I Want Fries With That! Bingo Fest

[ysabetwordsmith]

Welcome to the I Want Fries With That! Bingo fest. Everyone is invited to play. All fandoms and original content are suitable. All formats and sizes are too. See our Bingo and Achievement page for more ideas. This fest runs from September 1-30. I have made a set of public cards below, or you can make your own with the Bingo Card Generator.


This fest focuses on the Fries test for disability in fiction. To pass the test, a work must meet the following qualifications:
* Does a work have more than one disabled character?
* Do the disabled characters have their own narrative purpose other than the education and profit of a nondisabled character?
* Is the character’s disability not eradicated either by curing or killing?

Additions from Nicola Griffith:
* Novels in which crips talk to each other?
* Novels in which we talk to each other about something other than wanting to be cured, or how to get cured, or why we want to die because we can’t be cured?

While it is not required that works pass the Fries test in order to count as bingo fills, this fest is intended to increase the amount of entertainment that represents people with disabilities in the same range of complexity as everyone else. Contemporary fiction tends to underrepresent or misrepresent disability. This is a problem we can fix, by the simple expedient of flinging new material into the gap until it fills up. Do you know creative folks with a disability? Invite them to participate!

The new prompts for this fest are based on individual parts of the Fries test or related concepts that aim in the same general direction.

<br />multiple disabled characters,<br />all disabled characters have names,<br />disabled character with own narrative purpose,<br />disability not erased by killing or curing,<br />disabled characters talk to each other, <br />disabled character lives to the end,<br />disabled survivors of doomsday,<br />live happy disabled characters,<br />main character(s) with disability,<br />leader(s) with disability,<br />disabled employee(s),<br />good jobs for disabled people,<br />romance with disability,<br />sex with disability, <br />adult(s) with disability,<br />disability pride, <br />disability pride flag,<br />disability activism, <br />legal protections for disability,<br />agency and power,<br />respect and courtesy,<br />architecture beyond wheelchairs,<br />adventurous adaptive equipment,<br />weaponized adaptive equipment,<br />adaptive inventions,<br />adaptive fashion design,<br />adaptive sports,<br />Here's a truck made of amps & a guitar that shoots fire,<br />Wear it like armor and it can never be used against you,<br />The best revenge is living well,<br />nothing about us without us, <br />disability etiquette,<br />How do you want to do this?,<br />What would be fun for you today?,<br />Would that work for you?,<br />

Also active in this fest are the previous lists of Handicaps and People with Disabilities in the Bingo Card Generator.

You may wish to use additional lists such as Characterbuilding Considerations, Desperate Situations, Emotions, Ethnic Groups, Gentle Fiction, Negative Coping Techniques, Plot Tropes, Positive Coping Techniques, Themes, and Types of Family.


PUBLIC CARD FRIES TEST

disabled characters talk to each other	romance with disability	adult(s) with disability	nothing about us without us	main character(s) with disability
Here's a truck made of amps & a guitar that shoots fire	disabled survivors of doomsday	agency and power	disability pride flag	leader(s) with disability
live happy disabled characters	Wear it like armor and it can never be used against you	WILD CARD	disability not erased by killing or curing	disability etiquette
adaptive sports	good jobs for disabled people	disability activism	What would be fun for you today?	sex with disability
The best revenge is living well	respect and courtesy	adventurous adaptive equipment	architecture beyond wheelchairs	weaponized adaptive equipment

PUBLIC CARD HANDICAPS

Amnesia	Color Blindness	Fetal Alcohol Syndrome	Arthritis	Dyslexia
Stuttering	Vision Impairment	Anxiety	Phobia	Aphasia
Epilepsy	Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	WILD CARD	Depression	Mutism
Impaired Motor Control	Dementia	Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome	Amputation	Anosmia
Dyscalculia	Hyperactivity	Schizophrenia	Balance Disorder	Heart Disease

