#Voltron in a nutshell

[diary-of-a-loser-boy]

Lance: I-I’m just a boy from cuba 🇨🇺 🥺👉🏼👈🏼

Keith:

Keith: I’m so hard rn fuck

[slav-every-day]

[transformersandturtles]

Ugly crying over the fact that Voltron is no longer on Netflix oh my god. That show carried me through middle school and honestly was my queer awakening. I get that's probably dumb or cliche but that show genuinely means so much to me and the fact it's no longer on Netflix makes me so fucking upset. I remember watching every episode when they came out and I loved that show so much. The later seasons were okay, but I absolutely loved and adored that show so much no matter how weird of cringe or whatever it was cause that show is so fucking important to me. I'm so mad it's gone. My childhood in a nutshell srs. One of the first fandoms I made an OC for that was absolutely a self insert when I was like 12. Then I made my own alien race that I wanna draw again cause they were genuinely so much fun to draw. Ugly sobbing over all the Colbix I used to draw and all the lore I wrote about the alien race that they belonged to and the different stages and their death and ughshshajai I love Voltron so much. I'm so tattooing myself with the symbols on each of my limbs jsjsgjsjsja

[applethechaoticgirl]

LITERALLY The Whole Voltron Fandom after Watching Season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender in the nutshell:

(Oh yeah. Small HEADPHONE WARNING BY THE WAY!!)

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Anger and Sadness.That's literally two words that I can describe of the fandom watching season 8 of Voltron Legendary Defender.

Still upset that THEY RUINED LANCES CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT!!

(THIS VIDEO WAS MADE A JOKE!)

[james5-doe]

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Rick Gordon and Commander Keith

Fellow Voltron fans, this is getting exciting. Defenders of Arus looks absolutely awesome. In a nutshell, the Defenders of the Earth end up stranded on Planet Arus, where they help the Voltron Force battle the newly combined armies of Mongo and Doom. Of course, amid the adventures, there could be several personal matters to explore, including some new romances. Rick and Allura would certainly look beautiful together, and they have some issues in common, such as continuing their family legacies. Might a few of the original characters be landing on the planet as well? Let's see where this goes.

[lynnbecksart]

Anthro Mecha Universe in a nutshell because I am very far from having the first arc plotted out but I want to talk about it.

At some point Kaiju happen for some reason, probably science related. The first one to arrive is an eldritch abomination that creates portals, and a few of that flavour still occur, but most are either pollution-mutants, demons, angels, science-mutants or rogue AIs.

Everyone is anthropomorphic animals, except invertebrates, which fill the roles taken by regular non-anthropomorphic animals (with one exception that I'll get into later).

There's also a fascist government who are slowly invading and taking over independent regions, kinda like a more evil version of the NCR from New Vegas. They're called the New Argent Federation, and their president is Luther Blake (he/him, 65, saltwater crocodile). He has an underling who is basically a cross between Darth Vader, the Auditor from Brigador, and Pyro from TF2, piloting a mech that looks a bit like Necrozma.

Mech pilots are usually sorted into teams, kinda inspired by Sonic. Each team has a minimum of three pilots, though the number of mechs can be lower since some require multiple pilots (which is taken to extremes by Ironclad, a gigantic warship-themed mech piloted by 50 people). Mechs have different classes, but I won't be talking about them in this post because I can't be bothered.

The main team is Burst Team, composed of people who lack formal training, but still know how to do mech stuff mostly. The members are Stella Fawkes (she/her, 24, goblin shark), pilot of the Stygia, which is made partially out of old boats, submarines and diving mechs; Jim Autumn (he/him, 22, potoo), pilot of the Crimson Star, which he inherited from his mother after she retired; and Sue Simons (she/they, 23, moray eel), pilot of a mech I haven't named yet, which is designed for kaiju research but has had a giant rifle haphazardly bolted to the front.

Their rivals are Rage Team, who are all nepo-babies who pilot advanced mechs equipped with powerful but impractical weapons. The members are Harry Valero (he/him, 23, ocelot), pilot of the Valero Veloce MKIII Concept, an experimental high-speed mech; Miranda Jensen (she/her, 26, fox), pilot of the Starlet, a more humanoid mech with giant wings; and Brad Octavius (he/him, 25, rhinoceros), pilot of a mech I haven't named yet, which is a combat mech using parts from sports mechs.

Survivor Team are like. Pilots who were injured in the course of being a pilot, but kept doing it regardless. While I won't list all their members (because it would take too long and also the roster is far from complete), I do want to highlight Greg Phoenix (he/him, 53, kiwi), whose wife died during battle with a particularly powerful kaiju; he used parts of her mech to upgrade his own one, and named the result "Barbara" in memory of her. Also one of the characters is a Frogfish called Cora Reeve.

Terror Team are the big scary elite dudes, who are also big celebrities, with merch and sponsorships and stuff.

