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

"There are things he's not willing to sacrifice."

[brightknightie]

I followed the hl_flash link to your "Fight Another Day" on my lunch break, and enjoyed it. Thank you for sharing!

I appreciate how you used this change to cut to the core of Duncan's character -- his identity and his honor -- and to contrast his understanding with his friends'. Duncan's striving for fairness and justice isn't, as Methos and Amanda sometimes seem to think, a privilege of his superior skill, a luxury he can indulge because he's the best; it's the heart without which there is no life.

I liked the use of four centuries to unlearn as a bigger challenge than starting from scratch would be, and the blade tossed to a hand not there to receive it.

If this had been a longer and wider sort of piece, I would have loved to have gotten to share Duncan ruminating on now being in the position in which he put Xavier, and also on Joe, particularly, whether this unusual shared status makes it harder or easier for them to connect, when it first happens.

Again, thanks.

Re: "There are things he's not willing to sacrifice."

[sholio]

Thank you very much! :) Yeah, there's a lot to explore with this idea, really -- I was trying to keep it short and (relatively) simple, but there are a ton of angles to look at it from.

it's the heart without which there is no life.

Yes, this. That is the core of Duncan for me. His sense of honor and justice is not something he can put on and take off like an overcoat. It's the deepest essence of who he is.