#disabled characters – @aph-japan on Tumblr

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lastoneout

kestalsblog

Not every story is about seeing yourself in it. Sometimes it’s about learning to see other people too.

doesnotloveyou

@tearyeyedcat this was beautifully written, thank you for adding it!

#fandom #fandom positivity #representation #good representation #minorities #main characters #lead characters #queer characters #girl characters #chosen children #taichi yagami #yagami taichi #koushiro izumi #adopted koushiro #meiko mochizuki #autistic characters #disabled characters #non normative families #asian characters #black characters #brown characters #mixed characters #adoptees #divorce #(I dont necessarily believe in the 'relating to every character would be a problem' bit but at the same time)#pretty much #this #(At the same time I do believe its much more fulfilling to go into reading and fiction genres with a much more)#('willing to compromise' that you might not be able to relate to *every* character view And Thats Ok!!!)#relating to numerous characters in *different* ways from your exact same personal experience is negl fine too imo

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mew-cake

hey pokemon why do you always have to do something like this every generation

bonus because it’s kinda nice:

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silvermoon424

seraphex

every time people make a character go through severe life-altering physical injuries and then decide that they’re still able-bodied and look and act completely unaffected after the fact i want to throw tomatoes at my screen

seraphex

#me #actuallydisabled #disability #disability issues #disabled erasure #disabled characters #disabled representation #representation #representation issues #sonic the hedgehog #sonic: fandom #injuries #lmao #yeah #sigh

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hondakiku

writingwritewrite-storymaker

swallowtail-lotus

Me with my ocs

#fandom #fandom memes #fandom humor #fanfiction #fic writers #fic writers positivity #disabled characters #disabled representation #trauma #trauma representation #trauma still deserves to be repd

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koushirouizumi

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses

ok but does the character really need to be a straight white man? is that relevant to the plot or are we just catering to the audience? it’s forced representation like this that detracts from the storylines that really matter

jacobeanprincedaddy

I just don’t understand though, how can a character be straight, white, cis, male, able-bodied AND Neurotypical at the same time??? Why do they need so many labels??? Seems fake to me

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disabilityinkidlit

“[F]or disabled characters, being cured is a common trope. What’s more, in most of these narratives, classics as well as recent kidlit, the characters are cured because they’re better than they were at the start of the book: kinder, gentler, braver. And finally, finally, they’re normal and whole. And quite frankly, that trope needs to GTFO.”

— Author Marieke Nijkamp (This Is Where It Ends) at Disability in Kidlit

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koushirouizumi

fansplaining

Fan reactions to disabled and neurodivergent headcanons in fic can really vary. I’ve had really positive comments on my fic from other disabled and neurodivergent fans—we seem to enjoy seeing our shared disabled headcanons written in fic—a lot of us can see the possibilities for reimagining our favorite characters as disabled. But I’ve sometimes had non-disabled and neurotypical fans take offense when their favorite characters are written as disabled. There is still a huge amount of stigma around disability, and that exists in fandom as well as anywhere else. I want to see more characters like me on screen, and to have them identified in canon as disabled or neurodivergent. But until that day comes, I’ll keep writing characters that look and think and act like me.

— @sophiainspace in our “Disability and Fandom” double episode. Click through to hear their entire segment or read a full transcript.