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user-inactivated  ·  3394 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Worldbuilding Prompt: What do average citizens do for fun?

I don't have a specific worldbuilding project going on at the moment, but in one of my idealized worlds:

There is a lot of LARPing. Street theatre, performances, art. People can walk the streets in drag and dayglo paint. The PG furries hang out with the LARPers, aren't stigmatized, while the fetish furries have niche parties they can attend, kept private, like most sex parties are. A common habit is to spend at least a month alone in the wilderness, learning how to survive using found resources. Technology has evolved to the point where we're able to download copies of how other humans/animals experience/feel/see things, and we meet at rave type markets/parties, where people trade about SiM cards, sit in opium den corners in a group, blissing out. People live in city/town villages where everyone has learned a useful craft, and they help each other out, in a way that brings joy to life, a vivid sense of participation. Drugs are legal, sex for money is legal, we learn at an early age about religious rites, transcending thresholds, magical, unashamed. Art, experience, substance, trade is the prevailing currency.