A Thought Experiment, Fic and Elsewise

[caitri]

 I just finished rereading Pamela Dean's Tam Lin for the upteenth time, a novel that always leaves me wanting more and equally baffled as to how to make more given the confines of place and story. This morning I was thinking about fic for it (of which there is some at AO3), and then I wondered whether fairy folklore inhibits queerness with its insistence on pregnancies, or not. 

I have been turning this over in my head and am still not sure.

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[minoanmiss]

I've been thinking about whether pregnancy in a story inhibits queerness from another angle. (Fanfic). I'm not sure it can be made to not do so, but I want to try, if you know what I mean. There was a story I wanted to write in my Hobbit fandom days where if we postulate that Eowyn is a trans woman and Faramir is an intergender man (both ideas I saw credibly presented --- the Hobbit fandom take on LOTR was AWESOME), then Faramir could be the one who carries their children. But being cis I don't feel I know enough to write that well enough.

Pregnancy requires a certain configuration of reproductive organs but the relationship between organs and personal identification can be a lot more complex. I'm trying to learn enough to portray some of that complexity in truthful and non offensive ways.

[caitri]

SAME!