#cerberus province

[funsizearsonist]

okay i haven’t been paying attention to the penumbra podcast/juno steel in a while so this might be total bullshit but:

I feel like the zones (danger days) and the cerberus province (juno steel) have kinda similar vibes?

Like they’re both outskirts of a big horrible corrupt city, they’re both kind of safehouses or oases for refugees in the desert. 

They both house very brightly colored and weird and outcast and criminal populations (more criminal and smuggler in the cerberus province i think bc killjoys have a friendlier more rebel/found family even? vibe but they def do crime)

and then the concept of like waves or radiation come into play with both

Cerberus province- unprotected from ig the suns deadly radiation and it’s like slowly killing the people from radiation poisoning and they have like clear burns and they’re definitely sick

Zones- definitely the same sun thing bc waveheads are clearly affected by the sun’s radiation but i think they just get sunburned if out for too long not like- actual radiation poisoning. Then there’s this idea of like radio waves being sort of all around them and you just have to tune in? or something like that?

Plus cool laser guns and definite cyberpunk vibes, not to mention the fucked up queer people

Anyway I’m not really going anywhere with this i just kind made the connection and i was thinking about it and wanted to share :)

[nureyevs-worst-alias]

"You get so lost in a place like that you forget you're part of it, until it reaches out and grabs you." (Juno Steel and the Time Gone By, 2.17)

Juno Steel inspired by this image* from Blade Runner 2049 (below), someone pointed out how it looks like Juno in the Cerberus Province/Martian desert

[secretlyhuntokar]

Penumbra podcast Junoverse headcanons

(under cut because there are a Lot) ((Also spoiler warning up to Thief's Honour pt 2))

- Juno leaves notes in his and Nureyev's room on the Carte Blanche if he gets up before him so Nureyev doesn't worry he left again

- One of the main reasons Nureyev is scared of aging is because he's already lived a full hallucinated life and doesn't want to waste any second of his real one

- Juno wears a trenchcoat because Rita was really into old Earth noir detective streams when they first met and she bought a trenchcoat for him. And it was the first gift someone had bought for him in years.

- Juno still wears that trenchcoat to this day

- Nureyev once bought/stole Juno a new trenchcoat and while Juno thought it was a really nice trenchcoat and a sweet gesture, he never wore it because its not the one Rita got him

- Nureyev likes to see how many of Vespa's knives he can steal before she notices and yells/threatens him for them back

- Vespa taught Buddy how to play Rangian Street Poker

- The Ruby Seven is green because wherever it's from, Ruby is their word for green

- Rangian Street Poker varies very slightly across Outer Rim planets, and even more so on the Solar planets

- New Kinshasa's version of Rangian Street Poker is the most similar to the Solar version out of all the Outer Rim Variations

- Nureyev and Rita make each other jewelry. Rita hands the jewelry she makes to Nureyev directly, while Nureyev sneaks what he makes under Rita's door at night, or leaves it on her seat for her to find in the morning

- Rita is from the Cerberus Province or someplace similar to it. Or she spent a lot of time sneaking out to the Martian sewers while growing up and befriended the Martian sewer rabbits

- Jet didn't know how to wash his hair properly and one time it got especially greasy after changing the Ruby's oil or something, so Rita showed him how to clean it properly. Since then they try to have a 'spa day' sort of thing once a week

- The Mechanisms are somewhere Out There in Junoverse

- Buddy Aurinko has met the Mechanisms, and Vespa has not. She is definitely not jealous about that. Nuh uh.

- Buddy is naturally taller than Nureyev but she does not know this because Nureyev is always wearing heels that make him appear an inch taller than her. No matter what shoes she herself chooses to wear that day.

- Nureyev kept the handcuffs from the Murderous Mask ep

- The entire Carte Blanche has matching friendship bracelets that they made together (suggested by Rita and organised by Buddy). The Ruby Seven's bracelet was made by Jet and is tied around its steering wheel. Nureyev also made it one later on, which he hid under one of the seats.

- Juno has 10 eyepatches he frequently wears and they are all identical.

- Juno and Slip would've loved each other if they had the chance to meet properly. Platonically or romantically it doesn't matter. Either way, they would pretend to be jealous of each other around Nureyev for a while, until one day Nureyev catches them watching a shitty stream together, making fun of the bad writing.

- Slip didn't want to be revived

- Slip was sometimes conscious enough to hear everything that happened around him

- Slip calls Nureyev "Petya" either because that's the Brahman pronunciation of it or because he misheard the first time they met and it stuck as a nickname

- If Petya is the Brahman pronunciation of Peter, then Mag was the one who changed his name to "Peter" so it "sounded more Solar"

- Buddy and Vespa dye their hair together

- One time they were real tired while dying their hair, and accidentally switched the colours around. For a few months Buddy had green hair and Vespa had red hair. Vespa has a photo of her and Buddy with swapped hair colours as her comms homescreen

- Juno used to think diamonds were beautiful, and now can't stand the sight of them

- Ben would teach Juno to dance (I think this one is canon? Juno's "I had a good teacher" line in Man in Glass makes me think so? And it might've been brought up in other episodes too)

