#origins: tumblr user on-pidge

[likethemoonweborrowourlight]

[clickabletale]

A talk about my Plance post and the things coming from it.

I didn’t want to make this post but this will probably be the one and only disclaimer post about the reactions I have gotten from noteable members from the Plance Garden.

Now, when I say that it doesn’t mean it’s the Plance fandom as a whole. In my discussion I have seen really nice people like @cyangarden who had come to talk to me politely and I appreciate that. So please when I talk about this and this feeling that has lingered with the fan base for a while, it is not the Plance garden as a whole.

Do not harass or lump in any of the good members here, that doesn’t help either.

Also I have gotten a “interesting” response (not gonna call it critique from the user bc it wasn’t) about me using Plance or Pidgance in my tag for my post.

The answer to why is two reasons, one I posted it under there to be open and public about my thoughts opinions since I have been came after for my thoughts even if they were slightly doubtful of Plance. I hid away for a while but I decided fuck it, but I made sure to try to structure myself more rationally to not be lumped as a butthurt planti-Klanti whatever thing. And two, I try to keep my tags related to the subject. It is something I’ve tried to do for a while with my other posts too. So those are my reasons to my feelings on this.

And I may put tags relating to the ship, the purpose being both for the tags to be related and also to bring awareness to this subject because this honestly isn’t the first time and I want people to be aware of this, especially fellow shippers since we’ve already dealt with this back in the shows run and I don’t want to keep seeing this happen.

So, you may obviously know but if you don’t, I made a post about my thoughts on the Plance endgame theories and breaking down why I didn’t believe it quickly. I’ll be honest, not my best or deep thought, it’s just brief.

Here’s a link to it if you’ve haven’t read it, just to get context of how my post was structured: https://clickabletale.tumblr.com/post/190247521977/i-remember-i-was-scared-to-say-this-back-when-the

I honestly never expected to receive two messages, one more worst, that felt so similar to a few Plance fans attacking me on Instagram with similar points or similar insults.

It’s a specific way some of them do it, either trying to twist your points, call you a hater, or belittling your views. I even dealt with this on Tumblr, it’s like a pattern with some of them.

I honestly could’ve went harder and be petty like Plantis or Klantis, but I made sure not to give into that since those aren’t honest arguments and only seek to go “no you, no you” or insult the ship for a petty reason.

Especially when I didn’t say anything demeaning about the ship because it’s not a horrible ship. You aren’t horrible for liking it or wanting it to be canon, I was like that with Klance two years ago. (I’m more skeptical with it but I have no idea if it was intended to be canon or was all false, I just don’t know currently) and all I did was disagree with some theories and the idea that Pidge and Lance were intended to be a couple.

And I get a whole post insulting me over and over. This is not okay and I want the Plance Garden to be aware of this.

You guys are really nice, you post nice content and just enjoy yourselves. I don’t think one smidge of a post only a few sentences of me doubting Plance was going to be canon should get you this riled up.

I’m still keeping it up because I’m not gonna coward to these people who like to insult or berate me over my thoughts and opinions if I’m not insulting or hurting anyone.

Just, if you disagree with what I say you can either talk about it regularly or you don’t have to stick around. Any response that isn’t attacking someone is valid.

My opinion shouldn’t deter you from loving the ship, it’s just my views on the idea of it being canon. Not the ship in general since I have no problem with it in fanon.

That’s all I’m gonna say, hope I didn’t ramble too long on this. This is going to be my final post separate from the original, I am still open to criticism and an open to receiving them.

Enjoy your day everyone.

[dambit-like-gambit]

Hello, there!

Call me Gambit (or “L”, or Lemony)… I hope my fellow literature nerds liked that one XD

Anywho, I’ll just cut to the chase:

I need money for Studying Abroad this summer, so here I am, opening up writing commissions!

For examples of my current posted content, please see          https://archiveofourown.org/users/welcometomystic

What I WILL write:

              Familiar Content:

                 -Harry Potter/FBAWTFT/The Marauders         -The Great Gatsby                          -Yuri on ICE (canon or AU)              -Disney/Pixar (I am a fanatic)                          -Dreamworks (ex: The Road to El Dorado)  -LGBTQ+ content                              -Voltron (for canon-compliant: familiar until the end of Season 5)                          -Dear Evan Hansen               -Heathers (film OR musical)                                      -RENT (FILM of musical)                 -Tokyo Ghoul (s1 anime ONLY)                      -Kamisama Kiss (ANIME ONLY)              -Witches & Magic, familiars                    -Gore, Death, and Disease                           -Hamlet, The Tempest, A                    -21 Chump Street                                      Midsummer Night’s Dream                    -Interview with the Vampire (FILM ONLY)                                                                -Phantom of the Opera (film/musical)                    -Les Miserables                        -“Period” AUs (ex: Victorian England)                    (MUSICAL ONLY)                    -Most AUs: willing to work with ideas/create my own for you                                  -Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, RESPECTFULLY WRITTEN issues with                     mental health, etc.                                                                                                  -A/B/O, vampires, werewolves, faeries/fairies/the fae, shapeshifters,                      immortal characters, etc.                                                                                        -Original poetry (ex: for a significant other) (provide context and any                      additional info requested) -Over the Garden Wall (characters or AU)

             Unfamiliar, but Fair Game:

                 -Hamilton (canon or otherwise)                     -Be More Chill (musical)                    -My Hero Academia/Boku No Hero Academia                                                        -Les Mis (other than the musical)                                                                            -Voltron post-S5 (I haven’t seen the seasons, but I can research and                     write an ALTERNATE UNIVERSE based on the context of post-s5,                       like writing for Adashi (Adam/Shiro) or Shiro/Curtis, etc.)                                      -Heavily religious content of any sort (WICCAN- & PAGAN-                                   FRIENDLY; much research will be necessary)                                                      -Original Characters (provide descriptions)                                                            -Familiar character/Original Character                -Percy Jackson                            -Shakespeare comedies/romances                      universe/plots                                        not mentioned above                                                                                   -Pokemon AUs (never got into it really so I’m not too confident in                           writing without research)                                                                                        -She-Ra -Racist/Sexist/Homophobic/Transphobic/otherwise discriminatory                           content FOR ANYTHING BUT ANGST OR “LEARNING A LESSON                     IN KINDNESS”                    -P0rn/sexual content above PG-13                            -Most kinks (you’d be surprised) -- ask first, and I’ll decide if I am                                                                                    comfortable writing it

