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vee-is-a-clown · 2 years

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I've Got Grilled Cheese And Butterflies In My Stomach

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Keith couldn't believe that he let himself get dragged along to a butterfly garden of all things. Why couldn't it have been anywhere else? It's not like he was afraid of butterflies or anything. He just didn't like how they felt on his skin. He appreciated their beauty but he didn't trust himself not to scream if one happened to land on him.

He was in a hot, bright, colorful place that was filled to the brim with butterflies. Honestly, it was giving him a bit of sensory overload. He didn't know where to look. If he looked ahead of him, he run the risk of stepping on a butterfly or even one of their button pheasants. If he looked at the ground, he risked walking into a flying butterfly. (It's a real concern. Trust me.)

This place was freaking him out and it showed. He walked like he was in enemy territory and risked getting shot down with every step. He was odviously majorly paranoid.

"Could the oh so brave Keith Kogane be afraid of butterflies?"

Why was Lance like this?

"No, I just don't like how they outnumber us. They're unpredict-"

"Woah. Keith's paranoid about butterflies."

Pidge added so beautifully to the conversation. She so tactfully explained Keith's situation in terms both she and Lance could understand. Bravo.

Keith loudly groaned and carefully walked off. He then almost fell over because he didn't see the butterfly two inches from his face. This was torture.

He approached Shiro to ask how long they would be there and was met with the response of, "Just stand by the door." Which wasn't helpful because he still didn't know how long he would be waiting and there was a staff member by the door which he was not going to talk to.

Keith continued to slowly walk around, waiting for everyone to go. He hated waiting for everyone else to be done but he couldn't go alone. He left his phone in Shiro's car and didn't know the surrounding area well.

He sighed. Man, this place would be much better with a bench. His legs hurt. How long had they been there? He asked Adam who was using his phone to take pictures.

15 minutes.

He had been there for 15 minutes.

He wasn't going to survive.

"Hey Shiro, how long are we staying here? It's been 15 minutes."

"Keith, can we stay for 10 more minutes?"

Shiro smiled but Keith could tell that if he asked Shiro another question in the span of 5 minutes, he might explode. Shiro was dealing with everyone's bullshit and he was tired. Shiro's original plan was to take everyone to the butterfly garden and take cute pictures of the gang and some butterflies.

This did not happen.

Everyone had gone their separate ways. Pidge and hunk were doing whatever the hell in the corner (we probably don't want to know), Matt was trying to identify every single butterfly he saw, Adam was taking pictures of the button pheasants, Keith wanted to leave with all his heart, and Lance was flirting with a female employee who was passing out identification sheets for the butterflies. Shiro sighed. He didn't want it to come to this but he walked over to Lance.

"Hey Lance, can you take Keith somewhere to wait for everyone else to finish up here? If he stays with us, we'll have to leave early."

"Why do I have to take Mullet Head?"

"You're the only one here who isn't doing something involving our actual location. Go romance some waitress or something."

Lance groaned and walked over to Keith. He didn't want to play babysitter just because Keith was afraid of butterflies.

"Hey Keith, Shiro wants me to take you away from the scary butterflies."

"Ok then. Get me out of here."

Keith wasn't in the mood for arguing. He didn't care that Lance had insulted him. He just wanted to leave. If Lance was the person taking him, so be it.

Lance escorted Keith to the exit. Lance was odviously very displeased with this arrangement. Keith wasn't an idiot. Lance had to leave his friends (and the girl he was flirting with) to take his "rival" someplace to wait for everyone else to finish with the butterflies. It made Keith feel a little guilty.

They walked through a room to make sure they weren't carrying any butterflies out on accident. It was literally covered in mirrors. Every wall was a mirror. It was weird. After about a minute, a staff member came and let them out.

Keith hatched an idea. He still had his wallet in his pocket.

"Hey Lance, can I use your phone?"

"Why the quiznak would you ask that? Of course the answer is no."

"Well mine is in Shiro's car and I'm hungry. I'm going to try to find a nearby restaurant."

Keith actually wasn't really hungry. He just thought that Lance would cheer up a bit if he had some food. Keith, of course would be paying but he didn't mind.

"I'll find something then."

They went to go sit down on a bench outside the butterfly garden. It was in a larger building which had a small giftshop attached. Lance scrolled on his phone for a bit before putting it down.

"Do you like Applebee's?"

"Oh please don't tell me that you found an Applebee's."

"It's like Applebee's. It looks charming and it's only a few blocks away."

"Fine with me."

Keith got up, out of his seat. He was glad to leave. There were weird butterfly paintings on the wall that looked like they'd been done by children. The colors looked like an aesthetic nightmare. Lance followed suit and they fully left the building.

It was actually a pretty refreshing walk. There was a breeze outside and it wasn't as hot as in the garden. The storefronts were all quaint and pretty. Keith felt relaxed. Shiro should've just taken everyone on a walk instead of the to garden. Keith would definitely be coming back on his own.

They reached their destination. It looked like a faux 90's diner. It had red booths and checked floors. You know the type. The tables were round and metallic looking. Keith wasn't entirely sure if it was actually metal though. It was called something like "Billy Boy's" but Keith didn't really care about the name. He was to preoccupied by taking it all in. It was really pleasant.

They got in and Keith almost immediately decided that he wanted a grilled cheese. Worst case scenario, it was a grilled cheese. It's the kind of thing that you can't really mess up. If you somehow do, you might want to rethink your life choices.

As they moved through the short line, something caught his attention. There were two colorful machines on the counter, churning slushies. One was blue and the other was red. Neither seemed to have labels on them. Keith looked at the menu and there weren't flavors there either.

"Hey Lance, what do you think those slushy flavors are?"

"Blue and red."

"But what do they taste like?"

"One tastes like blue and one tastes like red. I'll let you guess which one tastes like which."

Keith groaned.

"I hate you."

"Haha! Same, Mullet Face."

Keith decided to take the risk and order a red slushy. It was most probably cherry anyway. Lance ordered a cheeseburger and a blue slushy then went to go claim a table. Keith decided to use this as an opportunity.

Keith slightly leaned into the counter. The woman working the counter looked to be about the same age as him.

"Can I also get a small fry? And can you write a note calling the boy in blue cute as well? He's pretty upset and I want to cheer him up."

"Got it. "

The girl smiled. Who was she to refuse such an adorable request?

Keith left to go sit down with Lance and wait for the food to be prepared. He occupied himself with playing with the condiments on the table. It was about 5 minutes until Keith got called up to grab the food. He paid for the meal and brought everything back on a tray.

Lance looked surprised after looking through the food. He looked up at Keith with the small plate of fries.

"Hey Keith did you order fries?"

"No, I didn't."

"Then why do we have fries?"

Just then, Keith picked up his dish with his grilled cheese to reveal a small paper note. Keith frowned and gave the paper to Lance. The note said, "Fries for the cutie in blue"

"Are you serious? How? You didn't even say anything to her other than your order!"

Keith aggressively sipped his slushy like he was annoyed. He, infact, was not annoyed.

"I guess it's just my natural charm. Maybe if you got a haircut, you could get girls too."

Keith took a bite of his grilled cheese. It was pretty good. The cheese was mozzarella and the sandwich was still warm. Definitely higher quality than he expected but he hadn't expected much so that doesn't really mean anything. Keith then turned to Lance. He had an entirely straight (haha) face.

"Lance, I'm gay."

Lance looked up from the note. His facial expression was a mix of surprise and an unreadable emotion. He sipped his slushy.

"Umm, what?"

"I can't 'get girls'."

"Ohh. Anyway, what flavor is that slushy?"

Lance changed the topic. He felt awkward talking about sexuality in public. He especially didn't want to talk about it in front of his fries.

Keith gasped and immediately sipped his slushy again. He had already tasted it, he just wanted to be annoying. He then looked at Lance with a smile. Not a smirk or anything, a giddy smile. He looked like he was about to tell a joke.

"It tastes like red."

Keith honest to god giggled.

Lance might've just died on the spot.

That didn't matter though. He had just been spited. This meant war. Keith had just verbally attacked him. He needed to think of something. What retort could he possibly use?

Nothing. He couldn't think of anything. He wanted to come up with a comeback but Keith's smile was too distracting. Lance picked up a fry and shoved it in his mouth.

