#magic aids

[cripplecharacters]

Hello! I hope your day is going well!

I'm making a character who is deaf and uses mobility aids because of chronic pain and I was basically wondering how that'd affect communication

They were born completely deaf. Their first language/s are sign and written English. They can summon and communicate with ghosts and frequently use them as hearing aids/interpreters, because they can hear the ghosts because the ghosts don't really speak through sounds. This isn't a magical fix, the ghosts don't convey noises, just spoken words, sometimes the ghosts are wrong, sometimes there's no ghosts available and the character still can't speak. It's basically a one-way interpreter. So the character still speaks exclusively sign or writes (but that takes a while, so they prefer sign)

They also have chronic pain. I'm basing this on my own chronic pain, so I can't tell you what exactly they have, because doctors can't tell me either. It's pain in the lower abdomen that gets amplified if they stand or walk for periods of time. So I want to give them mobility aids. A wheelchair for worse days and a cane for better days (I don't know how the cane helps, but I do use on myself sometimes and it does help for some reason).

The question is: sign kind of relies on your hands being free, and a wheelchair is operated using your hands most of the time. Do they need to stop every time they want to say something? Or have people found a way around that?

Hi!

The ghosts do sound like a sort of magical fix. I really don't like the trope of "getting around" a character needing to sign. Speaking is also not exclusive to having interpreters present. A deaf individual who knows how to speak can speak anytime they want. They can communicate anytime they want, in any way they prefer.

Also, if I'm understanding correctly, your character uses the ghosts as a way to understand what hearing people are saying, but they still need to work to communicate with others. This is honestly just worse than having no ghostly interpreters at all. It puts the burden of communication solely on your deaf character. At least with no interpreter a non-oral deaf and non-signing hearing person will have to work together to communicate, as long as both are willing.

I think it would be really interesting to see a deaf medium communicate with ghosts in visual ways, for example ghosts communicating through image transmission. But the whole "speaking without speaking" thing is textbook magical cure trope.

To the second question: it is hard to use a mobility aid and sign at the same time. One-handed signing can work if your character uses a power chair or has really good control. They may also opt for a one-handed manual control so they can sign one-handed and steer at the same time. I'll sometimes sign one-handed while walking with my crutches, as long as my right leg doesn't hurt too much. (I'm left-hand dominant and my left leg is usually in more pain, though not always.) There aren't a ton of work-arounds, but deafness is comorbid with a lot of disabilities, so the Deaf community is pretty understanding of people needing to stop moving or slow down to have a full conversation.

Mod Rock

[mochasucculent]

Was looking at refs and since Viktor has two different leg braces I was wondering, do we think he wears them simultaneously?? The refs don't perfectly line up perspective-wise so it's hard to tell but parts of the one he wears during the Hexcore scenes look like they could maybe line up with the brace that he wears over his clothes, but also some parts really don't and look like they'd be super uncomfy. Also HOW does he take these on and off. Experts weigh in

[curapicas]

Idk I just think it's a crazy thing that on the foreground the magic broom of flying is side by side with Percy's cane, which is way more down-to-earth but no less a reminder of a miracle

[screechingfromthevoid]

AND ANOTHER THING

Dorian has always been super specific about his love for Orym.

In the threat scene Dorian says "I care about you more than this" which, I thought before I rewatched the scene, I was misremembering. I thought he really said "I care about you all more than this", making it about the collective, not wanting to leave the group. But no. He said he cared about Orym more than he cared about the crown.

Another thing I thought I misremembered was "no debts between us". For whatever reason I thought Dorian said "no debts between friends" but no. He was very specific with his words and inflections. "There are no debts between us"

"my heart aches that I cannot be there to help you" "sending you fairer winds" "I just like to see you happy" "you're the reason I'm here" "let me comfort you for once."

It has always been about Orym. It has been. It always will be.