            WILL NOT WRITE:

                 -ACADEMIC MATERIAL (homework, projects, essays, creative                       writing assignments, etc.)                                                                                    -Inside Out (the film makes me uncomfortable)                                                      -Sex/ships between an adult and an underaged individual                                                         (ex: Harry Potter/Severus Snape)                                                        -Omorashi/Watersports, Fecal kinks                                                                        -Rape/”Intense” Non-Con (hypnotism/mind control is okay)                                    -Canon-compliant Voltron post-S5 (no Allurance, my dudes; Lance                       gets character development in my works; etc.)                                                      -Pidge/anyone (Voltron) (I just can’t do it, idk)                                                        -Lance/Allura (Voltron) (nothing against shippers, just can’t write it)                      -Historical Shakespeare plays (I don’t understand the content well                         enough to write it)                                                                                                  -Drarry (Draco/Harry) -- I am not well-versed in this ship, so I don’t                         feel comfortable writing it                                                                                        -K-Pop, J-Pop, or K-Dramas -- I am not part of the fandoms and do                       not know the culture

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One (US) dollar for every 200 words for items that I am familiar with (see “Familiar Content” list or ask me, if it is not included on any lists above; I may have forgotten something uwu)

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                  1 stanza/haiku: $5.00                         2 stanzas: $7.00

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[marinsawakening]

2 3 4 and 7 for ur meme >:3 let the salt come forth

2: Most amatonormative ship?

UHHHHH of all time??? or just in FMA??? oh shit should’ve probably thought this one through before making the ask meme lmao

okay so I’ll do in FMA first because it’s the easiest and uh. that’d be alm/ei. there’s literally no reason for either al or mei to have a love interest, its clearly used as a gag in canon, it was pretty much 100% onesided in canon, but for some godforsaken reason the fandom just?? loves it???? and considers it canon that they’d get married later in life?????? I mean I’m not gonna say that Arakawa wouldn’t agree with that but. she and everyone else is would be wrong. Al is aro and Mei is lithro and they try a relationship post canon but it doesn’t work out bc they’re arospec babe so they decide to be good friends instead and its a relief for everyone involved and that’s the truth.

Of all time…. that’s tough. I’m gonna go with Ca/leo (calypso/leo from the heroes of olympus franchise) even though I’m sure there’s worse things out there because I remember being FUCKED UP MAD when good ol’ uncle rick decided to pair off literally the only character from the original series that didn’t get a love interest because that was LITERALLY HER ENTIRE POINT and then decided to pair of leo because amatonormativity I guess AND THEN decided that they wouldn’t actually work as a couple so he just fucking. changed calypso’s entire personality. and I don’t mind that change much bc I like her better in HOO but YOU CAN’T JUST CHANGE CHARACTERS YOUR NOT HAPPY WITH RICK ESPECIALLY NOT FOR A ROMANCE THATS NOT HOW IT WORKS. anyway im still salty about HOO can you tell.

3. Most amatonormative ship fic trope?

*slams my fist on table* HANAHAKI DISEASE. yes I know that the aro community as a whole is really Done with soulmates and I totally understand and respect that (even if my own feelings are a lot more complicated) bc they’re amatonormative as heckie and much more widespread but like. the entire concept of hanahaki disease is ‘if someone doesn’t love you back you will get TERMINALLY ILL” and I mean??? who the fuck???? thought this was cute????? seriously what the fuck.

4. What popular ship has the least chemistry?

Well I already used alm/ei so and I’m disqualifying ro/yed on grounds of wanting to make this fun so…. pissing people off lets go with edw/in. it sucks. its bad for winry’s character development and completely superfluous to the story. we gain absolutely nothing by having ed and winry be romantically involved. they work way better and are way cuter as friends, and we would lose no story beats whatsoever except for the proposal at the end which was awkward as fuck in my opinion. like if your ship contains canon dialogue like “were his shoulders always so broad” (or something either way it was winry busing about Ed’s shoulders which…. is that a thing? that I missed?) and “wait at home and bake me an apple pie” (again, something among those lines), that’s…. not great chemistry. sorry you guys i just don’t see it. 

7. Which ship discourse is the funniest?

*pulls out my time in the VLD fandom* LET ME TELL YOU A THING

(under the cut because this shit is too fucking long)

okay so for the most part the VLD fandom wasn’t actually…. that bad. I mean it was childish and volatile as fuck and everyone was really hostile to each other don’t get me wrong, but honestly, it’s not the worst fandom experience I’ve ever had, and once I managed to carve out a little niche for myself it was pretty enjoyable (also a lot of the fans were autistic which. neat). 

but there was one event in that fandom that just fucking. killed me. and I’m still not over it. 

so once every three months or so (on average, sometimes it’d happen multiple times a month and sometimes it’d say quiet for months on end) we had some Major Bullshit happen that got on top of the regular ship wars. sometimes it was something a cast member (Pidge’s voice actress, usually) had said or reblogged, sometimes it was new age ‘confirmation’ that just added wood to the fire of the regular discourse, sometimes it was a new Hot Take™ on the show that everyone loved for a while until someone inevitably pointed out that it was ooc/problematic/etc. and then everyone hated it, etc. etc. pretty standard volatile fandom stuff, all things considered, with the vast majority of the discourse having valid points but being taken way out of proportion because of the sheer size of the fandom.

the shaladin discourse is definitely a good example of that. the main point of the anti side in that discourse is ‘hey don’t ship shiro with the other paladins he is an adult and they are teenagers’ and the point of the anti anti side is ‘don’t tell me what to do you pearl clutching purists’ which. i mean im clearly biased here. but the discourse was blown so far out of proportion, primarily because, again, this fandom is too fucking big, but also because a lot of people involved in the discourse were kids themselves. you basically had a bunch of 14/15-year-olds who by and large haven’t quite mastered critical thinking yet yelling at each other in debates that got very emotional very easily. (not saying this to be condescending, lord knows we should all be happy that I wasn’t into fandom when I was fifteen or I would’ve 100% been the person going ‘well actually it’s called ephebophilia get your terms right’ so we all dodged a bullet there. but im just saying that, historically, young teenagers don’t have the best trackrecord for rational, calm discussions, and it really showed.)

