#poor penumbra :(

[faultyvessel]

My family deals with a lot thank to my pod fixation ™

I think my favourite thing to come from it by far is my sister asking “are all these shows legally required to be obsessed with eyes to make up for the fact that you can’t see anything?” And fellas I think she’s on to something

#tma #the magnus archives #wtnv #welcome to night vale #the penumbra podcast #eye #eyes #jonathan sims #TMA Jon #the beholding #cecil palmer #cecil wtnv #my poor family #they’ve gotta put up with so much #honestly it’s a miracle they let me around company when I just try and find away to ask the #about their deepest darkest fears #tma podcast #wtnv podcast #fiction podcast #faultyposting

[hybrix-hidings]

Just saying, this revelation of Nureyev's guilt says a lot about how he offers to leave Mars with Juno.

I've never read his offer as an intentional ultimatum. To me, it never read like "You have to come with me or you will never see me again"- to me, it has always sounded more like "I know this is my fault. I'm so sorry. I'd like it if you left with me, but if you blame me (as I think you should, because this was my idea, my plan that failed, my inability to save you) for what's happened, I will not force myself into your life. You deserve distance from me if it's what you want."

Especially because this is not the first time he percieves a lover's permanent injury and life-altering change as being his fault.

#tpp #peter nureyev #juno steel #the penumbra podcast #jupeter #not tagging it as anything else bc its primarily jupete centric #a lot of people view this offer as him Being unfair #and it is an unfair offer when you look at the words #but I dont think hes actively Being unfair; in fact I think hes Trying to do the opposite #and as a result of his own guilt #his word choice is Very poor #because hes trying to Overcorrect for something he thinks he did wrong #anyway hes a guilty bitch and always has been #tpp s4 spoilers

[dykethevvitch]

Hot take Juno isn't a wet cat. He is a pathetic angry cat but he's not a wet pathetic cat. Nureyev on the other hand,

#tpp #the penumbra podcast #Juno steel is a MESS that does not make him a wet cat #peter nureyev is a poor little meow meow who is stuck in the pouring rain #except nureyev tries very very hard to act like a pure breed show cat who is so dry not wet at all #he's not tho. don't let him fool you #this man keeps a sandwich in his back pocket

[vegatheenby]

so y'all know that feeling when it's rlly late at night and you're writing on ao3 and you're like 'okay I'm done for now its sleep time' and you CLOSE THE FUCKING BROWSER INSTEAD OF HITTING 'SAVE AS DRAFT BUT YOU'RE TOO TIRED TO REWRITE ANY OF IT SO YOU JUST GO TO BED AND CRY A LITTLE???

#ao3 writer #writer problems #help #my poor little meow meow #my meow meow is my jupeter kidfic #the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev #jupeter #junoverse #tpp #tpp fanfic #penumbra podcast fanfic #i did a stupid

[jonsimsmissingbraincell]

thinking about nureyev's dream hallucination thing again and screaming

#the penumbra podcast #penumbra #tpp junoverse #tpp nureyev #this happens every so often #nureyev is my baby boy #my poor sweet baby boy

[whumpflash]

Can we see some cerus before his fall?

:) time for actual cringefail overlord?

Umbra: Beginning of the End

cw: war/death mention

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"The rebels are gaining ground."

The scroll was small; brusque and to the point. In the last year alone, there had been dozens just like it, ill tidings scrawled across each one.

"The dissidents prevailed today."

"The rebellion has spread to the western end of Feyadel."

"The eleventh legion has fallen, sire."

Cerus tossed the small, curling piece of parchment into the fire, watched it smolder and redden and turn to ash. Defeat was closing in, like the sun setting over the course of the day, spreading slow shadow that would soon cloak the world in an all-consuming darkness.

The end was surely coming for him. It had started with his father's death. Sudden, a broken neck at the bottom of a staircase, leaving Cerus gripped more with fear than grief when he looked upon the corpse for the last time.

For what was he to do now?

He'd been the royal high mage, boosting his father's power with magical means. His father, who was supposed to live for many more years, who was supposed to grow old and hand over the throne gradually, giving Cerus time to learn and grow into the role. His father, who was now a body in the ground.

