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nimblermortal · 10 months ago

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The more sci fi I read the more pissed off I get about Bujold's uterine replicators. That stuff is not standard in every setting? You have people in Star Trek who are carrying babies to term inside their bodies? What sort of barbaric nonsense is this. It's non-optional? They're not just doing it as some sort of hippie nonsense? Do you have any idea how many health risks there are? What sort of complications? The lasting effect on the body? And you're just. Speculating. That in your highly advanced society. People choose to do this.

It just seems to me that in a reasonable world, uterine replicators would be interesting because of the way their impact on Barrayar is explored.

#have you not heard of postpartum bleeding #have you not heard of hair loss are your characters not vain #I am probably getting this mixed up with additional Bujold but I think you can tell if a skeleton has carried babies from its composition #I will grant you that Star Trek can probably cure pre-eclampsia but like.#why would they when they could just. not do that.#frankly astonishing to me that we're not closer to this in our own world #that and colonoscopies #HOW have we not eliminated colonoscopies yet???#bunch of savages #anyway I was MEANING to make a post about how I can make Yarrow's whiskers go forward and back according to my whims #because he likes it when I scritch his cheeks #and he does not like it when I give him BOOPAH!#and he has not yet realized that my ability to make him smile and frown in this way is a source of entertainment #soon it will be gone - he doesn't do the cat ear twitch for me anymore #but in the meantime #BOOPAH!

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