#i dont even like voltron anymore

[heynhay]

i love everybody because i love you

[eat-him-like-garlic-knots]

i rlly gotta write it tbh, it lives in my head rent free

Sun and moon ship dynamics are great and all but for your consideration: the sun and Icarus

Loving the sun so much and needing to be close to it by any means possible but attempting to reach it is an impossible task that only results in getting burnt yet you continue to try

This post is about Klance btw

[goodlucktai]

tagged by @bobtheacorn like...... 3 weeks ago 😭 my bad

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

283

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

1,353,670

which seems.......excessive

3. What fandoms do you write for?

actively, one piece and tmnt, but that is ruled by the demons in my brain that control the hyperfixation machine.

fandoms ive posted 3 or more fics for:

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Natsume Yuujinchou | Natsume's Book of Friends Good Omens Final Fantasy XV Undertale Mumintroll | Moomins Series Harry Potter Young Justice 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia 陈情令 | The Untamed King Falls AM Percy Jackson and the Olympians Rise of the Guardians Voltron: Legendary Defender

4. Top five fics by kudos?

Exclusivity - 11,116

walk straight through hell with a smile - 9,152

Inanition - 9,039

there is thunder in our hearts - 8,161

trouble is a friend of mine - 7,842

5. Do you respond to comments?

i do try to but i can't always :'( and i feel terrible if i manage to reply to most and then forget someone and only realize it months later. but i read every single comment and i appreciate them more than i have words for

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

i tend to veer away from angst, but off the top of my head....

where the good men go or if i go i'm going on fire

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

99% of my fics have a happy ending because thats my BRAND but i suppose give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around or the weekend we were in love OR put your empty hands in mine

8. Do you get hate on fics?

not often, but i recently had someone who REALLY disliked the way things change because i 'villainized' raph. which is definitely news to me, since raphael is the love of my life

9. Do you write smut?

nope

10. Craziest crossover?

i wrote a tmnt/one piece crossover once ? but now that we are actually getting a tmnt/naruto idw run it doesnt feel that weird to me anymore

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

only once if i'm remembering right ?? it was a long time ago and wattpad related, which is a site that i dont really understand and therefore tend to avoid

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yes ! i'll often have people request to translate my stories and it blows me away every time

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Devil took your hand was written by myself and @moogsthewriter

14. All time favourite ship?

ineffable husbands, wangxian, or leosagi

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

how much time do you have 😭

16. What are your writing strengths?

i want to say characterization and narrative voice. i'm also pretty good at maintaining a throughline, even if it sometimes gets a little wobbly

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

conflict ! i hate it ! i will avoid writing it at all costs ! i also tend to struggle with writing fight scenes, especially when there are several characters involved :') staging any kind of choreography is my opp

18. Thoughts on dialogue in another language?

i try not to but if it feels unavoidable i google the heck out of it

19. First fandom you wrote in?

honestly it was either digimon (which also inspired my og penname) or xiaolin showdown lol

20. Favourite fic you've written?

i'm stealing bob's idea and going top 5:

there is thunder in our hearts - this story came together so easily for me, like i knew exactly how i wanted to tell it from start to finish

the only hoax i believe in - a kfam fic in my top 5s why yes and i'll tell you why. because i poured so much of myself into this fic that they could probably read it at my funeral instead of a eulogy

traveling so far to get there - after party au raph and mikey continue to take up so much real estate in my brain and for what

now the darkness comes alive - this one is more recent but im so happy with the way it turned out :')

if we could stay all day in the sun - it was a lot of fun reimagining one of my favorite fairy tales and doing a bunch of unnecessary research for this story i will stand by it until the day i die !!

i'm tagging @mykimouser, @owletstarlet, @portgas-d-aroace, @mad4turtles, @camsthisky, @remedyturtles, @pickledcarrotsandradish, @swordsmans, @mangogreent, and anyone else who wants to !