- Juno couldn't bear to do any sort of dance for years after Ben died

- Juno tried to keep the dahlias and roses Nureyev got him for his birthday alive for as long as possible, but they probably wilted either during the THEIA stuff or soon after he left Hyperion city. They still sit in his office though, and he has a photo of them from before they wilted that he looks at sometimes

- Buddy sometimes does her makeup in a green that matches Vespa's hair. Vespa does the same, but in red

- Nureyev used to not have a favourite colour, but it became gold after Man in Glass

[whencyclopedia]

Battle of Bunker Hill

The Battle of Bunker Hill (17 June 1775) was a major engagement in the initial phase of the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783), fought primarily on Breed's Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts. The colonial troops successfully defended Breed's Hill against two British attacks, but ultimately retreated after a third assault. The battle was a British victory but cost them heavy casualties.

Prelude

By mid-June 1775, nearly two months had passed since the blood of colonial militiamen and British regular soldiers had been spilled on the Old Concord Road (modern-day Battle Road) connecting the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. The intervening weeks had seen nearly 15,000 militiamen from across New England lay siege to the town of Boston, which was occupied by around 6,000 British soldiers commanded by General Thomas Gage. With the presence of British warships in Boston Harbor, the British garrison could keep itself supplied from the sea, while a lack of gunpowder and a poorly defined command structure prevented the colonial troops from mounting an assault on the town. This resulted in a standoff as the opposing armies – one comprised of untrained provincial farmers, the other considered the most disciplined fighting force in the world – waited for the other to make the first move.

General Gage, by this point, was an unhappy man. A year earlier, he had been appointed military governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, entrusted with restoring royal authority in the wayward colony. But instead of reasserting British rule, Gage had allowed the colony to slip further from Parliament's grip and had consequently lost the confidence of King George III of Great Britain (r. 1760-1820). Even before news of the Battles of Lexington and Concord had reached London, the king's ministry had dispatched a triumvirate of handpicked generals to assist the frustrated Gage in his duties; generals John Burgoyne, Henry Clinton, and William Howe had set sail for America aboard the vessel Cerberus, arriving in Boston on 25 May 1775. The generals, all of whom had well-established reputations in England, were appalled to find that soldiers of His Majesty's army were being besieged by country peasants and urged Gage to break out of this humiliating situation.

Boston, at the time, was confined entirely on a peninsula and was connected to the mainland by an isthmus known as Boston Neck. The colonial soldiers controlled access to Boston Neck, thereby cutting the British off by land, and were concentrated in the nearby towns of Roxbury and Cambridge. The British plan, mainly composed by General Howe, was to launch a surprise attack on Boston Neck and seize the strategically significant position of Dorchester Heights. After fortifying the heights, the British would sweep the Americans out of Roxbury before occupying Charlestown, located on another peninsula to the north of Boston. The British would then fortify the three hills overlooking Charlestown, which included Bunker Hill, Breed's Hill, and Moulton's Hill, before making the final push that would drive the provincials out of Cambridge. Howe suggested that the attack should take place on Sunday 18 June; the New Englanders, known for their piety, would likely be attending religious services and would have their guards down.

The British plan was, of course, made in secret, and was finalized on 12 June. However, the secret did not even last 24 hours before Howe's plan was delivered to the Provincial Congress, the acting American government of Massachusetts; the informant was an anonymous New Hampshire "gentleman of undoubted veracity" who had "frequent opportunity of conversing with the principal officers in General Gage's army" (Philbrick, 380). With five days to go until the British attack, the Provincial Congress decided to act preemptively, and instructed General Artemas Ward, commander of the ragtag New England army, to construct additional fortifications. On 15 June, General Ward elected to send a detachment of soldiers under General Israel Putnam to occupy the Charlestown peninsula; specifically, Putnam was ordered to seize and fortify Bunker Hill, which, at 33 meters (110 ft), was the tallest of the three hills on the peninsula.

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[ilaria-jinx]

I like the headcanon that Juno just thinks to himself a lot when he’s doing his grand asides for the sake of the audience. HOWEVER. Mick absolutely heard him monologuing when they were fighting the proctor, so I would submit that Juno mutters to himself- but he doesn’t even really know he’s doing it.

Maybe he got into the idea of being a PI when he was little. Maybe his mom encouraged it before he went and became a cop, because Sarah Steel knew her son was going to change the world, but she’d seen what the police did, and she didn’t want her little monster anywhere near that.

She sits her sons down one day, Benten and Juno side by side, and puts on old, old, like, wow, really really OLD streams in black and white, featuring good guys who investigate, who wear trench coats and fedoras, who help people. And each one of the guys has whole sections of the stream where they’re doing stuff AND talking about what’s going on. Those old-time detectives can monologue with the best of them, and Juno picks it up like it’s an art form.

Now that he’s older, he’s all but forgotten those silly streams, written them off as from the time “before”, before the Northstar incident, before life became complicated- but he keeps those old-stream soliloquy habits, and they come out of him when he’s on the job.

My point is that Juno learned that self-narrating style from somewhere, and that when he is providing his own narration, he’s almost always doing it out loud.

