Announcing: Festibility! Please Signal Boost!

[sasha_feather]

Announcing access_fandom’s first Fanworks Festival, Festibility!

What: Hosted by access_fandom, Festibility is a fandom festival accepting all kinds of fanworks (fic, meta, art, icons, podfic, vids, recs, picspams, drabble sets etc) about disabled characters. Works can focus on canonically disabled characters or canonically able-bodied characters that you reimagine as disabled. Pieces can be as long or short as you like.

When: July 15 to September 15, 2010 (for those who work best under deadlines). Yes, this starts one week from today!

How: We’ll make a post soliciting prompts from you tomorrow! Prompts can be general or fandom-specific. Feel free to respond to prompts with commentfic, or use them for longer works posted during the festival posting period. You don’t have to claim particular prompts to post, and claiming a prompt does not mean you’ve committed to posting a fanwork filling it. You can also post fanworks without filling any prompt--basically, anything goes!

ETA: Here is the prompts post!

Who: For Festibility, your mods are kaz, lightgetsin, sasha_feather, and were_duck. Any and everyone is welcome to participate!

We will also host a beta pool of folks willing to check other folks’ fanworks for portrayals of disability. This is entirely volunteer and optional, though we ask that participants make a strong effort and do their research in order to create positive and affirming portrayals of characters with disabilities. Your mods will do our best to provide resources to help you reach this goal!

Please note that you can post links to fanworks or recs in this community at any time. The end date of this festival is when your mods will stop cheerleading; it does not mean that you have to stop posting. This is intended to be a low-pressure festival.

Please watch this community for more information. Leave comments here or contact one of the mods listed above with any questions or concerns.



Canonically Disabled Characters in Fandom-- A starter list

Felix Gaeta (Battlestar: Galactica)
Professor Xavier (X-Men)
Scott Summers (X-Men)
Logan and Max (Dark Angel
Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood)
John Locke (Lost)
Oracle
Daredevil
Artie (Glee)
Jake Sully (James Cameron’s Avatar)
Geordi LaForge (ST: TNG)
Capt. Christopher Pike (Star Trek: TOS/reboot)
Kerry Weaver (ER)
Greg House (House)
Monk (Monk)
Dr. Gabriel Fife (Private Practice)
Dr. Al Robbins (CSI)
Joe Dawson (Highlander)
Toph Bei Fong (A:TLA)
Johnny Smith (Dead Zone)
John Watson (Sherlock Holmes 2010)
Thakur Baldev Singh (Sholay)
Alex Krycek (X-Files)
Xander Harris (Buffy)
Augustus Hill (Oz)
Joey Lucas (West Wing; a prominent guest star)
President Bartlet (West Wing)
Pete Thornton (MacGyver)
Riddick (Pitch Black, Chronicles of Riddick)
Toothless (How To Train Your Dragon)

ETA from comments:
Kevin (Joan of Arcadia)
Miles Vorkosigan (Vorkosigan series)
Diana Reid (Criminal Minds)
Scott Macintyre (American Idol)
Cassandra Cain from Batman (DCU comics)
Aquaman
Lex Luthor lost a hand in some continuities
Slade Wilson (DCU comics)
Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)
Gobber (How to Train Your Dragon)
River Tam (Firefly and Serenity)
Sarah Connor (Terminator 2 and Sarah Connor Chronicles)
Roland (Saved!)
Teo (Avatar: the last airbender)
Lireal (Garth Nix books)

Please see comments for more! Lots of great suggestions!

Comments

[amadi]

Also from ER: Ray Barnett, Adele Newman, John Carter, Reese Benton and before his death, Robert Romano.

Also from The West Wing: Josh Lyman

Dark Angel: Logan Cale

In the upcoming Covert Affairs we'll have Auggie Anderson who is blind.

If we want to go old school, TV wise: Ironside! (I've been catching some reruns on the RTV network and it's shocking how well the issue is handled compared to some current shows with characters who use wheelchairs, not mentioning any names *mumbles about 19 Emmy nominations*)

Other characters played by Marlee Matlin, all canonically deaf, including: Jodi Lerner (The L Word), attorney Ruby Whitlow (My Name Is Earl), Alisa Stevens (Desperate Housewives), Dr. Amy Solwey (Law & Order: SVU), Mayor Laurie Bey (Picket Fences), D.A. Tess Kaufman (Reasonable Doubts).

Characters played by Daryl Mitchell (who uses a wheelchair since a 2001 motorcycle accident): Eli Goggins (Ed), Chill Trainor (Brothers), Chris Clements (The Game), Ron (Desperate Housewives)

Characters in Films:
Forrest Gump and Captain Dan (Forrest Gump)
Donnie Darko (Donnie Darko)
Ada McGrath (The Piano)
Melvin Udall (As Good as it Gets)
Susanna Kaysen, Lisa Rowe, Daisy Randone & others (Girl, Interrupted)
Cole Holland (Mr. Holland's Opus)
Susie Hendrix (Wait Until Dark)
Maggie Fitzgerald (Million Dollar Baby)
Jessie Cates ('Night, Mother)
Nicole Burnell (The Sweet Hereafter)
May Alice Culane (Passion Fish)
Arnie Grape (What's Eating Gilbert Grape?)
Selma Jezkova (Dancer in the Dark)
Grace MacLean (The Horse Whisperer)
Lt. Col. Frank Slade (Scent of a Woman)
Joel Garcia and Raymond Hill (The Waterdance)