Oct. 24th, 2007

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Blar. So I'm supposed to be preparing a presentation on Octavia Butler's "Bloodchild" and all my brain can come up with is "Ahhhhhh alien mpreg wtf!" which is not helpful.

Technically, it's not straight-up mpreg. Male aliens fertilize the female aliens when the females are still in the larval stage. After, apparently, many years, the females lay the fertilized eggs in a host animal, generally human males. The eggs then hatch inside the host animal and start eating their way out; they have to be removed and placed in the corpse of another animal before they eats the man they were... incubating in. Which, technically, makes their stay in the human man more parasitic than anything else. I think. Or else it really is pregnancy since they are still in eggs. I can't really tell, but if I hadn't already decided I don't want children, this would put me off pregnancy for life.

In short, OW.

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