#neil is an amputee

[doesephs]

the only andreil i’m interested in is lesbian girlboys. my mantra is no shipping but goddamn these girls making it TUFF

[kururusti]

[halfpintpeach]

Y’ALL LOOK AT THEMMMMM

I got a commission from @emry-stars-art of my Professor Neil AU!

LOOK AT THEMMMMM

Based on my professor Neil Au where Neil is a college professor and a below the knee amputee with a mobility support dog named Duke :)

You can read it here: Professor Neil!

[all-for-the-recs]

Chapters: 33/33 (COMPLETE)

Words: 61,884

Author's Summary:

After burying his mother’s bones in an empty Californian beach, getting caught by his father, and being saved by his uncle, Nathaniel Wesninski has no other choice but to talk to the FBI to put an end to all of it.

A new chance in life leads him to a homey off-campus apartment in South Carolina, as a Mathematics major with his dog Ellie, trying to figure out how to live again.

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In which Neil Josten, Math genius amputee, former track prodigy, only begins to exist after Nathan’s death. Stuart adopts Neil and helps him finish high school and settle down, and he ends up living next to Andrew Minyard, a Criminal Justice major at Palmetto State University who takes an interest in him.

i'm a sucker for amputee neil, especially when he has a service dog, and double especially when uncle stuart becomes dad!stuart. this fic is just amazing, and though there are many chapters it isn't that long and is an easy but very moving read. i love it! go check it out! (also if anyone finds author's tumblr lemme know and i'll add it!)

[imperfectcourt]

Decided for the au I may never actually write that amputee Neil wears a fanny pack with the little trinkets he's likely to need throughout the day

(and Andrew hates the one he uses bc it looks like a jansport from the 90s (it is) so he buys him a nice leather one that even has little separators so he doesn't have to take 5 minutes just to find his hex key)

[skiinedknees]

amputee!neil is my favourite hc EVERRRRRR

[liveyourlastbreath]

Hi sorry if this a bother but I was curious if you were still working on “Neil Josten’s adventures in Exy as an (unwilling) Amputee”?

Twas really good and I find myself going back to the snippets a lot, but if you think it’s a closed chapter of story for you that’s okay too!!!

wishing you the best and a very good vibey time

OMG I WAS JUST THINKJNG ABOUT IT!! so I actually really do want to continue it, but at the moment I just simply don't have the time creatively. I'm working on my first graphic novel currently, which is exciting but it just takes up so much of my life. So as of right now, I don't have any plans on continuing it, but I'm not gonna completely walk away from it! If I get that little wiggling in my head to keep going I will be back :D

[lassie-farce]

I guess the recent police picnic got a bit more steamy than expected, when Lassie meets two newer SBPD recruits…

Btw Lassie’s trans in this one idk i don’t make the rules

Full fanart under cut

[halfpintpeach]

AMPUTEE NEIL OMG OMG

I'm gonna have to write Neil with running blades playing Exy now 😭😭

Neil from the excellent fanfic 100 Days. Ohhhh you would know how much I love prosthetics. And Neil 🥹❤‍🩹

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Finals

Please be civil in the notes. We will block people if we feel it is necessary. A character being canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included. This is not a competition of who is better representation.

Check out the battle for fourth place here.

This is a two vs. one poll because Neil Josten and Andrew Minyard tied (by our standards) back in round 4 and moved on together.

Yang Xiao Long-RWBY

Qualifications:

She is canonically wlw (has been for years but specifically kissed and got together with her now girlfriend in the latest season) and uses a prosthetic arm and has been shown to struggle with PTSD due to the traumatic nature of losing it during the show.

Canonically had her right arm chopped off, uses a prosthetic. Has PTSD. Is canonically in a WLW relationship.

She has a canon girlfriend and canonically has a prosthetic arm and PTSD

She's canonically sapphic (part of a recently canonised wlw slowburn relationship) and is an amputee (due to events from the 3rd season finale) who wears a robotic prosthetic. She also suffers from PTSD which is explored in the show

Propaganda:

I will keep on submitting Yang to relevant brackets until I die. RWBY has plenty of strengths and weaknesses with writing, especially Yang's recovery arc, but instead of forcing her to push past her trauma and enter the battlefield immediately, we see her struggle with it, take time to process, and not be pushed into repression and when she chooses to wear her prosthetic, chooses to train to ready herself, and chooses to seek out her family and save lives, she isn't perfectly healed, as no one is. The show depicts her having flashbacks due to sudden loud noise, shaking hand the first few times she has to fight for her safety instead of training with her dad, and snapping at friends when they bring up Blake, the person she lost her arm trying to save (who, near immediately after ran away due to feeling she was endangering those she loved, furthering Yang's already present abandonment issues.) It isn't done perfectly but the intentions and general message sent are extremely positive and honest. She struggles less as the show progresses, and there are opportunities to consider herself less for being disabled or "become whole again" but she explicitly refutes these ideas and says that's she's better because of her failures and losses, and isn't any less whole. Her becoming disabled is also extremely tied to her being LGBT, because, as previously mentioned, she lost her arm protecting her then friend and partner, now girlfriend, directly after the villain who cut her arm off told her love interest that he would "destroy everything [she] love[s]. (Camera pans to Yang, he looks at her.) Starting with her." LIKE. He attacked her BECAUSE Blake cared for her so much and Yang ran to her defense blindly BECAUSE she loved Blake so much. When they reunite, they struggle with communication because Yang feels Blake is seeing her as weak, and through several things, mostly a climatic battle against the man who severed Yang's arm, they affirm each other as equals. I can go on but this is already too long. YANG SWEEP!!!!!

