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shayneedscoffee · 1 year ago

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Mom's Lost Diary

genre- murder mystery??, angst, found footage-ish

word count- 2597

summery- Joseph's parents had been murdered 10 years ago. The police never found his mom's body or any suspect, making it a cold case. So when a old beat up box appeared on their death anniversary filled with his mother's personal belongings Joseph can't help but sort through it, hoping to finally put this case to rest.

content warnings- mentions and descriptions of abuse, blood, murder, a gun

author's comments- i wrote this for my 11th grade creative writing class and i haven't touched it since. will probably revise it in a year to make it better but for now here it is.

November 21, 1998 Vancouver, Canada. A typical fall Saturday morning, wind was blowing the leaves around the yard. All was calm in the Dela Cruz household. Their house was just big enough for Joseph, Lolo and Lola. Joseph Padilla was Lolo and Lola’s Grandson, he had moved in when his parents were brutally murdered exactly 13 years ago in their California home.

Viewed as the perfect family by others, the Padillas were respected and looked up to. His father William Padilla was a successful businessman who ran an up and coming tech company. William was one of the smartest members of the community, always lending his intelligence to people who needed help. His mother, Bea Dela Cruz, was an influential member of their church back in California. She took in victims of domestic violence and abuse, and helped them get back on their feet.

November 21 1988, tragedy struck the Padilla house. Joseph woke up and the police were surrounding his house. Within minutes, his life as he knew it was stripped away. Lola and Lolo took him in, and he moved to Vancouver. William’s body was found burned and buried a few miles away from their house. His mothers body was nowhere to be found.

“ANAK! THERE IS A PACKAGE HERE FOR YOU.” Lola’s commanding voice echoes through the whole house. “Hey, Joseph, did you not hear me? Are you going deaf? There is a package for you,” Lola’s voice calming down as she reaches Joseph's room upstairs.

“Lola, I never ordered anything?” Joseph’s brain worked overtime trying to figure out why he received the package.

“Well it’s not mine, I'm too busy cooking and cleaning everyday. Your Lolo never gets up from his stupid chair unless it’s to get food, so it can’t be his.” Lola stated the obvious. “So either you take it or I’ll send it back to the post office.”

“Okay okay I’ll take it, '' Joseph decided. He knew it could have been something dangerous, but he felt drawn to it. Something was calling out to him. Pulling him in, he was a moth and the box was a flame. As he continued to study the box, he became more desperate to know its contents. Was it useless junk sent to him as a prank? Or was it more, could there be a possibility that the answers to all his questions were in the box?

“Hey Anak, stop staring at it like it will kill you, it’s just a box my god. Also you look like you just woke up, go brush your hair and take a shower, you smell like the outside.” Lola scoffed, disgusted by Joseph’s current appearance. Pulled away from his spiralling thoughts by reality. He came to the conclusion that despite his hope for answers, he would most likely be disappointed.

“Okay I will, let me just open this first,” he forced a smile so that Lola would leave him alone. Lola glared at him as she crept out of his room, knowing that he wouldn't do what she asked.

He studied the box for a good five minutes before opening it. It was a regular brown box with the bright red fragile sticker on the top left. A little beat up from transportation, with watermarks on the bottom. It wasn’t the heaviest box, weighing no more than 2 pounds. The most intriguing part was the return label, St. Helena, California, his hometown. Anticipation, desperation and anxiety fought within him. This could be exactly what he’s looking for, but then what if it’s not? He’s been looking for answers all his life and this box could give it to him. But what if the truth is too much to handle? What should he do then?

When he finally opened the box Joseph almost threw up from the smell. It smelt of rotting paper and dust, like he had opened up an ancient cave full of secrets.

Joseph studied the contents of the box for what felt like hours. One of the items was a cream coloured music box, with a tiny elephant on top. Engraved on the bottom was March 27 1983, the day he was born. Another was a picture frame with a couple inside. They looked to be in their 20’s, they were happy and clearly in love. The woman was laughing all while the man was hugging her, smiling at her with the most pure form of love imaginable. Staring at the photo more closely, Joseph had recognized that it was his parents. Memories slowly come back to him, yet the full picture was still blurry.

In the very corner, Joseph noticed something wrapped in bubble wrap. He had a feeling that whatever was wrapped in there, it was the answer to all of his questions. When unwrapped, 5 different cassette tapes fell onto his lap, along with a cassette player and headphones. The tapes were a little beat up, a few scratches on the plastic cover, and years written on the front, starting at 1983 going up to 1988. They were just ordinary cassette tapes, nothing special or significant.

After examining the tapes, Joseph’s shoulders dropped. His face painted with disappointment hanging low in his hands. All the anticipation is gone. They were just playlists his parents had made. “I can’t believe it, I really thought I was going to get answers.” Feeling a lump in his throat, tears falling down his face, Joseph started putting everything away. Carefully placing each item back into the beat up box. He made sure that they were all placed securely. If this was the last bits of his childhood and parents, they should be treasured.

Picking the tapes up, a chill went down his spine. Overcome with the urge to listen to the tapes. The feeling was overpowering, as if God himself had taken over his body. So he started with 1983, his birth year. At first the cassette played music, but after 2 minutes a voice came through.

“Hello Joseph,” a soft voice came through the cassette. “My name is Bea Padilla, but you know me as Mom.” Joseph stopped the tape, heartache overwhelming him. Up until now, he had forgotten what his mother’s voice sounded like. “Today March 28 1983, one day after your birth. I’m still in the hospital, your dad is in the food court getting us food. You’re right beside me sleeping peacefully for the first time.”

The first tape recounted the first year of his life. The joy was overwhelmingly apparent in his mother’s voice. Joseph could tell she was excited to see him grow up. To see her baby achieve his dreams and live his life to the fullest. Suddenly, he was unable to breathe, the lump in his throat grew bigger each second. Listening to his mom made him face the reality he lives. A reality where his mother and father are gone, forever. A reality where they are never able to see him grow.

“Happy New Year my precious Darling, I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life loving you and being your mom. God gave me you to take care of and I promise to never take that for granted.” The first tape ended and Joseph quickly scrambled for the next tape.

This time the taping didn’t start with music, but his mom and dad greeting him. “Hi Joseph, it’s mom and dad. We’re so grateful to-”

“HONEY STOP STEPPING ON MY FOOT” William roared. His voice was one of a general commanding his army. A lion's roar heard throughout the jungle. The world stopped for a second, fear taking over Joseph’s body.

“I was just trying to reach the-” Bea’s voice shaking, panic coursing through her. Even through the recording, Joseph could see his mom. Quivering, knees giving out, pleading with just her eyes for mercy.

“I DON'T CARE! YOU KNOW WHAT TURN OFF THE TAPE,” William continues to scream. Joseph hears Bea’s shaky breathing in the background. “I SAID TURN IT OFF-”

*SCREECH* “Hi Baby, it’s mom, hopefully I can delete that. Your Dad is a wonderful person, he didn’t mean any of that.” Bea’s sniffles and wavering voice didn’t go unnoticed. Quickly pausing the tape, Joseph felt sick to his stomach.

Yanking the headphones out of his ears, Joseph ran down to his grandparents. He knew that if anyone would tell him the truth, it would be Lola and Lolo.

“Anak, how many times do I have to tell you, don’t run in the house,” Lola calmly explains while staring down at the stove. “You know, I’m making your favourite, Arroz Caldo, I heard you crying,” Looking up at Joseph, Lola furrows her brows. “Anak, are you okay? You look like you saw a ghost. Do you have a fever? It was something in that box huh? I will go throw everything out, go hang out with your Lolo-”

“Lola,” Joseph starts. “Can you be 100% honest with me?”

“Of course anak, I promise. What happened?” Growing more and more concerned, she turns off the stove.

“Well, what was Dad like?” Growing more and more anxious Joseph hangs his head low. Scared to look into Lola’s eyes.

“Oh well-”

“HE WAS AN ASSHOLE!” Lolo yelled from the living room. Getting up from his beloved rocking chair, “Your dad wasn’t a nice man.”

“Mahal, don’t say that!” Hitting Lolo on the arm with a spatula. “Your Lolo isn’t completely wrong though anak.”

“Then if he wasn’t a good man, what happened?” Joseph was desperate, pleading with them to tell him the truth.

Lola glanced at Lolo, her face speaking a thousand words alone. Lips pursed, brows furrowed, wrinkles more defined. “Anak, are you sure you want to know? You can never go back and look at your parents the same way ever again.”

“Yes Lola I’m sure, just please, please tell me.” Begging for answers, Lolo led all three of them to the living room.

“It was some random day in January I think,” Lolo recounted, “We were invited over for dinner by your parents. Your father was obviously not happy with Bea. Every sentence was used to belittle your mother. After a while he just got up and left.”

“Probably annoyed that no one agreed with him.” Lola muttered under her breath.

“Anyways your mom tried to check on him. But all we heard was him screaming at her ‘You're embarrassing me’ and ‘You could never be the person I need!’ Never ending jabs at your mother” Lolo scoffed.

For the next hour, Joseph learned the truth about his dad. The way he treated others was more terrifying than he could even begin to imagine. Using them, cheating on Bea, coming home drunk. William’s answer to every question was violence. It was a game of survival to him, strike first was his motto, and his target was anyone who dared to get in his way.

He only remembers the man that everyone loved on the outside. His dad, who played with him every chance he got. The one who would throw him up in the air and catch him. It’s as if the tapes threw him up in the air, bringing joy and closure to this chapter. But instead of catching him, the truth dug a hole through the earth and let him fall through it.

