#moon knight episode six

[scribbledcosmos]

You know the plural rep is good when it makes you sob violently even though you have a different kind of plurality

[seiya-starsniper]

Seiya's Dreamling Week Fanfiction Masterpost

Hello my darlings in Dreamling Fandom! Dreamling Week 2024 is upon us, and as part of the event, I'm making a masterpost of all my Dreamling fics! Some of you who have been here a while probably have seen me make different masterposts for various events so this shouldn't be anything new, just a more convenient list for all my Dreamling works.

Also, in tandem with @arialerendeair, I'll be collecting and reblogging other writers and artists masterposts! Here's how to send me your masterposts:

Send me an ask on Tumblr with the link to your masterpost

Send me a direct message with the link to your masterpost

Tag me in the replies to your masterpost

Once I've received your link, I'll send you a confirmation, add it to my queue and then reblog it during Dreamling Week. If you send me your masterpost during Dreamling Week, I will do my best to reblog it asap!

I am also going to be madly reblogging various posts, so if you don't have time to make a masterpost, no worries! I'm going through my own blog for content, and also the dreamling tag, so chances are high I'll catch your post.

Now that that's out of the way, let's get to the fic list:

Non-Explicit Fics

Six Degrees of Separation (Dead Boy Detectives crossover, Incomplete, 2/5 chapters, 3.5k words)

A Symphony of Hearts (Age Gap, Human AU, Incomplete, 1/2 chapters, 1k words)

do you remember all the city lights on the water? (Human AU, Complete, 1.9k words)

For The Birds (Human AU, Complete, 1.3k words)

Well Met, My Good Sir (Renaissance Faire Human AU, Complete, 1.6k)

first time, forever (Omegaverse, Complete, 1k words)

Begin Again (Retired Dream, Complete, 1.2k words)

dreaming of you tonight (Knight AU, Complete, 1.2k words)

a little of that human touch (Post Calliope Episode fic, Complete, 1.3k words)

Untitled Portrait of a Man (I Want to Obliterate Me) (Human AU, University AU, Complete, 5.5k words)

surely heaven waits for you (Simon Snow crossover, Human AU, University AU, Complete, 2.6k words)

Fly Me to the Moon (Human AU, Complete, 783 words)

Flowers for a Sick Man (Sickfic, Dream cares for Hob in the dreaming, Complete, 821 words)

Remember Me, For Centuries (Canon Divergence, Memory Loss, Complete, 971 words)

Hold me tonight (say it's all right) (Human AU, Complete, 1.4k words)

right where you left me (Canon Divergence, Hob doesn't meet Dream at The New Inn, Complete, 664 words)

Pictures of You (Episode 6 continuation, Complete, 807 words)

Everytime we touch (Fluff, Complete, 899 words)

Waking up together (Fluff, Complete, 584 words)

Duck Socks (Fluff, Complete, 503 words)

Unclip My Wings (Human Hob & Monster Dream, Complete, 1.4k words)

Don't Let the Light Go Out (Sci-Fi/Space Opera AU, Complete, 611 words)

Endless Love (Marriage fic, Complete, 1.3k words)

Set the Night on Fire (Human Hob & Dragon Dream, Incomplete, 2/4 Chapters, 10.4k words)

Coffee & Flowers (Miscommunication, Courting Rituals, Complete, 2.1k words)

The Lament of Morpheus (Rescue from Hell Fic, Angst, Complete, 2k words)

Dreams for a Dozen Cats (Meowpheus, Complete, 2k words)

A sweet dream (Main Character Death, Angst, Complete, 1.4k words)

they say our love's just like Magic (Magic the Gather Competitive AU, Human AU, Complete, 3.9k words)

Wake Up & Smell The Flowers (Human AU, Florist Hob, Complete, 5.3k words)

Mature/Explicit Fics

Soixante-Neuf - (Human AU, Complete, 1.1k words)

Turn the Page (A New Beginning, Another End) (Canon-adjacent AU, Fantasy AU, Complete, 42.9k words)

Summer Loving - (Human AU, Complete, 1.2k words)

