#otp: unlucky numbers

[paperstarwriters]

Thirteen Wires And A Deathwish

A x B otp prompt.

For context, B said exactly once that thirteen was an unlucky number. A took it upon themselves to prove him wrong– even as a Villain threatens to kill everyone in the city.

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With a sturdy yank, the iron panel came away from the drywall, bits of it still clinging to the metal, only to fall off after being carelessly chucked aside. Looking at the metal now, it was quite robust, if he really needed to, B could possibly use it as a shield for himself if things went south. Then again if things went south, A would have some mad plan to twist it into their advantage. Would they maybe use the metal as a weapon? Send it blasting into the villain's face and slaughtering them immediately? Maybe it would even decapitate them. Knowing A they'd probably want to decapitate them – if they were ever even goingto kill the maniac – and they'd figure out some way to make it happen, in order to "preserve the brain for future examinations," whatever the hell that meant.

"Oh… oh, hohoho!"

It wasn't a very loud noise, but it was an odd one, dripping from A's lips like water from a well-working hose, as in it didn't drip – it spewed. Far more than enough incentive for B to whip his head around to stare at A, eyes flickering to the bomb as an after thought. After all, if something were to explode, A would be first before any bomb. As if sensing their attention on them, A leaned back onto their hands and let their head loll backwards. Looking at B upside down, a lopsided grin sliced across their face.

"Look at this baby! Isn't she a wonder?" A sighed as they spoke, gesturing to the very complex wiring around the deadly red cylinders.

A good number of those complex wires had already been cut before they had even arrived, sparks fluttering about already, but the bomb itself was surely not what A was talking about. No, A could easily create a more magnificent bombs in their sleep, and sometimes, they did, muttering instructions to B who, was too curious and bored to do otherwise, only to stop part way through because of what he realized he was creating. No, A was not talking about the bomb. It had to be something much, much worse.

B took a quick count of the remaining wires. Red and blue and black and green, all decorated in a myriad of colors. There were at least three red wires, two blue ones, and various other repeats of color, so telling someone to "cut the insert-color wire!" was unlikely to work. B counted the lines. He paused, then counted again. And again, because fuck, that couldn't be right... Right? Right. No, no way was there that many wires. No... No! They've clearly counted wrong again, and they needed to check again, and—

A laughed. "Oh, come on, don't tell me you're still counting? You're faster than that. Come on!"

"There… there are thirteen wires." Their unlucky number. Their unlucky number Their most unlucky number in the universe of unlucky numbers. And it was proven to be unlucky because it always encouraged A to do something risky and dramatic. Something undeniably insane.

All because some dumbass believed that thirteen was an unlucky number, and A wanted to prove that that was wrong. Which they did, by purposefully fucking them over, then skillfully wrenching them back to safety. "Skillfully" with heavy quotations, that is. Half the "skills" are pure luck and proved A's point at least three thirteens ago.

B wished he never opened his mouth.

In fact, B wished they never met the freaking maniac. He couldn't tell what was worse—the villain, or A. If they switched places there would probably be only one damn thing letting B tell them apart, and it was that stupid—

"Thirteen wires…" A spoke softly, but anything A said would have B snapping their attention to them. A gestured to the box, letting their hand drift back to themselves before they placed it delicately on their chest as they grinned expectantly at B, "…and?"

B swallowed. "Thirteen wires… And… and a Deathwish."

A grinned. "Very good B."

B could live a thousand years, and never know how the hell A always managed to say "very good" like that. Instinctively B closed their eyes, almost expecting A to stand up and brush their fingers against his collarbones, along the line of his jaw, touches barely even there, and also somehow so heavy his legs threatened to give out from under him.

Yet the touches never came, A never stood from their place — In fact they had turned back to the bomb, completely unaware of B's inner plight.

"Now then, find another metal panel, we're going surfing!"

[arithedingas]

Just thinkin’ about how the number 7 is considered a lucky number while the number 13 is considered an unlucky number and trying to apply it to my otp lol

it’s kinda funny tho, cause I’d kinda consider thirteen more lucky then seven in a comparative sense. like even though thirteen had to watch her mother die, she likely would’ve been next if her soon-to-be mentor hadn’t swooped in. meanwhile seven had to deal with being betrayed and nearly killed, on top of all that memory loss

[qqueenofhades]

There are some interpretations going around about whether or not "the rape of Persephone" was a literal rape, regarding translations and what was considered acceptable at the time. I trust your historical knowledge and would appreciate your input. Thanks!