[coolnonsenseworld]

Voltron and it's characters have been a sore topic for me ever since it ended. Sometimes I find myself missing them, which is stupid because I can go and watch it whenever I want (which i havent been able to do since it ended). Even if I did manage to re-watch it, it wouldn't be the same. The warmth and comfort the show once brought me is gone and replaced with a feeling that I guess the best word for it would be grief, because I know how it ends. Unfairly. But your art brings that familiar comfort back. I know this probably sounds incredibly dramatic, because it was a cartoon aimed at children, but Voltron, specifically Lance and Keith, were so special to me. Those characters were there for me when everything was just so, to put it lightly, so so much. And like, im not a teenager anymore, i dont need to go to a show about teenagers fighting purple aliens in giant colourful mecha lions when i need comfort anymore, but theres still that tiny fourteen year old part of me that deperately misses the comfort they brought, like they're old friends that i dont talk to anymore. And i guess this i why im sending you this message. Your art is not only beautiful, but is also so kind to them. A lot of people only think about voltron and remember the bad, which I myself am very guilty of, but whenever you post about it you only show the love you had for it and its characters. And i just wanted to thank you for that. For reminding me that even though the show ended in a way that hurt me, those characters still helped me in a way that i will always be grateful for. And you deserve to know the impact your art has on people, so thank you

It's like I've written it to myself, Anon, wow! Thank you so much!! And I am happy to hear that, because it's a similar experience for me - though, I think fictional characters don't exist until you make them - perceive them, interpret them - until you love yourself enough to see your own happiness in them. I can't grieve klance, when their safety remains in my hands.

I also want to add my more elaborate comment to it, from a perspective of someone who keeps being here, but will make another post, you will be able to find it in the notes.

[ourflagmeansgayrights]

thank for that amazing analysis of Izzy apologists. I'm so very tired. I adore some friends I've made in this fandom, but some of them are so deeply drunk on the Jizzy I can not *stand* talking about the show with them or Izzy anymore. It's either "Izzy is just a little guy he can't hurt anyone!" or "Izzy is gay he can't be femmephobic!" I'm so tired! He's the antagonist how is that controversial!? They see themselves as such victims too, the pointing of Izzy flaws is seen as an attack. Sigh.

im so very tired too, anon.

i really dont get it. i've been in fandoms where the fanon content all comes from a deep misunderstanding of what the original text is supposed to be. but like, it was marvel. or voltron. or that transphobic wizard school series. something where fans were actually coming up with a better version of the source material

i came into this fandom not because i wanted content that fixed what i disliked abt the source material, but because i wanted more of the source material, and there was only so many times i could rewatch the ten episodes that we have. this show is fucking phenomenal and has brought me so much joy, and talking abt this show and chewing on good analyses of the show has been so much fucking fun.

it's just disheartening, i guess, that so many people fell down this gradual pipeline of liking the weird little gremlin antagonist to having their entire fandom experience revolve around a version of izzy that reflects fanon more than canon. it makes me fucking sad that there are people who genuinely believe he's the show's secret protagonist and that season one is full of undeniable references to his inevitable redemption arc but also he doesn't need to change anything to be redeemed because he's the skyler white of ofmd (???) and he's a victim of an abusive relationship but also he doesn't know he's in love with his captain who is so mean and unfair to him and doesn't even notice how izzy dedicates his whole life to him and–

like. these people don't even like the show anymore. they just like izzy. rather, they like the version of him they've made up in their heads. it makes me so fucking sad, bro.

we got a gay romcom, y'all. we got a show that revolves entirely around the romantic relationship between two middle-aged men. we got a diverse cast. we got polyamory. we got nonbinary rep. we got fat characters whose fatness was never made into a joke. we got a character with a lisp whose lisp was never commented on. we got so fucking much from this show.

do you remember how it felt to watch this show for the first time? do you remember that joy?

i just dont understand why so many people in the ofmd fandom don't like ofmd anymore

[treemusinngs]

hiya!! my name is aspen (like the tree or the dental company, perhaps the city) and i’m 23 years old!! est time zone, i usually work nights but im around very very late at night and usually try to communicate even when im working n stuff. i’ve been roleplaying for well over ten years at this point, its always been a very fun hobby for me! i’ve got a slew of ocs that ive cooked in my head, and im open to several fandoms too, though i dont usually get a chance to delve into them since they’re not very,,,, popular anymore tbh jfmgmgmg.

my one request is patience and understanding!! if we don’t mesh, that’s totally fine! i’m ghost friendly but i’m also more than okay if you just tell me you’d like to drop.

