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A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs (Eric Benson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Who Killed the Narrative Podcast?
Podcasts like 'Serial,' 'The Shrink Next Door,' and 'Over My Dead Body' were once a booming industry. But times — and budgets — have changed.

A look at the collapse of narrative podcasts, facing high production costs and limited ad revenue, despite overall podcast listenership reaching all-time highs (Eric Benson/Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

Who Killed the Narrative Podcast?
Podcasts like 'Serial,' 'The Shrink Next Door,' and 'Over My Dead Body' were once a booming industry. But times — and budgets — have changed.

Apparently, many of the new volunteers are quite young, which seems to go against prevailing narrative of an atomised lonely genZ/Alpha that doesn't feel part of society. OTOH, Hjemmeværnet emphasises that many are joining because of the "fælleskab" (an extremely important concept in Denmark which translates as fellowship, but is used much more commonly than the English word, it's something like "being part of the gang")

Chronological Passage Assembling in RAG framework for Temporal Question Answering
Byeongjeong Kim, Jeonghyun Park, Joonho Yang, Hwanhee Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18748 http…

Chronological Passage Assembling in RAG framework for Temporal Question Answering
Long-context question answering over narrative tasks is challenging because correct answers often hinge on reconstructing a coherent timeline of events while preserving contextual flow in a limited context window. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) indexing methods aim to address this challenge by selectively retrieving only necessary document segments. However, narrative texts possess unique characteristics that limit the effectiveness of these existing approaches. Specifically, understandin…

Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-62375-9 by @…

Neural and behavioral reinstatement jointly reflect retrieval of narrative events - Nature Communications
When people recall a movie, their eye movements and brain activity resemble those observed during the viewing. These behavioral and neural reactivations are linked through a common process, likely reflecting the specific internal experiences that emerge in an instance of recall.

In 1661, the first Chinese general seized Taiwan, replacing its inhabitants with his army’s descendants. Now, his legacy is used to support the Chinese unification narrative.
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Tim Mak (@timkmak)
In 1661, the first Chinese general seized Taiwan, replacing its inhabitants with his army’s descendants. Now, his legacy is used to support the Chinese unification narrative.

@…: Reform is spewing more lies. This time it’s using attacks against women as a cover for attacks on migrants. We can’t let it stand. Email Reform. #Goodlawproject

Tell Reform to stop exploiting women’s safety to fuel attacks on migrants
Reform UK is pushing racist claims that migrants are a threat to women’s safety. This toxic narrative paints an entire group of people as inherently dangerous. But there’s no credible evidence to back it up. Reform MP Sarah Pochin suggested that migrants have a “warped view of their right to sexually assault women”. She claimed that men from “predominantly Muslim countries like Afghanistan” hold a “medieval view of women’s rights” and that “women are at risk of sexual assaul…

Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making
Cassandra Overney, Hang Jiang, Urooj Haider, Cassandra Moe, Jasmine Mangat, Frank Pantano, Effie G. McMillian, Paul Riggins, Nabeel Gillani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19643

Human-AI Narrative Synthesis to Foster Shared Understanding in Civic Decision-Making
Community engagement processes in representative political contexts, like school districts, generate massive volumes of feedback that overwhelm traditional synthesis methods, creating barriers to shared understanding not only between civic leaders and constituents but also among community members. To address these barriers, we developed StoryBuilder, a human-AI collaborative pipeline that transforms community input into accessible first-person narratives. Using 2,480 community responses from an…

K-Pop Demon Hunters as Global Phenomenon: Narrative, Performance, and Identity in Transnational Popular Culture #acrel https://call-for-papers.sas.up…

ComicScene154: A Scene Dataset for Comic Analysis
Sandro Paval, Ivan P. Yamshchikov, Pascal Mei{\ss}ner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16190 https://arxiv.org/…

ComicScene154: A Scene Dataset for Comic Analysis
Comics offer a compelling yet under-explored domain for computational narrative analysis, combining text and imagery in ways distinct from purely textual or audiovisual media. We introduce ComicScene154, a manually annotated dataset of scene-level narrative arcs derived from public-domain comic books spanning diverse genres. By conceptualizing comics as an abstraction for narrative-driven, multimodal data, we highlight their potential to inform broader research on multi-modal storytelling. To d…

"The understanding that the total supremacy of the “data” discourse was always a problematic, neoliberal way of seeing and structuring the world, of legitimizing violence according to the needs of those in power."
(Original title: The “Data” Narrative eats itself)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/15/…

The "Data" Narrative eats itself
“The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine.” Today I want to take David Gerard’s recent […]

Visual Authority and the Rhetoric of Health Misinformation: A Multimodal Analysis of Social Media Videos
Mohammad Reza Zarei, Barbara Stead-Coyle, Michael Christensen, Sarah Everts, Majid Komeili
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20724

Visual Authority and the Rhetoric of Health Misinformation: A Multimodal Analysis of Social Media Videos
Short form video platforms are central sites for health advice, where alternative narratives mix useful, misleading, and harmful content. Rather than adjudicating truth, this study examines how credibility is packaged in nutrition and supplement videos by analyzing the intersection of authority signals, narrative techniques, and monetization. We assemble a cross platform corpus of 152 public videos from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube and annotate each on 26 features spanning visual authority, p…

For once Trump is right, Ukraine can win this war. Read this blog, good analysis,
#ukraine

Ukraine Can Win The War
The Narrative Shift Alone Is Important

Michael Pittman marvels at Daniel Jones' resurgence with Colts after QB was 'over-hated' in New York https://www.nfl.com/news/michael-pittman-daniel-jones-colts-qb-over-hated-in-new-york