Oh Jesus Christ. Alas, I am aware of the inadvertent and depressing hilarity that results when the amateur historians of Tumblr decide to start The Discourse ™, as they do periodically, and the interpretations, as you put it, that result. I obviously also do support the practice of tackling mythology, reworking it, considering it in context, and trying to understand the culture, moral values, and ideas of society that it was supposed to represent, and whether and how that has changed for our own times (and if we should accept it if it hasn’t). The problem is that, to put it kindly, a lot of people on Tumblr are… not really qualified to do this, or at least should acknowledge their own limitations when doing so, rather than presenting their shallow and ideologically militant versions as Ineffable Fact. The academics have been arguing about all these things, since we argue about everything, and if you’re going to dip your toe into these discussions, you’ll have to recognize when, well, you are wrong. And as I have noted in recent political posts, Tumblr is historically Not Great at that.

As to the subject of Hades and Persephone specifically, I can myself do no better than point you to this excellent post by tumblr user @cthonisprincess, which I reblogged a while ago. It discusses many versions of the Hades and Persephone story in detail, treats the “problematic” aspects systematically, and quotes from a number of primary sources in terms of how their relationship was conceptualized by the culture to which it belonged, the power that Persephone has/had, and how Greek women themselves – rather than looking to Hera, the ostensible goddess of marriage, and her unhappy union with the chronically unfaithful Zeus – considered Persephone as the avatar of a powerful woman in a happy and faithful marriage. It also discusses the stories of how Persephone came to the Underworld, whether and if that should be understood as “rape” in a contemporary sense of the word, and if we, as modern feminists, should be comfortable with referring to/enjoying something still known as the “Rape of Proserpina” in most references. I get it. It’s… not entirely something you do with just a shrug and moving on.

However, there is ample evidence to demonstrate that to the culture in which Hades and Persephone were constructed and venerated, their relationship was loving, faithful, and considered worthy of emulation, and that Persephone was the actual scary one between the two of them. I was also just reading Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey recently and was struck by the sheer agency of women in the plot; they’re basically the only reason that anything happens as they cart Odysseus’ prevaricating ass from place to place. Books 10 and 11 are largely concerned with Odysseus’ visit to the Underworld, where:

“First [Odysseus] must complete another journey,Go to the house of Hades and the dreadful Persephone, and ask the Theban prophet,the blind Tiresias, for advice.Persephone has given him alonefull understanding, even in death.”

When Odysseus actually gets to the Underworld, the first spirit he encounters is that of Elpenor, one of his crew members who has recently died. But after that, instead of the actual famous Greek warriors or mighty legends (although he meets Agamemnon, Achilles, etc later on), the next people he sees are his mother, Anticleia, and the wives and daughters of warriors:

Then in my heart I wanted to embracethe spirit of my mother. She was dead, and I did not know how. Three times I tried,longing to touch her. But three times her ghostflew from my arms, like shadows or like dreams.Sharp pain pierced deeper in me as I cried,

‘No, Mother! Why do you not stay for me?and let me hold you, even in Hades?[… ] But is this really you? Or has the Queensent me a phantom, to increase my grief?’

She answered, ‘Oh, my child. You are the mostunlucky man alive. Persephoneis not deceiving you. This is the rulefor mortals when we die.’

[…]

As we were talking,some women came, sent by Persephone –the daughters and wives of warriors.They thronged and clustered round the blood. I wantedto speak to each of them, and made a plan.

I’m not sure that Homer actually refers to Hades himself as having any part in this throughout the whole section, except geographically (as in Hades as a place/environment). Persephone is later on referred to as dispersing the ghosts of the women, after Odysseus has spoken to them all individually before he gets to any of the now-dead heroes of the Iliad. Which I think is… interesting, given the fact that the Odyssey is obviously one of the most famous of the Greek narratives/epic poems and everybody knew it long before it was ever preserved in a written form (see the long-running “is Homer actually one guy or just a dozen random Greeks in a trenchcoat” argument). So yes.

