Some plot bunny bites are vicious!

[vulgarweed]

Apparently there's a male lactation joke in the Ferrell/Reilly Holmes and Watson movie. This came out of a conversation with tei on Twitter, and, welllll....

Cis male lactation is a thing that can happen. Nutritional imbalances, hormones, nipple stimulation, all these things can cause it under the right circumstances.

Imagine if Sherlock, overrun with guilt for his role in inadvertently, indirectly, causing Mary's death (and is not rejected as harshly by John, so doesn't resume hard drug use) feels very guilty for having played a role in robbing Rosie of a natural healthy food source.

Imagine what he might do to try to rectify that (without asking John's input first, of course).

Comments

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

The very first ficlet I wrote for Cheers was male lactation with Omega John called Slippery Nipple. And (not male lactation but similar but less angsty and more smutty than the fic idea you mention above) over Christmas I was to fill my Exhibition square of my Ladies Bingo and Molly with all the babysitting of Rosie finds herself engorged and leaking and Irene and her play with it.

And on a side note (I have more thoughts about this issue than I realized) what mainstream comedy thinks of as 'edgy' is so whatever. I remember an SNL skit about lesbian menstrual blood drinking vampire and the male comedian/actor was clearly uncomfortable and wouldn't even said the joke, said he couldn't say the joke, and the female actor/comedian also looked like she was being so edgy and I was thinking here I am a sheltered little thing from the back of beyond 'heritage not hate' South Carolina and I've written 32K about a lesbian menstrual blood drinking vampire. It's interesting but not as edgy as those big city folks think!!

[vulgarweed]

Oh YES that sounds lovely. Tei and I rather squicked out a gentleman on Twitter with the seeds of this idea, lol.

I've written lesbian menstrual blood drinking vampire fic too, though not 32k of it (well, it was Monstrous Regiment fic and I'm not totally sure how Maladict/a identifies, but basically...). I absolutely agree that mainstream comedy's idea of edgy is damn weak - and also, why would that even necessarily be edgy? The taboo is pretty arbitrary really. Why would a vampire think it was all that out there? I'm more interested in getting beyond the initial squick-and-giggle factor and exploring it in a pragmatic and non-judgmental way.

However, angsty as this idea is, the idea of John's reaction is hilarious. :D

[drinkingcocoa]

I *love* male lactation stories! Not in a kinky way, though kinky is fine with me, but just in a way that combats the notion that nurturing is a feminine-only phenomenon, and that gives all those nurturing feelings someplace to go. This, plus Sherlock overflowing with caregiver sentiments, is a beautiful thought. And John can't nurture Rosie as much as she needs, since he's still grappling with all that grief and anger. What a good use for Sherlock's remorse.

[ancientreader]

May FSM bless you and keep you, my child, for your brain is a light unto the nations.