#farewell voltron

[localfanbaselurker]

Keith in Season One: no pidge you can’t leave we need to form voltron and everyone has families and-

Keith in Season Four:

[kismetconstellations]

@maya-matlin, I know your message was a single character's name, but I'll go ahead and respond for the show, instead, if that's all right.

❤ Favorite character: Takashi Shirogane, my beloved.

👿Least favorite character: Sendak. As awful as Zarkon is, Sendak inspires a visceral hatred in me that only Haggar comes close to. Maybe it's his smug sense of superiority, or the fact that he's Shiro's personal tormentor who not only gets off on torturing Shiro,

but is implied to have sexually violated him, as well.

Regardless, I derive immense satisfaction from the- tragically brief- moment of Shiro getting to overpower Sendak and using the ugly hulking bastard's momentum against him to piledrive him into the ground.

It's not nearly enough, but it's something.

Though, I still think Shiro should have got to kill him. As a treat.

💐Comfort character: Shiro.

And, Hunk.

The sweetest boys. ❤

😍Character you have the biggest crush on: I don't know if I would call it a "crush", but...

I most certainly appreciate Shiro aesthetically.

🤝 Character you relate to the most: Shiro, for his experiences as a trauma survivor grappling with symptoms of self-loathing and PTSD, his fear of being a "broken" "monster", and drive to prove that he's so much more than what he was forced to be, and Hunk, for his anxiety, love of cute things, and desire to bring happiness and comfort to others.

🔥Character you think is overrated:

🧨Character you love to hate: I don't enjoy hating anyone, but I would bring a bag of popcorn to watch Sendak and Haggar duke it out in a fight to the death.

🙈 Character you always forget exists: Any character exclusive to seasons three through six, which I still haven't been able to convince myself to watch because of the clone. I'm sorry, but I cannot take that haircut seriously.

The fact that "Kuron" is so blatantly not Shiro, and gets several seasons of both bonding with Shiro's found family, and driving wedges between them, while the real Shiro, whom I spent two seasons getting to know and love deeply, is dead and languishing on the Astral Plane sits so wrongly with me.

These two men are not the same person. I could go on and on about the differences in confidence levels, how the clone comes across as younger and having a harsher edge, while Shiro seems older, worn, and is much, much softer and gentler. How the clone seems to be wearing eyeliner while Shiro simply has long eyelashes. That Shiro's essence being transferred into the clone's body caused the clone's fringe to magically change shape and grow out, which is unintentionally hilarious--

-- and proves that Shiro would never wear his hair that way...

I beg you, fandom, please stop referring to the clone as Shiro. He's an entirely separate person with a different temperament and his own unique personal struggles; not Actual Shiro with a different (terrible) haircut.

(It's also aggravating that "Kuron" got to reunite with Matt, who Shiro saved, while Post-Resurrection Shiro and Matt have no interaction onscreen. And, if the image I've seen floating around of "Kuron" in a group hug with Team Voltron is something that legitimately happened in the show, and not part of a character's fantasy, it's even more galling that the only people Post-Resurrection Shiro receives hugs from are Keith, right after his revival, and Allura, when she's bidding him farewell before she kills herself.

This man died, and he's only hugged by two people once he's brought back to life. Disgraceful.)

🐰Favorite non-human character: Since so much of the cast is comprised of non-human aliens, I'll reword this prompt a little bit.

My favorite non-human, in the sense that she doesn't have any somewhat human features other than two forward-facing eyes, two hands with fingers and thumbs, two feet, and a mouth located on her face, is Shay.

I love how gentle, sweet, and soft-spoken she is. Precious rock girl.

My favorite non-humanoid character is a three-way tie between Bae Bae,

Kosmo,

and the mice.

Bonus shout out to Kova for having an interesting design and being a space cat.

❤️‍🩹 Character who deserved better: Just one? I'll have to go with the only character who was treated worse than Shiro by the hack brain trusts in charge of the train wreck this show became, and that is, of course, Allura. One could write entire essays covering all of the ways she was heinously wronged by the writers, from never getting the chance to heal from her grief over losing her parents and entire home world and culture, to having her trust exploited and betrayed by Lotor, to bearing the weight of her guilt over that betrayal all the way up to the moment she sacrifices herself, to the utterly needless and cruel sacrifice, itself.

The fact that I've seen fanfiction tags and comments referring to her as a "bitch", and fics where the author warps her character, emphasizing her flaws to a ridiculous degree for the purpose of bashing her, usually complemented by a nice side of Shiro warping and bashing, with the two of them uniting to be great big bullies to Lance, Keith, or both, is absurd and detestable. But, unfortunately, it's the sort of behavior one comes to expect from a fandom populated by majority young, somewhat overzealous fans.

Spite has always been a powerful motivator for me, however, so every encounter with a fic, comment, or post of this nature only makes me like Allura and her vastly under-appreciated friendship with Shiro all the more. The price of being noble, self-sacrificing, hyper-competent, beautiful, and hated by your writers because of it is immature fans who can't or are unwilling to appreciate you, I guess.