As scared as Joseph was he had to know more. There was a reason the package was sent to him. Someone knew his dad’s true side, and Joseph felt obligated to expose that side to the world.

“Joseph,” Lola’s calm voice interrupting his thoughts. “Be careful, you never know what you can uncover. I’m here for you but I can’t shield you from everything.” Lola warned.

Rushing up the stairs and down the hallway, the door slammed shut right behind him, Joseph dived for the last tape. His gut feeling being that whatever he was looking for is in that tape. Heart and mind racing a mile a minute, the last of Joseph’s innocence and youth slips away. His clammy hands make it difficult to do anything. Fumbling with the headphones, slightly tangling them in the process, he hits play not wanting to waste a second more.

November 21, 1988 8:17 pm - St. Helena, California

“Hi Joseph, it’s me, Mom. Right now it’s 8:17 pm. I’m sitting in the living room on your favourite couch, the huge cream one with a million throw pillows.” Bea whispers into the recorder, clearly on edge. She huddles in the corner of the couch, hiding from someone. A prey who knows it has no chance against the big lion. “Anyways, your father isn’t home yet so I’m recording this message just in case something happens to me. Your father isn’t who-”

“HONEY I'M HOME! DID YOU MISS ME? BECAUSE BOY, I HAVE SOME NEWS FOR YOU!” William screams are slurred. Stumbling from the entryway to the living room, his eyes find their target. “You know Darling~ I love you so,” William moves closer and closer to Bea’s face. His breath reeked of alcohol and smoke. Bea sinks deeper into the couch until it no longer gives way. “So tell me then my love~, WHY DO YOU KEEP EMBARRASSING ME!”

William grabs her by her neck, choking the life out of her damaged body. Feeling the life rapidly leaving her body, Bea prays a silent prayer for her son. As she slips out of consciousness, she feels a metal object underneath her fingertips. She recognizes the object as the gun she had secretly purchased in case this day ever came. Overcome with strength one can only assume came from God, Bea whips out the gun and points it right in between William’s eyes.

“No no no, honey please, please,” William sobs and begs. He lets go of Bea who takes a second to catch her breath. Still keeping the gun pointed towards him in the process. “I promise, I promise with my life that it won’t happen again. I’ll do anything- just please, don’t do this.” Animals like sobs course throughout the house. Every inch and crevasse is filled with pleads for his life.

Pausing for a second, Bea’s life flashes through her head. The good times from when they were young play back in her mind. Lips trembling uncontrollably, tears flowing down her face, the feeling of a heart attack. But then she remembered the man that he had become. She saw the evil that had taken over his body. The faces of all the women she had helped escape the reality that she was living in. All that energy stored in her system since the day it started. Pent up, just wait for the right moment.

“Darling, please, please thinking about-” *BAM*BAM*BAM*

The tape comes to an end. Hyperventilating was an understatement, a heart attack paled in comparison to how Joseph feels right now. Sweat dripped from his forehead on the cassette player. His trance was broken by a scream coming from downstairs. Although trembling, Joseph does his best to make it down.

“Oh my God! What are you doing here!” Lola shrieks. A woman dressed in all black is at his doorstep. Lola was hugging her and checking her whole body as if she was shot. Taking off her long black trench coat she steps inside looking back outside as if someone was watching her. Abruptly, her head turns to face him. Her eyes soften for a second, a small smile appears. Becoming more and more confused Joseph breaks the tension.

“Who are you?”

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framecaught · 4 years ago

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[S] Cascade After the Death of Flash

Most of us familiar with Homestuck are familiar with [S] Cascade. This seminal flash animation concludes Homestuck’s fifth act and is still considered by many fans the most important, climactic animation in the comic (even ahead of its successors [S] GAME OVER and [S] Collide).

Many of us may also be familiar with the extraordinary circumstances of the animation’s release. A user called Vivi on the now-defunct MSPA Forums made a commemorative comic documenting the occasion, which, to my view, really captures the essence of the release-mythos. In short: On October 25th, 2011, Homestuck updated after a year-long hiatus with a thirteen-minute flash called [S] Cascade. As fans raced to watch it, the influx of pageviews crashed Newgrounds, the site where the flash was hosted. Hussie temporarily uploaded the flash to megaupload.com. Megaupload.com crashed. The Homestuck website crashed; the Homestuck forum crashed; livestream.com crashed as fans who had “gotten in” tried to stream the video; and, finally, the Homestuck fandom crashed Twitter. [1]

Today, it is hard to imagine Homestuck fans crashing Twitter. Back in 2011, Twitter was a lot smaller, and Homestuck was a lot bigger. But it wasn’t just the long year of building anticipation and the mad scramble to watch the flash which cemented [S] Cascade as one of Homestuck’s most iconic pages. The Flash itself is aesthetically ambitious beyond any previous flash in the comic [2]. Not only does it combine detailed illustrations contributed by fan collaborators with an absolutely fire soundtrack; it manipulates the traditional Homestuck “panel” in a completely unique way.

Among the various stunning moments in the flash, I find Bec Noir’s dramatic release of the red miles one of the most memorable. The YouTuber Precision F-Strike captures my same reaction when I watched [S] Cascade for the first time in this video around 1:20, exclaiming: “My screen is getting bigger! My screen is getting bigger!!” What made this “expanding panel” trick so dazzling upon my first watch? The release of the red miles marks the first instance in which [S] Cascade modifies the traditional size of the Homestuck panel. By no means does it mark the first time the comic as a whole has deviated from its own standard panel size; elongated panels, multiple panels, and links-to-panels have all been regular features of the comic up to this point. However, [S] Cascade is the first page to modify the panel size during a Flash sequence, changing in motion. This novelty, combined with the surprise of the effect, sets the reader up to expect a flash of epic proportions—and [S] Cascade delivers.

After expanding for the red miles, the panel never quite shrinks down to its original size. For the rest of the animation, the plot unfolds within an extended panel-space ripe for dramatic exploitation. At 2:53 the panel shrinks back down to show Bec Noir’s journey to post-reckoning earth, then grows again to get back into the action. At 4:22 it shrinks and breaks into multiple panels to illustrate Bec Noir wreaking destruction in the troll’s session. The proliferation of these moving rectangles mimics a film reel, reminding us that we have technically already seen these events, but underscoring their importance as a conglomeration of memories for the trolls.

Transitioning to the human sessions’ Derse at 4:38, the panel blows up again to its traditional size and adopts an exterior “wallpaper.” This “wallpaper”, as I’ll call it, shifts with the content of the Flash for the next few minutes. It shows the exterior of Derse as Rose and Dave fly through, then it takes on the red and yellow colors of the quest beds; the black and white colors of The Tumor; the red and blue colors of the “mass of two universes” device; and finally the fleur-de-lis pattern of the Felt mansion. During the sequence between Sn0wman and Slick, at 6:08 Slick’s bullet actually pushes out the corner of the traditional frame, extending it back into the full extended-panel space. Then again, during the climactic moment at 10:02, panels grow and shrink and replace others, flashing in time with the soundtrack, drawing the plotlines together and anticipating the finger-frame with which Jade creates the Fenestrated Plane. The animation finishes with John and Jade busting through the Fenestrated Plane, which cycles through the comic’s own panels, culminating the meta-referential panel distortion with this final act of “escaping” from and through the Homestuck panels themselves.

As a result of the extended panel-space established at the release of the red miles, we get to experience the majority of [S] Cascade’s action (and gorgeous artwork) on an enlarged canvas. Just as we go to the cinema to see movies on the “big screen,” Homestuck deploys its own big screen at the start of the flash. Then, all the growing and shrinking between segments contributes to the narrative flow of the flash. The “shrunk” portions leave room for the panel to blow up again once the next climax comes. I think the “wallpaper” effect employed mid-flash is especially effective, as it allows Hussie to continue utilizing the extended panel-space while keeping the frame small in advance of the Sn0wman’s death, at which point it expands again. It’s also important to note how Hussie manipulates our other preconceived expectations, aside from panel size, to enhance the animation’s drama. The website itself gets a special [S] Cascade color scheme and header. In the unfamiliar layout of this Cascade-ified website, readers prepare themselves for the best and the worst—then their expectations are thrown off balance again, for good measure, with the expansion of the panel and the big-screen execution of the flash. With all of this in mind, it’s easy to see how [S] Cascade generated such a massive response.

As you may be aware, as of January 2021 Adobe has discontinued its support for Flash Player, with all major web browsers following suit. This means it’s near impossible to run flash content on any normal computer, and it won’t be long before flash only exists in archival projects. Luckily, the new denizens of the Homestuck website have worked to keep all of the story intact despite the changing media landscape, with some interactive flash pages broken down into videos or screencaps and animations converted to embedded YouTube videos [3]. If you are interested in experiencing Homestuck’s flash content as originally released, a fantastic project called the Unofficial Homestuck Collection has worked to archive the entire comic in a custom browser which natively runs Flash (all you need is 4GB of space on your computer and some time for the assets to download). This archive has been invaluable for my art historical investigation into the comic [4].

