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Thought you'd like: 3 CSBTV Films on one DVD https://www.listia.com/r2xz8v1/CQDYQX

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Ghosted Premieres on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 8PM EST Watch it on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook For Details Go To csbtv.co

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The Artist Within: Kelly Darke: S1E5

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The Ready Writer S01E01

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The Enforcers (Finale): Geto Suguru x Fem!Reader

synopsis: the conclusion to the long fight, and a new beginning.

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a/n: bolded and italicized text (like this) is indicative of a news broadcast.

"It's been three months since the first set of videos about the CSB's violations of human rights came to light, and the trials for the first set of Grand Council members are set to continue - including Toji Fushiguro with seventy-nine counts of attempted murder and hundreds of other counts of voluntary manslaughter."

Your heels click on the tile floor, and the sound of camera shutters - behind you, in front of you, beside you, watching you - echo in the chamber corridor.

"He has pled 'not guilty on the basis of coercion and temporary insanity, but his partner, Yuki Tsukumo, has pled 'guilty' to her charges of conspiracy to commit murder and fraud."

With one hand on holding your statement - which is thirteen pages long - and the other holding Suguru's, you feel some sort of confidence, but not much.

"Today, the court will cross-examine Suguru Geto and Y/n Geto, who led the exposé, and they will also hear from other former Kitsune and Leviathans forced to live in the Fallen Sun district."

"I don't think I can do this," you whisper, tears falling down your face as you grip the edges of the sink. "I'm so scared."

"They can't do anything now," Suguru whispers, wiping at your tears with the pads of his thumbs. "All you have to do is get up there and tell the jury what happened."

"What if they don't believe me?" you moan, but Suguru places his broad hands on your shoulders and presses a kiss into your hair.

"They will," he breathes. "They have no choice."

"This will also be the first time y/n will see her parents - whose charges are pending - since her disappearance."

"Don't look," Geto whispers, turning you away from the image of your parents in the crowd and shielding you from their empty stares. "Don't look at them. They can't do anything else for you."

"Do they know?" you ask, sniffing.

"What?" Suguru wonders, placing an arm around you carefully.

"Do they know they're going to be grandparents?"

"No. And they never will."

"Gojo Satoru is still on the run. Any tips leading to his arrest will be rewarded."

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"How are you feeling?" The question hits you hard as if the whole day hadn't drained you completely. You look over to Suguru, who is pulling back his hair before pulling on a white t-shirt and climbing into bed.

"Tired. You?"

"Wired." You shake your head, hands drifting over the almost imperceptible bump under your baggy t-shirt. "Don't worry about the results of the trial. Everything is going to be okay. The minimums for their crimes are at least twenty years on each count, and they've got hundreds of bodies on their hands." Suguru hefts the remote in his hands, inhaling deeply. "Do you want to watch the news?"

"Might as well," you whisper, rubbing your bump slowly. Suguru turns on the television and you instantly see yourself on the witness stand, your face stern and unflinching.

"You can see that Mrs. Y/n is absolutely dedicated to her story. She's not wavering or nervous at all, and even when the defense attempts to sway her of the things she knows to be true, she holds her ground."

"And what about her husband?"

"Mr. Geto gave a scathing recounting of the torment he suffered and the choices he had to make as a Leviathan. You can even see Mr. Fushiguro, who is shackled to his chair, sneer and roll his eyes during his testimony. It was quite a show, for sure."

You feel Suguru reach over to you, placing a hand on top of yours.

"You were incredible."

"But is it enough to convince the jury several times over?" you wonder, and he smiles at you, kissing your cheek.

"More than enough."

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"Suguru, dinner's ready," you call out, hearing the squeals and giggles of the twins and him in the living room.

"And up we go!" Suguru comes into the kitchen, arms full with Mimiko and Nanako as you place a bowl full of soup on the table and trade it for the two squirming infants. "God, I'm starving," he murmurs, sitting down to eat while you place the girls in their high chairs and hand Suguru a small spoon.

"You said you had something to tell me before you started playing with the girls," you remind him, spooning mashed sweet potatoes into Mimiko's mouth before turning back to him.

