i just started watching frasier and i've been thinking about this ever since i followed you yesterday, may i ask how 'lesbian niles' works. i feel like i'd like it
the truth is that lesbian niles works however you want it to work. i know i made a joke about the lesbian niles expanded universe, but the truth is that there’s really no singular pseudocanon. i just happen to be a lesbian who grew up on frasier and has been feeling particularly fond of it the past couple years and, on seeing the absolutely unrivaled repression of it all, decided to say, “niles crane is one of us.” evidently a few people seem to agree with me.
i don’t think i have any one lesbian niles tag or anything (though… realistically, “niles crane” functions approximately as such), but i can direct you to a few things i’ve written featuring lesbian niles!!
synchronicity - easily my magnum opus. roughly 10k of me essentially retelling the entire niles/daphne arc through the lens of niles being a lesbian.
buzzed - this is mostly about daphne, but it’s also specifically about the value of gay friendships and guess what… her friendship with lesbian niles is just that. groundbreaking. oh also she gets a buzzcut because we have fun here.
much too thrilling - another daphne focus featuring lesbian niles, although this time more romantically. i basically wrote this because i love first dates and women and needed practice with character creation.
i believe there are four more assorted lesbian niles fics in my fic tag, these ones based on song prompts. if you would like to send me such prompts you may certainly do so! and if you would like to create your own lesbian niles content, i would naturally be delighted and would love if you sent it to me or tagged me in it so i could enjoy it.
oh also i always imagine her as a butch for a few reasons (some of which i am willing to share if you are interested in hearing, though i don’t wish to write a dissertation on it unprompted for the time being), but i imagine there are people who have other thoughts. just know that the niles i write is pretty consistently a butch lesbian. i feel like that very much informs my characterization of her.