Children of Aergia

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I dunno about you, but I've been told my whole life that I have obligations: I need to do well in school, get a good job, work hard, avoid wasting my potential, help others, sleep when I'm dead...

So when this (fictional) zine told me I was a child of Aergia, the goddess of idleness, it was life-changing! In it, the author (me) explained that my only obligation in life is to chill and put out zero effort. Anything beyond that is extra. So if I choose to help others, make stuff (like this zine), exercise, cook, clean, or whatever else, it's all a BONUS!

Wow, it feels so much better to do stuff because I want to, rather than because of some inherent life requirement where I'm not even worthy of the oxygen I breathe if I don't accomplish a certain amount of stuff each day... 😅

Forget Maximum Effort, This Is MINIMAL Effort!

Not only was this zine made with minimal effort (but lots of rewriting and proofing lol), it was also made in one color (black) for the #minizinejuly25 prompt "One Color."

Note: this isn't actually a mini-zine. It's a half-page zine. But since that only requires you to fold it once, and there's no cutting, I figure that extends into the "idleness" theme of this zine.

Also, yes, the zine costs $1 even though it's free to read it: all four pages are in the images on the right side of this screen. The $1 is to access the easier-to-read PDF and printable file. This was minimal effort, and not zero effort, after all. 🧡

More Zines and Stuff

You can check out our other zines on this list, along with some other low-effort, fun works I (co-)created below. (Just Rollin With It did take some extra effort but it's a collection of low-effort stuff!):

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