I obviously love Hades and Persephone a whole lot, my URL references them, most of my OTPs fall into a similar archetype, and I would love them no matter what the shrill hordes on Tumblr said. But in this case, frankly, their interpretations are bad, and they should feel bad. Make of it what thou shalt.

[sterek]

3,9,15,16,18 for the shippers meme please

Thank youuu :)

3. What’s your current OTP?

Sterek! It has been Sterek since the day I joined the fandom and it will always be Sterek.

9. Do you have many ships that never got together at all?

Yeah, sadly. I have many queer ships and those rarely make it, as we know. But I’ve been shipping more and more ships that actually become canon, so the trend is changing which feels so damn great :) 

15. Have you ever “shipped at first sight”?

Yes, many times! Hobrien was like the big one. Also merthur and pynch and LoVe and deanoru and nominita and spierfeld and aridante, etc. I have a big list of ships that I fell in love with right away, actually, I could be here all day. The best ships for me are the ones that I love right away or hate right away and then love forever. The most recent “shipped at first sight” was sheith.

16. Talk about a ship you initially disliked.

So, funnily enough that ship was Sterek. I found Sterek through tumblr back when it was hella hella popular but I didn’t know anything about it so I went and searched for fics. Me being me, I managed to be unlucky enough to read a fic written by someone who hated Derek. Like, I remember reading the fic and it was so fucked up and then in the writer’s notes it said “I know Derek is *insert all the insults you can think of, mainly abusive* and that sterek is awful and *insert comment about derek being with minors* but I like writing about abusive dynamics so here you go!” and I was like... shit, why does everyone love this ship that seems so awful?? And me, Andi, biggest Derek S Hale stan, hated him for a long time just because I was uninformed. Then I kept reading fics because I was curious and they made Derek so much better and I was like ??? So I watched the show, fell in love with him 2 seconds into his first scene, discovered how fucking beautiful Sterek is and never went back. I’m a lesson in how you should always do your own research and never take what someone says like it’s a fact. Can y’all imagine me being anti sterek?? I can’t even imagine living without my boys, lord. Imagine it...

18. Talk about a moment which made you question an entire ship.

I don’t know, maybe when I realized how awful tvd and d*mon was? I was a big d*lena fan back when I was a teen. Actually, I stopped liking a lot of f/m ships I used to love. Wonder why... lol

send me a number!!

[magisterhego]

Star Wars villains for the fandom ask (you can cut down on the number of OTPs or include ones like character/happy ending if needed)

Yay, thank you!

5 favorite characters: Count Dooku, Palpatine, Darth Plagueis, Commandant Aresko, Captain Needa. Special mentions to the silver medal five of: Rae Sloane, Gallius Rax, Baron Rudor, Maketh Tua, Admiral Piett.

3 OTPs: Crackships only, I’m afraid! Hera Syndulla and Baron Rudor, Rae Sloane and Gallius Rax. I default headcanon all the Sith as ace, so I don’t really have any OTP featuring them. I do blame @lilrabbitssong and this one old groupchat she organised, for making me enjoy Padmé Amidala and Palpatine.

Funniest character: Darth Plagueis’ antics made me laugh in the book, I also like Aresko and Rudor’s comedic value as unlucky losers.

Prettiest character: To me, Wilhuff Tarkin and Count Dooku of the male characters. Of the female characters, Rae Sloane and Asajj Ventress.

Most badass character: Darth Vader physically, but Palpatine psychologically because of all his schemes!

Character I’d like as my BFF: Darth Plagueis because of his science ramblings and his random whacky activities, but I’d probably end up as a lab specimen.

Character that’s ruined my life: Hmm… Aresko’s death made me shed some tears so there’s definitely that! But I’ve mostly been influenced/inspired by Palpatine and Rae and Rax as characters. I could talk about them a lot. Like, REALLY a lot.

[kyoxyukiforever]

Crack Shipping

Okay guys can we talk about crack ships?  But not just like haha omg that’s a ship wtf kind of crack ships, I mean the crack ships that you actually legitimately ship.  Like, there is a process there.

At first, you’re all like, wtf???? That’s a ship???? Why??????? And you kind of explore the tag to see what the hecky heck these people are smoking, right? It starts off as just morbid curiosity.

