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Thank you so much for participating in and viewing the works for Jayvik Disability Week: a fan week celebrating the love between Jayce and Viktor from Arcane, a disabled for disabled queer ship!

We are thrilled to open this collection to creators who love Jayvik and explore what the existence of a disabled queer ship has meant to thousands of fans around the world! Arcane is a truly unprecedented piece of media in its representation of disabilities ranging from mental, physical, mobility, sensory, and more. When many of us disabled people heard in the finale that there is beauty in our imperfections, that our disabilities are part of who we are, that they are inseparable pieces of everything our loved ones might love about us, many of our lives were forever changed.

And so, in a time where ableism is becoming increasingly renormalized and disabled people are being told that they're expendable and unlovable, many of us thought: what if we /celebrated/ disability and disabled love instead? Jayvik has had many weeks to celebrate love in all timelines and all possibilities, and it felt about time that we celebrated the very heart of these two characters: Jayce and Viktor's disabilities.

Joy, pain, grief, renewal, change, growth, loyalty, complexity, love and love and love again-disability is not a dirty word, but an inevitable (and arguably necessary!) state of the human condition. Whether you are disabled yourself or just here to show your love for disabled love, you are a part of a growing effort in media to show that love is limitless, and that disabled people are full human beings deserving of that most innate human emotion. Our existence is radical, our persistence is valuable-so Jayvik enjoyers, let's have some FUN!!!

Happy Jayvik Disability Week everyone! ✰

✰ Collection will remain open until April 30th, 2026! ✰

This event is NSFW and SFW. Please tag your works appropriately and use TWs and CWs where relevant!

Check us out on Twitter: @jvdisabilitywk and Bluesky: @jvdisabilitywk.bsky.social and view our Carrd with additional information here: Jayvik Disability Week

✰ Our Prompts: ✰
Day 1: Caregiving // Sick fics & symptoms — flare ups, pain, poor mental health, meltdowns, exacerbations, “I’ve got you”, burn out.

Day 2: “Our normal” // aids, braces, personal care — everyday life, positive or neutral symptoms, self care, safe space, routines, mobility devices.

Day 3: Beauty in imperfections // Accessibility & inaccessibility — what does a disabled person contribute to a relationship and/or community? Freedom of movement, accessible world building, public sensory safety.

Day 4: Dates // Recreation & hobbies — Staying home, going out, accessible date ideas, dream dates. Interests, disabled recreation.

Day 5: Family // Acquired & Inherited — marriage, parenting, family. Acquired disability, born disabled, growing up, imposter syndrome, late diagnosis.

Day 6: Disability pride // Historical — disabled queer pride. Historical eras, disability in history, medieval au’s, decades, ancient world.

Day 7: Bucket lists & dreams // Personal parallels — “Our hextech dream”, places to go, things to do, little dreams, big dreams, goals. What does jayvik mean to you? couples, singles, friends. share your story, share what you love!

✰ Be Mindful Of:

1. Alt-Text. ALL images will require alt-text when posting (including graphics used to promote fanfiction!).

2. Sexuality. This event is both NSFW and SFW! As a matter of fact, we would encourage sensual and NSFW content for an event featuring disabled love, as disabled people are sexual beings with diverse sexual experiences and desires. With this in mind, take care of yourself and please tag your work as NSFW if relevant!

3. How slurs are used in fic-writing or speech in art (i.e. "cripple", "spaz", "gimp/gimpy"). The recent re-normalization of the slur "retarded" means that this is indeed a common pejorative used against people of all disabled backgrounds, but please keep in mind that this slur refers specifically to a form of disability that neither Jayce nor Viktor possess.

4. Moralization of disability such as "good disabled" vs. "bad disabled", inspiration porn, "turned evil because they are disabled" trope, or euthanasia as the "right choice" for sparing caregivers the burden of a non-terminal disability. There is a degree of sensitivity with which these tropes can be handled, but please note that they are sensitive.

5. Representation of dissociative disorders. There are many forms of dissociative disorders and many expressions of dissociation as a symptom of mental illness, so please be mindful when representing conditions or symptoms where dissociation may occur.

6. Treatments that reduce symptoms and improve quality of life. Refrain from magic bullet cures, and approach treatment as a way to live with a disability rather than eliminate it.

7. Feminization. There are many intersections here with transness and race as well as disability, so please be cognizant of the de-masculinization of disabled men, the hyper-masculinization of brown men, and heteronormativity in the gender politics of homosexual partnerships, namely when one or more partners are depicted as trans. Creative expression of diverse gender experiences can be profound and necessary, and can also become a challenge when we understand how gender stereotypes interact with so many concurrent intersectional identities, so please approach the topic knowing it is sensitive in many different directions, whether you are in favor or opposed!

✰ Don'ts:
1. No shota/loli of any characters whatsoever.

2. No rape or incest is permitted.

3. For the safety of the disabled participants and viewers of this event, the use of medical torture for fetish content specifically is not permitted.

4. For the safety of those who suffer this condition, we ask that DID/Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder/MPD) not be depicted in this event due to an exceptional level of misrepresentation, misinformation, and overuse as a horror trope in popular media that has endangered those who actually live with this diagnosis. This rule does not apply to other forms of dissociation.

5. Erasure of Viktor's form of disability is unacceptable.

6. Erasure of S2/post-ravine Jayce's form of disability is unacceptable. This extends to his post-ravine appearance in AU's.