#omg look at lance he looks so smol next to him

[adhd-merlin]

Okay my random rarepair is Percival/Lancelot. Simply because when Lancelot comes back there is NO EXPLANATION as to who Percival is, or where they met, or their relationship, or anything like that. And when he introduced him to Arthur he doesn't say anything about it either . Like no "this is Percival, we were prize fighters together. Thank got we never fought each other!" Or even just "this is my friend, Percival." Like one line of backstory! Anything! And it reminds of how sometimes when you're queer, and especially when you're queer and your relationship is a little.... ambiguous?....and you don't necessarily want to introduce your Person as your Lover or Boyfriend to someone who might be homophobic (and let's face it, Arthur's a rich white guy, Lancelot doesn't know he ISNT homophobic) but you don't want to say friend for fear or insulting them, and you just don't want to get into the intricacies or queer relationships in front of The Straights so you just say "this is X" and let people make their own conclusions.

And thus a ship was born.

great stuff anon, I love the way you think

[cas-snit]

Voltron S7 Reactions [Semi-vauge spoilers ahead]

Aight so I just binged the whole season and holy heck. Here are my reactions from during the whole thing- Have fun guessing what happened when. Also, spoilers. Lots of that. 

[FYI- This contains some Allurance dislike. Mostly cause I’m a hardcore Klance shipper. However, you can ship whatever you ship, and honestly Allurance is pretty cute, so I promise I mean no disrespect.]

hahaha keith omg I stg I thought that was the classic anime protaganist desk it very nearly is your an anime protaganist now, Keith

In other news, tiny keith is adorable

ohmygod I love shiro so damn much this perfect bean smol keith smol shiro aaa whats-her-face the altean is great HE DESERVED THAT BEAT HIM UP, KEITH I see where keith got his daredevil additude I lowkey ship hunk and whatsherface ADAM Adammmm aaaa the boi the fabled gay boi Adaaaaam I love himhe's precious he cares he's scared he's amazing

'Shiroooo my boi my poor boi I love you Shiro my determined boi SHIRO SHIRO YES GODS I LOVE YOU 

aaaaaa

so good

okay but why would they separate keith from his wolfo

Pidge is me thooo

f this can't be good nope not good

ohshit boi

'it's super dangerous. it's perfect.'amazing

aaaand hes dead

ohheck hunk

Heck yeah space wolf!!! best wolfo poor boi;;

oh its THESE bitches

lance please

corannnn

and mice friends!!

gayyyy

coran ohmygods

heck yeah badass chick

Acxa is great

oof

coran you dumbass

ohhhh coran;;

'that one with the flippity hair' amazing

holy sht Keith

amazing

I love you so much

'can't we just fight???'amazing

they're dead

whats a decathebe

whats a decethebe

don't u dare touch him bitch

YEARS??? YEARS??? A DECATHEBE IS A YEAR??? HOLY FUCKSHIT THIS ISN'T GOOD EVERYONE YOU LOVED IS PROBABLY DEAD

wut wut is this episode what the fuck nopethis is clearly a fever dream

ohmygods

lance no

ohmygods

how did that work

hahahaha

Keith

amazing

lkjhdszbw

hahaha

this is so stupid

'I'm not that DUMB'

what happened to matt where my baby

I called it kinda

ohshit

good wolf

kick his ass, Keith!!

go alluraaaa you baddassmofo

holy shit

aaa Kroliaaaa

none of this is good this whole episode is full of not good

my poor bbys

that doesn't logic but okay i don't trust you're all insane listen to hunk holy fuck giant eyeballs are never good

I meanyou wanted bonding exersizes

lionssss there they are

VOLTRON IS BACK BABYS

hahahaha yessss

MILKY WAY

THEY'RE HOME, BABY

also I'm still pretty sure everyone you ever loved is dead yep they're all dead fuck off, galra Matts dead I know it

bitchy leader of the garrison is a bitch

Colleen holt is amazing

oof

sam holt is great as well

ohshit theres the galra

ohhhfuckfuck

Sendack sucks

oof they're all deaaaaaad

you're all gona die

im sorry kiddos its true

Veronica noooo

VERONICA

WAIT WHAT WHAT WHAT ABOUT LANCE??? VERONICA IS HIS WHATNOW??? AMAZING

THey're all  gonna die

THey're all dead

you're all dead

all gonna die

GO LANCE

They aren't dead

yesyesyes

they aren't

those ones aren't

sorry bby

Keith's edgeboi not friend with the douchebag haircut!!!

