1 link 8 July 2012

[sasha_feather]

lightgetsin: Do I Do it For You? Service Kink and Disability

I want to say as a first principle that almost every fic focusing on disability I’ve ever read can be understood as having some relation to service kink, whether that’s rolling around in the kink straight on (consciously or not), or subverting its usual presentation, or coming at it orthogonally from left field, or pointedly not engaging with it. Personally, I theorize this is because having a disability entails negotiating boundaries of rejecting and accepting service on a daily basis. I wanted to write about some of the ways I see this play out in intimate relationships, in fic and otherwise, because it can be a hugely complicated, thorny, sexy, unsexy, unpleasant, romantic, intimidating thing.

Diary of a Goldfish: 10 Things Fiction Writers Need to Remember About Disability (1-5)

[teafeather]

http://blobolobolob.blogspot.com/2012/07/10-things-fiction-writers-need-to.html

Part one of an overview of how to write about disability in a more realistic way.

Summary:
1. Disabled characters can be at the centre of stories which aren't all about disability.
2. Disability can be part of the plot of great stories.
3. People with long-term impairments or chronic illness are not fascinated by their own condition or their own symptoms.
4. Disabled people are not all young, white, straight, affluent men.
5. Disabled people go bad for a reason.