"It's about the CSB." You pause, hand hovering in the air while he swallows his soup.

"I thought the organization was disbanded," you finally murmur, spooning another mouthful past the waiting child's empty lips.

"It is," Suguru mumbles. "The entire Grand Council rotting in prison as we speak. But... the survivors are putting something new together. A task force of sorts." You already know what's going to come out of his mouth next. "And they've asked us to lead it. And I know--"

"The children," you state, frowning. "Our children. We did what we did to make a better place for them. Will we undo all of the work that's been done so we can lead something that's doomed to fail again? Are we going to repeat the mistakes of the past?"

"This is our chance to do it right," Suguru counters. Nanako squeaks by his side, and Suguru picks up the tiny spoon again to feed her. "And Gojo is still missing. I've got to do what I set out to do, which is bring everyone to justice." You sigh, pressing your lips together as you look around the small kitchen and dining room, knowing all of it would come crumbling down if you let either your husband or the new organization slip through the crack in the door.

"When do we start?" you exhale, looking Suguru in the eyes. He smiles brightly, quirking a brow as he replies,

"As soon as we can."

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The Artists for Digital Rights Network (A4DRN) announces participants for Artists for inaugural Artists for Digital Rights Program

The Artists for Digital Rights Network (A4DRN) is hosting the Artists for Digital Rights Program 2021, a program that invites artists from the Philippines and Indonesia to undergo workshops on disinformation and produce an output that surfaces the complexities of disinformation in their local contexts.

Selected by a jury composed of advocacy workers from the Philippines and Indonesia, the following artists working across different disciplines such as video, photography, performance, creative writing, computer science, and architecture, will be presenting their work in an artistic publication and roundtable discussion to launch at the end of July. The program was made possible after receiving seed-funding from Doublethink Lab (DTL) and Innovation for Change-East Asia (IC4-EA).

Sofia Tantono (Indonesia)

Sofia Tantono is a writer whose works have been published in Anak Sastra, Yuwana Zine (Issues 2 and 3) and Klandestin. Besides literature, her interests span politics and various humanities disciplines from sociology to theology. When not writing, she can be found reading, browsing the internet and keeping herself updated on the news. She can be found on Instagram @sofias.writing and her blog https://sofiatantono.wordpress.com/. For her project, Sofia Tantono will be presenting a short story titled "Our Favourite Liar", which will explore disinformation as a socio-cultural phenomenon in Indonesia through three epochs in the country's landscape: Suharto's New Order, the year before the 2017 Jakarta gubernatorial election and the COVID-19 pandemic. She aims to illustrate how disinformation that benefits powerful groups often festers in an Indonesian civil society distrustful of the government when said disinformation comes from sources purportedly not of large institutions.

Gabriel Brioso (Philippines)

Gabriel Brioso is an interaction designer, visual artist and architect based in Metro Manila, Philippines. He graduated Cum Laude in De La Salle - College of St. Benilde's (DLS-CSB) BS-Architecture program in 2017. His work operates on the central theme of exploring the intersections of art, architecture, craft, and design. He has been involved in several noteworthy exhibitions during the past years including The Oxymoron of Patterns in the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2015), The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale (2018), and the Authenticity Zero Collective in the Gateway Gallery in Cubao (2019). He has collaborated with DLS-CSB's Center for Campus Art (CCA) on several exhibitions including The Oxymoron of Patterns (2016), Architecture=Durable (2016), and Naichayu (2017). Gabriel Brioso’s project is a digital AR object: “The Disinformation Interface” which aims to probe the allure of the social media experience in parallel with the underlying withdrawn disinformation structures that operate within it.

Marian Hukom (Philippines)

Marian Hukom is a Manila-based visual artist. A graphic designer by profession and illustrator by craft, she loves making and publishing her own comics. Her books usually range from neon autobiographies, fantasy, slice of life, and also advocacy driven content. Once an avid gig and convention goer, Marian is now a homebody doodling the night away. As a virgo workaholic, she keeps busy with her organizations, multiple hobbies, and ongoing books. Marian Hukom will be working on an autobiographical comic "Screen time", depicting her own experience with disinformation. With screens flowing as vertical narrative panels, it aims to show a POV of this experience and it's journey.