Which means all the debates in his head about Nureyev actually probably took place right in front of him. Nureyev’s driving the Ruby 7 and Juno, bless his soul, is just muttering to himself in the most hushed tone, and Peter’s really not gonna interrupt because every lady deserves her privacy, but did Juno just say his name???

Even better- his confusion at Jet’s name, or Buddy’s motive in the Cerberus province? All of those were out loud. I will bet anything that Juno was so lost in his own speech that Buddy’s “Juno? Would you speak up, Darling?” Was met with deaf ears, and no further explanation.

[smidgen-of-hotboy]

@one-joe-spoopy you asked a few days ago about Miasma in my monster hunter au. It has taken me two days, but I've reached a point where I'm content enough to share my thoughts finally (and @esquemeencanta I haven't forgotten you Jove <3)

This is the tale behind Juno losing his original eye to Miasma. Sometime after this encounter he gets a new enchanted magical eye from Ramses O'Flaherty, finds out he's a changeling actually named Jack Takano, and after that shit storm, Juno gouges the magical eye out himself (almost dies trying). The continuation picking up with Hunter Steel and Hunter Glass is in the back of my mind. I've been fried trying to think of how Juno fights a monster he knows next to nothing about, and how he's supposed to do it alone (because ya know- he's stubborn like that)

! Obligatory guts, gore, blood, and violence and angst warning !

Juno works for the Hyperion Monster Hunter Association. He's brought Rita along with him and together they've been doing pretty well. Falco reached out a handful of times but after enough missed calls caught on that Juno wasn't going to come back to HCPD. By then, Juno had made a name for himself as a hunter in Hyperion. He was seeked out for personal jobs often enough that he didn't need to rely on the job postings from the HMHA. Sometimes though he still takes a posting.

There had been a few postings for a series of disruptions in the valleys down south of Hyperion City for a few months. Other Hunters had taken up the jobs and died trying to hunt down whatever monster was out there. Reports from the Cerberus Province were coming in:

Puddles of black gunk have been forming overnight. Anything that steps in it immediately sinks to the bottom. It is unclear if there even is a bottom to these pools.

Vehicles are being broken into and stripped for parts.

Earthquakes are being recorded, rumbling every few hours like clock work. This area is not known for experiencing earthquakes.

Other monsters have been found dead, disembowled and drained of their blood.

Juno takes the latest job request and gets Rita to look over some survey maps taken of the area. She finds that where the monster carcasses are turning up, there was a puddle of gunk there previously. She says she may be able to find out more if Juno can collect a sample. He obliges and returns to her a day later with a small jar full of gunk. His hands smell like burnt tar.

Rita runs a few tests on the jar of gunk and she finds that it has a mostly liquid state, but when disturbed it solidifies. A non-newtonian liquid. Like water mixed with cornstarch. It oozes slowly but seizes up when jostled. Rita makes a comment that she can't stand the smell, "it must taste pretty bad too. Don't know why any monsters would be getting so close to it." Juno unscrews the jar and sticks his finger in it. Rita watches horrified from her computer at their office as Juno proceeds to sniff the gunk (bad idea), and lick it (super disgusting idea).

Juno finds that even though the gunk smells bad, it tastes... okay. Little bit of a burnt wood taste to it, but nothing awful. It's almost sweet. Kind of savory. He goes around asking other hunters at the HMHA to try it and many refuse. The ones that do all come to the same conclusion as him: a little burnt, kind of sweet and savory.

One Hunter boldly takes the jar from Juno and spills it out over a table. Nothing happens at first as it slowly spreads out, but soon enough it's like the gunk has a mind of its own. It begins to almost crawl. It "oozes" across the table. Juno slams the jar back over it, the other hunter tries to frantically scoop it back into one mass. They eventually get it in a cup and back into the glass jar. Rita is not impressed when she hears about their sheer stupidity.

Juno brings the jar home and shows it to Ben. This whole time Ben has been hearing about the ooze from Juno and listening to his calls with Rita, but hasn't actually seen it. He looks at it in the jar and takes a good whiff ("Juno what the hell... you licked this? Gross... will I lick it? Yeah sure- when I'm dead! Put that lid back on or so help me.") Ben asks Juno what happens when it's introduced to heat. He says he isn't sure but according to Rita,

"In theory, it should just solidify. Non-Newtonian fluids cannot withstand extreme heat. The liquidity part evaporates. Just leaving the solid-ity part."

"I'm impressed. You listened to her."

Juno frowns. "I always listen to Rita."

"That's not what I meant. I meant: you listened to her, and you even sound like her now."

"... haha, very funny Benten... do you want to help me find out what happens when you introduce this stuff to fire or not though?"

Ben and Juno are both extremely smart in their own ways. They are also both extremely dumb in the same way. Ben lights the stove, Juno holds the jar with a pair of tongs, and they watch with bated breath as the gunk tries to hop out of the jar as it gets hotter. Eventually it stops moving altogether. And sure enough, when Juno removes it from the stove and lets it cool, it's solid.

Ben asks Juno what he's going to do and Juno simply says he's going on a Hunt.

"You can't be serious? Juno- this is dangerous. You're going to literally be playing with fire."

"I can handle it."

"Juno- I'm serious. Take this seriously."