[antaripirate]

how i imagine what happens when kell and alucard are left alone together

[stars-obsession-pit]

(Another) Ghost in the Machine

DP x Hellblazer (the original John Constantine comic)

Ritchie Simpson continued to search frantically for the connection out of the computer and back to his body as he begged John to explain what he meant by saying “Goodbye.”

Had John disconnected him? He knew John’s sense of humor wasn’t the lightest, especially after Newcastle drove them all a bit insane, but that felt too far even for him. Nah, he’d probably just gotten himself a bit lost in the wave of energy he’d experienced in the Tongues of Fire network and was accidentally looking for his body in the wrong spot.

He pulled himself back and let his mental connection to the digital world expand outward, probing the rest of the machine for the connection. He knew he was in the right system, so as long as he looked thoroughly he’d definitely fi—

Everything flashed a surge of blinding white and then was replaced by pure darkness. He thought he screamed, but he couldn’t hear his own voice. Couldn’t even feel his own thoughts. Trapped in one single instant that stretched for indeterminable eons. Then, eventually (or was it immediately?), awareness began to trickle back.

He was still in the computer, though it felt… different, somehow. His thoughts still weren’t entirely in order. The first possible hints towards his location he found were the sound voices trickling through from the outside world. Voices he didn’t recognize. Young voices.

“I’m happy to help, Tuck, but I’m not really sure what you expect me to do here. You’re way better than me at this computer stuff than me.”

“By all means, feel free to keep complimenting me, but this has been frying my brain, man. I got this thing secondhand, and the system should be quite powerful, but there’s something using up a ton of its processing and I can’t figure out what. I was hoping you could do your ‘enter into the computer’ thing and see if you see anything.”

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #1354

In 2012, Band-Aid released Muppet print bandages and the app Band-Aid Magic Vision Starring Disney’s the Muppets which allowed users to experience short AR scenes of Kermit, Gonzo, or Miss Piggy after they scan their bandaids or the box.

Source:

Hennes, Joe. "Today in Things That Exist: The Muppets Band-Aid App." Tough Pigs, May 20, 2012. https://www.toughpigs.com/band-aid-app/.

[sharkdrawers]

on a scale of siffrin to melinoe how well can you handle being trapped in a cycle trying to kill time and rescue a home you don't remember

[fishcop]

MY OC THEIR NAME IS BOBBIN AND ITS DEXTERITY IS SHIT

[cripplecharacters]

Hello, I need some help with my story.

It takes place in a medieval fantasy world and there are lots of different species, including centaurs.

I like to have a lot of disability rep in my story, and since one of the main characters is a centaur, I thought about giving him a prosthetic leg.

The problem is, in real life it's extremely inhumane to give horses wheelchairs or prosthetic legs because it'll cause chronic pain, pressure sores, etc. because they weigh so much.

I know "Magical disability aid that's super amazing and way better than they are in real life" is a problem, but would it be okay in this case to give centaurs some sort of enchanted prosthetic/wheelchair that won't cause injury to them?

Hello,

Yes, that's absolutely okay.

In theory, it is possible to create wheelchairs and prosthetics for horses, it's just not practical. It would take a massive amount of funding, research, trial-and-error, etc, which is all extremely expensive and might not lead to any good results when the simpler solution, currently the most humane option, is to simply euthanize the animal. Because horses also aren't going to understand. Human amputees could willingly participate in the creation, trial, and modification of prosthetics and wheelchairs, they knew what was going on, what they were doing, and what the intended outcomes were. Horses can't understand that and will never be able to. The entire process would be unnecessarily stressful, painful, and distressing for the animal, so it's not humane to try.

But a centaur is sapient, they can understand the creation of mobility aids and prosthetics, consent to being part of the process, and won't be horrifically distressed by the entire situation, so developing prosthetics for them isn't inhumane. A hawk with a broken wing and a horse with a broken leg can't understand what's going on, so treatment is going to be extremely distressing and they can't communicate their needs to their medical care team, and they aren't going to understand temporary disability and physical therapy.

