Dr. Ilkay rolled her eyes, but took the seat anyway, making a point to put her leg up on the arm of the chair. Despite the brutishness of the action, it suited her— scrubs and all. “You really know how to make a gal feel special, huh?”
Buddy gave her a smile. “I know how to make a special girl feel special—”
She blinked, then glanced at Dr. Ilkay, who seemed… tense, not meeting her eye.
She swallowed, cleared her throat, and said, “Never mind that.“
[id: a digital drawing of vespa and buddy from the penumbra podcast in their younger years. the two are in a darkened hotel room with a bag of their heist’s bounty, slightly pulled away from an embrace and glancing towards an unspecified light source. buddy is beginning to draw a laser gun, but the two seem to otherwise have a slightly cocky grin on their faces.]
the vibes are fun, intimate, and yeah we gay keep scrolling
we haven’t had a lot of vespa and jet screentime but they clearly like and respect each other so i like to imagine she was relatively quick in accepting his role as human-radiator and backup singer to buddy. the knife is there affectionately
[id: a page of four digital drawings of Buddy, Vespa, and Jet from The Penumbra Podcast interacting with each other.
Jet is a tall Indigenous man with light brown skin, dark brown eyes, and
dark grey hair with a messy fringe and a short ponytail. he has pale
veiny scarring on his face and a bit of stubble. he is wearing a dark green t-shirt, beige
cargo pants, and green boots, and in all but the top left drawing he is wearing a brown leather jacket and black fingerless gloves. he has many crisscrossing scars on his hands.
Buddy is a tall, fat black woman with a mass of curly dark red hair that (except in the top left, where it is pinned back)
covers the left half of her face. she has a dark green right eye and a prosthetic left eye that resembles a camera lens, set into wrinkled dark grey skin. she is wearing a selection of purple clothes.
Vespa is a slight, medium-brown-skinned South Asian woman with
brown eyes and short dark green hair in a mullet with the right sides shaved. she has some scarring on her face that makes it
uneven in places she is wearing a sleeveless black top with a hood-scarf, and has white bandage wraps around
her wrists and hands.
in the top left drawing, Buddy and Vespa sleep against either side of Jet, facing one another. the image is overall darker in hue than the other drawings. Buddy has both eyes closed, while Vespa has her right cracked open, smiling softly at Buddy. Jet is awake, looking at something on a mini tablet that he is holding with his right hand. it casts a blue glow, illuminating his face. Buddy is wearing a purple V-necked top with a dark blue collar.
in the top right drawing, Vespa stands with her hands close to her chest, smiling but startled on the left while Buddy and Jet sing to her, apparently kneeling down. Buddy has both arms spread out either side and is smiling as she sings. she is wearing a purple suit jacket with dark blue lapels, and no shirt underneath. the forearm portion of the sleeve is semi-transparent, and she is wearing matching purple lipstick. Jet stands slightly behind her and to the right, with his eyes closed and one hand to his chest, the other splayed out palm-up to the ceiling. beside Vespa are three question marks, while musical notes float above Buddy and Jet. an arrow points to Jet and says “harmonising” at the other end.
in the bottom left drawing, Vespa kisses Buddy’s left hand while Jet leans on Buddy’s right shoulder with his elbow. he has his right hand in his jacket pocket, and is smiling slightly looking at Buddy and Vespa. Buddy smiles at Vespa with her right hand balled up close to her chest, and she is wearing a simple purple dress and red-pink lipstick. Vespa is holding Buddy’s left hand with her right, and her left hovers close to her chest. a small red heart floats up from the kiss.
in the bottom right drawing, Jet sits on a sofa with Buddy lying across his legs and Vespa holding his chest with one arm from behind, brandishing a knife in her free hand. Buddy is posed with her right hand under her chin, smiling upwards, and has her left knee propped up on the sofa while the other hangs down. she is wearing a dress with a purple top, pale pink sash across her stomach, and dark pink skirt. she is also wearing black socks and red-pink lipstick. Jet raises an eyebrow at Vespa whose face is pressed close to his on his left. she has a very small devious smile. /end id]
Chapters: 1/5 Fandom:The Penumbra Podcast Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Buddy Aurinko/Vespa Ilkay Characters: Buddy Aurinko, Vespa Ilkay Additional Tags: Relationship Study, Established Relationship, Canon Compliant, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Pre-Canon, Season/Series 03, five senses, updating once a week until complete Summary:
After 15 years apart, Buddy and Vespa are relearning their relationship and the ways they’ve changed. It’s not just the big things, like Buddy’s mechanical parts or Vespa’s radiation-addled brain, but the little changes that seem to matter just as much. Any relationship takes time, especially when that time was stolen from them for so long, and they’re working together to figure out how to navigate each other now that they aren’t the same people that they once were.
