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I mostly post either original characters or things I am currently fixated on. As of now, I am interested in:
1. Moon Knight
2. PHM
3. OC's
My AO3: here!
NEW FIC!! A Solar Eclipse: Read here!! (It's about Moon Knight getting friends… Of course it is)
If you like behind the scene stuff for fics, look up the tag #Knights Among the Stars: Patch Notes on this blog and you'll find the new series I've started :)
If you want to see what I reblog??: here!
Overall, this is a good vibes only zone (except when discussing AI, ICE, or ___phobic individuals)… with some jumping around in fandoms for art sometimes, haha.
Heya! Weird Question - would you mind if I alluded to your 'Soldier is of some form of Russian decent' headcanon in future chapters of the chatfictm? Just because it's not really widespread, I wanna make sure you're cool with it before I even think about it haha.
On a scale of normalcy to groveling at your feet because HELLO DEE HI THERE I love you dearly how do I answer this
The answer: Yes
(And you never have to ask by the way—I love seeing people use ideas and making them unique in their own ways. I’m super super excited for the future chat fic tm chapters :))
WHO was going to tell me What If… Marc Spector Was Host to Venom? Is devastating at the end. I feel so heart broken and so spoiled rotten that it hurts.
I feel this is an important addition. He saves so many people on a regular basis that this just keeps happening. And he feels so much for his uncle that the answer is always the same.
You can read a pretty good summary of it here, but as (most likely) Ashkenazi Jews, PP probably follows the minhag (custom) that says “that by naming a newborn child after a deceased loved one, the soul lives on through the child.” (Quoted from the site linked above.) And given how his Uncle Ben died, it just makes it all the more sadder tbh.
another fine distinction is that the soul isn’t thought to be reincarnated, it’s that the memory of the loved one is kept alive and more good deeds in life can be inspired by (and thus partially attributed to) the dead. ‘may their memory be a blessing’–the memory of the deceased is honored, respected, and who they were is retold as inspiration to the next generation.
ben’s memory is a blessing. that’s extremely jewish. spiderman is inspired not just by the shame of his death, but by the moral teachings he’d given peter in life. and his name given to these babies is another part of it: babies named in spiderman’s honor are also very honestly and truly named in his honor, and continue to be blessings to the world.
...And another recap of my revamps! This one is boring, but hey, I find this stuff interesting.
Other parts: 1 >>>> 2
The fic itself: HERE
CHAPTER 11: "Recovery"
Poem at the beginning, say hello to The Rabbi’s Red Ink by Shereen Akhtar!! :)
A LOT more clarification between what exactly freaks the three of them out: Steven is that he wants to talk about it; Jake was prompted by needles/doesn't want to forget it; Marc doesn't want to lose them. It's hatched out more. I don't know why it was even a bit vague.
Mr. Knight is even more of a boss I love you
haha:
"Huh. Polycule. Marc's heart stops and his cheeks return to their bright pink tone."
"They all love another deeper than they may believe. …Mr. Knight wonders if they know that they all feel the same way. Oh well. If it doesn't disrupt their work, or their mental psyche, he won't interfere."
CHAPTER 12: "A Rusalka's Kid"
Welcome Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes into the poetry collection!
THIS ONE IS BORING there is literally no difference except for a bit of grammar mistakes, small changes, etc. The biggest is that I used << & >> at the beginning and end of quotes to signify Russian being spoken.
CHAPTER 13: "Rehabilitation"
Welcome Self-Help by John Skoyles to the collection!
The entire talk is far more structured out. It says the same thing, but it's written better.
Also I emphasized the duo of Mr. Knight and Moon Knight further and I didn't think I did so in a well thought out manner beforehand.
COMMANDER SHOWS UP AT THE END NOW!
CHAPTER 14: "Clubbing (Take Two)"
Welcome Dangerous Life by Lucia Perillo to the collection!
GRAMMAR. And fixing up some Soldier speak.
CHAPTER 15: "Arcade's Games"
Welcome The Cache by Dan Gerber to the collection!
Fixed up some stuff between Marc and Logan. Made some pacing better. Boring chapter for revamps overall besides the quotes from my professor fantasizing over cereal in my notes.
CHAPTER 16: "Drug Busting"
Welcome Winesaps by Dave Smith to the collection!
I changed "Marc" to "their Knight"/"Moon Knight" after being captured, as they don't know who was in the body last (plus it shows that they are the ultimate codependent found family)
CHAPTER 17: "Open Door of Dreams"
No more new poems past this point!
