Part 2 (we both named it on the way out)

...Was finished with thread but realised I should re-link the fic just in case >.>
archiveofourown.org/works/58985407

So yeah, having people who legitimately enjoy what started as a silly, self-indulgent idea and consistently tell me they do - even if not every chapter works for them - is really nice. A weekly pick-me-up I really need these days, even living in a not-terrifying Western country (i.e. not America).

-and even writing a bit of Shadowbringers content, making some big assumptions about how things would go. I often get surprised by the direction my writing takes me even if I have some idea of the endpoint, and it's hard to account for that when pre-writing. But not doing it means writer's block...

-better redo that didn't make me feel like I was parodying myself or just throwing meme culture into FFXIV for no good reason. It for sure spiralled from there, given that my ADHD brain wouldn't let me focus on just what's now Book 1 alone, leading to already starting books 2 (ARR patches), 3 (HW)-

When I started it back in 2022, it was purely in response to a stray thought I had while playing Shadowbringers, a literal "if I was in this position I'd say X instead" at a certain big moment 70~% into the main expansion's story. Which led to a terrible first draft I long since dumped and a much-