As it stands, though—unless forced by a concerned friend to download The Unofficial Homestuck Collection browser—new readers to Homestuck can’t experience the Flash games and animations in their original format. The same goes for folks rereading the comic. In the case of [S] Cascade, significant losses must be mourned. The effect set off by the red miles (the surprise and novelty of your “screen getting bigger”) is hampered by the embedded YouTube format. When you open the [S] Cascade page, now, it presents you with a mid-flash thumbnail, a YouTube play button, and YouTube framing elements such as a watermark and title (pictured above). You can’t avoid already seeing the extended panel-space of the flash page with this new format. Even though the panels within the embed begin in their “shrunk” state and grow to fill out the video frame, the expansion can never be a surprise to the same degree it was in the original Flash format. Flash animations were unornamented by watermarks, titles, and scrubber bars. They were so indistinguishable from regular static panels and gifs in terms of size, image quality, and framing that this gag (pictured below) actually worked. The indistinguishable quality of flash animations from regular gif panels created the necessary environment for [S] Cascade to surprise us by suddenly growing and filling the screen. That drama is inevitably lost in the flash’s new format.

On the other hand, the YouTube format presents some obvious benefits for readers. For one thing, you can now scrub back and forth in the animation, pause it, and even see its timestamps. This is beneficial to any reader who wants to revisit key moments and enormously helpful for someone like me analyzing the animation in detail. I would argue that the inability to pause the animation in its original format contributed to its monumental quality—readers couldn’t pause to breathe, and the comic took merciless control over the pacing—but of course the inability to pause something is also terribly inconvenient. Furthermore, the video format solves an issue that plagued Homestuck readers (including myself) throughout the comic’s lifetime: it’s inaccessibility on mobile devices. Adobe Flash famously failed to transition into the world of mobile touch-screens after Steve Jobs decided not to support it on the iPhone, writing a letter denouncing the software for its errors [5]. With Flash no longer functioning, the reformatted pages in Homestuck are all compatible with mobile devices, meaning readers can now enjoy the comic while lying sideways in bed like we always dreamed. Among other considerations, Adobe Flash was a complete pain to work with [6] for many large-scale projects, and its technical limitations cannot be ignored. On the whole, the death of Flash speaks to a greater evolution in our 21st century media sphere—the growing importance of mobile browsing, the shift from web-hosted games to apps and game launchers, and the increasing “convergence” of platforms into all-purpose devices. While much of Homestuck’s impact and charm resulted from its innovative use of Flash, like the example I’ve given in [S] Cascade, the unique bubble of history in which Flash existed should be fondly remembered and effectively preserved as we continue to navigate the comic’s legacy.

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[1] I unfortunately can’t say I was around for the original [S] Cascade release (I started reading the comic about two years too late). However, even during the Gigapause, what I’ve called its “release mythos” was still widely retold. The events themselves are documented here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/Cascade_(Homestuck). Thank you to @imploder for having saved Vivi’s comic on tumblr!

[2] Hussie wrote about the making of [S] Cascade on his tumblr, now archived here: https://wheals.github.io/tumblr/tumblr.html#about-eoa5-part-1. This gives some insight into the massive undertaking. Previously, the longest animation in Homestuck was [S] Descend, an animation which Hussie calls “Cascade Lite” in his author commentary in Homestuck Book 3. [S] Descend was the first animation to significantly incorporate multiple plotlines moving along at once. Hussie describes this narrative style as an “action-collage” (also in the Book 3 commentary). [S] Descend was also (to my recollection) the first time Hussie significantly incorporated assets from contributing artists into an animation, which he explained was partially to keep the production moving faster. Ironically, during the production of [S] Cascade, organizing contributors turned out to be much more of a hassle—but ultimately Hussie deems the myriad of captivating art styles “a big plus” in his post.

[3] Although some are completely broken, now :(. RIP silly flute refrain.

[4] I seriously cannot overstate how grateful I am for this project.

[5] This article does a great job of explaining the history of Adobe Flash and its eventual demise.

[6] Hussie goes over some of the issues he had with the software in the post referenced at [2]

#essay post #homestuck analysis #media studies #adobe flash #homestuck cascade

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seb-owns-these-tatas · 4 years ago

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Witcher of the Night (Chapter 20)

THIS IS MODERN ERA READER WHO WOKE UP IN THE DIMENSION OF THE WITCHER.

EARLY CHAPTER FOR WITCHER OF THE NIGHT. THIS SHOULD’VE BEEN POSTED ON SATURDAY BUT I DECIDED TO DO A DOUBLE UPDATE FOR ONE WEEK! EXPECT CHAPTER 20.1 ON SATURDAY! *wink wink*

CHAPTER 19

WOTN MASTERLIST

Characters: Geralt of Rivia x small!Naive!Reader

Summary: Maybe the curse has its own purpose for whatever fate you had with the witcher. Sensible responsibilities and a tie that has been knotted together with him that will surely affect both of your lives when chaos arrives.

Warnings: A kiss? (Unless y'all don't want to kiss Geralt so this can be a warning?) Curse words. Humans being judgemental bitches? Sweet, soft and protective Geralt? Petty, emotional reader? (She'll continue to be because of...reasons. Hehehe.) Eanraig asking personal questions. LMAO. Mention of Sylvan and Yennefer of Vengerberg.

Words: 5.3k

A/N: Early update for y’all! Double update for this week! Expect an update at around saturday or sunday! Heehee! FEEDBACKS WILL BE NICE TO SEE! MWAH! I still haven’t written the lost chapter for WOTN. There’s going to be a lost chapter that should’ve been in between chapter 16.1. I’ll write it soon. Heehee!

TAGLIST IS STILL OPEN FOR THIS ONE! Heehee! Don’t forget to REBLOG, COMMENT OR GIVE FEEDBACK IF YOU DID LOVE THIS CHAPTER! IT’LL MAKE ME SMILE! Sorry for the grammatical errors and such because English isn’t my mother tongue! PLEASE LEAVE FEEDBACK AFTER READING, BB! This is kinda a rough draft. I apologize for many errors.

Disclaimer: PNG’s and pictures used in edits are not mine even the GIF’s too. However, the edits and this fanfic is definitely from moi. Character development and personalities are based from my understanding and how I want them to be.(Credits to those who made the GIF’s. Some don’t have their watermarks included. I don’t remember where I’ve saved the others from)

MY WORKS ARE NOT NOT NOT NOT NOOOOOOT TO BE POSTED ON ANY OTHER WEBSITES. My official username in Wattpad is “TATATHEPOTATO” and that’s the only other site I have for writing aside from Tumblr. Thank you, Tater tots!

Being in the arms of a person you were finally realizing that you eventually loved gave a different kind of bliss rather than the sensual moments that you both had.

Knowing that you were in love with him---a divulgence that you have no plan of saying yet; for the fear of it being unrequited was keeping you back.

You weren't going to tell him your secret yet. No. Especially when you have been thrashed and battered; bleeding with their purpose for any truth to spill or lies that they wanted to hear.

Were you finally meeting heaven? Geralt has said words that you never expected him to; calling you his betrothed when there was no disclosure or label onto what relationship you both had.

Perhaps, he needed to claim you in that endearment because he was being threatened by the king? In order for you to live, he must be having a tight relationship with you or a reason that King Viduka can convince himself that you shouldn't be slaughtered.

They needed your witcher and Geralt has outsmarted them by telling that you were both engaged; his soon-to-be wife that you know has not been serious enough to say.

"Geralt," you meekly whispered, your breath hitting his neck with arms enveloping his shoulders as he carried you around the castle; it was a murmur that the knights weren't capable of catching while they guided you to where your temporary room will be.

"Where are they taking me?" a simple tremble of your throat gave Geralt a hint that you've been carried to places and rooms where they have hurt you; a place that they chose to clobber your innocent soul, "---Are they going..to hurt me again?"

There has been a usual hum that you managed to memorize from the witcher, hearing a disgruntled 'hmm' from the affronted question like he didn't like hearing the idea of his midget being rained blows on, "To a much more comfortable place than being held captive in the dungeons,"

"Did...Did you sealed a deal with the king? H-How will you find the witch who cursed the prince? you shouldn't have done it because I heard her location being undetected---"

The white wolf cut you off with a simple, frank honesty of his words; risking the hunt instead of letting them think of other ways for your sufferings. Never wanting another painful venture that would make his thoughts suffer in the end. He'd taken the chance of finding the witch rather than having the possibility of a fight with thousands of knights nor an attempt to let you escape from hundreds of horsemen out in the open.

"There was no other choice."

Your arms tightened around him when they've guided you both to take a turn, feeling more protected in his arms. Hence, the action made Geralt keep you closer to him afterwards; making you sadly smile from his hold because it felt farcical to even think that he was doing this for you out of such love that you were sure of feeling for him.

You could feel that this comfort you're feeling had repercussions based on what that sorceress has described him and from what future she sees if he'd really pick you.

Yennefer of Vengerberg was still out there. Geralt will surely pick a woman who wouldn't get to die easily because you were a mortal. He'd just give himself such dolor because you'll die first than him or better yet, you could be killed by anyone who wants you dead with just a snap of your head because of being vulnerable to their eyes and to their world; knowing nothing but to strive just like how normal people live on earth.

"You've done enough for me already. You should've just left me alone to die and protect Cirilla like how your future is planned---I probably shouldn't be even in your life, Geralt."

You could feel his golden eyes boring holes on your face because of the sudden principle you've plainly stated, the sound coming out of your nose like a faithless lie you abruptly believed in. His marches turned heavier with each step upon hearing your judgement. With a subtle shift of your eyes away from his chiseled face, your mouth fell into a tight frown just like how his tightened when he looked front as he walked.

"That's never going to happen, midget." the witcher gruffly grumbled, "---You saved Cirilla. You've given the bard a chance to move on from that hideous person he had,"

You didn't save anyone. You've only done what was right by being transported into a world that you didn't belong in. Your mouth was about to open when he'd quickly clipped a short additional comment that shut your mouth from the moment it was heard---your heart jumping in the exact time he was having his steps.