Black mayors challenge Trump’s lawless narrative - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/08/17/black-mayors-challenge-trumps-lawless-narrative/

Social Media für Kinder verbieten oder besser begleiten? Die Kontroverse reicht von der Leopoldina bis ins Kanzleramt. Plus: Filter gegen KI-Müll und die mediale Bühne für rechte Narrative. #Wochenschau

R\'ECITKIT: A Spatial Toolkit for Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Immersive Data Narratives
Vidya Setlur, Samuel Ridet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18670 https://

RÉCITKIT: A Spatial Toolkit for Designing and Evaluating Human-Centered Immersive Data Narratives
Spatial computing presents new opportunities for immersive data storytelling, yet there is limited guidance on how to build such experiences or adapt traditional narrative visualizations to this medium. We introduce a toolkit, RÉCITKIT for supporting spatial data narratives in head-mounted display (HMD) environments. The toolkit allows developers to create interactive dashboards, tag data attributes as spatial assets to 3D models and immersive scenes, generate text and audio narratives, enabli…

The narrative of a "doomed Ukraine" and accusations of Western aggression | Hate Speech: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/10/the-narrative-of-a-quotdoomed.html

Guess what you anonymous coward, “both sides”-ing a genocide is genocide denial.
And genocide denial is complicity in genocide.
Blocked right back, asshole.
(His post was in reply to https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/115065419489536063)
@…

Multimodal Language Models with Modality-Specific Experts for Financial Forecasting from Interleaved Sequences of Text and Time Series
Ross Koval, Nicholas Andrews, Xifeng Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19628

Multimodal Language Models with Modality-Specific Experts for Financial Forecasting from Interleaved Sequences of Text and Time Series
Text and time series data offer complementary views of financial markets: news articles provide narrative context about company events, while stock prices reflect how markets react to those events. However, despite their complementary nature, effectively integrating these interleaved modalities for improved forecasting remains challenging. In this work, we propose a unified neural architecture that models these interleaved sequences using modality-specific experts, allowing the model to learn u…

Narrative-Guided Reinforcement Learning: A Platform for Studying Language Model Influence on Decision Making
Anup Tuladhar, Araz Minhas, Adam Kirton, Eli Kinney-Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08785

Narrative-Guided Reinforcement Learning: A Platform for Studying Language Model Influence on Decision Making
We present a preliminary experimental platform that explores how narrative elements might shape AI decision-making by combining reinforcement learning (RL) with language model reasoning. While AI systems can now both make decisions and engage in narrative reasoning, these capabilities have mostly been studied separately. Our platform attempts to bridge this gap using a dual-system architecture to examine how narrative frameworks could influence reward-based learning. The system comprises a rein…

Randomness in Narrative Video Games: Aesthetics of Different Random Systems
https://azhdarchid.com/randomness-in-narrative-video-games-aesthetics-of-different-random-systems/
Some of these considerations & differences als…

Randomness in Narrative Video Games: Aesthetics of Different Random Systems
On virtual dice, cards, and other alternatives.

Root Cause Analysis of Radiation Oncology Incidents Using Large Language Models
Yuntao Wang, Mariluz De Ornelas, Matthew T. Studenski, Elizabeth Bossart, Siamak P. Najad-Davarani, Yunze Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17201

Root Cause Analysis of Radiation Oncology Incidents Using Large Language Models
Purpose To evaluate the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in performing root cause analysis (RCA) of radiation oncology incidents using narrative reports from the Radiation Oncology Incident Learning System (RO-ILS), and to assess their potential utility in supporting patient safety efforts. Methods and Materials Four LLMs, Gemini 2.5 Pro, GPT-4o, o3, and Grok 3, were prompted with the 'Background and Incident Overview' sections of 19 public RO-ILS cases. Using a standard…

LLM Output Homogenization is Task Dependent
Shomik Jain, Jack Lanchantin, Maximilian Nickel, Karen Ullrich, Ashia Wilson, Jamelle Watson-Daniels
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21267

LLM Output Homogenization is Task Dependent
A large language model can be less helpful if it exhibits output response homogenization. But whether two responses are considered homogeneous, and whether such homogenization is problematic, both depend on the task category. For instance, in objective math tasks, we often expect no variation in the final answer but anticipate variation in the problem-solving strategy. Whereas, for creative writing tasks, we may expect variation in key narrative components (e.g. plot, genre, setting, etc), beyo…

"…evidence shows…MAGA narrative of trans violence is entirely baseless…data from…Violence Prevention Project at Hamline…indicates…< 1% of shootings where 4 or more people were wounded in public were by trans people, &…over 97% of…mass killings…committed by cisgender men…PolitiFact also showed…“overwhelming” majority of shootings…perpetrated by cisgender men. And…trans people are 4x more likely than cisgender people to be…_victims_ of violent crime."

JD Vance suggests trans people pose a “domestic terrorist threat” & FBI plans to target trans people - LGBTQ Nation
The suspect's alleged trans girlfriend is cooperating with investigators, but rightwingers are still using her identity to blame trans people.

The Stanley Parable: completed!
The Stanley Parable is an odd narrative game, where you are effectively given instructions by the narrator.  As an office worker, you suddenly realise that everyone else has disappeared, and it feels that the point of the game is to understand why.  If it were a traditional game, that would be the case. The game is most fun, or rather funny, when not following instructions.