"I am."

"Then you'll listen to me when I say, it'll make me feel a whole lot better if you take someone with you."

"You know that's not how this works Benten-"

"A Kanagawa hunter would be more than willing to work with you. Hell- what's her name Big Eyes would probably kill to work with you again."

"BENZAITEN! Enough! This is my job alright? I don't tell you how your recitals should be going or what stretches you need to be doing! You don't get to boss me around about how my Hunts go. End of discussion."

"Juno-"

"No. We're done. I'm going to bed, and tomorrow, I'm going on my hunt."

Juno goes to bed without saying goodnight. He wakes up and leaves for the office without eating or saying good morning. Ben calls but he doesn't answer. He calls Rita and Rita relays the message "just tell him I'll be waiting at home and- good luck."

Juno takes with him his pistol, shotgun, a flask of vodka, canisters of gasoline, a box of matches (Ben's brand), and an empty glass milk jar. He drives out to the valleys between HC and the CP to the largest black pool and starts pouring gasoline into and around it. He brought five of them with him. Rita said that his plan was dangerous. ("maybe we can get a hold of Ms. Cassandra and find out if-" "I'm not bringing Cass into this. This is my hunt. I'm doing it my way.") She made him agree that if she didnt hear back from Juno in an hour, she would call Juno, and if he failed to pick up she'd ask for assistance ("I ain't takin no as an answer Mista Steel." "You and Benzaiten worry too much." "Sorry Boss, but you're important to us.")

Juno stands back as he strikes a match and tosses it into the gas. He watches the pool erupt in flame. The ground trembles underneath him. Juno falls backwards. Something rises out of the pool... a monster.

Covered in black gunk, reeking of burnt tar, a monster on fire towers over him. She hisses and squeals. She would be beautiful if half her face wasn't torn off and the other half on fire. Black tentacles rise with her. She has a maw full of razor sharp teeth that go around and around in rings. In that moment, Juno knew he was fucked and would likely die. But if theres one thing being a Steel had prepared him for, its to not go down without a fight.

Juno brings around his shotgun and fires. He lands two bullets that lodge themselves in the monster. She hisses and growls, lunging at him. Her hands are sharp talons. They dig into his shoulders and drag him through the ground. Forgotten is the flask and jar. She rises again towering over him. He takes aim and fires another shot that embeds itself in her shoulder. She howls, a tentacle comes slicing through the air. He rolls out of the way in time and continues rolling as more trail after him.

He remembers the flask when it falls out of his coat. He takes hold of it and unscrews the cap, gulping a mouthful and holding it in his cheeks. With shaking hands he reaches for another match and lights it. He turns and spits the vodka into the flame, lighting a trail of flames that follows a tentacle of black tar. It spreads and the monster catches fire, screeching, leaving Juno time to unholster his pistol. He takes aim and fires off a few more rounds at her, slowly limping his way back where he dropped his shotgun and the milk jar. Finally, one of his bullets lands at her core. The monsters screeching turns to silent wailing.

Her size has shrunk as most of her body has caught fire, the rest is riddled with silver bullets. She clutches two appendages over her chest where the last bullet struck. Frantically trying to dig it out. She slowly tries to slip away as Juno grabs his jar and makes the dumbest decision he could've ever done: he runs towards her. He holsters his pistol, unscrews the jar and keeps the lid in one hand. The monster musters what remaining strength she has as both of the appendages over her chest shoot out. Two things happen at once:

One. Everything comes down to a singular point of pain. Juno feels it as his eye gets scooped out and he just about blacks out.

Two. He successfully scoops the monsters core inside the jar. The lid comes down on it, and monster screams as she shrinks to fit inside her small prison.

Juno has just enough strength left in him to screw the lid on. He blacks out shortly after.

(Ben calls Juno and then calls Rita when he can't reach him. He insist she call him right then and there because "something is wrong. I know it. Rita- listen to me. Call it' call it twin intuition, alright." Intrigued by this Rita calls Juno and when he doesn't answer her she calls in Cassandra.

Cass says she isn't in the mood to save Steel’s sorry ass. Ben takes Rita's comms from her to speak to Cass directly, "You owe me Kanagawa. I'm calling in your favor to me. And if you don't uphold our deal Cassandra, I will make your family's life hell." Rita has always liked Benten. That day she understood what Juno means by "Ben strikes the fear of Benzaiten into you".

Cass rides out to the valleys on her motorbike and finds a giant gaping hole in the ground. Beside it- Juno Steel. Cass turns him over carefully removing the milk jar. She sees his fucked up face and hauls him inside his truck. She tosses his shotgun in the backseat and straps the jar in next to her as she floors it back to Hyperion City. When Ben meets her at the hospital she apologizes and says she still owes Ben his favor, she shouldn't have brushed Rita off so quickly. All Ben does is tell her to leave. Rita promises to give her a call when Juno comes around.)

Juno wakes up in the hospital. He panics unable to see out of one eye. He tries to sit up and falls back groaning and grunting in pain. Something shifts next to him and he turns his head. It's Benzaiten. Bathed in golden light.

"Do you remember what Ma used to say, whenever she found us fighting? Fighting over the Andromeda costumes and Turbo toys?"