"That's my joke, you know."

"Not anymore. It's mine. I did it better."

Keith was still smiling. He needed to stop smiling. Lance couldn't think. Why couldn't he think when Keith was smiling? We'll leave that to next day Lance to realize an 3 AM.

Lance took a bite of his cheeseburger.

"If you don't tell me, I'll have to steal it to find out."

"Nuh uh. I paid for this slushy. You can't have any."

"Now you've made it a quest. I must steal a sip of that slushy at all costs!"

Keith laughed again. He normally wasn't this happy. It definitely wasn't that Lance was funnier today. Something had to be wrong. Was Keith sick?

"Yo buddy, are you sick?"

"No. If I were sick, I would've used it to get out of Shiro's butterfly garden shenanigans. Why are you asking?"

"Well you're- How do I put this? You're happy."

Keith gasped and put his hand over his chest. The audacity! He then folded his arms and turned his head away in a faux aggravation. What a fool. Lance took the opportunity to reach across the table, grab Keith's drink, and take a sip.

"Aha! It tastes like cherry!"

Keith turned his head back to Lance and stole his slushy back. That scoundrel! How dastardly could Lance be? Eyebrows furrowed, Keith pretended to be mad as he slurped his restolen slushy.

Lance just laughed at Keith's very real misery.

"Ok then what does yours taste like?"

"Blue raspberry, of course. What else did you think the electric blue mush was?"

"Well a wise man once told me that it was blue flavored and I've been operating under that assumption ever since."

"You need to find a wiser man then."

Lance sipped his slushy like he had just said something brutally honest. Keith laughed again. At this point, it's a miracle that Lance hasn't melted into a pile of mush.

They continue eating their meal between snarky remarks and witty banter. It feels nice. Unlike their real fights, they're both smiling and laughing. They're having a good time. If Keith could, he would keep it going forever.

Keith had finished his grilled cheese and was three fourths done with his slushy. Lance had eaten his cheeseburger and was a little under half way done with his slushy. Lance wanted to savor the fries. They were a gift from a girl. He couldn't just wolf them down like he normally did. She might be watching.

The banter had died down and Keith had zoned out or was daydreaming maybe. Hard to tell. One thing was for sure though, he was staring at the ceiling, eyes unmoving, and hand in his palm. It was perfect.

Lance got up while holding a fry in his hand. He strutted over to the other side of the table where Keith was sitting and paused for a second before jabbing Keith in the face with the fry.

"AHH! Jeez! Lance, don't do that!"

"Well spacey boy, you were off in daydream land. You left yourself defenseless. I had to take advantage."

"You are despicable."

"I know. I pride myself on that fact."

Keith sighed. What was he thinking about again? Only God knows now. He sipped his slushy. Keith looked up at the dork who was still standing over him with a fry in his hand.

"So are you going to stand over me for-"

Lance poked Keith in the lip with the fry. Keith grabbed it while Lance scurried back to his seat. There was a slight pause.

"Lance, what the hell?"

"It touched your weird edgy self and I don't want it anymore."

"Great logic Lance. I'll be sure to touch all your food in the future."

Keith bit the fry because why not? It's a fry after all. It was actually really good. The salt to fry ratio was just perfect. It was even warm still. They must've been piping hot when they came to the table. Why was Keith even thinking about this? It's a fry. Stop overthinking everything.

Keith turned his attention to Lance to find him looking back at Keith. For a quiet, oh so quick moment, they just looked at eachother. The world seemed to stop for that fraction of a second. Reality then dropkicked both of them and told the police that was self defense.

Lance looked away and the awkward set in. Just then, Lance's phone vibrated in his pocket. Saved by the text from Shiro telling them that the others are out of the garden. Lance whisked his phone out of his pocket faster than you can say, "awww cute waiT DROPKICK? hshsjsgsh-"

"Shiro says that they just got out of the butterfly garden. We should walk back."

"Mk."

Keith picked himself up with and stabilized his body by putting his hands on the table. Sadly, he didn't have to good of a grip and somehow managed to fall sideways onto the checkerboard flooring. Keith just laid there on his back, stunned while Lance burst into laughter. He sat there laughing for a good minute before he got up and extended a helpful hand to Keith.

"No."

"What?"

"I'm one with the floor now. Go tell Shiro I'm dead."

"Come on dude, get up."

"Well apparently I'm funnier on the ground so no."

"Do I need to drag you?"

"Your string bean ass couldn't handle that."

"Well you apparently aren't strong enough to walk so you can't say anything."

"That isn't going to work on me."

Keith got up anyway. That floor was dirty and he probably shouldn't've been laying there for so long anyway. He could feel the dirt in his hair. Definitely not a good decision.

"So it does work on you?"

"Shut."

Keith sighed as he picked up his slushy. It still had a decent amount of substance in it so he decided to take it with him. Lance picked up his slushy as well and took the tray over to the trashcan and put it on top of it.

Lance started towards the door while Keith lingered behind for a few seconds. He then shoved something in his pocket and hurried after Lance, shooting a (kind) look to the girl who had taken their order.

"What were doing back there, slow poke?"

"Just leaving a tip."

"I see.."

"What's so suspicious about a tip?"

"No, the tip isn't suspicious. You are."

"How the heck am I suspicious?"

Keith's face slammed into the door. Jeez, Keith should've been looking. Lance laughed into his hand as he watched Keith stumble backwards. Regaining his balance, Keith flipped him off.

"Oh come on! I'm allowed to laugh at you being a klutz!"

"I am not a klutz!"

"You are! You so are!"

"Shut up!"

Keith pulled the door open like he was opening the fridge at 2:43 for a snack. Lance proceeded to strut through and turn to face Keith for finger gunning purposes, stumbling and making a fool of himself in the process. Luckily, he steadied himself before he fell through. That, of course, did not stop the shit he was going to get from Keith. That shit is including but not limited to some giggles and the dopiest smirk you've ever seen.

"Oh so I'm the klutz?"

"I- Uhh, shut your quiznak!"

"Oh such a well put together response. You're so smart."

"Have I mentioned that I hate you?"

"Same, Prettyboy."

Keith finally got out of the door because he was still standing there like an idiot. He then got this look of realization on his face and took off running. Lance stood there stunned for a second before he heard a shout.

"Last one to get back to the gang is a rotten egg!"

Oh it was on! Lance sprinted after Keith as he thought about how Keith just called him pretty.

And off they went to go tell the gang the story of how Lance was a hypocritical klutz who can effortlessly "get girls".

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@autisticlancemcclain this one's for you because I love your work and you put so much effort into writing a fic every day and you absolutely deserve a break.

And thanks to @klance-daydreams for letting me give them a cameo.

Thank you to my amazing irl bestie who I've been sending clips of this to before I published it. I love her so much. She's great. She also thought that one paragraph was smut because she didn't have the context. I'll let you guys guess which one that is.

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tomatobasill · 5 months

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I'm working on so many fics at once that it's overwhelming me so I'm just going to stick to ones that are completed. In a week-depending on the poll results, I will post the first chapter to my sheith miniseries, posting weekly until they're all out there.

So other than that-or other completed fics I already have, I'm pausing the updates to my uncompleted fanfics such as my klance t4t smut as well as other works.

I'm experiencing writer's block. It's shitty, and overwhelming me so slow updates overall-please don't expect anything spontaneous from me.

Current posting line-up:

sheith miniseries [or an alternative]

{Alternatives to the miniseries will most probably be a smut/fluff from my more kinky selection of sheith fics, either breeding, primal play or non-sexual body worship}

Please be patient with me and thank you for understanding.

~basil

#keith kogane #vld keith #keith voltron #trans keith #voltron #voltron legendary defender #vld #voltron fanfic #vld shiro #trans author #sheith fic #takashi shirogane #sheith #shiro #i'm overwhelmed right now #my fic writing #my keith #my sheith

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queridaz · 2 years

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looking through my plot and world building notes for a fic so i can write a sequel and this line just absolutely sent me.