Then, there’s something.  Maybe a fanart that’s actually really cute, or really hot, or god forbid, both.  Maybe someone made a valid point about said ship that you never would have considered before.

So you think to yourself, I could read a fanfic or two, what would it hurt? And so you go onto AO3 of ff.net and read one fic. And it sucked. So you go hunting for a better fic.  This one is better, but it still leaves something to be desired. Suddenly, you find yourself reading every single fanfic this pairing has until your eyes bleed and you want to die, and you come out of it actually shipping those characters.

Wait, what?  How can I ship them?  They have no chemistry at all.  You list off all the reasons in your head why they wouldn’t make a good couple, but we as human beings hate being wrong, so we start to justify all those things.

Well, they aren’t actually related.  Age is just a number, really.  They don’t really work with their canon partners anyway.  That person’s super forgiving, surely they can forgive the other person for killing their friend, right?

Suddenly, you are convinced that this is the best ship in the universe, and you will fight someone on the internet over it without hesitation.  This is your OTP, dammit, and no one can take that away from you.

The thing is, this isn’t so uncommon.  My favorite example is Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy.  Drarry is so popular you drown yourself in fanfics if you wanted to, but the process of shipping that ship is the same as the process described above.

The same thing goes for Thorki.  At first, that weirds everyone out, but if you let yourself dig deep enough, you’ll fall down that accursed shipping hole.

However, if you are unlucky enough to fall in love with a crack ship in a fandom that the entire world hasn’t heard of, you’re basically screwed.  See, with Marvel and Harry Potter, everyone knows those fandoms, and they have so much content and merch you would die before you got through it all.

However, if you fall in love with a crack ship from a fandom that isn’t at that same level of popularity, only an elite part of the fandom will ship that ship.  It doesn’t spread out to all these talented people who write beautifully or make amazing fanart.  You’re left with one or two diamonds in the rough that you have to read over and over again, because nobody else is making good content for your ship.

There is nothing worse than running out of content for your OTP.  That shit is like water to you, and you’re dying of thirst.  My advice to you is this: if you find yourself shipping a ship without content, create your own content.  I know that it’s not the same as reading something for the first time, believe me.  Not knowing what comes next is half the fun.  But, if everybody started doing this, I think we’d find that we’d have a lot more content to enjoy.  I don’t care if you think you’re no good.  Someone will end up loving your work.  I don’t care if you don’t think there’s an audience for it.  There is.  I started writing fanfiction for a show that’s been over for nearly a decade, for a pairing that no one seems to like, and I’ve had a whopping 58 comments by my ninth chapter.

There are people looking for your content, and they will come crawling out of the woodwork if you give it to them.  Whatever it is you do, write, draw, cosplay, make videos, or just make pairing playlists on 8tracks, someone will love you for it.

[sasshunontheloose]

Have you ever read a fanfic of your otp and it was so well written it made you squealed so hard that it embarrassed the fuck out of yourself? Because i can relate. Speaking of which what is your otp?

well i don’t normally read otp fics but sekai ‘the unlucky number’ is quiet entertaining and my ultimate ship is definitely sebaek

[paperstarwriters]

Original Works & Misc Fandoms

— Original writing —

To those told not to love

A letter to those told not to love

Dear Daydreams

A letter to daydreams, from fear

What Is Above, What Is Below

Ever wonder what it's like to live in a world where the sky is the earth and the earth is the sky?

I Catch Stars

I catch stars for a living. Sitting out on the clouds, I cast out my line and wait

To My Fear-Filled Reason

Letter to the logic of my brain that gives me anxiety.

Formerly Orphaned (script)

A former hero and a former villain adopt a child

Butterfly Vampires (AU idea)

Just prettier vampires I guess

BAMF Royalty AU (AU idea)

Royalty without genders

Bloody Valkyrie (OTP idea)

A is a human, and has a period every month. B is not, and B is worried.

Thirteen Wires And A Deathwish (OTP idea)

B thought thirteen was an unlucky number. It still is to him now, but only because A seeks to prove him wrong

Familial (Platonic ship idea)

There is value in a family. (Dialogue; two characters talking. No A or B dialogue tags)

— Sky: Children of the Light —

Before the stars

For in this world a child hints the presence of a mother.

