3WFDW: The People with Disabilities Being Awesome Commentfic Fest

[terajk]

 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: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon

[jadelennox]

you have no idea how much it would rock my world if you picked up Barbara Gordon as an object of your ficcing. Is

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

[synecdochic]

Damn you, stop tempting me! *shakes fist*

Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon

[rydra_wong]

Is it really weird or inappropriate to mention that I suspect that in a lot of people's heads, you are Oracle?

Re: DC Comics, Barbara Gordon

[synecdochic]

No, but it makes me even more curious now *G*