so, why am I taking the time to tell you all of this? so that you have proper context to how stupidly ridiculous this discourse was on a regular basis. many (most) of the people in this fandom seemed to totally forget that, while telling people not to ship pedophilia or stuff like that is generally pretty important, it’s ultimately still fandom bullshit and doesn’t really, actually matter that much in the grand scheme of things. it very quickly became a very strong ‘us vs. them’ mentality on both sides that resulted in actually pretty seriously toxic behaviour like death threats (although the anti side definitely had more of a tendency to go witch hunting after people, shaladins were absolutely not exempt from Bullshit, as you’ll see below). like i shit you not we were all genuinely waiting for the time someone would get stabbed irl over it or something, it was so tense.

and at some point, at what I consider the height of this stupid discourse, came Operation Shalanonymous.

I might be getting the name wrong, but they genuinely called it something like that, with a serious graphic behind it. I shit you not. This whole thing was so, so surreal.

Operation Shalanonymous was literally a spyop. A 15-year-old shaladin (and maybe some others, I don’t remember) who at the time went by the url ‘theblackguardianofsheith’ or something similar (they deleted, to my knowledge, and I hope they’re living their best life) pretended to be an anti and went ‘undercover’ in an anti discord server, with the purpose of ‘exposing’ the antis for what they really were. they gathered a bunch of screenshots and such, and then released them all as ‘damning evidence’ onto Tumblr, claiming that they showed evidence of sexual harrassment and hypocrisy, among other things. 

I can’t remember all of the accusations, but some were pretty serious, so I took the time to go through the screenshots and found… very little. there were some distasteful remarks here and there in the form of ‘i wanna kill [insert shaladin]’ that the mods shouldn’t have let slide, and a childish, kinda sexualizing derogatory nickname for the shaladin in question in the form of ‘hunty’, but those two things were really the worst of it. yes, this behaviour was bad and the mods shouldn’t have let it slide or participated in it, but all in all? not worth an entire spyop. if anything, what I found much more damning was that the shaladin (who, as a reminder, was 15 as well) had written a couple of little notes on the screenshots drawing attention to some particular messages of a then 13-year-old anti who said they had a crush on shiro. the notes themselves would’ve been nothing more than childish IF that same 13-year-old hadn’t just come out of a massive dogpiling attack where they were repeatedly misgendered and accused of wanting to have sex with adults themself despite them being a csa survivor. so attempting to throw back to that discourse to ‘prove’ some kind of hypocrisy was distasteful at best and honestly, it did not make them look very good.

so yeah. as you can imagine, the discord members and mods took that very well, and just. for a while, Operation Shalanonymous was this actual Thing, where shaladins were crying that the antis were finally exposed and the antis were accusing the spying shaladin of sending graphic rape porn into the chat to shock users, which the 15-year-old shaladin refuted by saying that they were attempting to get them to do something about it (apparently they were trying to get it taken down or something, but I genuinely have no clue why they thought the antis could help with that, but then again, this whole situation was so far-fetched and there was little evidence provided that this was actually ‘graphic rape porn meant to scar csa survivors’, like the antis claimed either, so like. i don’t fucking know), and accusations went back and forth for a while. it was a mess.

and this, this right fucking here, is hands down the most childish, most distasteful, most useless ship discourse that I’ve ever encountered. not only did someone actually take the time and energy to pretend to be an anti for quite some time in order to ‘spy’ on antis, they also decided to, in all seriousness, release the screenshots under the actual fucking name ‘Operation Shalanonymous’, dropping them like they were the fucking panema papers. like guys??? you know this is the fucking voltron fandom, not goddamn wikileaks, right???? these are not state secrets you’re releasing. they’re screenshots from a fandom chat. it. doesn’t. matter. that. much.

there were some genuinely horrifying things that went down during this whole debacle, and I probably shouldn’t find it as funny as I do, since this really was a prime example of how toxic people can get when they think they’re in the right, especially when the person in question is a teenager (who, again, don’t have the best track record for emotional regulation and foresight). but I just fucking can’t take this shit serious. you gotta remember that a 15-year-old was mostly heading this thing, and it really shows; the whole entire set-up and pay-off was just overwhelmingly childish, and it makes me so, so glad that I wasn’t into fandom at that age, because who knows what shit I would’ve pulled. and I just can’t stop imagining what everyone involved will think of this shit when they’re in their twenties or thirties. because god. ship discourse does not matter this much, guys. it really, really doesn’t, and this whole debacle was nothing but an embarrassment for everyone involved. 

so anyway that was hands down the most ridiculous ship discourse I’ve ever witnessed, thanks for coming to my history lesson.

[pidgeki]

PIDGEKI WEEK 2017!!!  (JULY 16TH-JULY 23RD!)

Hello, Voltron Fandom! JusKla here from @justklance​ and I have an exciting announcement! In honor of my main blog hitting 1,100 followers (SCREAMS 1.1K WAT?! thank u forever!!), I am hosting my first ever ship week!! Pidge the Green Paladin + Luki the Unilu kiosk girl = Pidgeki!! Huge shout out to tumblr user @omgwtfneo for letting me use their art for the banner above, which is the picture that made me start shipping this in the first place! If you’re curious on the choice for the Unilu girl’s name, HERE explains the origins of me calling Unilu Kiosk Girl, Luki! Get HYPED for Pidgeki Week 2017!! :D

DAYS/PROMPTS:

Most days have two prompts, one more cute, one more adventurous! *NOTE: anytime it says OR you can also do AND if you can make it work. (for example, if for day 3 you wanted to do a post where they had a sleepover party AND luki was a paladin, you can do that too!)

DAY 1 (July 16th):  First Time Meeting

DAY 2 (July 17th):  Punk Rock & Techno or Fighting the Galra

DAY 3 (July 18th):  Sleepover Party or Paladin Luki

DAY 4 (July 19th):  Video Game/Movie Date or Lost on an Unknown Planet

DAY 5 (July 20th):  Confession/First Kiss or Exploring Gender

DAY 6 (July 21st):  University!AU or Hogwarts!AU

DAY 7 (July 22nd):  I Love You or I Hate You

DAY 8 (July 23rd): Bonus Day! Anything you like!

