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[beccaelizabeth]

Today we got around to representations of disability.

Rather depressing really.
Invisible, marginalised, stereotyped - keywords for the unit.

We saw a video questioning representation in charity advertising, and also with some segments actually by disabled people. All the same show. On BBC2 in the 90s. I'm left wondering if that is it. Shall have to poke research.

I'm also looking for more examples from fandom.



First, Highlander - Joe fans
I'd really like to have a couple of minutes of video to show how awesome Joe is. Action hero! Blues man! Coincidentally happens to not have legs.
I can't carry a whole episode on my... what are those pen looking things called? I could on my laptop but not from there to college computers. And even if I did have an episode, I wouldn't have anyone's attention that long.
So I'm thinking, songvid.
There has to be a songvid of Joe Dawson = awesome.
But I haven't a clue where to start looking.


I'll go ask in communities later when I can phrase it better.



Second I'm looking for a couple things I'm sure I've seen before but my google-fu failed me on today.
1) Comics characters with disabilities
given the attention to detail of fans, somebody somewhere made a list, right?

2) History of Oracle's wheelchairs
I know I've seen this. It showed all the different chairs she's been put in, and complained about it, and chose a RL chair that would best suit her needs. Fannish attention to detail at its best. Yet today, I cannot find it.



Other fandom characters with disabilities would be cool.

Spike in a wheelchair... does that count? I mean he got out of it again pretty fast.
And Giles was only blind very briefly.

I tend to read the werewolf or vampire or ghost things as metaphor-disability anyway, but that would be outside the scope of the essay by a bunch.
Though there is a thing where disabilities are connected to moral qualities, and disabled people are more often portrayed as monsters.
Like, Hook.


I am of a sudden very tired and possibly babbling.


I think I contributed usefully today, and I don't think I was rude. Much. So another day of coolness.

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[beccaelizabeth]

I guess in my mind characters who are called blind but can actually see, with super sonar or visors or whatever, are sort of a different category. I mean it isn't exactly like wheelchairs or normal helpful tech, its that weird thing where they're blind yet better off. Strangeness.

Disabled villains there are indeed many of. Is very annoying.

I remember Hephaestus.

Superhero specialised weaknesses... kryptonite could be kind of like an allergy, but all it ever seems to do is make him as weak as a normal person, so I'm not so much seeing that as a disability as such.