Their loss.

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Thank you so much for the submission! ❤

[silentwillowwhisperer]

Betrayal

"Alright Lance. This is it. The final battle. Zarkon has already killed all the others. Now it's just you and me. We're the only ones we can trust," Keith said, staring into Lance's eyes.

"Forever and always, Sharpshooter."

Kosmo teleported in between them, slightly ruining the moment, but they couldn't be mad at their loyal warrior.

Lance, however, looked conflicted. Keith watched his face and realized with shock that Lance had tears in his eyes.

"What's wrong, babe? Are you alright?"

Lance's laugh sounded hollow, and full of pain. He wrapped his arms around Keith, only for Keith to realize that his arms were still moving higher. Suddenly, there was a knife at his throat, and him back was being pressed into Lance's chest.

"Lance? Lance, what are you doing?"

"I'm sorry my love."

Lance brought his knee up to Keith's... sensitive area. Hard.

Keith fell to the ground screaming bloody murder, his voice going up several octaves.

"The job is done, Zarkon. I have him tied up and ready to deliver to you."

Lance tossed his husband over his shoulders in a fireman carry, ignoring the other man's tearful protests.

He put Keith in the back of his space pod, making sure he couldn't escape. Within the hour, they had made it to Zarkon's ship.

"They heard a grating voice over the comms, "Bring him here. The hangar door is open."

Wow. Zarkon really needs a cough drop.

As soon as they made it inside, Lance dragged Keith out of the pod and untied his wrists. Lance put a firm hand on Keith's shoulder to guide him towards the guards, who were lining the outer walls of the room.

That's when Keith started struggling. he threw Lance off of him. Lance's gun had fallen to the ground, so Keith grabbed that and started shooting anyone in his path.

He was a good 45 feet away from the space shuttle. (That's fifteen-ish meters.)

He was only ten feet away when he heard the yell.

Lance's yell. Oh no.

Keith stopped in his tracks to see Lance standing behind him.

His violet eyes widened as he watched Lance shudder. A dark spot of blood pooled on the left side of his chest.

Red. Like those poppies he gave me on our first date. How did he know those are my favorite?

Lance crumpled to the ground, landing awkwardly with his limbs splayed out around him.

Keith rushed to his side, laying Lance's head gently onto his lap.

"Don't look, so betrayed Keith. I know what you're thinking."

Of course you know. You always know.

Keith must have said that aloud, because Lance chuckles weakly.

"I know you, Keith. No amount of yelling and trying will keep me alive. I would apologize for doing this, but I feel no regret. I am fighting for the correct side, just like you should be. The only reason I stayed with Voltron for so long is because my love for you was the only real emotion I had on that damned ship. How do you think Zarkon tracked and killed the other paladins so easily? I've been giving him intel for years."

Keith's face darkened.

Lance had killed Keith's only family, everyone that every cared about him. But the worst part was, Keith still couldn't stop loving Lance.

He looked to his lover's face and felt only fondness.

Still he screamed, "I HATE you! H-How could you do this to them? How c-could you d-do this to ME?"

Keith's voice cracked heavily, as he started to sob into Lance's chest.

"Are you talking about me dying, or me betraying the team? Because between you and me, I think I know which one you're more upset about. I bet if the team were still alive, you'd help me kill them all if it meant staying together."

Keith couldn't say a word, because it was all true.

Lance clearly saw that, because when his eyes closed at last, a smile had settled on his face.

"Farewell my Samurai."

And with that, Lance heaved his final breath.

"Ugh, that was so dramatic."

Lance's head popped up.

"Hey! I think we're pretty good actors, actually."

Kayla Rosa McClain stepped up onto her Papi's stomach. (sorry, I couldn't figure out how to accent it)

Keith scoffed.

"Oh come on. That was really good. I even cried."

"Ya! Trust me, it's really hard to make your Daddy cry. Did you see me slam him in the man parts? Not. A. Tear. Sorry 'bout that by the way."

The McClains had only one daughter, found homeless after the Galra attack years ago.

When the husbands had come across her, she was only 2 years old and still nameless.

(Keith made sure to sue that orphanage after they had left, he understood entirely what it was like to feel unsafe and parentless in a group home.)

"It was so gross and lovey."

Lance raised and eyebrow.

"You keep that attitude up, young lady, and I will not hesitate to kiss your daddy right here in front of you."

Mama McClain had taught Lance well. Kay screeched loudly before covering her eyes.

"Please don't."

Kosmo rushed in to join the fun. He ended up sprawled across the dads, and smothering Kayla's legs.

Keith struggled for a moment before giving up.

"I can beat a druid, multiple enhanced aliens, and a bunch of extremist purple cats, but I am trapped by my own wolf."