"Benten-" Juno wheezes and coughs. Ben turns and fills a glass with water. He carefully hands it over to Juno without a word.

"Ma used to say that we shouldn't fight. She didn't want us to fight because when it came down to it, there was only us in the world. She said- if we wanted to get flattened, we go and lie down in the road, but we aren't supposed to do that to each other." Ben smiles. At least Juno thinks he sees him smile. The sun glares behind him creating the perfect halo. An angel. Juno's angel.

"Ma said that when she was gone, we would have to rely on each other, and that meant we couldn't fight. We need someone else so that when we're not tough enough, they can be." He takes a shaking breath. Juno sips his water and parts his lips. Ben shakes his head and holds a hand up. "Save it, I'm not done.

"Ma said a lot of things before she died. She wanted nothing but the best for us Juno. She wanted us to look out for each other, wanted us to fight the big mean world together, and she wanted us to live. I know you never believed her. I know you don't believe her now- but she was ours. She was- Ma. And you're my brother. Ma is gone. Annie is gone. Oldtown is dying. Sasha left. Mick can hardly take care of himself. And you're all I have left Juno... I need you Juno. I need you to be alive for me because I can't be tough enough for this world. I want you alive... why can't you want that for yourself."

Benzaiten stands from the chair he's in and walks around Junos hospital bed. In proper light Juno can see the bags under his eyes and the tears streaking down his cheeks. He takes the glass from Juno's shaking hands and sets it aside. He pulls Juno against him and half folds his body over, half shields his twin.

The same mouth. Same hands. Juno broke his nose when they were still kids. Ben broke his ankle a year ago. Their noses are different. The way they walk has changed. But the one thing that no one could take away was their matching gaze. Their matching eyes.

(Ben leaves the hospital to visit Rita. She welcomed him inside her home without a second thought. She opens a window and sits down at her breakfast table while Ben takes a cigarette from his pocket and lights it. He takes a long draw and holds the smoke in his lungs for a long moment. He exhales slowly. His tears have long since dried. He thought he cried himself out at Ma's funeral. He was wrong.)

Juno goes back out to the site in the valleys a few weeks later with Cass. She took the jar and kept it to herself. When she saw Juno in the hospital she asked about it. He just said to turn it over to Rita and she'd take care of it from there (to this day Rita still has it in her personal office at home. The monster watches her work. She finds it easier to work when she has something to explain her thought process to and the monster is frequently subjected to that. When she's not home Rita keeps it locked up inside a safe next to emergency bac up shrimp crunchies.)

Cass and Juno explore the gaping hole together. (Cass pulled her weight as a Kanagawa and had the site quarantined off from other hunters and the public). They find a whole underground network of chambers and lab equipment. Journals and notes. Juno flips through a few pages and together this is what they piece together:

Doctor Miasma was a human doctor. She learned about fae medicine and was desperate to get her hands on it by any means possible. In order to get any though she needed to cross over. So. She did. She forcibly opened her own portals and exchanged parts of herself, constantly replacing whatever she lost. Her arms, her legs, half her face. Eventually she gave up the last thing she had to offer: her humanity.

Miasma awoke a monster in the fae wilds. She used intimidation to force them to open a portal for her to cross back home. She created her underground lab and stocked it with soup. She ran experiments on herself. With practice she honed her hunting skills and had her first taste of fae blood.

Shortly thereafter Miasma lost more than her body and humanity. She lost her memories. She lost her name. She forgot her title, forgot her research, and simply became a monster that consumed.

Some part of her must have remembered something though. She broke cars and stole parts from them trying to build a machine to harness magic and open portals. Even after giving up everything, Miasma was still trying to get back to the fae realm

Cass finds the rotting corpses of dead monsters. Their blood not yet drained.

Juno's seen enough and with Cass' help climbs out of the hole.

"Cass- you write the report."

"Huh? Why? This was your Hunt. I don't need the credit or the money."

"And I don't want the attention it's going to bring. Write it. If you have questions call Rita."

(Cass swears this will be the last nice thing she does for Juno. She writes the report and hands it over to the HMHA. The senior hunters of the association are confused why she's handing in the paperwork. She shrugs and tells them "Steel doesn't want to handle the guts." The Kanagawas come in and clean everything out. Cecil does a live stream special walking through "the lab of a monster". Juno reads the newspaper in the kitchen while Ben makes them breakfast. Life carries on.)

[mybrainneedssomewheretorest]

i suspect that we will get little to no aurinko crime fam this season (and I feel totally normal about it), but my dream for the next juno ep is that they go to the Cerberus province to get Vespa's help tracking down the mystery medical researcher. I would also accept they track down mick to get his bringing dogs back from the dead hook up, but he won't be nearly as weirdly excited about this as vespa would get (and then attempt to hide said excitement).

Also maybe Juno could use a lil not-therapy session with buddy💕

[fmp2benhines]

HADES

"Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although this also made him the last son to be regurgitated by his father. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated their father's generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed joint rulership over the cosmos. Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth (long the province of Gaia) available to all three concurrently. In artistic depictions, Hades is typically portrayed holding a bident and wearing his helm with Cerberus, the headed guard of the underworld, standing at his side."

