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when the penumbra podcasts idk
when the penumbra podcasts idk
guys i just read two of the most beautiful hurt/comfort jupeter fics and i click on one of the author’s psudes and the other thing they’ve written was PINESCEST?? PINESCEST??
some happy jupeter in these trying times
As much as I love Juno and Peter they have nothing on Buddy and Vespa when it comes to supreme couple on the Carte Blanche
*Kind of vague spoilers for the Juno Steel Finale*
I have way too many thoughts about the end of Juno Steel that it has to be split into 2 posts but you're all going to be subject to hearing them. To start off the development of Juno's attitude about his job and Hyperion City in general is literal art. The way he starts out believing that he's trapped in a city that doesn't care for him or anyone else and a job that never really helps anyone as much as he wants to and ends up realizing that he's not trapped there, in fact, he wants to go back desperately because that city is his home and through his job he can make it better if he tries. When he recites the oath from the PI registry again and he genuinely understands it the second time because he's changed so much as a person that those words actually mean something this time around even though they didn't twenty years ago. Finale Juno does away with the notion that he ruins things for everyone like he's been told all his life, he knows that he can help people and he knows how to do that, and he knows that improving the lives of others is what's important to him. He understands that he can have bad days and not be a bad person, that whatever issues his mother passed to him don't make him a monster the same way they never made her one she was just someone who was extremely ill and unable to get the help she needed in order to be the mother Juno and Benten deserved. Jet's voice in his comms saying "We may look backward only to ensure we have not walked this path before" and Juno navigating a new city with careful avoidance of side streets that would put him back on old roads. Pouring out a bottle of tequila with ease and refusing clients with ties to organized crime groups that only cause harm to others despite his own background in organized crime because it doesn't align with who he is anymore even though he needs the money that they could provide. Buddy's apologies about not getting him and Rita a housewarming gift for the office (even though everything from before was still in the office) except she did provide a gift. It's the confidence that allows Rita to speak up to Juno when he talks down to her, and it's Juno's confidence in himself, his sharpshooting skills, and his job. Vespa showing Juno that mental illness does not define who someone is and just because they struggle with mental health it doesn't mean that they're bad people, it just means that they have some setbacks other people might not have. Buddy and Vespa provide the knowledge that they have family and people who love them and just in case it doesn't work out they have people that they can turn to because Buddy and Vespa and the lighthouse will always be there whenever they're needed. His first case back as a PI being a girl he thinks looks so much like a young Sasha Wire, a friend who betrayed him and one he had to abandon, who Mick sees as looking like a young Juno, a memory from his past and a startling start to the future. A girl he offers encouragement and advice to that season one Juno wouldn't have because season one Juno wouldn't have felt himself wise enough. A girl he chooses to help much more than she hires him to do, and takes much less payment than he typically does because she needs the money to start her own future as well. The fact that Juno's life since his HCPD days has been so driven by romantic love that he never let himself fully experience platonic love and the type of familial love that he should have been given so easily by his mother and Benten was corrupted by mental illness and death, but the type of love the Aurinko's give to him so easily even without the crutch of a romantic connection to Nureyev.
A Juno that has made space for himself and the people he cares about without needing a romantic partner because he has so much love for them that maybe it doesn't matter if he loves someone romantically or not. Maybe he learned that from Rita who expresses her love for everyone and everything so regularly, or maybe from Jet who knows what he wants and knows that it isn't a romantic connection, who is content to live his life doing the things that he loves instead of searching for something he doesn’t need, or maybe from Buddy who spent time with him and trained him and made him feel like a person that was worth something, who despite her reformed connection to Vespa and subsequent engagement still makes time for him and everyone else because her wife may be her whole world but there are other things in that world too, or the Ruby 7 who's found a family and found love in people that are so different from itself but care for it all the same and who it cares for equally, or maybe even Mick who is so dedicated to finding out what he wants to do with his life and what he's good at that romance doesn't seem to matter much to him because he has friends to support him.
