#//honestly this just fuels the fire to me wanting to try my hand at doodling the two cuddling again

[truly-quirkless]

Twenty Day Challenge 2024 - Day Five

There are two options for this...either Yagi has to hold Fin, or Fin's gotta find something to stand on. Or both, in reverse order.

[hlvraik]

I'm kind od wondering what kind of people Science Team's PARENTS were/are? I mean, Tommy obviously has G-man, kid!Gordon mentions that his older self looks like his dad and I won't believe that at least one of the kiddos didn't pulled out "well my dad/mom\parents always let me do *insert dangerous activity here*!" card.

PFFT- EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE KIDDOS, EXCEPT GORDON HAS PULLED THE 'MY PARENTS LET ME DO THIS' CARD. GORDON IS LIKE THE EXACT OPPOSITE HE WOULD PULL THE 'MY PARENTS NEVER ALLOW ME TO THIS' CARD. (´ ∀ ` )

Also here's a couple of headcanons of the Science Team's parents/how they used to act. [I didn't add Benrey since I couldn't think of anything sadly as I HC that they simply popped into existance one day ( ˙▿˙ )];

Gordon; Gordon's dad was an engineer while his mom was a science teacher at a local high school. Both were very supportive of Gordon in every way, but they were also a tad bit overprotective as he's a bit clumsy. They would fuel his love for science by either taking him to museums here and there, or actually taking him to Black Mesa. Whenever there was nobody to watch over him, his mom would insist on taking him to work with her. With that, he would either hide underneath her desk or he would be in the very back of the classroom, usually doodling. [They also ended up getting him a pet frog of his own as they got genuinely tired of Gordon sneaking in dozens of tiny frogs into the house time after time.]

Tommy; G-Man genuinely cares for Tommy and wants the best for them and wants to be there for them, but they're just so extremely busy that they're absent for some parts of Tommy's life. [That ties in with one of the reasons why Tommy cherishes Sunkist so much as while creating her with G-man, it was one of the few bonding moments Tommy ever  had with them.] G-Man would try to make up for their lost time to Tommy by any means possible; this is why Tommy's able to wander anywhere within Black Mesa, or do anything they please whenever they were younger without any repercussions. Not to mention that if anything bad happens to Tommy, G-man would stop at nothing to find out who did it and would without a doubt make sure they pay. [Also G-man most definitely carries pictures of Tommy with them at all times and would show them to anybody and would brag endlessly about them 🥺🥺]

Bubby; Bubby honestly never really did have parents. The closest thing they ever had to guardians would have to be the countless researchers/scientists that watched over them and they absolutely hated them. One of the main reasons why was due to the fact that they treated them like an experiment instead of an actual human being. With that, Bubby became more rambunctious than ever and made it their sole priority to make their lifes a living hell. Whether it be from breaking lab equipment, setting important documents on fire, them having to manually seize Bubby from the vents, or just spreading gossip by other coworkers, they enjoyed every single moment of it. [However, there are moments when they feel a tad bit sad and aggrieved whenever they see a family or whenever a family is brought up as they realize how alone they truly are.]

Coomer; Parents were quite similar to Gordon, as they both supported Coomer's dreams/interests in both wrestling and the sciences. However, that isn't to say that there weren't times where Coomer drove his parents up the walls. Mainly whenever he came into close contact with toxic waste dozens of times, even scooping it up with his bare hands to show his parents, despite knowing that he's deathly allergic to it. Or whenever he used to take roughhousing too far, and would end up coming home with plenty of bandages on his arms and legs. [There was also this one time he climbed a really tall tree and then just simply jumped off of it once he reached the top. And although he landed on his face, surprisingly, he didn't have any scratches or scrapes on him, however he did end up losing a tooth-]

[mainstreamelectricalparade]

2020 Voltron Rewatch Commentary

a few things before we start:

i do ship klance but im not really going to be focusing on the ship or watching with rose-tinted lenses

i am going to be using female pronouns for pidge

there will be sarcasm aplenty in this post, as well as a lot of gushing, because i've watched voltron before so i already know the characters and have my personal favorites

sometimes my commentary will get a little. off-topic. bear with me. i've been known to ramble.

also this one is obvious but a warning for voltron spoilers!

this is just for fun! i've seen people do commentary posts before and i decided i wanted to try my hand at it. all praises, criticisms, jokes, and thoughts are just my own opinions and/or headcanons, and i hope at least someone thinks this post is maybe a little bit entertaining :)

here we go! strap in, fellas, this is a long one.

