Festibility: Prompt Post

[access_fandom_mods]

Welcome to the Festibility prompts post!

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. You can find out more at the Festibility announcement post on access_fandom!

Here’s how the prompts will work:

Prompts can be general or fandom- or character-specific. You can also choose to specify a type of disability. Be creative and have fun. Post prompts now through September 15th!

Fills can be posted starting Thursday, July 15th and the posting period goes until September 15th. We encourage you to post disability-centric fanworks to access_fandom after the close of the fest. After September 15th, please post to the community instead of commenting here, and link back to the prompt (if any) that inspired you.

Nest Your Responses. Respond directly to a prompt with the text of your story in the comment or a link to the story if it is posted elsewhere.

Anonymous commenting is allowed. To post anonymously when logged in, click on 'More Options' and pick 'Anonymous'. Do not ask anyone to reveal themselves if they choose to post anonymously.

Warnings:
We want warnings to be a community standard for this festival. If you need help putting warnings on your fan work, please ask your beta or contact a moderator. We accept “Choose Not To Warn” as a warning, but in the interest of making this fest as accessible as possible we prefer to have works be labeled with specific trigger warnings.

ETA: Please state one of the following on your work: "No warnings apply", "Choose Not to Warn" or include warnings/content notes mentioning any triggering material that does apply to your work. Marking your work in this way helps people with triggers to navigate the Festibility responses. Thank you! /ETA

Warn for common triggers even if the prompt implies some. You must warn for common violent or sexual triggers. Unwarned stories/art are subject to immediate screening at the mods' discretion.

o Triggers to warn for:
o non-con, dub-con, and rape
o character death
o suicide
o self-injury
o child abuse
o graphic torture
o incest
o underage (under the age of 18)
o extremely ableist language
o mind control
o If you are uncertain if you should include a warning, better safe than sorry.

The above list is not all-inclusive or meant to be limiting: people can and should warn for other things. You can gray out warnings or spoilers using this code that amadi posted, which also works for screenreaders.

If you have a policy of not warning, you must put "Author does not warn" in the subject line. Failure to do so will result in immediate screening/deletion.

Post links to NSFW images or images that require warnings. Do not embed them.

Single prompts can be answered as many times as you wish.

Anonymous posting and commenting is allowed.

Language reminder: Please say “has diabetes”, don’t say “suffers from diabetes” or “suffers hearing loss” when describing someone’s disability. Please say “uses a wheelchair” or similarly neutral language, do not say “wheelchair bound” or “confined to a wheelchair”. Please do not use ableist or other oppressive pejoratives such as “lame”. For more about inclusive language, click on the language tag of this community. Also, please do not include disabilities in your content warnings--It is disrespectful to cast a piece of someone's identity as a warning.

ETA: There have been some concerns raised about this language policy. For clarification, this language reminder is meant more for prompt suggestion than for actual fic. You are allowed to use whatever language you like in your fan fic. If there is a lot of ableist language in your fic, we would prefer that you warn for it in your fic headers. You are also welcome to address the negative as well as the positive aspects of living with a disability.

Thank you for participating! Let the prompts begin!

Comments

[jadelennox]

BTVS: Xander Harris has to learn to fight again after the injury, with or without the season 8 comics as canon. (Possibly the process of becoming Nick Fury/Xander Harris?)

[jadelennox]

Any character who has a canon canonical disability which in canon is effectively not a disability because of high-end science or magic prosthetics (e.g. Babylon 5: G'kar's eye; Star Wars: Luke or Anakin's hands; but not Geordi Laforge's prosthetics because it causes him difficulty and is an awkwardly visible prosthetic). Write a story about the difficulties that character has. Complicate the magical healing of the source text.

[eruthros]

Oh, I really like this idea!

[jadelennox]

BTVS: Xander Harris gets high end prosthetics technology from a demon dimension or something, and it can do funky things, and he gets appropriately Xander about it. Bonus points for interaction with Dawn!

[jadelennox]

Vorkosiverse: First time Ekatarin and Miles have sex.

[jadelennox]

Vorkosiverse: Miles tries to be a good stepdad and do sports with Nikki. Hilarity ensues. (Mostly because Miles doesn't know how not to be lethal?)

[axelrod]

You come up with great prompts : )

[jadelennox]

thank you. :-) I'm just prompting for the stories I wish somebody would write!

