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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.

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Been a fucking second since we saw one of these bad boys, right?

Because UUUGHH, that’s why. Maybe this blurb is spoilerish I don’t know, but it goes anyway.

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squirrellythief:

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Awww, thanks for the kind mention! I love hearing when reSWAN leaves craters. (Someday, you will see a new end for ISH that isn’t just a stop in Depression Town. Some glorious day! )

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Of course. I can’t NOT mention the thing I plowed through in three days and then was left a souless husk after. (I should also mention that I first got into SWAN around the last few chapters of its original run. The Lo Mein in Bed Trauma chapters to be specific, and followed ISH the whole while after. So reSWAN was like… equal parts existential despair, unabashed DELIGHT, and so much nostalgia. So, so much.)

I track your reISH updates and every time I see them I’m just like… “Lady’s gonna devastate me all over again, but this time in fun, new, much more complicated ways! :D” Which, really, is all part of the draw. 

#Seriously I can’t praise this fic enough#If you like songfics and teenagers with unholy levels of Chaotic Bastard go read it#For real y'all it’s a goddamn delight and a half

I’mma preserve these tags because ‘unholy levels of Chaotic Bastard’ has me smiling so hard my face hurts

Yay Lo Mein Trauma, hahaha   doubtless, you’ll be thrilled to know reISH features The Return of Lo Mein Trauma

I’ve been a little sparse on the updating since I’m doing the drawing for October nonsense, but I’m determined to make this sonofabitch, and devastation in fun new complicated ways is, like, exactly what we’re aiming for. 

reISH report: 

Nny - This is what I want and it’s probably gonna kill me.  I might consider this as okay. 

Edgar - I am so mad that my life is not a fairy tale now. I have really been through more than enough to earn it and someone can fucking die for me to get it for all i care

Nny - cool that dying sort of ties up our issues nicely

Edgar - not you

mini reISH report:

fucking hell I think i hit an actual real chapter break and not just like a vague notion that there is probably one among the wreckage of what i’ve done

reISH report:

Johnny argues that he’s not dead for far longer than a normal person would have to and he’s not even sure he’s right.

Yes, despite the madness earlier today, I did get some reISH done, and I wanted to post reassuringly in your general direction, person who did not come here for the explosion of five to ten year old tumblr jokes I spammed this morning.  

There’s no snippets or fun bits since there’s not a lot that’s like… soundbyte-y.  And I guess my impressions of it are still sort of similar to the last time I checked in since it’s just a continuation.   I think I may actually finish this chunk up with a filler bit and worry about linking it up to the next critical part later, because I think I’m more interested in getting the critical bit started now that I know all the mindsets that will be in place for it. (Which means I’ll be rewriting a whole chunk I’ve already done ha haaaaa🙃)

But I guess I can say there’s already more Dib in reISH than was ever in the first ISH, haha.  By which I think I technically mean he’s in it at all, but even if he was only there as half a mention originally, he’s got a decently sized part this time, at least in the beginning as ‘Person with technology who can peek at things.’  

Really hoping introducing this new element is going to tie things together and not fuck me over, I feel like it could go either way at the slightest whim.  I’m on a long tightrope carrying a pole but the pole is also the tightrope.  Maybe.   The metaphor is about as stable as my confidence in this.  Intriguing, has potential, maybe a mess upon scrutiny. 

Things I’m thinking about are movie sequels in which everyone’s characters get reset to zero despite the development that made the first movie compelling and how we’re not gonna do that.  Not that I ever felt in particular danger of it, I guess, but I’m trying to make sure that this thing feels like a story itself in addition to being The Continuing Saga of Those Garbage Kids.  So there’s a little bit of ‘okay, this bit is here to catch you up and/or remind you of Important Plot Point #5′, but it is mostly directly following on with where everyone’s state of mind is.  

Which is Not Great?  That’s a little weird also, I’m not starting with five people who feel generally fine if slightly off or unfulfilled and are thus primed for weird adventure.  I’m starting with A) doubts about continuing on current path, B) insecurity about place among friends, C) hyperdeveloped need for validation, D) a brand new anxiety disorder, at the very minimum, E) possessed by own brains and desperately longing for something that will probably result in own death.  

So we’re all good and scarred for life right out of the gate and it’s a little difficult to nudge people along who have trauma they can’t do anything with because they’re the only real people in the world.  

Which now that I’ve worded it that way was just my experience in highschool, so yeah, maybe this is doable, haha

Daily ish reISH report!

We did awesome today! Got a nice big huge important bit (that is brand new to this version of the story because fuck me and my “this will be shorter” delusions) and almost everyone yells at Jimmy!

Today’s yelling at Jimmy included!:

“Jimmy, no!”

“Dumbass! Don’t just fucking do what he tells you!”

“What the hell are you doing?”

We also yelled at Dib!:

“Will you shut up?!”

“Come out here and risk your own ass!  Why the fuck are we doing this?”

“All of Johnny is not going in there, thanks,” Johnny said.

“No.”

Very excited that this bit may tie together So Much very proud of getting into the zone today. Maybe every update will come with contextless yelling at Jimmy

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today in reISH Adventures: 

How many times can we tell Jimmy no

How many times have we done that already

got some Shit Done dammit

I got something going on that feels a lot like the reflections in reSWAN in that it was a large and critical part of the the rewrite that is conspicuously and bafflingly absent from the original.  Kinda psyched about that.  Hope I will not be mad at myself for it later.   

I really did do all kinds of little things today, but I felt like I had done nothing at all until I got some of this done.  I think bigger pieces are finally happening here and like going forward is something I can do with more confidence every time I go in.  Might actually be able to do this, haha

Here’s some snips and clips, because I always like doing that.   I hope you enjoy seeing them.  They’re funsize, but hopefully not in the frustrating Halloween candy kind of way. 

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