Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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Question time! Because Toby trivia is fun.

It's been a while since we've done this, and with A Red-Rose Chain coming up, I figure it's time to once again offer to answer your questions about the world. So...

I will make ten blog posts detailing aspects of Toby's universe. Ask me anything! I will not answer every question, but will select the questions that I think are the most interesting/fun/relevant, and will detail them to my heart's content. There's a lot to learn and know, and asking loses you nothing. Remember that nothing I answer here is full canon until it appears in a book: I will always reserve the right to change things if the series shifts between now and then.

Leave your questions on this post. I'm declaring comment-reply amnesty for any that I choose not to answer this time, since otherwise, my wee head may explode.

Game on!
Tags: continuity checking, toby daye
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Disabled Fae

palsycorn

August 22 2015, 22:29:41 UTC 1 year ago

I've been trying for ages to come up with a good question to ask and I finally came up with one: are there any disabled fae? Particularly those with disabilities from birth or a very young age? (Cerebral palsy, Down Syndrome, Autism.....etc.) Even if purebloods can't be disabled, can changelings? How is disability treated within the fae world and is it treated differently among the Divided Courts vs. the Court of Cats? Obviously we've seen that certain accommodations can be made for magically disabled fae (I'm thinking Dean and Patrick Lorden, who need a breathing potion daily in order to survive underwater), but I'm wondering about more..."mortal" disabilities.

RE: Disabled Fae

seanan_mcguire

August 22 2015, 22:31:59 UTC 1 year ago

Unfortunately, this is not a question I can answer, even as a person with a disability, without seeming disrespectful to real disabilities, because in a world where magic is the answer for everything, "we just fixed everything" is usually the answer.

RE: Disabled Fae

Kassiane Alexandra S.

August 22 2015, 22:55:59 UTC 1 year ago

=/ this is a disappointing "my fave is problematic" answer (also what is magic burn if not disabling?)

And nothing on earth will convince me that Tuatha aren't Autistic. All of them. Rules, loyalty, 'what is this putting me in charge shit, that means I have to scaffold', accidentally a pedantic, etc...Tuatha are like super important to me bc representation Reasons & "they are super autistic" is one of them.

RE: Disabled Fae

seanan_mcguire

August 22 2015, 23:51:14 UTC 1 year ago

I'm not saying fae with disabilities don't exist. I'm saying that as a disabled person, I find "oh, we fixed it with magic tee hee" very isolating, and that in a world with magic, where everything is case-by-case, that is very often the case. So I am not willing to do a detailed cosmology answer at this time on the topic, because I don't have the spoons to deal with explaining why no, fae disability is not exactly the same as mortal disability, and why I am not trying to be disrespectful to people whose disabilities would be erased by fae magic.

Magical disabilities were mentioned in the original question. Those are real in Toby's world, but aren't the disabilities I'm worried as coming across as minimizing if I tried to unpack something that huge and complicated in a single brief answer.

RE: Disabled Fae

sylphon

August 24 2015, 13:01:40 UTC 1 year ago

There was January who was nearly blind without her glasses. Minor disability in the scope of things but still unusual for purebloods. It was mentioned magic probably could cure her if she went to Jin or someone but she felt since she had caused it she had to live with it.

Dean and Patrick's mom uses a wheelchair on the surface since legs take a lot of effort and exhaustion adn after extensive lead poisoning she is tail-bound again. Disability but not permanent in theory as long as she gets to water.

It'd be interesting to see how loss of limbs would get handled in the universe. Would they magically have some bone regrowth formula?

I'd bet changelings have the possibility of genetic disability whereas pure bloods wouldn't, but with the world of changelings so tumultuous and often kicked to the curb, they may get forgotten in orphanages. A cute perfect changeling is fun for purebloods for a little while, but one that needs work?