@black-taako‘scosplay was so good that I almost didn’t finish my work before finishing this
[image description: fanart of juno steel based on a cosplay. juno has medium-brown skin, curly, dark-brown hair, and scars across his nose and right eyebrow. he is wearing a blue turtleneck and a blue and gold jacket, with his hands in the pockets. the background is tumblr blue, with a gold halo around his head. /end id]
my second art piece for the @penumbrabang! this time for @alexandenight’s fic beware of vacations. definitely give it a read if you’re a fan of angst/whump! this one was a challenge to draw (ew, cars) and i took some liberties from the canon scene to more just capture the Vibe instead but i’m pretty happy with how it turned out <3 they’re in love your honor.
(ID: a digital drawing of juno and nureyev. nureyev is lying on the ground, semi-conscious, next to an upside-down crashed car. juno is kneeling beside him, wearing a concerned expression. one of his hands is holding nureyev up, and the other is interlaced with nureyev’s fingers. they both look a little scuffed/beaten up, and there is a cut on nureyev’s forehead. the backdrop is an orange sky with smoke and sparks flying through it. there are three neon-colored bio-luminescent creatures floating around them, which resemble small puffballs with eyes. END ID)
As much as I love the penumbra podcast, it really needs to have a ‘previously on the penumbra podcast’ thing at the start because there are too many weeks between episodes for me to remember the storyline, especially considering it switches storyline every two episodes
I get that what happened at the end of the latest episode was bad but honestly I’m just happy that Juno and peter didn’t interrupt the wedding to propose to each other
[Image description: A four page comic of Juno Steel watching a video of himself and Jack Takano from his childhood. Full description under the cut. End description.]
They still ask for you Jack
Start Transcript
Page one:
A handful of people mill about a room decorated with streamers and balloons. Most of them are adults, but in the far background a black woman and her sleeping child are snuggled on a couch.
In the foreground there is a table set with snack and punch. Yellow text, like you’d see on a captioned video, appear at the bottom of the frame.
“Look, like,right there. Just wait for it.” says the camera holder.
A small dark hand pops into view from the other side of the table. One of the party goers, a man with graying hair, tan skin, and an oversized purple-grey sweater, takes notice of the figure trying to reach the table. The captions say “*snickers* oh my god.”
The man makes his way over to the table as the little hand waves frantically. He bends down to pick them up. The snickering continues, and the camera holder says “Oh, Jack, careful, he’ll getcha!”
Jack picks up the figure attached to the little waving hand- a black toddler with a short afro wearing a blue and yellow striped shirt and a pink skirt over yellow pants. He’s biting the knuckle of his thumb and looking down at the table of snacks.
“All right, what would you like, Juno?” asks Jack.
Juno points to a plate of cookies. “Those one,” He says.
“These ones?” Jack says, grabbing one, “Ah, you’re a young man of taste I see.”
Jack hands the cookie to Juno, “Here we are!”
“I need two,” Juno says, looking at Jack.
Page two:
Jack gives Juno the one cookie and puts the hand that is not holding Juno up on his hip. “Hmm, I think you should start with one, and we’ll ask your mother for seconds after, okay?”
“I need two for Benten,” Juno insists, holding his one cookie.
Jack picks up a second cookie from the plate, “oh, I see!” he says. He fixes Juno with a look. “Alright, but will you promise me that if I give you another, you will definitelygive it to Benzaiten and not just eat it yourself?”
Juno pouts and glares at Jack, clearly offended beyond belief. Jack snorts, trying to keep his composure, as the camera person laughs.
“Oh, the insult! Jack, you’ve wounded his honor!”
Jack gives Juno the second cookie and puts him back down.
“I am so very sorry, Juno. Do forgive me, I won’t make such a grievous mistake again.” Says jack, clearly more amused than apologetic. Juno glares at him, holding a cookie in each tiny hand. He runs off to the woman and child in the child in the background- his mother and Brother, Benzaiten.
“God, his little face! He was so mad!” Says the camera person. JAck turns his head to look at them. “I know, they’re both ridiculously ador-”
jack is cut off by more laughter as attention turns back to Juno, who has reached the couch and is pointing at his brother and mother while glaring daggers at Jack. He’s given both of them a cookie. Sarah holds hers up towards Jack, as if asking what’s going on. Jack, the camera person, and several other party goers are laughing to hard to respond.
Page three:
The camera has zoomed in on Juno as he points to his family, so his outrage can be seen more clearly. Someone starts to say “Oh my god, he looks just like Sa-” when a thumb appears over the screen, pausing the video.