"And me! The evil Zarkon! I'm the coolest Zarkon ever! Vrepit Sa!"

"Lance! Look what you've done! Our kid is going over to the dark side!"

"No regrets, my lovely Prince Brooding. No regrets."

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...April Fools?

Idk if I did that right, but it was fun, so there.

Imma try my first-ever poll:

Also, I'm going on a vacay starting tomorrow with my family, so it's possible that I won't post anything for the next 4 days.

Anyway, hope you enjoyed! Bye Loves!

[omgsquee2001]

We Are Connected: Chapter 2: An Unwelcome Arrival

As they got closer and closer to the planet, Shiro started to have second thoughts. Coran's words rang in his head. He turned to Allura, worry on his features.

"Allura, are we sure this is a good idea? Like Coran said, it has been ten thousand years. Aengtew and Seäumni might not even be there anymore." He said. He was trying to tell her in a polite way that the two might not even be alive anymore. Allura looked at the leader of Voltron.

"I understand your worry, Shiro. However, you must believe me. I stayed on Pandora for at least two decafeebs. I know the Na'Vi very well." Allura said. "They are a relatively peaceful people." She said. Lance frowned.

"Yeah, well, last time Coran said something was 'peaceful', Hunk and I got shot at by Galran fighters while trying to get the yellow Lion. You Alteans have a very different definition of what 'peaceful' actually means." He said. Hunk nodded.

"Yeah, what Lance said. So, the question is, are they going to kill us right as soon as we land, or are they going to sacrifice us?" Hunk asked, listing off the two worse case scenarios. Allura sighed and smiled.

"I understand your hesitance, but you must trust me. They will not cause us any harm," she said. Allura stopped the Castle just before entering the atmosphere of the planet. "Now, we will not go down in the Lions. We will go down in pods. The pods are smaller than the lions and I do not want to upset the balance of the planet." She said. Keith and Shiro shared an unsure look.

~~~~

You sat in a field of grass, your hands lay flat on the surface. The area surrounding your hand glowed a gentle white. Your eyes were closed, concentrating. Suddenly, you heard a voice in your head.

*'Ma 'ite, oel ngati kameie.' The voice sounded. The voice was young, but still deep, filled with much wisdom and experience. A smile graced your face, hearing the voice of Eywa.

*'Awvea, oel ngati kameie.' You responded. Your ears twitched lightly, making sure to pay attention to your surroundings whilst communicating with the Great Mother.

'How fair my people? How is Home Tree?' Eywa asked.

'Your people flourish happily. Akou and Tamìun lead the People in peace and strength.' You responded. Suddenly, you felt a change in the wind. Your smile fell and your ears twitched.

'Something is coming, Ma 'ite. When it arrives, do not fear. For they are familiar faces.' Eywa advised.

'I carry your wisdom, Awvea. Farewell.' You responded.

'Farewell, Ma 'ite.' Eywa responded. With that, you opened your eyes and sighed. You lifted your hands from the grass. The Seeds of the Great Tree floated down and around you. With a soft smile, you lifted your hands, allowing one of the seeds to float just above your palms, tickling your hands lightly. Your ears twitched as your heard the familiar war cries of your People. Lifting your hands, the seed floated away in the air, returning to the Tree. Giving an almost bird like call, you waited for your Ikran.

