[clones4shiro]

idiot who's thinking about voltron (and shiro) in the big '25

call me fitz / adult / whtevr pronouns u want

⋆.˚𖦹⋆✮⋆.˚ side blog collecting art, meta, and general thoughts about voltron. gathering to write my own spin (some day, probably not at all soon) and indulgent fanfic.

[kasphyxia-deactivated20210107]

remember when they killed adam 😐

[kasphyxia-deactivated20210107]

[jackotoads]

HELP HELP CAN ANYONE HEAR ME HELP ME

[utenapilled]

The Pitt au (I’m normal about this show I swear)

[ztonedscullnico]

beautiful girl

old art but i need to post

[electricsynthesis]

Ultimately the vld cast are literal rebel freedom fighters wearing the long lost uniforms of a dead empire. Turning themselves into war propaganda for the vague boon of “hope”. deliberately painting a target on their backs to keep one off of the various grassroots rebellions. Soldiers of soldiers to the end

[olkari]

okay, so, i saw this post circulating that mentioned that it seems like the garrison HAD to have some idea of the galra's existence pre-kerberos and it has been living in my head rent free (EDIT: link found! inspo here). i love how the idea that the garrison, and by extension, sam holt as a high ranking science officer, complicates the kerberos mission and sam's relationship with the rest of his family.

this post got really long really quick bc i can't shut up. see my thoughts under the cut :)

first, a note on matt's (and colleen's) role here: i agree in a world where the garrison has access to galra tech that sam would totally know about it; i don't think matt or colleen would. matt is a graduate and the ultimate nepo baby, but even if the garrison uniforms were not horribly designed and had clearer ranks (that's a rant for a different post), i doubt matt would actually be high ranking enough to unlock The Alien Tech We Have That The World Can't Know About Under Any Circumstances. especially because matt is probably known as a bit of a security issue--everything that goes to him goes to his sister, and anything that he doesn't pass on, his sister finds out herself. and i think it's important to preserve one of the few core things we know about matt's character--that he desperately wants to make first contact. if he knows about the alien tech in advance, his visible joy on the kerberos mission is less impactful, and i think it's worth preserving that. colleen also seems to be SIGNIFICANTLY less attached to the garrison than the rest of the family, and seems to drink the kool aid of the garrison less overall. they wouldn't want to give that info to someone who wasn't a zealot.

what i think is so interesting about this theory is this: sam holt clearly has a heavy hand in the selection of the candidates for the kerberos mission, since we see him arguing about being able to keep shiro on the team, and matt's on the team. if the garrison has access to galran tech or evidence of their existence, this is the information sam probably has access to:

aliens are real, and they are vaguely humanoid and certainly not the microscopic bacteria that matt seems to expect on kerberos (evidence: basically anything they could find)

the aliens that are real are advanced and war-focused. (evidence: anything from krolia's wreck or the scouting group that came after her. these ships are war ships. the scouts brought weapons, and armor.)

the aliens have a presence in the solar system, especially on the edge of the solar system. (evidence: pidge was able to pick up on radio chatter from across the solar system with like, their personal laptop, some scrap satellite equipment, and a dream. there is no way the garrison did not catch any of it.)

if all of this is true, holy shit, why did sam holt let his son and takashi fucking shirogane on this mission? kerberos is the edge of the solar system and presumably in a hotbed of activity. sam takes his unknowing son and the best pilot the garrison has (who is likely his son's close friend) into the belly of the beast of activity from a militarized alien society. my main theory is that sam didn't have a choice re:matt; sam doesn't seem like the type to regularly deny his children things they've rightfully earned with a "because i said so," and if matt was denied entry to the mission by a sweeping motion like that, would probably start digging around. maybe it was an operational security thing--matt wouldn't snoop if he was approved, and thus he wouldn't risk exposing this secret. maybe shiro was chosen because if something went wrong when they were in the spacecraft, shiro might be able to navigate them away. but that's a hell of a burden for sam to carry.

and IMAGINE what that conversation ends up looking like when matt/colleen/pidge figure that out. because they WILL find out, whether it's matt realizing his father has been selected to be sent to a specialized work camp because has the mind for it and he's already worked with galra tech, or at the end of the series when presumably these old documents decrease in clearance and suddenly pidge finds sam's name is on documentation that doesn't line up with the timeline. the holts are close enough (and locked together by trauma enough by the end of the series) that i don't think it would tear the family apart forever, but i'm sure there would be an intense feeling of betrayal. and i think that's a very new feeling for most of the family, especially towards sam, who is framed in such a can-do-no-wrong way in the eyes of his children.

i could keep going forever, but i will stop for now. pls shoot me an ask if people want to hear more, i have been fleshing out this concept for like 24 hours straight and there's bees in my blood about it.

[utenapilled]

a drag path

[saintofonewaytrips]

the Takashi Shirogane / Frankenstein’s Creation parallels… am I the only one seeing this

[voidofnoreturn-deactivated20260]

allura

[which-star]

something about loving a character and wishing the narrative did too

[pidges-lost-robot]

Pidge being dramatic ig

[faefaithfay-deactivated20251030]

this is how it feels to be in the voltron fandom when you don't particularly ship klance

[hatsalad]

The black lion did not save shiro from death itself and keep his soul safe inside her for god knows how long it’s been since season 2 for shiro not to be her paladin

[hatsalad]

Shiro has literally spent possibly a year in the Astral Plane constantly connected and bonded to Black. He could fly her whilst sleeping at this point, he doesn’t need two arms.

[bbtree]

this same horrible season showed the others remotely piloting the lions with their minds, lauren and joaquim are just nasty ableist hacks.

[im-smart-i-swear]

alluraaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaalluraaaaaa auuuurhhhhhhhhghg

[leajoyrambles]

Idk but I sorta felt like the entire earth arc was such a waste in some ways. 

Like in many ways, throughout the series, Earth has become a ghost story. To those left behind, the Paladins are all but dead, but to the Paladins, the people they remember are amorphous, otherworldly, alive in some ways but dead in others. 

To Lance and Hunk, they haven’t thought of how time passes. They’re both afraid of how they’ve changed, but they haven’t realized how much their families have. Haven’t let themselves realize, really. 

Shiro cut his ties with earth, so to speak. He never really believed he was going back. This isn’t a dream come true for him. This is just another impossible thing, just as important and impersonal as any other mission. 

Pidge is a strange case. She never believed the people out there were dead, and she’s seen some of her family, some of her ghosts, more recently than the others. And they’ve seen her. There’s a sense of connection there that the others don’t have. 

As for Keith, he has nothing to return to. No one is grieving him, and the only ghost he left behind is a grave. He’s not going home. He found home in space. With the Paladins in the Castle, with the Blade in secret, and in the Quantum Abyss with Krolia. 

For the Alteans, Earth is nothing but a story. To Krolia, a planet to house her little place of peace. Not home, certainly. 

Home is a prison and a graveyard, as far as Romelle is concerned. Home means combat training and artificial light and tradition to Krolia. To Coran, it’s a bittersweet memory. To Allura, a gaping hole in her chest.

just. idk. something something a house is what you haunt and home is what haunts you. or whatever.

[clones4shiro]

allura’s hypothetical ladies in waiting…

[clones4shiro]

save me allura’s hypothetical ladies in waiting….

[clones4shiro]

more because my brain is being taken over.

chelle is one more altean survivor slapped into the castle of lions. she the grumpy girl who hates that she’s alive. i hc that all alteans can manipulate quintessence but not all to the degree of haggar and allura. chelle’s affinity is for healing!