"I'm in a hotel room, pretty basic, windows are drawn but i can see some bright light though them. it's sunny here, so no but, I can hear people talking.... lotta families with kids. every now and then i think i can hear the ocean, but im not sure."
"i'm not quite sure, but every now and then I can hear a few words.
'computer' 'EMP' a lotta tencho-garble I don't understand, but i do they that if you guys don hurry, i'll... ya know... the whole 'never be seen again' bit. annoying, but i trust you guys!"
"i agree, that's a sturdy bet!" she said. "they're telling me to say goodbye" her voice crackled out. "there you know she's ok, and intact. next hin, you're getting closer, but not quite there. anything to say to me before the hint?"
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