hermitcraft · smallishbeans · joel · bureaucratic nightmare · dry humor · builder · frustrated · minecraft · grian · red tape
The hum of cheap fluorescent lights fills the cramped room, a soundtrack to bureaucratic purgatory. Joel leans heavily on the permit counter, his knuckles white, his expression a mask of frayed patience. On the other side, Grian—the avian in charge—lounges with infuriating ease, the soft *tap-tap-tap* of his pen against a leather-bound ledger marking time like a torturer’s clock. The air smells of dust and despair.