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oldrockformations · 1 month

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(through tears) juno steel and the monster’s reflection u will always be famous

I am listening to the junoverse once again so that I can catch up with the series and,, dear god I forgot how much I love these episodes. Sarah Steel the most realistic depiction I have seen of and abuse and dysfunctional families?? The gut wrenching realization that the people who hurt you are people too, that not everything was their fault, that not everything is black and white. Loving someone because they are your family and hating them for what they have done to you at the same time!!! Knowing that they will always be a part of you, that they are in your blood, seeing them in the bad parts of yourself and being terrified of it. And having to accept that! Because you can’t change it no matter how hard you deny it! Recognizing cycles of abuse and putting in effort to stop them. I’m not obligated to forgive you, and I don’t forgive you, but also holding onto this anger is only hurting me and I’m not going to let you hurt me any more. Healing as an act of retaliation!!!!

Also I love the way that the unpacking of Juno’s trauma was handled. Brain surgery metaphor I love you. Juno fighting against his own mind!! using Benzaiten to depict the part of himself that still wants to live!!! And also!!!! A huge thing with childhood trauma is memory loss, which I don’t see explored a lot in media. And I adore the way it is depicted here! Bc yes! Piecing together fragments of memories is like solving a mystery! And no! You don’t know what mystery you are even solving a lot of the time!

Ugh I love this stupid gay ass podcast!!!!

#this post is literally just me gushing about these episodes omg #queers with trauma when media reflects their own experiences #anyways I love Juno steel sm #he’s so me #and that is vaguely worrying but I’m not ready to unpack that just yet :)#tpp #the penumbra podcast #juno steel #junoverse #Juno steel and the monster’s reflection

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notreyev · 1 year

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what if my fav character was benzaiten. then what

#benzaiten steel #juno steel #juno steel and the monster’s reflection #the penumbra podcast #tpp

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foxshaped · 1 year

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Ok I’m definitely going to have to listen to The Monsters Reflection again but WHAT THE FUCK

#the penumbra podcast #juno steel #juno steel and the monster’s reflection

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sydperion · 10 months

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juno "you are alive, this is the gift you have been given, use it as you see fit." steel and peter "my life is not mine" nureyev FIGHT

#peter nureyev #juno steel #tpp s5 #the penumbra podcast #tpp #jupeter #tpp spoilers #this line will be reprised i stg #THEYRE SO CYCLICAL #i fear we will be getting more callbacks to monsters reflection than we think

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nureyevs-worst-alias · 11 months

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During my re-listen of TPP I realized in 2.01 (Kitty Cat Caper) Juno gets upset and breaks Rita's monitor not because she was binging streams on the job, but because she was binging the North Star Andromeda streams and those streams remind Juno of his mother because she worked on the writing team

#juno steel #Kevin Vibert really woke up and chose violence #the penumbra podcast #the penumbra fandom #the penumbra #junoverse #tpp juno #tpp #the monsters reflection #something I didn't notice the first time #tpp rita

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julamari · 17 days

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THE GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WIN THE GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WIN THE GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WIN THE GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WIN THE GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WIN THE GOOD GUYS ALWAYS WIN

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andy-spurs · 9 months

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so Juno Steel has ocd are we like all on the same page? do we agree?

#Juno steel #sorry his psychosis and moralistic ruminations are so just like me fr #me too Juno I also have deep impulses based on perceived moral failings #the penumbra podcast #penumbra #my evidence is the monster’s reflection

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jonsimsmissingbraincell · 1 year

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made a meme haha

#the penumbra podcast #tpp #tpp season 2 #juno steel #tpp juno #tpp spoilers #tpp 2.23 #juno steel and the monster's reflection #the penumbra spoilers

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felixcosm · 9 months

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[CHIME RINGS. A CLOCK TICKS IN THE BACKGROUND]

BENZAITEN

Juno? Juno, are you okay?

JUNO

...where were you?

BENZAITEN

I...what?

JUNO

Where were you? I told you I didn't want to. I told you and you just left me AGAIN.

BENZAITEN

C'mon man, I didn't have a choice. We're in YOUR head

JUNO

You always leave! I warned you for years - YEARS - that Mom was going to do something really bad one day and you still stayed with her and now here I am, still holding the bag alone, you selfish-

BENZAITEN

Hey I didn't mean to-

JUNO

Why did you stay with her?

BENZAITEN

What does that have to do with-

JUNO

WHY DID YOU STAY WITH HER?

