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terajkETA Jan. 31: Now open for prompts! (Though hopefully posting fills/linking to fanworks should still start on February 7.) Also, a more official-sounding FAQ, and some resources about navigational impairments.
I decided that I am going to have a celebration of characters with navigational impairments on my birthday! As such a thing is incredibly esoteric, it's a good idea to start planning now so anyone who wants to participate is comfortable enough to do so. Some thoughts so far:
Original and fannish work is welcome; it'll be open for prompts, but party guests don't have to use them. All types of work, from graphics to podfic to FSTs to filk to meta (I'm very ambivalent about something I'm reading right now!) are welcome, too. ETA: Also, recs! Favorite bits of canon!
Also, I'm collecting some resources about navigational impairments, which is a challenge. Navigation is a really complex process with a lot of skills involved (and lots of things that can go wrong); according to the stuff I'm reading, it's not very well-studied, either. Navigational disabilities are found in a bunch of different conditions like Alzheimer's disease, nonverbal learning disability, (one of my diagnoses), traumatic brain injury, etc. or by themselves, like in developmental topographic disorientation which was named within the last few years.
(The phrase "visual-spatial skills" is a pet peeve of mine. Visual skills and spatial skills are two incredibly broad and separate skillsets. It's possible to have no vision at all and a good sense of space; it's also possible to use vision for things most people use a sense of direction for. *waves*)
It's also good to reach out to people who might want to play! So I spent the day coming up with a pithy name and making promotional graphics:
Since I'm me, let's end with some ladies! (Sadly, all the easily lost characters I know are cis in their canons, and none are non-binary folks. Maybe we can correct that?):
Any questions? ideas? Complaints? (Especially if you'd like to play but aren't sure how to participate.) How can I help you have fun at this party? ETA: Signal-boosting welcome!
I decided that I am going to have a celebration of characters with navigational impairments on my birthday! As such a thing is incredibly esoteric, it's a good idea to start planning now so anyone who wants to participate is comfortable enough to do so. Some thoughts so far:
Original and fannish work is welcome; it'll be open for prompts, but party guests don't have to use them. All types of work, from graphics to podfic to FSTs to filk to meta (I'm very ambivalent about something I'm reading right now!) are welcome, too. ETA: Also, recs! Favorite bits of canon!
Also, I'm collecting some resources about navigational impairments, which is a challenge. Navigation is a really complex process with a lot of skills involved (and lots of things that can go wrong); according to the stuff I'm reading, it's not very well-studied, either. Navigational disabilities are found in a bunch of different conditions like Alzheimer's disease, nonverbal learning disability, (one of my diagnoses), traumatic brain injury, etc. or by themselves, like in developmental topographic disorientation which was named within the last few years.
(The phrase "visual-spatial skills" is a pet peeve of mine. Visual skills and spatial skills are two incredibly broad and separate skillsets. It's possible to have no vision at all and a good sense of space; it's also possible to use vision for things most people use a sense of direction for. *waves*)
It's also good to reach out to people who might want to play! So I spent the day coming up with a pithy name and making promotional graphics:
Since I'm me, let's end with some ladies! (Sadly, all the easily lost characters I know are cis in their canons, and none are non-binary folks. Maybe we can correct that?):
Any questions? ideas? Complaints? (Especially if you'd like to play but aren't sure how to participate.) How can I help you have fun at this party? ETA: Signal-boosting welcome!
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Date: 2012-01-28 05:31 am (UTC)And as someone with spacial/directional skills considerably less developed than that of the average jellyfish, I identify way too easily with the "gets lost all the time" character trope - hello story of my life
ME, TOO! Although I was not aware that "gets lost all the time" was a trope until last year, when I read Ranma 1/2 on a whim and found (Ryoga had had the most accurate fictional representation of my navigational impairment I had ever seen, and I had to tell the internet about it.) Some of the reason I didn't notice this trope before is because I'm new to anime and manga, and that's where I'm finding lots of easily lost people so far. (As a project, I'm sort of looking for them.)
Speaking of which, I know of Soul Eater, (and Marie!) but haven't read/watched it yet! And I have access to it! (Our library has a few volumes, and also it's streaming on Netflix.) Getting started on it would be good preparation for the fest, especially since my list could use some more ladies.
I AM SO EXCITED!
♥ ♥!
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Date: 2012-01-28 08:14 am (UTC)Also, oooh links!!!!