for fandomless roleplays, i heavily prefer queer pairings!!!!!!!! mxm, fxf, nbxa, give me all of them i will devour them. i’ve got a large amount of male ocs, a good amount of female and nb ocs!!! for plots i can really be open to anything, i have a modern fantasy-ish verse ive been crafting in my head for a good minute here and i would LOVE to ramble about it. i’ll list my fandoms below!!!!

pokémon: raihan x leon*, raihan x piers*, blue* x red, ethan* x silver*

splatoon: agent 4* x agent 3*, agent 8* x agent 3*, pearl* x marina

danganronpa: shuichi x kaede*, kaito x kokichi*, shuichi x kokichi*, miu x kaede*, toko* x komaru, aoi* x sakura*, kiyotaka* x mondo, hajime* x nagito*, chiaki* x sonia*, gundham x sonia* (probably more tbh)

voltron (don’t look at me): keith* x lance

night in the woods: I WILL WRITE ANYONE. PLEASE.

omori: i would LOVE to write basil or mari pls pls pls pls pls

all for the game: neil* x andrew*, kevin x andrew*, jean x jeremy*, renee* x allison*

i thiiiiink? thats it for my lil intro!! if you’re interested in an rp please feel free to dm me or leave a note on this and i will inquire asap!!!! thanks :3

[boyprinzessin]

ough I really want to apply to one of the voltron anthologies happening rn but I don't have enough vld in my portfolios.

I've considered making my own classic diy style fanzine but it feels like everyones standards are too high these days. most fanzines arent even actual zines anymore. which dont get me wrong, I love them, but I hate that we call them zines.

[garpond]

i think its kinda frustrating how on here its not enough for something to just be interesting to you, fascinating even, it has to be like... morally just and righteous and an example for you to follow in your actual life. post one trillion about the subject i think but ive watched the weirdest arguments happen on here in the last few days and even tho i do grasp who the people are that are making them and why they think that i just think it's kinda dumb that they do. if you dont personally get anything out of investigating subjects or pieces of media or etc that evoke themes you consider predominantly negative then sure, nobody's forcing you to investigate them then, but you don't need to like. treat it as an ethical imperative to avoid that stuff at all costs. like... I like 60s and 70s music history. i like reading about the history of grocery and department stores. i like reading about the history of shopping malls. i like reading about sears-roebuck kit houses and other buildings I find interesting. i dont look to any of that stuff to inform me about what's good and just in the world because very obviously investigations of those things will yield subject matter that ranges from vaguely depressing to just plain sickening, depending on what subtopic I'm engaging with. when i'm thinking about this stuff I'm thinking about it as-is and then asking myself how I feel about it. But I do it because I like stimulating my brain and I like facts. Stimulating your brain doesn't have to be a morally challenging activity. It doesn't have to follow any particular set of rules that are set to avoid a hypothetical situation where thinking about the wrong subject has rotted your brain out of your skull and you can't Comprehend Leftism anymore or smth. The truth is most of the stuff I think about and find interesting either doesn't have much of any intrinsic moral quality in particular (animals) or is tinged with some overarching theme of societal ills (let's hear it for the wasteful development habits of big box stores!) This used to bother me when I was younger and the vibe I got online is that what you were interested in said something about you as a person. And that everybody Had to have something "harmless" or better yet "progressive" as a fixation because that's what you did when you were normal and okay to be around and used your brain normally, or as "normally" as we use our brains on websites like Tumblr. But I'm not sixteen or whatever anymore and I largely find the fandom-centric framing of personal interests and hobbies on this site overblown and annoying, and the moralizing "irredeemable media" "problematic interests" "why are you watching Voltron" whatever whatever is probably one of the most annoying facets of it, second in my mind being the "autism is when you have a blorbo" sentiment presented as ubiquitous in the autistic population of the website. You can analyze literally anything you think about thru the lens of your personal values and it's arguably less useful to you overall to try and stick to things where you feel you don't have to do any genuine analysis or try to comprehend how it relates to you and your beliefs

[vldkeith]