#tpp #tpp spoilers #junoverse #juno steel #benzaiten steel #juno steel and the monsters reflection #this part always gives me chills #the penumbra podcast

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sleepy-energy · 8 months

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The Juno Steel brain rot is literally crazy rn. I have pages upon pages of this lady drawn. I can't even get work done because I have to draw him every 5 minutes.

So obviously I dragged my friends down with me. We can all suffer together:))

#juno steel #junoverse #Monsters reflection actually changed the chemistry of my brain #the penumbra podcast #tpp #expect fanart very soon #an ass ton of fanart

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hellpupp · 1 year

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if i could convince all my friends, loved ones, and acquaintances to listen to One(1) piece of media that was formative for me, it would be Juno Steel and the Monster's Reflection parts 1-3.

it won't hit as hard without the context of the series up until that point, but it's still such a profound exploration of generational trauma, cycles of abuse, PTSD, and the ways we can understand the ones who hurt us as being complex individuals with a rich interior life. it even touches on how our memories are reshaped (sometimes even completely overwritten or erased) by the trauma we associate with them.

it forces us to grapple with the fact that most abusers aren't 2D cartoon villains who hurt others Because They're Evil- they usually had reasons for their behavior, but it does NOT try to say the existence of an explanation for their behavior absolves them of responsibility for it, nor does it try to say you have to forgive them.

i once saw someone tear the episodes to shreds bc they "humanized an abuser" and i've never seen someone look so directly at the point of a story & somehow completely miss it.

i've listened to the entire 3 part story probably 6 or more times, at least, and it's deeply emotionally impactful every time. it's been hugely cathartic.

anyway, if reading this makes you want to give the episodes a listen, here's a link:

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

PLEASE take the time to read over the content warnings.

if you'd like a very brief summary of the most important previous plot points the episodes touch on, so that you have a better understanding of the circumstances, check below the cut:

early in the series, the titular character, Juno Steel, reveals that he had an identical twin brother (named Benzaiten) who died many years ago.

juno almost never brings up his mother, but it's clear that they had a VERY bad relationship. it's implied early on that she may have tried to kill juno, once, & that she was somehow involved in benten's death. juno also blames himself for ben's death.

juno struggles with severe depression, low self-worth, and persistent passive suicidal ideation. he tends to self-sabotage his relationships, and attaches most of his self-worth to his ability to stop crime & Catch The Bad Guys. the likely reasons for this are revealed here.

in a previous season, in order to keep it out of the hands of a dangerous criminal, juno took an experimental drug which caused him to grow an organ that an extinct alien race once used to communicate telepathically. he overtaxes the organ, causing it to rupture inside of his body. because it had attached to his optical nerve, the rupture also destroyed his eye.

juno's main employer in this arc, ramses o'flaherty, "generously" supplied him with a highly advanced, experimental prototype cybernetic eye, called the "Theia Spectrum." it comes with an AI which can help juno do all sorts of neat stuff- he later finds out it also allows ramses to see whatever he sees, and to override juno's nervous system if he does something ramses doesn't want him to.

the eye can't be removed through conventional surgical methods, due to the fact that it's become closely entwined with his own nervous system. in the previous episode, juno has finished a job for a different employer (buddy aurinko), in exchange for being taken to a clinic that supposedly has methods to remove this kind of prosthetic safely. the first episode of Monster's Reflection opens on juno's arrival to the secret clinic, alongside the escort buddy has sent with him ("big guy")

#tpp #juno steel #the monster's reflection #if you're in a place to handle the TWs pleeeeease listen to these i promise it's SO fucking good #i weirdly associate these episodes w/ christmas bc i listened to them on a long plane ride home for xmas with my family one year

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nerdetiquette · 4 months

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Do you think Juno thinks of Sarah on her birthday? Do you think he gets a cake and blows out candles for her because even if she was a terrible mother in the end, she was still his mother? Do you think he does it because he knows she’d hate it? Do you think he does it because he thinks she deserves something, even if it’s small?

#it’s thinking of Sarah steel hours #she’s so so important to me and I can’t possibly explain it #don’t mind me on my way to relisten monster’s reflection #the penumbra podcast #tpp #juno steel #sarah steel

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notreyev · 9 months

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TPCC Summer Showdown: Ghost

DARE IT BE TRUE?? HARLEY JANE NOTREYEV POSTING COMPLETED WORKS?? HARK!!

because i am a glutton for pain, misery, and benzaiten steel, please have my mental image of ben talking to juno, from my device to yours :3