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ellatholmes · 11 days

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SUBMISSIONS for the Disability in Fantasy short story anthology are OPEN! 💖

We want your fantasy fiction🫵

Anthology Theme: Traditional Fantasy. Think fairy tale, folk tale, myth, legend, or fable. Imagine what kind of story might be passed down from generation to generation, whose origins have been lost to time.

Word limit: 4000 words.

Click here to see submissions guidelines, info on the theme, eligibility, payment, donations, and more.

Please share to spread the word!

#writerblr #disabled authors #disabled writers #disabled fantasy #fantasy anthology

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bones-ivy-breath · 1 year

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Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews

#flowers in the attic #v.c. andrews #quote #typography #literature #aesthetic #dark academia #dead academia #original post #dark things #children #fiction #reading #southern literature #disability literature #disabled authors

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leebrontide · 1 year

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Apparently It's Disability Awareness Month So Be Aware Of Me.

Hello, I'm Lee. I'm a bit deaf, have a few weird cognitive disabilities (short term memory, sequencing, that kind of thing), and a now-mostly-managed chronic pain issue that seems to be a result of garbage cartilage.

I wrote a book, and it's about superheroes, and family, and found family, and technology, and government corruption, and brain altering nanites, and several flavors of queerness, but mostly, it's about disability.

The next several books in the series will also be about all of these things. Book 2 is in edits now.

It's free as an ebook on Gumroad or you can pay money to get it as an audiobook on Audible, or in paper format from that river site, or your favorite local indie (mine is Moon Palace Books).

Please check it out

#free book #free books #disability awareness month #disabled authors #disability

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thedisabilitybookarchive · 2 months

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Authors Wanted

I'm currently in the process of planning the next couple of months of Author Spotlight and am emailing authors about being featured on the website, so I thought I'd try and cut out the middleman a bit here.

If you are an author, or you personally know an author, who lives with a disability and/or chronic illness and are interested in having your work featured on the front page of The Archive for a couple of weeks, please get in touch!

DM me, send me an ask, use the submission form, or email me through the site contact form if you're interested, and we'll work out some details from there.

Apologies for the ad!

Have a good day!

#the disability book archive #author spotlight #disabled authors #disability community #disability

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mulberrimouse · 2 months

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Things to do if you're bored:

1. Read

2. Read

3. Read

4. Read

And 5. READ.

Reading saves lives. Support your local libraries and book stores. Read from back authors. Palestinian authors. Queer authors. Disabled authors. Read about history and religion and social justice. Reading can no longer only be an escape from the real world. Use reading as a weapon to fight for the people around you.

#reading #reading saves lives #black authors #palestinian authors #queer authors #disabled authors #public libraries #local bookstore

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whatsuptyler · 4 months

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2023 writing wrap up

Hello everyone!! I wanted to post a writing wrap up for 2023 in an effort to be more active here on tumblr.

2023 has been a wild year for me when it comes to publishing. I had stopped writing for a few years until late 2022, and when I came back to it, my life looked very different than it had before I stopped. So 2023 was the first year I was fully back, and my life was wildly different?

I chose to come back with a vengeance.

I thought I would make a wrap up post that highlighted not only how much I wrote and published, but also how many submissions I sent... and how many rejections I got. Steer clear if those kinds of stats stress you out, but I think it's important show that part of the process, too. Rejection is hard, but it's normal, and while they can still sting, the more you try the more it becomes "well, onto the next challenge!"

More than anything, though, I'm really excited not just for the writing/publishing I did, but for all the new friends I've made in my network. The amount of incredible indie authors and readers I've met this year have been life changing. I can't wait to see what we do next.

I wrote more detailed thoughts in my newsletter, if you want more specifics about what I wrote, published, etc, but the images have the highlights of my writing year!

#writeblr #writblr #writers on tumblr #indie authors #authors on tumblr #indie books #queer authors #disabled authors #2023 in review #year in review #my writing #about the author

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prettylittlelyres · 9 months

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Happy Blorbo Blursday! Which one of your characters would benefit from modern medication the most? If your characters are modern, what medication would help them that they're not on?

Oh, thank you for the ask! Great question, and the answer is easy! (Perhaps an obvious trigger warning, but I think a necessary one.)

Trigger Warning: Medical Trauma, Serious Illness.

If Marianne Stafford from Vogeltje lived today, she would be diagnosed with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and POTS, but, unfortunately for her, she lives in 1788.

Some of her descendants - including Rosie Geelen from "She Has No Name" (WIP title subject to change!) - have been diagnosed with it, as Rosie in particular lives in the 2020s.