All Wound Up (Human Hob & Centaur Dream, Complete, 3.1k words)

Midnight Pleasures (Vampire AU, Multiship, Complete, 16.7k words)

Waiting for Tonight (Supernatural AU, Complete 1.4 words)

sweet like poison ivy (Dreaming Sex, Complete, 884 words)

wrap me up nice and tight (love me all through the night) (Human Hob and Naga Dream, Complete, 3.5k words)

By the End of the Night (Centaur AU, Complete, 5.2k words)

In the Middle of the Night (In My Dreams) (Hobrintheus, Canon Divergence, Sequel Fic, Complete, 3.3k words)

Cherry Slick (Omegaverse, Age Gap, Selling Virginity, Complete, 3.5k words)

Spoils of War (Warprize Dream AU, Complete, 3k words)

secret moments (shut in the heat of the afternoon) (Omegaverse, Sequel Fic, Regency AU, Complete, 2k words)

Break Me, Shake Me (Omegaverse, Complete, 4.4k words)

Let's conspire to ignite (Fuck or Die, Complete, 11.5k words)

A Dream for a Viscount (Omegaverse, Regency AU, Complete 11.5k words)

A Maiden's Dream (Human Hob and God Dream, Blessed Maiden AU, Complete, 3k words)

A View to a Dream (James Bond crossover, 00 Agent Hob, Human Dream, Complete, 12.1k words

and if I get burned, at least we were electrified (Hobrintheus, Canon Divergence, Complete, 41k words)

[bluemoonperegrine]

Jake's Moon Knight suit

Mohamed Diab and Feige showed us Jake's suit in the episode six closing credits! I've lost the YouTube vid that pointed this out, but I've linked to the part of the credits where it's revealed.

I neeeeeed MK s2. Come on, Marvel!

[thereareeyesinsidethetrees]

day two prompts: music/poetry

(overachiever or absurdly passionate? who can say)

^ gravpuppetstringdernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to this unnamed poem from gravity falls:

"no puppet strings can hold me down,

so patiently i watch this town.

abnormal soon will be the norm,

enjoy the calm before the storm."

^ thirtyearsdernic or 30yearsdernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to this unnamed poem from gravity falls:

"thirty years and now he's back:

the mystery in the mystery shack."

^ alstarcalfpoet, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to the poem "Two-Headed Calf" by Laura Gilpin:

"tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. but tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. it is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass. and as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual."

^ gravmusiboxdernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to a music box version of the gravity falls opening theme.

^ weirdgravmusiboxdernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to a music box version of the opening theme of gravity falls' weirdmaggedon episodes.

^ evigodchoicedernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to the song Choice of a God by EvidentlyFresh.

^ godmachinedernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to the song A God's Machine from the Oneshot soundtrack.

^ aldripdripdripfall, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to the song Drip Drip Drip Fall by ewy.

^ couturedernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to the song Couture by epsyle.

^ alvesselmelodi, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to Vessel's music.

^ time2burndernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to the song Time2burn by Gosha.

^ sixiidernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to Six's Theme Part II from the Little Nightmares Soundtrack.

^ alnoskmelodi, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way related to the song Nosk from the Hollow Knight sountrack.

and, as a bonus to go with that last one:

^ noskdernic, an aldernic label wherein one has, or wishes to have, a body in some way similar to, or exactly like, Nosk from Hollow Knight.

[edgar-allan-possum]

Crazy that the show about Agatha Harkness (of all characters!) gets nine episodes when they could only give six each to Falcon and Winter Soldier, and to Moon Knight. Characters people actually were asking to see and that aren't Z-listers in the comics.

[kits-ships]

🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒🔒 throws locks thru ur window…

heyyy........ lets get a lil into my pokemon crushes.......

list under the cut (non-sharing pokeshippers pls beware)

#20.)

i dont actually know anything about caitlyn i just think shes pretty. i actually never finished b&w ............ 😥

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#19.)

i also dont remember much about will but i like his design . psychic-type users just have cool outfits i guess. what a silly little guy

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#18.)

i want to hit him with a fuckin hammer. the tension between us is crazy and he pisses me off. but also he wants me so bad. fuck you arlo

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#17.)

koga is also hot and also a little bit of a freak. i have fond memories of him as a lil kid.

