Queering the Tide 2023

[dauntlessshadowice]

Reposting from 2022’s post from lannamichaels with permission and a few edits.

There are many ways of queering texts and characters. This challenge is for any and all of them! The widest possible definition of queering is used here. If you think your prompt counts, then do so we.


To participate, leave a comment on this post linking to your letter, so anyone interested in queering your canon for yuletide can find you. Tag any fics for this mini-challenge with Queering The Tide. (I suggest you tag both Queering the Tide and TransTide if the two happen to overlap.)

You can copy/paste this form below for your comment.

<strong>AO3 name:</strong>

<strong>Letter link:</strong>

<strong>Fandom: </strong>

<strong>Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:</strong>

Comments

[shadaras]

AO3 name: shadaras
Letter link: https://breathingdreams.neocities.org/ExchangeLetters/Yuletide2023Letter

Fandoms:
Radiant Emperor Series - Shelley Parker-Chan (Any: Zhu Chongba | Zhu Yuanzhang, General Ouyang, Wang Baoxiang, Esen-Temur, Ma Xiuying, Ayushiridara | Third Prince, Madam Zhang, Xu Da)
Witch King - Martha Wells (Any of: Kaiisteron, Arnsterath)
Friends at the Table: Sangfielle (Any: Pickman, Chine, Worldbuilding)
Parallel World | West Out of Yumen (Any: Ye Liuxi, Chang Dong, Jiang Zhan, Worldbuilding)
Sha Hai | Tomb of the Sea (Any of: Su Nan, Li Cu, Wu Xie)
Legend of the Galactic Heroes (Yang Wenli)

Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
Many of these characters are canonically queer! I'm always happy to have the rest be headcanoned as queer as well, especially when their queerness isn't the centerpiece of a story and just happens to be a background truth. Trans (inc. nonbinary and fluid identities—see here for more), ace, aro, bi/pan, kinky, and polyamorous characters are encouraged!

[nonesensed]

AO3: Nonesensed
Letter: https://nonesensed.dreamwidth.org/119862.html
Fandom(s):
Candela Obscura: Sean Finnerty
Killjoys (TV): Fancy Lee
Much Ado About Nothing (2011): Benedick & Beatrice
Rook & Rose - M. A. Carrick: Derossi Vargo
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
All of these fandoms except for Much Ado are queernorm settings. I'd love to see any and all aspects of queerness (gender, sexuality, etc) be explored in a story, whether its the story's main focus or 'just' a background detail.

[mixtapestar]

AO3 name: mixtapestar
Letter link: https://mixtapestar.dreamwidth.org/531476.html

Fandoms:
Fire Island (2022)
High School Musical
Lovely Little Losers
Sex Therapy - Cathexis (Webcomic)

Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
Both Fire Island and Sex Therapy are inherently poly and queer. For High School Musical, I welcome all queer interpretations of Chad and Ryan, and for Lovely Little Losers, all my nominated characters are canonically queer, and I especially headcanon Balthazar as demisexual.

[shamanicshaymin]

AO3 name: ShamanicShaymin
Letter link: here!
Fandoms:

LISA (Video Games)
Fear & Hunger (Video Games)
Yume Nikki | Dream Diary
Nan Quest - Weaver
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Omega Mart - Meow Wolf

Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Here's where I delve into canonical details and personal headcanons. :)

LISA: In canon, the Beehive is a brothel run by drag queens, which includes their recruitable leader Queen Roger. (There's also a canonical gay couple in Crisp and Toby, the former whom you can also invite to your party) I headcanon Brad, Terry, and Olan as gay*, and I love transmasc readings for Terry. I'd also love to see fics where Brad is more comfortable exploring his feminine side, whether or not that leads to a transfem interpretation.

* The exception being if you write Transfem!Brad, as I still want her and Terry to be able to be together. :)

Fear & Hunger: I hc Enki as aroace, which I go into a little more detail in my letter. Marina from Fear & Hunger 2: Termina is canonically a transwoman, and Samarie's Moonscorched form is named "Dysphoria," which may or may not be related to her obsession with Marina. Olivia is confirmed to be bi due to her crushes on Levi and Marina in the demo.

Yume Nikki: I see Madotsuki as bi with a heavy preference for women due to Masada being the one boy she seems interested in. And Poniko? 100% lesbian.

Nanquest: I hc Pablo, Henry, and Lorenzo as bi/pan, and Father Velasco as gay. Santiago I see more as acespec, but still open to the idea of shipping him on those terms (willing to fall in love/have sex, even though it's not at the forefront of his mind)

Super Mario RPG: Geno's a star, so he's going to have quite different ideas about gender~ ♥ Likewise, it's the Mushroom Kingdom. You don't need to follow the rules. :P (Hell, Birdo is canonically a transwoman! The Yoshies lay eggs no matter what gender they are)

Omega Mart: Gender Fluid is a real product you can buy! I'm sure there's others, but that's the first one that comes to mind. XD

Anyone I don't have a specific headcanon for is free to be as queer as you like~ ♥

