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NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 1 POLL 63

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Dr. Stephen Maturin (The Aubrey-Maturin Series)

Daisuke Jigen (Lupin the Third)

Voting ended onFeb 4

PROPAGANDA:

[Stephen]

"As a doctor with a complex relationship with gender and a fascination with the natural world and physical processes, he would be fascinated by a pregnancy. As a bonus, he has a decidedly weird relationship with gender."

"I mean just look at him. Also he has already performed abdominal surgery on himself. Might as well do a self c-section."

"better minds than mine have explained this. It is simply a natural progression of his experiences in the books."

"Stephen Maturin is a naval surgeon, naturalist, spy, and overall weird guy from a series of novels set during the Napoleonic wars. Your dad or uncle knows him. You could probably psychologically one-shot your dad or uncle with by telling them we are trying to get Stephen elected pregnant!

Stephen already has a canonical daughter, Brigid, whom he adores. He is fairly good with kids. He is always collecting animals and a baby is way cooler than an animal because you can teach it Catalan. And as a proto-scientist, would have a great time taking copious notes on the pregnancy and on infant development, even if he had unpleasant symptoms.

(His creator Patrick O’Brian, after having a couple rolls in his grave, would endorse unpleasant symptoms. Accidents and disease are happening to Stephen Maturin's body constantly, and that's not even counting the time he got tortured by the French.)

And did we mention the potential for drama? Stephen Maturin has an awesome wife, Diana, with whom he has a fraught relationship. They love each other. She leaves him at least three times. She won’t leave him if she gets him pregnant… probably.

Stephen also has a particular friend, Captain Jack Aubrey, who is practically glued at the hip to him for decades (1813 is at least six years long, don’t worry about it) and is weirdly jealous of his friendships with other naturalists. Which could mean nothing.

I think Diana should knock him up by accident after he assured her there was no risk of her getting him pregnant. I think he should have an easy breezy time of it till month seven and say unforgivable things about how he doesn’t understand why other mothers make such a fuss and then abruptly get unwell enough to be put on bed rest.

I also think the baby should start out looking more like his particular friend than his wife, just to put more strain on their marriage and stress him out. That's fun for me. That's fun for me.

Stephen Fact of the Day: Did you know that his canonical weight is nine stone or one hundred twenty-six pounds? On a man five foot six that's very little. We could fix that with a baby. He would no longer need to worry about being wafted away by stiff breeze or being carried off by a medium-sized owl."

"tumblr user @aurpiment really wants him to be pregnant (and makes very interesting posts about that, like this one or this one). i want tumblr user @aurpiment to be happy. also i think pregnancy + childbirth + having a baby would be enrichment for him."

Stephen propaganda from last season

[Jigen]

"Who else is going to give birth to Lupin IV? Fujiko definitely won't."

"He is already a malewife your honor, but also lmao it's HOTTTT."

#signal boost

aurpiment

Team Aubreyad, let's win this poll!

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NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT ROUND 4 POLL 18

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Dr. Stephen Maturin (The Aubrey-Maturin Series)

Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit/The Lord of the Rings)

Voting ended onMay 30, 2025

PROPAGANDA:

[Stephen]

"Making a doctor into a patient has to be something O'Brian had a thing for. Accidents and disease are happening to Stephen Maturin's body constantly, and that's not even counting the time he got tortured by the French.

I think Stephen's wife Diana should knock him up by accident after he assured her there was no risk of him getting pregnant. I think he should have an easy breezy time of it till month seven and then get a dozen unpleasant symptoms at once.

I also think the baby should start out looking more like his best friend than his wife, just to put more strain on their marriage and stress him out. That's fun for me. That's fun for me.

Did you know that his canonical weight is nine stone or one hundred twenty-six pounds? on a man five foot six that's very little. we could fix that with a baby. he would no longer need to worry about being wafted away by stiff breeze or being carried off by a medium-sized owl."

[Bilbo]

"I just really love reading fics where hobbit mpreg is a thing, as well as uber-crazy hobbit fertility, and he and Thorin accidentally conceive some baby dwobbits (quite a shock to papa Thorin, considering how rare pregnancies are for dwarf couples). Bonus points if Frodo is their son."

aurpiment

Now, you are all surely thinking, wait, if we accept the birthdate of December 26th, 1772 for Stephen, which we do, then wouldn’t he be at least 41 in 1813, putting him at greater risk of preeclampsia? I have already thought of that and I am putting him on low-dose aspirin. And you may be thinking, but wasn’t aspirin not isolated till 1897? Well, I’m making one of his Catalan cousins brew him some white willow bark tea. And you may be thinking, but how are you going to describe that in your fanfiction if you don’t know what it tastes like? Well, I’ve just made it and it has a mild and pleasant flavor of wood with a bitter aftertaste. I’ve done this in the name of research.