RULES:

Must be following both this account (pidgekiweek) AND me, @justklance​

Tag it as #pidgekiweek AND #pidgekiweek2017 both in the first 5 tags!

If you did tag it, but you think I didn’t see it, you can send it to me on IM!

You can do art, fics, gifsets, poems, drabbles, videos, edits, cosplays, ANYTHING as long as you made it either all on your own or only from your work AND official art (ie: a screencap edit, an AMV, etc)

Any stolen fan art/fic etc from other voltron fans will be reported.

You can submit for any amount of the 8 days, and you can submit for the same day more than once if you make multiple works!

This is a pretty new ship, so try to spread this around as much as you can and I encourage all skill levels to participate!

THIS IS AN ALL-AGES EVENT, so keep entries PG-13, please!

Finally, HAVE FUN!! I hope everyone enjoys the first Pidgeki Week! :D

SO WHAT NOW?

Is this your first shipweek? No problem! Here is the quick run down! You upload your posts on the proper day above, tagged as instructed and it will be reblogged to this ship week account to be shared with everyone else who shares a love for pidgeki or wants to be a part of the event! Entries can be romantic or platonic, as long as they fit the prompt and again, all skill levels and post types are welcome!

“I WANT TO, BUT I WILL BE AWAY/NEED MORE TIME!”

That’s fine! I will be accepting late entries as well! Please try your best to get them in on time, but if you can’t, a late entry is just as good!

...And I think that’s everything :D I can’t wait to see everybody’s stuff :)!!

-JusKla

“I was like, 4 arms? No way! Then I fell for her, simple as that” -Pidge, probably

[kendrixtermina]

Baby Reacts to: “Voltron Legendary Defender”

I’m not familiar with either of the show’s previous incarnations but from what I’ve heard they completely overhauled the characters anyways - supposedly Pidge was once an annoying tagalong kid (and a boy), Keith was a standard issue “hot-blooded mecha pilot”, Shiro was not there, or killed of in the first storyarc, and Allura was a completely different character with a wholly different design, more of a ‘princess classic’ with the looks & personality to macth, supposedly they redesigned her to make her more alien & then threw in the skintone as a hommage to her voice actress. In any case only the name is the same. 

I’ve seen some clips and it seems they had a much more outwardly fantasy-aesthetic going on with carriages & period costume, sort of more like Star Wars or Sailor Moon,  whereas the newest version seems roughly Star Craft esque in terms of their particular blend of Magitek. 

Otherwise it’s pretty straighforward: Evil Empire, Ancient Artifacts, Giant Robots, Space Fights, timefrozen hightech city left behind by the precursors etc. 

The evil empire has a renegate splinter faction but that too isn’t so exceptional (though welcome), the BoM reminded me somewhat of the Tok’Ra from Stargate in their reclusive, slow-to-act approach in that they have tons of futuristic tech but limited ressources & had to be won over first & there still being a lot of mutual distrust on both sides, at least at first.  

Rare in this day and age (and very refreshingly IMHO) the show unapologetically sticks to the basic genre & tropes without falling over its own feet trying to be clever  & meta - sure, they evened out the gender ratio a bit & made the structure of the battles less monotonous but we’re not beaten over the head with any of these things/fit them in naturally & the show never seems like it has something to prove & just lets its story be a straightforward giant robots & explosions kinda thing.

It helps that the artwork is great. 

The best summary of my general impression is that I’ll pobably tune in for season 3. My favorite character so far would be Keith closely followed by Pidge, and Shiro, but AFAIK everyone likes Shiro? I’m prolly b/c I’ve heard it’s terrible (The Umbridge effect is probably in full force...) also I’ve been told there’s a trailer out and I’d rather see season 3 unspoiled. 

Clearly there needs to be some payoff for Shiro grooming Keith as a potential sucessor but I’m hoping that after a few drama-filled episodes, they all go rescue Shiro from wherever he’s gotten to, Keith hands him back his helmet and they all go home together. I mean, he just got his own Bayard. It’s unclear what happened to him in any case, perhaps he was absorben Evangelion style. 

That said one of the show’s strenghts is the clear aversion of the “annoying comedic sidekick” even though it has many characters that has could theoritically fit that description - They try their best to give each of the characters something to do & various skills & likeable traits - Like you get why each of them is there and why they’re our heroes - they also took the time to make sure everyone got a few character establishing moment in the first episode (Shiro’s arrival, Pidge & Keith were already on their own quests by their own means, Hunk & Lance served as the PoV characters etc) and throughout the show they try to bring out everyone’s personalities through reaction shots etc. Like, ALL of them are awesome.

Also apparently this fandom has brutal shipping wars? Some ppl I was sitting next to kept cracking jokes about how [random yaoi pair] was obvliously into each other and after a while it got annoying through sheer persistence. 

I don’t think the show as a whole is going for that like if there was going to be a decent/central romantic subplot they’d have introduced it by now they seem to be content to simply be an action show & there’s not much content like that at all except for the occassional teasing for the sake of humor & Lance’s flirting (which is really more there to exposition his being a bit of a showoff) - the most that will come out of it is that when we see some epilogue telling us what became of everyone, Lance will be shown to have found a girlfriend after returning home to his mom & impressing his siblings with his heroic stories. 

To begin with they seem to be going for a different vibe with the main characters, with how all of them (including Allura) refer to each other as “family” or “brothers” all the time like I get the impression we’re supposed to interpret them more as simply comerades or quasi-siblings with Shiro as the big brother and Coran as the kooky uncle.  

Like I hate it when ppl dismiss already existing romantic subplots as “uneccesary”, “silly” or “pandering” but at the same time it’s not like every show needs to have one or like it immediately needs an explanation when one character doesn’t get a love interest(that they must be gay, ace etc... nothing wrong with those type of characters, or headcanon, but “we’re not doing romance genre RN/ the characters are busy fighting a war” should be a sufficient explanation in and of itself whatever the characters’ orientations are.) 