~~~~

*Ma 'ite, oel ngati kameie = Daughter, I See You

*Awvea, oel ngati kameie = Great Mother, I See You

~~~~~

As the pods floated down towards the surface of Pandora, the paladins looked around in wonder at what they saw around them. The differences in color were astounding. Lance's eyes widened, seeing, what looked like a monkey with blue-green skin and four arms.

"Woah! Is that a monkey with four arms?!" He shouted. Allura smiled looking at it.

"That's a prolemuris, Syaksyuk in Na'Vi." She explained. As they got closer to the ground, arrows started flying up at them. Shiro frowned and looked around.

"What's going on?" He asked. Pidge ran over to the glass and looked down.

"Uh, Allura, I think you got the definition of 'peaceful' wrong again." Pidge said in an unsure tone. Allura smiled.

"Let me handle this," she said. The pod door opened and Allura stepped out, her arms out to the side, hands out, showing that she meant no harm. "Greetings, Na'Vi, children of Eywa. I am Allura, daughter of King Alfor, Princess of Altea. I come in peace. I wish to see Aengtew and Seäumni." She said. However, she was met with more arrows pointing at her, the angry hisses and yelps of the Na'Vi did not cease. Just as an arrow was about to let loose, there was a familiar voice.

*"Kehe!" A voice sounded. An Ikran, with a Na'Vi riding, flew down to the ground. The Na'Vi dismounted and turned to the rest, bowing down and moving their arms forward. *"Mawey, Na'viya! Mawey!" The Na'Vi called. The rest seemed to follow their command, lowering their weapons, still on guard.

*"'upe lu po?" One or the warriors asked. The Na'Vi turned to the warrior.

*"Mawey, Leaypaw," they turned towards Allura and the Paladins, a protective look in their yellow eyes. *"Fìketuwongti oel st��yeftxaw." They said. Feeling tense, Keith reached for his bayard, however, he was stopped by Shiro. Shiro looked at his friend and shook his head. The Na'Vi slowly walked around the Princess, eyeing her up and down. They soon stopped in front of her, then, their yellow eyes widened in realization. "It cannot be," they whispered. *"Allura te Altea, Alfor'ite?"

*Kehe = No

*Mawey, Na'viya! Mawey! = Calm, People! Calm!

*'upe lu po? = What are they?

*Mawey, Leaypaw = Calm, Leaypaw

*Fìketuwongti oel stìyeftxaw = I will look at this alien.

*Allura te Altea, Alfor'ite? = Allura of the Altea, daughter of Alfor?

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//Here's chapter 2. I hope you all like it.//

[chibi-pix]

Farewells are never easy, but sometimes they're needed. The other reality needs their Voltron back, so the team finds themselves on the edge of saying good-bye to their counterparts. To their dear friends.

[renwisterianova]

Old alternate Voltron Legendary Defender fan art I made during VLD’s airing, which I believe was season 6? Its been ages. Just found these while I was saving and deleting artworks from my Ipad because of the bent.

I am not sure of the fandom is active since its been years ago, but I want to share these ideas I had which I never got a chance because of school and irl issues. Here’s the story.

Inspired and slightly taking aspects from Beast King GoLion (Voltron), this is a mixture of retro and future but differently as it ie a modern take of it. Shiro is a respected senior cadet who leads his squad consisting of Lance, Hunk, and Pidge whom among others were chosen to explore the universe in order to find planets to inhabit in case of their home planet Earth will one day perish from the Sun in a few years. Lance is an expert in strategy thanks to his keen eye and quick thinking skills though can be arrogant and a flirt sometimes, Hunk is an expert in diplomatic manners and records their travels of their findings with the help of Pidge but can be brash sometimes, and Pidge is a navigator who pin points locations for where they travel though they can be mischievous in a pranking sense and gets smug easily. They are also in their brother’s place due to Matt being missing since the last travel years ago so they had advanced in their training days at the Garrison. They bid farewell to their families as they four went off while other squads followed suit.

Eventually as the four headed off to travel, things begin to dire as the Galran Empire ended up attacking Earth leading to global destruction that many of the governments asked those with the technology to go to space to head out of Earth and save themselves. Because of this, many civilians desperately tried to enter pods that only benefit the rich which went a bit messy and some managed to escape while Earth perished. Learning of this, Shiro, Lance, Hunk, and Pidge called their parents to ask them if they were okay as they saw the news of Earth slowly dying.

Shiro’s husband, Adam, told him to keep going and not come back but Shiro didn’t want to leave his husband behind. Adam convinced him not to, that they will find each other again before the feed went down.

No Adam didn’t die on this, he went to another pod with his squad to help civilians come travel with them which included Lance, Hunk, and Pudge’s family because of connections. This was suppose to be like, later on when they reunite xD

While they mourn the loss of their home and unsure if their loved ones are alive, they were captured by the Galra Empire and kept to be used for their sick twisted gladiator game. All four had to fight to survive for months to almost a year but they managed to escape by taking the enemy ship. Unknown to them, a certain person was following behind them in order to capture and kill for their crimes against the Galran empire. Said ship run out of fuel and crashed landed on a planet where they spotted an Altean Ship. They managed to enter inside and were shocked to find Allura and Coran whom the two thought they were intruders by attacking them. Some misunderstanding occurs which Im not sure how it ended cuz they cleared things up but they saw the figure who followed the four attack them. This is Keith, whose basically part of the Galran Empire thanks to being kidnapped as a child from his father and brainwashed as a soldier to kill Alteans. So theres anger tension between him and Allura because of Altean and Galran history.

