Access Fandom

There is now a Festibility collection at the Archive of Our Own. Collections are a great way to host a sort of mini-archive, and all participants are welcome and encouraged to post there as well as here.

If you do not yet have an AO3 account and you would like one, leave a comment here or private message lightgetsin with your email address, and we’ll send you an invite code.

How to add fanworks to the collection: There are two ways:

1. Go to the collection page and click on “post to collection.” The form will appear with the collection field already filled out for you.

2. Alternatively, click “post new” from anywhere in the archive and fill out the form as you usually would. Just be sure to put “Festibility2010” in the ‘post to collections/challenges’ field in the associations section.

The AO3 designers and coders have been notably committed to accessibility on the archive and responsive to accessibility requests. Your Festibility mods appreciate their efforts, and want to encourage any challenge participants with access needs or knowledge to use the AO3 and suggest any fixes or improvements through the support feature.

The archive currently does not support multimedia fanworks or anonymous posting, though it will eventually. Sorry! We will bookmark these fanworks from within the collection if posters would like.

Festibility is open! There are already several great fanworks in the Prompt Post. Keep posting prompts and threaded responses in comments!



Banners for the fest (now with copy and paste code!) made by eruthros are available in this post.

Please feel free to post fanworks or links to fanworks in direct posts in the community.

Comment here if you would like to volunteer as a beta. You may wish to specify fandoms or types of works you specialize in (fic, vids, etc), or other details.

Also comment here if you are seeking a beta. It helps if you describe the fanwork you are creating, so potential betas will have an idea about whether they’re a good fit.

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!