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 name: republic
Letter link: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~republic/yuletide2023.html
Fandoms: Pose (TV 2018), How The West Was Won (1962), Fractured Fables - Alix E. Harrow
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: I'd be happy to receive queer stories in any of my requested fandoms - the ones I've listed here have either canonically queer characters or my request specifically asks for queer pairings :)

[reeby10]

AO3 name: reeby10
Letter link: https://reeby10.dreamwidth.org/213050.html

Fandom:
- Dinotopia
- Hellboy: John Myers, Mr. Wink
- Jurassic Park Original Trilogy: Kelly Malcolm, Lex Murphy, Nick Van Owen

Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
For Hellboy and Jurassic Park, I have queer pairings that I've requested and put some prompts for in my letter. Other queerness, especially related to monsters or dinosaurs, very much welcome and appreciated too!

For Dinotopia, I'm happy to receive anything from queer characters studies to romance to explorations of the cultural norms of queerness in Dinotopian society. I think it would be really fun to see how a society built from people of all kinds of different eras and cultures would approach queerness! Something with canonical and/or original character being queer would be great. Something more worldbuilding with journal entries, documents, archaeological carvings, etc. would be extremely great. Very much a go wild kind of request!

I'm more than happy to receive queering of my other fandoms (The Addams Family, SurrealEstate, Too Late To Apologize: A Declaration) as well, I just didn't include them here bc I don't have any particular requests for them.

[acequeenking]

AO3 name: acequeenking.
Letter link: Right here.
Fandom: A Discovery of Witches (Gerbert, Juliette, Ysabeau), Hadestown (Hades, Persephone), Moulin Rouge! (Satine, Toulouse-Latrec, Ziegler)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:

While only Moulin Rouge in my requests has a canonically queer character, I would love to see a queer spin put on Hadestown or Discovery of Witches! I'm open to anything. :)

[dauntlessshadowice]

AO3 name: DauntlessShadowIce
Letter link: https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/18090.html
Fandom: Blossom (TV) (Blossom Russo, Six LeMeure)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: I see both Six and Blossom as somewhere on the asexual spectrum. No preference where, exactly, and no preference about sexuality or gender.

AO3 name: DauntlessShadowIce
Letter link: https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/18090.html
Fandom: Degrassi the Next Generation (Emma Nelson, Craig Manning, J.T. Yorke, Ashley Kerwin, Terri MacGregor, Paige Michalchuk, Ellie Nash)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Paige is canonically bisexual.

AO3 name: DauntlessShadowIce
Letter link: https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/18090.html
Fandom: Red Band Society (US TV) (Emma Chota, Kara Souders, Leo Roth, Jordi Palacios)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: n/a

AO3 name: DauntlessShadowIce
Letter link: https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/18090.html
Fandom: Roseanne (Darlene Conner)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: I really do like trans female!Darlene as an interpretation. Not sure how well that’s going to go over with the fandom, but too bad. I’m also open to sapphic Darlene. I’m not super picky.

AO3 name: DauntlessShadowIce
Letter link: https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/18090.html
Fandom: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) (Scott Pilgrim, Ramona Flowers, Knives Chau, Wallace Wells)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Ramona is canonically bisexual, and Wallace is canonically gay. This really is a fandom where you could interpret anyone as any sexuality/gender/whatever, at least in my opinion.

AO3 name: DauntlessShadowIce
Letter link: https://dauntlessshadowice.dreamwidth.org/18090.html
Fandom: The Skeleton Twins (2014) (Maggie Dean, Milo Dean)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Milo is canonically gay.

[iggy]

AO3 name: haro
Letter link: https://iggy.dreamwidth.org/1482343.html
Fandom: Till the End of the Moon, Lost You Forever, Mysterious Lotus Casebook.
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:

While it started out as a bit of an aside, over time I've come to headcanon Tantai Jin from Till the End of the Moon as a he/him lesbian. I do see him as AMAB, just because I feel like he has to be with how his origin story is written, but he is extremely gender and also a huge lesbian for Li Susu and I would love to see a story that explores both his gender and sexuality. Obviously they don’t have this terminology in ancient fantasy China, but I think you could still explore these themes without modern language. Tantai Jin is someone who has had his sense of self dictated by those around him most of his life. Who is he when he can truly explore it on his own?

As noted in the letter, I prefer a bisexual reading of Tushan Jing from Lost You Forever. I'd love to see more with that!

Mysterious Lotus Casebook is a series that is hard NOT to read as queer, and most of fandom does. My favored pairing is Di Feisheng/Li Lianhua. I strongly headcanon Di Feisheng as gay, but I'm open with regard to the sexuality of other characters.

[smiles_edgeworth]

AO3: Smile_Edgeworth

Letter Link: https://smiles-edgeworth.dreamwidth.org/3535.html
My letter has info and links to where to find all my requested fandoms!

