Hey if you have chronic pain, you gotta remember that the cognitive load of dealing with that is exhausting. Just that alone. Never mind what else you’ve got going on.
You’re not lazy or being dramatic; you’re overloaded.
I actually love that on ao3, as far as I know, once you leave kudos on a fic, it’s permanent, you cannot unkudos it — as opposed to other platforms where you can unlike / take your likes back any time (granted, ao3 is not a social media platform). I think that’s one of the things that make ao3 so unique and charming. once you leave kudos on a fic, you commit to it. good
Shout out to the doctor who responded with complete sincerity when I (on anesthesia) uttered the phrase “chat are we cooked” in her medical professional vicinity. You’re such a real one for that fr fr
Wizard who knows exactly four spells, and who suffers from the world’s worst case of “when all you have is a hammer” syndrome
Wizard whose magic has predictable side effects that it somehow never occurs to them to take into account until after the fact
Wizard who could have done that at any time, but nobody asked
Wizard whose “magic” is mostly legerdemain, except for one specific, completely unhinged miraculous feat they can do for real
Wizard who’s never tried this before, but the theory is sound
Wizard whose powers kind of suck, but who insists they’re the greatest in the land, and you can’t prove otherwise because you don’t know any other wizards
Wizard who wishes to make it clear that they advised against this and will not be held responsible for the consequences
PSA: if you want to describe a story as a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ story, please do make sure that the two houses are alike in dignity.
The original reasons the two houses hate each other - if there ever were any - are otherwise left unspecified, but the one thing that gets made clear right at the start is that those reasons are not socioeconomic differences. Please consider alternative cultural references to describe a forbidden romance between people of different socioeconomic status. There are a whole bunch of those too.