Your move, team Bilbo

thiefbird

I am joining in the over-the-top propaganda for Maturinsweep:

Behold! A real life blanket that Jack would knit in the downtime at sea for Stephen's baby/babies!

Closeup of the individual squares:

We have a seagull, a sailboat, a seal, a ship's wheel, a seahorse(for pregnant fathers!), and an anchor!

The top row will be a narwhal, a lighthouse, and a regular whale, and then around the outside as a deep border will be a tiled boat lace:

And this designed by me fair isle pattern of anchors and waves:

Get! Him! Pregnant! I want Jack to knit beautiful things as a gift for his Particular Friend (he wants the baby to be his so badly)!

aurpiment

He wants the baby to be his SO badly

aurpiment

observing a fat woodlouse with mama…

#brave followers of old blog pls help!

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NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT ROUND 2 POLL 69

TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?

Silco (Arcane)

Dr. Stephen Maturin (The Aubrey-Maturin Series)

Voting ended onMay 14, 2025

PROPAGANDA:

[Silco]

"He was born to be a girldad and forced to be a crime lord and I think Jinx would like a little sister."

[Stephen]

"Making a doctor into a patient has to be something O'Brian had a thing for. Accidents and disease are happening to Stephen Maturin's body constantly, and that's not even counting the time he got tortured by the French.

I think Stephen's wife Diana should knock him up by accident after he assured her there was no risk of him getting pregnant. I think he should have an easy breezy time of it till month seven and then get a dozen unpleasant symptoms at once.

I also think the baby should start out looking more like his best friend than his wife, just to put more strain on their marriage and stress him out. That's fun for me. That's fun for me.

Did you know that his canonical weight is nine stone or one hundred twenty-six pounds? on a man five foot six that's very little. we could fix that with a baby. he would no longer need to worry about being wafted away by stiff breeze or being carried off by a medium-sized owl."

aurpiment

WE HAVE ONE HOUR AND ARE 278 VOTES BEHIND. PULL! PULL!

rem-ir

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we can do it! vote stephen! give him a baby to observe like a weird animal!

rem-ir

It’s her...Ursula K Le Gun...

redstarovermoundcity

The Word for World is Violence

The Ones who Walk Away from My Heater

The Left Hand of Shooting

The Dispossessed (of Their Weaponry)

The Blasting

goodzillo-deactivated20220127

they called it earthsea because she's the last thing you'd see before they put you in the earth

bigspicysenpai

The BeGunning Place.

RoCannon's World.

rem-ir

“happy endings” this “sad endings” that– you can debate the relative merits of each till your mouth goes dry and it’s still not a meaningful binary. Is the ending coherent and emotionally appropriate for the story? Cool.

rainhadaenerys

#^this#does it match the tone of the story? does it do all characters justice?#does it reaffirm the themes of story instead of undermining it?#that’s how you know whether the ending is appropriate or not (tags via @eldritch-crone)

sarkywoman

Do people debate which one is better? Or which one they prefer?

rem-ir

They couch the debate in terms of which one is better but are often really debating which one they prefer

#mt

jbbartram-illu

Aaaaand I'm back at the pottery desk starting my next batch, working on a new round of slab-built mugs (& assorted other creatures while I wait for slabs to firm up...once I've made a few more mugs, I'm hoping to finally find time to focus on some bird ladies!!).

Also, I AM working on a shop update & WILL be announcing it soon (goal is maybe 2nd week of march?!). I just have this problem where working on pottery is more fun than getting my shop organized (sorry, sorry!).

#ceramics

speedlimit15

who do you think i am exactly

#[CITY] SUBWAY ADS BE LIKE

rem-ir

the reason why people in Ankh-Morpork speculate that Vetinari is dating Margolotta, but people in Bonk-Schmaltzberg don’t speculate that Margolotta is dating Vetinari is that Vetinari leads a very chaste lifestyle and no one knows for sure that he’s gay, but Margolotta is out there in Überwald openly letting any woman in a nightgown enter her castle.

rem-ir

Margolotta has been the epicentre of Überwald lesbian drama for at least three generations

rem-ir

Angua, to Vimes: oh, you met the countess? She used to date my aunts.

Vimes: which aunt?

Angua: All of them, come to think of it. But not at the same time.

rem-ir

You: Ankh-Morporker making a comment about the assumed relationship between our leaders

Me: perplexed Bonk citizen frantically cloogling (clacks googling) to find out how I missed the election of a woman to the patricianate

hatch-backward

The best part about Tumblr is I have no idea if this is genuine discourse about a piece of media, absolutely niche history, entirely invented by OP, or fanfiction based on a piece of media. I feel like I'm seeing spilled tea from another dimension.

rem-ir

This is not discourse. It is jokes.