The finale provides a Juno Steel that has spent years of his life being driven by romantic love and being driven by Nureyev in particular yet Nureyev doesn't appear in the final chapter of his story, or maybe he does, but either way, it's fine. Juno who spent months chasing Nureyev to the farthest reaches of the galaxy and risking his life just to be there to support him but still sends him away so that Nureyev can spend time finding himself now that he doesn't have to worry about his debts. The way Mick delicately asks about Nureyev and Juno admits easily that he hasn't even thought about Nureyev that day and thar doesn't hurt the way it used to. Maybe Nureyev does show up in the end and they're able to live a life happily together (or like Juno suggests on the resort planet, together but not living together because the lives they created for themselves don't fit into the same space even though there is a space there for the other, visiting and traveling and lounging in Juno's new apartment) or maybe he takes another month or year or ten to discover what he wants to before he returns to Juno, or maybe he never does because it's just not possible for him with the new life he's built for himself but whatever happens it will be okay because Juno is okay and life is okay. Just the idea that you maybe don't have to have your entire life sorted as soon as you graduate, maybe you'll finally figure it out in your 40s after switching jobs multiple times, taking up a life of crime after dedicating your life to solving it, finding a family in the criminals you live with and your secretary of 20 years, traveling the galaxy in a car-shaped alien in search of your missing lover, and almost dying so many times that it's genuinely hard to keep track of. It's okay if you switch your major 10 times in college, or if you decide to change your career down the line, or if you break up with your partner even though you thought they were the one when you were 20. Eventually, you'll figure it all out and even then you'll keep learning from everything and that's okay because life would be boring if it's exactly what you expect it to be.
*Kind of vague spoilers for the Juno Steel Finale*
I have way too many thoughts about the end of Juno Steel that it has to be split into 2 posts but you're all going to be subject to hearing them. To start off the development of Juno's attitude about his job and Hyperion City in general is literal art. The way he starts out believing that he's trapped in a city that doesn't care for him or anyone else and a job that never really helps anyone as much as he wants to and ends up realizing that he's not trapped there, in fact, he wants to go back desperately because that city is his home and through his job he can make it better if he tries. When he recites the oath from the PI registry again and he genuinely understands it the second time because he's changed so much as a person that those words actually mean something this time around even though they didn't twenty years ago. Finale Juno does away with the notion that he ruins things for everyone like he's been told all his life, he knows that he can help people and he knows how to do that, and he knows that improving the lives of others is what's important to him. He understands that he can have bad days and not be a bad person, that whatever issues his mother passed to him don't make him a monster the same way they never made her one she was just someone who was extremely ill and unable to get the help she needed in order to be the mother Juno and Benten deserved. Jet's voice in his comms "We may look backward only to ensure we have not walked this path before" and Juno navigating a new city with careful avoidance of side streets that would put him back on old roads. Pouring out a bottle of tequila with ease and refusing clients with ties to organized crime groups that only cause harm to others despite his own background in organized crime because it doesn't align with who he is anymore even though he needs the money that they could provide. Buddy's apologies about not getting him and Rita a housewarming gift for the office (even though everything from before was still in the office) except she did provide a gift. It's the confidence that allows Rita to speak up to Juno when he talks down to her, and it's Juno's confidence in himself, his sharpshooting skills, and his job. Vespa showing Juno that mental illness does not define who someone is and just because they struggle with mental health it doesn't mean that they're bad people, it just means that they have some setbacks other people might not have. Buddy and Vespa provide the knowledge that they have family and people who love them and just in case it doesn't work out they have people that they can turn to because Buddy and Vespa and the lighthouse will always be there whenever they're needed. His first case back as a PI being a girl he thinks looks so much like a young Sasha Wire, a friend who betrayed him and one he had to abandon, who Mick sees as looking like a young Juno, a memory from his past and a startling start to the future. A girl he offers encouragement and advice to that season one Juno wouldn't have because season one Juno wouldn't have felt himself wise enough. A girl he chooses to help much more than she hires him to do, and takes much less payment than he typically does because she needs the money to start her own future as well. The fact that Juno's life since his HCPD days has been so driven by romantic love that he never let himself fully experience platonic love and the type of familial love that he should have been given so easily by his mother and Benten was corrupted by mental illness and death, but the type of love the Aurinko's give to him so easily even without the crutch of a romantic connection to Nureyev.
"Juno Steel And The Phantom Of Privacy" bonus episode [NSFW]
Spend a moment with Jet Sikuliaq and experience what life is really like aboard the Carte Blanche in this fan minisode! Here's what the writers wish they could get away with... All donations go towards the Get Jet Headphones Fund.
Attribution (there are some real gems in here):
Juno Steel and the Things We Buried [get it here!]
I think there's a kind of fear that always comes with being in love. When letting someone else hold so much of you all at once. They could let you fall at any second if they wanted to. So how the hell do you get over that fear? Trust that they won't let you go, that they will hold you up, the same way that you hold them? And then I thought about a hotel on Mars a long time ago. A place where, to be honest, I let Nureyev fall. No wonder he was scared, no wonder I was too. But how the hell are we supposed to get past that?
I’ve seen some people talkin’ about the Jupeter relationship as of the latest episode (“sixteen tons part 2”) so, SPOILERS AHEAD!!!
