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]

Thank you! :)

I'm kinda on the fence about that one myself. I was going off what happened to Xavier St. Cloud, but there really wasn't much elapsed time between when he lost his hand and when we saw him again (less than a year, I think?). But they'd almost have to be able to have some sort of regenerating ability; it's impossible to believe that someone could live as long as the older Immortals, in a world as rough and dangerous as the past used to be, PLUS having regular duels with sharp-edged objects, and not lose body parts. And clearly they can heal so cleanly they don't leave scars, and presumably regenerate internal organs, so it's not out of the question that they can regenerate missing parts as well, given time.

It is possible that they just don't know if it'll grow back or not, and in 20 or 50 years, Duncan will be completely surprised by having two functional hands again. *muses thoughtfully*

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

[sophia_sol]

...huh. This would be my problem with theorising without having seen all the episodes of the show! I was not familiar with Xavier St Cloud. I've now read up on him, and yeah, I'd say that that would make sense, that it would take quite a while for regeneration to occur, but that it would happen eventually. Because seriously. Not even any missing fingers among all of these old people who spend so much of their lives fighting?

I presume a finger wouldn't take as long to grow back, relatively speaking, but losing an entire arm as Xavier did would take quite a while, and it makes sense for one year to not have been anywhere near long enough.

Perhaps regeneration of this sort is absolutely possible, but not many immortals know it because too often when they lose a body part, it hampers their fighting enough that they get killed before it grows back. So Methos is absolutely aware that it's possible, but Duncan doesn't, maybe? 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? Something like that.

Trying to figure out all the mechanics of Highlander style Immortality is always fascinating!

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*