InReAcTable: LLM-Powered Interactive Visual Data Story Construction from Tabular Data
Gerile Aodeng, Guozheng Li, Yunshan Feng, Qiyang Chen, Yu Zhang, Chi Harold Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18174

InReAcTable: LLM-Powered Interactive Visual Data Story Construction from Tabular Data
Insights in tabular data capture valuable patterns that help analysts understand critical information. Organizing related insights into visual data stories is crucial for in-depth analysis. However, constructing such stories is challenging because of the complexity of the inherent relations between extracted insights. Users face difficulty sifting through a vast number of discrete insights to integrate specific ones into a unified narrative that meets their analytical goals. Existing methods ei…

Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday
—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses
https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/…

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

Russland verhängt Einreisesperren gegen 21 Personen
Russland belegt 21 Personen mit Einreisesperren. Ihnen werde vorgeworfen, mit "destruktiven britischen Medien" zusammenzuarbeiten, um anti-russische Narrative zu verbreiten, teilte das Außenministerium in Moskau mit. Unter den Betroffenen sind demnach Journalisten, Experten und Mitglieder von Nichtregierungsorganisationen.
Ihre Namen würden einer "Stopp-Liste" hinzugefügt, …
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Russland fordert Mitsprache in Sicherheitsfragen ++
Der russische Außenminister Lawrow fordert die Beteiligung des Kreml in der Debatte um Sicherheitsgarantien für die Ukraine. Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die Region Sumy sind 14 Menschen verletzt worden.

Cin\'{e}aste: A Fine-grained Contextual Movie Question Answering Benchmark
Nisarg A. Shah, Amir Ziai, Chaitanya Ekanadham, Vishal M. Patel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14227 h…

Cinéaste: A Fine-grained Contextual Movie Question Answering Benchmark
While recent advancements in vision-language models have improved video understanding, diagnosing their capacity for deep, narrative comprehension remains a challenge. Existing benchmarks often test short-clip recognition or use template-based questions, leaving a critical gap in evaluating fine-grained reasoning over long-form narrative content. To address these gaps, we introduce $\mathsf{Cin\acute{e}aste}$, a comprehensive benchmark for long-form movie understanding. Our dataset comprises 3,…

Inert dark matter in three Higgs doublet model: a blind spot narrative
Amit Dutta Banik, Tapoja Jha, Eija Tanskanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13583 https://

Inert dark matter in three Higgs doublet model: a blind spot narrative
We explore the phenomenology of three Higgs doublet scenario, where the scalar potential is augmented by $\mathbb{Z}_{3} \times \mathbb{Z}_{2}$ symmetry making one doublet inert. Thus in effect, our model of interest is two Higgs plus inert Higgs doublet model charged under $\mathbb{Z}_3$ ((2+I)HDM-$\mathbb{Z}_3$) symmetry. We observe a blind spot feature for dark matter direct detection, as the tree-level dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section vanishes depending on the mass splitting of …

Es gibt mal wieder ein Unternehmen, das behauptet automatisiert Fake Accounts identifizieren zu können. evAI zusammen mit Cyabra. Schreiben von „über 100 Kriterien“, veröffentlichen kein einziges davon. Da sie mit Xcorp-Daten arbeiten werden es keine Kriterien, sondern die Metadaten der Posts sein; Also Eigenschaften. Dazu irgendwelche veralteten Trainingsdaten und fertig ist das nichtssagende Ergebnis.
Dabei ist die Auswertung der Narrative gar nicht schlecht.

I know what the narrative will be, but it’s inaccurate. #LFC had 2.76 xG versus 1.26 for United. Gakpo hit the post three times. Salah missed a chance he never misses. The referee, I think reasonably, did not blow the play dead on a head injury, resulting in a goal. A handball in the box was correctly not given.
My point is that it took a lot of good fortune for United to win. It’s clear that LFC…

» @… reported that in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s Justice Department deleted a study from its website stating that right-wing violence ›continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism‹ in the United States. This comes as the Trump administration and Republicans generally blame political violence solely o…

Dart, Giants hope win over Eagles shifts narrative https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46549170/jaxson-dart-giants-hope-win-eagles-shifts-narrative

Can all German genocide deniers please get the fuck out of my mentions.
Genocide denial is the last and final stage of genocide and constitutes complicity in genocide.
Matze Schmidt, you are complicit in genocide.
And history is taking notes.
https://masto.ai/@matzeschmidt/1150655

SARGASSO Call for Contributions: Post-Narrative Futures in Caribbean Letters and Cultures
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Narrative Memory in Machines: Multi-Agent Arc Extraction in Serialized TV
Roberto Balestri, Guglielmo Pescatore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07010 https://ar…

Narrative Memory in Machines: Multi-Agent Arc Extraction in Serialized TV
Serialized television narratives present significant analytical challenges due to their complex, temporally distributed storylines that necessitate sophisticated information management. This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) designed to extract and analyze narrative arcs by implementing principles of computational memory architectures. The system conceptualizes narrative understanding through analogues of human memory: Large Language Models (LLMs) provide a form of semantic memory for…

The Shutdown Narrative Is Slipping Away From the GOP - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/the-shutdown-narrative-is-slipping-away-from-the-gop/

Austerity in Crisis?: A Narrative Review of Its Economic, Social, and Political Effects in Times of Crisis
Ricardo Alonzo Fern\'andez Salguero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10449

Austerity in Crisis?: A Narrative Review of Its Economic, Social, and Political Effects in Times of Crisis
The 2008 global financial crisis marked the beginning of a decade dominated by fiscal austerity policies in much of the developed world. This paper presents a qualitative narrative review of an extensive collection of academic literature to synthesize evidence on the multifaceted effects of austerity. Following a thematic approach inspired by PRISMA guidelines, the economic, social, and political consequences of these measures are examined. The analysis reveals a majority consensus regarding th…