"---and you also saved me,"

A sarcastic snort concealed the rushing beat of your heart; not thinking it through and never believing the opinions inside your head. Choosing the pessimist side of your brain that kept you from trusting what your heart wanted to feel.

"From what? from keeping you silent? I'm just giving you a headache, I have been a complete burden to you,"

"No. You're wrong." you've shifted your eyes to see his forehead creased in the deepest wrinkle it can form, simply telling you that he was upset in a trice when it was a truthful answer.

Your attention went straight to the side of his face; narrowing your eyes at a fresh scar that weren't there the last time you've seen him---fingers aching to caress his disfigurement and having thoughts inside your head that he'd been hurt from his latest hunt with a monster. Digits stayed where they are, clasping them tighter with your own as you clung to your witcher.

Taking a dim view of his lour, his teeth was clenched tight as he fell silent---appearing to look like he wanted to say more but chose to keep it all to himself.

"Do not trust the sorceress or the queen. Just trust me, Eanraig and no one else in this castle,"

"Eanraig. He's the person who treated my wounds. Who is he?"

"A druid. A Scholar of the forest. Trust no one but me or him, understand?" he stated firmly as he ceased his steps, standing before a fairly large double, wooden doors whilst the gallants unlocked them. Geralt's words were left in a soft mumble that you didn't realize he would be competent of, sounding like he was giving sheer comfort over his undiplomatic rejoinder.

"---Because in their eyes, you are alike of my kind. A woman who is lost in our world and has opened a portal for undefeatable monsters; a key for adding more chaos that this world can ever bring,"

The doors to your room has been opened, one knight coming right in rather than the both of you who had permission to stay in chambers; his voice becoming a mere whisper of his baritone, rough timbre that didn't caught your hearing when a knight suddenly talked out loud for the chevalier inside.

"---but, not to me."

The horseman has given Geralt a pithy nod of his head to direct him in. He set him aside when he'd pass by him; seeing how gigantic and bigger that the witcher was compared to both chevaliers. Your witcher's face masking in a vacant expression which they have ridiculed him when he'd gently placed you down on a soft bed that you immediately examined; catching sight of golden, silk sheets for such a large bed; the physical sensation of what a bed brought was bringing you forty winks from the ache everywhere in your joints.

"I'll bring them what they want to keep you safe. They can hurt me, make me bleed to death---" you've blinked your left swollen eye to see Geralt hovering on the side, his simple actions of skimming his fingers through your tangled hair in a surreptitious manner, the wide-broad back shielding his succors from the knights that still didn't leave the room; keeping you both under their guard which will surely get a scolding from the witcher himself after assisting you to your bed.

"---yet, I will not afford to see it from you again."

Geralt never gave you a chance to speak as he fully stood on his feet, wandering over to where one knight was standing, watching over you both and never intending to give privacy. The witcher had a scowl on his face as he sauntered over to where they were, shooting daggers at them when they firmly stood on their ground.

Emanuel, the persistent gallant firmly straightened his back; peering back at the witcher who was taller and giving him a silent, brooding death stare. Never batting an eyelid as he mutely tried to let them understand his wishes to be alone with you. Emanuel continued to quietly hector, leveling with Geralt's intimidation as he stared straight back at him; thoroughly impertinent by what he wanted.

"Leave her chambers." the white haired witcher lowly grumbled, emitting a gruff groan in the back of his throat when he heard the trifling knight be headstrong towards him.

Their conversation made you try to lift yourself up from the bed, whimpering and complaining from the twinging sensations that your injured body has been giving. You didn't need another fight to occur between Geralt and some knight; his slaughtering has been enough and you didn't need anymore people dying on your hands. Thus, you've faintly called for your witcher's name; distracting his annoyance or anger from butchering another set of horsemen.

He wouldn't kill them. They just needed to be pushed away.

"How about no, Mutant?" Emanuel taunted back, snappy and utterly offhand which made Geralt raise a brow.

He sighed to himself, rolling his eyes at his comeback and carelessly grabbed onto his shoulders. Using his strength that not any other normal human has, Geralt pushed him out of the doors with a forceful shove; letting him stumble and fall on his other friend who'd grunted out loud when they both fell outside and onto the castle floors.

"I didn't ask."

The witcher hastily slammed the doors shut, fastening the bolts and when he'd hung onto the latch, an ample amount of curses has been given to him; more demeaning and vociferous words that he surely has been used to from people who hated his kind and brushed them off despite the thunderous knocking from behind closed doors.

He took quick strides to where you where; leaning on the headboard of the bed. You've seen his leather bag resting off the sides---specifically, under the bed which got you staring at him as he does so, still cherishing his presence, what his whole being was worth to take a shine to and for acclaiming that this otherworldly human was a person you were in love with.

The idea of being away from him swatted a sting to your chest; how going back to earth will be the death of you if it eventually happens---and if it was a future you were bound to come back to.

You've given the witcher a solemn smile, your true feelings currently kept as a secret until it was the right time to tell. Geralt was crouching beside you, scouring through his leather bags until you've seen him take out a transparent witch bottle that had flamingo colored extract inside; the stuff was familiar to you and remembering what effects it has given; such vile taste began to drip on the tip of your tongue, making you shake your head that you ought to spurn.

Yet, also making the heat run to your face because of how you remembered how he'd let you take the pain by forcing the potion to drizzle on your skin, softly kissing your lips to distract you from it as he took care of your wounds back then.

Your eyes turned into big saucers; shakily bringing out a hand to cease his actions. Geralt took note of your sudden response, his head slightly turned to the side as he watched you panic with his composed expressions, "I---I---I know that medicine! I thought the last potion you made for me was...the last?"

He gave an impressed raise of his brows, thankful that your head hasn't been forced to forget or banged against a wall that'll give you amnesia, "I've mixed potions for humans ever since you came. Jaskier seldom wounds himself when he has his lute. But, he can take a spell when he is stubborn enough. However, you---you can be clumsy as an impaired Sylvan,"

You could feel he was trying to stifle a smile from his last metaphor, remembering memories in his past that certainly has given him entertainment. The witcher took the cork using his teeth, spitting the top of on the side as he began to reach out and point it on your unhealed wounds surrounding your chest, lightly covering the scar on your chest that reminds you of him because of the same symbol he has on his necklace.

"Geralt! Don't you...Don't you dare!"

The latter stopped midway to give you a teasing scowl, "You have a habit of saying my name when you are refusing to follow my wishes, midget."

"It's because I'm fine!" you squeaked and planned to get away from him when he'd gently took hold of your wrist, keeping you in place; profoundly staring into your eyes in disbelief.

"You have been tyrannized and can hardly move any of your limbs. Then, you say you are fine?"

The white wolf outreached for the collar of your ruined, bloody sweater, gently pulling them down for the upper valley of your breast to be displayed to him. He felt you yank his hand away to pout back at him. It made Geralt hum in sheer interest and surprise; your refusal to be cared for, humoring his guts because it seemed like you were upset over other things he couldn't decipher.

"Hmm." he gravely hum as you've seen his lips curl into a small, firm smile while he tightly had the elixir on his hand, inserting a quip after being in the presence of your unreasonable and disobliging self yet again.

"---Must you still be shy with me after everything we had?"

You've given him silence, squinting your eyes back at him as a form of reply.

Geralt sighed a deep one as he closed his eyes; not knowing what was making you grumpy and cranky at the same time. He'd open his glowing peepers to greatly gaze back in utter tranquility, beating you off with whatever silent challenge has been going on. Thus, those amber have taken a peep over your bruised lips, creating a face of disapproval before seeing him lean his head forward and over your face.

"You're not going to---to---give me a kiss as a form of distraction! If you think I'm a thirsty lady---"

One light peck to the lips was all he needed to shut you up. He was gentle, almost felt like he was tickling the pain because there was no ache as he kissed you. Geralt brushed his lips on yours; delicate and utmost promising. The action being a verbal persuasion for words that has not been set out in public---also, a belief inside your heart that wanted to listen to her own theories that your alter-ego tries to brush off.

The softness of his lips left yours with a brush of his warm breath, slimly creating space between you both when he leaned his forehead on yours, his nose grazing to let you feel his worries over what happened whilst he mumbled whispers of fidelity that were only a mere chance of hearing from the witcher himself.

"You...don't know how dreading it was to not see you wandering around our home---coming back and being welcomed by a bleeding bard and Cirilla scared to her wits,"

He'd promptly closed his eyes, gliding the roughness of his thumbs over the linear of your jaw; tender and comforting as he caressed; hearing him breathe calm, deep inhales that were adding mental repose over your aching body. The latter ought to touch your sore body with a profound gentleness he didn't knew he had when Geralt heard light, padded marching coming forth to where you both have been ensnared in.

"Eanraig," the witcher nonchalantly acknowledged, being in the right time as he stood up to his feet and cutting the moment short with you before Eanraig can even barge in without knocking; using such magic to open the locks to their doors that had Geralt humming in displeasure when he saw a look being given to him; mentally asking if he was interrupting something.

Geralt's frown just tightened more as they both stared at each other while you have given Eanraig a cordial smile; remembering that he was also one who has treated your wounds when it felt to be needed.

The Druid slammed the door shut with a simple flick of his hand, casting such occult practices that has fastened the bolts back in a tight lock; creating a force shield over the doors which can't let people from the outside, hear whatever was being talked about in the chamber.