You can google any of these names and find out where they’re from. (Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series)

#mt

hagatastudio

drew this one ages ago when terror twitter decided to put james and francis in our clothes - thus here’s some salty seadogs out enjoying a stroll while sporting my finest outfit work ⚡️👢

elodieunderglass

Hey bestie whats a narrow boat? I saw you tag that on something you reblogged and I'm pretty curious now!

- Terry Darlington, Narrow Dog to Carcassone

A narrowboat (all one word) is a craft restricted to the British Isles, which are connected all over by a nerve-map of human-made canals. To go up and down hills, the canals are spangled with locks (chambers in which boats can be raised or lowered by filling or emptying them with water.) As Terry says above, the width of the locks was somewhat randomly determined, and as a result, the British Isles have a narrow design of lock - and a narrowboat to fit through them. A classic design was seventy feet long and six feet wide. Starting in the 18th century, and competing directly with trains, canal “barges” were an active means of transport and shipping. They were initially pulled along the towpaths by horses, and you can still see some today!

Later, engines were developed.

Even after the trains won the arms race, it was a fairly viable freight service right up until WW2. It’s slow travel, but uses few resources and requires little human power, with a fairly small crew (of women, in WW2) being capable of shifting two fully laden boats without consuming much fossil fuel.

In those times the barges were designed with small, cramped cabins in which the boaters and their families could live.

During its heyday the narrowboat community developed a style of folk art called “roses and castles” with clear links to fairground art as well as Romani caravan decor. They are historically decorated with different kinds of brass ornaments, and inside the cabins could also be distinctively painted and decorated.

Today, many narrowboats are distinctively decorated and colorful - even if not directly traditional with “roses and castles” they’ll still be bright and offbeat. A quirky name is necessary. All narrowboats, being boats, are female.

After a postwar decline, interest in the waterways was sparked by a leisure movement and collapsing canals were repaired. Today, the towpaths are a convenient walking/biking trail for people, as they connect up a lot of the mainland of the UK, hitting towns and cities. Although the restored canals are concrete-bottomed, they’re attractive to wildlife. Narrowboats from the 1970s onward started being designed for pleasure and long-term living. People enjoy vacationing by hiring a boat and visiting towns for a cuter, comfier, slower version of a campervan life. And a liveaboard community sprang up - people who live full-time on boats. Up until the very restrictive and nasty laws recently passed in the UK to make it harder for travelling peoples (these were aimed nastily at vanlivers and the Romani, and successfully hit everyone) this was one of the few legal ways remaining to be a total nomad in the UK.

Liveaboards can moor up anywhere along the canal for 28 days, but have to keep moving every 28 days. (Although sorting out the toilet and loading up with fresh water means that a lot of people move more frequently than that.) you can also live full-time in a marina if they allow it, or purchase your own mooring. In London, where canal boats are one of the few remaining cheapish ways to live, boats with moorings fetch the same prices as houses. It can be very very hard for families to balance school, parking, work, and all the difficulties of living off-grid- but many make it work. It remains a diverse community and is even growing, due to housing pressures in the UK. Boats can be very comfortable, even when only six feet wide. When faced with spending thousands of pounds on rent OR mooring up on a nice canal, you can see why it seems a romantic proposition for young people, and UK television channels always have slice-of-life documentaries about young folks fixing up their very own quirky solar-powered narrowboat. I don’t hate; I did it myself.

If you’re lucky, you might even meet some of the cool folks who run businesses from their narrowboats: canal-side walkers enjoy bookshops, vegan bakeries, ice-cream boats, restaurants, artists and crafters. There are Floating Markets and narrowboat festivals. It’s generally recognised that boaters contribute quite a lot to the canal - yet there are many tensions between different kinds of boaters (liveaboards vs leisure boaters vs tourists) as well as tensions with local settled people, towpath users like cyclists, and fishermen. I could go on and on explaining this rich culture and dramas, but I won’t.

Phillip Pullman’s Gyptians are a commonly cited example of liveaboards - although they were based on the narrowboat liveaboards that Pullman knew in Oxford, their boats are actually Dutch barges. Dutch barges make good homes but are too wide to access most of the midlands and northern canals, and are usually restricted to the south of the UK. So they’re accurate for Bristol/London/Oxford, and barges are definitely comfier to film on. (Being six feet wide is definitely super awkward for a boat.) but in general Dutch barges are less common, more expensive and can’t navigate the whole system.

However, apart from them, there are few examples of narrowboat depictions that escaped containment. So it’s quite interesting that there is an entire indigenous special class of boat, distinctive and highly specialised and very cute, with an associated culture and heritage and folk art type, known to all and widely celebrated, and ABSOLUTELY UNKNOWN outside of the UK - a nation largely known around the world for inflicting its culture on others. They’re a strange, sweet little secret - and nobody who has ever loved one can resist pointing them out for the rest of their lives, or talking about them when asked to. Thank you for asking me to.

#boat roma

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