[spacenutspod]

After analyzing the temperature data from 2023, NASA has concluded that it was the hottest year on record. This will surprise almost nobody. If you live in one of the regions stricken by drought, forest fires, or unusually powerful weather, you don’t need NASA to confirm that the planet is warming. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies produced the analysis that led to this conclusion. They looked at temperature anomalies rather than strictly at temperatures. Temperature anomalies show how much hotter or colder than normal it is at a specific place and time. In this case, normal means the average over a 30-year period between 1951 and 1980 for a time and place. The analysis, which makes use of extensive satellite data, showed that 2023 was the hottest year on record. In fact, every month from June to December 2023 was the hottest month compared to the same months in previous years. Not only that, but July was the hottest month ever recorded. This image shows the global temperature anomalies for July 2023. Image Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio How much hotter was 2023? “Global temperatures in 2023 were around 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1.1 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA’s baseline period (1951-1980),” NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) said. Anyone who follows news from around the world knows the world is facing more severe weather. In the USA, a mega-drought meant that parts of the Southwest suffered from a water shortage. Reservoirs were reduced to historically low levels. In Canada, massive, numerous, and stubborn forest fires dominated the summer, with smoke moving south and enshrouding some of America’s largest cities for days. Many of those fires are still burning as zombie fires that will spring back to life after this winter. The Donnie Creek fire of 2023 in British Columbia, Canada, was the largest-ever fire in that province. It covered over 600,000 hectares. Image Credit: BC Wildfire Service. In Asia, a record-breaking heat wave struck India, China, Vietnam, and other countries. In India, major cities exceeded 45 Celsius, schools and other places were shutdown, and rolling blackouts, triggered by air conditioner use, made things even worse. In the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the temperatures reached 49 C in some places. In Europe, the Cerberus Heatwave brought temperatures above 40 C to many countries, including Spain, where temperatures reached 45 C. Hundreds of millions of us faced extreme temperatures during the summer of 2023. Millions of us watched helplessly as forest fire smoke clouded our skies and damaged our lungs. Farmers struggled, and food prices rose. But climate change isn’t just about heat, smoke, and fire. It’s also about extreme rainfall, flooding, and hurricanes. Whatever the consequences, it’s not something humanity has seen before. “The exceptional warming that we’re experiencing is not something we’ve seen before as a species,” said Gavin Schmidt, director of GISS. “It’s driven primarily by our fossil fuel emissions, and we’re seeing the impacts in heat waves, intense rainfall, and coastal flooding.” Most of what the Earth is going through is due to human-caused climate change. But other things still contribute to the climate, like El Nino and El Nina. Climate scientists consider all these things when trying to understand what’s happening. This image shows how the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) affects global temperatures. There are three phases in the South Pacific’s ENSO: El Niño, La Niña, and neutral, or average. El Nino is a weakening of trade winds that blow from east to west in the South Pacific, allowing the sea surface to warm up and rise. La Nina is the opposite: the winds become stronger, and sea temperatures become cooler than normal. La Nina can help offset some of the effects of climate change, but only temporarily. Image Credit: NASA But we have no control over El Nino. Our carbon emissions are the only thing we have control over. Vegetation and the oceans only absorb about 50% of our emissions, and the rest persists in the atmosphere. This visualization shows the atmosphere in three dimensions and highlights the accumulation of CO2 during a single calendar year. It’s not just Earth’s atmosphere that warms. Our oceans absorb most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases, about 90% of it. The oceans are a gigantic heat sink, and they’ll continue to warm as the atmosphere does. That changes the biochemistry and the overall health of the oceans and also accelerates the melting of our major ice sheets. “Just like global temperatures, ocean temperatures are on the rise,” said Josh Willis, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “They have been rising for the last century or more, and they are not slowing down. If anything, they are speeding up.” This image shows anomalies in the sea surface temperature. These temperatures reached new record highs in 2023. Image Credit: NASA. The world will keep warming for the next several decades or more, no matter what changes we make today. But the future is still in play. Scientists still need as much detailed climate data as we can gather, even though we know we’re responsible for the warming world. We can still prepare for the worst of it while developing and implementing solutions. “We are very interested in the weather and extremes of any particular year because those are the things that impact us,” said GISS Director Schmidt. “But the key difference between this decade and the ones before is that the temperatures keep rising because of our activities, principally the burning of fossil fuels.” NASA’s results show the future we face. More heatwaves, more devastating forest fires, more pressure on agriculture and food prices, and a bleak future for some of the world’s poorest people. But it’s not foreordained. There are solutions, and they’re being implemented. Renewable energy use is on the rise, for example, and people around the world are demanding that governments implement more changes. And while arcane scientific arguments about atmospheric chemistry and physics are not that impactful for many people, extreme heat is a much more effective alarm bell. So are the things that extreme heat brings, like flooding, fire, smoke, heat waves, rising sea levels, and higher food prices. Let’s hope the next generations and the politicians that accompany them don’t keep pressing the snooze button like we have. The post NASA Confirms that 2023 was the Hottest Year on Record appeared first on Universe Today.

