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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!
kaz: "Kaz" written in cursive with a white quill that is dissolving into (badly drawn in Photoshop) butterflies. (Default)

[personal profile] kaz 2010-07-10 10:26 am (UTC)(link)
Any fandom: A character - possibly canonically nondisabled - is a covert stutterer. (For people who don't know what I'm referring to, here are some links about stuttering including some about covert stuttering that give a decent overview.)
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[personal profile] erda 2010-07-10 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I really hope someone writes this.
kaz: "Kaz" written in cursive with a white quill that is dissolving into (badly drawn in Photoshop) butterflies. (Default)

[personal profile] kaz 2010-07-11 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Part of me hopes someone will write Tina from Glee as an overt stutterer turned covert who decided to pretend she never stuttered at all just out of revenge. But really, so so many characters could work with this, and I think it would be awesome to see some really extroverted not-shy-or-visibly-anxious character written as a stutterer. Break those stereotypes! \o/
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[personal profile] erda 2010-07-11 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
I'd read anything with this prompt, but if someone could work up a reasonably convincing story with Dean Winchester as a covert stutterer, I'd be all over it. Canonically I'm pretty sure he stopped talking for a while as a child. This would be so fascinating to explore.
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[personal profile] nwhepcat 2010-08-05 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I totally flashed on Dean Winchester with this prompt, too. Absolutely makes sense to me. (And I can see John reacting to this.) Hmmmmmm.... I may attempt this one.
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[personal profile] amaresu 2010-07-14 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, I just learned all sorts of stuff about by stuttering. I didn't even know there was a special term for it. Wow.

Thanks.
kaz: "Kaz" written in cursive with a white quill that is dissolving into (badly drawn in Photoshop) butterflies. (Default)

[personal profile] kaz 2010-07-15 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Assuming that's a "my" stuttering, I offer you a stutterer-to-stutterer (or PWS but I can't manage to get that fussed about the language) fistbump! *\o/* There is a reason I'm requesting this, although because I'm not covert it's not as id-tastic as it could be!

Anyway, I hope the information helps! I can also link you to a few stuttering blogs I know of, although I should add that I tend to be a bit radical when it comes to stuttering acceptance and anything I link is probably going to reflect that.
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[personal profile] amaresu 2010-07-20 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never really given much thought to my stuttering (or stuttering in general). It was just something that was there and I avoided doing it as much as possible. It wasn't until I read some of those links that I really started thinking about all the things I do to avoid the stuttering. It's been very eye opening.