S1: E1 "The Rise of Voltron"

im just gonna come right out and say this i love the kerberos team i really truly do but the opening scene is absolutely terrible

"iSnT tHiS iCe SaMpLe AmAzInG sHiRo"

i get that its supposed to provide context for the entire premise of the show but i just

its so bad

"we could be the first people to meet aliens" congrats pal u just jinxed it -

"wHaT iS tHaT" what does it look like samuel

beam them up scotty

LANCE

poor hunk omg lance go easy on him

the entire simulator scene is so chaotic

really sets the tone for the rest of the show, huh

"-against crew recommendations-" the shade from this child

LANCE DID YOU REALLY NEED TO MAKE THAT FACE WHEN YOU SAID THREAD THE NEEDLE

"nice work, tailor -_-"

dhsdfgsd lance has 100% been covering for pidge's backtalk probably daily since they became a team, you can't convince me otherwise, he cut in so fast

OK YES THE ONLY REASON LANCE IS IN THAT CLASS IS BC KEITH FLUNKED OUT BUT WAIT TIL HE GETS HIS EAGER LIL MITTS ON BLUE'S CONTROLS, HE D E S E R V E S THAT RANK

how dare iverson put that look on lance's face honestly i would have sicced pidge on him for that, alone

ok ok ok but like pidge looks and probably is about 14 years old and lance's idea of team bonding is really "hitting the town and meeting girls"? lance... buddy... team bonding is playing mario kart and stuffing ur faces with junk food until u all pass out in a dog pile on the floor

I CANNOT BELIEVE THEY ARE ACTUALLY HIDING IN RECYCLING BINS

FORESHADOWING-COLOR-CODED RECYCLING BINS

"you come up here to rock out?" lance don't you know you should never sneak up on someone who's wearing headphones it's NEVER A GOOD IDEA

pidge could have fallen off the roof smh

awww her lil sheepish face when lance asks about kerberos

"STOP TOUCHING MY EQUIPMENT" tech gremlin pidge emerges

pff i love that hunk just flops over after he gets yelled at, that's exactly what my golden retriever does when i tell her to stop biting herself

so im sure pidge's notebook is supposed to be like... scribbles of notes and things that she picks up when she listens to the radio chatter but also she doodled a ladybug underneath the word "voltron" so i think it's just doodles that she does when she gets bored and that's really adorable

also i love the shot where lance grabs pidge's binoculars to look at the approaching ship and pidge just... dangles from them. even though lance is sitting down. she just. really is that short, huh.

lance y'all are having a team bonding moment now is not the time to be ogling pretty women

poor hunk fdhsdf he just wants to get a snack and go to sleep. honestly mood

poor shiro ;-; he's really going through some stuff

"i hate to be the voice of reason, always -" no u don't

OK BUT WHO ELSE IS CURIOUS ABOUT HOW KEITH CAUSED THAT EXPLOSION

my absurd cartoon logic brain immediately thought "dynamite" but no one in their right mind would sell a sixteen year old dynamite, even in a futuristic cartoon world

right

right?

right

i mean he's got that bike he probably lit smth on fire with fuel, that's flammable

i'm thinking too hard about this

moving on

"IS THAT THE ALIENS? ARE THEY HERE? THEY GOT HERE SO QUICK!!!" i mean... t e c h n i c a l l y . . . it isn’t....... not............. an..........