A relationship study told through the five senses.
i posted the first chapter of a fic i’ve been working on for quite a while! i don’t normally post my fics on tumblr (i’m much more active on twitter) but this one is pretty important to me so i wanna shout about it from the internet rooftops!
if you read it, it would mean the absolute world to me if you dropped a comment and kudos! show some love to everyone’s favorite criminal space lesbians and their relationship
For @entropyre’s birthday two days ago, we released the last script for Reverse AU’s season one, Final Resting Place and in it we announced that June 8 (tomorrow), 9AM EST, we were releasing the first part of the podfic for Railbird’s Gamble (our Train From Nowhere episode). This is going to be our thumbnail for part one!
And I hope that y’all will be there for when we premier!
Vesbud commission for @ghostzvne !! Thank you so much this was so much fun 💕
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[ID: A digital painting of Buddy and Vespa from The Penumbra Podcast, standing facing each other and holding each others’ hands between them. Buddy is a shorter, fat, dark-skinned woman with curly red hair worn loose and pinned back on her right side, which is facing the viewer. Vespa is taller and thin, and has light brown skin and bright green hair that’s straight and styled into a mullet that’s pushed back and shaved at the sides. Both are wearing embroidered suits - Buddy’s is white with golden sun motifs, and Vespa’s is black with silver moon motifs. They’re warmly lit from behind and looking at each other fondly, a stylised sun and moon visible behind each of their heads. End ID.]
Here’s some detail shots here btw cause I rly like how this turned out o:
[ID: White text on a green background that says, “Vespa Ilkay’s Hot Girl Summer” in all caps, as well as “June 1st-5th” below that, and then “Lighthouse || First Time” below that. To the left there is also a white crescent moon. END ID]
HAPPY START TO VESPA ILKAY’S HOT GIRL SUMMER!
Feel free to follow the prompts for this week or make something else entirely! Be sure to tag it with #VespaSummer so that we can see it and reblog it!
Chapters: 5/5 Fandom:The Penumbra Podcast Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Buddy Aurinko/Vespa Ilkay, Buddy Aurinko & Jet Sikuliaq, Vespa Ilkay & Jet Sikuliaq, Vespa Ilkay & Juno Steel, background Peter Nureyev/Juno Steel Characters: Vespa Ilkay, Buddy Aurinko, Jet Sikuliaq, Juno Steel, Peter Nureyev, Rita (Penumbra Podcast) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Merpeople, Lighthouses, Drowning, (well almost drowning), Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Getting Together, buddy and vespa have TWO meet uglies, is rescuing someone from drowning considered a meet ugly?, Schizophrenic Vespa Ilkay, c'mon guys is it a danny fic if i don’t involve vespa’s brain somehow Summary:
Vespa Ilkay was tired. After vowing not to return to the lighthouse that had haunted her childhood, her father’s abrupt death forces her to figure out what’s going to happen to the one place she’d rather never think about. That being said, she was quickly discovering that maybe the beachside town of Ranga wasn’t the worst place to be after all. At least the company was nice.
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An AU where Buddy is a mermaid, Vespa is bedraggled, and a song is sung.
my vesbud mermaid au that i started back in february is finally complete! while i will be posting an epilogue (and possibly some bonus oneshots), the actual fic is done! i hope y’all like the ending!
[ID: White text on a green background that reads, “Vespa Ilkay’s Hot Girl Summer” in all caps, along with text underneath that says, “June 1st-August 31st” in all caps, and a quote that says, “Oh, Vespa. I love you.” To the left of the text there is a white crescent moon. END ID]
Welcome to Vespa Ilkay’s Hot Girl Summer! A summer-long event to show Vespa Ilkay some love. Celebrate everyone’s favorite doctor-assassin by making anything Vespa-centric. We’ll have weekly prompts that you can choose to follow/take inspiration from or disregard completely, and you can make as much or as little content as you’d like!
This event will run from June 1st to August 31st and is open to anyone who loves Vespa Ilkay! For more information, check out our about and rules.
Join our discord server here and follow our twitter here!
If you have any questions, feel free to send an ask here or DM on twitter, or message in the #suggestions channel on the server.