ADAM ADAM NO BABY

Griffin shut up

Coran i love you

Hunkkkkk Hunk my perfect, precious, amazing bby you're gonna make me cry

smol hunk is??? precious tbh all hunk is precious hunk is amazing

hunk my child it will all be okay

this new prosthetic is wigging me out tbh

pidge is perfection

ohmygods a wilhelm scream

theyll come to youuuu your lions love youuuu

NO DO NOT ALLURANCE OR WHATEVER ALLURA STAY AWAY stop stooooop no nonono stoppit Veronica stop shipping this

you got this bbys

red red please reddddd lance come on I think red is mad at lance tbh mad at him for still liking allura and not keith- pfpfpf jkjk

lanceee come on boy you got this call that lion to you

VERONICA no please veronica- come on bby

RED RED YES Red has a snse of dramatic timing

BITCH NO YOU MOTHERFUCKING BACKSTABBING BITCH DIE DIE IN A FUCKING FIRE

fuckfuckfuck

bbys noooo

nonono

my children

nuuu

don't touch themmmm

dumbass bitch you don't bargin with the galra dumbass motherfucking bitch

goddd this better work

go my children

no shit youdumbass bitch you can't bargain with the galra come on come onnn aaa captain shiro fuck yes

blow that motherfuckin shit up

oh fuck

hell yes

call your fuckin lions

you got this

call those bitches

bitch don't you dareee hahaha yes go girl you backstabbing bitch throw them off

hahahaha yessss

ohshit

bitchy bitchy is getting her ass whooped

ohshit shes dead ornot thanks black lion honestly shes still gonna die hard for me to care about her when she betrayed us all but okay

VOLTRON TIME KICK SOME ASS

ohshit

motherfucker

of course they'd fire on their own ships its fucking sendak

fly little earth birds jeezus little earth birds listen to your leader

Iwant a star trek au with shiro as a captain of a starship I might draw that tbh

hahaha yesss

particle barrier ftw

come on come onnnn

ohshitohsit

come on shiroooo

holy fuck

jeezus christ

the atlas is amazing

come on, earthbirds do this

benifits of the new prosthetic: doesn't have to get close to shit Downsides: looks weird

SHIRO SHIROOOOO

come on lancy boi be the bi we need

shiro whered you gooo

as much as I love lance and allura kicking ass this is a setup for a canonical ship and I dissaprove

GO SHIRO GO come on, shiro go space dad Is shiro okay?? SHIRO YES MY BOY

Sendak no

hahaha GO KEITH

is it rlly tho

no stoppit stoppit the allruance

ohfuck whats dat FUCK NO

ohfuck

holy fucking shitbals

nuuu my little earth birdies you dont stand a chance

hahaha go pidge

nononono

don't touch the atlas you bitch

fuckfuck this isn't gooood

NO NO STOP COOME ON SHIRO BABY

OHMYGODS I LOVE THE ATLAS

oh holy fuck

holy quiznak

nononono my babys nooo

MATT HE'S OKAY MY CHILD I THOUGHT THEY WHERE GONNA KILL HIM OFF

Hunk my boy You're okay thank the gods above

PIdgeeee Pidgeyesss my childrennnn

lance lancelancelance

Alluraaaa KEITH

aaaaa holy shit mother of all gods holy fucking shit whens the next season I need it now

[butteredonions]

End-Of-Year Fic Meme

IT’S BAAAAACK!

I’m tagging anyone and everyone who would like to have fun with this. @bosstoaster, @velkynkarma, @ashinan, @mumblefox, @flusteredkeith, @atimelordswife, @oldmythos, @queenvallkyrie, @maychorian, @andriseup, and anyone else who wants to play!

[2017 onion edition]

Stats:

List of Fics Posted: They’re all Voltron :’) All gen unless otherwise indicated.

