ptahrrific: Moon Knight (marvel)
A long-form reading guide for the Cover of Knight Cinematic Universe.

Shortcuts:

✨ MCU Phase Four
✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 1
✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 2

You can always start at the beginning, and follow the author's notes on each update to find out if there's a bonus/side story to read next! But if you want a full scene-by-scene ToC, here it is.

Post-season 1 of Moon Knight, it's a new age of the world, where the cosmic power balances are shifting. Steven, Marc, and Jake start meeting Avengers, making tentative connections and allies with the wider MCU, all while working on internal team-building efforts with each other.

Emojis used:
πŸŒ• Main fics
πŸŒ™ General bonus fics
πŸŒ‘ Headspace-centric (or, meeting new headmates)
🌠 Therapy episodes

✨ MCU Phase Four ✨

(Roughly follows the canon MCU timeline...with some events pushed back, so our guys can meet the characters before their movies happen.)

πŸŒ• Cover of Knight: The main fic for this arc. Full list of updates below.

A series of times when Avengers notice Moon Knight switching/dissociating/just plain talking to himself...and the growing collection of (inconsistent, mostly ad-libbed, increasingly complicated) cover stories they get for it.

πŸŒ‘ moon-silvered, lunatic, cratered: Multichapter headspace companion fic, focused on the building relationships between Marc/Steven/Jake, co-starring Layla and Duchamp. Intertwines with the events of Cover of Knight; chapters will be inserted between the CoK updates as they come up.πŸŒ™ Chaos Magic In You (Liptovský Hrádok): One-shot casefic, the Moon Knights singlehandedly steer Wanda off the Multiverse of Madness path.

πŸŒ™ Cover of Knight Holiday Special (Brooklyn): One-shot, Marc and Layla (and ???) join Bucky and Sam for a Hanukkah dinner.

🌠 Meeting the Team Episode 1: Zoom: Steven's therapist, Andrea Sterman, meets Marc. (Takes place some time during the final chapters of the headspace fic.)

πŸŒ™ Bad With Funerals (Birnin Zana): One-shot, Marc and Layla prepare for King T'Challa's funeral.

🌠 Meeting the Team Episode 2: Park: Andrea Sterman meets Jake. 

πŸŒ‘ Heart in Pieces (Chicago): Multichapter casefic, Layla helps the team handle someone else's abusive parent, and officially meets the mysterious Failsafe Mode headmate.

πŸŒ‘ 5+1 times Marc was definitely not having a threesome: Multichapter headspace fic, focused on sexy times with the polycule.


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✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 1 ✨


(Follows the first half of the Phase Five projects, from Quantumania through Echo. Gets more divergent from the canon timeline, as the little changes add up.)

πŸŒ™ Emergency Contact (London): One-shot, Bucky hears Marc is in trouble, and enlists Dr. Strange for a rescue.

πŸŒ™ Stars That Have A Different Birth (St. Elias): Two-shot casefic, Yelena solves her suspicion about the Moon Knights by inviting "one of them" (also, Kate and Duchamp) on a mission with the Beaubiers.

🌠 Meeting the Team Episode 3: Under The Hood: Andrea Sterman meets Moon Knight...or so she thinks. (Also: bonus Khonshu.)πŸŒ• Reveals by Knight: The main fic for the second arc. Full list of updates below.

A series of team-ups where Avengers notice weird things about the Moon Knights...and our guys have to decide whether to give them a(nother) cover story, or to add them to the (carefully curated, extremely short, but slowly growing) list of People We Trust With The Reveals.

πŸŒ™ Come In From The Night (Chicago): Multichapter casefic, the Knights come out as plural to Sam and Bucky, but first there's a mission with zombies at Rabbi Spector's synagogue.πŸŒ‘ You're Not Alone (London): Two-shot, the Knights lean on their support system while struggling with post-Elias nightmares.

πŸŒ™ Reveals by Knight/WandaVision Crossover Holiday Spectacular (Brooklyn): Multichapter, Layla and the Knights join Bucky, Sam, and now Wanda for a Thanksgiving "everybody knows all the big secrets, we can just relax and talk without worrying about breaking anybody's cover" dinner.