I’ve seen some people saying that Nureyev is being incredibly toxic, how Juno needs to just leave him and stuff and yeah if Juno wants to leave he can but he won’t because he loves Nureyev. And in this context of Nureyev blurting the “I never want to see you again” and immediately backpedaling a bit, immediately contradicting himself by staying with Juno — trying to shove him away, handle things on his own; those are all things that Juno recognizes. I’ve talked with my bestie about it how Juno’s been on this growth journey all throughout the show, and how he’s slowly coming to a better place, meanwhile Nureyev is on the slippery slope of self destruction. Juno knows these signs because he’s had the chance to look back at his own and he’s experienced them.
In the script for this episode there’s a “stage direction” talking about how Nureyev has entered his “total compartmentalization meltdown” and that is part of his reasoning for being so detached, and cold. He’s trying so hard to exert control over his life because he feels like he’s losing it — we already knew he was stressed in S3 about this (probably post Final Resting Place too ngl because no Miasma payout), and it’s just been building. Not to mention what the Dokana group has just put on him, I have a feeling they haven’t been the most forthright with information and may have been slowing down and he can feel that it’s getting too late for Slip. Nureyeg’s life is “not [his] own” and he’s been trying to exert some kind of control in his life, and Juno’s openess and love might actually be detrimental to that in his eyes.
As for Juno, he cares about Nureyev and doesn’t want him to have to go through what I suspect he knows is going to be an emotional disaster, alone. Nureyev is essentially pulling a S1 finale Juno — trying to shove the person who makes him feel a lot away in order to do things by himself because of some emotional “duty” that he thinks he has.
I think Juno knows Nureyev’s spiraling towards a break and as he even said, he cares about him, and he’s gonna be there for him.
Sorry to ramble, I just really wanted to put my two cents in on this because it — this means a lot to me —
Rita for SURE thought she’d just helped her best friend’s (/little sister) boyfriend that he’s madly in love with and who’s madly in love with him come up with an elaborate journal in order to propose to him.
To me, that’s why she started bawling about him being all grown up and how there was going to be a wedding (not referencing the VesBud wedding) — she thought she was helping him get proposed to, because in her eyes why else would Nureyev ask for her (Juno’s best friend) help with something like that and make her promise not to tell him what was in it, make it a coded game — she gave him a program she’d been working on for 40 years and hadn’t even cracked herself in order to make this such like, a “game” or a “feel better” thing for Juno.
She 1000% thought that she was playing a hand in the proposal and that makes me so emotional sometimes—
remember when we (by we i mean i) thought nureyev was going to propose in that journal. and then he broke up with juno. what in the legally blonde
I SAW A PART OF THIS IN THE PCC AND I JUST — 😭😭😭
Is it insensitive for me to say get your shit together so I can love you?
Just realized I never posted the link to my current magnum opus fic --
"Once Upon a Time there was a Queen.
She was known throughout the farthest reaches of the land, and in the deepest trenches of the sea. To all above the waves, there was none more adored and revered than Queen Andromeda. A warrior seemingly summoned out of thin air in the realm’s greatest time of need. A savior from the very stars themselves."
Juno and his brother Benziten have heard the story of Queen Andromeda, the star's champion, and her defeat of Lord Draco's army of sirens their whole lives. Until she vanished, and took peace with her. Thankfully the legends also spoke of the key to her power, a mystical item called the Eye of Storms. What had been his legendary obsession for years comes to change his life now as an adult, when his brother is kidnapped in the name of finding the Eye by a group of pirates. Juno manages to insert himself into another pirate crew's journey for the Eye, the crew of the Carte Blanche. They're after the Eye, and if the people who took Benten are too then that's where Juno wants to be. Even if certain things make him start to also want to be there for other reasons...like a man he just can't place with a past he's dying to know.
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This fic is a WIP!! I have a lot of it planned, and I'm actively working on other parts. I aim to have 2 chapters done (and uploaded together) every 2 months :)
Playlist link in end of chapter notes for the things I vibe to while I brainstorm or write.
eye related adhd who never shuts up x autistic quiet yet chaotic love interest who gets most of the work done
obsessed with juno this season like actually, season 1 juno left nureyev and nureyev was like ok i guess i have to get on with my life and leave him alone even if im not over him, season 3 nureyev left juno and now juno is tracking him down across the galaxy to get him back months later. nureyev framed him for theft and got him arrested and it didnt stop him. most dedicated man in the galaxy never leave juno steel
I’m screaming crying yelling. JUNO YOU FUCKING BASTARD. I HATE YOU. WHY DID YOU DO THAT? WHY DID YOU LEAVE HIM? YOU TOLD HIM YOU WOULD STAY AND YOU JUST LEFT CJNDIXNDKDJJD.
Anyway Peter Nureyev can do no wrong and he needs to find a better man. (I say about the master thief, who’s career is stealing things from people.)