Queering the Tide 2025

[isabrella]

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 so do 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>

Text copied from the 2024 post.

Comments

[azhdarchidaen]

AO3 name: azhdarchidaen
Letter link: https://azhdarchidaen.dreamwidth.org/330.html

Fandom: Back to the Future
Requested character(s): Marty McFly
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Likes and DNWs for all fandoms are in my letter, but for BttF I love love love reading Marty McFly as a trans guy and would be delighted to see something involving it. I think there's so much that can be explored when it comes to what it would be like to be a trans time traveler -- whether it's visiting different eras of history with different norms and perceptions around gender, the idea of different versions of yourself existing in different timelines, or something else entirely.

Fandom: Murray Mysteries
Requested character(s): Jonathan Harker
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: The fact that Murray Mysteries has canon!ace Jonathan Harker is so dear to my heart and I would really really love to see some fic that deals explicitly with it. Like, what is Jonathan and Mina's relationship like in this universe? How has his being ace figured into that? Did Dracula and/or the Girlies creep on Jonathan more than we see in canon while he was still in Dracula's castle? Was it ever in ways that, like his first encounter with the vampire women, interacted with his asexuality?

Fandom: Rivers of London
Requested character(s): Thomas Nightingale
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: Again, I am so enthusiastic about the fact that Nightingale is canonically aro/ace, and I would really love to see something exploring that more. Maybe something with him discussing it with Peter or Abigail at some point, or even a magical thing where it ends up being relevant? Or even a conversation with Gussie prompted by Nightingale's comment in Masquerades?