πŸŒ™ The Cold Light of Earliest Spring (Waverly): Two-shot, the Beaubiers are having a crisis from a new Headmate Reveal, Yelena gets everyone to the Barton farm and calls on the Knights to help them work it out.

πŸŒ• Here's What You Missed: A full-season main course in its own right. Steven, Marc, and Jake are headmates brothers, living a happy, idyllic family life in the suburbs. Wanda is alone a loving single mother, enjoying her peaceful days of working from home and raising her sons. Everyone is happy, and everything is fine!

🌠 Meeting the Team Episode 4: Red Lights: Andrea Sterman meets members of Team Moon Knight's support system, including Wanda. (Also: a mysterious child.) (Takes place during and after HWYM.)


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✨ MCU Phase Five, Arc 2 ✨

(Follows the second half of the Phase Five projects, from Deadpool & Wolverine onward.)

πŸŒ‘ One Plus One Is More Than Two: Multichapter, headspace + casefic. Post-Hex, the guys and Layla visit Sam and Bucky, only to have an Avengers mission interrupted by...a new headmate?πŸŒ• Deadpool Saves The Cover Of Knight Universe!: Multichapter, another full-season main course, best fic ever. The history of this whole universe gets royally Kanged-up. The TVA sends its hottest new agents, Deadpool and The Best Wolverine, to find the Fist(s) of Khonshu and fix it!

🌠 Meeting the Team Episode 5: Merge: Andrea meets what might be a new version of Marc.

🌠 Meeting the Team Episode 6: Telephone Wire: Andrea helps the Knights pre-game a meeting with Elias.

πŸŒ™ no one could blame you: Multichapter, Elias finally sits down for a reconnection-and-backstory lunch with Marc...and some unexpected members of Marc's extended support system.πŸŒ•Travels by Knight: The main fic for the third arc. Details TBD!

(There's a lot of wedding planning in this one. I haven't decided if the wedding itself will be a separate fic, or the big finale of Travels. Also TBD.)
ptahrrific: Moon Knight (marvel)
Another behind-the-scenes post for the Cover of Knight universe!

I started writing the current fic, One Plus One Is More Than Two, in a fit of inspiration in April 2023. That's more than a year and a half ago. It's two months before I started posting Reveals by Knight, and a full year before I started posting Here's What You Missed.

So I wrote a big chunk of fic, and then made myself stop. Because it takes place post-HWYM, and I wasn't even close to finished writing HWYM at that point. Really needed to hold off writing until I actually knew all the plot points from the fic it was building on.

(HWYM, meanwhile, I held off a lot of the writing until after I saw The Marvels, so I knew all the plot points from canon I was going to build on.)

Had a full functional draft of HWYM in December 2023. Finally circled back to work on One Plus One again, starting in March 2024.

And sure enough, it needed revisions! (Including 2 whole chapters of lead-up. This became chapter 3 of the posted fic.)

Figured it could be fun to post the original 2023 text. With some director's commentary... )
ptahrrific: Moon Knight (marvel)
A mini behind-the-scenes post for Here's What You Missed!

The original version of the Career Day conversation from chapter 2, compared to the version that got published. (Major spoilers for the first 2 chapters. The rest of the fic is safe.)

I designed the house you're in now. )
ptahrrific: Moon Knight (marvel)
Spiritual follow-up to the "Organizing the fic endgame for Cover of Knight" post.

I'm still writing chunks of this universe out-of-order. Eventually put a color-coded chapter list at the end of the WIP file for Reveals by Knight, to help me track questions like "how do I arrange the Reveals chapters so we break for the Thanksgiving special around IRL Thanksgiving?" and "am I leaving room after the Echo release to squeeze in a new chapter idea inspired by Echo?"

Every couple months since October, I've been posting spoiler-censored screencaps of The Plan in the Ptah's fic tag on [tumblr.com profile] erinptah. Here's a compilation of all four posts!


Blackouts hide the notes about who Team MK meets in each chapter (Although, lbr, some of the locations basically give it away) )
ptahrrific: Moon Knight (marvel)
 It's the behind-the-scenes post I kept saying I'd write about Come In From The Night!