Fandoms:

- Pentiment (Video Game)
Mathieu of Neuchâtel
Rüdeger of Bad Tölz

- Solstice (MoaCube Visual Novel)
Galen (Solstice)
Kasiya (Solstice)

- Tesla Note (Anime & Manga)
Mickey Miller (Tesla Note)
Oliver Thornton (Tesla Note)


Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:

In Pentiment and Solstice I requested two canon queer men attracted to each other. I am open to stories about them discovering or talking about their sexuality. More specifically, Pentiment characters are 16th century Benedectine monks, so I'm interested in them dealing with period-typical internalized homophobia as well as their forbidden relationship. In Solstice, one of the characters is from a place very open about sex and sexuality, but we don't know much about the other. I'm interested in your interpretation, and of course I'd like more about their relationship too.

Tesla Note characters aren't canonically queer, but they don't have canon love interests. I have multiple m/m prompts for them.

In all my fandoms I would love m/m romance and I welcome m/m smut.

See my letter for my specific likes, smut likes and DNWs!

[larilille]

AO3 name: Larilille
Letter link: http://www.ysolde.ucam.org/~nmamery/y2023.txt

Fandom Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Ari & Catlin: The whole of Cyteen/Regenesis is very queer, there's no way this couldn't be; but looking at the queerness could very much satisfy my main prompt.

Fandom Alliance-Union - C. J. Cherryh
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Meg & Sal: Meg and Sal absolutely ooze queerness, lean into it!

Fandom Sing For Me - Jaymie Wagner
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: These three are a canonical lesbian threesome.

[marenke]

AO3 name: Marenke
Letter link: https://marenke.dreamwidth.org/1227.html
Fandom: Something Dark and Holy Series - Emily A. Duncan , Dark Rise Series - C. S. Pacat, A Knight Of The Seven Kingdoms - George R. R. Martin, Sensitive - Loossemble (Music Video)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: some of them are already queer, some are usual kpop queerbaiting, bloodraven is a mystery, and i'll be happy with anything!

[beatrice_otter]

AO3 name: Beatrice_Otter
Letter link: https://beatrice-otter.dreamwidth.org/457711.html
Fandom: Dirty Computer - Janelle Monáe (Music Video)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: This video and the songs are explicitly queer and I would love something that leans into that.

Fandom: 将军在上 | Oh My General (TV)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: This is the queer poly family I didn't know I needed. The larger plots of the show are okay, but my favorite part is the stuff of Ye Zhao, Zhao Yujin, and the three concubines together as a family. I headcanon Ye Zhao as bi/pan, and possibly genderfluid in some way. I love the idea of her and the Prince sharing the concubines (but only if the concubines are okay with the idea.) If you happen to know enough about queerness in pre-19th Century China to feel comfortable writing it, I would be thrilled if historical details got brought in. I'm also interested in the way the household is adapting its ideas of gender/status and roles within the household (is Concubine Yang fulfilling some of the household roles that the wife would normally do, because Ye Zhao is occupied with her military duties?) But I would also just love general slice-of-life stuff with them as a household and learning about each other and caring for one another. I'd love to see Ye Zhao and Yang and Xuan'er and Mianning becoming friends. Or you could have an AU where Ye Zhao marries Hu Qing and they are very happy together and just really good friends with the Prince and the concubines. (I love Hu Qing and like him far more for Ye Zhao than I like her with the Prince, but then I don't get her wonderful dynamic with the concubines, and I do appreciate how Ye Zhao and Zhao Yujin grow together and learn to trust one another over the course of the series.)

[snowynight]

AO3 name: snowynight
Letter link: https://snowynight.dreamwidth.org/238316.html
Fandom:
Severed - Nate Crowley [Any: Obyron (Severed), Zahndrekh (Severed)]
A Study in Steampunk: Choice By Gaslight (Visual Novel) [Main Character (A Study in Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight)]
Top Villain: Total Domination (Visual Novel) [Main Character (Top Villain: Total Domination)]
Fallen Hero Series - Malin Rydén [Sidestep (Fallen Hero)]
I the Forgotten One (Visual Novel) [Main Character (I the Forgotten One)]
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc:
The game characters I request have selectable gender and/or sex orientation, so I consider them canonically queer, and welcome you to write them as queer too. I also list queer pairings I like in my letter.

[arithanas]

AO3 name: Arithanas
Letter link: https://arithanas.dreamwidth.org/56579.html
Fandom: Jeeves & Wooster, A Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Borgias (Showtime TV)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: These three fandoms have my favorite dynamic of all times: Master/servant and, while this is well covered in slash, I wouldn't mind some aro or ace flavor added to the mix. Some of my kinks (https://arithanas.dreamwidth.org/46552.html) for these particular pairings lend well to a bit of queering.

[bring_me_sugar]

AO3 name: Missy
Letter link: https://bring-me-sugar.dreamwidth.org/19716.html
Fandom: Laverne and Shirley
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Prompts and likes in my letter!


AO3 name: Missy
Letter link: https://bring-me-sugar.dreamwidth.org/19716.html
Fandom: Head and Shoulders Hates Your Dandruff Loves your Hair Commercial
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Prompts and likes in my letter!

AO3 name: Missy
Letter link: https://bring-me-sugar.dreamwidth.org/19716.html
Fandom: Caroline in the City
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Prompts and likes in my letter!