Most of King Hollowthorn's bannermen left before the grave was even filled in; the rest filed out one by one in the coming weeks. They knew the people of Feyadel were unhappy with the crown, only kept in line by the king's schemes and careful pressures. They knew Cerus had none of his father's experience, that he was weak. That the people would see his faults and find within them an opportunity. Cerus knew too, but now he was alone.

He'd gathered some meager support, elevating a handful of knights to generals and battalion leaders in preparation for the war that was sure to come.

 He'd been lenient in his early months as king, conceding to the demands of a few villages for lessened taxes and a lift on the poaching ban. He'd even raised the damned dead in an attempt to cow his subjects into submission. But it wasn't enough.

It never would've been enough.

The first large-scale revolt was in a small town a hundred miles away, on the eve of his coronation, and more acts of rebellion were swift to follow.

No matter how many dead were raised, the spirit of the people outmatched the unfeeling relentlessness of his ghouls.

For six years, he'd sat anxious on the throne, lost sleep over lost loyalty, watched as his hold on his birthright was broken bit by bit.

And with it, his hopes of emerging victorious.

Soon his treacherous subjects would reach the capital city, and then there would be nothing left.

So he'd fortify it. Pull back forces and protect his last true stronghold. If he expended all his energy, he could summon enough undead that it would take all the rebel forces had to oppose them. Even if he was outmatched, his ghoulish soldiers didn't need food, nor rest, nor tending to their wounds, unlike the rebel armies. He'd wait. Let them drain their supplies before launching a counterattack. He still had a chance.

And then when the battle was won, and he stood triumphant over the bodies and the curling smoke, he'd be king of the nothing.

He'd heard some were calling him Shadow King, and whether it was a description or an insult, he didn't know. But if he won, that was all he'd ever be. King of the shadows, of the ruin that would remain of Feyadel.

How had things turned so foul? Hadn't there ever been a time where he thought he could be something more? A better king than his father? A mage that could deal in something other than death and decay?

It mattered little now, if there was ever a chance at all. Could've beens would change nothing. Cerus had to hold on to what he had, what little power remained.

And if he couldn't, he'd die fighting those who dared try and take it from him.

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#poor sad cerus #no friends #loser king #really he never had a chance #and while his methods of trying to stay in control *cough* mass slaughter *cough* are wrong i still feel for him #dont worry buddy it gets worse :) #penumbra: shadow king #villain whump #whump writing #fantasy whump #emotional whump #exhaustion #kira the whump enthusiast #thanks for the prompt c:

[thebisexualteen]

So I made some sh-t about Arielle's bf

His name is Ellery

None of Arielle's siblings knew Arielle was dating til she got a literal bracelet(They got suspicious of the bracelet and Camy told Crescent bout it and now she has to introduce her bf to the family)

I feel like before Camy told Crescent, Camillo asked who she got it from(Aka who gifted it to her) and she didn't want to say but hey they gotta know someday so she told them

I'm sure Ellery will make it out alive right😀

Marie looking at Ellery like: How dare u

@insanelyadd

#collector oc #the archivists #toh the archivists #toh oc #Poor Ellery #Marie is too poised Penumbra why did u teach her Elocution now she's gonna become more poised/jk #Ellery pls make it out alive #Pls pls plsssss #Crescent u won't do anything to Ellery right?..... #Btw little something to know #Marie was the one who came up with the misspelled “Auntie”(She spelled it as Aunty and the others went with it cause they liked it) #Imagine Penumbra Solari and Satellite

[thatmoththoth]

Juno you did NOT just shoot a dog!

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #1.04 tpp #the poor dog :( #I don’t know if I can forgive him for this #liveblogging

[stolligaseptember]

amaryllis of exile; knight wrangler

#i just ADORE how everyone immediately gets into line once rilla puts her foot down #but also. poor rilla. she shouldn't have to deal with this. #amaryllis of exile #the second citadel #the penumbra podcast #tpp #the battle at world's end

[lonely-lady-and-a-foxglove-man]

You just know Juno was the type of kid who showed up to class twice and still got an A in everything.