Yang lost her arm while protecting her best friend and future girlfriend from said girlfriend's abusive ex. Had a whole arc about learning to live with that loss and dealing with PTSD. Is totally devoted to and in love with Blake Belladonna and is just the sweetest but most badass character in the show.

She's one of the main characters, and just finished a 10 year slow burn romance. Plus, she has both physical and mental disabilities, but is never treated as lesser or incomplete.

Yang Xiao Long was one of the first examples of a sapphic character I ever saw in animated media with her character journey in the show being an iconic part of my teenage years and current young adulthood. The loss of her arm after a traumatic event in the show's 3rd volume was one of the big shockers of the show that nobody saw coming. Since then the show has done an amazing job in exploring both the mental and physical effects of her losing a limb, gaining a prosthetic arm and the recovery journey. Her character also has a major arc regarding handling her PTSD from both this and her past most notably in the 5th and 6th volume. Her character also has a slow-burn romance with her teammate and fellow main character Blake Belladonna which is one of my fave romances ever (it has everything: canon soulmates, friends to lovers, sunshine x grump,battle couple etc..) that has recently became CANON BABIEE!!! There are MULTIPLE characters in RWBY with various disabilities that are handled well in the narrative but i would say Yangs definitely the top FAVE!

Neil Josten-All For The Game

Qualifications:

I mean he def has PTSD even though it's never like fully fleshed out in the series and also he is demisexual

Propaganda:

Neil goes through so much it's amazing he is still functioning as a person. He bottles up all of his trauma but he still has nightmares and triggers that bring back the trauma he felt from his abusive mafia father and his abusive mother. However, once he lands at PSU to play D1 Exy, he finds a home with all of his other broken teammates and coach. This includes Andrew Minyard, another possible contender for this bracket. While he still has trauma to deal with, he becomes a much more well adjusted and happy person with his teammates. :)

Andrew Minyard-All For The Game

Qualifications:

He’s gay and has some sort of trauma disorder probably.

More about that here.

Propaganda:

Very gay, pretty commonly thought of to have some sort of trauma disorder, he’s neat. I have many thoughts about him as a character but I don’t really feel like writing them.

[danka-in-art]

Amputee Neil because I wanted to draw it for a loong time but I forgot.

Hopefully, I did him justice.

[kururusti]

[halfpintpeach]

Thinking about Professor Neil again got to the park on a picnic with Andrew, Kate, Aaron, and their two girls 😭 Neil takes Duke off harness so she's not working and she goes and plays with the girls while the adults sit on a blanket under a tree (Andrew requires shade).

They have stupid cute sandwiches because Katelyn has been in a pintrest mood and wants to try them all! Neil watching the joggers on the path and mentioning that he should have worn his running blade rather than his normal leg (not good to just walk in them, made for running!).

And so Andrew promises they can come back and Neil can run with his blade on the path.

I have feelings and emotions about this silly (very important to me) AU

[all-for-the-recs]

Chapters: 31/31 (TECHNICALLY INCOMPLETE i will elaborate)

Words: 119,457

Author's Summary:

The doctor took a pause, which Nathaniel was able to use to ask, “what about my leg?”

The two pigs had the audacity to look surprised. The doctor looked over at them with a hint of confusion. “You didn’t tell him?”

Towns shook his head as Browning said, “you told us not to.”

Dr. Byrd nodded her head in approval and turned back to the bed. “Nathaniel…��� she trailed off, reevaluating her words. “Would you mind if I sit?” and only after his own nod did she. “The damage done to your leg… it was unlike what most of the staff at this hospital had ever seen. The surgeons tried to save it, but…” She looked down at where his legs were and Nathaniel did too, only to feel himself pale at what he found.

“The surgery took about three hours,” Dr. Byrd continued. “The only reason why it took so long was because the surgeons really did try to save your leg. They did. Amputations usually take only half that time. Eventually, Dr. McCoy called it. Because of the damage done to your leg, we couldn’t wake you up to ask. It had to go. I’m sorry.”

~ or ~

the one where neil goes to baltimore and comes back missing a leg

another amputee neil fic! raise your hand if you are surprised!

except this one focuses more on the direct aftermath (and a little on the actual process of the whole reason why he needed it amputated, so be warned!) and is just so sweet and so soft even if it also heartbreaking and angsty.

this fic is very heavy and there are a lot of fucked up things in this because it's the foxes, but the author did an incredible job at tagging these triggers at the beginning of each chapter so be vigilant. the author has also done quite a lot of research as well on the topic of amputation and recovery from such an injury. this is such a beautiful fic, guys, i cannot recommend it enough.

that being said - it is incomplete. well. kind. check out their last chapter for more info on it. i don't believe there's any spoilers in the last chap so it's free to check out before reading. ik it can be a bummer to reach the end of a fic that doesn't quite have a finish to it and find out there's no more, so i will let y'all know in the future if that ever happens.

that being said, it is still an incredible fic, and i don't think it being "unfinished" takes away from the enjoyment i got from reading it!

[imperfectcourt]

The heartbreaking realization that I keep not being able to write this story bc it has no end game or direction, just a dumb concept. And while I am in support of "does not need a plot, write for fun" my brain will not allow me to work that way