Demonstrating Narrative Pattern Discovery from Biomedical Literature
Hermann Kroll, Pascal Sackhoff, Bill Matthias Thang, Christin Katharina Kreutz, Wolf-Tilo Balke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09687

Demonstrating Narrative Pattern Discovery from Biomedical Literature
Digital libraries maintain extensive collections of knowledge and need to provide effective access paths for their users. For instance, PubPharm, the specialized information service for Pharmacy in Germany, provides and develops access paths to their underlying biomedical document collection. In brief, PubPharm supports traditional keyword-based search, search for chemical structures, as well as novel graph-based discovery workflows, e.g., listing or searching for interactions between different…

There is wal to wall coverage on #NBC of #CharlieKirk's corpse travelling on highways, as off screen media #narrative voices tell us he was a "pivotal figure" whom people "watched religiously" as an "icon…

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
https://flip.it/yo5WBE

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Dave Guruge, Samuel Mann, Ruth Myers, Oliver Bates, Mikey Goldweber, Andy Williamson, Jon Lasenby, Ian Brooks
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05992

Surviving the Narrative Collapse: Sustainability and Justice in Computing Within Limits
Sustainability-driven computing research - encompassing equity, diversity, climate change, and social justice - is increasingly dismissed as woke or even dangerous in many sociopolitical contexts. As misinformation, ideological polarisation, deliberate ignorance and reactionary narratives gain ground, how can sustainability research in computing continue to exist and make an impact? This paper explores these tensions through Fictomorphosis, a creative story retelling method that reframes contes…

New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that
Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data 💥in an abortion investigation,
contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was
“being searched for as a missing person,” and that“it was about her safety.” 
The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," logged evidence of a woman’…

Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information shows that deputies had initiated a "death investigation" of a "non-viable fetus," collected evidence of a woman’s self-managed abortion, and consulted…

Enhancing XAI Narratives through Multi-Narrative Refinement and Knowledge Distillation
Flavio Giorgi, Matteo Silvestri, Cesare Campagnano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03134

Enhancing XAI Narratives through Multi-Narrative Refinement and Knowledge Distillation
Explainable Artificial Intelligence has become a crucial area of research, aiming to demystify the decision-making processes of deep learning models. Among various explainability techniques, counterfactual explanations have been proven particularly promising, as they offer insights into model behavior by highlighting minimal changes that would alter a prediction. Despite their potential, these explanations are often complex and technical, making them difficult for non-experts to interpret. To a…

SARGASSO Call for Contributions: Post-Narrative Futures in Caribbean Letters and Cultures
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Strong, informative, compelling, narrative from a woman who fell into the anti-vaxxer whirlpool and then escaped it: https://macleans.ca/longforms/confessions-of-an-ex-anti-vaxxer/

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
https://itc.ua/en/news/gpt-5-surrendered-to-the-hackers-in-24-hours-and-gave-out-a-recipe-for-a-bomb-more-likely-4o/

GPT-5 surrendered to the hackers in 24 hours and gave out a "recipe" for a bomb, more likely 4o
Two different teams of researchers tested GPT-5's weaknesses using, among other things, multi-step "narrative" attacks. As a result, the most advanced

All-Pro Ex-Teammate Calls BS on Wilkins Narrative: ‘This Don’t Add Up’ https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/christian-wilkins-terron-armstead-bs/?adt_ei=[email]

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research
Francois Stockart, Alexis Robin, Hal Blumenfeld, Milan Brazdil, Philippe Kahane, Liad Mudrik, Jasmine Thum, Michael Pereira, Nathan Faivre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08736

Neural correlates of perceptual consciousness from within: a narrative review of human intracranial research
Despite many years of research, the quest to identify neural correlates of perceptual consciousness (NCC) remains unresolved. One major obstacle lies in methodological limitations: most studies rely on non-invasive neural measures with limited spatial or temporal resolution making it difficult to disentangle proper NCCs from concurrent cognitive processes. Additionally, the relatively low sensitivity of non-invasive neural measures limits the interpretation of null findings in studies targeting…

Rubio denies European leaders coming to White House to 'keep Zelensky from being bullied': https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/18/rubio-denies-european-leaders-coming.html

An Evolutionary Analysis of Narrative Selection
Federico Innocenti, Roberto Rozzi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03540 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03540

An Evolutionary Analysis of Narrative Selection
We study the performance of different methods for processing information, incorporating narrative selection within an evolutionary model. All agents update their beliefs according to Bayes' Rule, but some strategically choose the narrative they use in updating according to heterogeneous criteria. We simulate the endogenous composition of the population, considering different laws of motion for the underlying state of the world. We find that conformists -- that is, agents that choose the narrati…

I found these pictures at completely different times in completely different places and I refuse to believe they don't form a perfect complete narrative

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez #fascism

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez
Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

#PhantastikPrompts 9.10.: "Does your protagonist believe in magic or something similar?"
Although she is a hereditary priestess and avatar of the God, Selchae starts the narrative as a shallow and vain unbeliever. As she gradually comes to inhabit her role, this changes. The God is capable of 'things similar to magic', but I don't think that even by the end of…

Anything to deflect the narrative!
Adelita Grijalva elected but not yet sworn in.
Epstein files not released.
Hundreds of thousands will lose health care under the Republican budget.
Foreign governments buying gold and not USD.
But what is the MSM reporting?
Democrats shut down the Government.
Blue cities unsafe.
Tylenol unsafe.
Circumcision unsafe.
And now we get to talk about this?

