#magic aids

[cripplecharacters]

Hi! I want to write a story about disabled characters for Disability Pride Month (yes, I know it’s not for a while, but my projects tend to take forever). I’m disabled myself, but I want to check in with other disabled people, especially for conditions I don’t have. I’m probably going to be sending in a bunch of asks as I write it, I hope that’s okay with you.

One of my characters is going to be non-speaking and use AAC. The world is fairly low-tech, but this character does have magic, and I was thinking about having them use a spell to speak for them. I’m wondering if they could also use low-tech AAC (since magic can take a lot of energy depending on the spell) and if so what kind. I’m also wondering how their dialogue would be different.

What do you mean when you say the spell “speaks for them”? If they’re using magic as an AAC device it’s not speaking for them they’re speaking. That’s how they speak.

They could absolutely use low tech AAC as well! Suggestions include a board they can point to, communication cards, and even just good old fashioned pen and paper.

For me with my AAC device I find that compiling a sentence takes longer than someone using mouth words. Similarly sometimes I skip over filler words to save time.

Mod Patch

[pisshandkerchief]

why do you mean you have trouble discovering new music. back in my day we got our obscure music recs from the welcome to night vale weather and we fucking liked it

[djsadbean]

entire body workout just to write "0/100... see me after class"

[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

[lleeprechaun]

Fluttershy wheelchair user!! 👩‍🦽💐

Finally my disability stopped stopping me from draw my disabled homies so here it's my girl🥺

[stimtickle]

“Thanks to Hydeia, millions were educated, stigmas were broken, and attitudes about HIV/AIDs were changed. We will miss her powerful voice in this world.”-Magic Johnson

RIP Hydeia Broadbent. Thank you for using your voice.

💙

[tokuxsenshi]

Happy International Women's Day to all our favorite toku laides

[vintagerpg]

Tower of Magics (1983) is a sequel to the original Role Aids adventure, Beastmaker Mountain. That scenario involves Orlow the Beastmaker and his evil wife Frantasy. What a name. Frantasy. Anyway, as with Question of Gravity, the plot frame and macguffins are pretty secondary to the titular, puzzlebox location.

That tower is very…regular. It’s three floors. Each has a central stair case ringed by rooms. That ring is surrounded by a hallway and then the outer wall of the tower is riddled with more rooms. All the rooms are 6 meters square and 15 feet in height (really, really hate the mix of measurement systems); a grid and a set of tiles is provided for GMs to layout the room contents according to a key in the description. The tiles aren’t anything fancy — greyscale paper that needs to be pasted to cardboard and then cut out — but I can’t think of an adventure that includes them before this point (there were dedicated tile products, like Task Force’s Dungeon Tiles, and TSR would start getting in on the action with tile and standee-models in 1984).

The contents of the rooms are OK, more utilitarian than exciting, despite the subtitle describing the tower as a place “where magic has gone wild.” This was a tournament module and there is a central riddle with a correct answer to puzzle out, and the rooms conform to those needs rather than, like, rational building use. The monsters are a variety of undead, demons and evil humanoids, which is a sensible mix. The idea of these critters occupying and despoiling a once-noble edifice does a lot to counter the punishing weirdness of all the rooms being the same sized square.

[whumpypepsigal]

Nancy Drew s04e10: “Tristan needs a hospital.” — “A hospital can’t help. The wound is supernatural. Too many questions.”

[momachan]

"What about you mate? Why the boarded windows? You got trouble?"

John Constantine, Hellblazer Vol. 1: Original Sins.

[cripplecharacters]

I would like to know what you think of magical aids for disablilities in a fantasy setting! Things like: A prosthetic that is enchanted to be capable of fine movements. A wheelchair that can levitate. Hearing aids that are powered by a user's innate magic. Blind people with animal familiars that have a magical connection that allows the person to see through the animals eyes. Thank you!

Hi,

I think that magical aids, in general, can be interesting! But the few options you listed point to some issues.

First of all, the blind person magically seeing - don't do this. There's no point in having a disabled character just to make them abled. Consider this post by blindbeta instead, where they go over fantasy/fictional guide animals. Your blind character shouldn't be able to see, that's just disability erasure.

The same point applies to the prosthetic - is magic just the in-universe excuse to give someone a Cool Robot Arm/Leg that is technically a prosthetic but has little in common with the real world equivalent? I recommend going through our #prosthetics tag, but the two important posts you might want to consider: this on upper limb prosthetics, and this on lower limb ones for what people with amputations actually want - and yes, there are major differences between those two kinds of prostheses outside of being different limbs.

As a cane user, I would enjoy a magical cane that can fit into my pocket when I need it to, or one that I could summon out of thin air when my leg or back decide to make me barely able to walk when I'm out. But to be honest, I'm rather boring and to me, it's important that these fantasy/sci-fi equivalents don't turn a cane unusable in other ways. Prime example, canes with those awful "doorknob" handles... that takes me out of the story more than a teleporting cane. Or those canes with swords hidden in them (opinions heavily differ here, me personally I'm not a fan), like structural stability of the thing aside, if I'm using the cane then I'm definitely not in a condition where I could swing a sword, lol…

A cane that doesn't need changing the damn tip so often, or self-cleans every time I step into something gross would be great too. Or maybe one that is harmless to the user but bites people who touch it without asking!

mod Sasza

I don’t love the idea of a wheelchair that can levitate. Why should disabled people have to change our aids rather than the world becoming more accessible. Don’t get me wrong! There are still fun things you can do with wheelchairs in fantasy. For example a wheelchair with a spell that makes terrain (grass rocks etc.) a typical wheelchair would have trouble navigating flat. A power-chair that doesn’t use a battery but some other form of magic etc. I would challenge you to get creative and think outside of just levitation!

Mod Patch

I love the thought of magic aids. I agree with Sasza of the aspect of aids automatically cleaning themselves or having parts that you don't have to replace constantly. I know for me wiping down my wheelchair was always a hassle and the rubber handles on my breaks wore down constantly (my dog ate them one time) and were very hard to use with wrist that easily subluxed.

Aids that are battery powered running on magic or some other fantasy power source as a sorta battery would be so cool. A Port that magically accesses/de-accesses itself at the person's will? Oxygen Cannulas that never need changing/change themselves? A VP Shunt automatically adjusting its pressures to what the person needs? So many endless things you can do with them!

Mod Virus

I’m not entirely sure what is meant by hearing aids powered by innate magic. If that means never having to deal with replacing the batteries, sign me up! If it means anything other than that, I want more information on what exactly it entails.

Magic aids that function the same as not having a disability at all are erasure, plain and simple.

Mod Rock

[aureliacetinn]

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[hamsahoney777]

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[downfalldestiny]

Ya Allah 🤲🕌!.

[lailoken]

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[lintwizardlyart]

shoujoposting hours. A few months ago the phrase “biblically accurate wheelchair” floated into my head and I had to create a magical girl design around it.