"I've heard from Ingrith that you both are cursed together," Eanraig frankly spoke as matter of fact.

At the mention of that, Geralt couldn't help but narrow his eyes on the scholar, showing him his curiosity and bewilderment, "By who?"

His fellow acquaintance shared a guileless smile, "By what, is what you probably mean,"

"The Djinn," Geralt hoarsely bleated incoherently, exhaling frustrations about what he was getting a gist of the conversation.

The Djinn was certainly a snake in the grass just like how Jaskier mentioned, he silently thought to himself. His focus on the scholar turning sharper from what he was being elevated about.

Eanraig gave him a nod, "You were trying to send her home," pause. "---Warp of the souls. A curse made for two destined people. Unless, it still isn't permanent."

Keeping quiet as they talk; holding the chafe of your bruises all to yourself. Your attention jumped from Geralt to Eanraig. Confounding with the topic at hand because of your sudden apprehension towards the whole ordeal.

A curse. You were under a curse right now and Geralt wanted to send you home as well.

Your eyes shot at the witcher's wide broad back, shooting a glare at his infuriating, beautiful white hair; wanting nothing but to grab onto some scissors and cut his tresses because of reasons that was worth to strangle him---which you doubt it can even happen. Geralt subtly eye you in his peripheral vision because he could feel you shooting daggers at him and it left him utterly confused as he shifted his attention over you who laid behind him and Eanraig who stood before the doors, strolling closer to the both of you.

"Were you both in heat? Does anything feel strange?"

"I know what she feels. Everything."

Eanraig crossed his arms, raising an arm to touch his grizzled white beard. His gaze condemnatory for his next question that caught the witcher off-guard, "Did you bed her?"

Geralt raised both of his brows and let out an intriguing hum of his deep timbre, your focus on his reply but also making you feel giddy and bashful over the Druid's rash interrogation. Your eyes squinting and continuously giving the back of the witcher's head a death stare when you kept your mouth shut and let him do all the short talking for the first time in forever.

"Hmm."

His dawdling form of response got the Druid scratching his temples for such a dishonest answer that he rarely receives from him, "It has a process before the curse lasts forever, there is no refund or whatsoever. Maybe it might have had reasons for creating such process," Eanraig stated and avoided to tell a sensitive topic that can get Geralt running for the hills if he immediately knew what reasons that the Djinn has held you both; such sensible responsibility that could challenge your unspecified relationship with him.

A child. His very own child. The witcher won't take the news in the best way that he can. Especially, Geralt of Rivia.

The druid couldn't help the grin growing on his wrinkly face, repeating his query a lot more genuine than he can get, "Now, did you bed her?"

"What does this have to do with the Djinn?"

Eanraig couldn't help but suddenly chuckle under his breath, never receiving a proper answer from Geralt that was surely entertaining his day; "This is a curse that only a djinn can do, not any sorceress nor wizard," his chortles eventually died down as he turned serious, wanting a real answer to know if you both will be expecting a neonate that will bring miracles to their world.

Beautiful but daunting miracles that nobody can ever read in the future---not even a fortune teller can as everything was being blocked by the power of the genie.

"So, answer the question," he patiently asked the witcher with such enthusiasm that Geralt couldn't comprehend.

"---Did you bed her, witcher?"

Geralt was completely finding his questions strange, his scowl faltering as it changed into a wince receiving a strange question out of all the queries he can ever ask.

"Yes."

Lifting your head away from the headboard, you've given them both looks of incredulity; disbelieving that they were talking about both of your sensual lives like it was nothing which you really are sensitive and conservative about. The knives being thrown behind Geralt's back becoming bigger as you rolled your eyes for his short, indecipherable acknowledgement---concealing the whole, sudden irritation you had for him because of your shabby, emotional self.

"What? Did he get me pregnant or something?" you peeked behind Geralt's body to send the druid your jesting question, igniting no harm over it because of how important Eanraig was making it seem about asking a question as if he has knocked you up or something.

The sudden witticism has made Geralt slightly turn his body to give you the side eye, head-shaking as he does so with a sarcastic smile like he'd been insulted.

"You're being unreasonable, Midget."

You've turned your head to the side, trying to get his dander up from his 'sending you home moment' that the druid has honestly and bluntly said out to the two of you; catching Geralt's true feelings over you despite of his lies over calling you important and his home that he would gladly come back to.

"I'm asking Eanraig not you, Geralt."

He still has his body slightly turned to you, narrowing his golden eyes and shaking his head more firmer like a warning sent to your sudden attitude.

"You know I can't. Stop this nonsense,"

Your bruised mouth was in a tight straight line, going on with your narrow-minded self---steady to be adding more ungenerous quips that certainly was vexing the witcher because he'd send you a tight grimace that doesn't scare you, "But, using a Djinn and trying to send me home isn't nonsense after telling that you find home in me?" you scoffed in the middle of being glared at.

"---I didn't know you meant it literally, Geralt of Rivia."

The white wolf hadn't really gotten to dodge from your sudden verbal attacks. Though, the scowl you've received from him was the nastiest out of all the rest today. Yet, he didn't plan nor given you one back as he bit his tongue for even thinking through his temper just like how he did before---wanting not to commit in another mistake that he will surely regret in the end again.

Geralt bit his tongue harder, clenching his teeth together before he spoke with his fangs slipping out behind his lips---appearing to be like he was trying not to growl his frustrations out for your sudden hostility.

"It was before I even knew that you...you can be considered as my home, Midget," he'd given you a gaze; a knowing one that tells you he won this verbal fight of your petty snarks because he had wished for that before the Djinn was even on your hands---not after the wishes happened.

"K." you curtly answered, defeated. The side of your wounded lip slightly lifting as you added a moniker that will surely infuriate him as in the end.

"...Witcher,"

Geralt's lowest pitch of a quieted growl vibrated through his chest, looking at you threateningly from your obdurate answer.

Eanraig couldn't help but shift his head from one person to the other, gaping at the both of you and heedful of the vexation that suddenly surrounded you both. Did he do something then? the druid asked in the back of his mind when you were both staring at each other---if looks would kill, you were both already in a tough fight over what war was happening.

The scholar of the forest awkwardly cleared his throat, snapping the uncomfortable atmosphere by educating everyone in the room with his slight knowledge over the curse.

"Very well then, so much for making it permanent. You've probably did as much as you could considering how lecherous the witcher can get from his overly developed mutations,"

Geralt turned his body back to the druid in one's own good time, a coy smile plastered on his face---so feigned that the witcher felt like he was faking it too weakly over being verbally attacked as well by his acquaintance who elegantly told him that he was created to be a horny man in his life and continuous to be so.

Until he developes some sort of erectile dysfunction that nobody even knows yet.

Eanraig choked in his own words when Geralt stepped a foot closer to the druid, his glowing eyes squinted and never knowing what he was thinking as he gave an intimidating frown that made the druid swallow his words down in the back of his throat, his mood certainly ruined from your petty vantage point.

"This...This curse has its purpose, you will never love any other man or woman. Never. Not anyone can overcome the memories you had with him or her. The feelings are growing deeper each day. Hatred if the djinn may see fit. Affection. Care. Love. You are lucky if both of your feelings are real and true because if hatred comes with it---even vanquishing the affection you have? It'll make you forget that you even had feelings for each other because you'll end up unhappy and trying to kill each other off,"

Eanraig peeked behind Geralt to see you blinking in curiosity, "---unfortunate for a human like her. If he does hate you, little woman."

"---Also remember, if one of you dies---which I doubt for the witcher. Then, you will feel as if your heart has been taken away from you. Deep heart break. Pain shall take its course, every day that you may wake up will be memories of her, inhibiting pain and more ache at the memory of her dead." he continued and noted how Geralt has fallen in silence with a jaw clenched tight, "---you will be unhappy and in despair for this fleeting happiness that the djinn has set you both in,"

"and---" Eanraig's thoughts were ceased when the butcher of Blaviken spoke with an unyielding emotion set in his eyes; serious and wary of what kind of people were surrounding you as for the mean time.

"I won't let her die."

"But, what if its inevitable?" the scholar bluntly said it out in the open, making Geralt calmly let out a breath as he had his lips in a tight line, thrusting his jaw forward in subtle determination while Eanraig continued to utter his protests.

"Ingrith and Queen Makeda wants her dead, Geralt. You know you won't be finding the witch in five days!"

"I'll give them their shitty hag, Eanraig." The witcher muttered in final, his goals thoroughly set to find the witch that you have warned him about. Must it be a trap, you may never be quite sure as it was only been said by the prisoner who stayed in the same dungeon with you.

Geralt sounded to be too stubborn to listen and it appeared to be like there was no other way for you to be set free unless he finds the witch or fake one woman in order to keep them off your hair.

"Alright, then."

The druid left it at that. Sighing hard for his mullish and keeping his mouth shut for anything that can keep the witcher distracted throughout his hunt.

Geralt turned on his heels, seeing you crossing your arms like an upset, lady who had her mouth pursed so long that it made him take a gander over your cranky, battered state. His brows raised as he deeply muttered, inspecting your body language whilst pondering over ways how to keep you conciliated when you were seething before him like a feral kitten. His vicious, grouchy midget that was needed to simmer down.

"Interesting."

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greenleaf-starbright · 4 years ago

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The Navarone Ship Manifesto (part 1)

Classic Saturday afternoon men-on-a-mission WW2 classic The Guns of Navarone (1961) is a love story.

This fandom has about eight people in it, and I think that’s a tragedy.