“she's a seamstress by day and a knight also by day (by night she's sleeping)”

#for anyone who follows me for my fics this is from the notes for princes witches and love!! i'm currently working on writing a spinoff!!#this is about allura voltron by the way #tea talks #voltron #allura #vld

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rorimoon9597 · 6 months

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The three of them were bound, and forced into their knees in front of the commander. Or, well, whatever the quiznak this person was. Sava didn't fucking know. Besides her, Alex and Artemis were forced onto their knees as well. Their faces were bruised, and Artemis had a split lip from when she got hit with a staff.

It was supposed to be a simple mission to gather information about these people, who were hostile and clearly thought that the Galra were right to have taken over the universe years ago. Sava supposed that it was lucky that Leo and Rex were elsewhere, using Green and her cloaking technology.

That reminded her...

"Such a shame, really," their leader, a strong female warrior with long, braided hair and silver armour, said. Her face was pitying. Her eyes weren't. "The universe was hoping that you three would be able to defend them."

Blue...

"What do you even want?" Alex asked. His voice was even, despite the fear that Sava knew he was feeling.

"I want to dismantle Voltron, at least a little. Killing one of you... It is perfect."

"As if killing a child is perfect," Sava bit out. The leader (Sava didn't know her name) just raised an eyebrow.

These people looked like what Sava imagined the children of Hyenas and Humans would look like. Their faces and bodies were humanoid enough, but they had fur, their noses were like the nose of an animal, and they had ears and a tail. Not to mention the paws instead of hands and feet.

"If it means that the Galra Empire might come back, then it is," the woman replied. She walked around them in a circle. Each if them watched her. The twins eyes were all Galra-like; irises and pupils shaped like a cat's, sclera slightly yellow. Sava could see evidence of fangs peeking out from their mouths.

They had entered their predatory state, like how Keith would enter it before a fight. They were ready to fucking kill.

Sava had to cause a distraction of some sort, keep the attention of the warriors away from her friends.

"What even is your species named? I mean, you look like Hyenas. Do you women have false dicks that make giving birth hard, too?" Sava questioned.

"We are the Hy'thcas. We are known for being warriors, feared among all for our prowess in battle."

"Yeah, I've never heard of you guys. And I thought that the Arusians or Tauqeerians were forgettable species." Alex sent Sava a questioning look. She briefly changed her eyes to be that of a Galra. Understanding entered his eyes.

"We are greater than they! Only the Galra are greater!"

"Yeah, sure, whatever," Sava said. She didn't say that she was fairly certain that being diplomatic was a better approach than violence. That was probably because she was Altean, though.

The leader snarled.

"Let's see... I wonder how long it'll take for you to drown?" She said. Alex and Artemis began to try and stop them. "Silence! Either she drowns, or you both for." They stopped, heads bowed, looking at the ground. Artemis had a murderous look on her face.

Sava thought that her name, which as the name of the ancient Greek deity of the hunt, was perfect for her.

Sava was dragged to a pier. Artemis and Alex were dragged along, forced to watch.

"Throw her in," the leader ordered.

Sava was able to take a breath before she entered the water.

It was freezing cold, and she was thankful that her suit had temperature regulators. Sava let herself sink into the water. Artemis and Alex were watching. They knew her abilities. Clearly, the Hy'thcas didn't know about them.

Her breath grew stale. She wasn't able to hold it in for longer. She forced herself to go deeper, to make it seem as if her armour was forcing her to sink. She thrashed around, trying to make it much more believable.

Sava focused.

Six slits appeared on her throat, three on each side. She slowly released her breath, then breathed in. The water didn't make it far, and it was filtered out the sides of her neck.

She thrashed more, then made it seem as if she were dead.

They have no clue, she thought, giddy. Being Altean really came in handy.

She noticed that no one was looking into the water anymore. Sava bent her knees and forced her arms down. Carefully, and with a bit of struggle, she managed to get her hands in front of her. She studied the bonds, and grinned when she recognised the knot.

Too easy, she thought to herself. The knot came undone with her teeth. Blue was in the back of her mind, encouraging her.

Sava rose to the surface, just under the pier. She could hear her friends snarling at the Hy'thcas. She closed her eyes. The gills disappeared. She searched for her Bayard, which had been thrown into a pile that had been left unattended. It came to her easily.

Sava grinned, then swam out from under the pier and used her jetpack to jump onto it. Her Bayard materialised in her hand, a blue and white bow. She pulled back on the string, an arrow materialising and knocking itself. She pointed the arrow right at the leader.

"How? You are supposed to be dead!" The leader said, shocked and upset. Sava grinned.

"I'm what's known as an Altean. We can change our appearance to fit in with the local population. It's what has made up such wonderful diplomats in the past." She was using Queen Allura's words there. They were true, though.

"You- you-"

"What, cat got your tongue?" Sava asked. She kept her bow trained on the leader.

She spared a glance to the twins. Artemis had sawed through most of her bindings already by rubbing the rope against a sharp point. Sava recognised it as the dagger given to her by her dad. For some reason, these people didn't think to check them for any other weapons.

Out of nowhere, Green appeared. Her appearance caused a distraction, which Sava used to shoot the leader in the thigh, and Artemis used to snap the rest of the rope. She pulled out her dagger, freed her feet, then Alex's arms and legs.

The three of them ran into Green's open mouth, grabbing their helmets on the way, and then they were off, into the atmosphere. They fully entered Green and walked into the cockpit.

"Good timing," Alex complemented.

"Timing is always important," Leo replied. He pressed a few buttons before connecting to the Atlas. "We have the information. Alex, Artemis and Sava encountered a bit of trouble with the locals though."

"Any injuries?"

"Some bruising, Artemis' lip is split, but it's nothing serious," Leo replied. He manoeuvred Green out of the atmosphere and into space. Sava never thought that there would be a day that she was glad for the endless expanse.

"Good. Come back, and we'll debrief after a trip to the medbay to make sure."

"Copy that. See you when we get back." He cut off the transmission. Rex turned to face them, studying Artemis' lip.

"Do you want me to patch that up, or can you do it yourself?" He asked.

"I don't have a mirror, so could you?"

"Sure." Rex left the cockpit and returned a few moments later with the first aid kit that was kept in all of the lions. He patched up the split lip, and then all four of them sat on the floor.

"Good thinking, getting them to do something like that. Made for a good surprise," Alex told Sava. She smiled and shrugged.

"I wasn't planning on them trying to drown me, but I managed to out smart them anyway," she replied.

"Pft. Clearly don't know anything about Alteans," Leo said. He navigated Green through the wormhole. When they came out the other side, they were near the Atlas.

Leo's movements were smooth, like how Allura or Keith or Lance would fly their lions. He moved Green so that they flew into the lion hangar on the Atlas. Even his landing was smooth.

Those of them who had been on the floor stood up. Sava looked outside to see the Paladins coming to greet them. Lance was in front of the others.

"Well, let's go then," Rex said. He led the way out of Green, who lowered for them.

As soon as Alex and Artemis were outside, they were subject to Lance, who was frantic and asking if that was really all they had ended up with. Keith had to placate him.

They went to change out of the Paladin armor, then went to the medbay where they were checked over for more serious injuries. While there, they recounted everything that had happened. When Sava mentioned that she acted as if she'd drowned then surprised the leader, the older paladins laughed. Even the captain was smiling.

"Stupid idea to try and drown someone who can change their biology," Pidge commented.

"Exactly!" Sava said.

"They didn't know about that, though," Alex pointed out from his spot pressed up against Lance's side. He had his arms around both of his children. Captain Shiro smiled at all of them.

"Well, at least none of you were seriously injured," he said. Sava could hear the relief in his voice.

"Can't say that about the woman who tried to drown me," Sava commented.

She didn't regret what she'd done.

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Inspired by Fighting the Surface by tommino.