Kiki Febriyanti (Indonesia)

Kiki Febriyanti is an artist and filmmaker based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Kiki holds a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Indonesian Literature, she also completed John Darling Fellowship 2015 “Visual anthropology” at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia and had held artist residency at the International Center of Graphic Arts MGLC in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2019. Recently her video work took part in the Every Woman Biennial London 2021 exhibition. Her works are focusing on the topics of gender, human rights, and culture. Kiki will be working on her project "Click Bite" which explores the instant consumption habits of people on the internet that cause cyber-bullying.

Waki Salvador (Philippines)

Waki creates experimental work through the different mediums he chances upon - digital, traditional, film, music, and code. He blends these together to create noisy and brash art. Currently, he is focusing on creating net-based installations that explore disruptive aesthetics and themes. Visit him on social media @urlcompost. Waki is working on his project "Constructed Misdirection", a website that visualizes the descent into the rabbit hole of links being clicked due to disinformation.

Adrian Mulya (Indonesia)

Adrian Mulya is an independent photographer based in Jakarta. A self-taught photographer who explores humanity through pictures. He published Winners of Life (2016), a photobook of Indonesia women who survived the 1965 genocide. He also worked on a collective memory project about his Chinese Indonesian identity So Far, So Close. Adrian Mulya will work on a project called “Serabutan”, exploring the work conditions of people in the gig economy era. The project starts with exploring how the media is glorifying the merger of 2 tech companies Gojek and Tokopedia, contrasting it with the lived experiences of the drivers

Mariah Reodica (Philippines)

Mariah Reodica is a filmmaker, writer, media archivist, and musician based in Manila, Philippines. Her background as a musician–not formally trained, but ouido,–reflects in her practices of filmmaking and writing. She was awarded the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prize for Art Criticism at the 2019 Ateneo Art Awards, and currently maintains the column Platforms in The Philippine Star’s Arts and Culture section. She has been an artist-in-residence at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (2018); Load na Dito Projects (2020); WSK (2019); and Larga Artist Residency, Silay City (2019). Reodica is affiliated with the COCONET Digital Rights Network and Imagine a Feminist Internet-SEA. Her band The Buildings recently released their second album on Japan-based label Call and Response Records. Mariah Reodica will be working on a written artistic response to the transmission of ideas and conversations via online spaces, taking the internet as more than an abstract appendage to reality, but a public space in itself.

Alfred Marasigan (Philippines)

Heavily inspired by emotional geography, slow television, and magic realism, Alfred Marasigan conducts serendipitous research and transmedial practices in real time. Guided by time as storage, the moment as artwork, and self-evidence as knowledge, he orchestrates live collaborative ensembles of audiences, histories, actions, materialities, agents, and phenomena ultimately as ongoing efforts to create spaces for various makeshift, convoluted, and anachronistic Filipino queer narratives, among them his own. Marasigan graduated in 2019 with an MA in Contemporary Art from UiT Arctic University of Norway's Kunstakademiet i Tromsø and is a Norwegian Council of the Arts Grantee for Newly Graduated Artists. Currently based in Manila, he is now a faculty member of Ateneo de Manila University’s Fine Arts Department for 6 years. Alfred will work on his project, The B.A.O.A.N.G Directory. The B.A.O.A.N.G (Bertud, Agimat, Orasyon, Albularyo, Nyoroscope, at Gayuma) Directory is a live, developing database of pages dedicated to alternative medicine, folk belief, and contemporary spirituality in the Philippines. Drawing from the garlic (bawang in Tagalog and bawang putih in Indonesian) as method, it ultimately seeks to remap the potential roots of cultural resistance to standard counter-disinformation strategies and present time-tested yet left-field approaches to online truth-seeking epistemologies.

