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access_fandom_mods ([personal profile] access_fandom_mods) wrote in [community profile] access_fandom2010-07-09 09:20 pm
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Festibility: Prompt Post

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 [community profile] 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!
hopefulnebula: Mandelbrot Set with text "You can change the world in a tiny way" (Default)

[personal profile] hopefulnebula 2010-07-16 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Prompt is a spoiler for Farscape season 4/the beginning of The Peacekeeper Wars. Farscape, Chiana, (skip) What if Chiana never did get her vision fully back after losing it in the end of season 4? How would she cope? What kind of assistive technology is available in the Uncharted Territories?
Edited (lolly, lolly, lolly, adding an adverb here) 2010-07-16 15:16 (UTC)
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[personal profile] bliumchik 2010-07-16 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Sandman crossover: I'd like to see any character with a mental illness have a face-to-face with Delirium. River Tam comes to mind!
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[personal profile] originalpuck 2010-07-16 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
White Collar, Neal dealing with panic disorder while still being a famous conman/forger constantly being put in high risk situations (how would his approach change, if at all, etc)
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[personal profile] amchara 2010-07-17 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Doctor Who, Amy (or Donna, or Martha, or Rose) has a mobility disability from birth.* How do they manage as a companion, for example when the Doctor says "Run for your Life!" (as he often does)?

*cerebral palsy, spina bifada, MS, etc
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[personal profile] jadelennox 2010-07-17 07:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Sandman/Dreaming: Any story involving Delirium, either Endless-focused or not.

(Anonymous) 2010-07-18 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom. I would like to see realistic depiction of how a POC character 's culture and society shape his life with disability.

(Anonymous) 2010-07-18 11:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Criminal Minds, take your pic of the following:

1. Reid. Sometimes he still needs the cane. (If anyone wants to fix that horrible scene with Rossi and the ditch...)

2. Hotch, Morgan, and Reid; PTSD.

3. Reid. He can't stop worrying about inheriting his mother's schizophrenia...the person he sees about it diagnoses him with an autism spectrum disorder instead.
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[personal profile] mercredigirl 2010-07-19 09:14 am (UTC)(link)
Fandom: DCU or DCAU. Any character.
Prompt: Being a superhero with social anxiety/agoraphobia.

(Anonymous) 2010-07-19 09:16 am (UTC)(link)
Babylon 5: Talia Winters. Dealing with PTSD in the wake of her Death of Personality assignment.

(Anonymous) 2010-07-19 06:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Criminal Minds, Aaron Hotchner, what if the hearing loss from the explosion was permanent?
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Friday the 13th prompt

[personal profile] terajk 2010-07-19 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Prequel to the original Friday the 13th, set while Jason Voorhees* is a kid/still alive.


*Different places describe Jason's disabilities differently, but I remember one of the later films stating explicitly that he had hydrocephalus.

(Anonymous) 2010-07-20 06:23 am (UTC)(link)
Harry Potter - When Voldemort tries to take baby!Harry's life, Harry gains a scar and a visible disability.
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Inception prompt

[personal profile] aris_tgd 2010-07-20 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
Inception: Dream logic is not the same in all brains. Either extraction from or extraction working with someone whose mental logic is not the same as a neurotypical's, and how that changes the dream landscape.
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CSI prompt:

[personal profile] killing_rose 2010-07-21 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
CSI prompt:

Gil Grissom--What if he'd been someone for whom the surgery to reverse otosclerosis symptoms not only didn't work, but made it worse?

(Alternatively, what if he'd chosen not to go through with the surgery at all?) What's going on in his life 6 months, 5 years, etc. down the road?

(What's his thought process? The team's? How important is their opinion in the end?)
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[personal profile] toft 2010-07-21 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
The Old Spice Man has an anxiety disorder of some kind, perhaps a panic disorder or OCD, or a severe phobia of a common thing (fish?). Is his ability to suddenly be on a horse his way of dealing with his anxiety? Or does he find the sudden propensity of tickets to become diamonds extremely stressful and exhausting? Bonus points for a story of him growing up and learning how to physically manipulate the world around him and constantly projecting a front of magnificence as a way to manage his anxiety, and, eventually, become an intergalactic space hero.
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[personal profile] raven 2010-07-21 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Vorkosigan series: Gregor talks about his mental health issues to someone (Cordelia?) who understands, and does not immediately start worrying about Emperor Yuri.
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[personal profile] lauredhel 2010-07-22 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Prompt: True Blood or similar vampverse. A woman with spina bifida or early-acquired paraplegia of another sort is turned into a vampire. She decides to keep the wheelchair as it's part of her identity. She finds she still has vamp-powers while using the chair (lightning-fast speed, etc).
Edited 2010-07-22 01:30 (UTC)

SGA

[identity profile] distorquere.livejournal.com 2010-07-25 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Anything on Elizabeth's mental health issues in The Real World. What if they weren't new? What if she'd been coping with some sort of mental health problems all along? What if they don't go away after TRW? I would love to see such a strong woman live with this (before or after), and still be able to live under the pressure of Atlantis. Or anything along those lines!
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[personal profile] ashmusing 2010-07-26 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom - one of the main characters has ADHD, or one of its sub-variants.
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[personal profile] minkhollow 2010-07-29 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Harry Potter, any character with bonus points for Harry himself or Neville, PTSD after the war.
minkhollow: Robert Redford pointing, from Sneakers (sometimes i don't understand myself)

[personal profile] minkhollow 2010-07-29 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Sneakers, Whistler doesn't stay in the van on every job.
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[personal profile] raisedbymoogles 2010-07-30 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
1) Winding Circle series by Tamora Pierce: Rosethorn suffered a brain injury (sort of) that left her with slurred speech. In the aftermath of that, Rosethorn's as opinionated as she always was, but has trouble making herself understood, most noticably in an emergency situation.

2) Chip Chase (Transformers G1) - declining offers from the Autobots to 'fix' his legs.
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[personal profile] minkhollow 2010-07-30 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Percy Jackson universe, Hephaestus helps one of his kids adapt to a mobility disability.

[personal profile] amaliedageek 2010-07-30 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Any fandom, any character: a realistic depiction of albinism. All of the visual limitations -- many people with albinism are legally blind; existing adaptive tech helps but can't "fix" it -- and cultural bias; bonus points if the character is chromatic (and no, that is not a contradiction in terms).
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[personal profile] skalja 2010-07-30 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Marvel Comics/Spider-Man (preferably the main universe, but go with what inspires you): Peter has chronic depression/anxiety/ADHD/psychological condition of your choice, which he manages successfully ... most of the time.

Further thoughts for perusal: Maybe he's always had this condition and superheroics actually help him manage it (lots of vigorous exercise can help with depression and anxiety); maybe they make it worse (frequent emotional trauma); maybe his condition was actually caused by his superpowers (he's got an entire new sense and several abilities with no counterpart in baseline humans - his brain must have gotten rewired a bit). How does his condition shape his identity, and if his friends/family/fellow heroes know, how does it affect how they perceive him?

Ten thousand bonus points if the story deals with quandary of needing/wanting psychological treatment when you have a secret identity and most of the psychiatrists you've met are secretly supervillains.
Edited 2010-07-30 23:08 (UTC)

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