#vld #voltron #keith kogane #princess allura #lance mcclain #coran #alternate universe #hunk garrett #pidge holt #takashi shirogane #future au #klance #future children #fanfic #fanfiction #my fic #I'm definitely going to write more about this world I have created

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vnmpior · 11 months

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hey, i love your writing, could you write keith x reader headcanons for when they reveal to the rest of the team that they're a couple? thank you, and it's totally okay if you don't want to do this :)

i'm stalling too much on my other keith fics ☠️BUT I'LL GET THIS ONE OUT TOO!! probably took me around 10 minutes tops. tbh i haven't watched vld since like 2018, so i'm def a bit rusty when it comes to events

i also suck at this type of concept so oops

very short/not proofread

of course, the two of you weren't hiding your relationship at first, it just hadn't been a priority to tell the rest of the team

keith wasn't one for pda, so it wasn't very obvious from the start.

shiro definitely knew though

occasionally you'd sneak him a kiss in dark corners, hidden away from the team

majority of your time with keith was spent in his room or in the training room, and no one bothered you during those times

behind closed doors, he was a lot more soft and loving

you will never convince me he doesn't like being the little spoon

outside, he treated you the same as the others, since that was simply his personality, and also meant that no one would catch on

lance didn't know the two of you were dating, and didn't even have a slight suspicion (he's always clueless)

this led to him still constantly flirting with you, always with that goofy grin you'd grown to love

you never really dragged it on, but sometimes you'd entertain him (he always confessed his love for allura to you, so you weren't worried about leading him on)

but keith definitely did not like it. he didn't blame lance, but he was still always looking over with a glare and shadowed eyes

"you want to go get food together? are you asking me on a date?" lance winked at you as he lazily draped his arm across your shoulders

that was his last straw

at this, keith walked over and took your hand, dragging you towards him so you woud be right against his chest

"she already has a date," he began to lead you straight out the room, and when you turned back to sheepishly apologize to lance, you saw almost everyone staring with their jaws dropped

shiro had his arms crossed with a knowing smile, compared to lance who looked like he was a statue, his arm still raised in the spot your shoulder was

pidge was dumbfounded, and hunk looked betrayed

"we always tell each other everything! why'd you hide this from us?" he whined dramatically. "especially during our sleepovers!"

hunk would be pouting and fuming about this for at least a day

allura and coran looked like they were gossiping, shooting glances your way with coran's hand held up between them

the door shut behind you, and you heard them talking about it

"you knew about this, didn't you shiro!" lance accused

he was 100% confronting you about this later

looking back toward keith, you asked,

"you really decided now to make everyone know we're dating?"

he shrugged. "at least lance can finally focus on getting his little girlfriend."

"you're cute when you're jealous, y'know that?"

he face turned red and he looked away, and you playfully swung your hand entwined with his back and forth. you were going to tease him about this forever

"shut up."

#voltron #voltron x reader #voltron keith #keith voltron #vld #voltron legendary defender #keith x reader #keith kogane x reader

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monstersinthecosmos · 4 months

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Next Monday

gonna be honest champ, idk what this means, i can't tell if it's friendly or if it's a threat, i don't really LOVE mondays so if we could do it on Tuesday that might be better, but since I gotcha here I just had some sheith pics open in another tab lol

LIKE HONESTLY WHAT EVEN WAS THIS LOL

just two dudes running the cosmic horror gauntlet to save each other, who will carry literal scars from it forever, shiro will never be the same after this and keith is the reason he even survived, keith will see the scar on his face every time he looks in the mirror for the rest of his life. HIS FACE. ARE YOU HEARING ME?? HIS FACE. THEY PUT IT RIGHT ON HIS FACE. I'm always thinking about the perfchan fic heart nailed open where it says Where cauterized flesh knotted red and angry, so swollen and sore that he couldn’t smile for a week, and had to chew on the other side of his mouth for months. I think sometimes people like, get haughty in fandom and wanna drag someone's taste, like even in VC fandom the way book fans are frowned upon or teased for "actually liking" the books etc, and same with VLD, like. It's honestly such an uncreative, uninspired take because if the canon was perfect and we didn't want more or want something different we wouldn't be writing fic? I can't emphasize enough that VLD is a disaster but wow these were some great characters that I feel the need to adopt so that they get more respect and more stories!!!!!!!!!!! If the source material was very very good I wouldn't feel the need to fix it okay!!!!!!!

god look at them like how was i supposed to just move on with my life

#sheith

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Can I ask, if you have top favorite romantic couples (can be canon or non canon) of all time from any media? Why love them? Thx :D

... now this, took a minute to answer in some ways. There a lot of ships I like, so this was really easy and hard to answer at the same time. Some ships it was an immediate yep yep and others I had to go '... but is it a fav of all time, though?" But I think I got it narrowed down.

So here we go, fav ships of all time from any media, no particular order. I didn't get any specific no. to do so I'll just list a handful until I can't think of any others. (Anyone who comes across this that sees a ship on here you don't like and feels the need to say something about it, stay in your lane this ain't about your opinions it's about mine.)

The main FMA ships

Arakawa Hiromu, nigga, you cooked. Imma just put the FMA ships as one and leave it there because if I do it separately, we'll be here all day. But if you wanna see me diving into why I like these ships in a manic ramble, here's a post I made on that here. The romance in FMA is literally a category and a discussion all on its own that I can go about on for hours. FMA has the best romances in shounen so anyone who has consumed FMA will know what I'm talking about. Like, whenever anyone tries to use a manga being 'shounen' to justify shitty romantic writing, I point at FMA's brilliant riding. An animanga's demographic is not an excuse for terrible executions in romance. EdWin, RoyAi, LingFan, AlMei and all the side ships drank and left no molecules.

NaruSaku

Toxic shippers, again, stay in your lane, I don't feel like dealing with y'all any day. I have been shipping this shit for years, always have, always will. Ignore the fact I ship Sakura with literally everyone from the Akatsuki to Hinata to Sai to Shikamaru. (Y'all I used to look up Kisame/Sakura fics, unironically TAT). (Same for Naruto honestly, I've shipped him with Sasuke, Ino, Temari, Tenten, the list goes on and on.) The way Sakura goes from finding Naruto annoying to almost dying multiple times to keep him safe, I will never EVER be over that. Naruto's love going from puppy to something as passionately red as the thread of fate itself. The MinaKushi parallels. I have a lot (and I mean a lot) of ships in Naruto pertaining to these two, but NaruSaku is my absolute favorite. Like it was literally confirmed that Sakura got over Sasuke and then it got retconned for some bullshit. Saying it with my whole chest, argue with a wall, it should have been them. I won't dog any other ships, but yeah, it should have been them. 699 chapters of Naruto being in love with one woman, I sing the praises everyday.

SakuHina

Hinata's prince charming is literally Sakura. I have a whole ass fic I am slowly, painstakingly writing about what Naruto would have been like if Hinata had a crush on Sakura the whole time. I just think they're really cute together, have amazing chemistry and balance each other out. I didn't expect to like SakuHina as much as I did but here we are.

Kyoru

I mentioned it before in another answered ask but Fruits Basket was my first manga (if you're curious what my first anime was, it was Yu Yu Hakusho) and Kyoru was probably my first OTP. There are two characters I think upon so many rewatches and rereads that were prime game for who Kyo and Tohru could have ended up with had things been different (which, I do really ship as well. Multishipper here guys) but I'm not mad about the endgames that we got. From start to finish, Kyo and Tohru's relationship is beautiful and you can feel how strongly they feel for one another. It's like, wow, Takaya really gave us one of the best ships in shoujo and didn't even apologize for it.

Klance

Red + Blue = True. They had chemistry, supplemented for what the other lacked and we really don't need to have me diving into the bs that was VLD. That show wasn't even out long, my god, it was a mess.

NeuviFuri

Should I explain to you the romanticism of Hydro x Hydro? Oof how I love them. A Genshin ship after my own heart, truly. But if anyone is trying to against MiHoyoverse (I was here from the Mihoyo days, leave me alone) in terms of seeing who ships NeuviFuri more, we all lose. They literally paid people to do an ice dancing program in NeuviFuri cosplay, paid a guy to make a companion piece to Furina's song from Neuvillette's perspective and several other animations concerning their relationship in some way. But the Mihoyoverse shenanigans aside, it's the build up of 400+ years of working together, the care they still have for one another and yes the complementary abilities and color palettes. Not enough time in the day to talk about them, I don't think.

AriDante

Almost thought I wouldn't have a gif for them, then I remembered THEY GOT A MOVIE. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe is one of my favorite books in the world. I have reread it once a year religiously since 2017 when I first discovered it. This is such a beautiful novel and relationship and if you haven't had the pleasure of reading it or the sequel, please do yourself a favor and buy it or rent it from your local library. It's just, the way Ari has been in love with Dante for so long and didn't even realize it but it's so, so clear to the reader because of just how he talks and describes him? I don't even want to go to deep into this one just in case there's someone here that hasn't read this book because it deserves to be read and experienced blind. Just, just please y'all read it.