On Tumblr: Onion 2017 Masterpost: 10,800 words voltron thinktank masterpost: my portion of which equals ~5200

On AO3: The Size Of Our Actions, ch. 6-12 (smol!Shiro, de!aged fic, gen. 40,081 words added this year) The Cavalry (Paladins, adventure/mission fic. Conclusion of a 4-part series with @bosstoaster, @mumblefox, and @ashinan as part of the Season Two countdown. (9,644 words) First Steps (Lance-centric, Star Wars!AU) (9696 words) Foundation (Keith-centric, Star Wars!AU, prequel to First Steps) (8982 words) Intrinsic (Star Wars!AU featuring Padawan Shiro) (1219 words) Disturbance (Star Wars!AU, sequel to First Steps) (18915 words) like threads, weaving (Uliro, collection of 5 prompt fills) (5338 words) brace (Uliro​) (2532 words) collision (Uliro, role reversal AU of sorts) (10455 words) cutthroat (Lance-centric, Hunger Games!AU) (1363 words) colors don't fade (Keith-centric, remix for @andriseup) (2625 words) parallel (daemon!AU, primarily Keith and Pidge) (5656 words) if tomorrow never comes (time!travel AU, onion’s first Sheith) (4195 words) indulgence (Uliro featuring blankets and h/c) (1859 words) enough to endure this (Uliro soulmate AU) (4916 words) relentless (Hunger Games!AU, prequel of sorts. Shiro-centric, tagged as pre-Sheith) (3217 words)

Total number: 16, plus tumblr Total word count: 144,156 * ( tumblr: 15,995 | AO3: 128,161) *not counting another 100k+ of drafts that have yet to see the light of day :’)

Ship/character breakdown: Ship breakdown: 5 Uliro, 2 Sheith. The rest are gen. Character breakdown:  1 full ensemble piece; 1 smol!Shiro with complete ensemble (no single narrator, everyone gets a turn); 1 young!Shiro; 3 Lance-centric, featuring others; 3 Keith-centric (one with help from Pidge); 3 Ulaz POV. The rest are all Shiro :)

Characters that had the main focus: Exactly the same as last year: Shiro is the clear winner here. I have no regrets.

Answers to more questions beneath the cut!

Specifics:

Best/worst title? Best title: I am that rare breed of creature who loves titles :’) this year it’s a tie between collision and if tomorrow never comes. Both give me chills for different reasons. Worst title: I’m not really fond of cutthroat or relentless, but they’re accurate.

Best/worst first line?

The second-best and sometimes most evil part of a story. Best: if tomorrow never comes      Of all the reasons why Shiro had missed their date, ‘time travel’ is the last thing Keith expects to hear.     :’)

Worst: colors don’t fade     Finding out about Shiro hurts. Yeah, definitely, but also the understatement of the year. Something more riveting and gripping would’ve been a stronger opening for Keith here.

Best/worst last line? The best and also most evil part, too. Best: cutthroat      “My name’s Pidge,” Pidge snaps. The setting sun gleams in her glasses, her brown eyes vicious and hard. “District Three. Who are you?” One of the best plot twists and cliffhangers I pulled off all year.

Worst: colors don’t fade      “That’s Shiro’s number,” Commander Holt says, to the room, to his daughter, to Keith. His face is pale and equally full. Keith can barely breathe. “117-9875 is Shiro’s number. If his file’s here - if he’s in penal lockdown like my son is - then the Arena didn’t kill him after all.” Honestly it’s a good ending, I just don’t like it because I had more story to tell and ran out of time. This one’s entirely on me. There’s more here than I could get to and that irks me.

General questions:

Looking back, did you write more fics than you thought you would this year, less than you thought, or about what you predicted? Bit less. I’d planned on finishing two major WIPs this summer, but grad school and The Move™ took over so much more of life than I expected.

What pairing/genre/fandom did you write that you would never have predicted last year? I wasn’t expecting to foray into ships. I also wasn’t expecting to realize how deeply I love blankets and fluff omg What’s your favorite story this year? Not the most popular, but the one that makes you the happiest. collision :) I love the premise and I’m stupidly proud of the pacing.