They do become friends later on, once they overcome anger that is and realize they can end the war by defeating the Galran Empire and free all planets. They ended up becoming like, siblings which I believe is the better outcome cuz I got like pair plans xD Allura ended up with Merla (who isn’t Galran mind you) while Keith ended up with Lance.

Anyway, the Galra generals found their ship and attacked them which lead the Black Lion to emerge from that planet as Allura was actually trying to find the Lions who were in other planets after her and Coran’s home-world was destroyed as well. The Black Lion managed to destroy Galran general’s ship leading everyone including Keith whom Lance managed to tie him up and headed off to a new planet where it will be a temporary base before they can all travel to visit planets.

And they go find the lions after all need to get along on each planet which each lion responded to them such as Shiro with Black, Lance with Blue, Keith with Red, Hunk with Yellow, and Pidge with Green. There’s another lion which is for Allura so consider it as an aux! Yes I based this off Super Sentai ahhhhh. That is how they all became paladins! And try to get along where friendship and found family blooms to defeat the Galran Empire

Of course these are just what I wrote for them and change them. I may revamp them sometime if my Ipad is in working condition or when I replace it with a new one. Thanks for reading for my insane ideas :,D

[monsters-conquer-the-world]

KAIJU KRUSH

PHASE ONE... COMPLETE.

We've got even more incredible match ups to look forward to in Phase Two! First, let's give a fond farewell to our fallen fiends:

THE KRAKEN Stuffed into The Rift by Gipsy Danger.

MR. STAY-PUFT Roasted by Ultraman.

VOLTRON Rendered obsolete by EVA-01.

ZILLA De-rezzed by the Dragonzord.

THE 50 ft. WOMAN Burned by The Balrog.

PULGASARI Shockingly lost an eating competition to The Skullcrawler.

CTHULHU Got played by George.

THEM! Stomped by The Iron Giant.

Phase Two is gonna be even fiercer! Stay tuned!

[everlastingfable]

omg just over 10 years ago, in the back of my planner, I wrote down a list of my fav ___ and every 6 months or so I would update it. of course I did lose it occasionally so there’s gaps but I found it again

transcription under the cut. some of these are so embarrassing

september 2012 favourite movie: thor/the avengers favourite show: merlin favourite book: lost hero series favourite character: loki / merlin favourite color: dark green / black favourite song: silver lining what do I want to be when I grow up: animator eye colour that I want: blue / green

june 2013 favorite movie: how to train your dragon favorite show: supernatural / doctor who / sherlock favorite book: how to train your dragon favorite character: hiccup / jack frost favorite actor: matt smith / benedict cumberbatch favorite color: green & brown / blue & white favorite song: forbidden friendship piano song: forbidden friendship what do I want to be when I grow up: animator / screenwriter eye color: blue / green

june 2014 favorite movie: how to train your dragon favorite show: favorite book: favorite character: hiccup, jack, guy, nico favorite actor: favorite color: favorite song: piano song: forbidden friendship, let it go what I want to be: eye color: green

december 2014 movie: httyd / httyd2 show: gravity falls, the flash, over the garden wall book: character: hiccup, jack, barry, wirt actor: color: song: immortals, blank space piano song: stoick saves hiccup, stoick’s ship, the unknown what I want to be: eye color:

june 2015 movie: ? show: gravity falls, teen titans, young justice book: ? character: bart allen actor: ? color: ? song: centuries, rule the world piano song: centuries, arrival of the birds job: director eye color: ?

december 2015 movie: ? show: gravity falls, over the garden wall book: ? gotham academy comic character: tim drake actor: ? color: red song: everything stays piano song: blood moon waltz job: HAHAHA eye color: ? green maybe

august 2016 movie: ? show: young justice book: ? character: tim / bart actor: ? color: red / blue song: heathens piano song: heathens job: ? eye color: ?

jan 2017 movie: ? show: yuri on ice book: ? character: tim, bart, yuri, yurio, viktor actor: ? color: red? song: yoi, theme of king jj, history maker piano song: yuri on ice & you only live once job: no clue eye color: ?

january 2018 movie: coco is good show: voltron book: ? character: keith actor: jeremy shada (?) color: red / purple / blue song: thunder, believer, remember me piano song: believer job: idk eye color: ?

march 2020 movie: :( show: atla book: no character: keith, zuko actor: jeremy dooley ? color: red, black ? song: war, oot soundtrack piano song: gerudo valley, change, song of storms job: uh oh stinky (dental hygenist) eye color: no

november 2022 favorite movie: haven’t been watching movies favorite show: not actual fav but obsessed w/ rn, witcher favorite book: I’m glad my mom died or bring up the bodies for current obsession favorite character: jaskier, mark smeaton favorite actor: joey batey favorite color: don’t have one favorite song: inkpot gods, farewell wanderlust piano song: moonlight sonata, farewell wanderlust, hallelujah job: accountant now eye color: blue would be fun

my thoughts: funny enough ten years later I’m back obsessing over live action and brits again. the really cringy ones that were so hard for me to type up were june 2013 and jan 2017 just yikes. interestingly, I know I listened to bastille probably since 2013 and yet I’ve never put one of their songs as my favorite. I love that my favorite colors are 100% the colors my favorite characters at the time are associated with. this actually documents perfectly from when I started high school, through college, up to now. unfortunately the gap between 2020 and 2022 means my toa obsession does not get recorded. I might continue this. we’ll see when I find it again. although I probably won’t update this post