Marianne has a beautiful eighteenth century wheelchair, built for her by her boyfriend (later husband) Gijs Geelen, but their great-great(etc) granddaughter Rosie has a modern lightweight wheelchair with an aluminium frame and power assist! Rosie also has a coordinated care plan under London hEDS specialists, so she sees a physiotherapist to help with her joint problems (Marianne suffered from these all her life, but thanks to modern medicine, Rosie will not), and has had surgery to repair a bowel prolapse (which would not have been possible in Marianne's era). POTS is now treatable!

Although Marianne's life was made easier by her socio-economic circumstances (the daughter of aristocrats, ward to King George III and Queen Charlotte of England, married to a carpenter-luthier, but keeping royal favour because spoilers!), the best physician in the country didn't know how to help her; there was no diagnosis to give her at the time, much less a prognosis to help her know what to expect. As things turned out, Marianne was still severely ill and in a lot of pain for most of her life. We don't know how many people lived with EDS before it was first recognised properly, but we know most of them had far fewer resources to help them than Marianne Stafford did. They are the people who would benefit most from modern medicine.

I have a similar illness to hEDS, Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder. It may even be the same illness, or I may have been misdiagnosed. There had always been something wrong with me when I was growing up, but HSD as a diagnosis didn't exist when I was a child; I spent more than two decades with my body literally falling apart, with no idea what was happening or why. In 2018 I was misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia, and believed I would always be sick and in pain (we still don't know what to do about fibromyalgia but we have just discovered it's autoimmune, so leaps are being made in research all the time). I followed the recommendations to exercise gently and rest when necessary, but never felt much improvement in my condition. Fast forward to 2021, when a colleague sent me to her physiotherapist, and he spotted the signs of hypermobility that had previously been missed (or perhaps ignored, I'm not sure). That triggered a chain of medical investigations that confirmed HSD (explaining the joint problems, manageable with physiotherapy) and hypothyroidism (explaining the fatigue, treatable with HRT). I also know I have to be careful about my skin as it's fragile, and I can loosely predict the problems I might have in the future, using information about hypermobility that is now easily available on the internet.

The internet would have helped Marianne (and her physician!) so much! Every day I see people with conditions like mine and hers talking to each other online. I've been part of these conversations and I've been able to learn from and teach others who are going through the same things as I am. It's not medicine, but it is a miracle, and it would have made Marianne's life so much easier.

I'm excited to see how research into hEDS, HSD and other chronic illnesses develops. I only wish that we could take that knowledge back in time and help people who suffered in the past, who wouldn't need to suffer now.

#writeblr #blog #marianne stafford #vogeltje #ask game #ask games #hypermobility spectrum disorder #hypermobility #hypermobile ehlers danlos #disabled characters #disabled history #disabled authors #rosie geelen #she has no name #writer's life

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findinghea · 1 year

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When you fill out a form like this

The eve of a new month getting us slightly closer to spring and warmth in my corner of the world (though there still can be plenty of ice and snow between now and then) started off with frigid temps today. And like I’ve scrawled about on here before there are times when my disability makes indie publishing challenging. Harder? I don’t know. Frustrating, I think frustrating is a good word and one…

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#Bandit Brothers Series #Disabled authors #Raleigh Damson #writing and disability

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cy-cyborg · 8 months

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This is just a not-so friendly reminder to non-disabled people, especially authors, people in fandoms or in media analysis circles: Cripple/crippled is not just a fancy way of faying "badly injured". it's not an adjective you can just throw in to spice up your sentence because you used "injured" or "disabled" too many times in that paragraph, or because you feel like it gives your writing some extra "oomph".

Cripple is a slur.

A slur the physically disabled community has been asking people not to use for DECADES, since at least the 1970's (50 years). It's a slur with centuries of abuse behind it, centuries of being used to justify physically disabled people as less-than, centuries of demonisation, mistreatment, ostracization, and murder.

Some people within the physical disability community are reclaiming it, that's where movements like cripplepunk (also known as crip-punk or C-punk) come from. That's fine, I'm not talking about that. I love the cripplepunk movement and everything it stands for: being unapologetic about our disabilities and not changing ourselves for the comfort or convenience of able-bodied folks. But the people who use it in that context understand the history of the word, they know how it was used to hurt us, and they understand that not everyone in the physically disabled community is comfortable with the use of the word, especially those who were around when someone being labelled as "crippled" was seen as a valid reason to treat them as less than human. They understand the impact of the word.

