Meet me in the buddypit

*takes a small photo of Big the Cat out of my pocket*

Temporarily securing pieces in places while you work so they don’t kill you.

Cleaning parts that are dusty

Replacing worn belts

Trying to understand the mechanism so you can find out where that one cog wheel goes that you found lying on the floor

Listening for weird sounds and rattling

Welding together replacements for historic pieces that just weren’t strong enough

i made a character sheet. free to use as you wish, feel free to change whatever you want XD open source ass thing. spent all of ~maybe an hour on it.

The sheet contains the following fields:

Three fields with 10 fill boxes each, labeled "Intense", "Complex", and "Fruity". Text to the side of these reads, "If you or a loved one is attached to a character who fills all these boxes, you may be entitled to financial compensation."

A field for "sub-classes" with a "select all that apply" note, containing 12 longer boxes labeled "Angst-lord", "Enemy of the State", "Flavor Container", "Himbo", "Soft and Sweet", "Braincell Haver", "This Is A Kink", "Just Like You FR", "Chew Toy", "Friend-Shaped", "Aspirational Character", and "Little Meow Meow"

10 checkboxes labeled, "Tragic backstory?", "Orphan?", "Frequently violent?", "Divorced?", "Has enemies?", "No friends?", "Sidekick owner?", "Pets stray animals?", "Chronic insomniac?", and "Murderer?"

10 sliders labeled "just some guy/the protagonist of life", "head empty/too many thoughts", "awful company/ray of sunshine", "hated by all/beloved by all", "trauma x1000/untouched by history", "sadistic for fun/helps others for fun", "stupid as shit/scary-smart", "1,000 weapons/1,000 tools", "enemy of god/at peace with life", "break the rules/change the rules"

10 more checkboxes with the heading "Evokes" and a note to select all that apply, labeled, "spontaneous gushing", "powerful violent urges", "raw, unbridled affection", "The Horny", "late-night thoughts", "meta-posting on main", "creative drive", "defensive feelings", "distraction", "delight", "symptoms of projection", "absent-minded doodles on tabletops", and "the most godawful hot takes known to mankind"

20 more checkboxes with the heading "You want them to have" and a note to select all that apply, labeled, "a better time", "a worse time", "more trauma", "less trauma", "more romance", "less romance", "different romance", "more friends", "painful isolation", "a family", "catharsis", "revenge", "sympathy", "a better situation", "a worse situation", "more healing", "less healing", "more sex", "less sex", "different sex", "different friends", "freedom", "justification", "The Realization™", "consequences", and "a satisfying ending"

it's still actually perfectly fine to do it

and you shouldn't stop yourself from starting just because it won't be a permanent change.

Like if starting a new daily planner gives you an amazing afternoon of planning and four days where you feel in charge of your life,

why not do it?

It doesn't matter that it won't be a permanent change - 4 good days is still worth it.

If you ever catch yourself thinking, "I wish I could pray/stretch/prep/plan/do the thing, but I always get started on that and it never lasts more than a couple of days,"

what this really means is, "hey, I can feel better for a couple of days."

if this post is making you think of things in your own life that you wish you could stick to because of how good they make you feel,

just be aware:

you're not thinking of a list of ways you've failed to commit