General Character Impressions:

Their secret seems to be rolling with the basic tropes but connecting them into an interesting structre, so it comes off neither overly in your face nor one dimensional.

Lance - ‘Average Joe Relatable PoV character’ except they made him not-boring by making him the snarky/funny one & giving (he’s got ice powers & is the designated long range fighter, both very cool powers, pun not intended but retroactively appreciated) as well as drawing logical consequences (He’s the most attached to earth because of his relatively ‘normal’ background & wants to prove himself because it seems he was the midle child among numerous siblings, hence the rivalry with the local ace pilot.) Sorta calls to mind the likes of Kyon from Haruhi or Sokka from Avatar.  

Hunk - For once the “all around nice heart of the group with the more intuitive, roundabout type of reasoning” isn’t the token girl but I’m glad that role’s still there because niceness & group cohesion is a valid attribute. The “nice person” is typically the healer or magic user but making them the defensive fighter makes just as much sense, especially with his personality as the more cautions common sense-y one who becomes committed to the mission through the desire to protect innocents. 

Pidge - The “secretly a girl” thing is kinda trite but it makes sense as a reference to the original and they still eschewed the tropes by how she was badass well before & doesn’t get treated any different afterwards - The plot twist is more that she’s related to the scientists from the prologue. Otherwise another potential spirit animal of mine, VERY relatable in ways I can’t count, fro the nerdy reactions all the way to the short stubby arms XD I’m also grateful that they didn’t give us that trite old “nature vs science” contrast but instead portrayed these as connected.  It’s like Kensuke from Evangelion, except as a girl & she actually got to be a pilot. 

Keith - The Rival Character. Second-best fighter  of the paladins, sort of a ‘larger-than-life’ superhumanly good ace pilot, to Lance’s ongoing chagrin (and indeed he turns out to be part warrior alien), also, predictably, the local cynic. Seems to have the least ties to earth/ have been looking for a purpose in life anyways.    Not quite a ‘stoic number two’ though - He’d probably like to be but he absolutely doesn’t really know when to shelf it, hence his being highly suceptible to Lance’s provocations & flunking out because of a “discipline issue” despite his aparent talent. 

Shiro - Former Ace Pilot & personal hero for both Lance & Keith. Got alien abducted & subjected to the full repertoire (gladiator fights, experimented on, augmented etc.) & is understandeably still rather shook from it. Serious disciplined military type & natural leader, hence ends up taking over almost immediately wheen stranded with a bunch of ragtag space cadet rejects and, as a result, becomes everyone’s beloved big brother figure./mentor. Supposedly just as loved by the fandom?  Actually still pretty young, he just looks mature in comparison to the others but he’s not above getting in a snowfight. 

Allura - There’s the “sweet princess classic”, the “fierce alien warrior princess” and the “glittery plot magic princess” and in Allura’s case they seem to have been thrown in a blender & put together in such a fashion as to make a more complicated character - She’s certainly fierce, somewhat agressive, suspicious & hellbent on her mission but she also has the diplomatic grace one would expect of a royal & ultimately she does have a sweet side (hinted at early on with her adorable animal companions) - The basic gist of it is that she’s a regular teenage girl somewhere, but has been trained for asskicking & diplomacy all her life, & now she’s the last survivor & feels the pressure to carry on her father’s torch & stop the evil empire so she affects a comanding presence most of the time. 

Also there seems to be some meme about calling her a racist (Ugh tumblr) ? This seems to me as one of this stuations where people want complex characters but cannot handle it if they’re not perfect or fitting into easy boxes. 

The whole point of her is that she comes from a different time & culture with it’s conlicts outside of the human character’s PoVs. Like point me at any angry alien princess who is NOT suspicious. Both being unfrozen and heck, even Zarkon’s betrayal are still relatively recent for her, and in the end she was just kinda avoiding Keith (granted, in what must’ve been a confusing uncertain time for him) more than actively being mean and she came through on her own & apologized. Like, it was just like Hunk said: She just needed processing time, something she’s been afforded preciously little of at any point ever, I mean she goes straight from realizing everyone she ever knew (except Coran) is dead to launching an offensive.  

Bonus: I shall attempt to MBTI the bunch

(In Order of certainty)

Hunk - most obvious ISFJ to ever SiFe 

Allura - ESTJ

Pidge - INTP

Keith - ISTP or possibly ISFP, certainly Se-aux tho. One the one hand he uses Fi-ish language in places (”If I don’t do this, I’ll never find out who I am...”) on the other hand he tends to prioritize the mission & is the most cynical/pragmatic of the bunch & tends to be stoic & objective unless provoked (”The rest of the universe has families too.” “Yeah but can we afford to rescue the princess?”) - His relative reactiveness when provoked is sufficiently accounted for by Se. 

Zarkon - ESTJ 

Shiro - ISTJ (though his instant commanding presence makes me doubt the I somewhat that said politician/leader ISTJs do happen. He seems to have been serious & dilligent even before all the trauma tho.)

Lance - ESFJ or possibly Se-dom, ESxx for sure tho. 

Coran - Clearly has Si and Ne but not sure in which order. If I had to guess I’d say he’s either a very dutiful ENFP or a very quirky ISTJ. 

[groundramon]

for the ask the blogger thing... ☂ - favorite season? ✐ - fave types of movies? ♪ - music you like?✌ - favorite bands/ singers? ♒ - fave animes? ❦-.fave characters? ღ - mottos? I'm spamming u with those sorry

SHHH NO I LOVE BEING SPAMMED WITH QUESTIONS SO THANK YOU

Also thank you for including the questions with the emojis that makes this 10x easier for me lmao

anYWAYS

☂ - favorite season?Winter!!  Nice and cool AND you dont have school for two weeks lmao

✐ - fave types of movies?Generally animated; I enjoy animation and movie animation tends to be consistently pretty high-quality (even the fucking emoji movie looks pretty decent) not to mention live action movies always seem to have really bad sound mixing??  Meaning important things you NEED to hear like whispering are too quiet and explosions are too loud even when you dont change the tv volume.  But even then, saying I prefer animated movies isn’t exactly accurate because….I haven’t gone to the theater for a single animated movie this year.  The only ones so far that I would’ve considered were Lego Batman (which I have on dvd now but i havent watched) and Cars 3.  I’m hoping to see Coco in theaters but other than that….i can wait for it on dvd or just not watch it at all because I’d prefer to rewatch a movie I like.