Huh,” says the current Juno, non-plussed
A much older Juno with a patch over one eye is sitting in the dark of a plain apartment, illuminated only by the screen of his comms. Two boxes, a big one full of papers and a smaller one full of chips, are sitting around him as he leans back against a his couch on the floor.
Juno takes a small memory chip out of the side of his coms as the screen goes dark. “Ramses, you sap,” he says.
He looks down at the little chip in his hands, the room now completely dark.
“Hanging on to this all these years…”
Page four:
His hands start shaking. “…Like it meant anything to you.”
Juno sniffs, staring at the chip in the dark as a tear travels down his cheek. Then turns on his comms again and slots the chip back in.
He settles with his back against the couch. The video begins to replay-
[Image descriptions: A coloured Drawing of Juno Steel, a nonbinary black person with a futuristic cyborg eye. He has a scar across his nose and is wearing a trench coat over a turtle neck. His hair is short and partially braided. End description.]
Tryna practice some colouring with the dear detective
[Image description: Two photos of a digital drawing of Juno Steel in the golden gown from Juno Steel and the Man in Glass, the first being the full drawing and the second a close crop of his face. He is dancing with a stranger, depicted as a purple shadow who blends into the background, which is an abstract purple crowd. In comparison, Juno is very detailed and almost seems to glow in a spotlight.
Juno Steel is a black non-binary lady with a prominent scar across his nose and several other smaller scars all over his body. HIs gown has a very wide skirt with a brown, gold, and red geometric pattern around the hem. A metalic, geometric, golden rose with metal leaves and thorns set into large cloth petals sits on his right hip, almost dwarfing the rest of the skirt. The cloth petals also have geometric patterns, similar to the hem.
The top of the gown is a shawl with the same pattern as the hem- As Juno’s partner spins him, the shawl splays out, revealing some of his stomach and the side of his torso. He is wearing a large golden choker necklace with a geometric rose medallion just like the one on his skirt. His right hand, lifted up during the twirl, is covered by a full length golden glove with a metal arm band and spiked bracelet. His left has two spiked bracelets attached by many small chains. in his left hand is the The Gilded Globe of Reaches Far.
His hair is in a top bun that sits off center to the left side of his head. His has a hairpiece made of chains and more golden rose medallions that make a net over the bun. Loose chains that would normally dangle beside his remaining eye twist and sparkle as he twirls. His eye patch starts at the hairpiece and stretches across his face to his ear. It is also covered in chains and small medallions.
Juno’s make up is very intricate, with yellow, gold, and black make up forming geometric petals around his eye. His lipstick is also gold, but has red stripes on his bottom lip. He has a piercing on his left nostril that is yet another rose medallion. He’s smiling sneakily, as he looks off to the side. End description.]
Image description: a coloured drawing of Juno and Nureyev from the Penumbra Podcast. Juno is a stocky, black nonbinary person with dreads, wearing a plunging yellow shirt and a cropped blue jacket, a choker decorated with pearls, and a pair of gold glasses whos right frame has been replaced with embroidered flowers. He is talking on his comms.
Behind him is Nureyev, a thin asian man with long hair tied up wearing a sleeveless tailcoat with a rose pattern, opera length fingerless gloves, and glasses. He right hand is on Juno’s waist, and his left is held across his body to grasp Juno’s right hand as he gesticulates on the call.
Nureyev says, “Why nervous? I love you, dear detective.”
Juno replies, blushing, “I love you too, now shut up.”
End description.
This episode gave us only the smallest crumb of Them but it was enough to ensorcell my brain and force my beleaguered hands to draw Date Night Outfits
[Image description: A two-panel comic of Juno Steel and Diamond Hijikata from the Penumbra Podcast. Juno is a black non-binary person with a scar across his nose wearing a lavender turtleneck and a cropped jacket. Diamond is a tan Asian woman with long silver hair shaved at the sides wearing a blue dress.
Diamond cups Juno’s face as he’s sitting at a restaurant table. She says “There aren’t many places I’d rather be than sitting next to this tough broad and his blaster.” Juno replies, “We’re in a restaurant, Diamond, I didn’t bring my blaster -mph! ”
Diamond shuts Juno up by pulling him into a kiss, gently cradling his face and resting one hand on the back of his neck. End description.]
Unfortunately, them cute
(also if you noticed the spelling mistakes, no you didn’t)
[Image description: The first image is a gif showing a bust portrait of Juno Steel, a black non-binary person with half braided hair wearing a purple turtleneck sweater, gold hoop earrings, and gold-framed glasses. The right frame of the glasses cycles through six different styles.
