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penumbra pod enjoyer aka @stummyhort spoilers tagged #tpp spoilers she/her | 21 | usa

[stummysnort]

the ruby 7s girlfriend is also a car and her name is vermilion 2 and she’s also green even though vermilion is a shade of red. also she makes the same kinds of noises as ruby except they’re kind of shitty and all done by joshua (verm)ilon

[sernhuh]

Does he know what to do with all dat

Done!

[rabbitspoiledrotten]

I don't even know anymore.

(SEASON 3 WAS SO GOOD and now I gotta wait 😩)

[myzlwow]

crime family to prepare for the finale :]

[barrel-head]

is this anything

[junonomenon]

OKAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNO STEEL and HAPPY JUNOVERSE FINALE FANZINE RELEASE DATE :) you can fine a link to the zine here and our promo post with a printable version here as well as the other piece i did for it here :) and um. anyways so i drew andromeda i hope u like her :) the galaxies greatest warrior for REAL

[indigokra]

“it’s nice to know you work alone” 🪐⚡️

(click for better quality, more info and alt text below cut)

another jupeter piece and some recommended songs from my jupeter playlist!

I have synesthesia which means my brain associates certain audio and music with different colors and shapes, so I worked a lot with the colors on this piece and especially the background to kind of translate some of the visualizations I get when I listen to these songs together! If you read the lyrics of both you’ll see why I heavily associate them with juno and peter!

I have another piece that I’ll hopefully post circa S3 that goes along with There’s No Secrets This Year (the most jupeter song ever) and a comic for Waltz in E-Major, Op. 15 “Moon Waltz” by Cojum Dip that I really want to work on soon! My playlist is still a work in progress and I’m currently in the process of moving my spotify accounts around but as of right now the full playlist link is here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6SP3sUjzSTBCPhouCe4xXY?si=277Hd2pqTGmRzPLcSx6dvQ

I organized it partially by season so hopefully it’s easier to understand the character connections of the songs. (The first song of the playlist is an instrumental guitar piece that my dad’s guitarist is doing as a side project which is super cool and you should definitely check out his stuff (and also please send some streams his way) If you love vocal-like sexy guitar riffs and weird time signatures and video game-esque music, Vision Swords is for you lol)

Alt Text:

A lineless digital art painting of Juno Steel and Peter Nureyev from the Penumbra Podcast. Juno's face is visible in a profile view as he holds his blaster in his outstretched hand. Juno is a short Black and South Asian person with dark brown skin, a scar across his nose bridge, and black hair that is lit with purple lighting. Juno has short locs and a high undercut with a star design shaved in. He is wearing a tan trenchcoat, a white button up, and black tie. He is also wearing a cochlear implant, hot pink star earrings, and hot pink acrylic nails. Peter stands behind him with his face partially obscured. He is a tall South Asian man with medium brown skin and dark shoulder length brown hair. He is pointing his blaster and wearing a black suit jacket with gold details. The background of the painting is hot pink, neon purple, and bright blue. The background colors mix in with one another in a perspective blur from the center of the painting. [end alt text]

Thank you so much for the support while I’ve been on hiatus! I’m going to college this fall for Robotics Engineering and I’ve been dealing with some pretty big health problems as well (I literally just got out of surgery today lol) which has left little time for art (fanart or otherwise) 😅 Love ya!

[stummysnort]

haven’t done a full juno steel relisten since 2021 and man... day that wouldn’t die is tragic enough on its own but listening to it with the context of the rest of the series really adds an extra kick… whole time i was sitting there like

[juno-tism]

I’m Juno steel if he was a lesbian and then nothing else changes

[entropicallyfavorable]

It hit me like a sack of bricks today that the Junoverse characters don't know that they're queer. They aren't really queer, within their own cultural framework-- queerness only exists relative to norms they don't have. They don't know what homophobia or transphobia are. They're just free. What a beautiful thought.

[hemaris]

A selection of items found in the pockets of P. Nureyev, master thief and intergalactic man of mystery:

a wide array of paperclips;

three plasma cutters (two working, one broken);

a crumpled receipt from Roche Crater Drug Store & Souvenirs (items purchased: a coffee, a postcard reading “Greetings from Lovely Roche Crater! No Nonsense, Just a Big Ol’ Hole in the Ground!”);

two kohl pencils;

several novelty ballpoint pens (the most notable of which is shaped like a brachiosaurus, with its neck as the grip);

a notepad that contains what might either be poetry written in a lost form of the Venusian alphabet or someone’s desperate attempts to draw a bunch of pinecones;

a handful of raisins that one can only hope haven’t been there since they were grapes (and let’s just say one would be disappointed to find out the truth);

a spool of nylon thread;

a pair of diamond earrings that look too expensive to be kept in a pocket that also contains loose raisins;

a couple of firecrackers;

a kiwi (the fruit, not the bird);

a rock that, if you tilt it the right way and squint a little, is sort of shaped like a dog’s head;

And tucked away in Nureyev’s inside pocket, pressed close to his heart, only three things:

a showy sapphire tie pin, liberated from the possession of a thoroughly unpleasant businessman who really had it coming (not the first thing Nureyev ever stole by a long stretch, but the first thing he stole under Mag’s tutelage - the first thing he remembers being proud of stealing);

a dog-eared little note that reads “stay safe - J” accompanied by a hastily drawn and kinda wobbly smiley face;

and, lastly, an old-fashioned polaroid, folded and unfolded a hundred times, and likely to be folded and unfolded a hundred more.