[nbmsports]

South Korea: At least 22 dead after torrential downpours unleash flooding and landslides | World News

At least 22 people have died after torrential downpours triggered deadly flash floods and landslides in South Korea. The country has been hit by heavy rainfall since 9 July, which has intensified in the past three days and is expected to continue in some regions until Sunday. Thousands are being evacuated after a dam in North Chungcheong province came perilously close to overflowing on Saturday morning.

Image: Rising flood waters invaded homes in Cheongju, South Korea Pic: AP

Image: A flooded park along the Geum River in Sejong, South Korea Pic: AP As of 9am local time, more than 2,700 tonnes of water was flowing into Goesan Dam - the maximum amount it can discharge.The 22 fatalities were reported on Friday and Saturday, all in the central and southeastern regions, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety said in a report. Landslides claimed the lives of five people on Saturday, burying houses in two central towns, the ministry said, in an earlier statement.Two people died on Friday in a building collapse caused by landslides in the central city of Nonsan.The report said torrential rains have also left 14 people missing since Tuesday, and 13 others injured since Thursday.However, the latest ministry report didn't explain the cause of deaths for the additional fatalities. More than 1,500 people have been forced to flee their homes while thousands more have been deprived of electricity.Read more: Europe heatwave - latest: Tourists stretchered away and major attraction shut down Why is Europe being hit by Cerberus heatwave and when will it end? A train in the North Chungcheong province was derailed by a landslide, which hurled debris on the rail tracks, according to the transport ministry.A train engineer was injured but there were no passengers on board during the incident on Thursday.Train operator Korea Railroad Corp announced it was cancelling all slow trains and bullet trains, with some services delayed due to ongoing safety fears.South Korea's Prime Minister, Han Duck-soo, has called on the military to assist in the rescue operation by working with government officials to mobilise equipment and manpower.The incidents follow the death of at least eight people after record rainfall pounded the South Korean capital and surrounding areas in August last year, leaving 14 injured.More than 100 homes were evacuated to temporary shelters to avoid floodwaters, as the downpours transformed the streets of Seoul's usually bustling Gangnam district into rivers.More than 5.5 inches of rain fell per hour (14cm per hour) at one stage - the highest hourly downpour measured in the capital since 1942. Source link Read the full article

[whatsshecalled]

a cropped preview of my piece for the @penumbrazine 😊 this has been so fun to work on, I can’t wait to see everybody’s pieces!!

[ernmark]

The Geography of Mars

What fascinates me is that there aren’t all that many places that you can go on Mars.

Mars only has a couple cities and a few desert outposts cuz the radiation will bake you like a potato if you stay out there more than a few hours, and Domes can’t be built just anywhere. 

A couple of cities

Hyperion City: The first colony on Mars, and also the largest.

Olympus Mons: Another major city, referenced briefly in Final Resting Place and elsewhere

The Valles Marineris: Included in a list with Hyperion and Olympus Mons in Promised Land, so most likely it’s a major city

The Cerberus Province: Briefly mentioned in Train From Nowhere: "the closest thing to a pirate’s cove we had in this century, a den of thieves thriving in the shadows of nine Martian volcanoes” The Cerberus Province has no dome, and so relies on the partial shelter of nearby volcanoes to shield it from radiation. As a consequence, all of its permanent residents-- many of them refugees from the Outer Rim-- are dying of radiation poisoning, and are consequently indentured to the Cerberus Board of Fresh Starts. 

A few desert outposts

The Oasis Casino Resort: Past residence of Brock Engstrom. Probably not anymore, considering the events of Train From Nowhere

Polaris Park: A theme park out in the Martian desert near Hyperion City

[olly-olly-octopus]

i'm thinking about how juno was introduced to buddy and started his thing with the aurinko crime family through jet making him get on his hovercycle to go to the cerberus province and how juno left the carte blanche and the aurinko crime family through jet shoving him into the airlock and telling him that he believes juno will come back and rescue them all <3 yes i am sad because it all started and ended with jet siquliak and i don't know why but thats making me cry

[inlovewithbuddyaurinko]

Vespa died when she fell off the tower bridge

And she became a ghost but doesn’t realize she’s dead. She appears corporeal enough, but it gets her some second glances, but whose going to be the one to tell her she’s dead???? Certainly, no one she runs across! They don't have a death wish. Traveling to the Cerberus Province from where she died takes years. In the meantime, she's started to get sicker and sicker, wanting to find any piece of the cure mother prime should help her feel better, right?

As long as she doesn't know she's dead, she cant act like a ghost, and right now, she has convinced herself she's still alive. When buddy sees her, she’s convinced she’s dead. And she goes to reach out to put her hand on Vespa, her hand goes through her forearm, freaking out both of them. Vespa has spent over a decade trying to get back to Buddy, and Buddy has spent over a decade waiting for Vespa, and for their reunion to seem now impossible. What was it all for?

