I've got a little bit of that Joyce future pdwm fic written (to follow up on Iconoclast), and ngl, it is very much sadder and more upsetting than pretty much all of Jonathan's stuff in pdwm. Not in, like, a grossly exploitative or overwrought way, I hope. Just that I gave her some pretty heavy shit to sort out, and I want to give her room to explore that properly, so she's in a very sad situation because I've got this dual narrative (past & present) + an epistolary component going on. (I know, I'm overly complicating this, but trust me, it makes sense in context.)

There's a lot of good stuff, too! She's actually in a pretty good place in the future narrative, and even the heavy parts of it aren't, like... overwhelmingly so, I hope? She's working toward good stuff.

But yeah.