— Another Typical Fantasy Romance —

What Little Remains (I'd follow where you lead)

(Lithera Merto x Pellus Termane; Angst) By some miracle, Lithera remains after Everett attacks her. Pellus keeps her company, and tries to help her foggy memory by letting her read the letters she sent him.

[magic-multicolored-miracle]

Nancy Drew and The Did I Miss Something or Was This a Totally Unconnected and Meaningless Episode Title?

So I was a little disappointed by this episode. Not in terms of anything significant really, but in terms of being let down by the buildup from the trailer and episode descriptions. For one thing, I was teased with ‘the group goes to a fancy masquerade and dramatic things happen’ which is one of my Favorite tropes, and then 1) it was only a small part of the episode and 2) it wasn’t a very good masquerade since the actual masks were obviously optional. For another, descriptions made it seem like the “deal” between Nancy and Ryan was going to be something much more sinister.

Those are small complaints though. I like that this episode largely focused on the inter-character relationships than just “here’s a clue and a half dozen new questions.” 

These commentaries are my answer to not having someone to actually talk about the show with, so here’s our one-sided conversation for the week

Learn to use some basic English Lit class analysis of those metaphors, duh

Thank your antipsychotics for kicking in?

Abandoned breakfast? No answer when you call out? Suspicious. Ooh maybe somebody killed him!

Don’t snoop so blatantly. Geez.

I really like the opening credits. I really appreciate their commitment to spook.

Aww, nervous Bess is adorable

If you already know this stuff, why are you asking?

She is impressed and turned on by his snooping. As it should be.

Go away Owen!

Are his cheekbones actually that nice? I haven’t noticed.

Also if Owen knows Nick-not-Ned was following him, that could be a problem if he turns out to be evil/shady

That’s actually 3 questions Nan

The fuck Ryan?! That was the worst jump-scare so far in the entire show

So you broke into the Drew residence and gave the teen Detective a heart attack? That’s not helpful

Talking to Nancy will probably solve your problems faster than Carson will. Just with the side effect of insensitive questions

That’s twice you’ve ignored Nick’s calls

You deserve it. Get fucked. Also your father is a dick who should do the same. Also also, you were having money problems before Daddy cut you off so quit lying if you want help

Surely you know about her reputation, is that really a question you need to ask? – smart decision retracting your question or she might have told you about the number of times she’s broken into your home (at least twice)

Aww, Ace is trying to help, badly. Love a supportive dumbass friend

Both? I mean we all know Nancy can be trusted…and yet…

Blatant questions to suspected murderers while you are alone with them is a bad plan. We’ve talked about this.

It’s not what it looks like…

I completely agree with George.

Or she didn’t want to admit it because it sounds nuts, she was Camp Skeptic, and ghosts should not be real

That face says you’re lying Nick

Aw, that’s kinda mean. Poor harbormaster guy

Stop breaking into things with your obvious DNA/identifying traits exposed woman!

Ooh, love a good smuggling/insurance fraud. Did he use an orphaned orca to bring the coins up from the seafloor?

Or he’s stupid. Or both.

Sup Lucy…

Ookay. Lucy is a super powerful pissed off ghost. Got it.

No Ace. It doesn’t.

Aw. She’s so awkward, poor baby. And is trying so hard to help/be supportive but actually kinda probably making it worse by hovering

Or there’s an actual person trying to kill him. Or both.

STOP IGNORING NED’S CALLS

Went off the deep end? Elaborate on that please.

He literally just said they were the key to bringing down the Hudsons. So yes, they well could help solve Tiffany’s murder. Or at least put you one step closer. Listen when people talk

Oh no. That’s not a good sign. I wanted this date to go well…

Oh no, poor Lisbeth! (if it’s true, I mean that sounds like a ‘get me out of this terrible date code from a friend’) and either way, Poor Bess!

That’s not going to help things between them

Aw, see, they do like each other. Nothing cheers someone up after a disaster date like a fancy dress and encouraging their kleptomania

He might actually be trying to warn you. And when the worst person ever offers you a genuine warning, it may be wise to listen. Or maybe he’s just trying to cover something up/feeling guilty. I’m honestly 50/50

Oof, once again, they all look amazing in formalwear. Including Ace in his driver disguise. Though I don’t love his hat.

