grinning. A genuinely happy smile rather than any smug smirking.

"We aren't," you say softly, "not yet. We just a really good morning, you know?"

Emily almost believes you and Morgan certainly does. Morgan hasn't seen what Emily has — your extra vitamins, your anti-nausea medications. Your sudden weak stomach makes immediate sense.

"Ah, I see," Morgan says, "though good isn't the word I use to describe a morning romp."

You laugh and boo at his wording and sit down at your desk. Morgan goes back to his paperwork with a self-satisfied hum, but Emily snoops that little bit longer. You sidle your chair close to your desk and take off your coat, reaching out for a file you'd left last night. Your regular routine.

Then, slowly, your hand creeps to your stomach. You hold yourself, eyes slipping closed as a small smile blooms.

Emily throws one leg over the other and gets back to work. She'll mind her own business — for now.

[owlpellet]

just want everyone to know that i am irrevocably maternity pantspilled, i don't understand why they don't manufacture normal trouser bands like this. it is so fucking logical. our guts expand and contract all day.

i bought these the other day for general low-stress wear (they are a nice and gender neutral shape, up to size 20w us for these ones) and i am already buying another pair. sitting in every other type of trouser causes extreme nerve pain as the band digs in except this. i now can sit in a chair and know peace. if you have nerve damage or endo/pcos/etc or IBS bloating or just fucking hate the feeling of bands digging into your waist this is it. i am telling you. grabbing you by the shoulders and shaking you. ignore the branding and get ready for all your ads to think you are expecting, try the damn pants, and join me in peace.

[ghostgreen]

I’ve been reading A Song of Ice and Fire for the first time! Here’s some drawings I made while reading the first book. I’ve been craving medieval fantasy type stuff lately and it’s really hitting the spot. So many characters I want to draw, so little time …

[storybookhawke]

In honor of @hollyand-writes returning to fandom after her surgery! A radiant Merrill who is with child.