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pokimoko · 1 year

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One year ago today, The Goldfish (Moon Knight) gave me Problems (brainrot).

#art #digital art #moon knight #steven grant #jake lockley #marc spector #mcu #marvel #the goldfish problem #*the* premiere of all time!#moon knight 2022 #my art #mk art #moon knight art #moon knight 1x01 #moon knight anniversary #march 30 #oh my god has it really been a year?#in steven's words: that's mental #so much was different a year and a day ago; this show fundamentally changed me #this episode really was the gateway drug because before watching it I was like 'yeah moon knight seems cool i guess'#now look at me: i've written almost 200k of words for this show alone #and people in the fandom recognise me by name??? god it still boggles my mind #i actually started writing a fic to celebrate the momentous occasion but i wasn't feeling it so art instead #which gave me an excuse to watch the episode again (though when do I need an excuse really?) and analyse the heck out its visuals #consider this an episode / character study #anyway happy one year everyone fingers crossed this isn't the last time we get to celebrate a mk season premiere #fanart #illustration #moon knight fanart

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ivystoryweaver · 8 months

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He just needs to know what happened to his fish 🐡

#Steven grant #Steven with a v #Steven grant of the gift shop #moon knight #the goldfish problem #Oscar isaac #oscar isaac characters

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traveller-of-the-knight · 10 months

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Who else has gaslighted themselves denying they are mentally ill??? I know I haaaave 🙃

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

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lockley-spktr · 1 year

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Moon Knight (2022)

Episode One: The Goldfish Problem

“This is real. I’m real.”

One year ago today.

March 30th, 2022

#oscar isaac #steven grant #steven grant x reader #marc spector #marc spector x reader #moon knight #the goldfish problem #marvel #disney+

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stevenspector · 28 days

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HAPPY MOON KNIGHT ANNIVERSARY

can't believe it's been TWO YEARS now since The Goldfish Problem first came out

#moon knight #marvel moon knight #moon knight series #mcu moon knight #moon knight disney+#the goldfish problem

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thingsasbarcodes · 2 months

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Moon Knight 1x01 - The Goldfish Problem

#moon knight #mcu #steven grant #marc spector #khonshu #arthur harrow #the goldfish problem

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everymoonknight · 1 year

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You're not the bloody tour guide, Stevie.

#moon knight #ep 1 #the goldfish problem

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glxyaaandromeda · 1 year

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I'm sure I will sleep better if Steven Grant is my story teller.

#moon knight #steven grant x y/n #steven grant x reader #steven grant #marvel moon knight #marc spector x reader #marc spector #jake lockley x reader #jake lockley #this is a prompt for every moon knight writers out there and I support you for that #the goldfish problem #season one #marvel cinematic universe #oscar isaac

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fdelopera · 1 year

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On the Nature of Goldfish and Memory…

When a memory slips away like the glimmer of a goldfish, wriggling its way into the tangled reeds

That sway like thick tendrils, reaching up from the bottom of a shadowbox,

Do we chase it? Or do we let it be?

Perhaps the goldfish does not want to be found.

And if we were to grasp it long enough for it to speak, would it even recall why it had fled?

Or is the old myth true:

Do goldfish memories really only last seven seconds?

And after that, is the slate wiped clean, making way for a safe new thought to arise?

Does the goldfish know something we don’t?

Does it know that it’s safer there, amongst the reeds?

If we swim in the gentle shallows of amnesia

Drinking our fill from the River Lethe

Are we too protected from the barnacled memories that encrust the minds of dwellers of the deep?

Perhaps forgetting is a form of self-care?

For if the memory surfaces too quickly, rushing up from the frigid depths

Its blood might just boil, bubbling on reentry, and burst its containment, spilling out

Contamination

Gushing everywhere

Too fast to wipe clean

Risking howls and slaps

Like those that used to follow spilled milk

So maybe it’s best to let the memory hide amongst the reeds.

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Or should we make this plea instead:

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Stay with us. Don't sink to the bottom

like a fish going to sleep.

Be with the ocean moving steadily all night,

not scattered like a rainstorm. *

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i have no answers. Only questions. And perhaps that’s how it always will be.