Weren’t expecting them to show up, were you Nance? Maybe if you worked WITH them instead of just including them when it’s convenient you wouldn’t be so blindsided by it

Is it a masquerade or not?

Kraken is a kind of rum?...or masks, we’re talking about masks. And now it seems like there weren’t actually metaphors in the poem. Boo.

She witnessed adultery and was killed for it maybe?

Something is definitely going to go down, and nobody wants Nancy there for it…The suspense!

So the affair was between Sebastian Marvin and Mommy (didn’t catch her actual name) Hudson

Ooh, that’s a suspicious exchange. Is there anyone in the Hudson family that isn’t shady af?

What exactly do you do for the Hudsons? It seems to be a lot. And all of it requiring…discretion

Huh. I didn’t think I’d actually be right or that we’d get to that answer so quickly

Oh good. Now you’ve been caught. Nice going.

Nancy! Subtlety! Try it.

That’s not 6.5 kilos of anything.

Focus Bess?

No part of this was a good plan ever. Less than half-assed

Just going to ignore the guy passed out in the hall? Okay (I definitely thought it was Ryan and someone had knocked him over the head)

Actually, this time might be good timing for a confrontation. Good choice asking while he’s literally down. You’re learning

The wedding ring being the ‘source’ of the haunting actually lends some, admittedly shaky, ground back to it not being a real ghost

Because you Dad’s a massive dick

Are you actually trying to make me feel something other than contempt and distaste for Ryan Hudson? Because I won’t

Catching his mother in an affair was bad…but was it enough to traumatize or scare her away?

So Carson used to be the Hudsons’ fixer? Really? I mean I believe it, but I don’t like it or get why

Why bother with a video call?

…or your Mom did…

That’s not a positive thing Bess…

Unnecessary drama is unnecessary. Let’s go back to being a team and friends and stuff.

Go away Owen.

True friendship! Offering to kneecap a guy

Good! Glad they got a happy ending to their date, even if it did require a few detours

In your face, Owen. Except that from Nick’s perspective at the moment, he’s very unlucky. Nancy, maybe you should TALK TO HIM

Floaty spooky coins are probably not a good thing… They’re going to turn out to contain the souls of the sailors killed in the ship ‘accident’ aren’t they? I mean they’re burial coins and there just happens to be the same number of them as the number of people killed. And it’s not like we don’t have enough supernatural shit going on already

Side note: looking up Mommy Hudson’s name led to the discovery that Owen is played by a Miles GastonVillanueva. I refuse to believe that is coincidental. Or maybe I just don’t like him because he is a non-Frank Hardy or Dave Gregory character interfering with this iteration of my lifelong OTP

[13xwishes]

Unlucky wishes (i think this is what you called Catty x Gigi)

send me a ship!

🌟 As You Command 🌟 || @sonic-fairyspell|| ☀️ Unlucky Wishes ☀️

ship: ew / nonono / maybe / ship it / aww / otp / MY HEART

//Ohhhhh! Where do I begin? This ship is my OTP forever! I’ve been shipping these two before BYBY, hell before even Freaky Fusion came out! I know they never been seen together on screen, which is a sin, they became really good friends in the New Scaremester Diaries!// 

//I have a freaking list of why they are good together whether as a couple or as bffs. But lets say with the signs connected with broken mirrors and the number 13. But yeah, they’re my heart always 💖 //

[the-bi-man-cometh]

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[astoryinred]

OTP asks (any pairing of your choice) --- 1, 15, and 19?

And we'll do 3 pairings, one for each number

1. What are things they both find funny?

Jehan and Azelma: These two find a lot of humor in pushing the limits of what is possible in art (and the threshold is insanely high). Jehan peppers his work or conversation with tales of the outlandish---and Azelma guesses. Azelma will draw or create something ludicrous to wear, and have Jehan laughing. They also aren't above a bit of bawdy humor, and will regale each other with things that happened to their fellow artists/workmates after hours. They also adore banter, and get a lot of it from their friends/extended family at this point.