[erda]

I'd love to see a crossover with Sarah Connor/Logan from Dark Angel, where Sarah crosses into the future and it is the Dark Angel verse, especially if Logan does some caretaking of Sarah either emotionally and/or physically.

[pandorasblog]

Oh my god, I will be all over this fic if someone writes it!

[such_heights]

Avatar: the Last Airbender: Toph, reuniting with her parents after saving the world

[ceredwensirius]

Harry Potter: Sirius Black has bi-polar and agoraphobia (I'll admit it, this is canon Sirius for me) but evades the Veil and saves Dumbledore's life.

(and yeah, also a bit id-tastic)

[axelrod]

(and yeah, also a bit id-tastic)

Emphasis on the "-tastic" : )

[toujours_nigel]

Harry Potter, Remus Lupin appreciates how careful Tonks is with him, but would like to point out that he can do things for himself at times other than the new moon, thanks very much.

[trixie]

Prompt: Glee: Artie discovers the world of wheelchair dance.

[staranise]

OMG YES.

[cesy]

I want this so badly.

[glass_icarus]

OMG WAAAAAAAAANT. *____*

[axelrod]

I don't think I've ever seen a vid of wheelchair dancing, but I have been consistently disappointed in Artie's choreography.

Ask and ye shall receive

[ladyjax]

Axis Dance Company. They're local to me here in the Bay Area. Axix is a mixed company which makes for some innovative performance.

Here's their video clip page: Repertory Performance

Re: Ask and ye shall receive

[axelrod]

Awesome, thanks! You're lucky to live near them.

Re: Ask and ye shall receive

[ladyjax]

I worked for the World Institute on Disability for about eleven years and there were people we knew who danced with them so it's a close association.

[gehayi]

THIS WOULD BE FANTASTIC.

[amadi]

Prompt: ER: Teenage Reese Benton (present day) discovers that he was a good candidate for cochlear implants as a baby, but his father made the decision against them.

[amethystfirefly]

OH.

This is such a good idea! I hope someone nabs it.

(It makes me wonder, though. Could he get them as an adult? How difficult would it be if he did get them, seeing as he was prelingually deaf? There's so much to explore with this one.)

[amadi]

Prompt: The West Wing: Josh Lyman on the tenth anniversary of the Rosslyn shooting.

[such_heights]

Any fandom: this new adventurous, world-saving lifestyle makes managing a disability somewhat more complicated.

[milleniumrex]

How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup, first day back in training after losing his leg.

[thingswithwings]

I was thinking Sherlock Holmes or Miles Vorkosigan, but really any fandom: a person who has depression or is bipolar, and how they get through a difficult day.

[eruthros]

Stargate Atlantis, John Sheppard uses his wrist strap as an assistive device for an anxiety disorder

[(Anonymous)]

I really, really hope someone writes this!

[eruthros]

Babylon 5, G'Kar sees Narn differently with his new eye

[thingswithwings]

A:TLA: Zuko's never told anyone that he can't see out of his left eye anymore.

[axelrod]

Ooooh, I like that one. Very IC.

[glass_icarus]

!!!!! &hearts

[eruthros]

Oh, cool! And the burn and scarring might have affected his hearing as well as (or instead of) his sight.

[jalendavi_lady]

I tried. He's not totally blind on that side in this, but what vision he's got left isn't very useful to him.

A Matter Of Secrets

Summary: Zuko's been keeping the true magnitude of the damage to his face from everyone, but he can't hold it in much longer after Toph catches him in the deception. Set at Iroh's tea shop after the series ends.

Warnings:

Contains some ableist language and attitudes due to most of the characters in it being teenagers who keep stumbling over their words, and because of being written with the assumption that 100 years of war-making would have changed how the Fire Nation viewed disabilities that could affect performance on a battlefield.

Contains non-graphic references to past child abuse; these are constrained to how Zuko got his scar and to the events leading to his mother's disappearance.

Also contains 16-year-olds kissing, along with a teenage head of state simultaneously wondering if his girlfriend will accept him for who he is and if she would make a good

[jalendavi_lady]

I deleted an accidental double post, and accidentally got the one with the completed last line. It should read "and if she would make a good wife for someone in his political position."