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#16.)

is it weird to say i remember liking him but i dont really remember why. he's a bit higher up on the list because id actually gained sentience by the time id played moon

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#15.)

HES CUTE !!! he is so nice and adorable and he is my buddy :) i think he was my first crush in shield bc hes also like. the first gym leader you meet

and he's really rocking the weed shoes

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#14)

SHUT UP. I WAS TWELVE AND THAT HAIRCUT.......... FALKNER PLEASE HMU. emo bird boy

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#13.)

again i was 12!!!!!!!!!! but come on... hes a handsome fellow... and he likes ghost types?!? morty please save me. morty. save me morty.

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#12.)

i love u mo. 'scrawny little nerd i could snap over my knee' is 100% my type and you'd laugh if you saw the similarities between him and my husband. he needs kisses.

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#11.)

do i really need to say anything.

i feel like everyone can agree that he's hot and i want him to tell me abt fossils and rocks. literally everyone i knew at age twelve was either attracted to steven or to cynthia. or both.

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#10.)

SORRY. DONT LOOK AT ME. HE'S ANOTHER PRETTY BOY...

his autistic charm has bewitched me and i never even finished b&w. im also a sucker for the lost child raised/protected by pokemon trope

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#9.)

ACK. this man had little angel in a chokehold. i was so happy whenever he was in an episode or movie and his backstory makes my heart hurt....... also id get so pissed off whenever they had to change his voice actor for something

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#8.)

gilf. i will not be taking any questions

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#7.)

i am not immune to spark. i feel like he literally has NO substance to his character and yet i love him. its in my blood as a member of team instinct /j

i like imagining him as a himbo but ik hes a researchers assistant... hes like the kinda guy to explain string theory to you but also get confused when you tell him to 'hit the road'

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6.)

gilf pt. 2.

i love you kabu. inever thought id fall for a short and buff middle aged guy in a pokemon series but i wuv him and i wuv his rare league card

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#5.)

AGAIN HES LIKE TH E FIRST GYM LEADER YOU MEET AND HE WAS IN THE POKEMONM ANIME AND AUGHhh.... ROARK... i literally owe him my life for showing me the underground in pokemon diamond. i loved diggin up those lil rocks and i love him. he had little angel swooning

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#4.)

stop..... dont look at me..... i was like six years old and hes a HANDSOME KNIGHT with a LUCARIO!!!! and no i dont want rye i dont want riley (well maybe a little) i love AARON!!! HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF !!!

this crush has lasted for eighteen whole years and i still go feral over him. his hair is crazy tho

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#3.)

ok. i had the fattest crush on him in pokemon moon. hes a pathetic little meow meow just looking to fuck stuff up and i respect it. i can clearly remember going up to him postgame and just spamming the a button to talk to him. i love love love him.

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#2.)

FUCK. THIS IS WHO IM FIXATED ON ATM. VOLKNER. NOT ONLY DO I LOVE SINNOH BUT I LOVE ELECTRIC TYPES AND I LOVE GRUMPY GOOBERS LIKE HIM!!! HES SICK OF HIS JOB AND HE NEEDS KISSES TO FEEL BETTER (trust me im a doctor) AND HE WOULD BE SO CUTE IN A LDR WITH LUNETTE... SHES OFF SEEING THE WORLD BUT SHE ALWAY S HAS HIM TO SIT DOWN WITH, WATCH THE SEA, aND FEEL AT HOME WITH :,( I LOVE HIM AND IVE LOVED HIM SINCE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE IN THE ANIME.....

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#1.)

its leon. are you surprised. i love him and crazy hair, crazy fashion sense, and his little charizard shaped beard. love love love this lil silly

[crystal-lillies]

God. I. mm. I really want to like this series bc Ncuti and Millie are doing so well but mm. mmmm. I'll keep holding out until the end of the series. and also. RTD WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WHY WOULD YOU LET THEM LESSEN THE EPISODE COUNT TO EIGHT??? EIGHT????? EIGHT????!!!!!!

