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terajkWelcome to the People with Disabilities (PWD) Being Awesome Commentfic Fest!
I love people with disabilities doing awesome things. In the spirit of Festibility at
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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.
DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 12:49 am (UTC)Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 10:30 am (UTC)Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 01:08 pm (UTC)On Babs, who is my favourite of favourites forever and ever amen:
In short, she's the daughter of Police Commissioner Gordon and starts out as the first Batgirl, and so begins her comics existence with lots of action-packed adventures throughout the Batuniverse. In The Killing Joke, she's shot and paralyzed by the Joker. Since she's not about to give up crimefighting, she takes her training as a librarian, starts going by the codename Oracle, and sort of becomes the eyes and ears of the DC universe--she's got all sorts of cameras and spy technology and satellites and computers that she works with. She's the one you go to when you need information, because nobody knows more than Oracle.
Barbara Gordon on Wikipedia
Barbara Gordon on the Batman Wiki
Oracle tag on tumblr
Barbara Gordon tag on tumblr
DC Women Kicking Ass on tumblr
Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 01:17 pm (UTC)(I once was in SFO Airport, with my carryon luggage precariously racked on my lap, pushing myself up a carpeted incline. Carpet + incline = slow going, of course, so I was really putting my back into it, and an airport employee came up behind me and shoved, with no warning. Cue luggage falling everywhere, coming unzipped, and dumping my stuff everywhere. Cue airport employee melting away into nothing, embarrassed.)
I have been known to turn my head and actually snap "Thank you, but there are no handles for a reason," so this prompt is VERY TEMPTING.
Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 01:24 pm (UTC)In any case, I vote in favour of writing, if only because it is a prompt that's been sitting in my head for a while without quite enough inspiration to actually write it myself. ^^; (And that is the other thing to mention about the DCU: Personally, I always judge the relative quality of an artist in the comics by whether they draw handles on Babs' chair. Some do and they make me hiss.)
Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 01:30 pm (UTC)Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 02:44 pm (UTC)Seriously, she's just amazing. At some point maybe I will find the energy to go out on scans_daily and find you some of the clips of her totally rocking the world with spinal cord injury. She's comics, so of course it depends who writes her, but one of the things I love about Babs is that she is written as -- if this makes any sense -- a realistic portrayal of a superhero with a disability. Which is to say she meets limitations, and she meets jerks, and sometimes you can just see the black hole into which her spoons are spiraling, but she also adapted her superhero nature to meet her new limitations. So all of the Bats are creepy spies and she's a librarian Bat; she becomes a computer genius who can find out information about every bad guy in Gotham. She adapts her acrobatic and martial arts skills into being strengths she can use with spinal cord injury, adapting escrima, for example, to being something she can do from the chair.
Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-26 02:49 pm (UTC)Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-27 09:06 pm (UTC)Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-27 09:11 pm (UTC)Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon
Date: 2011-04-28 02:51 pm (UTC)And I'm totally not just saying that because I want to swot up--there are awesome Barbara Gordon and Harley Quinn prompts, but I'm only familiar with them through the Batman: Arkham Asylum video game. Where they are both awesome, but still.