Rules & Guidelines - Drarry Disability Fest 2024
We finally have our rules and guidelines all sorted out and ready to share with everyone! So here it is; if you notice any omitted or missing times or dates that is because those are farther in the future and we cannot predict the exact time they will happen.
We would like to reiterate that transphobia, homophobia, racism, antisemitism, ableism, and fatphobia do not have a place here in this fest; we will take down and reject prompts promoting those ideologies. We do not support J.K. Rowling's damaging views - though she is somehow the author of these books and owns the rights to them - we do not profit from or otherwise benefit from this fest based on the Harry Potter books in any way.
Prompting
Prompting opens February 29.
This is an 18+ fest.
Anyone can prompt, whether you’re planning on creating or not, and each person is allowed to submit a maximum of 10 prompts.
A person with a disability doesn’t need to be the main character, but they do need to be one of the primary characters. Along the same note, the disability(ies) don’t need to be the sole focus of the creation, but it does need to be an important part of the person's life.
No cure-all fics, please! If you choose to give your character a disability that can't be cured in real life, please don’t magically take them away in your fic; disabled people can have happily ever afters while still being disabled.
It’s fine to prompt disabled people or mentally ill people getting sick, please don’t prompt sickfics in which an able person happens to be temporarily sick—they don’t count as a disabled person.
If you have previously written a fic centering the experiences of a disabled person in a Drarry-centric fic, feel free to recommend your work for podfic. However, your fic will still be subject to the screening we put to all prompts in this fest. Because of the nature of this fest in that it’s centered on stigmatized topics, the mods will screen prompts, (and self-prompts once claiming opens) to make sure these rules are followed.
Prompting closes March 20.
Claiming & Creating
Claiming starts April 1.
Please claim one prompt at a time. You may claim another prompt only after submitting your work. As mentioned in the prompting section, we will allow self-prompting as well granted that your prompt passes our screening.
Collaborations are allowed in any shape, form, or medium aside from videos or gifs. Please sign up together once. We will ask for one main person of contact for the team, as well as emails and AO3 for all members of the group.
This is a non-anonymous fest, so feel free to chat about your prompts as much as you like!
For fics writers, we ask that you write a minimum word count of 1k words and that your fic is beta read. In addition, if you do not personally have the disability you’re writing about or don’t have experience with it, we require for you to have a sensitivity reader look over your work—please research the topic if you don’t know much about the disability you’re writing about!
For podfics, please make sure you have permission from the author of the story you’re podficcing. We will be screening the fics for podfic as well, since sensitivity to issues faced by disabled people is important to us (being three disabled people ourselves, this is kind of a 'no shit Sherlock' moment but we thought we'd say it anyway).
As mentioned in the prompting section, due to the nature of this fest, the mods will be screening works as it is important to us that we have proper representation of the disabilities portrayed, rather than romanticization or stereotyping.
Claiming ends June 15, we trust you to not claim something on the 15 that you cannot finish on the 16.
Extensions
If you need an extension or need to drop out, no worries! Just email us at [email protected] and tell us how much more time you need.
Submitting & Posting
Submissions are due June 16.
Please post to our AO3 collection drarry_disability_fest_2024 and add “drarrydisabilityfestmod” as a co-creator. Afterwards, please email us with the following information:
Title:
Author/Artist:
Rating:
Word count (if applicable):
Art medium (if applicable):
Warnings/Tags:
Summary:
Link to work:
We will contact you once we’ve finished reading it to confirm and ask any questions we might have.
Posting begins July 1.
We won’t release our posting schedule, as it is subject to change.
Further Information
If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out and email us at [email protected] or contact us through our Discord server .
Sincerely, Your Drarry Disability Fest mods @basicallyahedgehog , @quackquackcey , @slytherinthelibrary
