#shoutouts to Eiko and Nanami for going from strangers to ‘would fight the world for you’ in a week. you fit in perfectly around here.

[regallibellbright]

Shoutouts to the TWEWY reddit for having the EXACT map I abruptly remembered I needed so I didn’t have to replay huge swathes of the game to figure out what day it was or substantially rework my damn timeline for like, the fourth time since I started this fic.

(Unfortunately, “three episodes take place in the span of two weeks and this is verifiable if you’re obsessive enough to freeze frame, which sadly/fortunately I am, then a key character fucks around for an indeterminate time that you can’t fudge as LESS than a month and that’s PUSHING things, and then everything starts rapidly moving again and the three critical episodes for my main arc explicitly take place over a single week” is not very good for everyone else’s sense of urgency. There’s only so much wallowing I can justify when everyone ELSE is trying to get shit moving.)

Good news! The map is JUST loose enough I can bullshit it as is!

#like a butterfly #wips #writing with regalli #yeah sure kongming’s doing important research it’s VERY INCONVENIENT TO ME #it’s just a VERY awkward timeline I have to work with #because in this case the plot was very much built around three BIG setpieces in YBK and one plot point #with the story kind of necessarily molding itself around those setpieces. #it is not my smoothest work and I will own that. Sadly I committed to a critical plot beat before I realized it was ONE WEEK #and there’s only so much I can make it work around that fact so I just sort of have to acknowledge that one and roll with it #shoutouts to Eiko and Nanami for going from strangers to ‘would fight the world for you’ in a week. you fit in perfectly around here. #sadly this is also the crux of the problem