Moonlit Ramblings

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams.  (My writing life in a nutshell, that quote right there.) .

[yuzukimist]

Hello, everyone! I’m Yuzu. I write for a wide variety of fandoms as inspiration strikes, but generally speaking my current ‘brand’ could probably best be described as ‘time travel and also angst’. ;D

If you’re interested in reading my fanfiction, I’m MYuzuki on ao3 and you can find me here.

(I'm also on Twitter here as @MYuzuki4, although please be warned that I'm not very active there and only really have it for certain fandom events.)

If you’d like to buy me a coffee/support my writing endeavors, my Ko-Fi is here. I’d be extremely grateful for any donations, especially since I know that it’s a difficult time for everyone right now. 

Also, feel free to hit up my ask box if you have anything you want to talk about or ask me. I’m a very friendly person for the most part. And I don’t always reply right away, but I do eventually answer. ;D

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

I love how Leverage went

Here's the cat burglar. She wears comfy clothes and has zero social skills. She has sex appeal but only if you're into a very specific type of woman, and crucially she has zero idea she has it. She probably doesn't know what an innuendo is.

Here's the hacker. He's a Black nerd, and also the most moral character of the bunch. He's a nerd but also not socially awkward; in fact, he's the second best at grifting, right after the person who's been doing it for decades.

Here's the muscle. In his heart of hearts, he is a chef. He is tough and manly but he uses that to look out for the working class and children and everyone else the system leaves behind. He's feared by politicians and he reminds his friend to tip the delivery person.

Here's the femme fatale. She's over forty years old, and she's the one seducing the mark. She's the heart of the team. Her calling is to be a director. She loves attending her own funeral.

Here's the mastermind. He's the only one who doesn't start out as a career criminal. He manipulates his own crew, kills two people after promising them he won't, and takes deals behind their back. He was in seminary school.

Also, here's their nemesis. He's Mark Sheppard.

[galvanizedfriend]

Chloé Zhao, who just won an Oscar for best director, writes fanfiction.

That's the kind of validation I needed in my life. Thank you, ma'am.

[absurdthirst]

To all those that think there is an age limit to fanfiction or you “have to be this” to write fanfiction — fuck off.

[fadinggalaxysalad]

I hope this reaches every author on this site. If they haven’t written a word in years, only are writing in their head and haven’t put it down yet, are hip deep in their own War and Peace wordcount fic. 

[storge]

Gokusen (2002)

[shamebats]

[cloysterbell]

Your friends’ lives hang in the balance and you’re gonna take your cues off a punch-up artist instead of me?

[therantygeek]

Still one of Eliot’s SEXIEST scenes. Anyone who disagrees can fight me tbh.

[thebiballerina]

The Power of Leverage

Hey, so many of you are familiar with fix-it fanfiction, the superglue which holds together the hearts canon has shattered, right? Well, I have a point to make. As of right now (1-28-2020), there are 6,659 fanfictions in the Leverage category on AO3. You know how many of those are fix-it fics? 25. A measly 0.38% of Leverage fanfiction is tagged as fix-it. For comparison, 2.20% of MCU fanfiction and 1.25% of Supernatural fanfiction are fix-its.

So yeah, Leverage is so amazing that hardly anything needs to be fixed. But we already knew that. No, it gets better. Of those 25 fix-it fanfictions, 16 (64%) of them are actually fix-its for OTHER fandoms. Leverage has been used in fix-its for White Collar, The Walking Dead, Coupling (UK), The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Kings, Person of Interest, Pacific Rim, Once Upon a Time, The Losers, Merlin, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the actual 2016 US election (yeah, that).

The point here, being, not only is Leverage’s own canon one of the most perfect to grace television, it is so brilliant that it can literally bust in and fix everyone else’s canon as well.

[krakenartificer]

The bit about fixing other fandoms literally made me laugh out loud. Maybe more of a cackle. I love this show so much

[waywren]

Parker: *to the heartbroken or otherwise traumatised characters of other franchises* You are suffering under a tremendous weight. We provide… leverage.

[no-stabbing-wednesdays]

Eliot busting in to fix your canon

[cloudabserk]

WARNING do NOT start reading books and comics or watching movies or looking at art!!! you will start wanting to create art yourself. or god forbid. writing.

[cambriancrew]

[bebx]

“if you love this character then you must make him happy in your fics, right?” wrong. the horror. suffering. internal hemorrhage. hospital. immediately

[ipromptography]

talentedbrilliantincredibleamazingshowstoppingspectacularneverthesametotallyunique

[chippersweetbaby]

[chippersweetbaby]

this boi is fuckin’ beautiful

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[cerleansky]

The legacies people leave behind in you.

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

How terrifying, how excruciatingly painful to acknowledge this. That I am a jigsaw puzzle of everyone I have briefly known and loved. I carry them on with me even if I don’t know it. How beautiful.

[speaklavenderthoughts-deactivat]

absolutely obsessed with these tags

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.