[genderbinaryisforlosers]

compilation of jet partaking in his favourite passtime: bullying juno

JACKET: So. Do you have a good reaspon for walking out in the desert? Besides your death-wish. JUNO: Besides my what? JACKET: It’s well-documented.

this is one of the first things jet ever says to juno which sets a wonderful precedent

JACKET: Good. Now please. Get in this dumpster. JUNO: What? JACKET: I’m afraid I must insist. JUNO: H-hey, put me down--

jet slam dunks (gently lifts) juno into an actual trash can. iconic

JACKET: In the interest of fairness I should tell you that if you have, I will be forced to crush your head with this dumpster lid. JUNO: How is that any fairer-- (SOUND: JACKET LIFTING DUMPSTER LID.)

jet doesn’t have time for your semantics, juno. yes you are being interrogated in a bin

(SOUND: JACKET’S FOOTSTEPS.) Hey! hey, where the hell are you going? JACKET: To ensure this area is secure. Now be silent. Dumpsters cannot speak in the Cerberus Province.

i deeply love this man’s sense of humour

JACKET: I am sure your screaming makes Buddy’s thinking much faster. JUNO: Oh, hey, was that sarcasm? Maybe the big guy’s got enough brain for a sense of humor after all. JACKET: I have always possessed a sense of humor, Juno. You are just not funny.

absolutely destroyed. honestly juno was such a bitch in this episode i’m amazed buddy wanted to work with him more

JUNO: (SURPRISED YELP) Where the hell did you come from?! JACKET: The door.

considering that we heard jet’s footsteps clearly enough in the streets earlier in the episode, i fully believe that jet deliberately quietened his footsteps so that he could jumpscare juno.

(SOUND: HE TAKES THE HELMET OFF AND TOSSES IT TO JACKET.) There. Happy now? JACKET: Not at all. I have grown fond of your presence in this hovercycle. I thought my tears would imply that. JUNO: Your what... Are you crying? JACKET: Everyone cries, Juno.

given his recent antics, i wholeheartedly believe he was fucking with juno here. i don’t know if i think he can cry on command and did it deliberately, or if he just got sand in his eye and decided to exploit it to fuck with juno, but either way, this man is fucking hilarious

JACKET: She is one of the most accomplished hackers on the Solar planets. One cannot repeatedly hack into Dark Matters’ systems without building a reputation in the Cerberus Province — and to do so and live to tell the tale is unheard of. It was near impossible for me to locate her; now that I have, Rita is a higher priority for our team than you are, Juno. JUNO: ...Wow. RITA: Wow!! JACKET: She will also be paid significantly more than you. JUNO: Okay, come on--

i don’t think jet lied about buddy telling him that rita was a higher priority than juno, but i do think he took this opportunity to deadpan bully juno with impunity

JET: I am a great fan of hers. RITA: Awwwwww!!!! JUNO: And what does that make me? JET: You are an amusing sidekick. JUNO: Goddamn it, you big lousy--!

juno as the third wheel to jet and rita’s weird dynamic duo is honestly such a great dynamic. i love them.

JET: (BIG ROAR) VESPA: Siquliak, don’t! JET: Oh. Hello. JUNO: Uh... hi, big guy. So... you’re not gonna brain us, then? JET: If it would help our current situation, I might. I thought you were the invader.

jet really said if not for the laws of this land i would have slaughtered you (if i felt like it would help)

(SOUND: JUNO FUMBLES IN A HURRY TO GRAB THE WRENCH. HE RUNS OVER TO JET AND HANDS IT OVER.) Jeez, you could’ve told me you were working on something important! Should I tell everybody to get their O2 masks on? Get in the Ruby? Run-- JET: We would not have suffocated, Juno. That was a joke. JUNO: A joke? Do I sound like I think it’s funny? JET: No, but it has amused me. Ha ha. You had a question?

mr. sikuliaq, will you marry me (platonically)?

JET: You are very mature for your age, Juno. I’ve always respected that about you. JUNO: I’m... what? You’re only like eight years older than me. JET: (LAUGHS) Juno, I am not thirty-two years old. JUNO: ...I’m forty. JET: Ah. (SOUND: HE KEEPS WALKING OUT. AMBIENCE FADES.) JUNO (NARRATOR): I’m two seconds away from starting a fight when I see that Jet’s smiling on his way out the door. Another joke, just for him. And I know for a fact that a year ago I would’ve missed it completely.

truly iconic with a side of juno growth which i deeply hope cast light on several unseen incidents where jet was blatantly playing practical jokes on him and he didn’t realise until Right Then

[waters-and-the-wilde]

wait this is entirely obvious in hindsight but I just realized and have never fully appreciated that jet ‘bike safety is important’ sikuliaq must keep various helmets of various sizes in his sidecar if he has to shuffle through them to find one for juno

also how big is that sidecar? did jet have to clear it out before pickup in soul of the people? had to chuck out the other spare helmets except the ones that would fit juno and rita along with fuck knows what else he keeps in there (too many tea thermoses and explosive fixins and Buddy’s weapons) but they’re still squished in with the tool kit and the first aid kit and the desert survival kit? and despite how thoroughly he went at it before leaving he still managed to end up with three blasters two grenades and five knives that weren’t the ones he packed for himself? only half of which he can identify as buddy’s or vespa’s?

and how often was he giving people who weren’t Buddy a lift to require all those helmets in Time Gone By?? does he have a side gig as the go-to Cerberus Province uber driver?