Everybody's doing it! A poll.

[mrsronweasley]

So, this is something that's kind of interested me for a while, and now I'm sitting here, enjoying my newly-fast computer (oh yeah, my external hard drive came yesterday, and WHEEE MORE SPACE), and wondering:

How do people feel about kid!fic?

I know that in HP, I absolutely loathed it. Even though both Remus and Sirius appear to be good with kids, I could never, ever stomach them adopting/trying to raise a kid, and mpreg? FORGET ABOUT IT. (This is still the case, by the way, just in case you were wondering.)

Then, I came to due South. And then, I read 'With Six You Get Eggroll'. And, okay. The premise struck me as completely improbable, and I almost didn't read it. I mean, really, come ON: Ray and Fraser, raising SIX CHILDREN? WTF? What is this, "Sound of Music"?

But then I did read it, and completely fell in love with it. Because it strangely works and it's sweet and it just...it WORKS.

And then, there's Ray Kowalski, who, in canon, wanted kids, and in fact, this was probably the chief cause of his divorce. And I thought more about Ray and realized that he would have made a wonderful dad. Crazy, yeah. Overprotective? Yeah. Sometimes embarrassing? Sure! But he'd be CRAZY about his kids, and he'd have fun with them and know what to do when things wouldn't go well.

So, then I started searching for more kid!fic. And I was kind of lost.

And THEN, I SOMEHOW - *points accusing fingers at katrin and rhythmsextion* - got suckered into writing kid!fic. So, okay, it's an AU. But still. Here I am, writing it. (And yeah, Kat, I still am. In fact, it's been revived! Much to my surprise.)

So, I guess that sums up my history with kid!fic. I just never thought I'd have it in me to enjoy it, and now, I...really really do. It's Ray, it really is. He tugs at my strings and pushes all my (known and unknown) buttons.

Now, it's your turn. Tell me:

[Poll #727036]

Comments

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

See, my problem with kidfic is that I am not really a fan of kids.

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Okay, that's really funny. I can understand how kidfic would not be for you. I haven't decided yet whether or not I will ever want kids, but I'm terrified of parenting. And, maybe that's why, I'm fascinated by how writers handle that. Sometimes, they really do get it all wrong, and sometimes, I'm really impressed. I actually have a soap box about bad parenting, which I'm not going to pull out right now... but the issues tend to spill over into my reading of kidfic, if that makes sense.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

I also note that you're in your early 20s, according to your userinfo - I'm 42, and I know that both malnpudl and shayheyred who responded with agreement are older than I am. So I suspect that a lot of the "kids, meh" camp are women like me who have long since decided the parenting thing isn't for us.

[mrsronweasley.livejournal.com]

Which I wish more people saw as a totally legitimate thing, because what bothers me is the assumption that that's what EVERYBODY has to do. I understand the desire to have kids, I also understand the desire not to. All of it is legitimate. The worst thing to do is pressure people into it. But then, this is slight bitterness coming out here, so I'll shut up.