[olivers-cocoapuffs]

farewell

I'm watching the hallow but my dog is barking and it's annoying.

because I'm watching the hallow, my question is minorly related.

do you have Netflix? if so, what's your profile picture?

alternatively, tell me your profile picture for something else.

an eye for an eye: Mine is catra from She-Ra (I love her, okay?)

also! the hallow is such a comfort show, and Carmen sandiego. why does Netflix have such good cartoons?

seriously, She-Ra, dead end, Voltron, Carmen sandiego, the hallow- they're all great. too bad they cancelled dead end and Lockwood and co. if they hadn't, maybe we could've been friends

wait the hallow was cancelled too. but idk what a third season of this would've done for anyone so i don't overly care.

hello.

I’ve never seen it! (Should I??)

last I checked my Netflix profile is Nick Nelson :)

I’m not a cartoonish person so out of all of them I’ve only seen Carmen Sandiego and some of She-Ra

[sorryicantquitequeeryou]

Today I say goodbye to my beloved and rare Netflix profile pic

Pidge from Voltron: Legendary Defender!

A comfort character.

Alas... Netflix says I'm not allowed to use my Dad's Netflix account anymore since I live 30 minutes away so I will bid thee farewell. With nothing but this screenshot to preserve my memory~

and how it still exists when I visit my dad as long as he decides he wants to pay for Netflix which probably won't last now that I can't use it

[kitewithfish]

Wednesday Reading Meme for Jan 18 2023

What I've Read Westerns: Making the Man in Fiction and Film - by Lee Clark Mitchell - This book was read for the Great Queer Supernatural Re-Watch section on Westerns and while I think it provided useful background on the pre-cinematic roots of the genre in novels and painting, I found that the analysis of filmed works was just fine.

There are times where Mitchell misinterprets a work to suit a contrasting reading of masculinity in two films - Hondo and Shane, for example. Hondo absolutely has a plot about a strange interloping male lead coming to a homestead and getting emotionally involved with an abandoned but still married woman and her son, before getting serious with her after her no-good husband dies - because the male lead kills him! Shane has an strange male interloper, but the move bends over backwards to make sure that the ranch wife and the interloper are never in the same shot alone, and the husband is a clearly heroic figure in his own right - plus the ending where Shane bids his farewell to their son rather than to the wife. Modern viewers would be justified in seeing a triad relationship than seeing infidelity. Mitchell also really ignores the racial dynamics of the genre and the fact that he's analyzing White American masculinity, not something more broad, plus he also doesn't really do audience reception of films at all. For all that I found Monsters in the Closet a bit prosaic in the analysis, it's miles better than this for providing context. But Westerns is from 1996, maybe the author has had a chance to get deeper into these topics since.

I read a BUNCH of fanfic that is just too short of the novel line to count as a novel for my reading purposes: A Man of Honor by astolat https://archiveofourown.org/works/44251276 36k - Regency AU, queer accepting AU of Jaime/Robb. It's actually massively fealty fic with some fun politicking, I adored this Tyrion. Cersei is Sir Not Appearing In This Fic, the monarchy and the battles are displaced to English Parliament, it's quite fun.

trust is a mobius strip by sinspiration https://archiveofourown.org/works/22394041 35k - Voltron: Legendary Defender, Shiro/Keith -this is just deeply charming example of non-sexual submission and kink in space. When aliens think you are dating, you might be dating. I don't even go here! I have not engaged in this fandom at all! All I know is that they have goofy space lions.

The Desert Storm by Blue_Sunshine 30K https://archiveofourown.org/works/18206480 - this is a truly massive series that is only technically finished because the author moved the second and ongoing portion of the series into a different series altogether. It's absolutely not shippy, it's very focused on Ben Nasaade, aka, Obi-Wan Kenobi from Luke's toddler years, getting magicked back to work with the Jedi in the years leading up to the Clone Wars. It's wonderful in terms of taking Jedi philosophy seriously and involves a lot of the Tatooine slave culture worldbuilding that fanon has put together from other sources (which I need to read). I inhaled the first five pieces of this and was so glad I had it downloaded to read when AO3 had it's maintenance shutdown last week. ruin 1/12/23 - holy fucking shit 16k fallout 1/12/23 oh my god 12k true colors 11223 10K in crisis 1/13/23 10k

What I'm Reading Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir - SFF Book Club - Chugging right along! I feel like I am getting the fun vibe of this book in a way that I really wasn't the first time because, since I first tried to read this, I have actually read some recent YA fiction, so I am slightly more in tune with the tropes that they are pointedly subverting.

When A Scot Ties the Knot by Tessa Dare - Audiobook, absurd and fun

The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System (Ren Zha Fanpai Zijiu Xitong) Vol. 4 by Mò Xiāng Tóng Xiù with Faelicy (Translator) - moved out of hold so that I can read one section that is the basis for shipping two background characters. I might abandon this one after this section.

On Hold but not abandoned The World We Make by NK Jemisin (Great Cities 2) 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson - Slowly

What I'll Read Next The Uncle's Story, Witi Ihimaera The Good Lord Bird

Library books  Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys 