Hey! No hate at all but I’m genuinely curious, how do you stay interested in one thing for so long? Personally I had a Voltron phase that was really strong but then lost it after awhile, I was still interested but just not infatuated, I was wondering if it was similar for you

i am very much not neurotypical so theres that. obviously my active engagement waxes and wanes based on things like how busy/crazy life is, what's happening in the fandom, etc but i dont know voltron has just become over the years ever-present in my life & intertwined with so many relationships i have that i cant imagine not really being into it anymore. my love for the characters just hasn't lessened, even when i don't actively engage in making things about them. ive always been very intense about my interests though so i definitely think your experience is more normal than mine lol

[pr1ncemax]

can we talk about how i am getting to a place with media and entertainment where i am no longer accepting queerbaiting, but even more than that, i am no longer expecting queerbaiting.

i can no longer accept that the audience isn't okay with it, and i am no longer going 'oh that's not gonna happen' when i see 2 characters with chemistry.

i only realized this because i was watching monter high, and they showed frankie blush at something cleo said. and i didn't go "oh man that's not gonna happen" i went "Ooh that's what that plot point meant."

okay like this is insane. korra was canceled when they hinted that asami and her were maybe a thing. i know how much of a fight sugar had for marcy and pb. gobber saying "one other reason" was considered *huge*, and massive steps in the right direction. remember how much heat alex hirsch took for just trying to slip gay characters into the background of a scene? i remember what happened with voltron. and that was 2016-18 but we don't need to talk about that. Steven universe had ruby and sapphire 'fuse' and that was something wild. spop was a huge move towards queer rep in 2018-20 with the on screen kiss.

and then: kipo, owl house, camp cretaceous, molly mcgee, and so many others either have queer characters as mains or just casually hanging out in the background, etc etc

like, i don't watch these shows and go 'oh that's not gonna happen' anymore. that's not the automatic thought anymore, i am starting to expect queer rep. and i dont really know the point of this ramble i just

its cool, its good, i love it

[roszabell]

IM SO SORRY I KNOW YOURE A HETALIA BLOG BUT I SAW YOU REBLOGGED SOMETHING BONGOU STRAY DOGS AND IM WATCHING SEASON ONE RIGHT NOW AND INJUST GOT TO THE DARK AGE AND AHHHHHHHHHHHHH (again deepest apologies for dumping in your ask box)

G A SP

HELLO HELLO!!!!! DONT APOLOGIZE FRIEND

i, absolutely adore bsd i cannot even tell you how much. i don’t have a fandom brain mode for it but ITS SO DEAR TO ME,,, i saw chuuya on the dash as well and it felt like a gutpunch familiarity. i haven’t kept up with it in a long while unfortunately (along with many. many other fandoms i love….i haven’t had much energy for like consuming media in a few years but hetalia just happens to be my longtime hyperfixation lmfao)

because this made me laugh particularly, and i wanna talk about it anyway, as for being a pretty monosubject blog i have posted fanarts of my other beloveds before (voltron, jujutsu kaisen for ex) annnnnd they p much flop 😂 it doesn’t matter to me i’ll create and post that shit anyway but i’m not rly engaged w the communities that much anymore so i don’t feel the same excitement to share? hopefully once it’s summer i can be more normal and get back into these things again but for now i’m a fan in the shadows

AAAAAAA I hope you enjoy the rest of the show so far!!!!!!!! you are not going to be disappointed. (also like…..feel free to dm me likekeeeeeee 👀👀)

[ashstar1111]

#Ao3IsComingForMySleep

its 2:11am and im still awake. again. why? voltron, ninjago, and tmnt fics. i feel like someone needs to take my Ao3 away for my own good lol (not even sure if its a joke anymore bc last week i finished a 616,512 words long drarry fanfic in 4 days and i dont even read drarry anymore.)