#look she's answering #anon #animanga thoughts #royai #edwin #lingfan #almei #narusaku #sakuhina #kyoru #klance #neuvifuri #aridante

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starlightvld · 23 days

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Tagged by the lovely @snarky-magpie - thank you!!

1. How many works do you have on A03? 13 (for now...☺️)

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 429,228

3. What fandoms do you write for? Voltron: Legendary Defender and Call of Duty: MW Reboot

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? - Couch Surfing (COD, soapghost) - Broken Bones & Shattered Hearts (COD, soapghost) - Up in Smoke (COD, soapghost) - Formalities (Voltron, sheith) - Research and Development (Voltron, sheith)

5. Do you respond to comments? YES. I love talking to people in the comments. 😍

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Probably Couch Surfing because it's an "in progress" ending. But it's still mostly happy because I can't really write anything else. LOL

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Probably Formalities? But all of them are pretty tooth-rotting...

8. Do you get hate on fics? No

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Yes, but it's always slow burn smut with feelings (hi, I'm ace).

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? I love thinking about crossovers, but I haven't written any yet (unless you count the AU from question 13, I guess).

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Not that I know of.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? The soapghost Punisher AU I'm working on with @kibagib - You're my mask, you're my cover, my shelter - is basically co-written. Kiba gives me the outline for what they want to happen in the scene, and I write it out, adding my own flare here and there. It's been so much fun to work together to bring Kiba's visions to life!

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? As much as I love soapghost, I think sheith will always have my heart.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? So far, I've finished or am actively working on all my WIPs... 😯 I do have an idea for a soapghost inter-dimensional-travel, angst-with-a-bittersweet ending fic, but that one hasn't gotten past outline phase. That's the closest I have to a fic I might never finish. (This fic would also win "angstiest ending," btw.)

16. What are your writing strengths? I think I write dialogue and emotions/introspection pretty well.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I struggle with descriptions - they are often what I "add in" during the editing phases. I'm also a VERY SLOW writer, which is why it takes so long to update sometimes.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I don't do it unless I have a native speaker willing to help me with the translation. Otherwise, it's just English but in italics. LOL

19. First fandom you wrote for? Dragon Age (long ago with a different user name)

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? I love them all, but my first sheith fic - In Sunshine and in Shadow - will always be special to me because it helped me process that atrocious VLD ending.

Tagging... errmmmm... @oodelally9 @kayluvlygrey @hawkeykirsah @ticktockclockwork @ursae-minoris-world @insomnikat-mused @chalkofthevalley

No pressure! Ignore or play as you like!

#sheith #shiro x keith #soapghost #ghostsoap #ghoap #COD #vld #Call of Duty #COD MW reboot #writing #my writing #OG Starlight

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jacqulinetan · 22 days

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20 questions for fic writers

I was tagged!!!! thank you @ursae-minoris-world, you're truly so so kind to think of me.

I'll be real honest, I'm only on tumblr very intermittently and I don't really know how to use the platform at all. I'm scared that my formatting will be really messy and make people angry if I put a wall of text on their feed. So hopefully I figure out how to do the jump cut. But I just finished a fic so it's very fun to do one of these and talk about my writing. And I always like to see other people too, so I thought, hey I will give it a shot. Here's the questions:

How many works do you have on ao3? Right now I just finished my 74th work on ao3! Fifty four of those are vld, twenty four are sheith proper

2. What's your total word count on ao3? 993,716 words. I'm set to hit a million this year, I think!

3. What fandoms do you write for? LOL can you believe it? We're still loving Mr. Keith Voltron in the glorious year of our lord 2024

4. What are your top five fic by kudos? Oh well, my sk friends aren't going to be impressed--- my kl fics always take top spots for kudos and bookmarks. I attribute this not to talent or popularity but just because that side of the fandom has a much wider reach. For the sake of the questionnaire, I'll answer properly, in order: 'it's you that's haunting me' takes the top spot by a wide margin at 2,591 kudos to date. 'that mullet, etc' is currently at 1,788 kudos, and after that it's 'cross my heart,' 'swapping out silence,' and 'things that go bump in the night.'

5. Do you respond to comments? I do! for me, one of the best parts of fic is the community between authors and their audience. For the majority of my fandom life I've considered myself more of a reader than a writer, so I really treasure it when I leave a comment and an author responds. It's so special. As an author, I do respond to every comment, though sometimes it takes me a long time. I'm always so impressed that people are not only reading my words but digesting them and thinking on them too. It's wild to me. A very precious gift.

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Oh, my friend, that fic is yet to come. the wip I've got on my closest back burner has a real humdinger of an angsty ending. I'm excited about it. hmmmm if I had to answer now.....I'm not sure! usually I'm a happy ending kind of girl

7. what's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? well well well, now I have to answer this one properly don't I? Are we thinking happiest like 'biggest emotional pay off for the reader'? Or happiest like 'Keith is wildly happy' by the end? I think 'heart nailed open' has a very good emotional pay off (though I wrote it so perhaps I can't judge too well on behalf of the reader). If I am really thinking, in which fic is Keith truly the happiest he could ever be by the end...well, I try always to make Keith happy but, in 'the whole story' he has everything he could ever want AND a very nice couch.

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not routinely. I did, actually, get a very nasty comment on a fic in 2023 and it legitimately hurt my feelings. Made me feel like I should not be writing at all, actually. But, can you believe it? Friends came out of the woodwork-- people I rarely talk to, even-- and jumped in my comments section and really defended me. like, I really had all kinds of people on my side, defending me! So that meant a lot to me, and I was honestly so surprised, and I'd like to give every one of those friends the kindest hand press because I really did feel very taken care of in the aftermath.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? Oh, I don't know! I have plenty of E rated fics but I don't know if I will ever master a true PWP. to me, the sex scenes I write are not so original or exciting, nothing to really write home about lol. I'm not a fan of publicly being negative about my stuff, so I will simply say that I wish I could write some really off beat toe curling wild kink, but it's probably just not my personality to do so LOL

Is this getting really long?? should I be embarrassed ? should I close the tab and never think on this again? hmmm no

10. Do you write cross overs? Cross overs with what, my dear? There's only one Keith

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Oh I think 'it's you that's haunting me' strolled on over to wattpad or some such site without my permission back in the day, but I've never really looked into it. What I don't know cannot hurt me, right? I highly doubt that there's been some crazy highway robbery for perfchan words.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? I don't think I have! But I did have someone ask to record a podfic for one of my stories, and I was so flattered and thrilled!!!!!

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Nope! I don't have much interest in this, I am very shy about my writing and I fear I would be too cagey to be a very good collaborator.

14. what's your all time favorite ship? Keith x Being Loved and Cherished the Way He Ought to Be

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? (covers face) I don't have any unfinished WIPs.... it's not in my Type A personality to leave things undone.....

16. What are your writing strengths? This is something to really ponder!!! What /are/ my strengths!!! huh!!! well. I figured out early on that my favorite things to write are atmospheric and setting heavy -- both my most popular fic (it's you that's haunting me) and my most personally beloved fic (heart nailed open) have this in common: they have a lot of detail about the setting, and a lot of effort put into ~vibes~ of the story. so I think, if I could be self indulgent and chose which writing bits I'm good at, it's that type of thing. I really like crafting a scene you can settle into with all of your senses

17. what are your writing weaknesses? too many to list!!! I very often read my own writing and I always enjoy it (I wrote it for myself afterall) but sometimes I wonder....why did I spend so long on this particular bit? I think I am not very good at making a story tight. I wish I could master the art of being able to 'trim the fat' so to speak, really be precise with the story, but I simply don't have the chops! I can never understand how to make it better than I already have! perhaps if I keep writing long enough, I will get better at this

18. thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? this question would really open up a can of worms on the kl side of the fandom LOL. I will admit it, I've had Lance speak spanish a time or two. I don't speak spanish myself so in those rare instances I have been VERY careful to keep things straightforward and try really really hard to not be cringe worthy to native speakers

19. First fandom you wrote for? the first thing I posted online was a USUK fic in a hetalia LJ comm. I can distinctly remember the first time I ever read a fic with *there was only one bed* (it was usuk) and WHEN I TELL YOU MY EYES WERE OPENED. I was forever changed on that day. of course I wanted to try my hand at writing after that

20. Favorite fic you've written? You would ask me to chose a favorite of my children!!! Oh! I simply could not!!! No, seriously, it's 'heart nailed open.' I love that fic

This got so long !!!!!! I can't imagine anyone reading all this !!!!!!!! but omg if you did thank you!!!!!! I'm shy about tagging people in the best of times, and like I said at the very beginning, I am very very shaky on tumblr etiquette, so I had better not tag anyone. but if my friends enemytosleep or grem or kacy or monday happen to see this, I would be very excited to read your responses!!! okay bye!!