Owned and need to read: Frey Marske's A Restless Truth, and Susanna Clarke's Pirenesi California Bones, Raven Song by IA Ashcroft, Kraken's Sacrifice by Katee Robert, Even Though I Know the End by CL Polk, True Colors by Karen Traviss, At The Feet of the Sun by Victoria Goddard, Tamryn Eradani's Enchanting Encounters Books 2 and 3, Like Real People Do by EL Massey, Tom Stoppard, invention of love. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, "You Just Need to Lose Weight" and Other Myths about Fatness by Aubrey Gordon, Alisha Rai Partners in Crime, the Right Swipe, Aphorisms of Kerishdar

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Thanks Lore! your first fic was for SW?! sounds cool ^^

1.How many works on Ao3? 2 I think! posting on Tumblr is easier so I sticked to that for the most part

2. What is your A03 word count?

3. What fandoms do you write for? TLH mainly, and in my head/drafts there's some RWRB and Voltron, but nothing even remotely finished.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? There are no five, so:

Darling, I've been having dark dreams (154)

Cause I'm never gonna heal.... (75)

5. Do you respond to comments? Why/Why not? Absolutely! Nothing brings me as much satisfaction as people commenting on my works.

6. Fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Judging by reactions, either But if my heart is to stop today please have your lips bid me farewell, or Covered in you. I'd be partial to Covered..., because that while thing was just pure angst, while But... is more if a tragic drama.

7. Fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Hmmm... If we hold on together?

8.Have you received hate in your fics? nah, I think I'm way too small of a creator for that lol

9. Do you write smut? Not really, but not due to preference, but rather lack od skill. I hate badly written smut.

10. Crossovers? No, not my thing.

11. Have you ever had a fix stolen? Nah, same as 8.

12. Have you ever had a fix translated? Not that I know of.

13. Have you ever co-written with another author before? no. as much as I love brainstorming and for example creating headcanons together, I dont think I'm fit for co-writting. I'm too stubborn.

14. Favourite ship of all time? not able to answer with one, obviously. Firstprince, Anne x Gilbert, Zoyalai, Thomastair.

15. WIPs you don't think you'll finish? Probably all of TLH, really, aside from Circus AU. If I ever get back into fanfiction it will most likely not be TSC. (aside, again, from Circus AU.)

16. Writing strengths? I don't really know? conveying emotions I think?

17. Writing weaknesses? Action/descriptive scenes?

18. Thoughts on dialogue in a fic of another language? I loooove it, as long as there's translation of course. I think it adds a great touch, especially if done well. I've always used help of a native speaker when I wrote mine, so I think either that or actually speaking the language is needed.

19. First fandom you wrote for? If scribbling in the margins of school notebooks a self insert romance at twelve counts, HP. yikes.

20. Favourite fic you've written? Covered in you or I wanna learn to love.

I'm not really on here so I don't know who's active still, therefore I'm not tagging! if you see this and wanna do it, consider yourself tagged tho!

Thanks for the tag @sixofsol ! I've missed these kinda tag games, they're so fun to do!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

20 so far! (I published my first fic in Jan of this year oml)

2. What is your AO3 word count?

172,381! My goal is to get 200k written by new years day but October was a terrible month for writing so I'm 10k words behind schedule :(

3. What fandoms do you write for?

So far only six of crows. One day I want to branch out into rwrb or lokius but for now the wesper brainrot is way too strong

4. What are your top five fics by kudos?

Of Merchlings and Letters Home with 963

Of Lies and Rash Decisions with 839

I Wish You Meant It with 787

You got me wrapped around your finger (not that I'm complaining) with 600

Jesper Fahey Couldn't Sleep with 537

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

Yes! I love responding to comments as they make my smile sm. Sometimes I'm too overwhelmed (in a good way) or busy to answer immediately but I do try my best!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Heh it definitely has to be Just You and Me Merchling. I had so much fun writing that one, hurt no comfort is my beloved.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Uhm, depends on how you want to look at it. Fic with the fluffiest ending? Probably Summer Days Drifting Away or Out Of The Blue. Fic where they finally found happiness after everything they'd been through? Flair For The Dramatics or Never Let Me Go. Fic where against all odds it worked out in the end? Of Lies and Rash Decisions.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Thankfully I haven't to my knowledge.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I dabble in some every now and then... it's always soft and either full of jesper being a simp or a pining idiot (or both) during it. Lost On The Shape Of You and The Longest Hour are my only published examples

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

The only crossover I've published was Never Let Me Go, if that even counts considering it was more of a Spiderverse AU then a Spiderverse crossover. I have a How To Train Your Dragon wesper au in the works, but it's still in the baby phase so I don't yet know how faithful to the og movie the storyline will play out. There will definitely be all the iconic scenes anyway.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not to my knowledge, no.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yeah! Of Merchlings and Letters Home, Of Lies and Rash Decisions and Flair For The Dramatics have all been translated into French by the wonderful shippoutsy on ao3 and twitter. (Link to the translated fics in the titles) it is one of the highest honour someone can bestow to a fanfic writer in my opinion, alongside fanart and book binding. If I was only more fluent in my native language I'd offer to translate so many of my fave fics

13. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