SIR YOU WORKED WITH 13 EPISODE SERIES AND EVEN THEY HAD SOME ISSUES, AND NOW YOU HAVE FIVE LESS TO TELL A GOOD SERIES-LONG STORY.

Jodie's 13th doctor was held back by the cutting of episodes why the absolute holy fuck would you allow them to be cut any more. doing Ncuti's run dirty in ways that Jodie's had but worse!! WORSE!!! and if this is a wider BBC decision to cut the episodes and you wanted more, I'm sure you could have EASILY rallied tidal waves of support to pressure the BBC into giving Ncuti more episodes. Would I still have been a little bitter in that scenario that he would get the proper amount that Jodie lacked? Probably! But I'd have been happy for Ncuti! He deserves that much!

What the FUCK is the problem with longer episode runs across the board?? Short-form is great when it's done well for a limited series (and even then, "done well" is the key phrase) but it's not good for everything! Serialized TV shows need to fucking BREATHE.

I'm so sick and tired of the corset-compressed shows with 6 episodes, 8 episodes, 10 episodes, of things that WOULD have a decade ago gotten 15, 20, 22 episodes, or more! and would have thrived off of it!

Character arcs, story arcs, worldbuilding, all the Good Shit(tm) being shunted into little boxes and trimmed of any ounce of fat, but then the lean meat isn't even that good because it was rushed out by compressed writing rooms and overworked staff.

it's just one thing after another like, Moon Knight was amazing but an anemic SIX episodes. It was paced relatively fine, but it felt overall like a movie cut into six pieces rather than a TV show. And it was helped by everyone giving great performances and the origin story being pretty tight. Then Ms. Marvel REALLY suffered with her series ALSO being only six episodes! and her story felt a lot more like a teen coming of age fantasy that needed more room to breathe. Iman Vellani and her costars did a fantastic job, but I was left feeling like the story was missing pieces, and it needed. more. room. to. breathe.

Do I even need to mention Percy Jackson and NATLA? Both had young relatively green cast members give their all in a severely compressed version of a good base story, and we all are praying that the showrunners will learn from their mistakes.

Is this just "the way things are in streaming now"??? because for the most part, it sucks! and who the fuck decides "oh for streaming, we're just going to do super short seasons now" because they're stupid! Look at Delicious in Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi! We're getting weekly drops in an era of all-or-nothing, AND we're 20+ episodes in and still not at the end! And it's GREAT! DO MORE LIKE THAT!!

jfc sorry this turned into a rant but god damn I'm so upset Doctor Who got sucked into the gross streaming trend of fewer episodes too. it just ruins so many good stories.

[iolaussharpe-24]

I hate these articles.

ScreenRant, GameRant, Comic Book Resources, and so many others just like them do absolutely nothing but spout nonsense and pretend that it's legitimate. Then, the few times they may actually have something to say that isn't garbage it's because the information was just stolen from someone else who bothered to sit down and do the research.

Seriously, I can't even tell you how many of these articles I've found that are so obviously stupid even in the context of what they're saying. This article talks about how Marc's trauma is from Randall's death (it was his mother's abusive reaction to it), Jake was a third personality that came out of nowhere for no reason other than shock value (he's from the comics, and there are several hints to his existence throughout the series), they complain about how not enough time was given to the emotional gut punch that was episode five in favor of the climactic final battle in episode six (I don't agree but I guess I'll allow it), and the final conclusion is that... it should have been a movie instead???

How the hell do you go from "the six episode series didn't have enough time to flesh itself out" to "this would have been so much better as a single movie" in the same sentence? Do you not see the contradiction? I don't know how long each episode is off the top of my head (and I'm too lazy to go look), but bingeing it beginning to end with my family took all day.

I'm stupid and feeling petty now. Instead of looking up the runtime, I'm gonna do some math.

Let's say Moon Knight was a movie. That would be, on average, an hour and a half to two hours long. Let's say two.