Christina Lopez (Philippines)

Christina Lopez is a 25 year old visual artist based in Manila. Her contemporary art practice ranges from the traditional sense of image production to methods more involvedwith new media. She is interested in the capacity of art to present alternative possibilities; to theorise, to test certain boundaries that are currently in place. There is specific intent to explore power, including its relations, structure, and implications. Recently, she has been producing work that utilizes paranoia as a tool for divination, one that navigates through the obfuscation omnipresent in the production and dissemination of new technologies. The forms she chooses to represent these concepts often involve digital-physical fusion, reflecting that the virtual is inseparable from material realities. By grasping at what is seen and unseen progress is viewed as something that is neither good nor evil, and arguments are presented with commitment to what the future could be. Her work can be found inside and outside of privatised spaces and institutions. She has exhibited in Hong Kong,UK, and the Philippines. She shares her ongoing project: “I will be working on a new iteration of my previous work titled “Portraits (Proxies)”, with a renewed focus on the delineation between humans, trolls, and automata. I am particularly interested in how one can decide and establish what is real from that which is not real in terms of identity and being, and whether or not this delineation should exist in the first place. The work will still make use of StyleGAN generated portraiture, and alongside I will work with a text generation GAN to create ‘profiles’.”

Mirjam Dalire (Philippines)

Mirjam Dalire is a multidisciplinary artist based in Negros Oriental, Philippines. She works with photography, internet-based installation, video, sound, and painting. Mirjam often uses virtual spaces as a staging point for confrontations with her immediate environment, employing satire and humor in her process. Mirjam Dalire will be working on her work, “Death of NoSTrAdAmUs_420” which she will be revisiting “The End by NoSTrAdAmUs_420” a video work on conspiracy theories that she made in 2019. In this new project she will be exploring developing local online hoaxes, two years after The End was released.

*UP Internet Freedom Network President Mac Andre Arboleda is the Project Lead of the Artists for Digital Rights Network