Soft spoilers throughout

Miller/Franklin – 10/10

Canon. It’s really hard to imagine what the cast and crew thought they were doing, if they weren’t writing a love story. This was not what I expected to find when I first watched this film, but it single-handedly makes me understand why people ship, and I’ve never experienced anything like it again. I’d really like to participate more in fandoms which have other people in them; but this is my high watermark and it is, in every sense, what is meant by the term OTP.

It’s hard to say much about this ship because we see so little of it; at the same time it is the literal plot of the film, the still center around which everything else turns. If you would like a fuller ship manifesto, there’s a 2hr video about it and it’s called The Guns of Navarone (1961)

So canon that the director and Gregory Peck are both on record describing the film as a love story. Why the world is sleeping on this lost queer classic I do not understand.

Stavros/Mallory – 9/10

Trash fire angst ship. The can’t live with each other, can’t live without each other, moving as one like a well-oiled machine, so intimate as to be telepathic, ecstasy of love-and-death disaster. The “I have sworn to kill you when the war is over” ship. The “in an act of Freudian displacement, I have accidentally killed your wife” ship. The “so widely known to be fucking that HQ sends him straight to your hotel room, but you’re such an effective pair that we turn a blind eye to it” ship.

I struggle to see this as a happy ship, and perhaps that’s my failing. There’s a reason why the film is centered on breaking up this relationship and getting both halves into a healthier pairing. This clearly runs on cold-dark-nights-on-stakeout lust and mutual admiration for the others’ tactical brilliance. They’ve both gone off the deep end with war, and maybe need Maria and Miller respectively to pull them back towards humanity. They cannot lie to one another, but then again, they do not need to.

Still, given MacLean’s fondness for “with one motion, everyone in the squad knew exactly what to do, responding perfectly in time to dispatch the whole unit of unsuspecting enemies with grim efficiency” descriptions, can you imagine the pornography?

Stavros/Maria - 8/10

i.e. the ship for bisexuals whose primary orientation is killing Nazis. Love-at-first-sight relationship of few words and deep feeling, and honestly? I love it. Both are taciturn Greek underground fighters who, perhaps more than any other characters, know what it is to live under occupation, and what must be done to resist it. Maria is the only person to make Stavros smile on screen – she’s straight-talking where Mallory is duplicitous, and they have a shared grief for Greece as an actual place, not a war prop. I see this as probably the most healing relationship in the film, and like they have a future as a legendary antifascist power couple.

& I think it’s also significant in terms of Stavros’ character arc that he ends the film with someone who wants to go back to Navarone to rebuild its destroyed cities and protect civilians from the vengeance of its occupiers, rather than just killing and killing for its own sake.

Anna/Maria – 7/10

Resistance babes. Resistance leader Maria is maternal, protective, trying to live up to the shadow of her father, and wears her heart on her sleeve. Anna’s orientation is trauma, shaped by her time in captivty, unable to speak, and refusing to show her bare skin where she is scarred. There is so much you can do with the limited setup we have; from the way their relationship changes pre- and post- captivity, to the challenge of writing survivor sex (or non-sexual romantic intimacy) in a way that’s compelling and non-cliche, to adventures in spying, distributing aid, and blowing up bridges.

Anna/Mallory – 2/10

Canon. There’s more chemistry between Miller and his comedy explosive rat prop. Please, somebody stop the heterosexuals making films.

To be continued in Part 2

#guns of navarone

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amisbro · 6 years ago

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The UtaPri Twitter fandom

MIGHT have uncovered something recently that is quite interesting! First off take a look at this tweet of the visual https://twitter.com/utapri_official/status/1075767965855866880 When you look at it its pretty normal right? NOTHING could be out of the realm of normal right? You’d be wrong! So I want you to take a look at these two tweets next

https://twitter.com/CecilLoveMail/status/1075774725379387394 https://twitter.com/EinA_17/status/1076335191990259713 What do you notice? Well here is what we figured out STARISH was a ♥ QN was a ♦ And HEAVENS IS A ♠ Now we got people now taking those parts of a visual now and trying to piece this together “Who is the ♣?” The reason they are trying to figure this out is because if you stitch them all together they form the ♣ and NOW it gets interesting once again in the family! I dunno if it was intentional BUT Broccoli made each group arrangement a suit from a deck of cards and the formation comes up with one other. Now we don’t know (YET!) if this is going to be a thing to do with a new Rival group BUT I have had a bit of a theory that spins all the way back to S2 Remember this: It was back in Season 2 when both HEAVENS and STARISH had their futures at stake by their Presidents! If either group lost they were to disband per the agreement made. Has anyone thought about why they would agree to this? I have a theory Raging was willing to risk HEAVENS because in the back of his mind he knew he had another group at the ready to take their place. The problem is that Shining basically forced him to take HEAVENS back because of the fact he didn’t honor the whole stipulation to begin with! Now keep in mind that SHINING did this and Raging was hella pissed off that he had to take back the then trio...this comes up later when we get to the Triple S When HEAVENS returned at the end of Season 3 we know they were a 7 person group. In my mind HEAVENS’ story goes like this HEAVENS was a set of pawns in a very dangerous game with Shining and Raging and ,if we played Chess we know that the weakest pieces ARE the pawns...unless you get them across the board but that’s a whole other story! Raging was willing to gamble them the first time because he didn’t want them and when we get to Season 4 its even more clear...some other stuff is very clear though too! If you really think about and analyze it almost the ENTIRE SEASON is based around the Raging Agency and also the fact that ,for the most part, Shining is not heard hide nor hair from up until the end...but we’ll get to that in a bit. Think about something for me: Who was the one that introduced the “Duet Project”? That would be Raging Ootori was it not? What was Raging’s purpose for this? HE wanted to see STARISH destroyed! If you noticed in almost all instances he was the one manipulating things because HE was the one that approached Tokiya and tried to mess with him to convince him to go to Raging Entertainment...something I will remind you that Eiji WAS NOT cool with! The big divide comes in “NEXT DOOR” though Alright let’s reopen this mess because we need to re-examine some things In the actual “NEXT DOOR” episode what happened BEFORE the blackout in the Ootori house? Eiichi was pretty cheerful when he was talking with Otoya if I remember right was he not? It seems to me that he genuinely wanted to be friends with the STARISH Leader but Otoya...ehh he didn’t know how to take it and I can respect that! If we think about how that episode went down Eiichi was in a good mood until Raging came in ,put his hands on his son, and also berated HEAVENS saying that their SOLE PURPOSE was to destroy STARISH but they weren’t actually down for that...it seemed that MOST of them at that time wanted the opposite! Now we have had this discussion about the whole thing with the report that Eiichi had and about him “separating Otoya from STARISH”. Let me give you a take I have Yes Oto got in the car to go to the “Training Camp” with Eiichi...here are the things we never found out (and yes I hate plotholes too) - When Eiichi mentioned he got permission from Shining to take Oto for the camp was he telling the truth? Well the easy answer would be to say “no” but let’s really think about and analyze this because there is a lot to look at and unpack here Its easy to say that Eiichi lied to manipulate the situation but what if he didn’t? WHAT IF he went into the office of Shining Saotome and asked him if he could take Oto for the camp AND Shining gave him the report? These are things we don’t know so its hard to say that he just flat out “invaded his privacy”. I also had this thought that goes like this Think about these sequence of events Shining and Raging show up for the introduction of the “Duet Project” Raging specifically is the one to introduce it (with his goal to screw over STARISH) During “NEXT DOOR” however after being manhandled...Eiichi goes to see Shining to ask his permission to go do the camp with one caveat: If stuff goes bad then Shining will help HEAVENS at a later time. Now you can think I am crazy with this line of thought BUT I need you to think about something for me Did you notice when STARISH (and QN) heard about what happened to HEAVENS that STARISH was the ones to deliver the song to HEAVENS and that QN was the one to speak up to prevent the DQ for HEAVENS’ no show? Now if I’m going to be your “Rival” I want a win no matter how nefarious the means were right? Remember this though When Eiichi learned of Oto’s disappearance he was beside himself because his idea of how to really get a song out for the duet project went pear shaped and he was BEYOND MAD! The scene in the office told me that Eiichi had a reason for no fear with his dad because of why? Well I think he talked to Shining to get HEAVENS out of there! THIS almost gets really punctuated when you remember that QN prevent the DQ and Otoya was arguably the most vocal in saying that HEAVENS would be at the Triple S no matter what! AND HE WASN’T WRONG! NOW...here is where we have some fun and really play with things Answer me this: HEAVENS belongs to Raging Entertainment right? So Raging has every right to pull them off the stage when they go to perform “Legend Star” right? So the question is this “WHY DID SHINING SHOW UP TO BLOCK RAGING FROM DOING IT?!” My theory is he remembers what was discussed with Eiichi BUT maybe he wanted them to go back with Raging for one more project...and that is this Shuffle Unit! Oh but here is where it gets good There is an expression I remember hearing as a kid “What is good for the goose is good for the gander” In other words: PAYBACK TIME! What if this project is being done at the Shining Agency and the three units have to live together for it? What if Shining convinced QN to come back to their dorms to help tutor HEAVENS (which would blow a hole the size of the Grand Canyon into the “HEAVENS’ role is to make STARISH better” thing I hear all the time) and the idea is that for Maji Love Kingdom in that dome the three Units are working together to put on the show of a lifetime in the dome! BUT I think Raging has a new group in his back pocket and we just don’t know it yet! 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Its NOT just relegated to the HEAVENS section of the site and I do believe I have seen a watermark on it that said “Saotome Gakuen”...I don’t think in any of the others they ever watermarked them as “Raging Entertainment”! COULD they be working to something where Shining takes them in and then Raging brings in a new rival group? Its more possible than you think and IF THEY DO don’t be surprised if there is finally a rival composer to Nanami because honestly...THAT is something we need! All of this is speculation though. I’m just going off of things I have seen and read and I could be WAY OFF! The thing is we have well over 5 months to piece together this brand new mystery and its one I am looking forward to working with you on Take care

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Holy shit, the Homestuck map was updated!! It's been 48 years! Finally!