Advance Team are a bunch of giant neeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrds! Their mechs are more experimental (e.g a perfectly-spherical design with stretchy limbs so it can travel far distances quicker, and the body of a dead kaiju that's piloted by an electric eel who uses his natural electricity to puppet it).

Unity Team are just like a vague concept I have at the moment, but basically they have seven members in colour-coded mechs that can fuse together into a larger robot because Power Rangers (and also like. Sentai and Voltron and stuff) pastiche.

Outlier Team are the most interesting, as their members are all from species who aren't standard anthropomorphic animals, including a dimensionally-displaced human, a genetically-modified crab with full sapience and an inexplicable New York accent, an alien from a eusocial species with hundreds of genders, and an ancient robot that resembles an opabinia.

The Kaiju incident is called "The Intrusion", and started with an interdimensional worm monster emerging through a portal, which caused pollutive chemicals to become a powerful mutagen, alerted the setting's equivalents of Heaven and Hell, caused bioengineered creatures to mutate and escape from a lab that's still producing them, and made all the AIs in charge of various facilities go rogue. The results are Pollution (mutated invertebrates mostly, though sapient beings can also become Pollution Kaiju with prolonged exposure to the mutagen or if they eat the flesh of one), Dimensional (Kaiju from other dimensions or even between dimensions, with impossibly alien appearances and, if this ends up being a webcomic or whatever, different artstyles/mediums), Demonic (self-explanatory; in my document about all the characters, I describe them as having "Lots of flames, magma, mouths, leathery wings, pieces of brutalist architecture, masses of flesh, insect limbs, dangling chains, horns"), Angelic (again, self-explanatory; in my document about all the characters, I describe them as having "Lots of clouds, crystals, eyes, feathery wings, pieces of gothic architecture, intricate stained-glass panels, sea slug tentacles, flowing cloth, halos"), Biotech (biomechanical, in a similar way to the Combine Synths from Half-Life 2), and AI (literally just artificial intelligences that were originally in charge of facilities and stuff, but went rogue during The Intrusion and have built themselves bodies) Kaiju.

There's an ancient civilisation of prehistoric vertebrates who had robots based on prehistoric invertebrates (which also filled the roles of animals), as well as "walking buildings" that are essentially early mechs, consisting of Greco-Roman buildings held up by large, articulated statues.

[icypantherwrites]

hello there.

ive been reading your fics for a while and i wonder:

how did you come up with the last name you give lance in ur fics?? idk if you have answered this before but I am curious.

have a good day. 👍😊

Hi there :) I have explained this a couple times before but in a nutshell:

When Lance's character was first introduced in VLD it was clear he was of Hispanic background. The previous Voltron series had his last name being "McClain" but that didn't fit very well as that's most definitely Scottish and Scottish Lance is not. I did ultimately use McClain though as a nod to my own headcanon where a doctor named Lance McClain saved Lance's life as a baby and hence he was named after that doctor ;p Which also made sense as all of his siblings have canon Hispanic names and Lance does not.

I tossed around a couple surnames as I based a lot of Lance's family and background and even their house on my best friend's growing up (I grew up in a Mexican neighborhood) and so was leaning toward Muñoz but the tilde was going to drive me to a slow death so I noped out of that. I then debated Ramirez (a nod to a favorite White Sox player) but it didn't feel right either and so I settled on Esposito which was a little more unique (and a nod to a favorite character of mine in Castle, Javier Esposito).

Later canon told us that Lance was specifically Cuban so Ramirez would have made perfect sense, but at that point I'd already had numerous stories where I'd written the Esposito family (both fanon and canon takes based on what tidbits canon dropped) and the name was dear to me and so it remains.

[five-and-dimes]

20 Questions for Fic Writers!

I was tagged by @seiya-starsniper! 🤘

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

38 currently, but I orphaned a few in the past and am considering orphaning a couple more of my older ones, we'll see ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

220,579 - holy shit, when did that happen??

3. What fandoms do you write for?

At the moment just Sandman, although I still have some Umbrella Academy wips that I might try to go back and finish before season 4.

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

lol I think just due to the nature of them being fics that have been on AO3 for a decade (which... holy shit I'm old 😂) my top five are four Teen Wolf fics and one Voltron fic

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

Not really. I'll respond if someone, like, asks me something in a comment. I know I should respond more, but I often get overwhelmed and don't know what to say. So, uh... sorry everyone 😬

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

Hm, none of my fics have, like, angsty endings... I think the closest might be Now I Lay Me, just because it's more of a hopeful ending as opposed to explicitly happy (although I'm writing a sequel specifically so I can write the explicitly happy ending, so... that's me in a nutshell lol)

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

I would definitely say Smile Like You Mean It. That one is the most fluffy happy ending for sure.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Nah. The worst I ever got was way back in the beginning on some of my Teen Wolf fics I'd get those comments that were like "you should have written it THIS way-" which were annoying but nothing I'd call "hate".