"i'd recognize that mullet anywhere" aww, how sweet

KEITH'S 👏 EYES 👏 ARE 👏 PURPLE 👏

lance now is really not the time to be a drama queen

keith looks so confused hsdfhdfh

"do you mind if we catch a ride with you?" keith, internally: oh god please don't i haven't spoken to another human person in months i can't handle the pressure of making small talk with three- keith externally: ...

"we could toss out some non-essential weight" "oh, right!" ... "okay-" these two, good gracious

"NONONONONONONONONO-" "yup :)" "NONONONO" KEITH THIS IS NOT HOW YOU MAKE FRIENDS

ok im once again stating the very obvious but shiro is McRipped

also that is not what shiro was wearing when he crashed, he was wearing the galra prisoner rags, how and why did keith just randomly have clothes that fit shiro perfectly sh**th shippers DO NOT interact i dont want to hear it

keith's conspiracy board i love him

honestly i understand why everyone loves conspiracy theorist keith so much and honestly same but i also love skeptic keith theyre both so funny

ok shiro 100% recognized pidge immediately because she couldn't look any more like her brother if they had been identical twins and the fact that he didnt call her out when she introduced herself (or when everyone kept using he/him pronouns for her) makes me love him so much, he probably thought she was transitioning or smth and didnt bat an eye

hunk is so stressed oh my goodness someone help him

dhdfhsdf i forgot about hunk going through pidge's stuff oh no

"hunk, you big gassy genius!" hunk is so smart i love him

theyre ALL SO SMART

blue senses lance's presence :DDDD

THEIR FACES OH MY-

"IS THIS THE VOLTRON"

pidge and hunk definitely thought the lion was leaning down to eat them

their faces when hunk is stating the obvious fhsdgdfg like "wow, are we really in an alien cat robot? none of us had noticed"

i love hunk

shiro and keith look impressed by lance's skills and the lion hasnt even left the ground yet

two seconds later: YOU ARE- THE WORST- PILOT- EVER

"why don't we just give the lion to the aliens?" "theyre gonna kill us all"

"be careful, man, this isn't a simulator!" "well, that's good, i always wreck the simulator..." LANCE THAT'S NOT AS REASSURING AS YOU THINK IT SOUNDS

zarkon is so creepy like dude did not age well

keith why are you staring at the back of lance's head so intensely you look like you're angry with his bean sprout

"guess we're all ditching class tomorrow" and for the rest of your lives

pidge omg this child hunk: vomits "i'm just surprised it took this long"

what is the name of that planet again? arusia? yeah whatever it is its really pretty

LANCE THAT IS SO GROSS

YOU WERE JUST COMPLAINING ABOUT HUNK'S BREATH, OBJECTIVELY A FART IS WORSE

he looks so proud of himself smh

"AHHH I KNEW IT WAS GONNA EAT US" *hides behind shiro because that will totally protect him if a giant effing metal space cat decided to eat them for lunch* "...ohhh, the door is open..."

shiro really just does not know how to deal with the fact that he just got launched back into space to another alien planet... but this time as a glorified nanny to four increasingly ridiculous teenagers

ok but why did the ID scanner just decide to accept that these five random humans that have never set foot inside this castle before are totally harmless and not a cause for alarm

does the lion have a telepathic connection with the castle too

did blue tell the castle "these guys arent in ur database but they busted me out of the cave on earth so they're chill"

shiro and keith have identical "exploring an alien castle running on like ten minutes of sleep" pouts they really are brothers huh

ALLURA

hsdfhashsdf i will never get over lance's goofy "prettygirlprettygirlprettygirlprettygirlSYSTEMFAILURE" face

or the flirty one he makes right after that smh child now is so not the time

SHE'S NOT EVEN INTO IT, ABORT, MAN, SHE THINKS UR EARS ARE HIDEOUS

pidge peeking over the top on the console to see how the tech works ;-; i love her shes so cute

ENEMY COMBATANTS! good morning coran

im... what... are they doing

"man, these guys are good" hunk please tell me youre talking about the futuristic computers and not whatever that just was

the flashback scene ;-;

