Hi there, people of the interwebs!

If you have sanity left, leave now, before it all gets evaporated by my strangeness.

Only insane oddballs left? *looks around to be sure* Good! Enjoy your visit to the strange, strange place known as *camera zooms in for a dramatic close-up* My head!

If you really want to read through all my weirdness, be my guest. If you just want to read my stories, feel free to skip past it all down to the bottom. Enjoy, regardless of what you do.

Y'all can call me Moontery, or MM, or M, or whatever mashup of my name you create. I also answer to 'Hey, you!". :)

My username, MoonlightMystery13.3, comes from my perpetual irritation at TV shows and movies making the moon nearly constantly full. Merlin is one of the worst offenders in this, and is, in fact, where I first truly took note of the irritation. Then, when I was looking for it, I realized it was everywhere. I also love taking pictures of the moon in odd places and ways.

Disclaimer: This is a fanfiction site! I own nothing in my stories that you recognize. All the shows, books, and characters belong to their respective owners. I don't live here, I just like to play here. :)

Info on Story Updates:

Lost:

I'm terribly sorry, I really have no idea when Lost is getting updated. It's drifted to the back of my mind, but I might try to work on it eventually. Temporarily on hiatus.

Thinking:

Desperately needs to be revised, and a bit rewritten. Maybe it's not so glaringly obvious to people who aren't me, but because it originally was going to have a sequel, there are a whole bunch of little loose ends. I'll try to do something about it over the summer. I will also have a couple missing scenes/ bits, finally.

Come Home:

Will probably not be continued, but there is slight hope.

Lab Rats Playlist Shuffle:

Working on now!

Shards of Affection:

Tea Time arc- I have a couple more already written, and I'll try to get that wrapped up some time in the near future.

Bits:

Undated weekly, at least until I run out of pieces that I already have written.

RANDOM OTHER THINGS Y'ALL MIGHT WANT TO KNOW:

1. I made it to college! My major is undecided, and I kind of wish I could just major in everything. I love creativity, curiosity, the outdoors, and God, from whom all blessinga flow. I think I'm kind of an adult now. Weird.
2. I don't copy/paste things into my profile. I don't mind it when other people do it, but if I have something to say, I'm just going to say it myself, in my own words, in my own way. I don't know. I'm just weird like that.
3. You'll probably notice that (stuff from the Dear World letter below) come up in my stories. I don't write a lot of romantic stuff, and I don't have a lot of ships I back. I'm all about the friendship and family pieces, mostly fluff and angst, but other genres too.
4. I'm Roman Catholic too, by the way. It probably won't be featured in my stories, but it will impact them.
5. I don't swear, here, or in real life, for a variety of reasons. I don't swear because a) I think it's unnecessary, and fairly lazy when there are so many more specific words to choose from, b) not swearing brings the right kind of attention to me, and c) it's a good exercise in self-control.
6. Along with just normal, time and energy sapping daily life, I also have my own stories that I work on. My fanfictions are not my first priority, though I love them, and therefore, I don’t have as much time as I’d like to spend on them. I don't write a whole lot of really long projects, because, I mean, life is a very busy thing, and my priority is my own original fiction. :)
7. I don't write slash. I barely write romance of any sort, but I'm far more inclined to see everything, even some cannon ships, as friendship.

MY PET PEEVES

1. Shows over using humor, and valuing laughs over continuity or character integrity.

2. People chewing with their mouths open.

3. When people assume that because I'm smart, I will, therefore, do group projects for them. Or when they expect me to let them copy answers when they talk all class and I worked. Ha, no.

4. When I try to walk away from an upsetting situation and some idiot follows me, trying to continue arguing their point.

5. People who interrupt my rants to interject something completely unrelated and meaningless. People who interrupt in general.

6. People who get upset when I correct their grammar. It's your language, you should know how to speak it. Literally, (and yes, actually literally) you speak it every day, (not everyday) so do it right.

7. When people assume something is easy without doing it, such as chess, writing, singing, or a plethora of other things.

8. Characters that only exist for comic relief.

9. Characters that only exist to get killed off.

10. Characters that only exist as a love interest.

11. When people assume that just because I'm smart, I don't have problems.

12. People who assume love only means romance, and romance is sex. That's irritating.

13. Ships that make no sense whatsoever.

14. When I go above and beyond what my teacher asked for, and get points taken off for it because I "didn't follow the directions". Really?

