recs post?

[jadelennox]

Let's make a recs post for awesome Yuletide stories about characters with disabilities.

How about link to the story with story name, fandom name, whether the disability plays a major role, and any other information you think we need to know (including warnings you think might be relevant to people in this community). I'll compile all the comments in the body of the post.

♥ Yuletide!

Disability plays a major role

Dia Reeves -- Bleeding Violet:

• "Lay Your Body Down (And Don't Let Go)." Rec text

How to Train Your Dragon:

• "A Better Leg". Rec text, which recs all the stories in the fandom

Megan Whalen Turner -- The Queen's Thief:

• "A Temporary Inability to Go Either Up Or Down". Rec text

Main character has disability; disability doesn't play a major role

Boardwalk Empire:

• "Out Where the West Begins". Rec text for this and for "Space for Innocence"
• "Space for Innocence"

Mary Renault -- The Charioteer

• "To reconcile all things unto himself". Rec text, which recs all the stories in the fandom

Comments

[jadelennox]

On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, eek drama. Can we do it in a way which is unlikely to blow up?

[amadi]

Good question. The ability to avoid drama in fandom is the holy grail which tends to elude even the most reasonable issues, so maybe we should skip it and only discuss those things under lock and key in our own spaces.

[lightgetsin]

My suggestion would be that we mods can bat some ideas back and forth and maybe try something like a community locked post for substantive discussion of problematic stories. In several weeks, perhaps, when the Yuletide rush is over. Would that be useful?

[amadi]

That would be a rather different thing, I think. My consideration was geared more toward providing a heads-up, so to speak, while recs are flying fast and deep.

I return to the position of keeping it in locked personal posts.