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“And, naturally, we’ll need to throw you a goodbye party.” Dex felt awkward about this last item, but they smiled. “Sure,” they said, bracing themself for a future evening as the center of attention.
Me. I hate being the center of attention.
the ego-crushing experience of having to explain to their entire sharp-eyed family that this plan they’d laboriously pitched as the right thing to do actually had them feeling quite intimidated after a grand total of one try, and that they now, at the age of twenty-nine, would like very much to return to the safe shelter of their childhood for an indefinite amount of time until they’d figured out just what the hell they were doing.
Relatable
Dex marched up to the counter, whipped out their pocket computer, entered a large number of pebs, tapped their computer to the vendor’s own to make the transfer, and said, “I’ll take one of each.”
Dammit there's currency...
A reliable device built to last a lifetime, as all computers were.
waow.
Nine minutes, Dex knew—enough to get the veggies soft and the skins crispy. Plenty of opportunity for a shower in the meantime.
9 minute shower?! Insanity.
But as for the gods themselves, they’re everywhere and in everything.” Mosscap smiled at Dex. “Surely, you know this.”
“Everybody thinks they’re the exception to the rule, and that’s exactly where the trouble starts. One person can do a lot of damage.”
Looking at every American rn…
Repeating history that had left living memory was an all-too-human tendency,
The thing every being fears most is the only thing that’s for certain? It seems almost cruel, to have that so…” “So baked in?”
The ecosystem required the elk to be afraid in order to stay in balance. But elk don’t want to be afraid. Fear is miserable, as is pain. As is hunger. Every animal is hardwired to do absolutely anything to stop those feelings as fast as possible. We’re all just trying to be comfortable, and well fed, and unafraid. It wasn’t the elk’s fault. The elk just wanted to relax.”
“So, the paradox is that the ecosystem as a whole needs its participants to act with restraint in order to avoid collapse, but the participants themselves have no inbuilt mechanism to encourage such behavior.”
“I think there’s something beautiful about being lucky enough to witness a thing on its way out.”
We had a surplus. A surplus has to be shared.”
but that’s socialism!