15. Assigned poetry that has to be done, even if it ends up sounding dull, soulless, and almost painful.

16. When people bully each other under the guise of "joking around".

17. People who always have to be in a relationship, and take them far too casually. Like when someone dates someone for a week just to have a date over Valentine's Day.

18. How people shy away from anything that has anything to do with God or religion. We can talk about it civilly, even if we disagree. How are we supposed to learn about what the people around us think if we never communicate?

19. When people hate on fanfiction. It's hard enough to write using one's own characters. Trying to realistically portray other people's characters is a struggle. But I don't have to tell you guys that. :)

20. Tailgaters, and packs of cars driving too close together. Those are accidents waiting to happen. Oh, and people who don't wear seatbelts, bicycle helmets, and other basic safety gear.

21. People who assume people can't have friendships without anything else going on.

22. When people are constantly negative. No one needs that around them, not even the negative people themselves.

23. Classes that are simultaneously a huge amount of work AND mind-numbing boring. Grr

24. When people are mean to animals. Just. No.

25. Cynics. I shouldn't have to explain why I care about people, even if I've never met the, and probably never will, and why each and every human has worth.

Dear World,

Friendship, am I right? Friendship is a beautiful thing that you seem to have forgotten. Just good, old fashioned, genuine friendship. The kind of friendship where you and another person know each other better than anyone else. The kind where you don't have to say a word to have a conversation, or even see them to know how they're feeling. True, glorious friendship seems to be dismissed, or laughed off, or quietly longed for. It seems the stuff of legend, something that only fools search for.

It's not.

Really, it isn't.

Friendship is real. It is not an outdated idea. Friendship is worth fighting for. People spend their lives searching for someone who understands them, someone who loves and supports them, no matter what. Everyone seems to think that person has to be your romantic match, your true love. That's not true. You can be friends. I refuse to say "just" friends, because that implies friendship is beneath romance. Romance is also beautiful, and not all love is romantic. True love doesn't have to be between to people in a romantic relationship. True means real. Real love can, and often is, the love between friends. Good friends, best friends.

When you have a best friend, you are never alone. Even if they aren’t with you in person, you know they’re with you in thought. They understand you like no one else does. They’re the only one you trust with your most intimate confidences, and they treasure them more than you ever could. Your best friend gives you the courage to do the right thing, and are even prouder than you are over your accomplishments.

It goes both ways, too. You think about them all the time, mentally (and sometimes really) shop for them, and absent-mindedly talk to them when they’re not there. You worry about them, know when something’s wrong with them, and dig gently until you get to the bottom of it. You care more for them than you ever thought you could for one person. You’re there to hold them when they cry, even if it’s just over text. You would do anything for them.

But back to love.

When people really care about each other, society looks at them, and simply assumes they're a couple. That's actually really irritating. It, again, implies people can't have beautiful, purely platonic relationships. Not everything is about sex, okay? Seriously, what with that fixation, world? But I digress. That's a different letter. Love doesn't have to be romantic. People /can/ have life long, incredibly close relationships that don't involve romance or sex.

You, world, are ship happy. There are two people who care about each other, and know each other incredibly well. Are they a couple? They might be, but don't just assume that they are. That's irritating, both in fiction and reality. Not /everyone/ in a show has to be shipped with someone else, okay? They can live their lives without the drama that inevitably follows. Give them good, real friends, and see how that works out. And the reader/watcher, y'all let them be friends. There is no reason to ship right and left. Half the random ships out there don't even make sense!

So, this Dear World letter boils down to two points.

1. Friendship is frickin' awesome, don't hate on it or ignore it.

2. Look before you ship. There's nothing wrong with being single, or having beautiful, amazing friendships.

'Til next time, World,

MM13.3

When You're in The Mood For...