#perfchan #my writing #fanfiction meta

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an-aphorism · 22 days

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20 Qs for fic writers

Tagged by @ursae-minoris-world :D

1. How many works do you have on A03? 66 on my regular 31 on my dark account = 97 total

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 1,238,070.... oh my god

3. What fandoms do you write for? VLD, but I write the occasional fic for other fandoms when I want to read something and can't find it.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? - Wildhearted, Balancing Act, What hath night to do with sleep?, Influx, Like Animals We Play Pretend

5. Do you respond to comments? On occasion! I wish I could respond to all of them, but between my day job and writing, I already have the beginnings of a repetitive strain injury, so I do my best to minimize what my hands do unfortunately

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? The monsters we create, basically just an angst fest

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Most of my fics are HEA. Hmmm maybe With your one wild and precious life, that one really centers around healing and finding happiness

8. Do you get hate on fics? No, actually. Even my dark stuff I think people are too intimidated by to comment lmao. I think I've gotten like 2 neg comments ever? And they just get autodeleted anyway.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? *stares at 500k word count on dark Ao3 account*

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Nope. Not against it, just haven't been inspired to

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I'm aware of.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? Hmmm not that I'm aware of?

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Many things with my favorite writing partner extra_nsfw

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? YALL KNOW ITS SHEITH

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? The Likeness. Could be such a fun idea but the inspiration ran away and hasn't been back. :(

16. What are your writing strengths? Atmosphere, feelings, and sex stuff. I come from a literary and poetry background so lyrical quality and vibes are like.. so my bread and butter and they're the things that are most often complimented too.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? Dialogue and continuity. I wrote spikemoss actually as a practice for dialogue because I have a habit of avoiding dialogue. I've gotten better over time, but it still sometimes just doesn't compare with some banger lines I've read by other authors. Continuity I'm bad at just because my brain can't hold all the details, but this is mostly fixed in draft edits :)

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I will run the lines by a fluent speaker. But if I'm writing in English, I use other languages in text sparingly because you will lose some readers who won't know what's going on. It's a balance between representing cultures and the way people really do speak, and not slowing down the immersive experience by a reader having to translate paragraphs of text.

19. First fandom you wrote for? ever? Danny Phantom back way in the years that show was airing

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? Spikemoss. It's my most impressive work to date and I'm really proud of it! I did some really great things in there and live-wrote it, so it was SO challenging to make sure I didn't drop any balls and get to where I wanted to go. It holds a special place in my heart!

Tagging anybody who wants to do this meme!

#writing meme #fic writer #about me

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vee-is-a-clown · 1 year

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Merry belated Christmas y'all!

There's Klangst a fic under there \/

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When traveling through space, there's no sun to orbit that tells you how to measure your time. That's become an odd issue for the paladins. Luckily, the Altean's already have a database of quite a lot of planets' time measures. Apparently they needed it a lot for alliances. They didn't have Earth's time in there but Pidge was able to add it really easily.

That database is how Lance knows that Christmas is fast approaching for his loved ones back home. The team's trying to have fun with it and use this as an opportunity to teach Allura and Coran about Earth traditions but Lance doesn't really want to participate. It's not that he actually doesn't want to teach them but he'd rather be teaching them about Earthling traditions on Earth and doing it out in the cold vacuum of space is just a teensy bit depressing.

Ok, that's a lie. Everything about this is depressing. He's stuck in space while his family is celebrating and he's being reminded of it every time he leaves his room. They've put up faux holly-looking plants all around the castle. They're even doing a gift exchange. He's, of course, participating because Lance can't resist a gift exchange for the life of him but other than that, he's not actively part of the celebration.

His family probably think he's dead right now. While he's laying in this alien bed, feeling pathetic and homesick, they're either mourning their not-dead son or worried sick about where he could possibly be. They're probably using his terrible 9th grade school photo for a memorial.

All of this is bothering Lance much more than he'd like to admit. He's not the kinda guy who tells people how he's really feeling. Sure, he'll complain about things and he'll be open with his reactions but he keeps the depressing stuff inside. He doesn't want to bring down the mood.

If he did talk about his issues, nobody would take him seriously. Once he tried to tell Pidge and Hunk about his problems back in the Garrison and they tried to seem supportive but he could tell that they didn't really believe him. He's the upbeat energetic one. He isn't capable of being depressed like everyone else is. He knows that everyone around him has good intentions but he still doesn't feel comfortable.

He's stuck in the box that he's been put in which makes it so he can't be anything but the dumb goofball who thinks he's just as good as Keith. Every time he isn't excited about something, every time he's pessimistic, every time he's not overly expressive. It's like he's built up this mask and without it, he doesn't know who he is.

He *should* be excited about Christmas. That's why it burns so much. He can feel the weight of the expectations his teammates have for him. There's got to be something wrong with him. He's not acting "normal".

Lance would cry at this point but he hasn't cried in a while. He's found that aside from physical pain, it's hard for him to bring himself to shed a tear. As much as he wants to let it out, there's a part of him that won't let him. He's stuck.

That's when it happened.

Two really hard knocks in quick succession.

Keith.

Lance had learned that Keith knocked on his door the same way every single time. It's predictable, a pattern. It's how he knows that Keith's on the other side of that door, expecting to be let in. Lance doesn't want to let him in though. He's not going to let Keith try to unravel his facade. He's not going to let Keith give him one of his really bad talks that shouldn't work but work anyway. Nope. Not going to happen. He's just going to pretend he's asleep.

It's a shame his body doesn't agree. By the time he realizes what he's doing, he's already up and opening the door to let Keith in.

The door whooshes open to reveal Keith's stupid, handsome face and his stupid mullet.

"Hey Lance."

"Hi."

"How are you?"

"I'm fine, Keith. You can go."

"Wait, what?"

"You won't gain anything from this."

"Huh?"

"Go. Shoo. Adiós."

"Lance, I legitimately don't know what you're talking about."

"That's a lie."

"Lance, could you stop being an asshole and at least explain why you want me to go?"

"It's pretty obvious, Keith. I've barely left my room since we heard it's Christmas season back on Earth and I'm not all peppy n' excited so you guys think I'm depressed or something."

"Lance-"

"What? Were you the last to say 'not it' and now you have to come talk some sense into me?"

Lance doesn't know why he's being emotional. He just wants to be alone and Keith's here, refusing to leave. Not exactly refusing, actually but he's not leaving. It's like the tiny little last straw to break the camel's back, the tiny little last crack before the glass bottle holding his emotions back shatters into a million pieces and spills all over the floor for everyone to see.

Keith didn't even have to try.

Just his presence is enough to make Lance fall apart.

What is wrong with him? Actually, it may be too late to ask that. Maybe that should've been asked during the contemplating life on his bed. But that's off topic. He probably just made Keith just about a thousand times more concerned than before.

"Wait, Lance! That isn't what this is about."

"Then what is it about?"

The acidity in his voice is apparent. He doesn't want to sound like that. He doesn't want to be mean. Keith has done nothing wrong. He's probably here to ask Lance if he wants to train with him or something and Lance fucked it up. Well done, idiot. Well done.

Keith seems to've forgotten how to do his famous "I don't have emotions because I'm cool and Keith" pokerface. His face is visibly negative. It's hard to describe but probably some mix of a lot of concern, a dash of disappointment, and a twinge of sadness. It's one of the many things Keith will never admit he's gotten from his brother. Shiro makes the same face when he can tell something's wrong but knows he can't fix it.