Centaurs, however, are going to understand what's going on, they can communicate their needs and do things to help themselves, as they'll be able to take off prosthetics, get out of wheelchairs, roll over on bed, etc, without help, or will at least be able to tell the team that they need to. They can understand temporary disability and can actively participate in physical therapy. That makes the science of treating centaurs much easier, as there's much less of an ethical dilemma. Plus, sapient creatures are going to get a different class of care. With humans, everything is done to preserve their life and then help them live with the disability because you can't just euthanize a human because they have a survivable injury. It's not ethical. So more effort is going to be put into the science needed to preserve their lives. In theory, the science needed to create good prosthetics and wheelchairs for horses is possible, it just hasn't been explored. If there were real centaurs, the science would be explored (this is also partially why we have bariatric, geriatric, and pediatric mobility aids and prosthetics, the original science didn't work so they created new science to work for them.) And with magic in the mix, it's infinitely easier to find that solution. Magic makes the science of this easier to figure out, because you can use spells or enchantments to prevent pressure sores and make the materials stong enough to support a centaur.

As long as the aid isn't erasing the character's disability (bionic legs that function as well as or better than their biological legs,) it's fine.

Mod Aaron

[sofiaruelle]

Sooooo the last few days i’ve been seeing stars and suddenly i’m juggling 6 sorcerer boyfriends. Whats a polar bear to do?

Also this is my MC, 🍨✨ Sorbetes ✨🍨.

Context why my MC is a sentient polar bear.

The MC doesn't have a set appearance and then there was this dialogue. And the emotes are polar bear themed 😂😂😂 is also literally its own spoiler

[vintagerpg]

Friends, our time with Mayfair’s Role Aids line of D&D supplements is rapidly coming to an end. It’s been a wild ride! There is some terrible crap and some works of sheer genius (many of the latter are criminally overlooked), and honestly a surprising trend of beating TSR to the punch. It was a good line, all in all, and I will miss it.

This is Arch Magic (1993), one of the very last Role Aids box sets. It is an ambitious product. That’s fucking Dave McKean doing the cover art, a clear acknowledgment of how the ’90s had changed the aesthetics of RPGs. The interiors are all Roger Raup.

There are lots of things inside, which divide into two piles. The first is source material that seeks to push D&D magic far past the standard power levels into the astounding. This box wants ultra high level spells (reaching to 15th level) to inspire awe and I think it mostly works, at least on a conceptual level. The sample spells are suitably muscular. Enslave the Sky, for instance, gives the caster control of the weather, the ability to fly and active surveillance of any creature out under the open sky. There are new wizardly abodes, rules for grimoires and incredibly powerful new artifacts (like the Singularity Engine, which can make anything).

Then there is an adventure that takes players on a whirlwind tour of some of the wildest places I’ve seen laid out for a D&D game this side of Planescape. And on the other side, too. The Macrodome, the City of Bone and the Gibbering Cave maps are all instant favorite RPG maps. Holy crap this stuff is good — a suitably grand swan song.

[actualfkingvoid]

compilation from alt

[oldschoolfrp]

Wizard’s Aide, 1977, a self-published third-party OD&D supplement by Matt Whalley, with Emmanuel Bautista's illustrations

[mtg-cards-hourly]

Unlikely Aid

"No one will ever ride me again, Gideon. Expect no further favors." —Rakdos

Artist: Viktor Titov TCG Player Link Scryfall Link EDHREC Link

[undeadvinyls]

oh yeah abt 1970s crk au........heres pure vanilla and white lily in some pretty 70s clothing..... <3

heres a list of all the sources i used for their clothing under the cut! im p passionate abt 70s fashion so it was a joy to research

vintagedancer.com - 1970s dress styles

revivalvintage.co.uk - guide to vintage 1970s

fashionhistory.fitnyc.edu - 1970-1979

ofc there was also a lot of images i got from google images by googling phrases such as "hippie fashion 70s" "70s dress" etc. etc.