I also dont like calling animated movies a genre, so if we’re going by genre, I’d say fantasy-adventure stories tend to be my favorites, but sci-fi can be fun as well.  I just want a good, heartfelt story that doesn’t take itself so seriously that you can’t have fun but also takes itself seriously enough that you really feel for the characters.

♪ - music you like?GOD I WISH I KNEW??  I’ll literally listen to everything from vocaloid to mainstream pop to techno music to video game OSTs and everything in-between and outside of that.  I’m generally more picky with rap music, techno/electronic music, and just anything that gets screechy or is too intense with its instrumentals, but….I can listen to hard metal music when im trying to fall asleep at night, so i mean.

✌ - favorite bands/ singers?Again, god I wish I knew.  I have a tendency to think “oh, this is alright, I’ll listen to a few of this artist’s songs” and then moving on and never thinking about them again.  One artist that I’ve come back to repeatedly is Sabrina Carpenter though, her music is nice and a few of her songs are some of my all-time faves, its probably not for people who cant stand mainstream pop tho.  Also shout out to Mystery Skulls for officially licensing Mystery Skulls animated instead of taking them down for copyright infringement lmao also their music is some of the techno music that i actually like

♒ - fave animes?I havent watched enough animes aaAAAA but I will always and forever love Digimon.  Like I dont think any anime will surpass the personal attachment I have to the Digimon series.  It’s just so silly and charming and for a long time it was the best thing I had ever seen and it’s honestly still just….really enjoyable.  (Honestly it gives me fossil fighters vibes, I think I like them both for the same reason tbh)  Digimon Adventure is definitely my favorite, Tamers is really good but I actually have a bit of a personal bias against Tamers because it scared me as a kid :’D its still a good season tho and i appreciate it a lot more now that im older.  And FRONTIER IS ACTUALLY GOOD, PEOPLE CAN FIGHT ME it’s got the same vibe as the first four seasons, even if the concept seems vastly different, and is really enjoyable if you arent blinded by your love for the digimon partners in the old series.  After that though its kinda….ehhh.  Data Squad and Fusion didnt have the same feel, although Fusion did it much better, but…its just not the same.  I really dislike Marcus so it makes Data Squad less enjoyable, plus i just…idk, it doesnt seem to have as much life as the first four seasons and is written and animated in a different way to me.  Fusion is kinda interesting in the second arc (ive only seen the first three arcs; the third arc/seventh season [idk which it is] hasnt been dubbed yet so…) but it takes itself too seriously because it removes its primary comic reliefs - and also the best characters - after the end of the first arc.  So we’re left with the Digimon as the only comic reliefs and….ehhh….theyre not as good.  Also I havent seen the Appmon anime and idk how good it is but im still salty that they stole the name of the project that ive had floating around in the back of my head for years so i havent done anything related to Appmon.  AND Digimon Tri is good but i still need to catch up on it ahaha cries (planning to get a trial at crunchyroll to watch the last two parts when the last part comes out)

But enough about Digimon.  Besides Digimon, I really did enjoy Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood; I do have some gripes with the series (namely the earlier episode and how much happens in the earlier episodes vs how much happens in the later episodes, so pacing problems basically) but it’s still really good and I LOVE AL.  There was an anime I watched with my dad several years back called Blue Dragon that I remembered enjoying a lot, but then disowning because it turns out in the original my favorite character was a perfect example of the anime pervert trope.  Dubs are fun lmao.  But I feel like I’d pick up more on the changes they made between the two versions now (the sub version being riddled with swears and innuendos, and the dub version being dubbed for kids) and probably wouldnt enjoy it as much anymore.  I also barely remember shit about it except a plot twist at the end that i spoiled for myself but still had no idea it was coming.  I was like 11 when i watched it, its been a long time.

❦-.fave characters?Well I already mentioned loving Al, but I also love Pidge from VLD, Amanda from Dream Daddy, Baymax and Hiro from BH6, and Napstablook from Undertale.  Also like all of the main characters in Fossil Fighters Champions but shhh.

I really want to add Hunk to this list but honestly as the seasons in VLD go on it becomes more and more apparent to me that he’s just a running fat joke; Lance looks like he could be building up to something, but I haven’t got a clue where Hunk could go besides more of the same.  So :’) my boy deserves better, he can join the group again when Dreamworks gets its shit together.  Sorry Hunk, I still love you and I’d treat you better if you were mine (//looks at my characters all burning in hell and sweats// well maybe not better but…)

ღ - mottos?Uhhh idk?  Does this mean like, mottos I follow, catchphrases I use a lot, or inspirational quotes?  Idk I’ll give all three

I try to live my life by the policy of “do to others as you would have them do to you.”  That’s like my number 1 rule about doing anything.  I dont understand how people can be intentionally dicks to other people or so something that they would hate happening to them; what, dont you realize that other people have the same feelings as you?  I know I’ve hurt other people but still, it’s always been in instances where the pros outweighed the cons if I put themselves in their shoes.

As for catchphrases I use a lot, probably “mood” or “god same” because this site has completely broken my sense of anything

As for inspirational quotes, well here are some copy-pasted directly from my dA page:

“No man deserves to be trapped in jelly.” - Rupert from Fossil Fighters Champions“what motivates Scart? That’s right: the nut” - Tumblr user claratyler“I am slowly going crazy” - Dr. Jean, songwriter of children’s music and my lord and savior“I’m still mad at Seth McFarlane btw but im more concerned with my tree cookies” - me“I was out of the third bean” - Yolei’s mom from Digimon Adventure 02

[ao3feed-klance]

Abandoned; Not Helpless

read it on AO3 at http://ift.tt/2pQJoN9

by Princess_Peony

In a mission gone wrong, post-season 2, Lance is captured by Galran forces and taken to Prince Lotor, the current leader of the empire. Though his treatment is far from harsh, the rescue he's hoping and waiting for will never come-Team Voltron thinks he died in the mission.

