This paper begins by discussing the limitations of two contrasting schools of thought in queer theory: the antisocial and antiutopian turn of Lee Edelman and the more optimistic theories of Jose Esteban Muñoz. By this, both theorists explore how the queer body can and cannot be orientated towards non and heteronormative temporalities. However, this paper aims to uncover the lack of how the queer body can be phrased towards brighter futures and tomorrows. I propose the formation of a new hermeneutic, termed excitable-differends, through the collation of Jean-François Lyotard’s 1983 The Differend and Judith Butler’s 1997 Excitable Speech. I focus on the genres of discourse in Torrey Peters’ 2018 novel Detransition, Baby and how Peters’ fiction alerts us to excitable-differends present in fiction and the real world. Through this, Peters’ novel demonstrates how the formation of new temporal idioms disrupts heteronormative conceptions of temporalities and “bear[s] witness to the [excitable-] differend” (Lyotard xiii). This paper demonstrates how a return to Lyotard and Butler can fill the aforementioned lack in how the queer body is phrased towards brighter futures.