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Can anyone rec me some good fic (or canons, for that matter) focusing on disabled characters (canonically or not) that aren't issue-fic, glurge, or hurt/comfort?

There's a lot of stuff out there, but most of what I find is either really syrupy, has a plot focused entirely on disability stuff, or fall prey to all kinds of uncomfortable stereotypes and tropes. I want to read characters with disabilities going on adventures, falling in love, and getting happy endings (that don't involve total recovery/cure).

Gen or pairing stuff is all cool, and I'm not picky as to het/slash/femslash/OT3/etc so long as it's not stereotypical h/c. I like sci-fi/fantasy-ish canons best, but am more than willing to branch out if something sounds promising.

I don't know about fic, but the two series that come to mind when I think of interesting disabled characters are Avatar: the Last Airbender and Homestuck. ATLA has Toph, who is blind and still kicks more ass than almost anyone else in the cast, and Homestuck has blind Terezi and paraplegic Tavros, who are both totally awesome characters with agency and lots of adventures!

ATLA is already on my to-do list, but ever since I heard there was a follow-up coming out I've been putting it off so that I can watch all four seasons together. I've heard a lot of good things about it, though, for that and other reasons.

Homestuck I've seen on F!S a few times but found the art style kind of off-putting and never bothered taking a closer look. If it's so good, though, I could try giving it a chance...

Do you have any fanwork recs for either series? I don't mind spoilers.

NOTE: blanket spoiler warning for clicking any of the links in this post. Seriously.

Homestuck seems to be one of those things you love or you hate. I really liked it from the beginning, but I know a lot of people didn't like it until they got past the first act or so, so I recommend persevering if you aren't grabbed from the beginning or if you don't really know what's going on. Lots of things unravel and make more sense as you keep reading. If you like lots and lots of characters and complex plots than you will probably enjoy it. I'd definitely give it a try, though; I didn't expect to completely love it the way I did.

I unfortunately don't have much in the way of fanfic recs for either, since I came late to ALTA and I started reading Homestuck about two weeks ago. Here are all the HS fics I have bookmarked so far:

*how karkat vantas learned to stop worrying and love con air (http://archiveofourown.org/works/174415)

drop it like it's hot (http://archiveofourown.org/works/184750)

alphabits (http://archiveofourown.org/works/166603)

*dave: grow up (http://piggyjelly.freehostia.com/growingupthing.html)

personal space invaders (http://archiveofourown.org/works/258190)

*schooled (http://archiveofourown.org/works/248315)

* - these ones were particularily good.

In terms of fanart, it's much easier to find that for HS than it is fic. Some of the main artists in the fandom seem to be paperpie (http://paperpie.tumblr.com/tagged/homestuck), siins (http://siins.tumblr.com/tagged/homestuck), and roachpatrol (http://roachpatrol.tumblr.com/tagged/fanart).

Aaaand here's some fanmixes too because why the hell not:
when there's nothing left to burn (http://prospit.livejournal.com/1459.html)

quadrants (http://cookingwithpain.livejournal.com/22703.html)

feelings and problems (http://cookingwithpain.livejournal.com/23968.html)

The thing about waiting for ATLA is that the new series will not feature any of the older characters. It's more of a future-set sequel. So if you want Toph, you're going to have to stick with S2 and S3 of the current incarnation!

Canons! The Demon's Lexicon series by Sarah Rees Brennan

sarahtales is an excellent YA urban fantasy and has one main character from an ensemble of main characters, Alan, who has a damaged leg/permanent limp, and is a) a compulsive liar b) a badass marksman and c) a loving nerd that needs hugs. His disability affects him but very much doesn't mean he sees any fewer adventures, near death experiences and love interests than the other main characters. It's a part of his character, but it really isn't anything like the be all and end all of him.

Also, Spellwright by Blake Charlton is a recent high fantasy book where there are magic languages and spells are written - sometimes short sentences, sometimes entire volumes - and the main character, Nicodemus Weal, is a "cacographic" (similar to dyslexic) wizard that people had thought might be a prophesised saviour figure until they realised he couldn't, um, spell right. He lives (and adventures!) at a kind of wizard university where he is slowly progressing toward the equivalent of graduating, until people connected with cacographers start being murdered by something and he starts trying to survive, protect the other, younger cacographers and attempting to figure out what on earth has been going on. The book does has a lot of discussion of Nicodemus' disability; whether he's dangerous, whether it would ever be possible to cure it and whether he's damaged or whether it's just a fundamental part of himself, but I wouldn't really say it's "disability stuff" so much as "identity stuff" and character work. Also there's some interesting examination of prejudice against cacographers, and whether it's better to be magically literate but cacographic or not magical at all. Nicodemus being cacographic *is* central to the story, but it isn't a story *just* about being different and living with a disability, it's a high fantasy magical murder mystery that involves disability as a theme.

And, in ASOIAF series by George RR Martin, amongst the cast of thousands there is one main character that has lost use of his legs, and another major main character with dwarfism, and they both (particularly Tyrion, the one with dwarfism) have complex characters and lots of adventures. Also there are a couple of others that I won't mention because it's spoilery. Not so sure there will be a happy ending for anyone in that series, and if something terrible happens to either character I don't yet know about because I've only read half of ASOIAF so far a) I'm sorry and b) nobody spoil me! :P But a brilliant book with many characters, some of which have disabilities.