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The same folks to bring you "Abrahamism"—the idea that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are intricately connected—have narrowed their sights on promoting Mary, the mother of Christ, as "a Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman," in the words of Catholic priest Fr. Gian Matteo of the Pontifical International Marian Academy. In a ten-week webinar series titled "Mary, a model for faith and life for Christianity and Islam," the academy will seek to present Mary as a bridge between the two religions.This may be easier said than done — at least for those still interested in facts. For starters, the claim that Mary was a "Jewish, Christian and Muslim woman" is only two-thirds true: yes, she was a Jew by race and background; and yes, she was a Christian in that she literally birthed Christ(ianity); but she was most certainly not a Muslim — a term and religion that came into being 600 years after Mary died.Worse, far from being the Eternal Virgin, as she is for 1.5 billion Christians of the Catholic and Orthodox variety, Islam presents Mary, the Mother of Christ, as "married" to and "copulating" with Muhammad in paradise — a depiction that would seem to sever rather than build "bridges."In a hadith that was deemed reliable enough to be included in the renowned Ibn Kathir's corpus, Muhammad declared that "Allah will wed me in paradise to Mary, Daughter of Imran," whom Muslims identify with Jesus's mother. (Note: The Arabic word for "marriage" (نكاح, or nikah) denotes "legal sexual relations," connotes the "F" word, and is wholly devoid of Western, "romantic," or Platonic connotations.)Nor is this just some random, obscure hadith. None other than Dr. Salem Abdul Galil — previously deputy minister of Egypt's religious endowments for preaching — affirmed its canonicity in 2017 during a live televised Arabic-language program. Among other biblical women (Moses's sister and Pharaoh's wife), "our prophet Muhammad — prayers and be upon him — will be married to Mary in paradise," Galil said.If few Christians today know about this Islamic claim, medieval Christians living in Muslim-occupied nations were certainly aware of it. There, Muslims regularly threw this fantasy in the face of Catholic and Orthodox Christians who venerated Mary as the "Eternal Virgin." Thus, Eulogius of Cordoba, an indigenous Christian of Muslim-occupied Spain, once wrote, "I will not repeat the sacrilege which that impure dog [Muhammad] dared proffer about the Blessed Virgin, Queen of the World, holy mother of our venerable Lord and Savior. He claimed that in the next world he would deflower her."As usual, it was Eulogius's offensive words about Muhammad — and not the latter's offensive words about Mary and any number of other things — that had dire consequences: he, as well as many other Spanish Christians vociferously critical of Muhammad, were found guilty of speaking against Islam and publicly tortured and executed in "Golden Age" Cordoba in 859.One expects that all of these "inconvenient" facts will be quietly passed over during the Pontifical International Marian Academy's webinars. And if they are raised, no doubt Christians will somehow take the blame, as almost always happens in academic settings. As one example, after quoting Eulogius's aforementioned lament against Muhammad's claim of being married to Mary, John V. Tolan, a professor and member of Academia Europaea, denounced it as an "outrageous claim" of Eulogius's own "invention." He then railed against the martyr — not against his murderers or their prophet:Eulogius fabricates lies designed to shock his Christian reader. This way, even those elements of Islam that resemble Christianity (such as reverence of Jesus and his virgin mother) are deformed and blackened, so as to prevent the Christian from admiring anything about the Muslim other. The goal is to inspire hatred for the "oppressors[.]" ... Eulogius sets out to show that the Muslim is not a friend but a potential rapist of Christ's virgins. (Saracens: Islam in the Medieval European Imagination, p.93)As already seen, however, it is Muhammad himself — not any "Christian polemicist" — who "fabricates lies designed to shock," namely that Mary will be his eternal concubine.This, incidentally, is the main problem the purveyors of Abrahamism fail to acknowledge: Islam does not treat biblical characters the way Christianity does.Christians accept the text of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, as it is. They do not add, take away, or distort the accounts of the patriarchs that Jews also rely on. Conversely, while also relying on the figures of the Old and New Testaments — primarily for the weight of antiquity and authority attached to their names — Islam completely recasts them with different attributes that reaffirm Muhammad's religion as the one true and final "revelation," as opposed to Judaism and Christianity, whose biblical accounts on these figures are then seen as "distorted" because they are different from Islam's later revisions.Far from creating "commonalities," it should be clear that such appropriation creates conflict. By way of analogy, imagine that you have a grandfather whom you are particularly fond of, and out of the blue, a stranger who never even met your grandfather says: "Hey, that's my grandfather!" Then — lest you think this stranger is somehow trying to become your friend — he adds: "And everything you thought you knew about grandpa is wrong! Only I have his true life story."Would that create a "bridge" between you and this stranger who is trying to appropriate and recast the image of your grandfather?

It is common knowledge that the genealogies contained in Matthew and Luke differ. Most conservative Bible commentators explain the difference by holding that Jesus’ genealogy in Matthew 1:1–16 is traced through Joseph’s line to show Jesus’ royal right to the Davidic throne; correspondingly, the genealogy in Luke 3:23–38 traces Jesus’ ancestry through Mary’s line. This means that Mary’s lineage is recorded in the Gospel of Luke. Mary’s lineage, as recorded by Luke, does not mention Mary, but that’s to be expected—including women’s names in genealogies was not standard practice. It begins this way: “[Jesus] was the son, so it was thought, of Joseph, the son of Heli” (Luke 3:23). This comment affirms the truth of Jesus’ virgin birth (see Luke 1:29–38). Joseph was a “son” of Heli by virtue of his marriage to Mary, who would have been the daughter of Heli (Matthew 1:16 lists Joseph’s biological father as Jacob). Some notable points in Mary’s lineage are that she was a descendant of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Luke 3:34); she was specifically of the tribe of Judah (verse 33). She was also a descendant of Boaz (verse 32) and David (verse 31). Significantly, Luke traces Mary’s lineage all the way back to Adam (verse 38). This fits with Luke’s purpose as he wrote to Gentiles and emphasized that Jesus is the Son of God who came to save all people (cf. Luke 2:10–11). Another issue relating to Mary’s lineage is her relation to Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. Luke says that Mary was related to Elizabeth, who was in the tribe of Levi (Luke 1:5, 36). An argument sometimes put forward by those who deny the credentials of Christ is that, if Mary was Elizabeth’s “cousin,” then Mary must also have been a Levite. Some translations, such as the KJV, do state that Mary was the “cousin” of Elizabeth (Luke 1:36). However, the English word cousin does not have to imply a close relation, and other versions of the Bible translate the word as “relative” (NKJV, ESV, CSB, BSB). Even if Elizabeth and Mary were close relatives, it was still possible for them to be of different tribes, as women were identified with their father’s tribe, not their mother’s. Elizabeth’s father was a Levite, making her a Levite by birth, but her mother may have been of Judah. Conversely, Mary’s mother may have been a Levite and kin to Elizabeth’s family, while Mary’s father was of Judah. Luke’s genealogy shows that Heli, whom we assume to be Mary’s father, was a direct descendant of Judah, not Levi. In addition, the angel Gabriel affirmed Jesus’ Judean lineage, telling Mary that “he will be very great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his ancestor David” (Luke 1:32, NLT). David was of the tribe of Judah. Regardless of Mary’s specific lineage, that Jesus is a descendant of David and Judah is beyond doubt. Other Bible verses also point to the fact of Judah being the tribe of Jesus’ heritage, as the rightful Messiah and Savior of all (Hebrews 7:14; Revelation 5:5).