[kipcada-art]

“Life belongs to the living”

Goodbye the the Penumbra podcast! It was a really sweet finale! (Quote is from season 5, episode 24)

my tpp ramblings below the cut

I’ve been listening to Penumbra since 2018, and Juno Steel especially has been a hugely important piece of media for me! So when I heard TPP was ending I knew I wanted to do something for it (like with Magnus). Originally I had this plan to do an animatic but I grossly overestimated how much time and work animating a 4 minute song was going to be lmao! So I decided very last minute to do this comic instead! It was obviously not done when the finale actually came out but better late than never I suppose. I did my best to try and capture as much of the podcast as possible, but I had to leave out some stuff unfortunately (it’s a long ass podcast), this comic was originally also gonna have another page so I might make that and add it later!

[podcast-official]

the way vespa said "heh. wife." when buddy refers to her as her wife when they're literally being arrested by dark matters is the most lesbian thing any lesbian's ever done.

[manyfandomsonelog]

WE FUCKING WINNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

[stummysnort]

the live S5 Q&A just ended and hooooo boy it is a great day to be a juno steel fan

[stummysnort]

WHO WE ARE BY HOZIER IS THE MOST NUREYEV SONG OF ALL TIME

these thoughts have consumed my every waking thought for days on end and I must excise them the only way I know how (writing about it on the internet)

This post includes heavy spoilers for Juno Steel and the Thief’s Honor. Keep reading only if you are done with the series!

You only feel it when it's lost Getting through still has a cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Falling from you, drop by drop

The final loss of Slip forces Nureyev to acknowledge his overflowing mental filing cabinet. This section is pretty on the nose with where Nureyev is emotionally at the end of Thief's Honor P2/beginning of Case Closed P2. The image of liquid "falling...drop by drop" (perhaps also "hold me like water" in the next section) functions to 1. create the opportunity to use slip as a verb (insane) but also 2. to evoke blood running. Slip's "life upgrade" requires Juno's blood to literally drain out of him, drop by drop.

PERSONALLY (I'm not sure how y'all will feel about this, walk with me here,) I found the imagery of Slip in his final moments to mirror a martyr bleeding out on a cross. Juno specifically describes how Slip "writhed there on the wall"— Slip wasn't in a regular hospital bed, he was suspended up. (RIP Christians you’d love Slip Jackson)(just kidding I think Christianity is probably still around somewhat in the show’s period since characters say variations of “jeez”)(right? idk. anyway back to the song)

What I had left here I just held it tight So someone with your eyes Might come in time To hold me like water Or Christ, hold me like a knife

"Someone with your eyes" can be literal (more on that in a second), but could also more broadly mean "someone with your [loving] perspective/vision". Nureyev has very rarely been Seen and Understood in his life, really only ever being vulnerable with Juno and Slip (he can't even understand himself with how much he compartmentalizes and represses). I think the first four lines of this verse could also be applied to Juno's loss of Ben, if you indulge in the headcanon that Juno's THEIA eye matched Ben's eye color and/or that Ben had heterochromia. Let the record reflect that I do indulge! Nureyev and Slip holding each other like knives is tender (holding a knife requires care and intention), but this also speaks to their defensiveness and desperation in survival. For example, in Rangian street poker, the player's relationships become their tools/weapons. This line about knives comes up again later, so we'll discuss more when we get there. (Though, I gotta add, the mention of knives reminds me of the detail in Angel of Brahma where Juno, upon watching Nureyev kill Mag, says he wasn't sure where the knife ended and Nureyev began. Ouch!)

We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carving through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are

"Born at night" and "through the dark" further build on the desperation to survive that defined Nureyev and Slip's relationship. It also could describe the unnatural conditions of the Outer Rim and/or Nureyev's life hiding in the shadows. "The hardest part... it's who we are" speaks to Nureyev's journey running from both his own identity (the thief without a name!) as well as Slip's inevitable death. Nureyev's turning point as a character is when he faces who Slip really is (or rather, the reality of Slip's condition) and in turn is forced to face himself. (the Man in Glass finally looked in the glass!) You could also argue that an important step for Juno was discovering and accepting who Nureyev is. This brings to mind the monologue in What Lies Beyond P1 where Juno describes his desire for them both to remove pieces of each other's armor until him and Nureyev are "fully vulnerable and fully known".

You and I burned out our steam Chasing someone else's dream How can something be so much heavier But so much less than what it seems? Darling, we sacrificed We gave our time to something undefined This phantom life Sharpens like an image But it sharpens like a knife

The knife imagery is back! First, I think the "phantom life" references Slip and Nureyev's dream together. The dream "sharpens like an image" in the sense it was extremely vivid for them, but it "sharpens like a knife" because the executives weaponized that dream against Nureyev. The “phantom life” was the knife at Nureyev's throat that caused him to sacrifice twenty years of his life to the “undefined” hope of saving Slip. Of course, the truth is that he was "chasing someone else's dream", the executive's goal of turning a profit.

The third and fourth lines here remind me of a comment inside one of the production scripts— “If you can’t make the stakes big, make them personal”. The executives are horrifying, but they technically have less physical power than some of the other villains in the series. In other words, this arc is both “so much heavier” and “so much less than what it seems”.

We're born at night So much of our lives Is just carving through the dark To get so far And the hardest part Is who we are It's who we are

You only feel it when it's lost Getting through still has its cost Quietly, it slips through your fingers, love Falling from you, drop by drop

thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts if you got this far :)

[junoversefinalefanzine]

It's happening! The Juno Steel Finale Fanzine is now officially open to join for artists, writers, or any other creator who would like to help us say goodbye to these beloved characters and stories. The zine is currently slated to release in late December, and all other pertinent information about submission guidelines and deadlines is in the discord server. I hope to see you there!!! Current moderators are @junonomenon and @scarlettrust if you have any questions, comments, or concerns ^_^