[ SECRET POST #3125 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3125 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 066 secrets from Secret Submission Post #447.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm disabled and I'd stuff Barbara Gordon back into a wheelchair in a heartbeat. While I would take a cure in real life in less than that, when it comes to fiction I guess it is a case of misery loves company. I can guarantee that even if a fairy waved their magic wand and cured me, there would still be a lot for me to work through and I would not go dancing away like it never happened. It would always still have happened and there would always still be behaviors that would be affected by it. Not to mention that every miracle cure in fiction that has the person dancing away like it never happened is one less person like me in the world, and one more little slice of isolation for me. I get it, being disabled is beneath your favorite character, they are imperfect and just not good enough unless they are able bodied.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah this basically

[kallanda_lee]

I like this comment. Fiction IS different that way, because representation is more rare (and important).

[(Anonymous)]

Fiction still follows rules, though. The only reason for a character in a wand-waving universe to be disabled is because they want to be, and that's hard for an audience to swallow.

[(Anonymous)]

It is easy to write an exception, and just as easy to not write yourself into a corner that requires one. The characters live in the world, but the author controls the world.

[kallanda_lee]

Define wand-waving universe, though. Even if you're in comic book land you're bound to certain rules.

[(Anonymous)]

Barbara Gordon for example, why would she refuse a magical cure from Zatanna? Answer: Has the reader seen how magic routinely messes people up in the DC-verse. It makes things worse as often as it makes things better. Super-science cure? Yeah, I'm sure she'd love becoming the next occupant of Arkham when that messes her up.

[diet_poison]

I sort of feel like you're willfully misinterpreting the secret. Or at the very least you are deliberately choosing the most negative possible interpretation.

[sabotabby]

This 100%.

I'd take the magic cure in a heartbeat as well, but I grit my teeth every time I see a canon disabled character magically fixed. Part of what draws me to reading and writing fiction about disability is that it's about developing coping strategies. I have to learn how to adapt around a body that is broken in some ways and I want to explore how other people do it, not hit a big red button and forget it ever happened.