#peter steele merch

[vanalex]

[thepenumbrapodcast]

Homme Fatales and Them Fatales and Getaway Cars and Private Bis and gay space pirates, take heed! We've got just what your shoulders and chests and specifically-not-your-bellies need. Head over to https://shopthepenumbrapodcast.com to see all our designs and colors. Enjoy!

[bamfwizard]

vanilla scent comes from orchids.

juno describes nureyev's cologne as smelling of spices from a far off planet, and something he couldn't place, which was later revealed to be the orchids.

vanilla and spices.

conclusion: nureyev smells like Christmas cookie Yankee candles.

[legion--23]

Type O Negative ReAction Figures Wave 01

Peter Steele

[emoxxzombie]

[nerdetiquette]

It’s so funny that I’m the one obsessed with tpp when the person who told me about it has only finished s3 and the entirety of listening to s1 I was like Juno is so obnoxious, I dislike him wholly and completely. And they were just like …you can quit if you want, and I was like no back off, he’s my lady and I’m gonna finish it

[sofaeatspaintart]

hits you with my cringe beam

[mo-ok]

7, 15, 16, 17 (for both in suit and civilian outfits please!!!)

7. Favourite villain? - if i'm allowed to pick a trio, its the Giark Ministers from Go Onger hands down. If i have to pick just one villain on their own.... I love Ecliptor tbh best pr dad 😭😭😭

15. Least favourite series? - I wanted so bad to like Ninja Steel, for Peter Sudarso, for the cool suits, for the bangin theme song... but alas I just couldnt take it for more than a few episodes. In terms of sentai, Kyoryuger would be my least favourite (not that I didnt enjoy it, i've just enjoyed everything else more lol)

16. Do you collect any merch? - I have a few things! A couple lightning collection figures, some dvds, but my pride and joy is my DX Engine O and Engine Souls (I do plan on getting my grubby little hands on this whole line at some point)

17. If you could cosplay any character? - i would kill a man to be able to wear the Shishi Red Orion suit, even if its just for 5 minutes PLEASE I BEG YOU. Civilian form tho, the second i laid eyes on Yanma Gust (King ohger) I was in love with his ridiculous fit - its just stupid enough to be absolutely perfect tbh pls give me that earring 👌👌

[missgenesis]

“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

[lies-unfurl]

if ppl are talking about race in audio fiction, can we please. just. address the fact that The Penumbra Podcast continues to sell merch portraying their leads as a dark-skinned Black person and an East Asian person, when they’re played by white or very white-passing people.

i genuinely feel like ppl avoid talking about this bc Penumbra has canonical LGBTQ+ rep, and because some of the showrunners are LGBTQ+, but like. come on. literally how is this not blackface/yellowface.

[robinsnest2111]

EMP catalog nostalgia (Nr.4/2017)

+ bonus Peter Steele photo from Orkus! (Nr.12/01 | Dec. 2018/Jan. 2019)

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[vanalex]

[josh-silver]

From the official Type O Negative Facebook:

“The box set is coming back! Out 9/6. None More Negative! In a new BAND APPROVED box. Including a poster and a replica of an official band tour laminate. You can pre-order on both the Run Out Groove vinyl and Roadrunner web site!”

[legion--23]

My Peter Steele action figure arrived today!

[magnoliae]

Hii, I saw u had ppl who support the penumbra podcast on ur DNI, and i was just wondering, what was the hiring event u were referring to? It's on my list of podcasts to listen to n I was wondering if I should take it off

Hi! Ill start from a beginners perspective of the penumbra as the main controversy is very much a direct result of all of penumbras past mistakes, sorry if you know parts of this already. Also Im white and started listening mid season 2, so this is more of a rundown than like an authoritative judgement.

Theres two unrelated stories that are just going into the fourth season, one a scifi noir show with many themes on family, trauma, recovery and corruption, and a fantasy D&D like fiction which I have not listened to as much so I dont know the themes as well. However both stories are really popular because of their diversity in primarily LGBTQIA+ charcaters, but also race, disabilities, age, gender.

The main protagonist of the scifi noir is Juno Steele, a black disabled nonbinary character who has PTSD and other traumas. However, the penumbra has a predominantly white cast and writing crew, especially at the beginning of the show, and didnt explicitly give any charcters a race or ethnicity (except for iirc the antagonists of the now non-canon pilot who were south asian and said to "breed like rabbits" yikes).

Then in 2017, penumbra hired Michaela Buckley, whose art is a whole nother can of worms of racist and transmisogynistic caricatures. As the first "official" artist she gave the characters a lot of their traits that are still seen today, especially races and ethnicities like black for Juno, and South East Asian for his love interest Peter Nureyev. As a white person its not my place to judge the harmfulness in making an angry alcoholic character with a broken home black, and a suave homme-fatale thief Asian, but it doesnt sound good on paper.

When people brought this up with the creators of the show, they sort of made it canon but not really? Nothing really was mentioned on changing their ways or combating fandom racism. According to this timeline by @/ofdreamsanddoodles they later apologised, but still sold Buckley's merch. They also kinda sidestepped it by making their future "race blind", however the setting is very much not a utopia so idk the decision to avoid race as a topic seems a bit glaring imo. I think Buckley as well apoligsed separately, and she never intended to be like, the voice of god on canon representation.

The recent controversy however is around the newest artist penumbra have hired after their season 3 artist left. They hired Ellison Estephan, who also has a history of drawing racist, lesbophobic and transmisogynistic caricatures. the link goes over one of the most offensive artworks, which the penumbra team later address.

The first "statement" was given by one of the showrunners, Harley Takagi Kaner, on twitter I think a day after the announcement. However they basically only talked about the bullying theyve received in the meantime. It was mentioned later by Kevin Vibert how this was done in the spur of the moment by Harley. Vibert did compare the numbers of slurs sent to him, a white cis gay guy, vs Harley, a nonbinary POC so like, I understand why Harley would try to stop like abuse rather than criticism, but it wasnt great when this looked like their only official apology. Ellison also dismissed their offensive art as "goofy", which was also not great when fans hadnt heard anything else from the team. They did later apologise properly.

Then a week after the announcement, Vibert releases an 12 page statement on the matter. However, a large part of this was more going over why it took the team so long to respond and their hiring process, rather than an actual apology. In regards to Ellison's infamous artwork, he only goes over Alessandra Strong because no one on the hiring team was a black woman. And the response was it made sense to make a tall gruff muscular woman black because of her personality and because previous fans (like Buckley) had drawn her as black so it'd be taking away representation. I cant truly make a judgement on that, but he handwaves away the overly offensive caricature style which is what people mainly had an issue with, and didnt bring up the other characters. The crew have also decided to keep Ellison as their artist, so this is just another case of the penumbra team refusing to make changes and not take accountability in writing their characters and plot.

[magg0t-king]

Type O negative?

Am i a fan?: Yes :)! I wish my parents could've told me about them before they broke up(because of Peter Steeles death), but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have remembered them even if my parents gave 4/5 year old me an essay of them.

First song I heard by them?: Nettie was the first song I heard.

Favorite song?: Idk. It'd either be Summer Breeze or In Praise of Bacchus. They're both pretty good!

Favorite album?: October Rust! It's *chefs kiss* scrumptious.

Favorite music video?: I don't really have a favorite one, because I don't really watch music videos n' stuff, but if I had to pick it'd be Black No. 1's music video.

Have any merch?: No :(

Seen the live?: No because my parents told me about them a few months ago lmao.

Favorite member: Peter Steele and Josh Silver. <3