Mr Knight now turns pink, glows, and looks soft when in their natural element.
Also, I like this section:
"The alter shucks off her cardigan, wrapping it around her kid, and strapping them in tighter. They look up to her with determined, dead-seat eyes and a grimace that spells danger.
Oh, she's definitely met this one before, her instinct supplies. The alter glares at the dots outside. His fingers against the wheel drum, silently formulating a plan."
This entire quote:
"'You're amazing, Soldier.' The alter turns a bright, pastel pink once more. They look fuzzy around the edges, the glow making them appear soft. 'Has Marc told you so yet?'"
Some dialogue changes for Ben/Reese & Yehya/Reed's section. Not many, but I swapped up some stuff to make it flow better.
Jeff now call's Marc either "Moon Knight" or "his Boss". He only call's Marc "Marc" once, and that's underneath his hand.
"'Moon Knight—' Jeff attempts to tell him, but his Boss places his hand over his mouth. He shakes his head, not wanting to hear anything. He mumbles out a Marc underneath his palm instead. Moon Knight keeps him practically strangled."
I love you 8-Ball; new line I love:
"Their lights make Jeff grimace, a headache already slamming against his head with a ferocity he's only known after a hangover. Or doing Cocaine. Or looking at the TV too long waiting for Powerball numbers. Or all three of those things in one, beautiful, mind-bending combination".
CHAPTER 18: "Recouping" & CHAPTER 19: "Summer Camp" & CHAPTER 20: "Trust Building Plan #2: Quality Time"
Grammar and pacing. Only slight changes:
CH. 18's ending was lengthened for better pacing
CH. 19's dialogue was either shortened or made better. Stop making Logan stutter, old me. He never does that.
CH. 20 had basically nothing
I only have 130 ish pages left of my AO3 download to skim through and fix up, and then we'll be off to the end! :)
⭐ might i cash in a director's commentary of your choice
Rye I love you so much platonically, so I'm going to just rant about everything revolving A Solar Eclipse and figure it out from there (expect an essay!)
I feel like I should start off from what this fic originated as: The answer to the question of "What if Marc had to tell Greer that Hank was alive?" I didn't even know if I wanted it to be a fic at the start---that idea came later into writing this blurb. It was going to be a one-shot of how Moon Knight was learning how to love, and how he has to tell the truth, but in the end, it spiraled, of course. This was also in Feb. of 2025! So, like four months before I began posting.
Some stuff from that old doc; you may know this as Chapter 25: It Leaks From My Hands; The Love I Cannot Hold!
A note: the "Chapter" came later, as you can see half-way into the version history.
When I knew I wanted it to be a fic, I grabbed the characters I wanted to see and plotted them all out. In general, on this ORIGINAL planning sheet, I set them all up as this:
However, when I switched to Elipsus, I changed a lot of both my formatting and structure of the fic. Everything up to Chapter 9: Strings of Light, Woven like Silk is written in GDocs with the old original notes, which haven't changed much from the grand scheme of things, but I want to show my blob of terrible chapter ideas, haha.
Do you notice how some are underlined and some are not? Well, that's because the ones underlined were going to be the ONLY CHAPTERS in this fic. I'll show it without the underlined sections:
There would have been like four chapters... And then the rest are in the second part that I'm hatching out. That would have sucked. I wasn't even planning to have side-arcs for the Missionaries (Reese/Soldier/8-Ball/Greer/Yehya) UNTIL I wanted to do the camping chapter, and then realized the ultimate climax of the story would feel more fulfilling if everyone had growth, and said growth could be seen in the big finale.
The big finale which won't happen in this fic. Hey now. Don't look at me like that it's not like I call the shots.
Wait. I do. Shoot. But can you see why I'm going back and revamping stuff now? When I started, I posted the first chapter without much thought. Many things about the Harbingers or High Court's wasn't exactly hatched out. I had no motive for them, nor hierarchy of order. It wasn't until I sat down, plotted everything out in the middle of a lecture (that I should have been listening to; oh well), and got it all out on paper, that I knew what I wanted them to be, where they are going, and so forth.
However, I had already posted like six chapters beforehand, so Chapter 7: The Worries of a Mayor (etc) was when I finally put all of that plotting to use---and even then I still didn't have everything worked out like I do now. I wasn't even thinking about the aftermath of this fic: The second part!
Talking about the second part:
There's a lot of stuff in the second part that were in the original plans to be in the OG Solar Eclipse structure. HOWEVER, one that I am super excited to write is this one:
And that's all I will say. I will make my crack ship a reality. This "crack" ship wasn't even in the original plannings. I just snuck it in at the end, so hence why I'm revamping, once again, so it's my thorough.
