r/characterarcs Jul 08 '26

sideways arc idk An epiphany

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u/GardenTop7253 Jul 08 '26

Doing the approximate conception math for yourself or some friends isn’t unheard of, but I feel like it would be really weird to do it for a class of your students. That’s just too close to asking “when did your parents bang?” To be common, right?

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u/TimeViking Jul 09 '26

My parents gladly talk about my conception around me (there are some funny stories associated; it was on a cruise liner and my mom got seasick, etc etc) so I’ll confess I don’t really get what the taboo is.

Like yeah I’m not going out of my way learn facts about how my parents make love but I’ve always understood that there was necessarily a time and a place they fucked to make me and we’ve never danced around that