Help with a story idea

[Bazzle]

???

The opening section. Literally describing her clothes car, the flash bulbs. Headlines about girl plucked from obscurity. Rags to riches.
After miss Swift the highest number of followers. The scene setting.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Even simpler. S.O.S.

And she does it repeatedly, at several events.

It becomes an online conspiracy thing, websites dedicated to the photos of her doing it.

Maybe she intentionally flashes her panties from time to time as well?

 

[EmilyMiller]

The opening section. Literally describing her clothes car, the flash bulbs. Headlines about girl plucked from obscurity. Rags to riches.
After miss Swift the highest number of followers. The scene setting.

Premise? Not precise?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Even simpler. S.O.S.

And she does it repeatedly, at several events.

It becomes an online conspiracy thing, websites dedicated to the photos of her doing it.

Perhaps I could also involve an evil sister-in-law…

 

[intim8]

Any help appreciated.

Title: Medieval Steganography.

OK maybe not.

Does this story take place in modern times? Is this an electronic photo such that she can photoshop it? What about something like:

Message In A JPEG - Sex slave princess cries for help.

(Title sung to the tune of The Police)

 

[alohadave]

Well, there are rumors they are about to part ways, and she might have a heart attack, losing her beloved soul mate, mate. LOL or if the prenup isn't all that strong, he might have one.

Maybe she'll be on the new Suits spinoff series.

 

[Djmac1031]

Message In A JPEG - Sex slave princess cries for help.

That's actually pretty good.

 

[MajorRewrite]

Whoosh

 

[onehitwanda]

Even simpler. S.O.S.

And she does it repeatedly, at several events.

It becomes an online conspiracy thing, websites dedicated to the photos of her doing it.

Shades of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton

As one of the earliest and highest-ranking officers to be taken prisoner in North Vietnam, Denton was forced by his captors to participate in a 1966 televised propaganda interview which was broadcast in the United States. While answering questions and feigning trouble with the blinding television lights, Denton blinked his eyes in Morse code, spelling the word "T-O-R-T-U-R-E"—and confirming for the first time to U.S. Naval Intelligence that American POWs were being tortured.

I swear my mind is a Trash Panda emporium.

 

[intim8]

Shades of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton

I didn't know his name, but thought the same thing.

 

[Djmac1031]

Shades of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah_Denton

I vaguely remember hearing that story. Perhaps subliminally borrowed from it.

In today's "everything is a conspiracy" age it would definitely work in the story. People pouring over pictures of her, looking for hidden messages.

 

[onehitwanda]

A LLM finds patterns in her poses.

 

[intim8]

People pouring over pictures of her, looking for hidden messages.

Why stop at S.O.S? Her captor is an aristocrat, have her start telegraphing information he would rather not have made public.

 

[intim8]

A LLM finds patterns in her poses.

No, a real person finds them, but he is falsely accused of being an LLM.

 

[Britva415]

whoever spots the doctoring has to have a reason, a real, plausible reason, to be scrutinising the photo.

If it's on the internet, someone somewhere will spot it. Doesn't even need explanation at all.

 

[intim8]

If it's on the internet, someone somewhere will spot it. Doesn't even need explanation at all.

It's like @StillStunned has never heard of Reddit.

 

[Djmac1031]

A LLM finds patterns in her poses.

LLM?

 

[intim8]

@EmilyMiller can just sit back and let us write the story for her...

 

[intim8]

LLM?

Large Language Model. It's what people are erroneously calling "AI" these days.

 

[Djmac1031]

Probably overwhelming @EmilyMiller but hey, she did ask lol.

One more random idea is the kidnapped woman has a deaf family member, maybe a sister, and it's the sister that spots the pattern.

But the authorities don't believe her, so she hires a private investigator.

 

[intim8]

But the authorities don't believe her, so she hires a private investigator.

Cheaper to just post it on Reddit.

 

[onehitwanda]

Someone with a twist of the soul becomes consumed by the belief that all is not as it seems. In a stunning display of a non-computational process, the person emerges from a room with a codex that basically links her poses, choice of clothing etc to a steganographic message which reads "Duress - torture - mayday"

The rest is just a car chase.

 

[StillStunned]

It's like @StillStunned has never heard of Reddit.

Sounds like a red rabbit.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Furiously scrubbing notes…

 

[bestkeptsecret678]

I just don’t see how to adopt that idea in my story…

Maybe it’s not photos but video, and she uses subtle version of sign language to say “help me.”