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What is your golden calf?

We all have something we struggle with, television, alcohol, drugs, smutty books, something.  But God wants to be your one and only passion.  Just as Israel kept worshipping false gods, we often find ourselves slaves to busyness and hurrying.  But God wants our best.  Matthew 22:37 & 38 says, “ 37 He said to him, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.[m] 38 This is the greatest and most important[n] command. “ (CSB).  

So today God asks you one question - Am I your first love?  

Father, 

Thank You that no matter how often we mess up we can come to You and lay our sins at Your feet when we have a heart that is truly ashamed and wants to change our choices.  

Today God, we ask that You become our one true God.  Teach us Lord, to become more of You and less of us.  Bless us, Abba, with a hunger and thirst for righteousness that is unquenchable.  Make us more like Your Son, Jesus so that when others see us, they see You first and we are hidden in the shadow of Your Cross. 

Amen.

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Plant Life Moments S1E7

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The Artist Within: Ann Maria Francis S1E2

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CSB Television Writer to Writer Interviews Season 1, Episode 2, Author Nancy Christie https://youtu.be/uQ0NVumk-20 https://www.authorcaseybell.com/writertowriterinterviews.html

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The Enforcers (Part 9): Geto Suguru x Fem!Reader

synopsis: the end is nearer than you think.

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The news comes as you and Suguru are working on the most recent deluge of files set to be released, despite the email you'd received.

"We should go in there and get them," you mutter, clicking away at the keyboard.

"We have to wait," Suguru replies tersely. You sigh loudly, turning back to the TV, which is droning on in the background.

"Oh, uh-- Pierre, we're getting word here that shots have rung out inside of CSB Headquarters, and-- oh my--" Sounds like popping - gunshots - echo behind the anchor, and you stumble out of your chair to grab the remote, turning up the television. The cameraman takes the camera and begins to run, and the screams of other protestors running away from the Headquarters in haste flood the sound of the reporter's panting as he runs away.

"There are shots ringing out inside of the building," you hear the reporter breathe. "We don't know what's going on!"

"Suguru--"

"I'm already calling the team," he mutters, leaning into his palm and rubbing his forehead. The reporter continues to try to articulate what's might be occurring, but it comes in stutters and shaky movements, and you can't tell whether the gunfire is coming out from inside the building or it's still contained inside.

"Pierre, we're getting news that law enforcement cannot - I repeat - they cannot get entrance into the CBS headquarters! The doors, windows, and roof have all been blocked and barricaded."

"Suguru!" you exclaim, just as Shoko bursts into the room followed by three other people.

"They're gunning each other down," Shoko grumbles, rushing over to the TV. "It's the only thing that makes sense."

"Why?" you inquire, but Shoko ignores your question, turning to the Leader of the Fallen Sun District with a look of resignation.