...Not actually sure when I first wrote the original scenes. Just that, based on Google Docs' version history, I copied them into their own file on October 17, 2022...wrote a few more chunks on October 18...and then put the whole thing aside until April 14, 2023.

In terms of the main Cover of Knight collection, that's shortly after I posted 34: Brush Tunnel -- which I knew at the time would be CoK's last Sam-and-Bucky chapter. So I finally knew, for sure, where they'd stand in canon at the start of the Reveal Fic.

Gonna go ahead and share the full October 18 text here. It's just over 2.2K words, and they come in distinct chunks, which makes it easy to put annotations in between.

First! The plot needed Sam, Bucky, and Jake all together at the synagogue, with Layla at a safe distance. And I had some jokes in mind for Walker... )
ptahrrific: Moon Knight (marvel)
I've been writing a lot of the Cover of Knight Cinematic Universe out-of-order, compared to how it's posted. A couple of times I've had to take a step back and work out what the posting order should even be.

And some of those times I wrote notes about it!

Which I figured, for readers who like behind-the-scenes type content, could be a fun read.

Felt too long to put on Tumblr, but hey, this DW journal used to get process posts about other fics. Why not go back to that?

This may have spoilers for everything posted so far. If you're not caught up, do that first.


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A writeup I did on February 20 (2023), when 30: Birnin Zana was the last posted Cover of Knight chapter, annotated with links to each thing... )
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Wow, this past year was dominated by longfics. Two of them are Persephone's Waltz, five are Shout*For, one is He Says He Is An Oceanographer, and one is He Says He Is An Experimental Theologian. Plus two one-shots.

6 - Fake news
3 - Welcome to Night Vale
2 - Madoka Magica

Plus 1 fic-free month. (Although I was writing the early chapters of Shout*For during April, I didn't start posting until May.)

January
The caller ID on the screen was blank.

February
Hitomi had three books in her bag, and was running her hand along the spines of Kamijou's collection looking for the last one on his list, when the door swished open behind her.

March
"And they'll find each other in the crowded streets and the guarded park~ / past the rusty fountains and the dusty trees with the battered barks...."

April
(...I did not post any fics in April. Just mixes. Huh.)

May
"Heeey, Lisa!" exclaimed a bubbly voice, startling the well-dressed fourteen-year-old as she closed her locker.

June
Whenever Jon made an appearance this particular studio, he felt like he had stumbled into an alternate universe...one in which he was freakishly tall.

July
"So, how's Canada treating you?" asked Jon, his well-lit face and Jimmy's side by side on Stephen's screen.

August
"Will says you're doing a lovely job with all the songs, so we're going to spend the morning trying to put the first one together with the dance routine," said Mac, tapping the corresponding bullet point on her whiteboard.

September
Although Carlos was frustrated to have lost both Gwen and (without any warning at all, this time) Rashid, at least one of his newly arrived team members was here to study underwater acoustics.

October
Good morning, Night Vale!

November
@Shout4StevieC
a spectacular view from my New Zealand trip!

December
Carlos and Gerald end up abandoning their observation route to rendezvous with Emily at the Pinkberry, where Carlos urges the student to stay calm and keep working.
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I will post the names of all the files in my WIP folder(s), regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Choose one [or more], and I will post a random line or two.

Same meme I did back in 2011. Again, this list isn't everything in my WIP folder (which also has art, mixes, meta, and other random stuff), just the fics.

02 Desert Dreams and Lion Hearts
02 two-pronged attack
5 nativity stories
Brother's Keeper 1 [and more]
Calyx 1 [and more]
colorblind Homura
Ein Liebender... 1 [and more]
Experimental Theologian 1 [and more]
Fake News - The Musical
futurenation
heinkelyumiko63
hellsing sedoretu
If I Fall Along The Way
Joan and Stephanie
kink AU
Madoka slave!Homu fic
Prompt ficlets 5
Red Dwarf Hunger Games
ShoutFor 2-01 [and more]
Silent bonus
Suffering
Tentacle Aftercare
The Little Pundit
vampire Yomiko
werewolf Homura

So, yeah, the rate at which I write things is ridiculously varied. There are fics that come together quickly -- I have plenty of short ones that were finished in one sitting -- and, as seen in this meme, fics that have been sitting around untouched for two years...