Blaperile and I agree that the Masterpiece is probably going to be called just that. Maybe in Caliborn's all caps quirk, too.

And I think A6A6A2 might be called "LAND OF SOMEONE'S HANDIWORK I TOOK", heheh.

The rest remains to be seen. Will the Credits be shown separately? I think so. Would Act 7 just be called "ACT 7", or like Blaperile thinks have the sub title "Thanks for playing"? Maybe it will be "The Ultimate Reward"!

Also, I highly doubt it, but it would be neat if the Snapchat updates got their own section.

I also wonder what colour Act 6 Act 6 and Act 7 will be given, since they're on a separate "cartridge" than the previous parts of Homestuck. (Maybe the Credits will be on their own, seeing as their "container" is not a game or CD anymore, but rather a smartphone.)

Lastly, I wonder if each of the "sections" under Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 4 will be from a separate point in the timeline that John jumps too.

For that matter, I wonder if the big Retcon is perhaps designated in a special manner, too? Unlike the Critical Moment or the claiming of the Ultimate Reward, it isn't a separate flash, but it is however the final part of a sub component of the story.

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Ah come on, Andrew added a designation/sub division for the Pre- and Post-Scratch timelines! Heh, two sides of a fourth wall. Why not an unscratched disc and a scratched one, though? Okay, granted, that's already in use for the "Discs" of Homestuck. So that seems to support my theory that the Pre- and Post-Retcon timelines might be designated differently too? Maybe "Side 3", heh. (Also, I don't think the sides are about the children being inside and then later escaping the story, since it's the fourth wall that John and Jade broke through being used as the logo, not the white endgame house.)

Ah, yup, Act 6 marks Side 2. Heh, it seems like such a small hole they made in the pane, come to think of it. I'd forgotten about the "split Act_6" command above Act 6 Act 1. What's it going to be for Act 6 Act 6, then? "Shatter", perhaps? The kids were once again scattered, isolated on their separate planets, by both the glitches and the Condesce's mindcontrolled drones Jane and Jade.

It marked Caliborn's attempt at turning the whole story in a game of pool, in that manner, you know. I... made that observation before on Tumblr in the past.

Part 3 of Homestuck starts together with Act 6. I suppose this means Act 6 Act 6 will be contained within Part 4 together with the conclusion of the story.

Pfff, looking back at the icons of the sequences, I forgot the start and end of the Jailbreak section were marked by quasi-identical images like that.

Blaperile poses a good question, what would the pseudo-symbols for the Act 6 Act 6 subacts be? Maybe just Caliborn's head each time, like what was shown in the manual for the A6A6A6 cartridge, heheh.

I knew it! Part 3 and Disc 2 both end with A6I5. (And Side 2 continues.)

Don't you just love that even grouping the fractal act structure is made into something confusing by Andrew, using Parts and Discs and Sides? Heheheheh. Oh, right. "Sides". Like sides A and B of a record. Or a disc, you could say. But in this case, there are more discs than sides, pfffff.

Another good question by Blaperile, which symbols will be placed underneath Part 4? Mayb the god tier symbols of the kids + symbols of the surviving trolls? But then, Vriska wouldn't be featured. Hmm... Tough matter. Also, what the name for the next "disc" might be is also up for speculation. (Before we scroll further down on the page and read it.) Disc 3 is inaccurate but least confusing. Cartridge 1 would be most accurate but lame. Let's settle for Cartridge 3. :P

Ooooh, split Act_6_Act6 it is! Hah, okay, and it uses Caliborn's theme colour! Oh yeah... That's right, it's because that was also the colour of the shitty curtains he used, that never stopped being a thing.

Oooooh, part 4 is designated by Caliborn's and Alt Calliope's filled cheek swirls. That's actually really fitting, given the theme of predomination at play. I hadn't thought of that. Heh, okay, as I should've seen coming, A6A6A1's title is "Homosuck". And for some reason, not one but TWO cheek swirls are used as the pseudosymbol.

So, the cartridge art is not the art for the sub act, but for the last sequence, and it's Caliborn's gloating pose instead. Fitting too.

Oooh, what's that? A6A6A1 wasn't part of a disc, but after the cartridge gets inserted, we get a new designator...

What would the name for A6A6I1 be, last guess?

... "Stardust". That's a less direct reference to the glitches than I would've thought. ... Instead of just Cartridge it says "Supercartridge", pffffff. That's probably the name used in the manual. Putting Grimbark Jade on the cover really sells the events in the sub intermission, by the way.

So, will the line for the Supercartridge perhaps not end with Act 7, but instead A6A6I4? When John blows it out of the slot? :) ... Wait, no, Blaperile reminds me Lil Seb put the thing back. (Where it came from.)

Perfectly chosen symbols for A6A6I1 sequences, by the way.

... Oh god yes. The acronym's not even spelled out, but A6A6A2 is named after LOSHIT. Called it!

That pseudosymbol though. Perfection. And indeed, once more a unique symbol.

Ahahahah, it's fitting this sub act has so many Johnfaces to go with it. (Matching icons for you and your squad.)

A6A6I2 = "theres problems" Ooooooh, yeah! Those are actually indeed the arc words to go with this sub act, with all the events leading up to the next intermission (which starts with [S] Game Over), like everyone meeting up on LOFAF.

Looking further ahead, I think Lord English's face (specifically in his "sprite form") will be the icon for A6A6A6, by the way.

And perhaps A6A6A3 is called "GAME OVER, KID", to go with "GAME OVER"? Or like Blaperile speculated, a manga reference.

... Oh. Well, yeah actually, that title does make "more" "sense" (in context). Oooooh, perfect art and pseudosymbol, too! I was just thinking of Caliborn's watermark, but in the context of whether they could serve as the act title. "Original act title, do not steal".

If my eyes don't fool me, it seems the icon for Game Over might be partially green to show it transfer from act to intermission in the same flash! Awesome. (Though the art doesn't give much away about the events in the flash, perhaps for the better.)

Hmm... Blaperile's right, it's kind of strange the events post-game over warrant so many of their own images.

Act 6 Act 6 Act 4 is called "Dark night of the feelings", pfff. I was wondering how Caliborn "moping" and feeling especially "emotional" as an artist could be translated to a good title. Oooh, and there's the CalCoin logo as the pseudosymbol - well, for a second, I'd wondered whether CalCoin would've been used as the title for this intermission...

I'm glad Caliborn's "Pure Art Skill" (and the art style of that sequence) is immortalized in icon form, by the way.

Ooooh, Blaperile was right, A6A6I4 is called F1X TH1S, hahahah. We're almost at the end! Just 5 more acts / intermissions to go, including the credits!

I like how both Rose's and Aranea's death judgment is featured on the map. Them being so close behind each other makes for a nice contrast.

Plus I like that Shelby's art is also featured.

Ooh, and like I speculated, each jump of John's warrants its own icon. R3UN1ON, Lemonsnout interrogation, MOM3NT...

Pfff, the line of icons going "John judging the scarf list - Gamzee is caught O_O - Making out underneath a cracked sky - Vriska: Turn - Plop" is hilarious.

Maybe Vriskagram logo will be the first icon for A6A6I5. I doubt "she's 8ack" will be the title, it's more likely what Blaperile thinks, "Why is everything always so wonderful". Though I wouldn't mind a "Web 3.0" reference. ;)

Heeheh, and there's the Masterpiece. Pffff, tiny clay Caliborn could actually serve as an icon on the forums.

Actually, now that I see the first icon for A6A6I5, it hits me how Caliborn's toothed grin looks like Gamzee's in A6A6I3... Or maybe also Lord English's mouthlaser pose, though since that's also Caliborn...

... PFFFFF A6A6I5's title is actually "She's 8ack", oh my freaking god. Well, that sure goes with the art.

All them lilypad scenes.

Ah come on, now that I see them side by side, I notice the parallel between Meenah and (Vriska) sitting on an edge talking and Dirk and Dave doing the same. In fact, the sky of LOTAK is also filled with explosions, just like how the "sky" in the dreambubbles was filled with other bubbles exploding.

Wow, again, so many nice icons and juxtapositions of them. Roxy creating the Matriorb, (Vriska) in tears while one row earlier she was still happy, GCATavrosprite and (Tavros) side by side...

Awww, (Vriska) and (Terezi)'s meetup as symbol for Terezi: Remem8er.

Ooooh, Collide marks the end of Part 4, is designated by PM's Victory (yussssss) and... it's pseudosymbol is the curtain thingamabob we see for the last time at the end of the flash. Tssssh.

Ahhhh, right, and so the post-Collide images are counted together with it, just like how the post-Act 4 pages were basically still part of that act.

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Act 7 IS THE RAPTURE?????

DDANG ANDREW.

THAT WAS A MYSTERY WE THOUGHT NEEDED SOLVING INDEED.

Wow, I had not thought the Rapture to be Act 7. Wow. So, in hindsight, what he meant about this blowing our minds is that it's Homestuck The Anime!!