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image Some of y'all are pointing out that Trump ran the FBI on Jan 6, and had run it for ~1,400 days straight at this point. But this doesn't have to pass your discerning eye. It has to work on people that believe that Haitians eat your dogs, and that raw milk and Ivermectin is better than vaccines.🤷🏿‍♂️ You live in a world where the Ivermectin sipping, Black people hating, anti-vaxxers have consolidated enough power that they don't have to even pretend to care what …

The Evolution of Enumerative Geometry: A Narrative from Classical Problems to Enriched Invariants
Candace Bethea, Thomas Brazelton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04275 https://

The Evolution of Enumerative Geometry: A Narrative from Classical Problems to Enriched Invariants
Enumerative geometry, the art and science of counting geometric objects satisfying geometric conditions, has seen a resurgence of activity in recent years due to an influx of new techniques that allow for enriched computations. This paper offers a historical survey of enumerative geometry, starting with its classical origins and real counterparts, to new advances in quadratic enrichment. We include a brief survey of the paradigm shift initiated by Gromov-Witten theory, whose impact can be seen …

Would you let a humanoid play storytelling with your child? A usability study on LLM-powered narrative Humanoid-Robot Interaction
Maria Lombardi, Carmela Calabrese, Davide Ghiglino, Caterina Foglino, Davide De Tommaso, Giulia Da Lisca, Lorenzo Natale, Agnieszka Wykowska
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02505…

Would you let a humanoid play storytelling with your child? A usability study on LLM-powered narrative Humanoid-Robot Interaction
A key challenge in human-robot interaction research lies in developing robotic systems that can effectively perceive and interpret social cues, facilitating natural and adaptive interactions. In this work, we present a novel framework for enhancing the attention of the iCub humanoid robot by integrating advanced perceptual abilities to recognise social cues, understand surroundings through generative models, such as ChatGPT, and respond with contextually appropriate social behaviour. Specifical…

SARGASSO Call for Contributions: Post-Narrative Futures in Caribbean Letters and Cultures
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The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, Visuals and Viewer Engagement of Religious Videos on YouTube
Rongyi Chen, Ziyan Xin, Qing Xiao, Ruiwei Xiao, Jingjia Xiao, Bingbing Zhang, Hong Shen, Zhicong Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10957

The Digital Landscape of God: Narrative, Visuals and Viewer Engagement of Religious Videos on YouTube
The digital transformation of religious practice has reshaped how billions of people engage with spiritual content, with video-sharing platforms becoming central to contemporary religious communication. Yet HCI research lacks systematic understanding of how narrative and visual elements create meaningful spiritual experiences and foster viewer engagement. We present a mixed-methods study of religious videos on YouTube across major religions, developing taxonomies of narrative frameworks, visual…

NFL Week 6 narrative shifts: 11 players, coaches making me a believer; top five MVP candidates https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-week-6-narrative-shifts-11-players-coaches-making-me-a-believer-top-five-mvp-candidates

Friedrich Merz spricht mit seiner „Stadtbild“-Aussage ein Unwohlsein an, das viele teilen – ohne dass ich ihnen pauschal Rassismus unterstelle. Doch genau diese Rhetorik befeuert die AfD und rechtsextreme Narrative von „kriminellen Migranten“. Eine Debatte, die wir nicht brauchen – und die Merz bewusst oder gedankenlos anheizt. #Migration

ComoRAG: A Cognitive-Inspired Memory-Organized RAG for Stateful Long Narrative Reasoning
Juyuan Wang, Rongchen Zhao, Wei Wei, Yufeng Wang, Mo Yu, Jie Zhou, Jin Xu, Liyan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10419

ComoRAG: A Cognitive-Inspired Memory-Organized RAG for Stateful Long Narrative Reasoning
Narrative comprehension on long stories and novels has been a challenging domain attributed to their intricate plotlines and entangled, often evolving relations among characters and entities. Given the LLM's diminished reasoning over extended context and high computational cost, retrieval-based approaches remain a pivotal role in practice. However, traditional RAG methods can fall short due to their stateless, single-step retrieval process, which often overlooks the dynamic nature of capturing …

Cut2Next: Generating Next Shot via In-Context Tuning
Jingwen He, Hongbo Liu, Jiajun Li, Ziqi Huang, Yu Qiao, Wanli Ouyang, Ziwei Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08244 https://

Cut2Next: Generating Next Shot via In-Context Tuning
Effective multi-shot generation demands purposeful, film-like transitions and strict cinematic continuity. Current methods, however, often prioritize basic visual consistency, neglecting crucial editing patterns (e.g., shot/reverse shot, cutaways) that drive narrative flow for compelling storytelling. This yields outputs that may be visually coherent but lack narrative sophistication and true cinematic integrity. To bridge this, we introduce Next Shot Generation (NSG): synthesizing a subsequent…

Taylor Swift's podcast debut on New Heights, co-hosted by Travis Kelce, shows the format is an appealing option for stars instead of late-night TV and magazines (Jessica Testa/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/med…

Taylor Swift Found a New Way to Control Her Narrative: Podcasts
For stars promoting their projects, podcasts have become an appealing alternative to late-night TV and glossy magazines.