Art and mixes are pretty much the same deal, by the way. I have WIP images and tentative tracklists that haven't been updated for more than a year, but most of the things I post don't sit around nearly that long.

(And the longer I go without working on something, the more my eyes get used to it being in the WIP folder and skim right over it. I had totally forgotten "hellsing sedoretu" was there until just this moment, eheh.)
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Came up with a couple more that never got archived here while paging through my hard drive...

cover
Long White Cloud

(New Zealand)
They're safely in the mix archive now. (Also uploaded, but not yet published: a bunch of Christmas mixes. I figure I'll hold off on releasing those on 8tracks until December.)

Meanwhile, the fic soundtrack page is now comprehensive. Older examples of cover art and all.

All of which leaves only three mixes still not streamable/downloadable! First, an SJA one, which fails the 8tracks TOS by being all-Beatles. Second and third, the fake news pair that can be listened to separately or together, which would lose something on a site where you can't control the playlist order. Not sure what to do with those yet.

I'll figure something out.
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Finally sat down with the 8tracks account I made a while back and started uploading!

Most of the ones I plan to crosspost are now there, and the associated posts in this journal have been embedded with playable streams.

I'm also redoing the mix sections of the masterposts. Gone are the long lists of text links; instead, the multifandom/miscellaneous mixes and the fake news/SWC mixes now come with thumbnails of their cover images, like so:

cover
Oh, The Drama

(fandom wank)
(I never archived this mix on DW in the first place, so the link goes straight to 8tracks. All the other links still go to the mix's DW post.)

Most of the mixes on 8tracks are public and searchable; a handful are unlisted, but you can still find them on my profile. The various soundtracks I've done for my fake news fics aren't getting crossposted at all -- instead, they're available at the website's new soundtrack download page.

So follow me on 8tracks, or just stick around DW and explore the new music streams!

(And who knows...maybe when these last few mixes are organized and uploaded, I'll get around to posting some new ones.)
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Hey, remember that long list of unsorted multi-short-fic posts that used to be lurking at the bottom of the Fake News fanwork masterpost? It's been almost emptied out!

Instead of trying to sort the fics all separately, these posts are now collected on the new Fake News Drabbles & Ficlets tag, which is treated like a separate ficlet-collection index post (same as the Merry Month of May index). Meanwhile on the masterpost, ficlet collections are now organized in their own group, so they don't have to be awkwardly grouped under "multichapter" when they aren't single chaptered works.

Also tagged as drabbles-and-ficlets are a bunch of other short, individually-posted fics that had been sorted on the masterpost. I didn't erase their existing entries, though. Figure it's better to have more ways to find a story than fewer.

During the organizing here on DW, I did a massive crosspost of the lot to the AO3. This series includes both the contents of the drabbles-and-ficlets tag and the Merry-Month-of-May tag. (...except for the ficlets I don't really like anymore.) The darker ones are only visible to registered users -- you can get an account very quickly if you'd like to read them.

Future posts with multiple shortfics, including prompt fills (a few more of which I should be posting soon), will go on the drabbles-and-ficlets tag, and be crossposted to the appropriate part of the AO3 collection. Feel free to read/review on whichever site works best for you!
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Title: Collar U
Rating: PG-13
Cast: Jon/"Stephen", background Olivia/Kristen and Steve/Nancy, other correspondents, Jane Fonda
Contents: Sexual predator Jane Fonda.
Disclaimer: #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement. Characters belong to the Report. Names of real people are used in a fictitious context, and all dialogue, actions, and content are products of the author's imagination only.

D/sverse, high school/college AU. Stephen's family doesn't believe in sending uncollared submissives to college, so Jon offers to collar him, at least through graduation. Cue a year of awkward deception, GSA shenanigans, platonic bed-sharing, one threatening incident with a certain pushy senior, and the triumph of the power of unrecognized romantic attraction friendship.