A clear frame showing a scarred eye
A tinted frame
A tinted frame with a pink, pixelated eye that winks
Golden shutters completely replacing the lens
A golden lens with a rose etched into the outer bottom corner
A cloth lens embroidered with roses and dahlias
The next six images are the individual frames of the gif, in order.
End description]
I was looking up post-enucleation treatment out of curiosity and apparently, it’s recommended that you wear glasses to protect the remaining eye, which got me thinking, firstly, “Hey I should draw Juno with glasses” but also, “Oh, I should do something cool with the other lens”
[Image description: A six-page black and white comic of Peter Nureyev and Juno Steel from the Penumbra podcast. Nureyev is an East Asian man with long dark hair and fang-like incisors wearing a tunic, a necklace with a pendant, and a pair of glasses on a chain. Juno is a black non-binary lady with one eye and stubble. He’s wearing a t-shirt, lacy boxer shorts, and a sleeping bonnet. The comic is about Nureyev getting his pendant stuck on his incisor and being flustered and embarrassed while Juno tries to help. The full description is under the read more. End description]
Local Thief Submits to the Mortifying Ordeal of Being a Huge Dork in Front of his Boyfriend
Thanks to @seratlantisite and The People’s Accessibility server for helping with the full description under the cut!
Full ID:
Nureyev is seated at a cluttered desk in Juno’s room, studying some holographic blueprints and fidgeting while he works. Tapping on the desk, rolling a ring, playing with a makeup brush, his glasses chain, his hair, and his necklace in succession.
As he fiddles with the necklace pendant- a studded circle with a circular hole and an attached, elongated trapezoid- he absentmindedly sticks the circular part in his mouth.
Suddenly his eyes widen, and he stifles a startled “Urk!” the pendant still hanging from his mouth. Behind him on the bed, Juno sits up and asks “ ‘Reyev? you okay?”
Nureyev doesn’t turn around; hands over his mouth and slurring veryheavily, he says, “I’m fine, dear- ah…”
Realizing how garbled he sounds but unable to stop, he starts making excuses for why he should leave for the night “… I think I might retire to my own room for the evening, I, uh- I’m just, it’s late and I would really try to memorize this by tomorrow…”
As he goes on, Juno frowns, clearly suspicious. He gets out of bed and approaches Nureyev saying “Okay, stop, what the hell is wrong with your mouth?”
“Nothing!” Nureyev lies, still slurred, turning away in his chair with a hand over his mouth.
“Liar! Lemme see- hey!” Juno snaps, ending in a shout as Nureyev spins his chair away again, nearly knocking Juno off balance. “I said it’s nothing!” Nureyev insists.
Nureyev hunches over in his chair, hiding his face as Juno stands behind him, frustrated.
“What is wrong with you? You won’t even look at me! Like two seconds ago you were fine! What the hell, Nureyev!?”
Nureyev hesitates for a beat, then turns to Juno with his eyes squeezed shut in embarrassment. One of his sharp incisors is jammed in the hole in the pendant. It dangles from his tooth even without any support from Nureyev’s hands.
“It’sstuck” Nureyev snaps.
Juno looks stunned for a moment, but quickly he breaks into a fond smile and chuckles.
And then Juno starts to laugh much harder. “Juno!” Nureyev snaps. “It is not that funny!”
Juno spins the chair around so Nureyev is facing him.
“Hey, humour’s subjective,” Juno says, smiling. “I think plenty of the family’d agree with me. Now,” he leans into Nureyev’s space, tilting his chin up, “ Open up and hold still so we don’t have to ask Vespa to prove me right.” Nureyev quickly melts from furious to deeplyembarrassed.
With a bit of fiddling Juno gets the necklace free from Nureyev’s incisor. “There. was that so hard?” he says, holding up the freed pendant teasingly.
Nureyev clears his throat. “No…” he says self-consciously, not meeting Juno’s eye. “Well, thank you, dear detective, but I probably should head out for the night anyway, I have quite a lot of work that needs doing and I’ve been enough of a strain on your patience-”
Juno tunes out Nureyev’s continued postering, unimpressed. He presses a kiss on his boyfriend’s forehead. “You’re a ridiculous man, Peter Nureyev,” he says heading back into bed. “Now turn off the damn comms and come to bed - I’ve got something a little softer for you to sink your teeth into.” The innuendo leaves Nureyev looking flustered and stunned, gripping the newly freed pendant.
The final page is a single panel, focussing on the necklace abandoned on the cluttered desk- the blueprints have been turned off and Nureyev’s shirt is draped over the chair.
