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i saw that you posted this post and idk how long ago it was but i wrote a little thing for it. it doesnt entirely stick to the OP and i changed some stuff and i dunno if i did a good job on it but i figured i’d send it anyway. (please tell me if i misrepresent anything because if i did i’m sorry and i’ll change it)
http://themermaddie-fanfiction.tumblr.com/post/114227818023/based-off-of-disabledfantasys-prompt
- maddie
Hello! I'm sorry if this is rude to ask, but seeing the ask about cosplaying made me think: is it okay to wear an eye-patch as an accessory? (for steampunk for example) Thanks!
I really don’t think it would be okay for me to answer this as I’m not blind. However, if any of our followers are blind and would like to weigh in on this, that would be really helpful.
Hello! I am having a hard time explaining to able bodied people that it is not okay to cosplay people with disabilities. Could you link me to something that will help me better explain that this is not okay?
I don’t have any links I’m afraid, but I’m happy to talk about it as a disabled woman and a cosplayer myself.
It’s not quite as straight forward as ‘abled people cannot cosplay disabled people’, there isn't inherently a problem with abled people cosplaying disabled characters, the problem is when the disability becomes part of the costume.
I also think this is a bigger issue in regards to physical disabilities (I am both physically and mentally disabled and I’m not trying to say that either group as privilege over the other, some issues affect one more, this is one of them), seeing able-bodied people using assistive tech as a ~prop~ really upsets me as a wheelchair user. My wheelchair is not an accessory, it is not part of a costume, it is an intrinsic part of my life, it’s something I cannot get by without and it is something that I face a lot of shit for.
When an able-bodied person uses a wheelchair like that it shows a complete lack of respect for disabled people and their experiences, disability is not something we can turn on and off when we feel like it, we don’t only get to use assistive tech when we’re trying to look good at a con, it’s really insensitive for able-bodied people to do that.
Also, if you’re hiring out the wheelchair, or you bought it from a charity store (which has happened) you've basically stolen that from a disabled person who needed it. I’ve been at a con where I went to hire a wheelchair out and they’d run out so I could barely do anything all day.
Cosplay should be fun for everyone, and I’m not trying to stop abled people cosplaying who they want, it’s just important to be aware of who you’re affecting when you ‘put on’ disability.
Ablinistic archer: She isn't my POV but sometimes she'll use her magic arrows (which is more like...a scope on a sniper rifle than anything) and still miss, and she'll be hurt by it. She also finds she can't always read the books she needs to to help the other members of the team, this guides her to help develop a system to help blind and otherwise visually impaired people. Also, don't worry! The post-story is HUGE (basically a collection of related short stories) so she shines there!
Ok cool! In which case, just keep in mind my other advice and constantly do research!
Also albinistic archer anon: She is a main character, she is one of the only members of my main cast that has real-world experience (she also used to travel, none of the others did, which makes her valuable). She also ends up being an educator (a prestigious position) she DOES have a sense of humour unique to her, but she isn't laughed AT (her Soulbond partner, who allows her to use magic, is a prankster. Occasionally she will fall victim to her pranks, but everyone does)
Awesome, she sounds really cool! I wish you good luck with your story!
Albinistic archer anon! She was healed at her parents request when she was young. The culture my story takes place in places a high value on education and literacy (their principal deity is a god of knowledge). And they don't (yet) have things like braille (She helps develop them post story when her eyesight starts fail again). So they healed her eyes so she could get the same education as everyone else. Also, magic is not something that can be used all the time as it is extremely draining.
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I think having parents curing something is very much something that happens and is good to address! I think it would be good to show how she feels about this, perhaps she doesn;t really register that they violated her bodily autonomy until much later in her life and talk about how she deals with that!
Also I'm a bit upset at the accessibility issues being addressed only post story! While of course you probably have a major main plot, I think when you have a major disabled character you must address how they are affected by the society they live in! I think it would be awesome for her to at least start to develop a braille like technique during the main story even if its not a big plot point!
Also ensure that she is not the only disabled character, especially if you have a large cast! How do learning disabled students cope in a culture so focused on education? Especially with literacy as a focus, do dyslexic students get treated as less? Is there separate schooling for mentally disabled children? Are Deaf children healed in much the same way as your character was? Is there any movement against this? I think you have a really awesome premise that could really address issues around disability and I encourage you to do so!
Also having someone who use she/her pronouns is a good start! But ensure that if you do have disabled characters they come from a variety of identities!
I have a character that is Albino. I have mentioned that she used to be almost entirely blind until they used potions and spells to heal her eyes (she will never have perfect vision, but she doesn`t have such a hard time getting around any more. She is still sensitive to light and is still hindered by her impaired vision, just not to the same extent). She takes up archery. Even with magic guided arrows, she`s only average at best. Advice? Pitfalls to avoid?
Ok
I believe the preferred term is Albinistic! Feel free to correct me if you're form the community though!
I think you need to question honestly why you want her eyes to be healed, is it for your convenience? Why can;t she be an archer and be blind? You've already mentioned she has magic guided arrows so it seems unnecessary to heal her blindness with cures as well!
As for general advice, do not make her an inspiration, try not to kill her, address ableism against her without making her life a misery and treat her with respect, don;t make her the butt of jokes
almost everyone (except for some minor characters) in my space opera novel im working on is queer/trans, disabled, and neurodivergent. i cycle through main characters and my main two are an asexual/panromantic kazakh trans boy w/ severe depression + anxiety and a malian autistic aroace trans woman with a prosthetic arm. im nb+ace and i have mdd+gad+adhd with many bpd+asd features and writing about people like me is something i wish id started doing a long time ago!
