neozoid
seat-safety-switch

Knowing how to fix things is a sort of curse. When I'm elbow deep in the guts of some horrible machine, sometimes I fantasize about being a normal person. A normal person who bought their car from the dealership, who takes it back to the dealership to fix, and who throws it away when it becomes "too old" to cost-effectively maintain. Such a person would never know the joy that I have felt, trying to knock the fragments of what was once a rusty suspension bolt free so that I can get to work in four hours.

This in itself is not so bad. The problem arises when you buy more broken cars, to establish a sort of stochastic reliability-by-chance. If you have two cars, it is much less likely that both cars will be broken at the same time. And if you have three cars, your odds are even better. This errant, delusional math cascades until you have seven cars, they are all broken, and you only have enough time to finish fixing one before it breaks again.

And when you repair things, more broken things will come into your life, even if you didn't necessarily want them there. A rusty old bicycle on the side of the road? That's a shame, there's hardly anything wrong with it. If I tidied that up, maybe someone could use it. I'll just put it in the shed with the other rusty bicycles, and bang them all out one perfect summer evening, when my cars are working again.

Ideally, the end result is that you accomplish each and every project on your to-do list and then jump into the grave, before any more can arise. Even this has its problems, though: unless you are a professional gravedigger, you're not likely to have any six-foot-deep holes lying around the property. You'll need to buy a shovel, and read some books about how to do it right, and...

kibasniper
devilmns

character playlists aren’t for songs a character would listen to they are for songs that remind me of the character

devilmns

“x wouldn’t listen to this” yeah no shit this is for when i want to listen to my shitty songs and think about my favorite little characters

yoshifruit

Speak for yourself. I think Rouge the Bat would love my Rouge playlist. Every time I found a smooth jazz, acid jazz, nu jazz, or jazz house song that fit her style, I thought “damn Rouge would love this,” and added them to a playlist, specifically for her to listen to.

betagrove

Okay. Well Rouge the Bat isn't real. So I don't think she's gonna listen to that.

goreador
calagua

Oh Jeffrey? Jeff the killer? Oh yeah he's not a teenager anymore. He's 28. Yeah he's still into the killing part just not as much. He says it lost its spark. Yeah he still says go to sleep but he'd honestly rather go sleep himself. He's pretty chill. Past the killings. He's a beloved member of the community. Yeah he's on estrogen