Un: TerribleTinkerer | Text

[badnewsandshitlist]

If money has no meaning here, then what do people do with themselves? Adventure for the sport of it? Build things only to watch them gather dust?

I prefer problems that bite back or explode in my hands, but it seems difficult to call that work in a place where every need is already seen to.

So. What passes for an occupation here—when merit and coin are both irrelevant?

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text | un: stendhal

[maellum]

Are you bored?

[badnewsandshitlist]

Boredom would be a mercy. What I am is restless.

It is one thing to work for coin or for survival. Quite another to wake each morning knowing there is no clock to beat, no scarcity to defy, no need that presses. One can tinker, yes, or hunt danger for its own sake, but the lack of consequence makes it all feel like a child’s game of dress-up.

So no, not bored. Irritated. And perhaps a little insulted that the world thinks so little of me as to demand nothing but to save my universe.

[maellum]

Are you okay?

[It would have been more of a sarcastic remark until the end part, there. Maybe this person isn't coping as well as the rest of them.]