Ahhhh awesome! We wish you all the best with that!
um, i'm a writer and one of my book ideas of that of a girl who has tourette's syndrome and gets into some sort of science accident and the accident, like... taps into her tourette's (???) and makes it so she can shoot electricity blots outta her hands. it doesn't get rid of her TS don't worry. and she becomes a superhero named twitch. the idea developed from me having tourette's and joking that when i'm mad i'll become and electric hazard. it sounds silly it's a lot better than it sounds
It doesn;t sound silly at all! I love it!
I love this blog and looking at all these awesome ideas has motivated me to start working on my webcomic. It’s about an autistic black woman from 2030 who builds a time machine and travels into the distant future. She accidentally ends up at a point in time where earth has been invaded by aliens and meets an autistic Native American woman who shows her all of the new technology. I’m planning to have an entirely queer and disabled cast as well!
Brilliant! Good luck with your webcomic!
A young disabled superheroine with super strength who is constantly 'helped' by paternalistic older abled superheroes when she is clearly doing fine, they all judge her based on her supposedly ~low functioning~ autism however and see her as fairly helpless and just 'playing dress up'
She signs angrily at them to leave her alone but they never care to learn the language enough to know what she's saying
She eventually teams up with a girl with cerebral palsy with magical powers who has faced similar problems and together they inform every man who comes along as soon as there's trouble that they are perfectly fine thank you very much and could he please just take out the lesser minions since thats what he's better suited to
I’m actually just outlining this one now. A fairy princess (who is being hidden way from the kingdom because of an evil plot to kill her) with cerebral palsy whose entire right side including her right wing is weakened and she flies around in circles because her left wing overcompensates for her right but someone makes an adaptive wing for her so that she can fly straight.
great! I'd love to see the mechanics involved with a wing adaptation, is it like a prosthetic or equipment attached to the wing?
a disabled teen born with a muscle disease, their parents move to another planet with a much lower gravity to make it easier for the teen to walk, pick things up etc. but then eventually they want to explore the galaxy and have to deal with a lot of strain visiting planets with heavier gravitational pulls and it really explores weighing up thing like access, spoons and comfort. and the spaceship crew they fly with eventually adjusts the anti-grav setting aboard to make space travel easier.
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Autistic vampires who refuse to bite people because it is negative sensory input for them, but they have lovely friends (that may or may not be disabled) who donate blood so the vampire doesn't HAVE to bite, but just sip out of a straw. And the vampire loves to morph into a bat and fly around because flapping, duh.
Brilliant, I need vampires with straws now
A psychotic mermaid who hallucinates many different otherworldly fish, some are lovely and gorgeous whereas some are terrifying and chase her
But she names them all and draws pictures and when people tell her they're not 'really real' because they can;t see them she swims away so quickly they get a rush of water and bubbles in their face
hi My story is a romantic fanfic where the MC is a 16y/o girl with the same disability as me and well, she is depress so she is kind of bitter and bitchy (eventually it will change) and the guy she falls for doesnt have a disability and helps her and is always there for her(he doesnt saves her though) do you think the plot might be insulting or unrealistic? i dont want to upset ppl with disabilities since im one. also how do i not romantice depression?and show that she is saving herself?thankyou
Ok a few things
She is allowed to stay bitter/’bitchy’ she doesn;t have to learn to be the sweetest person in the galaxy, sometimes mentally ill people are rude and angry and thats okay
I think you have to be careful giving her an abled partner, address the fact that he will not always know what to do, he has no experience he’s not gonna be mr perfect, have her teach him, let her be the one in control, telling him what she does and doesn;t need, not him deciding and being like “see this is what you really wanted/needed but were too depressed to know”
Have her not spend all her time with him, give her strong relationships with women and nonbinary people, show that he is not the sole influence in her life and any recovery she might make is not down to him
As for romanticisation, you;re depressed yourself so you understand it enough and I trust you not to, just write about your experiences! Romanticisation is when an abled writer laments on how ~beautiful~ and ~tragic~ depressed girls are
Feel free to add more if you’re depressed yourself!
Step one: Remove abled boy from story
Step two: Add in another disabled lady
Step three: disabled ladies fall in love and help each other cope and learn to love themselves
Step four: ????
Step five: Lady smooches
hi My story is a romantic fanfic where the MC is a 16y/o girl with the same disability as me and well, she is depress so she is kind of bitter and bitchy (eventually it will change) and the guy she falls for doesnt have a disability and helps her and is always there for her(he doesnt saves her though) do you think the plot might be insulting or unrealistic? i dont want to upset ppl with disabilities since im one. also how do i not romantice depression?and show that she is saving herself?thankyou
Ok a few things
She is allowed to stay bitter/'bitchy' she doesn;t have to learn to be the sweetest person in the galaxy, sometimes mentally ill people are rude and angry and thats okay
I think you have to be careful giving her an abled partner, address the fact that he will not always know what to do, he has no experience he's not gonna be mr perfect, have her teach him, let her be the one in control, telling him what she does and doesn;t need, not him deciding and being like "see this is what you really wanted/needed but were too depressed to know"
Have her not spend all her time with him, give her strong relationships with women and nonbinary people, show that he is not the sole influence in her life and any recovery she might make is not down to him
As for romanticisation, you;re depressed yourself so you understand it enough and I trust you not to, just write about your experiences! Romanticisation is when an abled writer laments on how ~beautiful~ and ~tragic~ depressed girls are
Feel free to add more if you're depressed yourself!