Memories whirl together like a blender used in secret by hands too small, risking discovery

Different consciousnesses circle each other like the spinning vortices of a tornado

An entity that is simultaneously one and many…

And in that intricate dance, i reach out to one who might remember. i beg them to tell me, in their own wary time of course, tempting them with a little offering

Clutched between fingers,

Inviting them to partake in hastily scrawled graphite and the comforting flakes of an eraser,

Just as stubby fingers once tempted a nervous goldfish with sustenance of similar flakey translucence.

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i hold my breath. i squeeze my eyes tight. Ready to take the plunge. Greedy fingers scramble and clutch their way through swaying reeds, searching, searching…

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The spring we're looking for

is somewhere in this murkiness.

See the night-lights up there traveling together,

the candle awake in its gold dish. *

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Head lifts. Eyes squint open. Pupils dart, seeking, seeking…

No. i must invite them in, let them come to me, just like any frightened creature. Don’t scare them off.

i beckon again, nicer this time, reminding myself to respect boundaries and autonomy.

i close my eyes…

Please?

i promise, i’ll sit so still. i’ll be gentle. You’ll be safe in my hand. Please, please, i just want to see you…

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We are the goldfish and the shadowbox

We are the memory and the smudged graphite

We are a collection of ‘eyes’ and ‘i’s who look and are seen

We are both goldfish and reflection

Swimming round and round, hugging the walls of the aquarium

Each traversal lasting seven seconds

And each time we complete a circuit

We meet ourselves at the beginning

“Are you?”

“Yes, i am. Are you?”

“Yes.”

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Don't slide into the cracks of the ground like spilled mercury.

When the full moon comes out, look around. *

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This time, we hold onto each other

This time we do not slip through the cracks of the fractured ground

Our mercurial nature is solid for a moment

Still

As Janet once enveloped Tam Lin in her embrace, unafraid of his changeling form

The world around us stops

Our ‘i’s open

And we see each other laid bare in a moonbeam

The answer to a deep mystery on the tip of our tongue

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And then a cloud passes

The light shifts

An ancient drumming pounds just below the surface

The rhythm of the ocean preserved within our veins

We breathe in for three beats and out for four

Seven seconds

And the memory slips away like the glimmer of a goldfish, wriggling its way into the tangled reeds.

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Poem by FdelOpera

* Italicized quotes from “The Ocean Moving All Night,” by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks & John Moyne

#moon knight #the goldfish problem #happy mooniversary #musings on memory and inner system communication...

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little-cereal-draws · 1 year

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1000 points if you get the reference

#everyone's posting these beautiful pieces and i have this shitpost lol #mcu #marvel #moon knight #steven grant #my art #the goldfish problem

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walks-the-ages · 2 years

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Okay so I think I asked before "what happened to the fish in The Goldfish Problem"

And someone said the fish probably starved to death while they were gone. :'(

But then also.

...season finale.... Shows both the original, one-finned fish and the second normal fish.

Steven clearly doesn't know what happened with the original Fish.

And clearly, Marc panicked and got a random new fish for Steven when he saw the original fish was gone, hoping Steven wouldn't realize it wasn't missing a fin like the original one (I feel so bad not remembering the goldfishes name lol)

So..... We know Jake takes care of Marc and Steven.

Did you think Jake hat the original goldfish was sick/hurt/had a genetic problem and brought it to an exotic vet for a few days for a checkup? And Marc didn't know about it, he just got back from a mission and saw that "Steven's goldfish is missing!!!! Ahhh! How!? Did a cat get in!? Did it jump out of the tank!?" And then rush off to buy a replacement one?

And then when they get back from Cairo and Jake is just like "finally! Do you know how long that poor goldfish has had to wait at the vets for!? We were supposed to pick it up a week ago!" And then just brings the original goldfish home and plops it back in the tank next to the new one.

Like, clearly this could be some symbolism of Marc and Steven being a united front now, but I just think it would be really fun if S2 opened with Marc and Steven both just staring at the fish tank at the *two separate goldfish* in the tank and being like.... Which of us got a new fish!?

#Moon Knight #Mk #moon knight spoilers #Jake Lockley #Marc Spector #Steven Grant #the goldfish problem #canon plural characters

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ivystoryweaver · 10 months

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