It’s that moment y’all been waiting for again :D
🌧️ Tea and rain 🍵
Finally spent a little time updating my blog’s Table of Contents, and it now includes:
- a Jonmartin Index
- accessible under the Magnus Archives heading on the toc’s main page.
- a Dead Souls Living Supplementals Index
- accessible through the main page RWBY heading >> Multi-Chapter Fics >> Dead Souls Living heading
2 DAYS!!!
Had this sitting around as sketch since before we got the trailer, decided to finish it today FOR GOOD LUCK.
#GiveJimABreak2021
my @penumbrabang art for @enbiecrowley‘s wonderful and wonderfully painful fic every poem an epitaph! juno accidentally teleports away from miasma’s lair leaving nureyev to think he died when the egg went off……
go give it a read if you are like me and love crying.
@fricklefracklefloof asked me for jonmartin cooking together and I kind of went overboard so. Here. Have some domestic safehouse boyfriends. (thank u taro for giving me options of Filipino foods for them to be cooking! They are making lumpia at martins instructions)
(ID: A digital drawing of Jon and Martin from the magnus archives, standing in a kitchen and cooking together in their underwear. Jon is chopping some green onions on a cutting board and looking back over their shoulder at Martin, who has a hand on their elbow. They’re both smiling at each other and Jon seems to be in the middle of speaking. Sunlight streams through the window in front of them both, and the kitchen is covered in ingredients — some carrots, a box labeled “lumpia wrappers,” two glasses of wine, and a bowl of fruit in the background. There is a Pan searing something on the stove behind them, and a few dangling pots and pans, some cabinets, and spices on a shelf. Jon is a thin Persian person with medium brown skin and long, curly graying dark hair. He has a beard and glasses and scars covering his skin. They are wearing a black “what the ghost” t shirt and purple boxers. Martin is a tall fat Black and Filipino man with dark skin, freckles, and short curly reddish brown hair tipped white at the front. He has vitiligo dotting his face and hands, and a tattoo of orchids on his shoulder. He is wearing a nude colored sports bra and boxers with a teacup pattern on them. The next three images are closeups on the drawing.)
I don’t know if Juno knows this, but his family needs him as much he needs them.
And sure, there’s definitely the immediate concern of “everyone else was captured except one (1) thief in an undisclosed third location, time to stage a rescue mission” kind of need that falls to Juno now by questionable luck, with Jet’s heartfelt words about faith. Before that was the interrogation, when Juno had an advantage because he knew Sasha and because he could use that clever mind of his to make a plan in the same room as her, with her listening. He is a capable member of this team.
He is also a part of this family. When Nureyev handed him the journal, it was to get him out of bed - to get him interacting with the rest of the Carte Blanche in an attempt to pull him out of a low mood by putting him in the path of people who care about him. But everyone he talked to confided in Juno, too: Vespa asked him about trust in a relationship, Jet asked to sit with him while they considered their next step together, Rita had worries about the possibility of being alone soon, Buddy let off nerves from her wedding day. He’s as much a support for them as they are for him.
I’m not sure Juno realizes that. If he looked back on those conversations, I’m not sure he’d see more than the way they helped him; part of that low mood was because he didn’t have something to do for the wedding, and I wonder if that’s just a smaller example of Juno not seeing how he contributes. But I hope he has the chance to know that it’s more than necessity and usefulness that makes him important. I hope his family has the chance to tell him.
(And I hope the one, noticeable outlier - the one who hasn’t been confiding much, who didn’t talk to Juno before the wedding because he was using that time to remove every hint of himself from the ship - has the chance to let Juno, and the rest of them, in.)