PUBLIC CARD PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES

Deaf Culture	Im in Ur History Emphasizin Ur Cripples	Handicaps in the Future	Seeing from a Different Perspective	Erasure of Handicapped People
Canonical Disability	Stop Treating Me Like a Child	Compensating for Each Other's Weaknesses	Adaptive Equipment	Disadvantage to Advantage
Sign Language	Handicapped Heroes	WILD CARD	Refusal to Make Accommodations	Creative Solutions to Limits
Abilitybending	Involuntary Healing	Out of Spoons (Energy Limitations)	Service Animals	Accessibility FAIL
Formidable Handicapped Villain	But You Don't Look Sick? (Invisible Handicaps)	All-Disabled Heroic Team	Family Support Makes a Difference	Born Like This

PUBLIC CARD COMBINATION

legal protections for disability	Spinal Defect or Injury	How do you want to do this?	Canonical Disability	Multiple Sclerosis
Bipolar Disorder	Disability Pride	Sensory Processing Disorder	disabled employee(s)	Impaired Motor Control
Chronic Fatigue	adaptive inventions	WILD CARD	Mobility Impairment	Temporarily Enabled
all disabled characters have names	Paralysis	That Episode Should Have Crippled Them	All-Disabled Heroic Team	disabled character with own narrative purpose
multiple disabled characters	Refusal to Make Accommodations	adventurous adaptive equipment	Down Syndrome	Special Olympics / Handicapped Sports

Comments

[22degreehalo]

So, if I have this correctly, the purpose of this fes is to promote works about disabled people that avoid particular harmful tropes?

Would meta work for this fest as well? I'm in the process of working out a piece of meta I've been wanting to write about why a particular character I love can/should be interpreted as autistic. Would that be all right, provided I could find a (probably suitably vague enough) prompt to apply it to?

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>>So, if I have this correctly, the purpose of this fes is to promote works about disabled people that avoid particular harmful tropes? <<

That, and encourage more complex and positive portrayals. Basically just stop retelling the same handful of mostly shitty stories. 0_o

>> Would meta work for this fest as well? I'm in the process of working out a piece of meta I've been wanting to write about why a particular character I love can/should be interpreted as autistic. <<

Meta works!

>> Would that be all right, provided I could find a (probably suitably vague enough) prompt to apply it to?<<

If you look in the Handicaps list you'll find Autism or Asperger's Syndrome. The spectrum is covered. You can also use a Wild Card space for any prompt you didn't get, or for something not listed that is relevant.

Re: Thoughts

[22degreehalo]

Cool, thanks! I've been having a bit of decision paralysis regarding which fandom project I should work on next heh so I'll happily take this reason to choose this one now! n.n

[gehayi]

Is fix-it fic of an ableist series with canonically physically and psychologically disabled characters okay? (There are plenty of opportunities for awesomeness. The author just keeps not taking them.) The Public Card Handicaps would be perfect.

And I'm sorry, but I don't get this reference: "Here's a truck made of amps & a guitar that shoots fire." I think that's from Mad Max: Fury Road, but I don't know what it has to do with disability. (No, I never saw the movie. I saw a billion memes about it instead.)

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Is fix-it fic of an ableist series with canonically physically and psychologically disabled characters okay? (There are plenty of opportunities for awesomeness. The author just keeps not taking them.) The Public Card Handicaps would be perfect. <<

Whatever you want to write is okay. People could even use some of these prompts for topics other than disability if they want.

>> And I'm sorry, but I don't get this reference: "Here's a truck made of amps & a guitar that shoots fire." I think that's from Mad Max: Fury Road, but I don't know what it has to do with disability. (No, I never saw the movie. I saw a billion memes about it instead.) <<

Correct!

One reason I love that movie is that almost all the characters are disabled, and it doesn't stop them from anything. The only one canonically "perfect in every way" was born dead. Anyhow, one of them is blind, and in the big battle scene, he rides out on a truck made of amps playing a guitar that shoots fire. It's outrageous and awesome. So I imagined this meta conversation:

Blind Character: "I wanna go to war!"
Standard Canons: "You can't go do war, you idiot, you're blind."
Fury Road: "Here's a truck made of amps & a guitar that shoots fire. Have fun storming the castle!"