K-Pop Demon Hunters as Global Phenomenon: Narrative, Performance, and Identity in Transnational Popular Culture
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Spatial Balancing: Harnessing Spatial Reasoning to Balance Scientific Exposition and Narrative Engagement in LLM-assisted Science Communication Writing
Kexue Fu, Jiaye Leng, Yawen Zhang, Jingfei Huang, Yihang Zuo, Runze Cai, Zijian Ding, Ray LC, Shengdong Zhao, Qinyuan Lei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13742

Spatial Balancing: Harnessing Spatial Reasoning to Balance Scientific Exposition and Narrative Engagement in LLM-assisted Science Communication Writing
Balancing scientific exposition and narrative engagement is a central challenge in science communication. To examine how to achieve balance, we conducted a formative study with four science communicators and a literature review of science communication practices, focusing on their workflows and strategies. These insights revealed how creators iteratively shift between exposition and engagement but often lack structured support. Building on this, we developed SpatialBalancing, a co-writing syste…

Robust Symbolic Reasoning for Visual Narratives via Hierarchical and Semantically Normalized Knowledge Graphs
Yi-Chun Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14941 https://

Robust Symbolic Reasoning for Visual Narratives via Hierarchical and Semantically Normalized Knowledge Graphs
Understanding visual narratives such as comics requires structured representations that capture events, characters, and their relations across multiple levels of story organization. However, symbolic narrative graphs often suffer from inconsistency and redundancy, where similar actions or events are labeled differently across annotations or contexts. Such variance limits the effectiveness of reasoning and generalization. This paper introduces a semantic normalization framework for hierarchica…

Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks
Patrick Gerard, Luca Luceria, Leonardo Blas, Emilio Ferrara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09464

Cross-Platform Narrative Prediction: Leveraging Platform-Invariant Discourse Networks
Online narratives spread unevenly across platforms, with content emerging on one site often appearing on others, hours, days or weeks later. Existing cross-platform information diffusion models often treat platforms as isolated systems, disregarding cross-platform activity that might make these patterns more predictable. In this work, we frame cross-platform prediction as a network proximity problem: rather than tracking individual users across platforms or relying on brittle signals like share…

The Stories We Govern By: AI, Risk, and the Power of Imaginaries
Ninell Oldenburg, Gleb Papyshev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11729 https://arxiv.org/pdf/250…

The Stories We Govern By: AI, Risk, and the Power of Imaginaries
This paper examines how competing sociotechnical imaginaries of artificial intelligence (AI) risk shape governance decisions and regulatory constraints. Drawing on concepts from science and technology studies, we analyse three dominant narrative groups: existential risk proponents, who emphasise catastrophic AGI scenarios; accelerationists, who portray AI as a transformative force to be unleashed; and critical AI scholars, who foreground present-day harms rooted in systemic inequality. Through …

Multi-Agent Data Visualization and Narrative Generation
Anton Wolter, Georgios Vidalakis, Michael Yu, Ankit Grover, Vaishali Dhanoa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00481 https://

Multi-Agent Data Visualization and Narrative Generation
Recent advancements in the field of AI agents have impacted the way we work, enabling greater automation and collaboration between humans and agents. In the data visualization field, multi-agent systems can be useful for employing agents throughout the entire data-to-communication pipeline. We present a lightweight multi-agent system that automates the data analysis workflow, from data exploration to generating coherent visual narratives for insight communication. Our approach combines a hybrid…

Agent's Take: The Steelers wide receiver curse is real; can George Pickens change the narrative with Cowboys?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents…

A Close Reading Approach to Gender Narrative Biases in AI-Generated Stories
Daniel Raffini, Agnese Macori, Marco Angelini, Tiziana Catarci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09651 https…

A Close Reading Approach to Gender Narrative Biases in AI-Generated Stories
The paper explores the study of gender-based narrative biases in stories generated by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. The prompt design draws on Propp's character classifications and Freytag's narrative structure. The stories are analyzed through a close reading approach, with particular attention to adherence to the prompt, gender distribution of characters, physical and psychological descriptions, actions, and finally, plot development and character relationships. The results reveal the persiste…

Inside the aftermath of FTX's collapse, law firm Sullivan & Cromwell's role, and an interview with SBF, who is preparing to appeal his conviction in November (Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/…

Sam Bankman-Fried and the multibillion-dollar drama over FTX’s ruins
In exclusive prison interviews, the convicted crypto king is still fighting to control the narrative ahead of a high-stakes appeal.

Wolf admits sheep population is in ‘rapid decline’. https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business-nbfr4cs7z/-/a-1AhrCxHAS1i_bbcq3SK6Hw:a:43591897-/0

Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’
The statement contradicts Google’s recent narrative about the health of the online ecosystem. For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last …

Weidel, Chrupalla & Co. nutzen Sommerinterviews für reibungslose Selbstdarstellung – weil #ARD & #ZDF nach wie vor im Schongang fragen. Rechtsextreme Narrative unwidersprochen senden – das ist keine Neutralität, sondern Normalisierung. Auftrag der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen ist Demokratieförderung, nich…

Growing Perspectives: Modelling Embodied Perspective Taking and Inner Narrative Development Using Large Language Models
Sabrina Patania, Luca Annese, Anna Lambiase, Anita Pellegrini, Tom Foulsham, Azzurra Ruggeri, Silvia Rossi, Silvia Serino, Dimitri Ognibene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11868

Growing Perspectives: Modelling Embodied Perspective Taking and Inner Narrative Development Using Large Language Models
Language and embodied perspective taking are essential for human collaboration, yet few computational models address both simultaneously. This work investigates the PerspAct system [1], which integrates the ReAct (Reason and Act) paradigm with Large Language Models (LLMs) to simulate developmental stages of perspective taking, grounded in Selman's theory [2]. Using an extended director task, we evaluate GPT's ability to generate internal narratives aligned with specified developmental stages, a…

Exploring Conversational Design Choices in LLMs for Pedagogical Purposes: Socratic and Narrative Approaches for Improving Instructor's Teaching Practice
Si Chen, Isabel R. Molnar, Peiyu Li, Adam Acunin, Ting Hua, Alex Ambrose, Nitesh V. Chawla, Ronald Metoyer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12107