"Lance, you don't seem ok."

"Oh?! You think?"

Why can't he just be nice? Lance can't stop the sarcasm from leaving his mouth. Just stop it. He doesn't want to take his negative emotions out on Keith. That's the last thing he wants to do right now. If only Keith would leave. He doesn't really want Keith to leave though.

"Right, right. So what should I do about that?"

Keith leans against the doorway, his head tilting in progress. He crosses his arms like he's decided that he's not going to leave until Lance does something. He should know. Keith's done this before. He always seems to know just about when Lance's ready to burst, when he's bottled up his emotions for too long and can't take it anymore. Maybe it's from experience.

"Keith, this isn't going to work. You can't help me."

That was a horrible, terrible lie and Lance is really hoping Keith can tell. He wants Keith to help. Or does he? His brain is currently on the fence about that. He wants to have someone to tell everything to but he also doesn't want a another word to escape his lips. What a conundrum!

Keith's giving a doubting look like he's not buying it and will keep giving him that look until he lets Keith help him. Is that good? Lance really needs to decide soon.

"The only way you can get me out of this doorway is by inviting me in."

"I could close the door on you."

Keith smiles one of those smiles where it's funny but not enough to laugh and Lance's brain pauses. Keith smiled. Oh great. Now that's going to bounce around his brain with all his other thoughts. It can join the catalog of Keith's blush worthy facial expressions.

"You wouldn't do that to me."

"I will because I don't need your help. There's nothing wrong."

Does that make sense? He just said, "You can't help me". Is that an admission of there being something wrong? Is he contradicting himself?

"You literally just said, 'I'm having an existential crisis'."

"No, I didn't."

"Well that's what I heard. Tell me about it."

Does Keith ever give up? Lance has seen it a few times from a distance but those times it's been inevitable. When Keith can't beat the training simulation or needs to sleep. Keith only gives up when he runs into physical boundaries (even though he's really bad at it). Never has Lance seen Keith willingly back down when he runs into an emotional boundary. He's the one that pushes the paladins to open up.

Lance, however, has not opened up to Keith about his problems in a hot minute and it seems like it's his turn.

"Fine, but make it snappy."

Keith smiles that stupid "I won" smile that he gives when he -ya' know- wins. It's kinda like a sly smile but not really a smirk. Does that make sense? It probably doesn't.

Lance reluctantly steps aside. He doesn't plan to tell Keith everything but knowing himself, he probably will and he's got a long night ahead of him.

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@snoopkat14 Hey Kat, I'm so sorry. Happy holidays?

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nesonkin · 23 days

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i know its been years and you probably arent even into voltron anymore but let me tell u those rebel fighters are my roman empire with their total 5 minute screentime 😭😭😭😭 they couldve been so interesting like with olia and ozar killing off te-osh felt so lazy imo but it is what it is 😔 n-7 scenes were lingered on for so much only for nothing to happen 💀 i come back to your rebel coalition headcanon posts every now and then when i remember vld exists 😭 the relationship b/w the coalition and the bom i like to think theyve known abt the bom for a whileee but it was more of an unspoken thing rather than like an official talked throught sort of partnership? idkkkkkk plz ramble if u have thoughts 😭

Omg, this ask was certainly unexpected! Thank you for coming back, I really do appreciate it. Sometimes I also get random vld rebels thoughts and then it goes on for a day until it fades away again.

They're mostly Matt x N-7 related too, because I love them still.

I really have nothing on the BoM & freedom fighters. I can't imagine the rebels even knowing about them pre-voltron era with how secretive they are. After S4? Fuck yeah. It would still likely be a sort of "we each do our own thing but if you guys need a hand we will give it to you" kind of partnership.

The Voltron Coalition consists of many different species. Most of them likely suffered under the Galra colonization. And I bet at least one third of them struggles to accept the BoMs as their allies.

Oh, and did we ever have a talk about BoM's beliefs and practices? All of them being exactly what the rebels are fighting against?

Yeah, there would be a lot of tension I imagine. ESPECIALLY with how I write Ozar as the one who would rather fail the mission than to lose another soldier. As opposed to BoM's "mission above all" rule.

The only time the two rebel factions ever fully agree with one another is taking a piss at the Voltron Show.

I hope this was satisfying enough of an answer. Honestly, you coming back in my inbox has actually inspired me to do something with all my headcanon lore. I'm thinking of writing a fic about Matt's journey with the rebels. Like, without outline or beta or anything. Super self-indulgent. I just want to write it for myself and maybe someone will enjoy it too.

#voltron #vld #voltron legendary defender #vld rebels #vld freedom fighters

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ursae-minoris-world · 23 days

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20 questions for fic writers

Tagged by @starlightvld- thank you!!! ☺️

1. How many works do you have on A03? 42! (neat!)

2. What’s your total Ao3 word count? 140,503!

3. What fandoms do you write for? Mostly vld. I have a Good Omens fic and always want to write more and a few fandom that I'm tempted to write for, but I'm still very much in vld.

4. What are your top five fics by kudos? - Breaking point (vld, sheith) ; A little mouse told me (vld, sheith); Flowers and Blood (vld, sheith); A cure to loneliness (Good Omens, ineffable husbands)

This gets long so I'm adding the rest under a read more!!

5. Do you respond to comments? Yes! I do! Sometimes I can take a little long but I really enjoy talking with my readers!

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Just a call... (vld, gen) I think! It's an open ending, but it ends up on a frustrating note (which was the point).

7. What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Oh man, they almost always have a happy or at least hopeful ending. Let's go with A little mouse told me (vld, sheith).

Oh, hey, fun anecdote! Someone commented on Stay with me (vld, sheith) to tell me it was the 200,000th work in the "happy ending" tag! They had just witnessed the tag going up to that number with my fic!

8. Do you get hate on fics? Not so far, thankfully. (Happened once on fanart though, but it was just one dumb comment by an anti).

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind? I haven't so far, I'm not really interested in writing it (never say never, though!).

10. Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Well, I did 2 fairly recently for a crackship event! It was loads of fun. The craziest might be A Mysterious French Chef, which started as a Hunk&Remy idea, but ended up involving Hunk, Allura and the space mice for vld, and Linguini, Colette, and Remy for Ratatouille, and everyone interacting pretty significantly. I really loved mashing the 2 universes, and for something that started as a "crack" idea, it ended up working surprisingly well!!

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen? Not that I know of. I've had some original (anonymous) poems that I cowrote with a friend plagiarized down to using our actual pseudonym, but that wasn't in fandom or even online!

12. Have you ever had a fic translated? I don't think so.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before? Yes! Five times Shiro broke the rules, and one time Keith did with VirdisDrachen (vld, Shiro&Keith). It's based on a roleplay. Other than that, while it's mostly an artist+writer big bang collaboration, I think Square_Orange and I did discuss the plot a fair amount for Let It Snow! (vld, sheith).

I also have 2 fics that are remixes of other people's work, done for the sheith remix event : When you lived! (the “Enormous, within your small hands” remix) inspired by a fic by @annaofaza, and High Score! (the “I want us forever” remix) inspired by a fic by Tragedy_Machine.

14. What’s your all time favorite ship? To no-one's surprise: sheith.

15. What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? I am fairly good at finishing my wips, even if I do have some stuff that has been waiting for a while. I still have my notes about Keith grieving Shiro between s2 and s3 and how the team tried to support him and each other but how things became tense, that I wrote just after s3 aired! I still hope to get to it one day!

There's also the collab with VirdisDrachen tbh because we dropped the rp after a while and I wouldn't finish this alone. So I'm afraid this one will stay as is.

16. What are your writing strengths? I think I'm good with dialogues and characterization? Themes like friendship, found family are my jam, too. Of course it's subjective.

17. What are your writing weaknesses? I am learning, but action and fight scenes are *hard*. (But I also love them? haha). On the exact opposite side, stories with very low stakes are sometimes hard to write, when it's just 100% fluff and no conflict, unless it's like, a short scene... It's easier with some emotional or romantic build up (ex mutual pining > getting together) but otherwise I really have to *think* to plot the fic. I'm so used to stories centered around conflict (in the literary sense, including inner conflict, not necessarily an actual fight).