Not yet, but I'd love to one day! @mezlymils squinting at you babe

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Wesper... who's surprised?? Nobody

15. What's a WIP you'd like to finish but doubt you ever will?

So far it's my Rose Tinted Glasses wip. Tooth rotting fluff is way too difficult for me to write and I am STRUGGLING.

There's also the omalh epilogue

16. What are your writing strengths?

Metaphors are my lover and descriptive imagery my best friend!! I love being able to metaphor the fuck out of everything and I defo think one of my strengths is setting the scene. There's also internal monologuing but I think that's my adhd jumping out there hehe

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Definitely dialogue and small scenes that don't require much description, such as washing dishes or something else mundane but necessary to the scene. I don't feel like I'm a very humorous person so having dialogue that's natural and in character is something I can struggle with a LOT.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

It's quiet jarring to me personally, really takes me out of the scene and forces me to disconnect from the fic, especially if its a language I don't know. A word or two is fine, but whole sentences don't work for me.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

I used to publish marauders fics on wattpad when I was 12...

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Of Lies and Rash Decisions my eldest child, Little Stolen Moments my middle child and Never Let Me Go my youngest child. Those fics are everything to me for so many reasons that I won't delve into here lest I bore you lmao

Tagging: @mezlymilsposts @crowpricorn @sunfl8wer @violets-and-books @littlelcvestory @thesacredlore ♡

[kxlance]

when i started watching voltron, in july 2016, it was a weird moment in my life. i didn’t believe in myself, i had no friends at university (and i still don’t ahha...) and i was homesick shitless. the only way of comfort i had was the tv shows i was watching at the time to distract me from thinking how miserable i felt. at that time i was into miraculous ladybug a lot, and soon i noticed that a lot of the blogs i followed started posting about this voltron show. it wasn’t quite clear to me what it was at first, i had no idea it was a reboot or whatever, but the fanarts seemed pretty cool and funny, and i immediately noticed there was a lot of focus about a certain duo in particular coughcoughcough and i sorta understood what type of ship those two were: the type i like.

anyways, i started watching this show out of mere curiosity because no one couldn’t shut tf up about it, and at first i was only mildly invested. the characters were enjoyable, the animation was gorgeous and it felt to me like it was more of a “yay the power of friendship!” kinda deal. i didnt feel strongly towards klance, or even at all. yeah at the beginning i was like “it’s ok but i guess i’m here for the found family trope more”. then i don’t know what happened, i gave season 1 a quick rewatch because i felt like my viewing of it had been a tad too superficial, and then i got swooped in. and klance became so quickly, so so so so quickly, probably one of my fave ships of all time. i dont watch too many shows nor i get invested in ships that much unless they cover all the peculiar aspects that i personally like. i can count on one hand the ships that i’m truly passionate for, and klance is one them. and it’s important to me and it was (and still is!) very comforting to have something i could enjoy so deeply in all of these years my mental health was in really bad states. to be fair this whole show and fandom affected my mental health as well but whatever lmao, i’m not here to mention all the discourse and all of the bad stuff the show did or i’ll get a fucking headache before i finish.

this is getting way too long so i’ll get to the point immediately. voltron as a show went downhill season by season and most of their writing choices have been bad, careless and problematic. so bad that as i was saying it affected me (and probably other ppl too) mentally. but what i will always take with me from this whole experience are a lot of things. this is the fandom i personally made more posts about. it really sparked my creativity and not only that, i learned a lot of news things. life is a constant learning experience and you never stop learning something and i’m glad for that. i got to know a lot of new people, some who i can proudly call my friends. and just in general i admire the passion of every creator that contribuited something to the fandom, whether it’s with art, or a fan fiction or even a simple post. i admire your passion and talent not just about the voltron/klance content created, but in general. it’s inspiring to see and i wish you all the best in the future. so a big thanks especially to these people because it’s what made it worth staying.

everytime the show would fuck something up, there would always be some piece of fanart or a fic that would make me smile immediately. and it still is that way and probably will be that way after season 8. this was meant to be a goodbye but it more turned into a thank you to the people who created the content in the fandom that we all know and love. and it’s thanks to you all that the true potentials of this show have been explored like they should have and DESERVED TO, it’s thanks to y’all if something like klance will live on and i’m happy about that. i dont even have an opinion on s8 nor i do care that much, (there will be ofc be spoilers on this blog for it) but this is the final closure so yeah that’s all i have to say. bye voltron it was a ride, but at least i got something to take with me even though i only care about your characters, the animation and klance than I will ever care for your stupid ass plots ❤️❤️❤️❤️ maybe let the gays be happy next time xoxoxo

[moonguilt]

steven yeun is trending on twitter & there is not a single vld comment in sight, congratulations to him 😌🙏

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