3WFDW: The People with Disabilities Being Awesome Commentfic Fest

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 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. 

Comments

Re: Fill: Highlander, Fight Another Day (PG, no warnings, ~1000 wds)

[sholio]

Or maybe he knows that a finger or something would grow back, but doesn't know whether the ability would extend to larger parts of the body?

That actually makes a lot of sense to me. In fact, if they can do that, it makes sense that not many Immortals would know about it. That kind of large-scale regeneration might be a really rare situation for any of them to encounter, partly because the adjustment period after losing a body part would make them more vulnerable in the Game, and partly just because of the law of averages catching up with them -- staying alive long enough to regenerate completely is probably rare even if a missing hand or foot doesn't actually change the playing field all that much in the long run, because most of them simply don't live that long.

And even for those who've done so, it might not be the sort of information that Immortals would be likely to share among themselves -- it seems to me that even the segment of the Immortal community who aren't obsessed with the Game (the Duncans and Fitzes and Roberts and Ginas of the world) would probably be somewhat paranoid when talking to their friends about fighting techniques and healing and such. You might trust someone with your life and still not exactly want to come out and say "So I got my leg cut off back in 1612 and it had grown back by the French Revolution; anything like that ever happen to you? :D?"

I'm still on the fence about it myself, especially in terms of actual canonicity -- it makes logical sense based on what we've seen (the near-total absence of canonically disabled Immortals, when you'd think there would be lots), but based on St. Cloud and possibly Kalas as well (the neck injury), I do get the impression that certain kinds of injuries don't heal. And I wrote the story from the point of view that it's permanent (or, at the very least, that the characters think it's permanent, though that's kind of an after-the-fact bit of retcon *g*). However, there are enough inconsistencies in canon, especially when it comes to the physical properties of Immortals, that you could probably make just about ANYTHING fit depending on circumstances. *g*