Exploring Conversational Design Choices in LLMs for Pedagogical Purposes: Socratic and Narrative Approaches for Improving Instructor's Teaching Practice
Large language models (LLMs) typically generate direct answers, yet they are increasingly used as learning tools. Studying instructors' usage is critical, given their role in teaching and guiding AI adoption in education. We designed and evaluated TeaPT, an LLM for pedagogical purposes that supports instructors' professional development through two conversational approaches: a Socratic approach that uses guided questioning to foster reflection, and a Narrative approach that offers elaborated su…

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam downplays Arch Manning narrative ahead of 2026 NFL Draft

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/browns-owner-jimmy-haslam-dow…

Humor in Pixels: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models Understanding of Online Comics
Yuriel Ryan, Rui Yang Tan, Kenny Tsu Wei Choo, Roy Ka-Wei Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12248

Humor in Pixels: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models Understanding of Online Comics
Understanding humor is a core aspect of social intelligence, yet it remains a significant challenge for Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). We introduce PixelHumor, a benchmark dataset of 2,800 annotated multi-panel comics designed to evaluate LMMs' ability to interpret multimodal humor and recognize narrative sequences. Experiments with state-of-the-art LMMs reveal substantial gaps: for instance, top models achieve only 61% accuracy in panel sequencing, far below human performance. This underscore…

How right-wing influencers, like Benny Johnson and Nick Sortor, are supplying the Trump administration's narrative around National Guard deployment in Portland (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us/poli

How Right-Wing Influencers Are Shaping the Guard Fight in Portland
President Trump and his administration are amplifying the voices of pro-White House podcasters and streamers eager to ratify the president’s description of Oregon’s largest city as a “hellscape.”

STaR-Attack: A Spatio-Temporal and Narrative Reasoning Attack Framework for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
Shaoxiong Guo, Tianyi Du, Lijun Li, Yuyao Wu, Jie Li, Jing Shao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26473

STaR-Attack: A Spatio-Temporal and Narrative Reasoning Attack Framework for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation Models
Unified Multimodal understanding and generation Models (UMMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in both understanding and generation tasks. However, we identify a vulnerability arising from the generation-understanding coupling in UMMs. The attackers can use the generative function to craft an information-rich adversarial image and then leverage the understanding function to absorb it in a single pass, which we call Cross-Modal Generative Injection (CMGI). Current attack methods on mali…

Autiverse: Eliciting Autistic Adolescents' Daily Narratives through AI-guided Multimodal Journaling
Migyeong Yang, Kyungah Lee, Jinyoung Han, SoHyun Park, Young-Ho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17466

Autiverse: Eliciting Autistic Adolescents' Daily Narratives through AI-guided Multimodal Journaling
Journaling can potentially serve as an effective method for autistic adolescents to improve narrative skills. However, its text-centric nature and high executive functioning demands present barriers to practice. We present Autiverse, an AI-guided multimodal journaling app for tablets that scaffolds storytelling through conversational prompts and visual supports. Autiverse elicits key details through a stepwise dialogue with peer-like, customizable AI and composes them into an editable four-pane…

Improving Narrative Classification and Explanation via Fine Tuned Language Models
Rishit Tyagi, Rahul Bouri, Mohit Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04077 https://

Improving Narrative Classification and Explanation via Fine Tuned Language Models
Understanding covert narratives and implicit messaging is essential for analyzing bias and sentiment. Traditional NLP methods struggle with detecting subtle phrasing and hidden agendas. This study tackles two key challenges: (1) multi-label classification of narratives and sub-narratives in news articles, and (2) generating concise, evidence-based explanations for dominant narratives. We fine-tune a BERT model with a recall-oriented approach for comprehensive narrative detection, refining predi…

AutiHero: Leveraging Generative AI in Social Narratives to Engage Parents in Story-Driven Behavioral Guidance for Autistic Children
Jungeun Lee, Kyungah Lee, Inseok Hwang, SoHyun Park, Young-Ho Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17608

AutiHero: Leveraging Generative AI in Social Narratives to Engage Parents in Story-Driven Behavioral Guidance for Autistic Children
Social narratives are known to help autistic children understand and navigate social situations through stories. To ensure effectiveness, however, the materials need to be customized to reflect each child's unique behavioral context, requiring considerable time and effort for parents to practice at home. We present AutiHero, a generative AI-based social narrative system for behavioral guidance, which supports parents to create personalized stories for their autistic children and read them toget…

Story2Board: A Training-Free Approach for Expressive Storyboard Generation
David Dinkevich, Matan Levy, Omri Avrahami, Dvir Samuel, Dani Lischinski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09983

Story2Board: A Training-Free Approach for Expressive Storyboard Generation
We present Story2Board, a training-free framework for expressive storyboard generation from natural language. Existing methods narrowly focus on subject identity, overlooking key aspects of visual storytelling such as spatial composition, background evolution, and narrative pacing. To address this, we introduce a lightweight consistency framework composed of two components: Latent Panel Anchoring, which preserves a shared character reference across panels, and Reciprocal Attention Value Mixing,…

Toward Supporting Narrative-Driven Data Exploration: Barriers and Design Opportunities
Oliver Huang, Carolina Nobre
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04920 https://

Toward Supporting Narrative-Driven Data Exploration: Barriers and Design Opportunities
Analysts increasingly explore data through evolving, narrative-driven inquiries, moving beyond static dashboards and predefined metrics as their questions deepen and shift. As these explorations progress, insights often become dispersed across views, making it challenging to maintain context or clarify how conclusions arise. Through a formative study with 48 participants, we identify key barriers that hinder narrative-driven exploration, including difficulty maintaining context across views, tr…

