Story Title: Magical Girl Rydia - Summon the Four Warriors of Light!
Fandom: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy X, Final Fantasy IX, Final Fantasy VI
Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/50331952
Summary: Rydia is just an ordinary young woman studying chemistry at the University of Mysidia with a bit of a crush on her gorgeous biology lab TA, Yuna. But one day, when she's walking back to her apartment, an attack by a supernatural creature leads Rydia to discover she has magical powers. Before long, Rydia has been pulled into the urgent task of protecting some mystical crystals from sinister agents who have designs on them. Will she be able to save the crystals? Will she ace her biology class? And can she work up the courage to ask her TA and magical girl mentor out?! This is a Magical Girl AU Final Fantasy crossover, vaguely inspired by the game World of Final Fantasy.
Warnings: Mild fantasy violence
Characters: Rydia, Yuna, Eiko Carol, Mog (FFIX)
Pairings: Rydia (FFIV)/Yuna (FFX)
When I Started: I started this in 2017 for Press Start III.
How I Lost My Shit: There's always been slow and steady progress on this one, although I needed some help buckling down and ironing out some plot points.
How I Finished My Shit: WIP Big Bang gave me the push to sit down and finish off the last ~6k words needed, which required choreographing the last fight scene and deciding on the villains' motivations.

Art Title: Art For "Heathen"
Fandom: Dissidia NT: Final Fantasy, Compilation of Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy XV
Warnings: None for the art
Link: AO3
Bragging Rights: OMG, where do I start? Every round for the last three rounds, I take all the fics that aren't claimed by the fourth round of art claims to give them a banner and a wallpaper as well as fics in my fandoms I chose to make fanmixes for. Three weeks ago, my laptop died. But! My son has been wonderful in letting me use his laptop. I thought I had plenty of weekend visits to finish the two cover/WP sets and five fanmixes I had left. But life hates me, so some jerk stole our van and totaled it, so this was the ONLY WEEKEND where we have a rental car, so I have been up since Saturday at 8 AM working on getting the car issues settled, running errands in the rental car and as of nine PM Saturday night, working on all the art I still owed. I did this one at 5 AM (twenty-one hours awake) with my favorite film texture, two cups of cold coffee and pure determination to stay awake. But I love them. I'm really proud of how the banner came out, because that's the first time I got that coloring and I love it, and the wallpaper just looks amazing. And I'm so pleased dentedsky loved them! That's all that matters, in the end.

The full size wallpaper without text is up at https://i.postimg.cc/cJmXd7xC/H-WP.png and the full size wallpaper with text is up at https://i.postimg.cc/76ZXhChV/H-WP2.png.



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Art: Custom Built on AO3
Author: NightsMistress on AO3
Fandom: Final Fantasy
Artist: ficwriter103
Notes: I need to buy a dedicated scanner cause my phone's cam scanner does not cut it for art.

Story Title: Custom Built
Fandom: Final Fantasy XIII Series
Link(s): On AO3!
Summary: Luxerion, the City of Light, has been vacated by the fal'Cie and seems that it may be fit for humanity's purposes. Descending from the dying artificial cocoon where humanity has struggled to survive for ten years, Hope, Snow and Noel arrive in Luxerion to conduct an exploration mission. Monsters are fought, mysteries uncovered, and Hope learns that Luxerion is not the only thing considered fit for purpose.
Warnings Canon level violence, psychological horror, action/adventure
Characters: Hope Estheim, Snow Villiers, Noel Kreiss, Bhunivelze
Pairings: None applicable.
When I Started: I have had rusting away in my WIP folder a story idea set in the Chaotic Era about what Hope, Noel and Snow did in the 500 years waiting for Lightning to show up. It's been there on and off since Lightning Returns came out, but I really didn't have any real impetus to really make a go at writing it. I had exchanges to write for! Video games to play! I am lazy!
How I Lost My Shit: I lost it several times, actually! The initial draft of this story was quite a bit different: it was going to be the entire expedition including them going to Yusnaan, there was going to be a pre-existing ship between Snow and Hope, and it was going to be this bittersweet story about trying to find some degree of happiness after the world has ended and you have lost everything. I then completely lost my interest in writing that particular story, not the least because it was shaping up to be ridiculously long. I actually was going to pull the story from this round's WIP Big Bang!
How I Finished My Shit I realised that the story I wanted to tell was Hope meeting Bhunivelze the first time. I reworked the 2,500 words I had already written and then the rest came together remarkably quickly, demonstrating that this was definitely the right choice to make.