Okay, NOW your most popular story. I still have to count smol!Shiro, because it’s still in progress and it still isn’t done. Catch me next year on the wrap-up, too, hopefully with a finished thing~

Story most underappreciated by the universe? daemon!AU got a little less attention than I expected, but in hindsight it was a pretty busy time for folks and the pieces were quite short.

Story that could have been better? I really wish I could’ve spent more time on colors don’t fade. There was at least one more scene I wanted to write, but I ran out of time and energy for it pre-season four, and brooke had already patiently waited long enough. I wanted to do better for her. I also am not super happy with how The Cavalry turned out, but considering I wrote it when I had bronchitis, I guess it’s not bad.

Sexiest story? I started writing ships this year, so I guess.....that? it’s really mild ship as far as ship goes, though, hardly even noticeable most of the time. I don’t read hardcore ship so I don’t know how to write it beyond pining and snuggles, and I’m comfortable with that. Saddest story? enough to endure this. Most fun? collision practically wrote itself, which was awesome. Actually, so did First Steps - I grin wildly when I reread it. I miss writing fun scenes like the first half of that story. Story with single sweetest moment? The entirety of Smol Chapter Nine is so sweet and fluffy it gives me cavities. Also I giggled like a smol child myself writing it, so.

I also am just so partial to this moment in relentless:

Winning means killing three others. No; forty-seven. The odds aren’t good. “Keith,” Shiro manages. “I brought you something,” Keith says, pulling away to dig in his pocket. “Here.” A thin beam of sunlight breaks through the window, glinting weakly off the small copper object in Keith’s hand. “Keith,” Shiro says again, his breath caught in his throat. He cups his hands beneath Keith’s; the little rusted key dangles on the string between Keith’s fingers, between their hands. “I can’t take that from you, that’s - that goes to your father’s - ” “The shack’s a dump and we both know it,” Keith says, before Shiro can. His eyes shimmer, but his chin is set firm. “I need you to take it.” “I can’t,” Shiro breathes. He can’t take his eyes off Keith. “Keith, that’s all you have.” “No, you’re all I have,” Keith corrects, and pushes the key into Shiro’s right hand.

Hardest story to write? Probably The Cavalry, just because of circumstances. I gleefully volunteered to wrap-up the series, and had fun tying all the pieces together, but the timing just wasn’t good. I had to wait until all three other pieces were complete, as well as my grad school applications, and then I got bronchitis and was traveling that same weekend....just couldn’t dedicate myself to it properly or clear my head as much as it deserved.

Easiest/most fun story to write? collision wrote itself, I swear.

Did any stories shift your perceptions of the characters? Yes. I wasn’t expecting to fall in love with writing Ulaz, and how much fun he’s been to explore and develop based off a mere ten minutes of content. I also wasn’t expecting to enjoy writing Lance as much as I did. I put off using his POV for a story until there wasn’t a choice, but he’s actually quite a fun narrator. He’s so stream-of-consciousness that he’s surprisingly easy and relatable to get into.

Most overdue story? parallel was at least a year in coming. I sat on those snippets for entirely too long.

Did you take any writing risks this year? What did you learn from them? This year I posted my first sheith fic, and nobody died :) Which sounds irrational to someone outside the fandom, sure, but I’m glad and relieved. This year I took risks in taking prompts and learning how to answer them. That’s largely been nothing but fun, though I’ve had to learn how to say no to a few things and not feel guilty for them. It’s also been a great lesson in learning when good enough is fine and not waiting until things are perfect. Also, a fantastic way to keep writing and/or get back into it. All the prompts you’ve sent in have been motivating and fun to think about, even if I haven’t gotten to / or won’t quite get to them as I’d hoped. <3 I also learned it’s way easier to start ideas than finish them; fun, yes, but something I’m hoping to improve upon next year.

What are your fic writing goals for next year?

1) Figure out a writing schedule that works with grad school, if that’s even possible. 2) Finish things, including: - The Size Of Our Actions - collision - maybe the epic star wars fic I’ve now been sitting on for a year and a half - and at least one of the AUs (Hunger Games, Star Wars, etc. or....?) 3) Boss has told me I should stop being scared of writing sick!fic

:) happy new year and 2018!