Merlin Drabbles:

Beyond Words, By ErinNovelist

Camelot's Wonders, By OneDarkandStormyNight

Everyday Destiny, By Searchingforangels

Fractions, By llLethall

Glimpses, By caldera32

Moments, By Emachinescat

One Hundred, By Ultra-Geek

The Warlock and the Prince, in 100 words, By Princess Angel Rose

My Favorites (A Work In Progress):

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Not You, Ultra-Geek

Avengers: A Very Good Team, Qweb

Batman: Empty Nest, paganpunk2

Honorable mention: Footprint In the Snow, AlsoI'mBatman

Chronicles of Narnia: Sempiterna Belligerence, Calanthiel of Mirkwood

Danny Phantom: Phantom's Sketchbook, AkoyaMizuno

Honorable Mentions:

Playground Philosophy, and its sequel, Fuzzy Logic, Epona Harper.

Drake and Josh: Just Breathe, remy-areyousrs

Honorable Mention: The Epitome of Cool, pinkhearts97

Harry Potter: Morning Mercies, Runey9

Honorable mention: Phases, CaptainOzone

Hawaii 5-0: Any of Qweb's fics! Ace in the Hole, if you make me pick one.

Lab Rats: In Your Time of Need, Pink-Libra-Girl

Honorable Mention: Your Wings Were Ready, My Heart Was Not, TheEliteLabRatsLover

Lab Rats: Elite Force: Skinny, and Over the City Lights, both by TheSkyWriter

Honorable Mention: True Reflections TheSkyWriter

Lone Ranger: The Lone Ranger, Closet Scrawler

Lost&Found Music Studios: Anytime, 1DR5AandADA

Magnificent Seven: Cold Nights, Cheryl W

Merlin: (There are a lot for Merlin, simply because I read a lot of it. *sheepish grin*)

Bound Together, caldera32

Prphisized series, CaptainOzone

Machinations of a Puddle, pingipenguin

Neckerchief Chronicles, caldera32

None Goes His Way Alone, KCS

The Voice In the Dream, OneDarkandStormyNight

This Is the Hunting Ground, Aminoo

Through Other Eyes, Ocean Mint Leaves

We Like It This Way, Kitty O

What's In A Name PoisoningPigeonsinthePark

X Marks the Man, Kitty O

Merlin & Sherlock Crossover: High Standards, Drag0nst0rm

Mighty Med: Eye of the Hurricane, EmeraldTulip

Honorable Mention: Masks, EmeraldTulip

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir: Not a Bit, Fourteen Hours, and On Three, all by CaptainOzone

Honorable Mention: If You Give a Kwami a Cracker, PFTones3482

My Babysitter's a Vampire: My Best Friend, and Soul Protector, both by JustMe133

Honorable Mention: The Piano Player, TheSkyWriter

Psych&Merlin crossover: A (Fake) Psychic and a (Real) Warlock Walk Into a Bar

Rise of the Guardians: Unbroken, carmins01

Sherlock: (Ditto for Sherlock. I just read a lot of it. :D)

A Messy Business (and its sequels! :D), KCS

Mistaken Identities series, chappysmom

Defining John Watson, StillWaters1

Dying From Exit Wounds, Bundibird

Front Row Seat, charlock221

Listening Too Late, StillWaters1

NotSoSecret Communication, chappysmom

Once Upon A Time: A Sherlock Fairytale, The Original Geek

Out of the Mouths of Babes, xfphile

Wood Work series, chappysmom

System Restart, Radon65

What She Saw, Stillwaters1

Sherlock Holmes: A Case of Annoyance, KCS

Collecting Strays, and its sequel, Collecting Strays: Of Trust and Vices

Greater Love Trilogy, KCS, and Tiger, Tiger, and What We Have To Fear.

Star Trek: 2009: Ain't Nobody Messing With My Clique, Ultra-Geek

Castor and Pollux, Paralelsky

Starsky and Hutch: (And S&H... *feels like a broken record*)

Colors, and its companion piece, Music, both by Cruelest Sea

Contact, KHutchinson

Fading Into Technicolor, wuemsel

Killing Me Softly, Storms and Elevators, Nicky Gabriel

Lazarus, StillWaters1

Partnerhood, kaye22

See Ya, Nash Carter

The Amazing Starsky, Hutchie

Disclaimer: This is a fanfiction site! I own nothing in my stories that you recognize. All the shows, books, and characters belong to their respective owners. I don't live here, I just like to play here. :)

Notice: I have a Mayterm class right now, so I might be a little slow in updating stories, or answering PM's.

Thanks for your understanding! 3

Just in case no one's reminded you today, you are amazing, you are powerful, you are beautiful, and you are loved. You are more than enough. :)