[And so the stage is set for an audience most eager~! ✦]

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Welcome, everyone, to Darkroom: an ISAT Fanzine! We are so excited to finally share with you the hard work and dedication of over 40 contributors and moderators, who have been tirelessly giving their all on their creations for the last several months to bring this zine to life. Breathe in, and breathe out. The curtain is ready to rise.

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[Come and share in the stars with us, won't you?]

The theming for this fanzine centers around the idea of distortions, how they obscure what we see and perceive, and how they can bring to light an entirely new perspective hidden behind the more easily comprehensible. In Stars And Time shows us throughout Siffrin's loops how the order of a carefully curated script can bring about a chaotic mental state, and how the chaotic breaking down of these self-imposed walls can bring about the order of accepting vulnerability. Change is often destruction, and in the midst of that destruction can be found something beautiful, something to live for. This is the idea we have hoped to present through this fanzine.

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[Discover within three acts by which we tell our story.]

In photography, negative space acts as anything within the photograph other than the subject. It provides the room to breathe, to collect and focus one's attention, so that the subject material might shine clearly to the viewer. This act focuses primarily on the events of Start Again: A Prologue, as the catalyst that frames every event which proceeds with In Stars And Time. The negative space which gives its everything so that the subject might persevere.

That perseverance given form. To take frame after frame after painstaking frame and stitch them into a whole. The time and dedication needed to see something beautiful captured in the end. Though we know the events of In Stars And Time do not compare to the length of what we are told that Prologue held, it is the main game that we the players are fully immersed and captured within, that we experience every same step that Siffrin also experiences. And so this act focuses within the events of the main game.

What we see when we close our eyes after exposed to a searing light. The visual information which lingers past the moment it holds life. It is only a singed shadow of what the real thing once had been, but it remains with us nonetheless, for better and for worse. This act focuses on what takes place after, what future awaits the party in the light of a new day, while the memories of their journey still burns dimly across their retinas.

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[Maybe it was all worth it, to finally see this beautiful end...]

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