#this is all very raw thoughts that im just spitting out onto the internet. not refined at all. crude thoughts. if you will. (haha. get it?)

[tasklinemgr]

y'know, while I'm on the whole "awkwardly worded headcanons about cog society" thing:

often I think about the idea of the cogs like. performing behaviors that they don't strictly need to. like how we see them eat a variety of foods, instead of just consuming straight fuel. or how they might "sleep" in a bed. or even, how they might decide to build themselves a child, even though their kind typically doesn't need to be "raised", in such a way.

like, if they were made to work and nothing more, then why are they programmed to find behaviors like these comfortable and/or satisfying? do they even find it comfortable? or is it just something that's just part of their society, something they all do even though it has no apparent benefit to them? is it, perhaps, in imitation of something? of what?