Dailyish reISH Report:

I really love these horrible people, and I love that they’re people enough that they’re sitting with conflicts and decisions I didn’t know they had until I got them to talk it through

Now there’s a big single vein of conflict self-contained in Johnny that will feed through the whole story. It’s a big overwhelming thing to deal with and truthfully I don’t know how I will yet, but it feels absolutely right for him and like a logical progression thematically

That sounds really pretentious and shit, but I hope it’s rewarding for all involved. I want to do more of what I did with reSWAN and look at honest but ugly feelings straight on, give them their space to be true, and then say that an improvement or a rescue or any change at all didn’t make the ugly emotion wrong or render it as though it never happened. It’s not glorifying hopelessness or grief or selfish rage, it is just letting them exist with the time they need to without sending a clean up crew to remodel into a greeting card approved emotion.

I predict Ugly Learning will be a theme this time around.