(Again, still not checking the actual runtimes cause I'm too lazy.) Let's say all six episodes are thirty minutes each. I know they're not, but let's say they are. Put together, that would be three hours long.

Let's say they're all an hour long, which feels more accurate to what they probably are for real. That's six hours long.

Let me ask again, HOW WOULD MOON KNIGHT BE BETTER OFF AS A MOVIE WITH A SHORTER RUNTIME IF YOU CAN'T STOP COMPLAINING THAT IT DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME AS IS???

In conclusion, I demand a second season. I also demand that these stupid ass clickbait articles die off as soon as possible.

[age-of-moonknight]

Link to a scan of an issue of the Moon Knight manga! It's only six pages long, but it's still very exciting.

Thank you, Tumblr, for trying to jump in front of a non-existent bullet to protect us all from spam links, BUT I’m so glad I reached out to palebluebirdcomputer to get the actual link, because this is so much fun. :D

Do any of you recall the Japanese live-action Spider-Man tv series (it’s a real hoot by the way, if you’re a Spidey fan and looking for a whacky good time, you can often find whole episodes on YouTube)? Well, reportedly, Moon Knight was also supposed to get the Japanese live-action treatment, but it never materialized. There were some promotional manga chapters published around 1979 but they’re allegedly notoriously hard to find in their entirety in anglophone internet circles so !!!! thank you once again for sharing this with me! It’s really an incredible find! And if anyone around here can read Japanese and would like to share, I’m always curious to see what this might say.

[lockley-spktr]

Moon Knight (2022)

Episode Six: Gods and Monsters

“Meet my friend, Jake Lockley.”

One year ago today.

May 4th, 2022

[erinptah]

Stray thoughts from rewatching Moon Knight (part 1)

All six episodes of MK s1 on my D+ profile are paused in random places mid-episode, from times when I was looking up a specific scene to double-check something for fic purposes. Not counting targeted canon-review moments, I might have only watched the whole show through twice? Figured I should get in another, for the sake of giving Disney that “hey, viewers like this, we should make more of it”…

[marcfrenchie]

DO YOU WANT TO READ MOON KNIGHT?

are you a show fan who's learned about how terrible the MCU did moon knight and you want to check out the comics? did you see him in a teamup book and want to know more about him? are you just looking for more comic recs? are you just interested in the character? then you're in the right place!

okay, to begin, i want to say that this is a character that has had a... varying history. there are no moon knight comics you can enjoy without extensive criticism. critisizing the things that you enjoy is good and gives you a better understanding of the work. please do not idolize any of these comics and please work to be kind to the many minorities (jewish people and systems, primarily, but classism, racism, xenophobia, and homophobia are all explored throughout MK's publishing history) that these comics represent. anyway.

MOON KNIGHT 1980 -

tws - doylist racism (racist villainous charactictures, mostly. a lot of this), ableism (outdated terminology for systemhood, occasional slurs), and sexism. extensive discussion of anti-semitism, specifically neo-nazism, in issues 37 and 38.

what happens - moon knight 1980 is a 38 issue comic book centering on the ex-mercenary and now hero moon knight. almost entirely episodic but there are occasionally multi-issue stories.

moon knight, in the day, is the millionare socialite steven grant, and, at night, the hero moon knight- moon knight also "uses" jake lockley as an informant. marc spector was the mercenary moon knight ran away from. doug moench was NOT intending to write a system at this point- steven and marcs relationship is meant to represent one mans struggle with guilt- but its really really easy to gel this with their current situation of being alters in a system and also some of the specifics of their whole thing make me fucking insane. jake is also there and i love him even if he isnt really a major part of the moral conflict

please dont read all 38 issues- attatched is a list of my personal ratings. everything later calls back to this so its best practice to read it first but its very much a slog if you arent already attatched to this character so make your own choice

nothing from 1980 to 2014 is particularly good (you can read it if you want but i havent) but knowing what happened is pretty important to understanding the later modern runs so a runthrough. throughout the 90s mk continued in the 80s status quo but in 2006 he 1. cut off bushmans (remember that guy from 1980?) face 2. was given a tendency for violence and and 3. became significantly more tense with marlene and frenchie. by 2014 they had completely fallen out. thats all we can continue with the recs now