Fic idea from tumblr user likeaslaptotheface

Words: 2793, Chapters: 1/10, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Lance (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Lotor (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Pidge (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Coran (Voltron)

Relationships: Lance/Lotor (Voltron)/Original Character(s), Keith/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Mature just in case, one-sided lancelot, bi lance, Trans Girl Pidge, seriously lotor is awful, After S2

read it on AO3 at http://ift.tt/2pQJoN9

[potential-zine-blog]

Lead Creators

Lead Creators are people who are helping the mod run the zine. If you can’t get a hold of the mod feel free to ask them your questions.

Mintless - Lead Editor

twitter : @FeedMintless

tumblr : feedthemintless

portfolio : http://feedthemintless.tumblr.com/

Err, hello ? I'm Mintless, and I am use to live under pressure so don't worry about giving me more work and less sleep. Beside that I am grateful for any person who give me food and fluff. Please listen to the mod, Nika, or else i will imaginary Slap you and give you a "you-deceive-me" stare.

Mebuki - Page Creator

My main socials are:

http://meteorysh.tumblr.com

http://twitter.com/Meteorysh

Hi! I'm Mebuki and I'm an artist. I love Keith more than everything in the entire galaxy. And also Shiro!! They're the lights of my life. All of my work can be viewed on my artblog, http://meteorysh.tumblr.com ~ Everything's properly tagged so you can easily browse, too. (e.g. tagged 'voltron', tagged 'sheith' etc). Looking forward to help saving the universe with this amazing team!!

Grayson/Gray - Lead Cosplayer

https://twitter.com/ghostyjpg

http://ghostyjpg.tumblr.com/

Hey there, my name is Grayson but I also go by Gray or Keith. I'm an

artist and cosplayer and will be your lead cosplayer for this zine!

You can check out my cosplays over on my instagram @ghostprincecosplay

if you're interested! I have a lot of free time and am probably the

most awkward Canadian you'll ever meet. I look forward to

participating and helping out in the zine!

Kat - Lead writer

Hi, thank you for the opportunity for a lead position!! I'm so excited for this zine and can't wait to see it come together.

My preferred socials are twitter.com/jedimasterkat7 and jedimasterkatwrites.tumblr.com

You can see all my work on Ao3 under the name jedimasterkat! Here's a link just in case: http://archiveofourown.org/users/jedimasterkat/works

And here's a little description for me (this was harder than I thought lol):

Hey cool cats, my name is Kat and I'm a writer! Voltron has single handedly saved and ruined my life. I love the whole Voltron team, but Keith and Lance make me cry on a daily basis. You can see my work on Ao3 under the name jedimasterkat, and I encourage you to check out the amazing work of the mod, Nika, and my fellow leads as well. Feel free to message me or talk to me, I'm the chillest of chill and love meeting more people!

Viperfish/Viper - Lead Artist

Tumblr - https://viiperfish.tumblr.com/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/Viiperfish

Artwork - https://viiperfish.tumblr.com/tagged/viperart

Hey! I’m Viper (they/them) and I’m an animation student from England! My hobbies include drawing monsters and demon boys as well as crying over fictional characters haha. As much as I love all of the Voltron characters, my favourite character is Pidge, with Lance being a close second!

The best place to contact me is through tumblr messenger/tumblr ask (but you can still contact me through my gmail or twitter!) I’m happy I can help and I look forward to working with you guys!

Sam/Aether - Page Creator

here are my socials:

twitter: aetherlogic

tumblr: aetherlogic

discord: aetherlogic

Ii post most of my doodles through twitter and only a select few pieces on my tumblr, but most of my stuff would be in my portfolio: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1GfWM8hTySqQTM3ZDZ5dkszbjg

Hi! I'm Sam/aether and I'm really excited to be a lead creator for this zine. A little about me: I'm an artist who basically runs on no sleep and is stressed 24/7. I really enjoy participating in Voltron fan events, and I will actually throw myself off a cliff for (especially) Pidge, Coran, and my ships.

I'll do my best to make sure that everything runs smoothly and effectively! I'm an artist for the zine as well; I post my doodles on my twitter and some finished pieces on my tumblr.

Brii - Lead Editor

My works can all be found on Ao3  - archiveofourown.org/users/StygianLotus/works

Hey, my name is Brii (they/them), and I'm a writer. You can find my works on Ao3 under the name StygianLotus, but I also encourage you to check out the other amazing leads and the mod, Nika. Voltron dragged me back into fandoms (not that it's a bad thing), and my favorite character is Shiro, with Lance and Hunk not too far behind. Feel free to send me a message whenever!

Hannah - Page Creator

My work will be here (it will be soon, I will post the rest as soon as possible): https://www.wattpad.com/user/phoenixninja978

twitter is: https://twitter.com/hannahzgrace

main tumblr is: https://startled-seastar.tumblr.com/

second tumblr it is here: https://trouvaille-love.tumblr.com

Hi there! It's Hannah! I am an avid fandom nerd and figure skater (not a very good one, I believe), and I'm glad to help with this project! Reading is one of my favorite pastimes, and I would love to just sit on the couch and read all day. Realistically, though, I'm probably either stressing about where my life is going or distracting myself from that by watching VLD, attack on titan, or yuri!!! on ice. I'm awkward, my inbox is always open, and I'm excited to get started!

Kayt - Lead Writer

Socials @Sleeping4tNight on twitter and tumblr. Um... a self description? I like to proofread I guess. That's a thing...I'm not good at describing myself. I love being in fandom and participating in stuff because that's fun. I love music so I like making playlists and writing stuff. I'm pretty open to talking whenever. Oh dear, I promise I'm not as boring as I sound.

Ninna - Lead Writer

Twitter: https://twitter.com/annattata

Tumblr: https://ninnani.tumblr.com/

i all, I’m Ninna (she/they). I’m a creative writing major in Florida. I’ve been writing for most of my life, and I have two original short stories pending publication in my campus literary magazine.

I live and breath AU’s, I’m a huge multishipper, and I love Lance a perfectly healthy amount. I’m always available if you need to talk through a plot hole or need a quick beta read. I give really in depth critiques and constructive criticism, and I try to give the feedback that I would want to receive as a writer. I’m a big fan of comment sandwiches, I’ll tell you want works and what doesn’t and I’ll give you advice on what to do next. Don’t let the intimidate you though, I love, love, love encouraging other writers and helping them grow

The best way to contact me would be through discord and tumblr. Twitter works just as well, I just check it less often.