[uncaught-coolfish]

i used to be wickedly into voltron, i mean, i never interacted with the fandom barely except for maybe catnippackets' art but anyway i kept watching for a while, ever since it came out but when they killed allura i stopped watching because what the fuck was that for

NO LITERALLY EXACTLY 100%

I thankfully dodged apollo’s nuke because I watched the first season before literally AHYONE got into it but then. never finished the show until it was over and by then the fandom had died down. but YEAH ABT ALLURA

AND THE THING IS??? THEY COUKD HAVE EASILY SACRIFICED THE LIONS INSTEAD OF HER I FEEL. LIKE THEY SAVED THE UNIVERSE OR WHATEVER SO WHAT IS FHE NEED FOR THEM ANYMORE???? LIKE. I STILL DONT GET WHY THEY DENIED ALLURA OF ALL CHARACTERS A HAPPY ENDING AFTER ALL THAT. season 8 just fucking sucked and don’t even get me started on the epilogue 😶

[lnkedmyheart]

Rewatched vld and looked through some of the discourse and I must say, hindsight really makes it so obvious that half the "discourse" was such blatant horseshit. The casual desexualization of the only actual gay character, one who wasn't a stereotypical bl style twink and the insistence that any kind of interaction he had with the only other adult in the main cast would make him predatory was wild. The way people were acting like wanting to stick this only gay character with his ex who dumped him after taking a shit all over his dreams, forcing him to stay grounded knowing fully well that this guy didn't have long to keep flying, or demanding everyone be happy that this guy got slapped into a badly edited wedding with some badly drawn nobody while his closest friend's face isn't even visible in the wedding shot. Wild that this was something people who stanned this guy since season 1, should be "happy" about. This guy who spent 7 seasons finding a family in the voltron crew, learnt to rely on his best friend who would go to the ends of the world for him was suddenly not interacting with any of his found family anymore. He didn't interact with them ONCE. He wasn't allowed to have the friends or the found family that he developed his bonds with for 7 seasons. And then he got married in post to some badly drawn, uninteresting squiggle that the writers forgot to name, then misnamed, and then couldn't be arsed to have given a decent design to and his entire personality is that he likes dogs. Wow, fascinating, totally someone I want to ship my absolute fave with. Sorry, but I can't give a shit about this rando everyone wants me to see as rep.

Honestly, fuck Curtis, fuck Adam, and fuck everyone that wants me to be happy about Shiro and the gay rep when the gay guy immediately loses his entire friend group the moment he is revealed to be gay. Great lesson there guys!

Sit on a cactus and rotate.

And dont even get me started about Lotor or Zarkon or hell even Honerva. I will actually maim a bitch if I have to think about what they did to the Galra.

[zukaheart]

ID: A thread of tweets made by Melon Kid (@animegirlcrimes). The thread reads:

"fuck it whatever ill just air out my grievances now i dont feel like carrying this shit anymore

i joined the omori team in 2019, i remember being invested in production right away because getting paid to do dev work on a game i like is basically my dream

(1/whatever)

i went kinda crazy on it, i worked harder than i ever have in my life. i did not spend a second on the clock even slightly dicking around, i would regularly work like 12-18+ hour shifts just because i wanted to

people would leave for the day, come back in the morning and see me still working. by some divine miracle i somehow kept that up for like a half a year. i felt totally fine the whole time. i was flying bro

my smarter friend sensed something was wrong and tried to pull me away from work but omo resisted because at that time i was like her golden workhorse. anyway, fast forward to the 6 months later and i crash and burn out of nowhere i am straight debilitated

a lot of that was my own doing, of course, im under no illusion about that. but when it happened, omo suddenly started treating me like garbage. she didn't believe me, said i 'just didnt want to work anymore' and demanded a doctors note and i was like are you fucking serious

she would guilt me into keep working as hard as i did before despite the blatant toll on my body and say she expected better of me and would constantly downplay my illness

i felt miserable physically and emotionally, she made me feel even worse about it. and its like, this feels really shitty but fine it is what it is.

forward again to release, im really excited about the launch of the game. i put so much energy and emotional investment into this project, the thing i love the most about dev is seeing the game release and watching people play and enjoy the game

right before the game launches omo pulls the rug from under me and suddenly comes out to say she's taking back the royalties she promised earlier in the year. it soured the entire fucking launch. i couldnt even enjoy the one thing i spent a year working on and looking forward to

she goes on to say she put my royalties to a vote and said 'i thought you deserved it, but everyone else voted no :(' what kind of manipulative bullshit is that excuse me

first of all you are my boss, you know best what i contributed to the project, second you are a millionaire and i am fucking poor is this a game to you, third youre gonna throw the whole staff under the bus too? what the fuck is this

