WicDiv #36

Spoilers about the THING under the cut

Unpopular opinion but I don’t think the whole pregnancy thing is that bad in itself.

The fact that something is a trope doesn’t immediately make it an invalid plot choice, and it’s true that many authors have misused this particular trope, but I personally feel like I owe Gillen the benefit of the doubt at the very least. I wanna see where he goes with this.

Motherhood and pregnancy are not inherently bad or uninteresting and I think there’s a lot of potential for compelling storytelling that hasn’t been explored much yet. Wether a cis dude is the right author to do it remains to be seen, but for now I’m tentatively hopeful