How many more times can Bengals risk Joe Burrow before it's too late? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6632882/2025/09/16/joe-burrow-injury-blame-bengals/

Modeling Interactive Narrative Systems: A Formal Approach
Jules Clerc, Domitile Lourdeaux, Mohamed Sallak, Johann Barbier, Marc Ravaine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05653 https://…

Modeling Interactive Narrative Systems: A Formal Approach
Interactive Narrative Systems (INS) have revolutionized digital experiences by empowering users to actively shape their stories, diverging from traditional passive storytelling. However, the field faces challenges due to fragmented research efforts and diverse system representations. This paper introduces a formal representation framework for INS, inspired by diverse approaches from the state of the art. By providing a consistent vocabulary and modeling structure, the framework facilitates the …

Framing Migration: A Computational Analysis of UK Parliamentary Discourse
Vahid Ghafouri, Robert McNeil, Teodor Yankov, Madeleine Sumption, Luc Rocher, Scott A. Hale, Adam Mahdi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14197

Framing Migration: A Computational Analysis of UK Parliamentary Discourse
We present a large-scale computational analysis of migration-related discourse in UK parliamentary debates spanning over 75 years and compare it with US congressional discourse. Using open-weight LLMs, we annotate each statement with high-level stances toward migrants and track the net tone toward migrants across time and political parties. For the UK, we extend this with a semi-automated framework for extracting fine-grained narrative frames to capture nuances of migration discourse. Our findi…

Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda
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Call for Papers: Religious Emergence and The Sacred in Legends of Zelda
Volume Editor: Michael Barros This book will explore how religion and the sacred emerge from within the structure and narrative of The Legend of Zelda series, one of the most influential …

Exploring Gaze Dynamics in VR Film Education: Gender, Avatar, and the Shift Between Male and Female Perspectives
Zheng Wei, Jia Sun, Junxiang Liao, Lik-Hang Lee, Pan Hui, Huamin Qu, Wai Tong, Xian Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12027

Exploring Gaze Dynamics in VR Film Education: Gender, Avatar, and the Shift Between Male and Female Perspectives
In virtual reality (VR) education, especially in creative fields like film production, avatar design and narrative style extend beyond appearance and aesthetics. This study explores how the interaction between avatar gender, the dominant narrative actor's gender, and the learner's gender influences film production learning in VR, focusing on gaze dynamics and gender perspectives. Using a 2*2*2 experimental design, 48 participants operated avatars of different genders and interacted with male or…

Intersectionality and Disability Studies in Contemporary Comics and Graphic Narrative https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/09/30/intersectionality-and-disability-studies-in-contemporary-comics-and-…

PRELUDE: A Benchmark Designed to Require Global Comprehension and Reasoning over Long Contexts
Mo Yu, Tsz Ting Chung, Chulun Zhou, Tong Li, Rui Lu, Jiangnan Li, Liyan Xu, Haoshu Lu, Ning Zhang, Jing Li, Jie Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09848

PRELUDE: A Benchmark Designed to Require Global Comprehension and Reasoning over Long Contexts
We introduce PRELUDE, a benchmark for evaluating long-context understanding through the task of determining whether a character's prequel story is consistent with the canonical narrative of the original book. Our task poses a stronger demand for global comprehension and deep reasoning than existing benchmarks -- as the prequels are not part of the original story, assessing their plausibility typically requires searching and integrating information that is only indirectly related. Empirically, 8…

Sketchar: Supporting Character Design and Illustration Prototyping Using Generative AI
Long Ling, Xinyi Chen, Ruoyu Wen, Toby Jia-Jun Li, Ray LC
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12333

Sketchar: Supporting Character Design and Illustration Prototyping Using Generative AI
Character design in games involves interdisciplinary collaborations, typically between designers who create the narrative content, and illustrators who realize the design vision. However, traditional workflows face challenges in communication due to the differing backgrounds of illustrators and designers, the latter with limited artistic abilities. To overcome these challenges, we created Sketchar, a Generative AI (GenAI) tool that allows designers to prototype game characters and generate imag…

RELATE-Sim: Leveraging Turning Point Theory and LLM Agents to Predict and Understand Long-Term Relationship Dynamics through Interactive Narrative Simulations
Matthew Yue, Zhikun Xu, Vivek Gupta, Thao Ha, Liesal Sharabi, Ben Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00414

RELATE-Sim: Leveraging Turning Point Theory and LLM Agents to Predict and Understand Long-Term Relationship Dynamics through Interactive Narrative Simulations
Most dating technologies optimize for getting together, not staying together. We present RELATE-Sim, a theory-grounded simulator that models how couples behave at consequential turning points-exclusivity talks, conflict-and-repair episodes, relocations-rather than static traits. Two persona-aligned LLM agents (one per partner) interact under a centralized Scene Master that frames each turning point as a compact set of realistic options, advances the narrative, and infers interpretable state cha…

Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Text-Image Co-Editing
Kexue Fu, Jingfei Huang, Long Ling, Sumin Hong, Yihang Zuo, Ray LC, Toby Jia-jun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13646

Vistoria: A Multimodal System to Support Fictional Story Writing through Instrumental Text-Image Co-Editing
Humans think visually-we remember in images, dream in pictures, and use visual metaphors to communicate. Yet, most creative writing tools remain text-centric, limiting how authors plan and translate ideas. We present Vistoria, a system for synchronized text-image co-editing in fictional story writing that treats visuals and text as coequal narrative materials. A formative Wizard-of-Oz co-design study with 10 story writers revealed how sketches, images, and annotations serve as essential instrum…