I don't mind when there's some/a lot of plot that touches on a character's disability, especially when it's "identity stuff"- media that gives a character a disability and then completely ignores it is nearly as aggravating as media that ignores everything else about them. I'm just tired of reading and watching things where there's no real plot or action beyond that.

Thanks for the recs, these sound awesome!

I agree! But I think all of these books are great stories foremost, and the way they each incorporate and handle disabilities is to their credit. Spellwright is the most disability focussed but I believe in a good, interesting way - it affects his life, how he thinks of himself and how others think of him, and it's the reason people around him are suddenly getting murdered, so it rather warrants focus! And tbh I think it might be the only book I've read with a (basically) dyslexic main character or even someone who is magical but not in the "normal" way, so for me at least it didn't feel at all like it was rehashing the same old tropes. Plus I have to say I think the magic system in Spellwright is so original and fascinating, it's brilliant. I haven't seen many people around talking about it (not that I've looked particularly hard :P ) but I think it's definitely worth a look.

The Demon's Lexicon and ASOIAF both have ensemble casts and shifting viewpoints, so the disability stuff is much less a major plot point and more another element to deal with in some rather complex and adventurous lives. All of these books have a lot of plot and action! I hope you enjoy :)

Vorkosigan series by Lois Bujold. It's sci-fi! (Well, more like space drama, if you want to get pendantic.)

Now I'm not sure if this counts completely, but it's an aspect of the story I love to bits: the main character, Miles Vorkosigan, spent the majority of his childhood (unseen in the books) having a lot of difficulty walking, due to tetragenetic damage that make his bones brittle.

It's a sci fi novel, so he gets bone replacement therapies during childhood/young adulthood but he a) has stunted growth, so is quite short b) has a curved spine and c) there are times in the novel where certain yet un-replaced bones break. Very easily.

Later on he develops a seizure disorder.

Also he has some mental health issues? Most prominently he has a bit of trouble with a split personality during a few books, growing attached to a persona of his, and a spot or two of manic depression once in a while.

He is also the BAMFest BAMF who ever BAMFed, which is why I love these books so much. Adventures, getting the girl(s), action action action (the author has a tendency to never give it a rest, making the main almost perpetually in some really!difficult!situation! but I can forgive her, since her action is pretty awesome.) He uses his considerable intelligence (and slight unhingedness) to do fucking amazing things and aldkfjasl;dkfjwpeioj

I am literally incoherent with how much I love this series. It's varied (from mystery-type espionage plots involving a diplomat from an all-male planet looking for a disappeared shipment of ovaries, a POW camp story, government!corruption whoddunnit, romance, this is not a read-one-book-you've-read-them-all author.)

In the Fullmetal Alchemist manga, Jean Havoc is paralyzed from the waist down after a battle with a homunculus. In Experimental Engineering (http://metisket.livejournal.com/8838.html) by

metisket, which takes place after the events of the manga, he runs into Winry, who is the childhood friend of Edward Elric, the central character of the anime. Winry is an automail mechanic (automail being the series’ version of prosthetics), and she takes an interest in the poorly adapted car Jean is driving. The story goes from there.

I think that you can read the central story of Winry and Jean without knowing much more than that about FMA, although it would help in understanding the side characters, and

metisket is an excellent writer.

And for that matter, Edward himself is disabled, having lost a leg and an arm before the series starts. He has both an automail arm and leg.

Canonwise, I have a paraplegic friend who loved the character Garret from Extreme Ghostbusters when she was a kid (and does to this day) for being a gung-ho jock character who wasn't at all defined by his disability.

I don't know if I can 100% rec this as I'm only halfway through it, but the Dark Tower series by Stephen King features Susannah, an adventurous BAMF who is also a double amputee and (recovering?) schizophrenic. Her disability does get brought up frequently, but so far it's either been in the context of "this is a big part of who she is" or "hey, this can help us" or as a matter of detailing - for a good part of the story she & others are trying to hike through woodlands etc, and she's a wheelchair user, so there are a few "#$@#$%! chair!" grumbles from other characters. If that sort of thing is Not Ok, be warned.

Also, people in the series who get maimed (so far) have no Magical Cures for life- and ability-changing accidents. And life-changing accidents do happen.

I knew someone would ask for this! (And I'm glad.)

I have some Transformers fic recs:

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5021901/1/The_Girl_Who_Loved_Wildrider
A young blind girl and the Stunticon's terrorist work together to rescue her father and stave off Wildrider's boredom. Very intriguing plot, great action and well written characters. Not a romance at all, despite the title. Geri is one of the few great OC's I've come across, read this (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5021901/7/The_Girl_Who_Loved_Wildrider) chapter to see how she handles problems.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/248761
Here's a shorter story, starring Chip Chase, a canon character, sporting his theories about Transformers and a sense of humor. (I recced this on a similar post a while back.)

Well...I have a fanfic with an autistic main character, but it's never directly addressed *as* autism. It's just how I percieve him in canon. I'm not sure how familiar you would be with obscure Pokémon characters, but I can link if you want.

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