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I agree with @starlightvld that if it's a language that I'm not personally fluent in, I'd look for a native speaker who might want to help or avoid it. Except maybe for conlangs, like Sindarin or Klingon. Although if I ever write in a fandom with something like that, I would f*cking love to get insight from one of these people who actually studied them and are fluent. In a more general way, I'd be cautious that it actually brings something to the story, that it makes sense to use the language that way, and to do it in a way that doesn't confuse readers too much (unless I am purposefully writing for those who know the language, I guess). I will say that I do love different languages to be aknowledged, like for vld fics that actually dig into the paladins having different languages, and the Galra and Altean also, and so on (ex fics where they have universal translators and then there are issues when they break or they can't rely on them for whatever reason).

19. First fandom you wrote for? Voltron! My first fic was a Hunk-centric gen fic, While some count sheep, and I'm still really fond of it!

20. Favourite fic you’ve written? Oh, that's hard, I like them all for different reasons. I do enjoy Carry me away for the sheith saving each other vibes. A little mouse told me (sheith written from the space mice pov) was such a fun exploration! Honestly, the most kudosed ones in question 4 are all fics I am proud of. To chose a lesser known one, I also love A special day , a vld gen Hunk-centric fic!

Tagging... @sodomhipped, @tomatocages, @an-aphorism @museaway @jacqulinetan @levyscripts @annaofaza and whoever wants to do this!

(also no pressure at all if you are tagged!)

#writing #ursae answers #memes #fanfiction #sheith #voltron #good omens #ineffable husbands #vldGen

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Do you, or anyone actually, know where/when the '-bowl' sufix started being used in Fandom? Because I can't find any kind of origin, and surprisingly Fanlore doesn't have a article about it (as far as I checked maybe I didn't search well?). I just found and know that it's used for kinda old and relatively new fandoms, thanks to a two-year-old Reddit post.

For anyone who doesn't get/know about the '-bowl' sufix: is basically an All × One thing. For example, if you encounter 'Dekubowl' this means that Deku, the character, is shipped with everyone or that at least everyone else have a crush with Deku.

I can only think of the 'Super Bowl' (just as one comment in that Reddit post suggest) for its origin, but when we talk about Fandom culture we never know. It could have originated from anything no-related to the Super Bowl, LOL.

Ooh, interesting. I've never heard of this in my life, and I have no idea what a -bowl suffix is supposed to mean, even if I guess it has to do with the super bowl.

It's not surprising Fanlore doesn't have this if it's coming from BNHA or somewhere similar. Fanlore is fantastic on the history of Western "Media Fandom", zines, K/S, etc. It's much weaker in areas that OTW early adopters haven't spent as much time in.

You should write the -bowl article yourself!

I went into AO3's tag search and looked for 'bowl'. I found 1311 tags, 90 of them canonicals.

I'm seeing a ton of references to the Super Bowl, dust bowl AUs, pet play with pet food bowls, Dream in the fishbowl, unending uses like "I'm crying into my bowl of cereal as I write this", "bowl of honey nut feelios", "bowl of pornflakes", "me shaking the food bowl of sbi wilbur-centric angst: come get y'all's juice", etc., and plenty of references to YOI katusdon bowls. Lots of fandoms and episodes have 'bowl' in their titles.

Zeroing in on more related things, I'm seeing BNHA over and over and not much else...

EXCEPT!

Fruit bowls!

I see scattered references to "let's add him into that whole fruit bowl" and "the whole fruit bowl is here" and so on. Some of them are crack fic where everyone is a banana, but a lot of them seem to be a metaphor for "everything together".

Okay, I just spent far too much time trying to categorize tags. Out of the 'bowl' ones, about a third appear to be this kind of sense (counting by number of tags, not number of works).

Game of Thrones has a bunch, but they refer (as far as I know) to which characters will hypothetically kill each other and emerge victorious, not to group shipping.

Some tags I found, like 'edelbowl' sounded more like a group ship than an X/everyone. I also found a scattering of tags that were like 'all of them in a bowl together', which is probably related.

But mainly, what I found is that this is from BNHA and it's recent.

The other fandoms where I found it were:

Demon Slayer, Dr. STONE, Naruto, South Park, Fire Emblem, Genshin, HP, Lego Ninjago, My Next Life as a Villainess, She-Ra, Teen Wolf, Tower of God, VLD, A3! (Video Game), Assassination Classroom, Avatar, Batman, Black Clover - Tabata Yuki, Bleach, Blue Lock (Manga), BTS, Bungou Stray Dogs , Dangan Ronpa, Danny Phantom, Detective Conan, Dragon Age, Durarara!!, Fate/Grand Order, How to Train Your Dragon, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Kaiju No. 8 (Manga), LEGO Monkie Kid, Osomatsu-san, Ouran High School Host Club, Percy Jackson, SK8 the Infinity, Soul Eater, The Disastrous Life of Saiki K., Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Tokyo Revengers, Virtual Streamer Animated Characters, Warcraft, Xenoblade Chronicles 2

That's giving me a very distinctive picture of a fan who's probably in their 20s or 30s, mostly like anime and some video games, and is not the type that edits Fanlore.

There's nothing actually old here: it's recent anime and stuff that is still a megafandom, like Naruto.

I'm seeing a scattering of 'dekubowl' from 2017 and then other character tags taking off in like 2019. This is definitely a recent trend in terminology, at least on AO3.

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i just saw your reply saying you wrote keith with your experience with autism in mind without realizing it! i just want to say that i love how personal this fic is for you, whether you intended it or not! like, looking back and realizing you connect even more with your character (bc you’ve developed keith so well he’s practically yours) is so cool!! and the autistic-coded-ness fits with the character so well, it fits with his foundations from the show and also the world you’ve built

anyways yeah just came to say i love that for you, as a huge fan of your work!

anonymous(2): Hello!! I recently read your little blade fanfic and I'm about to re read it as well, I love it sm! I saw that another person had said they related to Keith in relation to their autism and I'm so happy they did because I do as well!! I love seeing representation like that even if it's unintentional lol, and I was wondering if you had any autistic headcanons for Keith and or Lotor and if being galra effects that? If not that's totally chill! I hope you have an awesome day or night!

Thank you both! I'm honestly so happy to see so much love for autistic-coded Keith, he deserves it ♡

I don't explicitly have any autistic headcanons for either Keith or Lotor, because (as anon 1 said) it wasn't entirely intentional on my part. When writing Keith, I knew from the start that I wanted to explore his galra side and how that element of himself impacts his experiences, and obviously because he looks human this was always going to manifest in his instincts/behaviour; what with the galra being aliens, I wanted them to feel more nuanced than simply "tall purple humans" which lead to me playing around with the differences in how they might express themselves and the ways in which this might have caused Keith difficulties in the past.

Autism itself manifests in different ways to different degrees in different people, but broadly speaking it's a variation in how the brain works as opposed to the majority. According to the NHS, the key traits include:

difficulty communicating with / understanding the thoughts and feelings of others, unintentionally coming across as blunt / rude / uninterested, and misreading tone / intent in others

struggling with anxiety in unfamiliar situations / social settings, often preferring a set routine with clearly defined "rules", and difficulty making friends (and/or preferring solitude)

heightened pattern recognition, attention to detail, and senses

over-stimulation from things neurotypicals might consider mundane, such as bright lights / loud noises / strong smells / eye contact / physical proximity and/or touch

self-stimulating behaviours (stimming) often repetitive movements / sounds that can serve a variety of purposes

a keen or intense interest in a particular subject area / activity

These, obviously, are only the very broadest of strokes (and I comped together many of the bullet points for brevity's sake) but as you can see a lot of them are applicable to Keith—not only in LB, but in VLD too! As such, I don't think it's especially surprising that in dissecting his character so as to better understand and therefore write for him, I ended up creating a lot of overlap between autism and the galra, with the latter becoming a metaphor for how the former sees people (like Keith!) being "othered". With regard to Lotor, it's actually quite interesting because his galra/autistic traits are considered "normal" in Imperial society, whereas it's everything altean about him that has been met with reproach.

#in summary: being galra doesn't effect keith's autism because I essentially wrote being galra as a metaphor //for// autism #if that makes sense #Ao3 Little Blade #sa screams back #galra history & culture #keith kogane #prince lotor

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