tight, round bellies

Every morning I wake up rounder

I feel the immense mass of our unborn litter growing. Bigger and bigger my waistline bulges, pushing the limit as my belly button begs for mercy, already having popped multiple times.

It could be any sort of living being or inanimate object.

He's so massively overdue with no end in sight, belly tight and swollen and still growing months after what he thought his due date was. Whatever's inside him wont stop writhing and kicking, seemingly eager to come out, but with each passing day, he only gets bigger and heavier. Nearly two years into the pregnancy, he's now pinned down by the sheer weight of his overgrown belly. Every movement from the massive creature aches and stretches his thin translucent skin, tenting his belly outward and testing its elasticity.

when real people do kink in real life, you gotta do all that good out-of-scene stuff like discuss boundaries, set limits and expectations, check in with each other, do aftercare, et cetera et cetera et cetera... but in fiction, everything can be in-scene!

the people in that fanfic don't exist any more than, like, the make-believe sexy football star and make-believe sexy cheerleader in a couple's roleplay exist. that couple doesn't need to get into character and then pretend to be a sexy football star having an important consent conversation with a sexy cheerleader, because that's a conversation that's already happened out-of-scene and out-of-character. (i mean, if you're into in-character negotiations, chase your bliss.) when they're in that scene, they can just pretend to be a sexy football star having sex with a sexy cheerleader. that's okay.

when i say in fiction, everything is in-scene, i mean that the fiction IS the scene.

if someone went up to their partner and said "hey, wouldn't it be sexy if we pretended you were manipulating and controlling me in an unethical way for sex reasons?", and then they talked through all the good and necessary consent and risk-awareness things, and then they played that scene out - that's a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm, right?

now, if someone writes a story where one character manipulates and controls another in an unethical way for sex reasons... that, too, is a made-up scenario where pretend bad things happen, but no real-world people come to real-world harm.

Like. The baby isn't a participant. The baby is a plot point, like the backalley the characters fuck in or the booze they drank beforehand.

People obviously have other reasons not to be into it, but I'm talking specifically about the Weirdness™, the kind that leads one to make a post on Tumblr.com about obtaining the in-story consent of fictional characters, which is a stupid concept in the first place since they're fictional and not real, and how the baby can't consent. You've seen that post, I know you have. That kind of Weirdness™.

Sometimes I wonder if the people making the Weird™️ arguments are doing so intentionally. Like, the point is to make it into some moral failing so they can feel superior.