[Image ID: A list of Moon Knight 1980 issues colored based on their quality. Issues 4, 7-11, 15, 17-20, and 28 are marked as "not good." Issue 27 is marked as "not good makes me insane though." Issues 3, 5, 6, 13, 16, 21, 34, and 35 are marked as "fun." Issues 2, 12, 14, 22 to 26, and 29 to 33, are marked as "good writing." 37 and 38 are marked as "genuinely essential." 1 and 36 are not marked. 29 is denoted as "slightly weird about his DID" and issues 6, 21, and 22, are denoted as "racist." End ID.]

WHAT HAPPENS IN BETWEEN -

MOON KNIGHT 2014 -

tws - graphic violence. do not buy the book new, warren ellis is an awful person. brief (doylist) ableism.

what happens in it - the first six issues are the warren ellis/declan shalvey run, which is what im reccomending. read the rest if you want, its mediocre but i like it

moon knight 2014 is 6 episodic issues centering on a now alone marc spector. steven and jake only show up twice, both lineless appearances in the back of panels. most of the issues are significantly more violent, dark, callbacks to old 1980 issues. most of the run is silent violence from marc but all of the stories are really good and the art is breathtaking.

MOON KNIGHT 2016 -

tws - unreality. mental hospitals. both doylist and watsonian ableism.

what happens - i am reccomending the lemire/smallwood + co run, the 15 issues before the numbers shoot up. i have not read the bemis run.

moon knight 2016 is 15 issues situated in a hallucinatory version of NYC, following moon knight as he struggles against khonshu's attempts to possess him. the thing is a lot of things in 2016 piss me off so i cant exactly sing its praises but its super important to modern moon knight so just. slog through it. highly reccomend reading after 1980 because it refrences A Lot.

MOON KNIGHT 2021 -

tws - violence, discussion of anti-semitism in issue 5.

what happens - i am reccomending the first 16 issues. the annual sort of triggered a falling off for the series and so i have not read after #16. read the later issues at your own risk

moon knight 2021 follows moon knight as he opens the midnight mission, gains multiple new side characters, and reckons with the consequences of the age of khonshu (an event in jason aarons avengers which is explained fine in 2021 so you dont have to read it). most of the series is typical action juxtaposed with MK's SHEILD-ordered therapy sessions. issues 14 and 15 are possibly the first time jake and steven have been written well since 1980. unfortunately, the annual is deeply xenophobic (villianizing the only romanian hero in marvel) and i have stopped reading the series due to this. the first 16 issues are really good though

MOON KNIGHT BLACK WHITE AND BLOOD -

tws - violence.

what happens - mkbwb is 4 issues consisting of 12 noncanon moon knight stories, as is typical for bwb series. most of them are pretty good and fun and also really pretty.

OTHER MOON KNIGHT STUFF -

- ms. marvel and moon knight

- devils reign: moon knight - tw violence, prisons

- west coast avengers 1985, issues 25-41

- hulk 1978 issues 11-20 (not #16), b stories.

- moon knight 2006 issue 3 - for frenchies coming out scene, which is good. not anything else

- heroes for hire 2011 - hes only in a few issues but im not saying which ones because i want you to read the whole thing. because its good

- defenders 1972 issues 47-51 - its Very 70s but its cute and i like it :)

- werewolf by night 32 and 33 - his first appearance!

ENDING THOUGHTS - please god listen to and make a point to be kind to systems and jewish people when you talk about MK.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

What are your hopes for the animation of the mighty nein

Listen, I am sorry for what this answer has become.