CORAN'S FACE when she says their solar system was destroyed 😭

ooh sparkly holographic crystaly things- AH that immediate segue into haggar's gasping dead-looking face was very abrupt and very startling and very unwelcome-

watching the early seasons of voltron is so trippy when you've seen at least most of the later seasons and have backstory and context for a lot of the "reclaim what's rightfully ours" "alteans are a foul race" mumbo jumbo

lance: 10,000=1,000+10 keith: 1,000x10 lance: shut up

hunk's face when he's eating the food goo gshsdfgd

and then he keeps eating it anyway

honestly we stan

yours truly could never, it looks disgusting

awwwwww space mice!! babies!!

lance how can you possibly blame keith for the galra-

this child i swear

"i'LL sTiCk YoU iN a WoRmHoLe"

what. are you doing. lance. lance put your arms down.

coran doing math on his fingers is me

sdfhsdf pidge looks so alarmed when hunk's belly rumbles after he eats all that food goo she's like "pls dont throw up again im too young to die"

ok that thing allura does where she turns the whole room into a galaxy

thats awesome

can she do that to my room i want a galaxy nightlight on my ceiling

"LOOK AT YOUR PRIMITIVE SYNAPSES FIRING AWAY IN THEIR LITTLE BRAIN CAGE" I LOVE CORAN he can never say anything in simple terms

born leader in control at all times............. great idea giving that job to the escaped war prisoner with ptsd, not like its gonna make it worse or anything, not at all

PIDGE IS SO CUTE WHEN SHE GETS ASSIGNED THE GREEN LION SHE LOOKS SO DELIGHTED

lance's frickin

sparkly teeth

i sigh

don't make that face dude

also his eyebrows are very thin

like

this isn't news to anyone at all

but while we're talking about his face

are they just like that or do u think he gets them done

idk

idk

moving on

"you will life the team up and hold them together" yes hunk you shes looking right at you the lion hologram is right in front of your face

coran already busting out the terrible dad jokes i love him

shiro. shiro you know keith. you know keith very well. you should know better than to tell him to do a potentially dangerous thing like going off to find the red lion all by himself. he should not be left unsupervised. do you know what happens when keith is left unsupervised. DO YOU. BECAUSE I DO.

"if you get stranded don't worry, they're nice relaxing places to live out the rest of your lives K BYE" "waIT-"

dfhgsfdgsd pidge jumping on shiro's back like a spooped monkey

shiro did not flinch at all under her weight, dang. like, obviously he flinched, alien sloth buddy nearly gave our guy a frickin heart attack, but being climbed does not affect him at all

i love the little three-eyed pikachu caterpillar bunny things

"i wonder if hunk and lance are having as good a time as us"

*hunk and lance screaming halfway across the universe*

hm. i'd say probably not.

"I THOUGHT CORAN SAID THESE PLANETS WERE PEACEFUL." "MAYBE PEACEFUL MEANS SOMETHING ELSE IN ALTEAN."

"what if i start crying? TOO LATE I'M ALREADY CRYING" me during social interactions

he yeet

sdfhfdsgsd hunk's mutinous grumbling is such a mood i love him so much

pidge babbling for the entire canoe ride is me writing this post and shiro and the alien sloth buddy looking at each other is anyone unfortunate enough to have made it this far probably

"what if my feet don't touch the pedals? WHAT IF THERE AREN'T EVEN PEDALS?!?!?!?!" me learning how to drive

;-; shiro calming pidge down by intentionally repeating advice that her own father gave is so 🥺 he is a Big Brother

pidge's big grin before she runs off to get the lion ;-; she's so cuTE

shiro is so proud ;-;

HUNK SAVES THE DAY!!

dfgsdfs and immediately gets sick to his stomach

"i almost puked out there. i felt like hunk!" "think how i felt. i am hunk."

"finger counting is more of an art than a science" i felt that

arus! the planet is arus! not arusia. my bad.

