#tech support needs

[the-chessboard-is-personal]

grian you are the literal farthest thing from tech support.

[red-garden]

Shen Yuan is two things:

1) chronically ill

2) rich rich

He couldn’t count on both hands the number of health scares he’s had, but he fought years to move out of his parents house and live independently!

…. Until he was found half dead by his sister and nearly died in the hospital. No one even knew until she showed up.

The smart thing- the thing his parents want- would be to sell his apartment and move back in so his family can watch him. But frankly, Shen Yuan was reaching the end of his 20s. He didn’t want to be 30 in his parents home being scolded for buying yet another anime figurine and fussed over all hours of the day by nannies.

So, like the adults they were, they compromised. Shen Yuan could live independently IF he put together a complete staff of live in specialists to help him. He had a few months to do so, and all had to be thoroughly background checked.

Which is how he ended up with an old estate filled with specialists who all bore striking resemblances to the cast of Proud Immortal Demon Way.

(SY endears himself over the course of months to the entire modern cast of svsss and collects them to live with him and be generously financially supported. Additionally he finally tracks down the hack author of PIDW and keeps him as well, taking away the financial strain so PIDW can achieve its true potential as art.)

[aurosoulart]

hi all, I’ve just moved to San Francisco to pursue work and am currently unhoused as of 6/16/25

I’ve opened a ko-fi tier for monthly support to help me get back on my feet

I’m connected with potential housing resources (this city has many), but I’m working to become independent for the first time in my life.

this ko-fi will serve as an intermediary step towards reopening Patreon, where I’ll sell tapestries as soon as I’m able. (you’ll also get personal sketches and process vids as I work on new Celestial art!)

please reblog and help me find reach if you feel moved to. 🙏 it helps….. more than I can express. 💖

[nemo-bros]

i think lots of people do not realize how long it takes to set up aac (low tech or high tech)

low tech requires lots of printing and cutting and laminating and hole punching and more cutting etc

and high tech requires hours of sitting with device and customizing not just settings but words, folders, layout etc

[turtley-ausome]

Got my AAC device in the mail yesterday same week me speech therapist requested it! I am so so happy and exited about it!

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[yourfinalwords]

if someone touches your aac device, try this! : shove your hand down their throat and touch their larynx and see how much they enjoy it ^^

[red--stims]

may make more post about it later but mum take picture of me use AAC at my day centre’s christmas party!

[boyswillbedogz]

december aac tour :3

disclaimer : its perpetually unfinished and is in a constant state of wip. we frequently add buttons based on words we feel the need to say often . we also probably need to add a folder for conversational scripts , like restauraunt orders and faqs . however, its largely finished and usable , though id like to add more to the ' places ' & ' feelings ' folders !!! the blacked out word is our deadname , which we had to include since most people irl know us by it .

i use the app weave chat on an ipad ! not sure which kind but it's a relatively old model .

we're a bit verbally scrambled due to schizophrenia and have frequent verbal shutdowns due to autism . we spend about 50-80% of the time unable to speak , and tire of it very very quickly .

we have a lot of art on here by a lot of wonderful people, mainly including but not limited to : @angelsemotes @tontoemojis @k9emote @meeb-motes @stellas--symbols and @neon-emojiz !!! yall have been very helpful and are wonderful artists ,,,

individual folders !!! in order : general, about me, health, abc & 123, places, items, pronouns, positions, feelings, actions !

we also sometimes use a google doc on a computer to type and show to people, or google translate tts, communication cards, phantomiming, and very basic sign language !

[vixyz-aac-hoard]

Support Needs Symbols

wanted to include various speech aids :3

Low Support Needs (2 ver.)

Medium Support Needs (2 ver.)

High Support Needs (2 ver.)

Support

[mcsiggy]

Ego's easily crushed :/

[alphabetcompletionist]

hey. hey. why can't i snooze tumblr live now. why does the button say 30 days. hey. don't do this to me

ABCDE HI LMNO RSTUVW YZ

18/26

[mad-wheelies]

[ID: a photograph of an AAC device on its home board on someone’s lap in a dark car. On the bottom of the photograph you can also see a hand and part of a fluffy ikea bee stuffed animal. End ID]

Finally getting better at talking with my AAC but CBoard keeps crashing out on me and giving me heart attacks. The icons kept getting absolutely horribly mixed up (as in the whole board, everywhere) and I thought it deleted my whole social board for a hot minutes. Luckily resolved! But these glitches are kinda evil

[turtley-ausome]

Some of my custom Proloquo2Go pages I’ve ben working on! Had some help with the medical passport one and used a guide for zones of regulation!

[abalonetea]

Tumblr is apparently running a $30,000,000 deficit. Of course that’s the priority of the site. If the site doesn’t stop losing money, there will be no more site. This literally has nothing to do with ‘monetizing us’. This has to do with basic common sense.

Sites cost money to run. The money has to come from somewhere. Since everyone still uses ad-blocker instead of going ad free or just dealing with the ads, that money has to come from somewhere else.

The bottom line is this: if the site doesn’t get out of debt, there will be no site. I don’t. I don’t understand why this is controversial. Maybe I’m just really old school but like, the site has to be profitable to run. So, like, why. Why are we mad over this. 

[harbingersecho]

grif's surgery but just a little more... obvious?

I actually rly rly ADORE frankengrif but I don't have an in-show reason why he'd have extensive long-term allogeneic skingrafts on his face 😔