#more wheelchair user bashir for you

[moonhibs]

Sillies

[spacefinch]

Characters with the most Disabled Swag

(according to me, an autistic person)

General Amaya (Dragon Prince-- deaf)

Ingo and Emmet (Pokemon BW; autistic-coded)

Toph Beifong (Avatar: The Last Airbender-- blind)

Clint Barton/Hawkeye (Marvel comics-- deaf)

Percy Jackson (ADHD + dyslexic)

Annabeth Chase (ADHD + dyslexic+ autistic-coded)

Leo Valdez (ADHD + dyslexic)

Shellington (Octonauts-- autistic-coded)

Peso (Octonauts-- anxiety)

Callum (Dragon Prince-- autistic-coded)

Ezran (Dragon Prince-- autistic-coded)

Bucky Barnes (Marvel-- amputee)

Phoebe Terese (Magic School Bus -- autistic-coded)

Arnold Perstein (MSB-- autistic-coded and anxiety-coded; visually impaired)

Ralphie Tenelli (MSB-- ADHD-coded)

Dorothy Ann (MSB-- autistic-coded)

Carlos Ramon (MSB-- autistic and ADHD-coded)

Mikey Ramon (MSB-- paraplegic; wheelchair user)

Kanan Jarrus (Star Wars Rebels-- blind)

Peter Parker (Spider-Man -- ADHD/autistic-coded)

Ava the wolf (Dragon Prince-- amputee)

Viktor (Arcane League of Legends-- uses a cane)

Jinx (Arcane League of Legends-- schizophrenic)

Deanna Troi (Star Trek TNG-- autistic-coded)

Julian Bashir (Star Trek DS9-- autistic-coded)

The Moon Knight system (Steven Grant, Marc Spector, etc... Disassociative Identity Disorder)

Zuko (ATLA: autistic-coded, traumatic eye injury)

Nick Fury (Marvel; partially blind)

Winona (Pokemon-- autistic-coded)

Iris (Pokemon-- autistic-coded)

Red (Pokemon-- non-verbal and autistic-coded)

Hiccup and Toothless (How to Train Your Dragon-- amputees)

Soren and Claudia (Dragon Prince-- neurodivergent-coded)

Jayfeather (Warrior Cats-- blind)

Crookedstar (Warrior Cats-- dislocated jaw)

Briarlight (Warrior Cats-- paraplegic)

Cinderpelt (Warrior Cats-- limited mobility)

Gray Wing (Warrior Cats-- asthmatic)

Moth Flight (Warrior Cats-- ADHD-coded)

Captain Picard (Star Trek TNG-- artificial heart)

Spock (Star Trek TOS-- autistic-coded + dyslexic)

Captain Barnacles (Octonauts-- autistic-coded + claustrophobic)

Pryce (Pokemon; uses a cane as a mobility aid)

Anabel (Pokemon-- amnesia)

Looker (Pokemon -- anmesia + ADHD-coded)

Allister (Pokemon -- social anxiety + autistic-coded)

N Harmonia (Pokemon -- unspecified trauma + autistic-coded)

Elesa (Pokemon-- autistic-coded)

There are plenty more characters, but this is it for now! Who do YOU think has the most disabled swag?

[isaacathom]

ds9 time :) s2e6

'i havent seen one of these in 300 years' i- okay hang on. there was a character IN tng who used a wheelchair. the old guy. the one in the absolutely horrifically bad 'old man' prosthetics who took some fucking drug so he'd regain his youth. i remember this episode. he HAD a fucking wheelchair. you HAVE them. theyre IN THE SETTING. what are you talking about Dax. ? i hate scifi when its like 'oh yea we wont need wheelchairs in the future' bullshit man. anyway

'once her basic needs are met she refuses all special assistance' i would not say 'being able to get around' is special assistance but like. ugh. UGH. we're doing this then are we. we're doing this?

the way everyones reacting to meloras stubbornness doesnt sit quite right with me, especially considering that bashir moments prior spoke glowingly of that stubborness. but also why the fuck did you modify the design? without telling her? like dude what the fuck. she sent you a design, you shouldve just made that, and then maybe as the chief medical officer suggested alterations and improvements and so on once it saw on-the-ground action in its intended environment BY its intended user, which is not you. euggggh.

im not sure i like where i feel like this is going to go? i dont know what i think that is but my vibe is poor.

okay so plot a) melora tries to just do her fucking job and b) quark gets murdered. i understand (i do not)

my problem isn't with melora as a character, i think its with a sort of exhaustion with the fact that scifi tends to erase disabilities because ~in the future we can "fix" them~ and then their rare disabled characters tend to be a very specific way. an aspirational disabled person, i suppose. one who doesnt ask for help, who doesnt "let their handicap stop them", you know the vibe. so its not that she's a bad character, per se, but that shes part of a trope thats just sorta annoying. this all comes with the caveat that im not disabled though so ? basically dont listen to anything i say

"its like slipping into a bathtub at the end of a long day" "really... im a shower man myself" bashir buddy what

BASHIR BUDDY WHAT ARE YOU DOING. what the fuck is this. oh i hate this. like to be clear its a significant improvement from bashir being cringe flirty back in s1 with dax (something that seems to have been dropped like a hot rock) but JESUS. BASHIR.

okay yea sure (skips scene) ill just read the transcript man im good. good for bashir making friends i guess.

yknow again melora has a point, who the fuck puts raised rims everywhere like this. its a trip hazard for anybody!

do not make out on your peril do not make out okay wait okay so she realises hes hesitating, goes 'oh dont worry thats my brother' and then they immediately make out, god thats a fucking awkward chain. that said, lol. the shot of them drifting up was fun.

i am not invested in this relationship at all but i guess its nice to see Dax interacting with other people and sharing some of her knowledge. i like her a bit more than s1.

well thats not exactly where i thought her plot was going but of course, mago-scientifically curing her of her disability, a fucking hallmark. god i hate scifi sometimes. like yea whatever it makes sense in the isolated incident that its the sort of thing she WOULD want, because her bullish independence is very important to her, and whatever, but as part of a trend you just. groan.

"you people sell pieces of yourself after you die, don't you? i'll buy one" odo and quark remain exceptional

"you let me fly, i let you walk, we're even" disability politics aside, cute sentiment.

bashir's complete forgetting that she has a family back home, incredible fucking work sir, truly the empath

this episode is not especially well written, is it

wow these plots collide like a sledgehammer

oh thank GOD she doesn't actually commit oto the treatment, thank GOD!!! THANK GOD!!! oh thank god. genuinely a good choice, like im so glad, from the meta perspective, that she decided being able to see her family and all that was more important. does that make sense? i just like that she made the choice, was empowered to make it, and knows whats up. that rules. thats a good ending for her i think.

that said that episode kinda sucks? its fine i guess.