#so much of that in DMT and DWW... love love love

[sassenashsworld]

[rad-roche]

back with more dww development fun facts! this one is spoiler heavy for the ending, so give it a skip if you're still reading the series

so! ending happens. gloria and DiMA are dead, and nick is dying after having lost everything dear to him. if he dies or not i've left up to you, there's another evidence to swing that either way. such is the peril of a noir, right?

so nick killing glori i foreshadowed way, way back in the first one. you'll notice there's a lot of language comparing her to winter. here's a factoid: that was originally going to be the ending of dmt. everything would have played out as normal, but gloria would have mentioned finding a lump, and they'd walk off together wrestling with their uncertain future. two reasons i didn't go with this in the end. i knew i wanted to do a follow-up and also that would have been too many things to juggle and made the endings parts too obvious. nick and gloria wrestling with her guilt was enough to sustain the story. second reason, dead man talking isn't very long, and we don't find out much about her in it, so it's not going to have much impact. dmt is nick's story, dww is gloria's, so i felt the need to give her as fair a shake as i could, even if it ends in tragedy. especially so, actually

on topic! cannot thank the anonymous pathologist, who i'm going to call Dr Quinn Medicine Woman, enough. such a good sport. if a particular detail or the name of a drug or something is wrong, it means i get to say something i've always wanted to say: take it up with the board!

all stories are meant to be reread, but my favourite thing in the world is when you read a book back and find foreshadowing so obvious that it feels like it's beating you over the head. recontextualization, love it. tried to do this for the second half of dww. i'm not going to do both you and myself a disservice and point it out, but know i've put a lot of thought into it all

if you enjoyed it, especially the style, you'd really love 30s-50s noir/hardboiled. i'd totally recommend you seek it out. this is, after all, a pastiche. i can only hope i've come even a little close to the real thing. thanks again for reading