As some of you know, we're merging the VILE-Only thread (VILE - Eudaimonia) with a more open site-wide RP.
Premise: Contessa is heading to a party [on an unnamed island]. ACME has infiltrated said location as staff on an information-gathering mission.
So far, the cast includes:
@Contessa...
Eudaimonia: A Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare; however, "human flourishing or prosperity" has been proposed as a more accurate translation.
This is a VILE-only game
It's free-form, so write whatever to build a story
We're in Greece, specifically starting in Mykanos
Your...
Was just thinking, when someone says think outside the box....why does it have to be a box? Why can't it be anything you want? Like a closet? Or a door? Hehe
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?
It's because it hinges on the idea that everyone wants to be ordinary (aka "normal") and that being anything other should be punishable socially. It stems from imperial modes of thinking that harm people not white-cis-straight-abled-perisex-etc because the idea of normal is centred on "some guy"-isms
Why did we decide creativity requires escaping from something? Why do so many of our metaphors for creativity imply that ordinary thinking is a restriction?