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.

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[lezridax]

AO3 name: SirenOfTitan
Letter link: https://lezridax.dreamwidth.org/7346.html

Fandom: A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia (1990)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: I'd love to see someone take the intense, smoldering feelings between T.E. Lawrence and Emir Faisal in this film and make it textual, and there are so many possibilities for how to do this: either during the events of the movie, right after their final scene (where it feels like they're about to kiss), or an alternate history that allows them to be together in some way. It's a great movie about how the Versailles Treaty betrayed the Arab world, but the two lead actors' performances and chemistry is just off the charts - and there's also a great opportunity to have letting them be together intersect with writing a better political ending for Faisal and his people as well.

Fandom: Wayfarers Series - Becky Chambers
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: In terms of queer possibilities, I'd love a continuation to Rosemary and Sissix's romance from the first book, seeing where it goes from there and how it works within Sissix's species' polyamory. But I'm open to whatever queer possibilities you can come up with for this very queer book series and its fascinating view of a future sci-fi world, which is why I added Worldbuilding in here. I'd also love some continuation for Roveg and his story during the fourth book, and so exploring his own queerness is a possibility there too!

Fandom: The Wire (TV 2002)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: I'm most interested in something that brings the subtext between Omar (canonically gay) and Brother Mouzone into text, or that explores the possibility of a queer sexual or romantic relationship between Avon and Stringer. I elaborate on this more in my letter.

Fandom: The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue Series - Mackenzi Lee
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: I'd love to see how someone continues Monty and Percy's canonical romance - where they go from the ending - but I think I'd be even more interested in stories exploring Sim, the second and third book's lesbian North African pirate queen. Exploring more of her relationships with women, including possibly one with Johanna (or not! you can put her with an OC too) would be something I'd love to read!

Fandom: The Gilded Age (TV 2022)
Any specific fandom details, preferences, comments, etc: I'm least focused on queer stories for this one, but I am really interested in how someone could write Marian/Peggy into this story, especially if you manage to do it in a canon-compliant way (i.e. that also allows for their canonical romances with men, too).