I spend too long on the kink meme

[lexin]

Isn't it weird how suspension of disbelief works?

I'll read just about any mpreg story Sherlock fandom can throw at me, and lap it all up. No problem with that at all. My brain just accepts it as if it's quite normal. Well, not quite - I prefer a quasi-scientific or medical explanation, but give me that and I'm yours for the duration.

I turn my rosy nose up, however, at a story where the premise is that characters A and B, in this case Mycroft and Lestrade but let's not get hung up on specifics, get drunk and end up married.

There probably are countries where a degree of sobriety is not required of parties in a marriage ceremony, where notification doesn't have to be made X weeks in advance or a special licence bought and where the marriage does not have to be conducted during normal hours of business in a building. But that is not where I live. The whole idea just makes me go 'tilt'.

When it comes down to it, I think this is a failing of my imagination and not the writer(s) ability, but it is odd.

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[lyorn]

Some time ago somewhere on the internet, I read a very interesting essay about "degrees of reality" (I think it was about HP), and that one might find it easy to suspend disbelief about one element of the story (magic works, mpreg is possible, a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away) but much harder to suspend it on others (also, pigs can fly, no one but alcoholics are drinking, and everyone is wearing purple tutus).

So, you're not alone in this. It seems to depend on what one accepts as the premise and the genre of the story.

[lexin]

I had a long conversation once with gloria1 about how I had difficulty with the idea that a Ford Anglia bumper was strong enough to pull bars off a window. Surely the bumper would pull away from the vehicle first? Then she reminded me that the car was flying at the time this is supposed to happen, something I apparrently had no problem with whatsoever.

[dancing_moon]

I kind of got to tilt-state at the "Mycroft gets drunk enough to think spontaneous marriage is a good idea"....

But I agree. The details have to work, then I can buy one (or even a couple) very far-flung suppositions without thinking twice.

[lexin]

There is that point, too. The only reason I can think of that Mycroft would do that kind of thing is that he had some kind of ulterior motive. I doubt he'd allow himself to get that drunk, really.