Ooooooh, and so Collide and Act 7 have title cards in opposite colours, black and white. So retroactively, Collide is meant to be the thing symbolized by the black circle on the "disc specibus" we saw way back first in Act 5, heheh.

OOOOohh, The Credits are not only featured, but designated "Post Canon"!!!

So, you know, you could kind of count the Snapchat updates into them as well! Maybe if Andrew ever makes an archive for them, they'll get added here?

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So that was it. A great update, I wouldn't have counted on such good names anymore, it's been so long. But I like them all a lot, they're really fitting.

Like Blaperile suggests, Andrew probably took the time rereading the latter part of Homestuck to determine the icons and find good titles for all of the sub acts.

Too bad there's no icon for the Ultimate Bro Hug of 2015. Oh well.

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Image courtesy of Deep Angel.

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, anyone will be able to take a picture without a camera. Instead, we will be able to generate photographs, indistinguishable from those made by a camera, using artificial intelligence (AI) software. You will be able to create an image by simply typing out a description of the scene, or describing it to (presumably) Siri. “Siri,” you’ll say. “I’d like an image of a red-haired woman walking through a park in autumn, the breeze blowing red, orange, and yellow leaves around her.” And—though it may require more detail than that—presto! Your phone will provide various options on the screen to choose from.

That is the future that Alex Savsunenko, head of Skylum AI Lab, described at a recent panel with Richard Carriere, senior vice president of CyberLink, and Greg Scoblete, technology editor of PDN, about the role AI will play within imaging. Scoblete began the talk by declaring that AI is the most important advancement in imaging technology since the digital camera. It’s a bold statement, considering the fact that digital imaging catalyzed the vast number of images we produce, and entirely shifted our relationship to imagery. (Editor’s note: Scoblete is a former colleague of the writer.)

But we are entering another shift; already, we see the implications of fake videos (called “DeepFakes”), facial recognition, and algorithm-generated art, all powered by AI. This fall, MIT released Deep Angel, a tool that, like the memory-doctoring tech in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, can erase anything or anyone from your photos. Already, researchers are using powerful computers to generate fake images from scratch, as a team at NVIDIA did last year when they created a library of celebrity portraits—none of whom actually exist. Eventually, when all of our devices catch up in storage and processing power, we, too, will be able to do the same, forever changing the meaning of the famous Ansel Adams quote: “You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” So what will happen when anyone can create an image of anything that is indistinguishable from a real photograph? (AI will come into play there as the solution, too.)

A brief history of AI

Portrait of an imagined celebrity generated by AI algorithms. Image courtesy of Nvidia.

Backing up a bit, this isn’t the first time that AI technology has caused a flurry of media coverage. We have become starry-eyed over AI’s capabilities in cyclical fashion, starting with its inception at a 1956 conference at Dartmouth, where the term “artificial intelligence” was coined by computer scientist John McCarthy. The basic idea hasn’t changed much since then: to be able to teach software to make decisions on its own, and to eventually reach such lofty goals as replicating the human brain. In 1970, cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky told Life magazine that “[in] three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.”

Obviously, that didn’t happen. In the 1980s, however, there were significant new advancements, including the proliferation of expert systems—computers that could solve problems through reason; and the birth of deep learning, in which a computer continually performs tasks and makes improvements each time. Again, the hype built up and died down.

So what causes these sinuous waves of progress? Generally, it comes down to computational power. Researchers will hit the limits of AI application, and then wait until computer processing speeds and storage catch up.

More recently, since 2012, there has been a boom in deep-learning applications. This is thanks to computer scientist Alex Krizhevsky, who used the concept of neural networks, based on the human brain, as the basis for an algorithm that could perform object detection and image classification at an enormous scale. Neural nets have led to speedy advancements in facial-recognition and image-editing software. When successfully trained, neural nets can recognize and classify subjects much faster than humans, especially when it comes to trickier classifications like dog breeds or age.

While the framework of all deep-learning neural nets is the same technology, Carriere explained that the application can vary widely, from restoring resolution in your images to identifying China’s civilians for the country’s new social-credit system.

How AI might affect photographers

Before-and-after images showing the van Gogh style application in PhotoDirector. Image courtesy of CyberLink.

Starry Night, 1889. Vincent van Gogh The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Before-and-after images showing the van Gogh style application in PhotoDirector. Image courtesy of CyberLink.

In photography and video, AI tools are being incorporated into user-friendly software. Cyberlink’s PhotoDirector software can apply artistic styles to your images and videos, such as “Impressionism” and “Van Gogh,” based on the artworks the software learns about in a lab, while Topaz Labs’ A.I. Gigapixel is taught, based on millions of photos, what human features or a landscape should look like, rendering soft or pixelated images with incredible resolution. At Skylum AI Lab, Savsunenko and his team are looking to deep learning to eventually make image-editing software entirely personalized; the image-editing tools will learn about your style, and you’ll be able to make a sweeping one-click edit accordingly.

When technology advances even further, AI tools may begin to replace required technical skills in photography. Google has released an AI-powered camera, Google Clips, that can judge when the composition or lighting is aesthetically pleasing. And though we’re probably a long way off from a totally automated photographer (the reviews of Google Clips leave much to be desired), the seed has been planted. Plus, as image-generation technology hurtles forward, we can imagine a scenario where agencies can generate their own images, instead of hiring an advertising photographer. Could that become a reality?

Scoblete raised this question in the panel, but neither Savsunenko nor Carriere seemed to think AI posed a serious threat to photographers. They believe that AI will be used to enhance, not replace, traditional imaging. Savsunenko said it will be some time before AI images match the quality of in-camera images, though he said a photographer’s role could eventually shift, with less emphasis on technical prowess. “It’ll be a requirement to make an idea, to be creative,” he offered.

Savsunenko also believes that a computer will never truly understand the human experience, and thus, “it will never create a masterpiece.” He pointed to the famous photograph from Alfred Eisenstaedt, VJ Day Kiss in Times Square (1945). A computer may be able to judge composition and lighting, but it takes a rich historical context and emotional understanding to comprehend how people felt on the day that World War II came to an end. Carriere agreed that the ineffable power of a narrative will not be easily replicated. “Storytelling is still a profoundly human activity,” he said.

What AI images will mean for us

A print featuring the head of Abraham Lincoln superimposed on the figure and background of an earlier print depi John C. Calhoun, 1852. Courtesy of Library of Congress.

Engraving of John C. Calhoun, 18. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

As humans, we add our own interpretations—and our biases—to images, without necessarily understanding the context. For nearly as long as images have been made, they’ve also been manipulated, dating as far back as 1860, when studio photographer Mathew Brady “artificially enlarged” then-presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln’s collar to assuage criticism of the Republican’s long neck. Photoshop was not the first tool to doctor photos, though it has made it easier for those with the technical skill to do so. AI will lower the bar for technical skill entirely, but it will also provide us the ability to better detect the very manipulated images it is helping to create.

Adobe is straddling both sides of the AI fence. On one hand, it is incorporating AI tools into Creative Cloud (which includes Photoshop and Lightroom) that speed up and improve image-editing and organization; on the other, it’s researching ways to easily detect manipulated images, as part of the broader Media Forensics program by U.S. government agency DARPA. Vlad Morariu, a senior research scientist at Adobe, has been part of the program since 2016. On Adobe’s blog, he outlined tools that can be used to defend against image manipulation (such as metadata, forensic tools, and watermarks), but his research involves finding quicker and easier ways to prove an image’s authenticity, allowing someone to determine in “seconds” whether an image has been doctored.

Those tools will be helpful for anyone who cares to know if an image is authentic, but it’s unlikely that everyone will opt to use them. A doctored image of Parkland survivor Emma González ripping up the constitution spread like wildfire in March, despite how easy it was to find the source, a Teen Vogue video that, in reality, showed her ripping a shooting-range target in half. Real photos can be used to mislead, as well; in these past few weeks, misattributed images have been shared on social media in an attempt to paint a caravan of asylum-seekers approaching the U.S.–Mexico border as violent and dangerous. Perhaps social media sites could eventually implement a warning that the image you’re looking at may be fake, as Facebook now does with news, but that will be a much larger challenge than creating, posting, and spreading offending photos.

Savsunenko doesn’t think that such warnings will be necessary. He presented a different view: that the proliferation of AI-powered image-generating software might be “good” because of the fact that everyone will have access to it, instead of a select few. “Imagine a world where you can make fake images and fake videos, instantly on demand, with zero technical skills,” Savsunenko mused over the phone. “The credibility of any image will go down, right? So you will doubt any image that you see on the internet—and that is why it will be harder for professionals to manipulate public opinion, because there will be less credibility to every image.” Proof and credibility will have to be presented in other ways, he believes—“so there’s no definite proof that it’s going to be bad.”

That seems like a very positive—if not idealistic—view: a world in which everyone will do their due diligence; in which people respond to the threat of fake images with more skepticism and deeper critical analysis.

It’s a big ask right now, when, in the U.S., we’ve seen the decline of critical reasoning when it comes to judging what counts as a responsible news source. For many, on both sides of the aisle, blogs and Twitter accounts have been accepted as viable media outlets, or valued more than publications with credible fact-checking teams and lengthy journalistic standards. When we must eventually judge all images based on where they came from, instead of their contents, what will happen?

AI-generated images are coming at a time when we may not be ready for them, and when we have few defenses in place. But we still have time to reframe how we view images before the next AI breakthrough hits. Whether or not we will rise to the task remains to be seen.

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