15. What are traits they dislike in one another?

-Joly/Musichetta/Bossuet: Joly has a penchant for being a worrywart--be it over his own health or that of a patient. He also second guesses himself, which can get frustrating. Musichetta has a way of being dramatic, and absolutely fails at conflict resolution sometimes. Bossuet may be unlucky but a lot of it is poor planning or lack of foresight. He tends to be too much of the "live and let live' type, and sometimes seems to be just going along with the tide instead of taking charge.

19. If they could each write a single line in their marriage vows, what would they be?

- Marius/Cosette: Marius would have written: "May my love be your source of joy and harbor of safety", while Cosette would have written: "May we be light onto one another, and to all around us together."

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Mobile devices: The 'remaining mile' to employer biometrics

Authenticating who’s truly in the back of any action, whether it’s logging into Twitter or getting access to a financial institution account, is the largest mission in safety nowadays.

On the organization degree, this truth is infinitely greater critical: agencies want to absolutely relaxed get admission to their structures and records and be positive that most effective individuals who are granted get entry to have it. At the same time, groups must also make sure their employees are capable of paintings as productively as possible — and regular and stringent safety protections would surely get in the manner of “enterprise as regular.” Those conditions create a dichotomy that corporations and protection experts have struggled to triumph over.

Up to now, PINS, passwords, and OTP hardware have been the compromise of preference: sufficient to authenticate a user’s access, however no longer so burdensome that employees can’t get their jobs accomplished. The hassle? They don’t work. In 2016, the five largest records breaches – consisting of headline-making cases like Yahoo! And the DNC — all worried compromised, vulnerable or reused passwords. That’s greater than troubling — that’s a call for a complete security reset.

[ 4 top disaster recovery packages compared. | Backup and recovery tools: Users identify the good, bad, and ugly. ] Nevertheless, if the security problem isn’t convincing sufficient, just take a look at the numbers:

The common organization spends $180,000 annually on password resets per 1k cease customers The common company loses 1,000 hours/yr to password resets in step with 1k quit users On common, 20% – 50% of all help table calls are for password resets Communicate about including insult to harm: passwords aren’t just failing; they’re costing us money.

A protection overhaul is an expensive and scary prospect for most enterprises: assessing vendors; buying and deploying new software program and hardware; growing and enacting new techniques. It’s no surprise agencies had been dragging their feet on making the sort of massive exchange. however what many organizations probable don’t realize is that a funding they’ve already made is also a door to a new stage of safety: Mobile devices.

It does appear perplexing, given the quantity of safety headaches BYOD and MDM have given agencies during the last decade, but innate in Mobile hardware are all of the additives needed for a rising and objectively stronger method of organization safety: biometrics. From the camera to the accelerometer to the oft-use TouchID pad, a complete suite of security functions is already at our fingertips:

Fingerprint: We’re all acquainted with fingerprint scanners: first introduced in 2011, at the Motorola Atrix 4G, TouchID and comparable technologies are actually a de facto hardware function on our Cell devices. First delivered to allow us to skip the lock screen safety passcode, many apps now install it as an authentication degree. Fingerprinting has long been the maximum famous biometric software, in the bodily and virtual global, so it’s no wonder that it holds the rating as the most famous Mobile biometric. And despite the fact that there are (founded) worries about spoofing, the extensive industrial deployment and adoption of fingerprint scanners make it an excellent practice for organization biometric protection – although, probable best as a part of a multi-component authentication collection.

Face: The popularity of selfies led Cellular tool manufactures to place a camera inside the front of the smartphone; now, organizations can take gain of this tiny improve to enforce facial reputation as a worker authentication thing. Facial popularity software program uses algorithms to identify and authenticate distinguishing facial features; and further security features can be installed place by way of requiring lively biometrics – that is, asking a person to grin, nod or blink to authenticate. Of course, many employees may be wary of taking a selfie in an assembly so that it will do some thing like get right of entry to their e-mail, so firms have to take word approximately when and the way facial recognition is required for getting right of entry to.

Hand reputation: A newer biometric, hand reputation uses the flash and rear-dealing with a camera to take a picture of a person’s four fingerprints – increasing the security degree above regular fingerprint reputation. Additionally, using flash addresses a number of the issues encountered inside the front-facing camera due to the fact there are fewer issues with lights which can result in a faulty studying.