I am still hatching out the second part. So, there may be some gap between the main fic and the second part that happens as I do so. I want to go in prepared, so there will be a lull in between. However, that doesn't mean I have nothing planned. I'm waiting to finish A Solar Eclipse so that I can do the Recovery fic, then a fun match-making one, one with Logan and the Kid during Chapter 19: Summer Camp, and yadda yadda, you get it. It gives me time to really dig in and get into the grit of the second fic without having to worry about the feeling that I've abandoned this whole project.
I can't wait for the second part, I've got to be honest. After the last few chapters of A Solar Eclipse, I'm placing every single card to understand what's happening on the table. I would say a summary of the fic, but I can't do that without spoiling the ending, and quiet frankly, the ending is going to be insane. Just a smidge insane.
Another tease of the second fic:
Anyways.
I think I'm done my rant, so I'll leave it off with a couple of fun drafted chapter names, and some stuff in the notes I excluded because of certain purposes:
i got mad for this one because it took such a long time with work, life, etc.
That's all I thiiink. Thank you Rye I love you once more platonically :)
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This is the fic itself! (Spoilers below): HERE
CHAPTER 7: "The Worries of a Mayor—No, Husband—Well, Also Hero—but also—…You get it. (Luke Cage)"
Grammar, reshaping sentences, and fixing clarity issues!
I strung out Luke and Marc's conversation with another. Marc is written FAR better. A year ago me did not understand pacing well. I still dont, but whoh. Example:
(OLD) "'When I came back from the dead, suddenly planted into a Vampiric invasion, you allowed the Mission to be used as a bunker for safety. I saw your emergency broadcasts alerting people to go to my Midnight Mission. You trusted us.' The Knight..."
VS
(NEW) ."..You trusted us.' The Knight clears his throat, attempting to cover up his voice cracking here and there. Luke doesn't care in the slightest; his jaw is ajar. He can't help it. 'You trusted me. Us: Two vampires, a bunch of avatars, a guy with a pool-ball head, and a sentient house which feeds on people. That isn't a concoction to trust, Cage. That's a gang you'd imprison.'"
Luke calls Marc weird a ton of times now because he IS weird your honor. Make him weirder.
"With a croon, the Knight gets up. Before he can say anything witty back, he turns his head, and the Knight is gone, leaving a singular dart in his place.
He is such a weird guy.
Luke picks the dart up, balancing it between his fingertips. He knows it's an invitation of sorts: Accept it, Moon Knight is saying."
CHAPTER 8: "The Great New York Heat Advisory"
POEM!!! Welcome: 1969 by Alex Dimitrov to this fic!!
Grammar, reshaping sentences, and fixing clarity issues!
Favorite new Jake line: "How in the world did Marc collect a ton of dysfunctional misfits with hearts of gold? "
Marc and Badr are less touchy touchy because I don't think they would be touchy at all at this point.
GREERS SECTION. Lets talk about that: I made it so much better. I made it emphasized that it's her INSTINCTS acting against her logic due to her exhaustion from the trip. I made it A LOT more noticeable that it was her instincts.
I also made the ending to Greer's part more drawn out so that I could illustrate her own dissociative issues.
REESE SECTION!! I made it less dialogue heavy, actually. Jake now just has a hand on her shoulder and lets her get it all out while not interrupting. It's also made more obvious that he's going to beat Marc's ass later.
Soldier speaks Russian. And references his past. Smiles.
CHAPTER 9: "Strings of Light, Woven like Silk (Carol Danvers & Tony Stark)"
A LOT HAS BEEN REVAMPED. SO SO SO MUCH IN CH 9 + 10. IM NOT JOKING. If you want: RE READ IT. There are some aspects that I put in because they are IMPORTANT!!
A POEM!! Welcome Sige, Sige, Sige, Said the Utak by Lehua M. Taitano to the family!! This poem is actually beautiful and I love that it incorporates the actual Utak call.
I had to hold myself back from calling Stark's armor: Condiment colored armor
Better pacing and characterization of Carol's section!!
The ending has better descriptor of A) crashing into the hangar bay, B) finding the Knight, and C) the whole medical scene.
The most important part: KHONSHU IS REVAMPED!!! THE VOICE AS WELL IS REVAMPED. If you want to, PLEASE read the mid-section where Marc hears that voice. It's entirely different and FAR more relevant. I've fleshed out this plot a lot more than when I wrote this out.