Header aside, this is a question for readers, rather than the fic post itself:

The story is about 9500 words long, and breaks down into five pieces (an average of 1900 words each). I'm currently posting the parts on the AO3 at the rate of one per day. People on DW, would you like it posted in parts here too? Or would you rather wait until it's over and have the whole thing posted as a single entry? Maybe it doesn't matter, since you would just as soon read the pieces on the AO3 no matter how it's posted here? Whatever your thoughts, please let me know!
ptahrrific: Jon and Stephen, "Believe in the me who believes in you" (fake news)
Chapter 18 of Expecting finally got that update! In which Jon gets to converse intelligently and emotionally about IVF, instead of just flailing. It's a thousand words longer, and I'm finally happy with the result :D

Will this be, finally, the actual last edit the series ever needs? I sure hope so.

(...if I had time, I would love to redraw all the art, but given that it would take stupidly long, I've pretty much accepted that that it's going to have to stand as-is.)
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I have five invite codes to give out for the Archive Of Our Own. Anyone who wants an account (to read my fic maybe? /Zoidberg), comment here or PM me with an email address so I can send you one!
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Just did a major revision and reorganization of the main fanwork masterpost and fake news masterpost!

Main masterpost: fic entries are now expanded! Everything gets a summary! Links to crossposts (on the AO3, Teaspoon, and so far one thing on ff.net) are included! Haven't gotten to the Madoka stories, but everything else is sorted.

Fake news masterpost: complete reorganization! Instead of being sorted by relative angst level, things are sorted by length, and one-shots are further sorted by character. There's a table of contents at the top to make the structure even more obvious. Also, many things get summaries! (I didn't bother with adding a summary for every. single. TDS/TCR one-shot. Figured readers would survive.)

Crossovers that are really just about the TDS/TCR characters are now just on the TDS/TCR page. Crossovers where the other series is equally or more important are now mirrored on both masterposts. Redundancy: it's a wonderful thing.

I'm also starting to backpost some of the fake news fics to [archiveofourown.org profile] sailorptah. Not going to upload everything, just focus on ones that are (a) decently written and (b) uses tropes with mass appeal that people might be looking for without knowing the fandom. So, hey, if you have a personal favorite that you've ever wished you could +kudos, feel free to nominate it for crossposting =3
ptahrrific: I want a girl with fingernails that shine like justice. (sailor moon)

Type: Shameless self-indulgence.
Spoilers: Severe
Table of Contents: The Xyll Saga

The very last of these posts! All the Xyll-related material is up now. If you've been holding off on browsing, now's the time to start. If you've just been waiting for it to be over, your flists are now clear again ^_^

This is the real-world history of the saga: how I started writing at 11, had a complete draft I was (mostly) satisfied with at 15, and ended up shepherding it mostly-unseen from hard drive to hard drive until age 24. Possibly there is nobody else in the world who will care about this, but since you could say the same about the fic and that didn't stop me, I may as well go all out.

If nothing else, it's a cute insight into the mind of a 10-year-old who sees the world through Sailor-Moon-colored glasses, and what came of it.

It all began in elementary school... )

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A fake-news-centric post about the AO3 tagging system, over on [community profile] punditfic. If you're curious about the tag system in general or the fake news/punditry structure in particular, give it a look.

Also, if you have questions that can be answered by the tag information pages (in any fandom), I'm all set to look stuff up -- just ask :)
ptahrrific: Jon and Stephen, "Believe in the me who believes in you" (fake news)
Originally posted in this FFA thread: Pretend the characters from your fandom were also members of fandom (in general, not necessarily their own fandom). Who would be the BNFs? Who writes the pretentious intellislash, who churns out the badfic filled with SPAG errors, who's got the most fills on the kink meme? Who are the biggest wankers and SJWs?

Slightly revised and expanded. Totally open to suggestions/requests for more =) As a setup for fic and such, the premise is free to anyone who wants to play with it.

Jon keeps thinking about dialing down his fandom responsibilities, and keeps ending up as the mod of more and more things anyway. He rants a lot under flock. )


And a sequel, posted in another thread: If the characters in your fandom had access to the internet and plenty of time to goof around on messageboards, what would they wank about?

A short and emphatically non-exhaustive list of things "Stephen" gets into fandom wanks about:

Which pony is the best pony. )

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