"girl, you've already activated my par-" *tired dad voice* "lance" lance what does that even mean what were you trying to say do i even want to know

ah. yes. voltron. the fearless snake-worm warrior.

"STAYING" "LEAVING" "STAYING" "SNAKE"

oh my gosh this episode is so long ive watched the equivalent of two already and there's still 22 minutes left this is a movie im watching a movie

allura and her dad ;-;

i love that nobody in the show ever addresses the fact that none of them signed up for this, they just got yote into space in a blue lion right into the middle of an intergalactic war and the first alien they met happened to be a princess who said "ok y'all are my army now" and they were just fine with it

not like they had anything else to do

like school

or whatever keith was doing

dfgsd hunk's face when he sees how skinny the armor looks on the mannequin. i feel u my dude.

"aww, you got a cute little baya-"

pidge omg

"that's a pretty big ship" yeah there are a lot of ships in this show that that sentence is applicable to, buddy

"you made fun of me for that" "and i'm proud of that, but-" these t w o

pidge just wants her family back ;-;

"patience yields focus" oh boy

space mice save the day!!

pidge's immediate attachment to rover is so cute im gonna cry its her lil buddy

omg its one of those caterpillar things like slav but orange ehehehehe

man, little does shiro know...

keith pouting and yelling at the red lion sfhsdfgdsfg

"I'M BONDING WITH YOU"

"you're not getting this lion" keith... sweetie, they... they already... they already have it... you're the one trying to get it...

YEAH SEE OK WHEN LEFT TO HIS OWN DEVICES KEITH LAUNCHES GALRA TROOPS INTO SPACE AND ACCIDENTALLY FALLS IN HIMSELF, HE SHOULD NOT BE LEFT UNSUPERVISED AT ANY TIME EVER HE IS SO LUCKY RED WOKE UP AND GRABBED HIM

so like am i the only one who imagines the lions to have like feminine/maternal consciousnesses

ik keith and hunk have referred to red and yellow as "he" and shiro doesnt really refer to black as anything but like ive read so many fics where the lions have maternal instincts toward their paladins and stuff that its just become canon for me

ok so that ion cannon looks terrifying, 10/10 would not want to be on the wrong side of that thing

"i'm nodding. is everyone else nodding?" "yes." fdshsdfhsdf

fdhsdfsdfjhgsfjdhkmmjfa

hunk's lion: slams into keith's lion from the side

hunk: COMBINE

keith's lion: topples over

keith: ?????

hunk: ...

lance's perfectly normal response to getting stuck in an alien tractor beam: what the cheese

form voltron!!!!!

this sequence is still really cool, i love the animation

i will admit tho the face peeking out of black's mouth has always kinda weirded me out a little

"I'M A LEG!!" yes u are u funky little paladin

kaboom

dfhsdfgsdf imagine if voltron's formation was actually powered by hunk's screaming that would be hilarious

theyre all so concerned dfhsdf i love them

"defenders of the universe, huh? that's got a nice ring to it."

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.

and *cut*

GOLLY GEE THIS EPISODE IS FINALLY OVER I CAN STOP TYPING AND HIT POST I'M NOT EVEN GOING TO EDIT THIS MONSTROSITY YOU GET THE BLUNT UNPOLISHED FIRST DRAFT HERE YOU GO why did i do this

[rainbabbles]

I’m super duper attached to Shiver and Deathblow and gonna talk about their world and spill my love all over here so bear with me >:U Huge ramblings ahead~

World

So they have no story or anything, just a fun idea I have to doodle and have fun. So they live in a world where it’s essentially the Afterlife and it’s inhabited by ghosts of every color honestly. It’s the same as Earth, just more supernatural. It’s always night, lotsa spooky/funky aesthetics, and the setting is in a city called Putridine City.