Almost all of the dialogue was changed by the way. I reworked like half of this chapter.
CHAPTER 10: "Disposable (Avengers)"
You thought I rewrote a lot of Ch. 9? I rewrote almost 3/4ths of this chapter. Holy bazoingas. I spent DAYS on this rework.
Wanda is far more of a critical thinker than how I wrote her before. She constantly has ideas and thoughts brewing. I made her line of reasoning FAR more clear.
Example: "It's only then when she realizes who the body belongs to. Her throat goes dry. It's Marc Spector." Previously, she didn't even know it was them. That's odd. She knows faces!
Wanda speaks A LOT MORE to the kid, and it's obvious by the end of the chapter that the alter 'Moon Knight' became into this kid.
My favorite new interaction between her and 'MK':
"Complete your mission, yes... But do you want to?
Silence. She sits on her knees, brushing herself off. She hears the team talk to one another and shuffle about under a layer of water.
Their head falls, and their hands come up to wipe at their face. It smears blood further down their cheek. I don't know.
Wanda nods. Time to be an Avenger then."
Thor and T'Challa talk more! Carol even talks by the end of the chapter because why would she be silent in the face of all of this? I don't know.
Marc/Jake/Steven's part is more or less the same, but their bickering is seen more.
THE KID HAS AN ACTUAL DESIGN!! They are NOT how they were described previously.
New Desc.: "The kid doesn't have a face, oddly enough. They're a black, shadowy figure with pinprick eyes that wobble. They're humanoid, Wanda can tell that: Five fingers on each hand, toes, and four limbs. Bandages are still slipping from their form."
From the time of Wanda and Co. coming back to reality, and then the end: ALL OF THE DIALOUGE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN. I am not joking. I REWROTE ALL OF THIS. It has the same technical meaning as before, but it's so so so much better. The kid speaks in actual sentences AND I got rid of the plot point that Marc and the kid are somehow brothers. Yeah. I don't like that. Why did I put it like that.
(The OG plan with that was that it was going to be retconned later, but it never panned out as dialogue. So, it never happened. We're taking it away.)
Wanda and Thor chat A LOT MORE about all of this:
"Thor nods. Ay, they know of the core system and their Midnight Mission. However, they describe the Mission in labels: The Hunter, the Cat, the Soldier, the Engineer, and so forth. It seems that the extension of simply being 'Moon Knight' projected onto their closest as well. Thee admitted to me that their name was Moon knight no longer. Hence, our name game."
THE ENDING SENTENCE IS DIFFERENT:
"They find Marc hiding in Thor's closet, face beat red with embarrassment, asking if they ever went to the Moon at all." The pattern of Marc + Co. not remembering Moon events continue!
As some may know, the end of A Solar Eclipse is coming up! Therefore, I found it fitting to re-read the whole thing, comb through it, and fix some stuff up. I thought it'd be fun to tell of what has been fixed through a section of "patch notes", so to speak. Enjoy!
Spoilers below; if you haven't read it yet, here's the link!
CH 1: The Bitterness of Tea (Sanctum Sanctorum)
Grammar, Grammar, Grammar galore!
I made more distinction between Moon Knight and Marc. When I wrote out this chapter, I did not think of Moon Knight by going by they/them pronouns, nor the arc I wanted them to have. Therefore, I fixed some stuff up, and made some hints to future chapters in their words!
"Their stomach aches, and they don't know whether it's from Marc's way too bitter tea corroding their stomach, or the other alternative they don't want to think about: Vulnerability. A part of them itches to grab at their stomach and curl into a ball, but that would be childish."
I also fixed up some dialogue that didn't fit for Strange. Why was he stuttering? I don't know.
CH. 2: "MOON KNIGHT" AND THE RED DINOSAUR (Lunella Lafayette)
Grammar, Grammar, Grammar galore! x2
I cut some not important fluff lines and fixed the issue with Moon Knight having he/him pronouns! Again. They are enby; I don't make the rules.
CH. 3: It's Jeff! (& Kamala Khan)
Grammar, Grammar, Grammar galore! x3 (do you see a pattern?)
Added more to Kamala being horrified about MK being drunk. I would too!
"...between her and the intoxicated—what the hell—vigilante"
Cut some fluff sentences. Not too many to matter; it just made Kamala less nervous in the beginning.
Fixed one line of Gwen Dialogue because ehhh it wasn't hitting.
(old) "Did Jeff steal his cowl?" VS (new) "That's what Jeff had! His cowl!"
