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I don’t think ‘Tess is gonna be in this one’ is a big shocking reveal for reISH anymore at this point? So it’s not really spoilery to read this or the last one, actually. I’ve drawn pictures of her doing some stuff, she was aggressively hinted at. So there, now you have that information. Tess is here now, what’s she gonna do, what’s her deal, ooo, let’s find out together, yes, great

This is largely brain noise that will be interesting to about a half dozen of you. 👍 There is no secret reward snippet in this one, apologies. None of the words I made today are public facing, they’re just like a toothpick architecture model of the thing.

Tess has created game breaking glitch, which I think is in keeping with the vibe of the thing, so we’re going to roll with the glitch, I guess, but I’m just kinda

confused

or like mad at myself that there were just constraints I was working under even while trying to Not. This feels a lot like the middle section of reSWAN where it was like 'this doesn’t line up at all with what happened in the original and yet absolutely feels like it’s the same story’ so I think it’s going to be fine. And I’m glad to be doing
a 'more authentic to the reSWAN-developed characters’ version of the story anyway. It’s annoying to have so much wasted time and material but I think this is just the new shape of it. reSWAN did a kind of fractal opening of SWAN in the center of it, and so far ISH is doing like a fractal funneling.

Sometimes I see the story in a shape like it’s a wave on a graph.

Anyway, this is now document number 6 that I’ve made for this story, I think? And I usually have to have like three open at a time. I have a song chart, which is not usually an active document, thankfully. I have a timeline which is now incorrect. I have a working document that is like half timeline half actual written stuff. I have a document that contains at least two if not three of the openings I’ve tried for this story plus most of the other written stuff. I have one with the beginning I’ll probably use, which is the one I let myself go the loosest with, that also contains significant amounts of actual narrative, and now this new timeline doc. I’m gonna need to pull all these together like fucked up little post it notes or something and see what is still actually viable.

Banshee is okay so far, though I haven’t let myself go too far with her because I was rightly afraid of All The Bullshit I’m currently sorting out. There was a time I debated including Banshee, but she’s going to be important and useful in this one in ways she didn’t get to be in the first version, so I’m not wavering on her inclusion anymore.

Tess feels like she’s about to pull a SWAN Jimmy in that she’s going to have so much more to do so much earlier that half of my plan for her trajectory is plankton-didn’t-think-id-get-this-far.jpg

I made the bullet points on my timeline in Google docs into stars :)

God I hope there is someone left to read and care about this by the time it actually happens.