by RegalQuill
A pragmatic self-insert wakes up in 1975 New York, discovers he is in a Marvel universe, and decides that money, patents, lawyers, veterans, and corporate power may be the only way to survive what is coming.
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #1
1d
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #1
1d
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #11
1d
Current
8/11/2026
Peak #11
1d
#4
7/22/2026
Peak #9
20d
Rank updated 13 Aug 2026, 14:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 13 Aug 2026, 04:15 UTC
On Overall Rising Stars
Now on the real Rising Stars list
By genre
beats 99% of similar stories
beats 46% of similar stories
beats 99% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
At this conversion, the Romance Rising Stars bar (≈6 new followers/day) costs about 289 views/day — the story currently gets ~2.6k.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.
