Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-26845762-20170222025243/@comment-5918438-20170305001421

It's all about context. You can take one sentence out of a short story, and say that sentence is not a story, and so it is not valid. You could do the same for the illustration printed within the same short story, as part of a published anthology. But really, both that sentence and illustration are part of a story—a "slice of time", as I'm hearing said.

The point is that these BF illustrations are also attached to audio stories, though not, of course, within the same medium. You can't attach images to mp3 files, and have them heard on CD. So accompanying images are on the cover, inside booklets, and printed in DWM as a preview. None of those, individually, are stories, but they're not meant to be, and they don't have to be—on their own, that is. This is to say, they're provided in the context of an audio story, and, except with DWM (and trailers, which have been mentioned), packaged with that story, same as being printed in the book.

Meanwhile, an illustration printed in a DWM article is not a valid photo, as it's not tied to a story, illustrating it, but rather is illustrating an element of that story, within the context of a non-narrative magazine article. Really not the same thing.