#voltron renaissance

[divination1330]

We’re fandom posting, because my random career based knowledge needs to be used for something.

For Voltron -

Now, given Voltron occurs in the far future compared to our time, my knowledge is either useless or applications have changed. For example, kind of how in Star Trek you see kids learning advanced topics at a young age.

Shiro and Matt:

Here are some credentials that they would both have according to NASA’s current requirements.

Both at least have their masters, or are test pilot certified.

I can see Shiro being a test pilot school graduate and Matt having some sort of accelerated masters. Either way, they’re both highly educated. I’d love to write fics where the fact Matt has at least a masters and a couple years of work experience is mentioned, especially with how young he is. What was his thesis and major!

Also, after hanging out around pilots, I want to see Shiro with pilot-specific traits. No wonder this guy has nerves of steel and can escape a galran warship while half-drugged, he practiced emergency procedures and has undergone hypoxia training. With the education alone, I want to write fics where Shiro is very nearly enraged that he can’t figure out how the lions fly. Pilots typically have in depth knowledge of their aircraft. In general aviation, you are certified for the aircraft you train in and need separate endorsements for different aircraft after that. Shiro probably had highly technical and personal knowledge of the aircraft he flew at the garrison. Him learning to trust his lion is a big deal, especially since how it flies disregards all of his knowledge of flight and aeronautics. He also probably had 1000 of flight time in a jet aircraft, which, holy shit thats a lot.

Matt and Shiro have undergone astronaut candidacy school, and if NASA was the predecessor to the Galaxy Garrison, were called ASCANS. Do with that what you will. Astronaut candidacy school is a two year program that turns candidates into astronauts. They both learned Russian, how to scuba dive, how to fly jets, and the other basics of how to live in space. Afterwards, they received training for their specific mission or were assigned to a variety of roles within NASA, including public appearances (sound familiar? Maybe when Shiro met Kieth?) or Mission Control. Mission specific training can last three years.

Imagine Matt and Shiro in the same ASCANS group. The chaos!

Couples cannot fly missions together in space. Personally, I headcannon that Adam and Shiro had their relationship under wraps because of this. A lot of test pilots become instructors, and it has been a background for some astronauts, explaining Adam’s role at the Garrison.

Astronauts also need so many hours of jet flight logged a week. Don’t imagine Shiro and Adam dunking on Matt because he is horrible at flying jets.

(Shiro, over the radio: Matt-

Matt: Shut up Shiro

Adam: No seriously, Matt-

Matt: If you fucking say-

Shiro: Right rudder

Matt: I’m going to make you both smoking holes in the Arizona sand)

Military flight school is highly accelerated. Like, your private pilot training is done in a matter of weeks. Also, military pilots do not receive civilian ratings. It means that a trained fighter pilot has to sit in a tiny Cessna 172 (or any other small plane) and get certified like the rest of us. There’s a post-season 8 fic idea.

During the interview process for NASA astronauts, it’s been hinted at that the candidates are put through stress tests. At the very least, they go through a battery of psychologists. You have to be at least very good at interviewing.

Microgravity in low earth orbit, and in general, causes rapid bone density loss and muscle loss, unless astronauts work out in space to reduce these effects. If Shiro’s condition was muscular in nature, it would have been exacerbated.

Microgravity also causes your bodily fluids to move upwards, so astronauts are constantly congested. It also gives them a preference for spicy food! As such, spicy meals are popular among ISS astronauts while they are deployed.

There have been cases where astronauts have had to navigate by the stars and hand fly spacecraft when navigation and guidance systems fail, like during the Apollo 13 mission. Because of this, all astronauts are trained in astronomy and using the stars for navigation. When Shiro says he doesn’t recognize the constellations in the pilot episode, he was probably terrified! One of their only ways to navigate is now obsolete, and you would have to be very far out of our solar system to no longer recognize the constellations.

The shuttles from the shuttle program had to be hand flown on landing, and essentially landed like a normal plane on a runway, with minimal flare on landing.

Astronauts are known for having a very specific outlook. They’re trained to react very well in a crisis. This does explain a lot of Shiro and Matt’s behavior throughout the series.

Astronauts are known for having an extremely strong brotherhood as well. Apollo era astronauts were known for pulling pranks while they were stationed at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Also, astronauts will be stationed at different posts during other astronauts flights. If you want to write fics where any Garrison member is flying a jet to spot a fellow Garrison astronaut landing for splashdown in the ocean, or with another Garrison astronaut in Mission Control, that has actually occurred with Apollo astronauts!

Astronauts are typically as much experiments themselves as they are scientists. They are used to study the physical effects of space on the human body for future missions, sometimes to also try and make space more accessible in the future. Say, maybe that’s a clue in to how Shiro passed all of the strict medical requirements? Maybe he wasn’t supposed to. Pilots also face highly strict medical requirements for 3rd, 2nd, and 1st class medical certificates.

The “overview effect” was a psychological effect of spaceflight first recorded in the Mercury seven astronauts. It’s a feeling described as “awe and self-transcendence” that occurs when astronauts look down at Earth for the first time from space. There are many cases of astronauts walking away thinking of the unity of humanity and how we are one species. I’d love to see this written about, with any of the Voltron cast.

That’s all for now!!! I have wayyyy more besides this, but this is just some of my favorites

[autisticlinkk]

Feeling very normal about Voltron [lying]

[2plolo]

Every time I get drunk and high with my bros I just end up talking and crying abt the locked tomb how do I stop send tips now

[divination1330]

Honestly, considering I was thrown into the fandom by two friends during quarantine who then decided to just never talk about it again, I’m hyped. I need people to talk about this show to 😂

hey guys. um. erm. don’t get mad. but i think there’s a voltron renaissance going on.

[nostalgicish]

(based off of this post by @time-woods)

[somethinginmybones]

i like you *gives you a klance sketch*

[vldfix]

is somebody gonna match my freak 👅 (still unhealthily obsessed with voltron in the year 2024)

[mothmanavenue]

every dead end street led you straight to me, now you’re all i need, i’m so thankful for all of the girls you’ve loved before (but i love you more)

[stinklesnoot]

sketch of one of my all-time favorite kl fics by @adelfie - https://archiveofourown.org/works/31676516

i love this scene and i always giggle at it whenever i reread the fic teehee meet ugly is my favorite trope

[ambrosia-jpeg]

Participated in heynhay's DTIYS over on instagram!! They're stupid for each other <3

[purplina]

they dancing on Amor Prohibido by Selena (longer, fluffy hair and freckles Lance is my roman empire)

here is the link of the tiktok account if you want to say hi :

[alohaasaloevera]

klance but like Keith kisses Lance or it’s the other way around it doesn’t really matter when they think they’re going to die but at this point Keith hasn’t even left for the BoM yet so like whoever kissed the other on the spur of the moment thinks it’s just a little crush and they both agree brush it off until they’re almost dying again and it clicks that yes, they do want to spend the rest of eternity or maybe just a year (whatever they can get—whatever they want) loving each other dearly and only each other and no, it is not just a silly, footling crush that just so happened to worm into their brain through lingering touches and exchanged smiles

and then they hug YAY🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[klanced]

when adam met 11yo keith he immediately knew that keith was gay and was like i have GOT to support this kid!! (runs into traffic) meanwhile shiro spent years operating under the assumption that keith had like a gender thing going on

[j-esbian]

maybe the real voltron was the friends we made along the way

[nostalgicish]

yeah………… i’m deep in the klance rabbit hole

[vldtrashmydude]

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