#V3D

[toasthoneyandstardust]

This year I'm entering the Voltron Poster Contest, so here's my submission!

Last year's poster had Defender of The Universe, Voltron Legendary Defender, and even Vehicle Voltron (recognition at last) together, so I thought I'd step it up and do all four animated voltron shows! Voltron: Defender of The Universe/Beast King GoLion, Voltron: The Third Dimension, Voltron Force, Voltron: Legendary Defender

Obviously, my calling card is drawing Pidge, so they just had to be group together. Darrell (standing, from Voltron Force) looks like their tired babysitter, but I swear he's their loving older brother <3 or parent since he's the only adult out of the four

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[virussyart]

doing shenanigans and merging skins together and. jesús cristo????

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Do you like Voltron Force (2011) and want a spot to talk to other fans about it? Well you’re in luck because I and my dear friend @breadstickcat made a discord server just for that!

Our server is dedicated to Voltron Force, but we do encourage love for the series as a whole <3 especially because we’re fans of Voltron entirely too!

Hope to see you soon!

[chibi-pix]

Darrell is no longer allowed to drive after this one. Anyway! Coming across this on Pinterest, I had to draw it. But with Pidges. V3D Pidge up on the roof, VF driving, DotU in the back, and VLD holding on for dear life. And a perfect reference for @breadstickcat, Moo Moo on front. #savemoomoo

Anyway, this was so much fun to work on. I sadly don't know where to link for the original, but the signature says "scribbled-Death", but I don't know if that's here, insta, twitter, where. But. Here's what I used from pinterest.

Ah, pure joy.

Anyway, I hope y'all enjoy this one! Until next time!

[dear-kumari]

(Nearly four years later) I never did finish my V3D liveblog, did I

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Dear god don’t even get me started on this, I know you’re focusing on lances characterization but I wanna call out the character dynamics specifically

Every show before vld made the team BELIEVABLE, they cared for each other, constantly had each others backs, and actually fucking got along

With vld there were specific groups to the team and not that they all bonded equally. And ofc there’s the thought of “oh but the other shows had that too!” Yeah but not as egregious as vld. Lance mostly stuck around Hunk and Pidge since they were a trio beforehand but those two definitely were closer together than with him because of their genius, Allura and Coran only ever showed a strong bond with each other with makes sense but they were always a duo instead opening up for the team and same with Keith and Shiro, though at least Shiro had some connection to most of the others. I don’t think after s1-3 tops have the team ever spent time together aside from furthering some kind of agenda or defending the universe

But pre-vld? They hung out regularly, Dotu specifically had them helping the locals rebuild and giving out aid in between battles other than just having plain fun together like when they went swimming or had Arus participate in the fucking space Olympics. V3D was a little more action focused but everyone was always together and made sure to have each others backs when their own government didn’t give a damn about them (constantly confided in each other for mission planning and at least had one episode where everyone dogged on pidge for bullying hunk into the dark side a la miraculous which he forgave him for and became friends again). For vf we literally see that they’ve been keeping tabs on Keith FOR THE FIVE WHOLE YEARS HES BEEN SOLO and right when he comes back they stick together best they can and even have a few days where they not only bond with each other (episode 20 where they go to a luxury hotel to get some rest and relaxation together) but with their own damn lions (episode 15 where Keith eats pizza with black lion)!!!

Vld tried to get us to believe that the team cared for each other but at the end they really didn’t and lances self doubt about fitting in was all the more valid because there were already established groups he couldn’t join in! They tore down every character to the most basic points and consequently tore apart the thing that powered Voltron in the fucking first place! UNITY!!

You literally cannot have this giant robot that fucking runs on the power of friendship and incredible violence actually work IF NONE OF THE TEAM ARE ACTUALLY FRIENDS OR UNITED ENOUGH TO STICK TOGETHER THROUGH IT ALL (looking at you Keith)

I haven’t forgotten that episode in later seasons either where the team got spaced and they immediately started turning on each other instead of thinking it through only by the end for Keith to suddenly be the voice of reason WHEN HE NEVER WAS IN THE FIRST PLACE and calm them all down.

If I’m wrong about anything vld please do correct me as it’s been a hot minute since I’ve finished it but something tells me even though I may be wrong on some facts the overall idea doesn’t even get shaken

i am as always thinking about voltron. because i have issues. but i really and truly cannot get over vld’s flanderisation of lance’s character, it actually aggravates me to no end!!!

in the franchise, lance has been established to be an ace-flyer, incredibly perceptive (specifically in dotu and vttd, the source material + the closest sequel!), impulsive, and cocky—but his cockiness had SUBSTANCE. he knew he was that good. to me vforce has one of the best lance characterisations in how they get him: he’s a great flier, he’s a dependable figure of authority, he’s snarky, he bites back, he has the right amount of silliness and pettiness dotu lance had. in vforce, everyone could get teased by the narrative! it wasn’t one or two characters taking the brunt (hi vld hunk and lance!).

but in vld, they practically cut out all those parts of lance, the flying, the perceptiveness, his confidence, and then give it to keith (whose original personality had been then given to shiro). they leave him with the cockiness, but there’s nothing to back it up. they orchestrate keith and lance’s rivalry to be one-sided and terribly unbalanced because keith IS better than lance in a lot of things. this was never the case before, they had strengths and weaknesses that the other complemented and would sometimes cause conflict (vttd is a great example of this!).

i think the reason why it bothers me so much, is because this is first time lance has been latino and not white (not counting golion’s isamu in this). the first time! and the moment he is, they take away his skills and his strengths, have him bullied by the narrative and made into a joke, never taken seriously, and dialed up his flirtatiousness to over 9000. the only time i can actually recall lance being flirtatious in the franchise was in ddp’s run, but even then it wasn’t nearly as prominent or excessive as vld lance’s nonstop flirting. he gets keith’s leftover lion, he gets a sword like keith, he’s allura’s second choice, he never really finds his place in the team.

the arc of feeling like a seventh wheel or insecurity wouldn’t bother me if he had history in the franchise of this, if his character wasn’t established the way it was, but he doesn’t! and its not like vld’s narrative does much to disprove lance’s insecurity—in fact it winds up doing the opposite most of the time. on the surface vld and dotu lance seem similar, but deeper down i feel like the writers just…lost the plot. it’s not that you can’t branch out in reboots or explore other pathways, but it’s just so blatant to me in how they’d taken so much from him and passed it off to other characters. where’s the love for the source material in that? where’s the respect? i don’t know, maybe i’m just going on and on, but it haunts me.