"Suguru, we can't go down there without risking fatalities." A chill runs down your spine, and you look over to Suguru in hope that he'll do what you suggested; that for once, he'll do the right thing.

"And what about those of us that are stuck in there?" He replies calmly, lacing his fingers together.

"We have to hope for the best." Right as Shoko finishes her statement, a loud explosion rings out on the broadcast. You all instinctively flinch as a burst of fire comes out from a set of windows.

"There will be fatalities, here." The reporter states. "There's no doubt about it."

Five hours later, you're still sitting in front of the TV, wondering how anything like this could have happened in such a short amount of time. The smoldering remains of the CSB headquarters are the backdrop for every channel, every new story.

Yuji, Nobara, Maki, Choso, Megumi, Noritoshi...

"The total count of missing people has climbed to five hundred and seventy-six. The debris from the headquarters covers a good percentage of the open field, and the confirmed death toll is still hovering at three hundred and twenty-four. No survivors have been found."

You inhale sharply, shoulders shaking involuntarily as you lean forward and place your head in your hands. Suguru and his team are working behind you on making some sort of plan, but you can't focus on any of that right now. All you can think about are the faces of your friends, the loving expressions, the way they cared for you...

And this is all your fault.

You helped Suguru release these files.

You gave him the ammunition needed to start this massacre.

You're responsible for--

"We have determined through an investigation that this attack was not only pre-meditated but spurred on by our own agents." Nanami Kento's voice cuts through the static in your head. You raise your tear-streaked face to watch the Head of Communications address the public. "For years, the Leviathans and Kitsune have worked together, but now, it appears that a rift in the two groups caused them to turn on each other and commit these atrocities."

"I fucking knew they would say that," one of the men behind you mutters.

"In light of recent allegations that we have conducted projects and initiatives aimed to promote and propel promising subjects to the Kitsune ranks, and thus disenfranchising candidates who would not have met those standards, we have decided to commence an internal investigation based on the evidence we have collected. The Grand Council will release those findings as soon as they are able. Thank you." The blonde man steps away from the podium and another person takes his place. But you turn to Suguru, who is frowning, hands gripping the edge of the table.

"This is absurd," you mention, but he averts his black eyes, looking at his lap. "They can't expect us to believe that every single Leviathan and Kitsune turned on each other." Suguru sighs, his eyes closing as he shakes his head.

"This is exactly what we expected."

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No one can sleep.

Everyone is working through the night, attempting to make connections with their contacts in the CSB, planning out options, and watching the developing story with a vested interest.

You're laying in the bed, computer sitting in your lap as you search, again and again, refreshing the list of confirmed dead and praying no one you went to the academy with would show up on the list.

It's two am when Suguru's cell phone rings, and he picks it up, humming once as a greeting. He listens for a minute, then his eyes become wide and he stands, hair falling down his back as he leans his head backward and exhales deeply.

"We're on our way." When he hangs up, you all look at him for some kind of answer, some indication of what to do. "There are several cars that showed up just a minute ago, and they're full of people claiming to be from the CSB. And they want to speak to y/n and I." You shift out of the bed, standing with him in anticipation of putting up another fight.

"Wait, you mean..."

"I mean escaped Kitsune and Leviathans." Maybe your friends would be among them. "Everyone grab a jacket and your weapon. This might get ugly."

You all parade down to the main floor, where a collection of men and women with guns and vests greet the small team, every single face in the throng stern and unyielding. The armed militia stands at attention, waiting for Suguru's instructions patiently as he approaches and is handed two bulletproof vests: one for you, and one for him.

"Guard set A," Suguru calls out, slightly shifting his bulletproof vest as you attempt to adjust your own vest, pulling the straps extra tight. "Cover our back, face the escapees from the front. This could be a ploy to attempt to bring harm to the Fallen Sun District at close range." When Suguru sees you struggling with the clasps, he sighs and turns to you, continuing his instructions while his hands quickly readjust the straps so that the vest is snug against your body.

"Guard set B, cover our front. Y/n and I will negotiate with those who have arrived. If things go poorly, you all are commanded to shoot without prejudice."

"Yes, sir!"

