There is magic in the mundane

Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

And then you, the reader, can just jump in and post your own weird shit? And people might comment just to say “nice job!” Or “where the fuck is the next chapter” on your 20k coffee shop FNAF AU? Bro. Them’s the little things that make the internet worth anything.

Ao3 is so beautiful. I love scrolling past indescribably disturbing descriptions. I love knowing they have a place to be posted. I love knowing that, should I feel the urge to indulge, I can do so with no repercussions.

Types of Magical barriers & wards!! (For your magic system)

⤷ boundary ward 𓆈 marks the actual edge of a protected space and alerts or repels anyone trying to cross it. this is your basic property line spell, and it's great for establishing scale early on, the reader instantly understands how big the protected territory actually is the moment someone triggers it.

⤷ silence ward 𓆈 blocks sound from crossing in or out entirely. genuinely great for secret meetings, interrogation scenes, or hiding a fight happening right next door to someone who has no idea. also creates fantastic dramatic irony, the reader knows something's happening, a character standing three feet away doesn't.

⤷ concealment ward 𓆈 hides a place or object from sight or detection completely, not just from casual glancing but from anyone actively looking. this is your classic "the door was never there" trope, and it's great for reveals, bc you can plant a location early and have a character walk right past it for chapters before it's ever found.

⤷ blood ward 𓆈 keyed specifically to bloodlines, only allowing or blocking certain people based on ancestry. this is a genuinely great plot device for legitimacy questions, a character who can walk through a blood ward without trouble has just proven something about their heritage without a single line of exposition needed.

⤷ barrier seal 𓆈 a physical-magical hybrid, usually placed directly on doors or thresholds. it's the combination that makes it interesting, bc breaking it might require both magical skill and literal lockpicking, so a character weak in one but strong in the other has to improvise or bring someone else in.

⤷ anti-scry ward 𓆈 blocks divination or far-sight attempts from locating the space at all. this one's great for raising tension from a distance, a character trying to check on someone through magical means and hitting total static is genuinely unsettling, and it tells the reader something is being deliberately hidden without confirming what.

⤷ containment ward 𓆈 the inverse of a boundary ward, it keeps something in rather than keeping something out. this is your prison cell, your sealed monster, your quarantine zone. great source of tension the moment it starts weakening, bc now the threat isn't "can someone get in," it's "how long until something gets out."