Iris Experiment: Iris scanning is displaying promise in organization deployments – in particular after the release final yr of the Samsung Galaxy be aware, which was one of the first Cell gadgets to come prepared with an iris scanner. The unlucky death of that device has taken the technology lower back a few steps, but rumors that the iPhone eight ought to replace TouchID with iris scanning may place this era again in the rotation in a significant manner.

Behavioral: A telephone’s hardware and software carry alongside a set of answers that make ongoing and non-stop authentication feasible. Whilst we’ve been discussing bodily biometrics – the use of parts of a person to identify them – it’s also possible (and more and more promising) to use a person’s movements. Behavioral biometrics may be measured by a tool’s myriad sensors: has the tool moved to a brand new vicinity, has the microphone picked up your voice currently, how is it being carried, does the movement pattern and gait fit yours, while was the last time the digicam captured your face and many others. Via regular, passive statistics series, your phone can be “assured” that it’s Still you the use of the device and won’t constantly ask for credentials or log you out; however, if the confidence rating drops below a certain stage, either due to the fact you’ve moved to an unusual area or haven’t used the smartphone in some time, the app might ask you to log in with your physical biometric once more.

Our Cell devices provide that “remaining mile” had to empower biometrics. Biometrics provide a sensible solution to the problems of susceptible and beside the point authentication answers, While At the identical time turning inconvenient, humans-centric authentication solutions to the latest Mobile gadgets. convenient biometric authentication lets in a business to guide an extra degree of capabilities for its Mobile group of workers and can also be included into company Mobility Control (EMM) solutions to permit sturdy security policies to be enforced for Mobile answers. It additionally solves a value headache related to passwords: biometric authentication can reduce password resets, help table requests, and aid calls by means of as much as 50 percentage, in step with Gartner.

There are many matters to don’t forget on the journey to killing corporation passwords, however thanks to Mobile devices, hardware doesn’t need to be one among them.

A Have a look at the Cellular gadgets and Mobile security

Cell devices have persevered to upward push of their recognition, and the adoption rates are extremely excessive. This arises from the fact that Mobile conversation has grown to be an ordinary affair. For lots humans, leading a life without a Cellular telephone could be almost not possible for many of us to tolerate. Our lives are dependent on the devices for so many things except the most important advantage of providing a method of communique with human beings. once more the continuing rise inside the degree of adoption of devices has been accompanied by way of sophistication within the gadgets and their models and the level of functionality attainable with the gadgets.

There at the moment are the smartphones and the tablets primarily based on various one of kind platforms depending on the producer. This has increased the functionality that can be executed with the Cellular telephones to not possible stages, and this is persevering with an increasing number of portions getting added to the devices. The smartphones and the tablets accompany customers anywhere and anywhere they pass and in everything that they do. The mobiles phones are now getting access to the internet at exceptional speeds and with very large capability supporting customers to get admission to records and even manipulate the records. With such capability the Cellular phones and devices are adding an entire distinct perspective to the equation this is IT safety. The devices had been a very large hazard and this has to do with the fact that human beings are able to get right to entry to a whole bulk of assets from their phones. The Mobile devices are in themselves a threat to the facts this is saved in them and to the networks in which they’re a part of.

In a manner similar to the way people take some complete steps to comfy their computer systems, the Cell devices have to be secured. This arises from the reality that the facts and facts accessed and contained in them consist of personal and personal records, pics and contacts, or even records and protection details belonging to monetary money owed and different online corporations. The gadgets, being the lifeline that they’ve come to be, require safety to control and avoid the dangers and threats available. A Take a look at the stairs to install location to make sure that Cell protection is guaranteed may be beneficial For lots customers of the Cell gadgets.

The first actual step must be that of finding the gadgets which has the excellent or above average security functions when in comparison to different gadgets in the marketplace. This mitigates the dangers obtainable and security capabilities are one of a kind depending on the producer and the targeted clients with the unique device. A main threat to the security of the Mobile devices are the 0.33 birthday party application which may additionally include connected scripts by means of cyber criminals whose intention of get manipulate over your tool. Consequently, move for the signed third celebration apps to make sure of their authenticity and also limit the extent to which the alternative human beings can arbitrarily deploy Those third birthday celebration apps and inadvertently gain manipulate to your tool and similarly on to the business or company network.

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