Cara - Lead Editor

Kay - Page Creator

Twitter: twitter.com/futuresounclear

Tumblr: fallenangels181.tumblr.com

Discord: DarkAngels181 #2821

YouTube: http://youtube.com/user/fallenangels181

Hello, the name’s Kay! I'm so happy to be a part of this zine! I am a writer and an AMV editor who is very invested in the Voltron and loves to see positivity for our beloved Paladins. I'm Shiro and Sheith trash, though I am a multishipper too. Please feel free to check out my channel or social media. I will respond as quickly as I can on twitter or Tumblr, so feel free to message me to just chat anytime! I look forward to working with everyone!

Jax - Lead Artist

Tumblr: flyingmintbunny32.tumblr.com

Instagram: instagram.com/jaxarts32/?r=sun1

My insta is also the best place to see my work as well

Ciao, Jax here and I'm one of the Lead Artists. I'm about as socially adept as Keith in real life but I tend to be easygoing online so feel free to chat with me. I do get distracted or off-topic easily but otherwise I'm pretty chill about most things, just respect me and I'll do the same with you. I'm also nonconforming so use whichever pronouns for me you'd like. Art wise I love drawing backgrounds and thighs mostly but I've definitely been trying to reach out more so if my art changes or looks different that's normal. Also I literally love all ships so if ya need to fangirl I'm your human.

Danu - Lead Artist

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danuqq/

Tumblr: danuqq.tumblr.com

Art Tumblr: danuqqart.tumblr.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/danuqq?s=09

Hi, I'm Danu! I love cats and pastel things, I'm an artist but I'm still learning, so don't be afraid of sharing your WIPs with me, we're all friends here.

I'm gay for Allura and Pidge, but I love all my Voltron boys too .

If you want to contact me the best way of doing so is on Instagram or Tumblr, I don't really use Twitter but if you can't contact me in the first two socials go there, I'll try to check it once in a while.

Raven - Lead Artist

Tumblr: http://emptyfishtanks.tumblr.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/emptyfishtanks

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fishtanksart/?hl=en

Hello! I am Raven/Mikey and I go by They/them! I am a digital art and animation student, and have been seriously doing art for about 3 years. My current occupation is being a student and doing art commissions. My favorite Voltron character is a tie between Pidge and Keith. I love talking to new people, and anyone can feel free to message me at my social media!I am looking forward to working with everyone on the zine!

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

Abandoned; Not Helpless

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2pQJoN9

by Princess_Peony

In a mission gone wrong, post-season 2, Lance is captured by Galran forces and taken to Prince Lotor, the current leader of the empire. Though his treatment is far from harsh, the rescue he's hoping and waiting for will never come-Team Voltron thinks he died in the mission.

Fic idea from tumblr user likeaslaptotheface

Words: 2793, Chapters: 1/10, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: M/M

Characters: Lance (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Lotor (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Pidge (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Coran (Voltron)

Relationships: Lance/Lotor (Voltron)/Original Character(s), Keith/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Mature just in case, one-sided lancelot, bi lance, Trans Girl Pidge, seriously lotor is awful, After S2

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[sildurin]

My thoughts on S7E03 - The Way Forward

So after a looooong while I will keep up my voltron thoughts and feelings shared again. I watched episode three, again! Wow, I love this show so much. Like, really.

Okay now, here come the 3rd!  devided between the paladins (In jail) and everything else concering ezor, zethrid, coran and axca (inbetween).

[Note: The pictures appear too large. I tried to manage but no, tumblr doesn’t want to change my new sizes.]

Just the beginning already where the guards well... guard the lions. I sometimes forget how fucking huge those lions are! Look at this lil man there, standing like a corn beneath Blue, ugh..

Paladins in jail: Ahahaha, Shiro was locked to his pants. They could've done like... lock him to his shoes or so because then he really wouldn't be able to move. Maybe they didn't think he would do anything with like one arm. Poor guy.. I really like Shiro.

Inbetween:

Coran in ... well hiw very own "jail": His monologues are georgeous like always. Escape haha. Absolutely true tales, indeed... It's weird to see him as a 'galra' kinda.

Ezor and Zethrid: So subtle but yet so obviously shown. Who am I kidding, this was so obvious^^ I loved this to be seen. Also the words they shared. Angst, trust and giving hope.

I like how Axca looks. She became more beautiful, without wanting to sound mean. I saw a ship of her and Coran aaaaand liked that as well, oops. My other choice is Veronica^_^

Back in jail:

I love how Lance is the first one protecting Pidge. Standing in the way, well kicked aside immediatly, but it shows the grown bond inbetween season 1 until now. All of them are connected deeply and I like those little things describing specific relationships. Next one was Shiro. As a born leader he wants to protect every member.

Inbetween:

Coran in armour: When he meets this one guard, this armour of this galra seems to work with steam kinda? Did anyone think about this before? I like this idea, but maybe they user another source.  I forgot if something was mentioned at some point later. I will look out for this.

And who is this here? A distant relative of Ezor? I mean, look at them.

(Sorry, I can’t get the pictures next to each other, even though I made them smaller..)

Though Ezor can use her head-part as a weapon, th other person seems to rely on this gun. So maybe the race they origin from can vary from a weaker to stronger muscle in the upper hear part? At least my theory.

Back in jail:

Krolia nodding to Shiro. Sigh... the little things. Already adapted to a future son-in-law..

And look at Shiro's face when Allura punched this giant galra in the back. Like in season1 when Allura transformed into galra and smached this one guard through the door. Good times.

Just before Keith gets an to get their bayards, I love this reaction here so much:

Shiro's looking at Keith like "I know you can do this" And like.. will. Same as Krolia, but Shiro's look is a bit softer. And he stays so calm in comparison to the others because he knows that everything will be fine. 

The escape:

Hunk just firing into space, oh my god, he's so georgous.

Oh oh oh, the energy source might be synthian nitrate!

And I don't but when Keith and Axca escape from the dust and steam, Axca looks so much like Lotor, wow!