If you mean what am I looking forward to in general? Fjord, hot. Jester, amazing. Essek, also hot. Veth, agent of chaos. Early Fjorester flirting that Fjord doesn't understand is flirting. Early Beauyasha that is just Beau being thirsty af. Dunamancy ANIMATED. Polymorph shenanigans. ORLY. Pirates. Jellyfish talk. Fjord kissing Jester on the cheek and her malfunctioning (which they would HAVE to leave in, I mean COME ON). Yasha slowly falling for Beau. Beau slowly falling for Yasha. Fjord slowly falling for Jester. Jester's feelings for Fjord evolving into something real and beautiful. Veth pining for Caleb, but being so happy to see her husband and son again. THE RUBY OF THE SEA. Jester's reaction to the Gentleman when they first meet him because Laura was sick during that episode and we didn't get it in campaign. Fjord giving up his powers. The confrontation between Caleb, Fjord, and Nott at the High Richter's house.

LISTEN I COULD GO ON I WANT IT ALL.

If you mean season one, here is what I hope happens in the season. And I would like to say that this is me shooting for the moon, not necessarily what will realistically happen.

I would like an episode of intros. Show me the groups arriving and setting up and then meeting at the inn in Trostenwald and going to the carnival together and the whole fucking carnival show. That's my ideal episode 1.

Then, we get the carnival fight and everyone getting arrested

An episode for the investigation and finding the island

An episode for fighting Kylre and clearing their names and Beau seeing Cobalt Soul people

Travel hijinks aka just them arriving in Alfield and jumping in to help, then going into the mines and SHAKASTE (two episodes here)

More travel hijinks because if you think they'll skip the syphillis bandits something is wrong with you. But also Zadash arrival and running into Yasha again.

We've got to see the Crownsguard job and rescue the guy to get the Gentleman hint.

Also, meeting the Knights of Requital and going to do that job.

Then they have to break into the houses and the finale ideally for me would be them blowing up the High Richter's house, them running away, and then seeing the tower explode. And that would be where the season would cut.

Honestly, I don't think they need to condense much. I like the idea of seeing the growing pains here and watching them figure out how to interact with each other as a group and some awkwardness.

NOW. Do you mean WHAT DO I WANT FROM THE WHOLE THING?! I want eight seasons. I have a summary.

Season two:

Getting the beacon

Meet the Gentleman and accept the jobs

The Labenda Swamp stuff/Kiri/Hupperdook

First Lorenzo fight/Molly death

Rescuing the friends

Finale would be Molly's funeral and Yasha leaving again

Season three:

Finish up the Zadash contracts and totally cut out the two weeks of downtime, just head straight to Nicodranas

Meet up with Yasha again, Nicodranas adventures, stealing a boat.

Pirate adventures all season. Avantikaaaaaaa.

I want the Happy Fun Ball to be included please.

Finale is the second Uk'otoa temple

Season four:

Back on land, head to Felderwin

Xhorhas (essek essek essek essek)

Asarius and the rifts, then giving up the beacon early/mid-season

Fjord/Uk'otoa power struggles

BAZZOXAN

Finale is Yasha getting stolen by Obann

Season five:

Fjord giving up his powers!

Reani!

Fjord and the Wildmother become buddies

Rescue Yussa from the Happy Fun Ball

The Permaheart!

Tbh the Happy Fun Ball could be half of this season and I wouldn't complain.

Then getting Yasha back and killing Obann!

Season six:

Rexxentrum to start the ball rolling on peace talks

Xhorhas to talk about the peace talks

Isharnai

White Dawn Lagoon

Essek reveal

Uk'otoa attack

Finally the finale is the actual peace talks and continuing on or arriving at Rumblecusp

Season seven:

I would also be cool with s6 finale being the Uk'otoa attack on the even of the peace talks and s7 starting with the peace talks

Travelercon!

Vokodo! Vilya!

Rexxentrum dinner!

Vess Derogna/Eiselcross

Finale would be death of Vess Derogna

Season eight:

Aeor exploration

Palling around with the Tomb Takers

Essek is a safe place.

Family goodbyes

Back to Aeor

Cognouza

Epilogue

I'm not saying this is what is GOING to happen, but this is how I would like to see events distributed, because of narrative beats and stuff.

[agentem]

State of the MCU

There's a lot of thinkpieces and YouTube videos about how the MCU is "over" or "damaged goods" after Secret Invasion.