The main thing going on is that Shiver and Deathblow’s family is super rich. Their dad runs Accursed Inc., which is a famous haunting agency that aims to assist with creating the most terrifying and appropriate hauntings for ghosts stuck on Earth. You want a revenge story? They’ll curate that in the victim’s dreams! You want a slasher movie? They’ll provide you chainsaws and gore extravaganza! Just wanna be an annoying poltergeist?? They’ll provide you energy to do that. I literally have no legit idea how Accursed gains profit,,, maybe fueled by amount of fear??? I dunno :I

But yeaaaah when Deathblow was old enough their dad gave him the company and dayum that boy runs it good (though he’s pretty tired most of the time). He’s also known to be super scary and horrifying so Deathblow’s reputation helped the company’s PR. A few years later Shiver was old enough to do her own thing- but she never had a direction in life? She stayed at her parents for a year or so being lazy and they were like, “bby u need to adult” so they sent her to Deathblow.

She got offered a normal position called an Omen Organizer. Essentially she just goes to the surface and helps organize all the horror props/magic/etc. that’s supposed to go down and make sure that it goes down correctly. Like a wedding planner but for The Grudge. Shiver super hates horror though so really,,,, she’s scared half the time and just procrastinates and stuff. Deathblow yells at her a lot. She tries better, but you know it’s the same thing, and he’s not ready to fire her yet so :ppp

Honestly there’s only a few reasons why Shiver decided to accept the position:

She gets to hang out with her brother ‘cause it’s been a while

She’s just biding her time while trying to figure out her true calling in life

Hot business ladies. They’re everywhere. She’s thirsty.

There’s a whole other mess of story things that go down (like Shiver finding a girlfriend, Deathblow making deals with demons, rival businesses, silly road trips, etc.) but yeah that’s all I got for that.

Quick Fun Facts

The Afterlife can hold ghosts and have ghosts go back up to the surface to be reincarnated if they are able to. Lots of ghosts choose to stay though because hey why not?? also they gotta keep the Earth from overpopulating so not everyone gets to live again.

Cryptids exist in the Afterlife but are wildlife

All the names of the ghosts in this world are horrendously punny or just spooky™ to the max. But hey, Deathblow and Shiver don’t share the same last name you ask??? Well that’s because in this world those are "fake” names. If you have a real name, you hide it. If you don’t, you are given one. Which leads to the next bullet point:

How are ghost babies made? Usually, you get a dead baby as horrible as that sounds. However, if you want one of your own you gotta do things differently. You take some “essence” or energy of you and your partner’s and give them to the baby maker facility. Based on how much money you give them, you can curate how your baby can come out- as in what ghosts your baby is made out of. For example: Deathblow was created from some of the worst serial killers, murders, crime lords, etc. ever and they were mixed into one ghosty bby. Being erased and reused to create something new is punishment for those guys, so don’t feel sorry lmao. Shiver was supposed to be like that too but the concoction is faulty so she wasn’t as horrifying

Ghosts don’t like demons and demons don’t like ghosts. Demons roam the Afterlife but don’t live there and are a danger in a sense to ghosts for obvious reasons. Their businesses are tempting but oh so bad for you. They’re also richer and better too, those pricks

Their Bond

I drew these guys a lot and they’ll be more pictures coming featuring them. The reason I’m excited is because the type of relationship these siblings have is based off of the relationship I have with my own sister. Some similarities are that we love each other a lot, we also like to tease and annoy the fuck out of each other, we throw memes and stupid shit into each other’s lives, and most of the time we’d rather be in each other’s company than anyone else’s. Just yesterday my sister T-Posed at me 3 different times and I jabbed her in the ribs with my hand at the final, thus defeating the horror. And then we had dinner.

My sis is my best friend, so putting that sort of thing onto these two is fun and special! Obviously the relationship is not an exact replica nor are the characters personifications of us UvU They’re just ghosty dorks who dork around. Seriously, Deathblow doesn’t look it but he can be silly like Shiver too, and Shiver is just an accumulation of all things dumb and stupid that sprout from our minds, it’s hella dope.

Welp enough needless rambling, that’s all I got so far. Just wanted to write this down for personal record keeping and for anyone interested because I’m in love with these two, so aw yeah