[letmeremindyouvn]

A new demo I've made for a game jam. :D

Protocol L0-V3D Backrooms:

Your name is Clark. You are a researcher tasked with studying a strange phenomenon that manifests itself as endless empty rooms and hallways, in a seven year long research project known as Project Backrooms. You know that the Backrooms is a dangerous place full of unknown entities and abnormalities, so you place yourself in charge of patrolling the place and stopping any entities from attacking your coworkers.

But what do you do when one of your coworkers fall in love with one of the entities? 

Currently the game is still a very loose WIP because I had to rush out the demo for the game jam deadline. ;w; As of now it has no title screen and is missing many scenes. I plan to have a full demo out by the end of February and the full game out by April. ^^

[dntl07]

V3D魂穿87D

[ask-good-cop-bad-cop]

EVD-034: .. c0ps... | h4ve l|v3d 4 li3..

▫️ A lie? What did you find?

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

VOLTRON FORCE ALLURA IS PEAK ALLURA

Alluras

[toasthoneyandstardust]

I completely forgot I figured out how to record time lapses on CSP and that I tested it out with my recent poster art!

Here's the video for any of you that's interested, unfortunately I can't reblog the art with a video, so it's got its own post!

[virussyart]

current hyperfixation: him

[toastess-with-the-mostess]

Voltron: The Series

Next up Voltron: The Third Dimension (V3D) Now I want to start off by saying, yes, the art is atrocious BUT I will be defending it because it's the first fully CGI animated show in the US! A very big accomplishment for the Voltron series Dotu/VV - V3D (here) - VF - VLD

Word vomit under the cut <3

Good ol' 1998 V3D is a pseudo-sequel to Dotu, taking place about 5 years after the defeat of planet doom and showing us the lives of the pilots post Voltron before they're called back into action for a returned Lotor, now half cybernetic! Like Dotu, it got two seasons, but at least this one had an overarching plot instead of the episodic style voltron had originally This show is actually the reason for many of the characterizations we have today! V3D gave Pidge his child genius status, Hunk his gluttonous meat head one, and even the mystical nature of the lions! Not to mention we get much more world building and even a map of the Denubian Galaxy. The basic plot is as follows: the original 5 pilots are living their lives post Voltron until Lotor escapes the prison he's been held in for 5 years. The Galaxy Alliance is now overseen by an AI driven robot named Amalgamous, as he's the amalgam of the thoughts of every leader in the 900 planets that make up the alliance, who for some reason seems to have it out for Voltron. While the team tries to do what's right, they work with a reformed King Zarkon who's been aiding the alliance ever since his defeat, though Lance doesn't seem too taken with that idea. Like I said early, the animation is really part of its time but the plot itself isn't even bad. I've been lucky to find places to watch it, and it's genuinely kept me entertained even though it still has its faults

[bloutwo]

Not even a toy!!

Not to kill the vibes but I don't think anything is coming May 3rd, I think we're getting clowned

[chibi-pix]

Chibi watches V3D 06

Time for an episode of Voltron: The Third Dimension. I know, I skipped it last night. But I had things going on, so I didn't get the chance to watch an episode. But, here I am tonight! So! Let's go!

Okay. I just wanna take Pidge and put him over my knee for those insults. C’mon, Pidge! Be nice! Hunk is a cinnamon roll! Of course Haggar is spying on things. And she’s got a plan to work with it. Of course. Poor Hunk. C’mon, guys! Be nice to my cinnamon roll!

Oh no. OH NO! Four minutes in, they un-cinnamoned my cinnamon roll, didn’t they!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Admittedly, it is intriguing to see that the lion is invisible. Like, as the audience, we can tell by the distortion, but still. Intriguing. (Wow, I really do say that word a lot, don’t I?) Kieth yeeting himself in to Pidge to get him out of the way is kinda nice.

I’m gonna call it here at nine minutes in; Pidge apologizing will help save Hunk. C’mon, Pidge! Get over yourself and apologize to Hunk! “I got it, Keith. This is all my fault.” I mean, it’s Haggar’s, too, for using that against y’all, but yeah. It’s initially your fault.

Seeing that glorified calculator be taken away by the robeast, I just can’t feel too bad for him. Kinda wish they destroyed him. But… I guess not.

While I initially still want to put Pidge over my knee to give him what for for insulting Hunk so much, I do like him kinda teasing him on the field to make him give chase. It’s childishly adorable. Awwwwwww! Hunk’s love for his little buddy is stronger than Haggar’s magic! As it should! The power of friendship, baby!

Aw! Hunk has a massage chair in his lion! A good upgrade, if you ask me.

Look, I still wanna give Pidge what for, but I'm glad he made things better by actually apologizing to Hunk. You two are buddies! You should be getting along!

Anyway! that's it for the night! Until next time!

[dear-kumari]

I refreshed my memory of the VLD comics today and … boy, the art was really struggling by the end there, huh? Honestly, the one issue of Voltron Force I read had much higher production value than the last volume of this series.