Obviously they are trying to distract us from this talk by dropping the Loki (one of the good MCU shows) trailer today.

I think there are several different lessons to be learned by some of the failures or missteps of this period of "too much Marvel."

They went from doing three movies a year, to doing, well, a lot more content. I don't actually think that Marvel is "running out" of content. There are so many characters and storylines that have not even been touched on.

But I think Marvel got a bit excited about what it could do, without thinking about the hows of actually making the content. For example, during She-Hulk we heard from VFX artists that were overworked and underpaid that there just weren't enough hours in the day for them to make all these shows and movies. Clearly, someone at the top did not take that into consideration when greenlighting all the shows.

I think the disconnect between WandaVison and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness showed limitations in the production schedules of the various properties. The time making a show is different from making a movie. And it led to some disconnect between where the audience was and where the narrative was going.

I also think a lot of things were greenlit as a good idea without them being fully fleshed out. Secret Invasion is probably one of them. I hear Echo is another. (Feige called it "unreleaseable" which makes me wonder how bad it was, since he clearly thought Secret Invasion WAS releasable.)

Hopefully in the future they will settle into some kind of release schedule (for example it was a big deal when Marvel went from two movies a year to three and then they really seemed to have three a year down in the 2018 period). I don't know exactly how many shows they can add to that.

In 2021, we got four live action shows and 1 animated show. In 2022 we had three live action shows. And we are supposed to get three in 2023.

For the shows, I think maybe two a year is a good amount, to give the writers (Pay your writers, Disney!) and the entire team enough time to work (pay for VFX artists too!). And if you can produce two quality TV series that work as TV series, then maybe they could try for three.

I'm a bit nervous about next year because three are scheduled but one is Daredevil which is supposed to be a lot more episodes than the shows the MCU has done. Though he needs less CGI than other heroes, maybe it could work?

Though these things will all probably get pushed back due to the strikes going on now.

I also think there should be a reason that something is a TV show and not a movie. I don't like this talk of "six hour movies." That's not a thing. The format changes the experience. WandaVision and She-Hulk utilized the TV format as part of the narrative. And that's a great reason for it to be a show. But it's not the only one. (Moon Knight had a unique structure, where it was divided into two episodes in London, two episodes in Cairo, and two episodes in the Underworld. That was cool, but I would argue then it should've been released two at a time instead of week-to-week. And on Friday. I hate this Wednesday nonsense.)

I think about this shit too much.

[whumpy-wyrms]

Yes I love Marc so much he’s just in so much pain! So much self-hatred! I mean it’s not really addressed at length in the show but at the start he’s basically trying to give up everything that he has and disappear.

And like I get fucking chills from that last scene in episode one when he says “Let me save us.”

And the part in episode six where he decides to give up the field of reeds to be with Steven in the sands, not because he has a plan to save him but just so he won’t be alone. That had me screaming at the tv!

(If you’d like to check out my fics I’m Turbulent_Muse on AO3. I haven’t posted anything in a long time though oops)

YESS episode six made me cry i think it was so amazing!!!! i love steven and marc’s dynamic so much i want to protect them forever. and that ending!! the jake lockley reveal was crazy and i wish we got more of him

i’ll probably read ur fics later cuz now you got me thinking about moon knight again lol i love that show sm

[hxans]

Earlier this year I started another rewatch of Moon Knight, but only got halfway through before life + mental health issues got in the way and I had to put it on hold.

Fortunately with medication and some help I got mental health sorted, and have been busy crossing some stuff off my to-do list to the point I have enough free time and focus to finish my rewatch. Plus we have this new smart tv so I gotta make the most of it by watching my boys in high def and all that.

So I was rewatching Asylum today, and idk how they managed to have such a hold on me after all this time, but damned if I didn't get a little teary at Marc breaking down. I adore Marc and Steven so much.

I know part of it was down to being a tight six episode story and part of it was down to them not being ready to confront it yet, but I can't help wondering what this episode might have gone like if they had realised they needed to open the other sarcophagus and meet Jake to balance the hearts.