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

lol I wrote actual, explicit smut for the first time a few months ago with Undisclosed Desires. My fic famously will have almost-sex before something tragic happens and gets in the way lol, and even my one smut story is still very hurt/comfort. As much as I appreciate reading smut of all kinds, I think if I ever wrote more it'd be the same h/c vibe. I'm a one trick pony.

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

Nah, the closest would be in my bandom phase? But I never fully understood if those counted as crossovers or not lol

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

As far as I know I have not

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yup! I can't remember which ones, but I remember approving requests to translate a couple fics.

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

I did once, and I had a lot of fun with the idea part, but the actual writing a coherent, publishable fic together was stressful. I love just bouncing ideas with people, expanding on topics together, yes and-ing with friends, etc., but I think fully writing a fic with another person isn't really my thing.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship?

lol it's hard to say I have an "all time" favorite. I tend to just have my favorite at any given moment. Obviously I'm super into Dreamling right now, but I've had tons of ships that I still love and reread stuff for.

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

Honestly, there's a bunch of batman wips that I started ages ago and still really like, but I just haven't been able to get into them (Sandman took over the brain real good lol)

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think I'm good at the emotional parts- it's why I like hurt/comfort so much. I will gleefully spend half a story ripping your heart out, but then I'll work hard to give it back. I think I'm good at writing inner thoughts in a way that helps evoke whatever the character is feeling. And I think I'm good at imagery.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Well for one thing I write out of order, so if I ever do multichapter fics I have to finish the whole thing before I can post it lol 😂 Also I think I struggle with action and plot. My writing is very heavy on character introspection, and I like my fics, but if you take a step back from them not a lot really happens in them.

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

I personally prefer not to, just because I'm monolingual. I'll either just do the italicized words and "they said in x language" or just say "they spoke in x language" and have the pov character not know what they're saying type of stuff.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Heroes. Does anyone remember that show?

20. Favorite fic you’ve written?

Oof, I will reluctantly narrow it down to three lol. Now I Lay Me (I love the concept), Sloom (love me some family angst), and Recoil/Release (A Voltron fic that is currently my longest fic, and was another one that I was really proud of the concept and characterizations)

I don't know who's already been tagged, but I'll tag @gabessquishytum @cuubism @softest-punk @magnusbae and @pellaaearien

[rorimoon9597]

Voltron when Keith first becomes the Black Paladin in a nutshell

[justmagicalgirl]

finally making a pinned post??

hi, I go by isis or yoo! I'm @/juatmagicalgirl on ao3 and have the same handle as here on tiktok for edits and twitter

I block quite freely, please don't take it personal. mainly bc due to the fandoms I'm in there are way too many ships and takes I simply can't stand and prefer to not get upset over for my peace of mind

I often post/reblog with comments or tags in spanish and while for some analysis I don't trust online translate with I might translate myself I will not always do so

I'm totally okay with asks, feel free to send them!

tagging system under the cut:

I have a weird system of my own which in addition to tumblr's wonky tagging system makes it 2x weird, so for short:

western characters I do first name-surname (note: im a hunter deamonne truther, thats my tag for him) and for most japanese characters I do surname-name (I think kagami is my only exception so far)

fandom tags, italics are my mains (might forget to update):

#mp100 - mob psycho 100

#toh - the owl house

#tdlosk - saiki k

#ml - miraculous ladybug

#mashle

#dunmeshi - dungeon meshi

#tad - the apothecary diaries

#sk8 - sk8 the infinity

#yoi - yuri on ice

#mlp: fim - my little pony g4

#mlp: eqg/#mlp:eg - equestria girls

#sxf - spy x family

#bsd - bungou stray dogs

#white collar

#pjsk: project sekai

#voltron / #vld (im trying to regroup under the vld tag but i forget lol)

music fandom tags (for solo musicians its just their names):

#tcw - the crane wives

#cdn- el cuarteto de nos

as for others, I am a first semester psychology student and I'm gonna be rambling way too much about stuff I learn bc I discovered I remember more shitposts than school facts so I'm officially inaugurating a tag for that: #my psych shitposts

for more serious analysis: #my psych analysis

me talking about stuff Iearned, often complaining lol: #my psych ramblings

for the very occasional art I post: #my art

for my fics: #my writing

#ask games

#tag games

feel free to block #vent if you want lol, I also use #personal to talk but it's usually not that venty. #personal ish is okay to reblog

stuff about me like this or my insterests in a nutshell: #me tag

idk what else to add so yeahhhh might update later

[balmerancrystalance]

voltron season 1: keith

voltron season 2: KEITH

voltron season 3: KEITH²

voltron season 4: …keith?

[underthechxrrymoon]

[rogue-elf]

[anime-disney-nerd]

The entire Voltron fandom right now.

[larytello]

Someone take Voltron and Photoshop away from me please I beg

[incorrect-dotu-quotes]

"My hobbies include being right and petting other people’s cats."

-Lance