But If you, as an able bodied person, casually uses "cripple" in your work, at best you are showing your disabled audience that you haven't been listening to us, at worst, you show you don't care about weather we feel safe in the spaces you have created.

And for able-bodied authors specifically, even if your character is physically disabled, I'd still recommend avoiding it unless you're prepared to do a LOT of sensitivity readings from multiple sensitivity readers. I've been physically disabled since I was 1 year old, I learned to walk for the first time in prosthetics and have been using a wheelchair since I was in school, I have no memory of life as an able-bodied person, and even I don't feel comfortable using the word cripple in my work.

It's a loaded word, with a lot of implications and a LOT of very dark, and for some people, very recent history. It's not a sentence enhancer to just throw in willy-nilly. Please.

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queer-edmundpevensie · 6 months

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Shoutout to artists with disabilities whose symptoms are an obstacle to their craft. Who draw but their tremors keep them from being able to pull a straight line. Who would spend hours making art if their carpal tunnel and joint pain would let them. Who stare longingly at guitars and pianos but know the instrument's not compatible with their misshapen, webbed, or missing fingers. Whose neurological disease makes it impossible for them to memorize sheet music or play lines. Who have vivid, glorious stories living in their heads that their aphasia won't let them put so clearly on paper. Who spent more time in waiting rooms and hospital beds than rehearsals and recitals. Who resent their bodies for not letting them portray what they see in their minds.

You are not any less of an artist. Your talent is immeasurable. Your creativity is divine. I'm sorry this world wasn't built for you and me, but that doesn't mean we can't still make something beautiful with our lives.

#disability #disability awareness #disability pride #art #artists on tumblr #awareness #artistsupport #disabled artist #disabled author

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bones-ivy-breath · 3 months

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Mary by Anya Krugovoy Silver, from The Ninety-Third Name of God

#Mary #anya krugovoy silver #the ninety-third name of god #quote #typography #poetry #literature #aesthetic #dark academia #light academia #the self #disabled authors #disabled poets #dark things #winter

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thebibliosphere · 9 months

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Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn’t to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he’d never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn’t been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn’t been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that’s the problem.

Torn by their allegiances–to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves–the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Hunger Pangs: True Love Bites by Joy Demorra is a queer, paranormal, gaslamp fantasy romance novel featuring enchanted forests, gothic castles, and just a smidge of industrial coal dust, and is the first book of the Hunger Pangs slow-burn polyamorous romance series. Join Vlad, Nathan, and Ursula as they navigate a magical world torn asunder war and politics as they work to restore balance to the world and find love along the way. Book one is available now in ebook, paperback, and audio.

Buy the (high heat) Flirting With Fangs Edition Here.

Buy the (medium heat) Fluff and Fangs Edition Here.

Why are there two versions, and what's the difference between them? Glad you asked! You can also check out individual content tags and heat ratings on my website at www.joydemorra.com

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thedisabilitybookarchive · 4 months

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After a request, there is now a page on the website solely dedicated to disabled authors. This page will list authors with disabilities, regardless of whether or not they themselves have written a character with a disability. You can now also submit an author for this list!

(You can even submit yourself 🤫[shh emoji]!)

#the disability book archive #disability #disabled authors #disability community #submissions wanted

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gay-jesus-probably · 11 months

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Okay so I have a lot of thoughts about the whole thing of the Gerudo being a race of entirely women, with the only exception being one man born every hundred years, and that man automatically being their king. Now this worldbuilding comes from Ocarina of Time, and there's obviously a metric fuckton of unfortunate implications there, because it was 1998. And it seems that Tears of the Kingdom is sticking with the lore of Gerudo men being extremely rare and becoming the King of their people, which once again has a metric fuckton of unfortunate implications because it's 2023 and Nintendo has somehow gotten even worse about this shit.

But let's set aside the whole... everything, and look at this from just the in-universe perspective. How does it work? I mean, it's pretty clear that there is no overlap between the kings; the old ones are normally long gone by the time a new one is born, but the Gerudo manage to take care of themselves during the hangtime. So they must have an established system of government and leadership that doesn't involve a king, and somehow that system is set up in a way that does a smooth transfer of power once a new king is born and old enough to take the throne. But why bother always declaring a random guy to be your King when you already have a perfectly functional system in place?