[eruthros]

A character who has a mobility impairment can run to save someone's life, but zie knows what the consequences will be the next day. (Perhaps Johnny Smith from The Dead Zone or John Watson from Sherlock Holmes?)

[katta]

This is actually a tiny bit of a longer Sherlock Holmes fic I currently have in the beta process. Is it in accordance with the rules to post a link when the editing is done? (Won't stop me from trying to fill other prompts, of course!)

[eruthros]

I have no idea if it's within the rules, but I look forward to seeing it :)

Story which is not really a prompt filler

[katta]

Okay, I have no idea if this is up your alley - like I said before, it only tangentially has anything to do with your prompt, plus, it involves child prostitution/rape (off-screen) and has characters expressing 19th century attitudes about... well, everything. But if none of that scares you off, here's the fic.

Re: Story which is not really a prompt filler

[rydra_wong]

*puts indexer hat on*

Do you want this linked in the Festibility index post, or do you feel it's too tangential? Totally your call.

Re: Story which is not really a prompt filler

[katta]

I... don't know? I mean, it's a case file, it's not primarily about living with a disability. (Then again, the actual prompt filler I'm writing isn't either.) And it's from Watson's POV, so somewhere in the second draft I took away most of the mentions of pain, because I figured he'd be all Joe Stoic about it. So I'm not sure it fits. OTOH, anything to get me more readers, y'know?

Which means yes, I guess. If I'm allowed.

Re: Story which is not really a prompt filler

[rydra_wong]

If you want, I could link it with an author's note that it's not primarily focused on the disability issues?

Re: Story which is not really a prompt filler

[katta]

That sounds great, thanks!

Re: Story which is not really a prompt filler

[rydra_wong]

Done!

[sasha_feather]

Fine by me!

[staranise]

Any fandom (possibly Dark Angel Max/Logan): romantic hurt/comfort in which the abled partner is hurt and needs comforting, and the PWD is more than capable of taking care of both of them.

[lightgetsin]

FTW!

[katta]

You gave me a plotbunny, though I'm not sure exactly how well the final story will fit the prompt. (Esp. depending on the definition of "romantic".)

[staranise]

Anything is good! :)

[recessional]

. . . . now I want to write Austin/Reid h/c.

[cesy]

I would love to read it.

[staranise]

:D Now I want to read it.

[recessional]

(Actually I kind of want to write it in Change-crackover-verse but NOBODY WOULD UNDERSTAND EXCEPT YOU. And maybe Liz.)

I actually promise nothing - the twice I've sat down to write has been like [bad image here], so. But.

[staranise]

...I realize this is terribly selfish, but then it would be like the fic was mine just mine so I fail to see how this is a problem.

*brat*

I get. And anyway, you've already written Austin-with-a-cold, so I should go back and reread that.

[milleniumrex]

My first thought was Oracle/Batgirl (either Cass or Steph).

[katta]

Six weeks after deadline, I finally finished. So sorry I'm late! Here's the story. It's not Dark Angel, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyway.

[passerine]

Prompt: Chronicles of Amber (or any other universe in which regeneration is possible but far from instant). A character manages to regenerate a missing body part (Benedict's arm for instance) and finds the experience intensely unpleasant and disorienting rather than "Yay I've got my missing piece back!"

[james]

Prompt: any RPS fandom, character has a panic disorder and tries to hide/downplay its severity from everyone else when they first start working together

[gloss]

Prompt: Community, Abed Nadir, Reading people according to pop-culture tropes isn't infallible, but it's by far the best approach of all the ones Abed has tried over the years.

[gloss]

Prompt: Community, Troy Barnes, His kegstand injury has left Troy with chronic pain.

[james]

Prompt: Star Trek DS9; from a mirror universe, a Julian Bashir who never received gene therapy appears on DS9.

[thingswithwings]

NICE.

[james]

Thanks! Hopefully lots and lots of prompt-fillers will agree. ;-)

[thingswithwings]

Me too! I really really want stories that challenge the Trek universe approach to disability. *fistshake*

[brightknightie]

What thingswithwings said: NICE. Literally, my jaw dropped when I read this prompt.

(I just learned about this fest today. I'm catching up...)

[smirnoffmule]

OMG I WAS JUST COMING TO MAKE THIS EXACT PROMPT.

Someone has to do this please.

[james]

Great Minds! :-D