CH. 4: Trust Building Plan #1: Apologizing (T’Challa & Thor)
Grammar, Grammar, Grammar galore! x 4
New poem starter (who said yes to me choosing that one that didn't fit at all): Gravelly Run by A. R. Ammons, 1960!!
Will is going to the museum for a school project, and while that was the OG plan, it was never said in the chapter beforehand. Whoops!
Fixing Marc's dialogue with Greer; he would not be that open, my bad guys.
(old) "It’s the whole father thing, Greer." VS (new) "Hrm. I suppose."
The "plan" is now established way before it actually happens: "Trust Building. 'Make them know the real you.'" is repeated a bunch now.
Fixing some co-con stuff because what I wrote is not. Well. Not accurate!
"If Jake and Steven know, they don't make a move to leave. Marc would like if they left. He would like it very much, in fact." is so funny and is now a new line replacing "hey, hotshot, you good with us---"
Fixed the weird italics of Jake and Steven talking in headspace when they were all together briefly in headspace? Weird that I did that folks.
Him talking to Greer while she's (validly) freaking is paced a lot better! There's a part between with Jake and Steven protesting openly.
"But what if it's hard to be honest?"
"Missing our old trips?" For some reason, Steven only said the "ocean" here. Why? I dunno, but this parallels ch. 26 in which they DO talk about trips!
"Steven was always spiteful about being trapped to New York. He liked travelling. Marc refused to believe he could like it too."
MORE MK JAZZ FOR DIFFERENTIATION:
"Probably Moon Knight. Or whoever Moon Knight was"
Added more angst: "His father knew there was something wrong with him" Yikes!
Added more to say that SOMETHING IS WRONG TO INSTIGATE THE FIGHT BETWEEN THESE TWO. That was the OG plan… Why did I not make that clear? I do not know.
"Why is he on his high horse now? What the hell has gotten into him?" and "what went wrong? What just overcame them?"
AND: Thank you T'Challa for confirming now that the artifacts compromised them both "physically and emotionally"!
Oh, the entire part of him and Badr going down? Yeah that's been added to. You just have to reread it! It's far far far more devastating!
Why did I put lasers? I don't know. They (the group stealing artifacts) use bullets now for firepower.
Upped the tension by making Marc super tired. Like dead tired. Like so much more tired than I did before, and this was the OG plan, but once again, I did not execute it.
"Marc can't think about that too hard right now. Or at all."
Oh. Also. Thor does not know anymore that the whole Age of Khonshu was like a dissociative state that no one truly remembers. That part made the chapter's pacing REALLY weird.
NEW: "Marc wants to curl up and die. The one fight he doesn't exactly remember. Must've been during the Age of Khonshu, but he can't pin-point when. Does he want to?"
CH. 5: Need Somebody (Anybody) … (Sanctum Santorum)
POEM ADDED!! Welcome The Wound by Adonis (2019)!!
Cut out the "Our no-so-therapist-but-therapist" nickname to Sterman :(
Bats does not call Marc "Boss" now. Why did Bats call him Boss originally??? I don't know.
Better pacing!
"Wong straightens himself in his chair, making Marc's teeth clench. "This is out of the ordinary for you, no?"
"Perhaps there was no ordinary set to begin with." He waves his hand about, "humor me, Wong."
Also, the physical affects of eating other-worldly food is seen well before the end.
"It makes his chest tingle, and he doesn't understand why. His arms feel heavy. Weird."
[...]
"If it's any consolation, I realized when you began to eat garnishes like a starved man." - Wong, I love you.
Also, it's confirmed that Bats sleeps on his chest the entire time when he's out.
He now laughs at Strange while half-asleep.
"Whatever is on him slithers around, chirping and snickering at the man with the red face. Marc does too, and he zips his lips shut at the puffy, heaving sound."
CH 6: The *Maybe-Not-So Friendly Ghost (Spider-Man)
Poem added! Welcome The Soldier of the Snow by Miguel Hernández (1989)!! :)
I fixed every non-hyphenated Spider-Man because he is stingy about that in the comics and I respect him
Thinking about how PHM is such a beautiful Aro love story even if it doesn’t mean to be. Thinking about how Grace saved his one true love: The world. But he didn’t just save the trees, or breeze, or fog. He saved the people, the kids, the dog he never had, the cities. He loved every aspect of the Earth. He still loves it. His biodome is a true recreation of what he loved because he can’t ever escape it. He can’t ever escape the one he never said goodbye to. He can’t escape the regret of not being able to say “I love you” one last time. He’ll never see it again. He’ll forever love it all.