#juno steel #the penumbra podcast #also both Mick and Sasha regularly cheated off of him #Mick never actually studied at all in Highschool #he figured that if he could get a good grade than it didn’t matter whether or not he understood a thing #unfortunately his vision is poor and spelling horrid so he frequently failed anyways

[waters-and-the-wilde]

WELL HUH looks like I basically got that 'Nureyev are you trying to climb out that window???' scenario I spent like the duration of S4 picturing

#this is not the first time that i've had to be like 'dammit kevin get out of my brain' #i'm. not as verklempt about this episode as i expected to be? #idk the set-up of the first part was a blast and the structure of the payoff felt a little wonky #or maybe i'm just too allergic to secondhand embarrassment to take it all in #juno dahlia 'get your own drink' rose steel #nobody ever let my poor little lady onto another stage again #and also nureyev's reaction was pretty much exactly what it had to be in this situation #noah simes was flawless eleventy billion out of ten no notes #the penumbra podcast #juno steel #peter nureyev

[iamnotcrying-iamallergictolife]

Sir Damien: I forgot I was going to kill you because I was so scared you were hurt.

Rilla: I am betraying the most terrifying knight in the known world because I love you.

Lord Arum, Renowned Dumbass™, in denial about every feeling he's ever had: Welp, Guess I'm Gon'na Die At Your Hands.

#relistening to second citadel #in love with the way he's just like #'i don't understand what it is to be loved #'so clearly they're all out to get me' #the passive suicidal ideation is real #poor lizard boy #the penumbra podcast #second citadel #lord arum

[grimmdew]

Siquliak’s laugh,,,, oh goodness me I cannot take much more

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #jet siquliak #my poor heart cannot take much more #Jet mt beloved

[continuousmeowing]

Juno REALLY needs to take an improv class.

#claude listens to the penumbra podcast #It’s so so painful to watch him fuck up onstage. #i can’t help but imagine what the poor people in the tech booth are going through this episode. #i would probably start crying if some random guy with no acting skills came onstage in the middle of an already disastrous show

[blue-mood-blue]

With the understanding that this idea has an extremely limited cross-section of people who would both understand and be interested in what I’m talking about, let me share with you an idea:

The Second Citadel has fallen. Most of the surrounding land has fallen along with it - not, for once, because of the seemingly irreconcilable conflict between humans and monsters but to an infection of light spread by a false god. Or a true one. The answer to that is a matter of theological debate that the survivors don’t have time for.

Rilla is only as exiled as everyone else is. Arum is desperately fighting the sickly light away from taking the Keep. And Damien is still in the Citadel.

When they find him, it’s past a locked door - the last, fevered attempt of the people within to defend themselves from a threat that doors wouldn’t lock out. He has his bow in hand and light streaming from his eyes, his mouth, his words. He’s alone; his loyalty has tethered him in place. He’s praying while he fights, blindly, and maybe those prayers and his saint’s protection are the only reason the light hasn’t robbed him of his mind yet - or maybe those prayers are infuriating the false god, shining out through him and ravaging him. It’s not apparent if he knows that the Citadel is in ruins; he defends it as if there’s still something to defend. Damien’s words repeat themselves, over and over, like unwound tape in Rilla’s recorder: things he must have said, and thought, and did on the last day he remembers, tracing around the scar tissue of a wound in the universe. 

Arum has a knife to his throat. Damien lowers his bow. The burning light in his eyes, haloing him, dims into something… quietly alive, not alive again.

A ghost stands next to Rilla. She whispers, “My knight… at last you are freed.” And then, turning to look Rilla in the eyes, Queen Mira commands: “Take him with you.”

#the penumbra podcast #second citadel #tpp #hollow knight #in other words: Damien as the Hive Knight #i just think it would be interesting! #Damien’s duty outlasting its purpose… his prayer saving him from the infection of another god… #and finally - being taken away from there #this time with more survival after the fight! #and of course they take him with them #you better believe poor Damien is getting poked and prodded by science and magic to determine how he survived #it’s faith mostly #not that prayer would necessarily save anyone else… but it did for him

[coconut530]

mARTch 27: Confusion

#mARTch #mARTch2023 #6 #The Penumbra Podcast #poor peter #there’s money if his hand if you couldn’t tell #For Skip’s machine #🥲 #it’s confusing between paying this debt and being under the crushing weight of it and his love for skip (and Juno) #Anyway that’s it for catching up tonight #I’ll finish this challenge before the end of the month don’t you worry! I know there’s no pressure but this is the funnest challenge ever #So I wanna do it #Got something fun for the last day planned ~ #Woohoo