“I think I want to set up the Johnny C. Memorial Highway,” Johnny announced one afternoon.
“You usually need to be dead to have a memorial anything,” Edgar said.
“I died once!”
“You need to stay that way,” Devi said, jabbing Johnny's knee with a pen.
“What the hell do you want a highway for, anyway?” Tenna snapped. “It's not like you even drive.”
“I would learn
for one with my name on it. Or maybe I need a bridge. People can
jump off of it in despair that they are not me.”
Devi rolled her
eyes. “Me first.”
Images!
*The Formal Homicidal Gallery* - All the Homicides Group Images, a ton of things I deleted from dA ages ago, things I didn't delete, a few new things, and just general stuff all spanning the life of SWAN-ISH, from 2004-ish onward.
Text!
* TRUFAX!
Just
like the one I posted at the end of SWAN, this is a file containing a
chapter by chapter breakdown of all the inside jokes, outside
references and other notes for the whole of ISH.
* 'Oh, Edgar'
One
day, Polyester Rage and I started laughing at how often we just shook
our heads and said, 'Oh, Edgar' while reading through ISH and related
stuff. When Edgar was totured or sweet even when Johnny didn't
deserve it or was just left as the last guy to know, it was an 'Oh,
Edgar' moment. In probably record time, 'Oh, Edgar' became the
name of the sitcom version of ISH, and just as quickly, PolyesterRage -
who was studying writing for television - presented me not only with
this treatment for the opening theme, but a generic TUNE for it as
well. The link includes the opening text as written by
PolyesterRage and autoplays the music file that accompanied it.
I suggest peeing before you experience this.
* 'Ears'
During the course of ISH, there's mention of ear peircing and that
Johnny was responsible for Edgar's. This is the pretty much
entirely dialog chunk of that happening, way back before they were 'a
thing.'
* 'ABBA'
A first-person bit from a still-small Banshee's point of view after
stealing an ABBA CD from the basement. She reflects on the songs
as they pertain to the lives and relationships of the people she knows.
It's a little disjointed and it mostly just her comments as the
tracks shuffle around rather than anything concrete, but it keeps with
one of ISH's themes about looking at people from other directions, so I
included it here.
* 'engaged'
During the course of ISH, Banshee asks Edgar why he
and Johnny aren't married, and he gets a bit short with her about it
not being required. I became a little bit enamored with the idea
of Edgar being enamoured with the idea and decided to play with it.
I gave this lots of ties to ISH 'canon' and left it in an
ambiguous time slot so that it could actually happen. The string
mentioned in here is in ISH, and the beginning is taken from ISH
itself. This is an awful lot sappier than pretty much anything
that SWAN and ISH ever contained. It's like the cotton candy of
extra scenes - all sugar fluff. It is incomplete and cuts off
before Johnny does something awful. Maybe I'll finish this someday!
* The 'Jimmy/Edgar/Johnny' Thing
While beta-ing ISH for me one day, PolyesterRage
said that she had just started doing the worst thing - shipping
Edgar/Jimmy. I told her not to worry, I'd been doing it too.
Jimmy had morphed into being so likable during he course of SWAN/ISH,
that it was hard not to, and after they had drinks together during ISH
10, we guiltily accepted that maybe we had an OT3 on our hands and I
let myself take a sharp turn to the left and actually write bits and
pieces of it.
When I
say bits and pieces, I mean it. A lot of this is left unclear and
there are huge chunks of time missing and I talk to myself while making
notes and the writing itself is mostly just dialog and ideas rather
than something really concrete and fleshed out. However, like the
engagement writing, I made sure to keep SWAN/ISH 'canon' in here, and
let it have direct ties and an indirect timeline, so that if we ever
needed this to work 'for real', it could. I'm all about options.
In here, you'll find lots of strange details about these people
in bed, scars, tattoos and a few other things that are mentioned in
SWAN and ISH but not detailed.
This starts with both a fight that separated Johnny
and Edgar for a little while and then an assumption that Jimmy has
saved Johnny's life by taking some sort of terrible thing meant for
Johnny, most likely something related to the Black-Eyed Kids, and
that's why he's there and being treated so well.
*'Edgar's Parents'
SWAN/ISH!Edgar gets a visit from his parents.
Just like everything else, this contains actual ISH 'canon' and
links to it. Edgar tells more of his scar story from the
threesome adventure here. Like everything else here, this is a
rough exploration and hasn't been beta'd or fixed up at all, really.
Also not really 'finished'. I don't know that it ever will
be, but it's a thing, and Edgar is particularly entertaining here.
*Other!Edgar and Nny
Coming eventually, maybe. I know a lot of people are curious
about this, and only a few people have actually seen any of it.
The intent is to post it, but I am still having reservations and
my internet doesn't cooperate well.
* Earrings and Sexual Preferences
A long time ago, I got an e-mail
about asking me to settle a bet about whether or not SWAN!Johnny had
his ears pierced. This is a basic info file (oldest, youngest, ear piercing, etc) about the main SWAN/ISH cast inspired by that e-mail!
*Thank You
Sincerity abounds.
Songs!
These are only here as long as these download links last, sorry! Get 'em while you can!
Songs from ISH - Songs that were actually present in the story
ISH-spiration - Songs that sounded like something, felt like something, or were just generally useful to me during ISH. Minus the ones already in 'Overdrive.' There are character folders in this one in addition to miscellaneous songs. I'd meant for there to be a readme file in there to talk about each song and what and why, but it didn't make it to the zip folder before I came back to crappy internet. So maybe you should contact me to talk about music! Or I'll post it.