terajk | 3WFDW: The People with Disabilities Being Awesome Commentfic Fest

Welcome to the People with Disabilities (PWD) Being Awesome Commentfic Fest!

I love people with disabilities doing awesome things. In the spirit of Festibility at

access_fandom I thought: "What better time to celebrate people with disabilities being awesome than

three_weeks_for_dw ?" (In the shower this morning, because I am the best planner ever.)

How it works:

This is a multi-fandom fest celebrating characters with disabilities doing awesome things! Prompts can be from any fandom, and can feature canonically, non-canonically or supernaturally disabled characters. (Are Remus Lupin and Sookie Stackhouse awesome PWD? You betcha!) You can interpret an undiagnosed character as a PWD, or reimagine someone as one.

ETA 4/28: No restrictions on rating. Sorry that was unclear!

But what do you mean by "being awesome?"

I mean a lot of things: Saving the world, going on adventures, facing off against ableism, hanging out with friends, struggling with changes in identity. A prompt/story doesn't have to be happy to be awesome.

Prompting:

Prompts should have the following format:

Fandom, character/paring, prompt.

For crossovers: Fandom 1/Fandom 2, character/pairing, prompt.

You can leave as many prompts as you like. Also, please use respectful language in your prompt.

Filling Prompts:

If you fill a prompt, either post your story as a reply to the prompt-comment, or post a link to your story as a reply to the prompt if it's hosted elsewhere (say, your journal). Also, prompts may be filled more than once.

ETA: You may also fill your own prompts, if you wish.

Warnings:

You may use "Choose Not to Warn" or "No Warnings Apply," or use warnings/content notes for any triggering material.

Questions?:

Feel free to ask me questions! I've never, ever run a fest before (I'll plan this better next year, I swear), so I probably left stuff out.

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Katara does that, sometimes: pops into her head and argues, because Katara has so many opinions that real life can’t hold them all. And, okay, Toph is like that, too. Sometimes.

There is no part of this quotation which is not awesome. And true. Awesomely true about both of them.

Friends don’t let friends kick their butts without a fight.

OH TOPH.

She puts her weight on the left side of her left foot, where there’s fewest bits of knitted scar tissue.

Learning how to adapt physical limitations. So many hearts.

But pull quotes can't explain why I think this is so perfect. She doesn't bend like others do -- she doesn't even perceive bending the way sighted viewers of the show perceive her bending. She doesn't have that visual frame of reference. And sometimes this means that her opponents have an advantage, a way of bending which she can't counter. And sometimes, because she is so awesome, she figures out how to counter it.

Toph smiles, and she hears Katara laugh.

And then you cap it all off with this. BFF awesomeness.

So. Much. Love.

I'm so glad you liked this! It's a truly awesome prompt. (Psst! I've been thinking about it since Festibility, because it is so awesome).

She doesn't bend like others do -- she doesn't even perceive bending the way sighted viewers of the show perceive her bending. She doesn't have that visual frame of reference.

YES--and this is something that's really intimidating to me about writing Toph. I think space and feeling or weight are woven deeply into her perceptions, which is the opposite of how I am. So thank you for nudging me out of my comfort zone and allowing me to play around with it.

So. Much. Love.

<3 <3 <3 I'm so glad. I had lots of fun writing this, and hoped it did the prompt justice.

3WFDW: The People with Disabilities Being Awesome Commentfic Fest

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