I mean again, the whole thing has a lot of sexist implications, but we're not looking at this from a real world context, we're examining it in-universe. And we could just go the lazy route and say that their king is in charge just because he's the only man, but I don't like that. I mean come on, the Gerudo are a race of entirely women, and most of their outside problems come from Hylian men being creepy about it. They are entirely a matriarchy; there is literally no reason for their culture to have an inherent respect for men, even if the man in question is one of them. And they're desert people; they live in an extremely harsh and dangerous landscape, if they don't have their shit together, they will die. By sheer necessity, their culture needs to put a lot of value in being practical, because if they're stupid about things, people die. They really can't afford to have a shitty leader take over, and just letting some guy take the wheel doesn't really fit with the way their culture must otherwise work.

So again, why the fuck do they bother having a King?

I think it's mainly just a ceremonial position. Yes, if the guy is a good leader he'll be in charge, but if he isn't good at being a King or isn't interested in the job... fuck it, they've already got a functional government system that's been leading their people the whole time, why fix what isn't broken? The title of Gerudo King isn't about leadership or power. I think it's more about belonging. Because the Gerudo are a culture where every single one of them can be defined in the same way... and there is exactly one exception once a century. Men are considered to be inherently outsiders at the best of times, and more often they're enemies. A man born into this culture is a natural outsider; he is completely unique, and that means he doesn't really fit into his community. And well... when someone is fundamentally different from the rest of their community, they tend to be ostracized.

So I think that's why the position of Gerudo King exists. It isn't about them needing or even wanting a man to lead them. The title of King doesn't need to involve any leadership at all. It's about giving the man born every century a place in their society. It's a way of saying yes, you are one of us, you are a Gerudo, you belong here, you are wanted and you are loved.

The Gerudo know that every hundred years, one of their children will be fundamentally different from all of his peers. And so their society is built to ensure that a child who is completely different from them will still be loved and accepted. He will always have a place in their society. He doesn't need to earn their love, he has it just for existing. These are his people.

The title of Gerudo King isn't an inherent position of authority. It's a promise of acceptance.

#legend of zelda #ganondorf #tears of the kingdom #gerudo #look i have so many thoughts about how their society works #and for the record i really hate the implied bioessentialist gender stuff #but this is my headcanon on the whole gerudo king thing #if their king wants authority he still needs to earn it like everyone else #but they make sure he always has a place among his people #look growing up Different from your peers is a fucking nightmare #as any neurodivergent/disabled/queer kid can attest #i like the idea of gerudo society being structured around ensuring all their children felt like they belonged there #and having a system ready to go for the one kid they KNOW will be the most different

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haridraws · 8 months

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came up with this promotional idea for my new book while I was very tired, may or may not live to regret it

(here is the book)

#into the tower #OUT NOW ACTUALLY #as a disabled author who cannot do conventions. i am simply trying to reach other nerds who might appreciate this book #this book is so on my bullshit and i love it but i DO fear publishers will never let me do another if it flops so reblogs always appreciate #solo ttrpg #cyoa

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leebrontide · 3 months

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Hi everyone!

I'm asking for a (free) favor from y'all.

I'm trying to get more people to sign up for my free monthly author newsletter, and I'd love for you to help me find people who might enjoy it.

Every month, I write an essay about a subject. I'm not just collecting contacts to send ads to!

Sometimes it's about writing process

A Unique Character Development Technique

The Golden Girls, D&D, and The Newest Way I’m Refusing to Make Writing Solitary

The Bananabook Method

Lies I Tell Myself, Security Blankets and Backstitch Drafting

And other times it's a deep dive into a research topic for my books

Why I’m Researching a 19th Century Cult This Month

Spider Goat is Real but is Not Marvel Affiliated

People Just Really Want to Say "Enhance"

That Most Intimate of Thrones

Whose Side is Your House On?

The Care and Feeding of Dream Homes

What Arguing About Captain America Taught Me About Psychotherapy

Sometimes it's about mental health, especially through the lenses of fantasy and scifi

Of Flesh and Gundams

What Feeling Are You Most Afraid Of?

Sometimes it's even about legal systems and their interactions with the medical field and expanding medical technologies

Tractors, Cybernetics and the Radical at the Radioshack

Because Everybody Was Calling for YA Scifi About HIPAA, Right?

Or queer stuff

What Do We Celebrate?

What Stories Are You Made Of?

Or disability

Another Kind of Coziness

Tinkering With Cyberpunk

Things I Stole from Julian Bashir

Or it could be anything else that I'm willing to think deeper about that month. You can browse the full archive over here.

AND it almost always includes pictures of my very cute cats!

So could you please boost, if you feel your followers might be into that?

The subscription signup is right here.

Help an indie author out?

#psychology #indie authors #writing process #on writing #writing advice #cyberpunk #disability #queerness #queer author #indie author #authors of tumblr #shed letters

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