the worst thing is, i know someone who was fucked over by omo WAY MORE than i was. i wont name them (at their request), but i got like... basically the lite version of her fuckery and even THAT was personally devastating to me

i actually made a post like this shortly after omori released, but the entire team banded together voltron style and begged me to take it down and because im fucking weak i did

im STILL fucked up by the burnout i gave myself. im sore all the goddamn time, it didn't use to be like that. sure, my fault. i own it. but to treat me like shit and act like im just lazy? actually fuck yourself

i actually made a post like this shortly after omori released, but the entire team banded together voltron style and begged me to take it down and because im fucking weak i did

im STILL fucked up by the burnout i gave myself. im sore all the goddamn time, it didn't use to be like that. sure, my fault. i own it. but to treat me like shit and act like im just lazy? actually fuck yourself

oh, AND i dont show up as a member of the dev team on either their game website OR on wikipedia even though i show up in the actual game credits like 3 different fucking times?

thats interesting i wonder what thats all about

some other grievances: it was my suggestion to implement the survive at 1 HP mechanic for omori cause i could already tell players would get annoyed if they lost because he got mobbed by rng. wouldnt you know it, this also shaped the final battle to be as impactful as it is! wow!

the omoli character in blackspace was a thing that i pitched to omo and whose dialogue i wrote, it made me unreasonably annoyed to then see that character get used in promotional material for the game

you know that (in)famous aubrey school fight sequence? THAT WAS ALL ME BABEY. the base concept from omo was 'theres a bunch of aubreys because sunny has a crush' and i cooked up the scenario you see now and evented that whole sequence

(trying really hard to think of a game whose moral involves the guilt of hiding the truth of something wrong you did)

(and also explores the concept of being stressed out for being treated poorly despite working so hard for them)"

One of the developers of Omori recently shared their experiences in this thread about the treatment they had to go through during the development of the game. They're going through a rough patch at the moment. If you liked Omori, I think you should help Melon Kid out if you can!!

It's disheartening to hear that someone on a team was mistreated. Games are a beautiful medium, but the people who make those games come first. We've all got to work hard to ensure better environments for devs, and that starts with making sure they can get back on their feet!

[okialy]

how does this even work

I've had this account for almost a year but honestly I have no clue how tumblr works LMAO

It's probably a miracle if you're seeing this because tbh idek if I posted it

I wonder who i'm talking to anyway damn

Uhhhhh introduction idk

Im trilingual, english isnt my first language but tbh I treat it as one because I know it best out of my 3 lmao

I'm learning french and german, spanish but I basically gave up kinda, and japanese just for fun

I like drawing (so original ikr)

I'm pangender, so idk percieve me as anything??? (Okay not anything because I dont identify as kitchen appliances obviously)

Any pronouns? Tbh I dont care, i just dont like they them that much

I like reading, especially if it means that I can collect books, because I just like how they look on shelves

I like some games and shows and stuff, and have joined some fandoms, and they are:

Danganronpa (yeah I know, I know, but it's still my brainrot if you're talking about thh)

Voltron (I know. the fandom is long gone and I started liking it a bit too late oops)

The dragon prince (in love fr)

Omori (still a brainrot after like what, 2 years? More? Idefk how that's possible but it is lmao)

Phoenix Wright (at the time I'm writing this, then like, I'm not even halfway into the saga??? How much Phoenix Wright stuff even is there????)

Harry Potter (not a brainrot anymore, but I still love it with all my heart)

Warrior Cats (what can i say?)

Saiki K (love love love)

The music freaks (gasp massive gasp exploding head emoji, I enjoy gacha yes)

And then there is more that I cant remember at the moment, that I havent finished yet, or that idk, I'm not that obsessed about tbh lmao

What else??? Do people still care about zodiacs or mbtis because??

Tbh idk what to add so sure, I'm an aries and either an esfp or enfp ⛹️‍♀️

Lastly, I will lose my marbles if I see anyone calling me oakley or okaily or whatever magnificent abomination you have made of my name 😭💀💀

Its Okialy. Period. If you still cant spell it then you can call me any name that starts with a J I guess 💔💔💔

no way, you reached the end

You wasted valuable time of your life on reading this

You're welcome