"As for you," Suguru murmurs, turning to you and placing his hands on your shoulders. "Stay behind me at all times. Do not step one foot in front of me. I'm only saying this to keep you safe, as you're still assumed to be a hostage at this point." After this, you raise up on your tip-toes, lacing your arms around him. His hands slide to your waist as you whisper,

"Thank you for protecting me." He pecks your lips lightly, holding you close and exhaling into your ear,

"Thank you for trusting me again."

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Wow, I can see it, can you? Can you see the beauty in this image? It’s a divine beauty that not all will see. This would be considered a masterpiece if this image didn’t exist but was imagined and painted by man. It’s not altered by television, it’s not altered by technology, and it’s not altered by man. This is a satellite image of hurricane Florence approaching the coast. The next days, weeks, month, and years will be affected in many lives due to this storm. How we react to these storms will proof to be how we are affected.

Knowing the whole picture is how God looks at us, we can’t see the whole picture as we go through our storms of life. But we have the promise of a future, which is decided by not works or choices, but just one choice. If we choose to seek faith by believing God sent his son to pay the price for our imperfection. and ask that he accept us as his forgiven, then we have the promise of even more beauty than this. Make the choice to see the storm from his eye above, rather than to look up from below.

“The moon will be put to shame and the sun disgraced, because the Lord of Armies will reign as king on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, and he will display his glory in the presence of his elders.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭24:23‬ ‭CSB‬‬

“On this mountain, the Lord of Armies will prepare for all the peoples a feast of choice meat, a feast with aged wine, prime cuts of choice meat, fine vintage wine.”

‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭25:6‬ ‭CSB‬‬

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Benilde grabs top nominations in 2018 Quill Awards

The College is nominated for “School of the Year” among four other schools in the prestigious Philippine Student Quill Awards.

For the second year in a row, the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) is nominated as ‘School of the Year’ in the 6th Philippine Student Quill Awards, competing against fellow nominees De La Salle University-Dasmariñas, Bataan Peninsula State University, UST Angelicum College Inc., and four-time School of the Year awardee University of Santo Tomas (UST).

Earlier today, in a Facebook post by International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Philippines, a global network of communications responsible for the Quill Awards, the School of the Year nominees were announced online, along with nominees for Top Award in Communication Skills and in Communication Management.

The School of the Year award is the highest distinction in the Student Quill Awards; it is bestowed on the school with the most Awards of Excellence. In 2017, IABC Philippines decided to also recognize the top three schools of the year, instead of just one.

The following are the nominees for Student Top Award for Communication Skills:

The Benildean Vol. 3 Issue 10: Acceptance - DLS-CSB

Turtle Shells - DLS-CSB

The Varsitarian Publicity Materials - UST

Balik USTe 2017 Countdown Video - UST

Palaruan sa Laot - UST Angelicum College Inc.

On the other hand, here are the nominees for the Student Top Award for Communication Management:

PERSPECTIVES 2018: Classic - DLS-CSB

LIKHA: Ligtas Ka at Handa Community Education Session - DLS-CSB

Anker: Power in Your Hands - UST

Botomasino: A Special Coverage of the UST Student Council Elections - UST

Project Litratu: Mayhang Pamana, Bilang nga Mayhang Pilipinú (Isang Pamana Bilang Isang Pilipino) - Bataan Peninsula State University

Last year, the College won second place in the School of the Year category of the 5th Student Quill Awards, while UST placed first and Angelicum College placed third.

The awarding of the 6th Student Quill Awards will be on July 9, 1 P.M. at the Grand Ballroom Hotel, Marriott Hotel, Pasay City. This will immediately be followed by the 16th Philippine Quill Awards, which caters to media practitioners and communicators on a professional level, including telecommunications companies, television networks, and advertising agencies, among others.

The Philippine Student Quill Awards is an annual awarding ceremony launched by IABC Philippines which recognizes student business communications excellence. Established in 1983, IABC Philippines advocates for professional growth, learning, and communications excellence through its educational offerings, certification, awards program, resource library, online magazine, and annual World Conference.

This article was originally published in The Benildean