one of my favorite fanfic authors posted chapter 1 of a planned 10-part AU where helen convinces an ambivalent carol to have a baby together and carol ends up being a deadbeat alcoholic dad who offloads all the caretaking/childrearing work onto helen and the mutual resentment--with carol feeling pressured into parenthood and helen forced into shouldering the labor of parenthood--ruins their relationship. tfw you take a good thing and destroy it by "becoming a family" 😈

















