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me and my boyfriend's juno and peter cosplayyy (I'm peter)
@ceaseless-watchers-special-girl ik you like penumbra and I love your work and I thought you might appreciate this :))
i love you master thieves with adhd i love you grumpy nonbinary private eyes i love you eccentric hackers/snackers/besties i love you crime lord lesbians with mechanical organs i love you assassin doctor trans women i love you big guys who drink tea and have dad energy i love you sentient cars that aren't really cars i love you goofy childhood besties i love you childhood besties who fall victim to their own ambition i love you mysterious and unknowable concierges i love you heartfelt guitar music i love you messages that make me want to get up in the morning i love you all <3
wip sketch of me as a knight (but it’s really an excuse to self insert myself into second citadel)
lord arum he who rules the swamp of titans blooms!!!!
me logging in on tumblr after months THE MOMENT I finished the latest Juno Steel episode cause i wanted to take part in the collective breakdown of the fandom. Peter why must you do this.ToT It’s giving me “booty popped” flashbacks.
From its description I’m 99.9% sure Cowboy Bebop is just the Penumbra Podcast as an anime
Smallfry???? As in??? The massive??? Sewer rabbits???? In tpp????
From its description I’m 99.9% sure Cowboy Bebop is just the Penumbra Podcast as an anime
“When the Chips are Down” from Hadestown is SUCH a Peter Nureyev song.
While I’m gonna make a separate post linking and also ranting about my Spotify playlist (cause I really like some of my choices lol) — I wanted to rant real quick about this one.
The Fates (for those who don’t know/haven’t listened to Hadestown I shall explain) are played by 3 women who sing (for the most part) in unison, and with harmonies and acapellas. In the context of Nureyev here; this *totally* reminds me of The Executives (or whatever they’re called), all being regarded as, ‘My Associate’ as well as having the same voice and speaking the same way. In “When the Chips are Down”, they’re talking to Eurydice (who is Nureyev in this ex.)
While the whole song gives me vibes, this section gets me quite a lot:
“[FATES]
Life ain’t easy
Life ain’t fair
A girl’s gotta fight for her rightful share
Whatcha gonna do when the Chips are Down Now that the Chips are down (x2)
Help yourself
To hell with the rest
Even the one who loves you best.
Whatcha gonna do when the Chips are Down Now that the Chips are Down (x2)
[EURYDICE]
Oh my aching heart. “
The parts that I put in italics remind me of the S3 finale (Juno Steel: What Lies Beyond Prt. 1-3) specially (for obvious reasons for the ones who knows SPOILERS HERE FOR THOSE WHO DONT) — considering Nureyev had been stressing out, brought down, and feeling cornered by his debt (“help yourself”), leading him to (which was his plan from the start) leave everyone on the Carte Blanche (“to hell with the rest”), including Juno (“even the one who loves you best”). He even references in his journal that while he wanted to be beside Juno while he read it, he knows deep down that he won’t be.
The rest of the song matches as well, having parts including “shooting to kill” before the other person can, and knives in the back. For these reasons the song itself honestly just clicks SO well in my head, thanks for coming to my TED Talk lmao — like I said, linking playlist with other song “matches” later on lol, but this one required a bit more than a little description on my part.
TLDR: the Fates represent The Executives, and Eurydice represents Nureyev. Linked by my brain due to lines matching plot points (S3 especially).
So I’ve still yet to make that post really going feral over my Penumbra (Junoverse) Spotify playlist, however, I wanted to share this funny thing,
So in the playlist I have the song “Like A Body” by Sorry Mom (they make good songs!!!). And this is in my playlist because it reminds me of S1 and (especially) S2 Juno — you can kind of figure out why if you hear it, or just acknowledge I leaned heavier on S2.
…but the funny thing is that this song is from the album called “Juno Goes To The Big House”, which is just straight up S4–
I know it’s been talked about before, but I saw a list of pros and cons laid out by @spooksier (in drawing form, I like their stuff, check it out!) sooooo I must ask again…
Juno’s only advantage here is he is actually a lady that knows how to fight and a trained sharpshooter, otherwise (would the Martian blood do anything here? The other opponents aren’t from “around there” so probably not but maybe), but if he could act first — I don’t even know if Cecil CAN die??? And Jon can smite people — but that does take a sec and would the Ceaseless Watcher even be accessible there? I love you Jon but you’re not exactly a capable fighter without the Ceaseless Watcher. I don’t think Cecil draws power from Nightvale? Does he?? Cecil is a mystery. Would he be less or more dangerous if he did not know where Carlos was— and if it’s —
(I could ramble about this for hours—)
💥 FIGHT! 💥
HAPPY JUNO’S BIRTHDAY EVERYONE!!!!!
…..this was necessary —
I started listening to the holiday special commentary and I now too will be using “unsafe (a nail salon)” as a phrase in texting — (but genuinely, hope Chloe’s date’s alright!)!
The whole discord is full of “happy birthday mistah steel”s rn and it’s great, so happy Juno’s birthday! But also, merry Christmas Eve! Happy Hanukkah — and if you don’t celebrate either OR you celebrate something else I hope you have a WONDERFUL time :)
Have a great day!!!! 💕💕💕
“‘Hey, we got a quiet minute while her face is rebuilding itself. Mind if I let you in on a little secret, Nureyev?’
‘You idiot. Juno, you idiot.’
‘You’re the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me… (a breathless laugh) Wow that’s a load off. And it’s true! You make me feel like - … maybe it’s all worth it, like maybe there’s something out there worth seeing.’
‘Of course there is. But you need to be alive to see it.’
-Juno and Nureyev, The Penumbra Podcast, S1E18
So. Has anyone ever thought that…one day, the 24th of December in some year…Sarah Steel held her twins in her arms for the first time? Do you think she ever would have thought in the slightest that she would be both the beginning and the end of one of them?
(Earlier seasons/pre-canon)
Juno: please let the rest of my New Years Day be quiet ……… okay, I guess I can go home now—
Mick: oH! HEY THERE JJ!!!
Juno: —see there is no God.
Juno Steel and the Sixteen Tons of Saftey Violations These Morons Call An Elevator
“In a galaxy this large, the connections between any two people must always be a miracle.
It is not a miracle in the sense that it is rare. Even with so much empty space, humanity has chosen many times over to cluster together- in communities, in families, in partnerships. Our collisions with other people are inevitable.
But it is a miracle in the sense that each meeting, taken by itself, is so unlikely that is may as well be impossible. If the galaxy’s grand clock were reset to its start, we could assume with confidence that this group of six would never be assembled again. With lives from planets Solar and Outer, from cities and swamps, it is doubtful that any two of us would make any connection at all. Yet here we are.
And I know no name for that but ‘miracle.’”
-Jet Siquliak, The Penumbra Podcast, S3E21
Relistening to the latest Juno’s Birthday special as a way to cope and just — I miss theeeeeeeeeemmmmm 😭😭😭 literally sobbing like Rita over here, I miss the crime familyyyyyyyy — and after the latest episode I *fEAR*—
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 —
Friend or family member: Hey! What’s that podcast you like about again?
Me: well, it’s simple,
