Short Stories: Tough Conversations
Added 2024-06-24 20:19:52 +0000 UTCThey're both wrong, and they're both right. It's complicated. Would they make great parents? Of course.. But should they?
I'll even blow this storyline for you, my precious Patrons. Piggy Sue agrees to surrogate for Cass and Itzel's baby (Sunshine), during which time she works on Clem and gets her hyped for the possibility of raising kids with the woman she loves. However, carrying Sunshine and giving birth is so brutal and traumatic for Piggy Sue that she puts the kibosh on any further pregnancies. Easy come easy go.
Maybe you wonder why they wouldn't just adopt. Well, we here at WwF are super pro-adoption! But good luck to getting any agency in the US or otherwise to adopt out a kid to a 50-year old janitor and her female partner. We may be talking pig people but at least we're realistic.
When We Fly (c)Kae
At least we have each other.
Comments
Nightmares.
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-24 23:42:55 +0000 UTCThe hospital janitors who have to clean up the birthing wards are -never- paid enough. Ever. I've heard stories and I had to fight the urge to run screaming.
PebbleLion
2024-08-24 23:40:47 +0000 UTCClem and Piggy Sue honestly might make great parents, but adoption would just be a better road for them to take, and realistically that's very, very unlikely. That said, the choice NOT to have/raise kids is a valid one, too. The tragedy arrives in the form of rich pricks making the decisions FOR people.
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-24 23:10:36 +0000 UTCI'm impressed by anyone who can do it, but I sure as hell can't/won't.
Must Love Frogs
2024-08-24 23:08:30 +0000 UTCAlso, carrying a child to term is fucking BRUTAL and childbirth is brutal. It is not for the weak and it is gross.
PebbleLion
2024-08-24 22:43:54 +0000 UTCAs a teen, I was the babysitter/housecleaner/big brother to like four different families with boys. I adored them all and we all went to the same church so it was great for a time. But now I think about it and even if I do one day find someone I want to be with, like Clem found Piggy Sue, I just don't have the heart for kids anymore. Yet my heart aches at the thought of the tens of thousands of kids in the system who states and bigots and nations are scribbing in laws to block same sex or even single people from adopting. To be denied the simple feeling of just being tucked in by someone who loves them.
PebbleLion
2024-08-24 22:42:38 +0000 UTCI'm sure that when Piggy Sue was with Devon, people bothered her with "do you have/when are you having kids??" all the time. And yes, this would have been very annoying to her. Now that she's with Clem, however, she is feeling the brooding instinct on her own power.
Must Love Frogs
2024-06-26 11:18:31 +0000 UTCAs long as this question isn't being foisted upon our lovely protagonists by "societal expectation." Clem may find herself exempt from such expectations (whether welcome or unwelcome), but Piggy Sue may find cocked eyebrows thrown in her direction quite often and... some may crack under the pressure.
Joe Pontillo
2024-06-26 02:09:36 +0000 UTCThe world's loss, y'know?
Must Love Frogs
2024-06-25 22:25:13 +0000 UTCSadly realistic in them being denied, despite being excellent parents. God, fuck the haters.
Jonathan
2024-06-25 12:59:53 +0000 UTCDespite being tremendously copacetic, Clem and Piggy Sue are still "human", and their relationship will be put to the occasional test. Discrepancies on the eternal question of "will we have kids"? is one of the toughest roadblocks in the book.
Must Love Frogs
2024-06-25 11:05:22 +0000 UTCOof, thatβs tough. Always enjoyed Piggy Sue and Clemβs fairy tale later-in-life romance, but I gotta admit Iβm intrigued to see them hit a snag like this. I wonder how they going to resolve this, if it all. :(
Lopoddity
2024-06-25 06:26:37 +0000 UTCππππ«
Rachel Terwilliger
2024-06-25 01:34:15 +0000 UTCYou're tellin' me
Must Love Frogs
2024-06-24 20:33:31 +0000 UTCAny two fertile idiots with no money, home, or immediate future can crank out as many kids as they can, but folks that would otherwise make excellent parents are disqualified from adopting for sometimes trivial reasons.
GreyPon3
2024-06-24 20:31:06 +0000 UTC
