crazyrandomhappenklance

Caz | 40ish | she/they 🌟crazyrandomhappenklance on Ao3🌟 Klance writer and bad influence https://linktr.ee/crazyrandomhappenklance pfp by @letmebelex header by @itsmochichu

[itsmochichu]

It was soft; just a gentle press, like a test, a question.

Then another; slightly firmer, like a reply.

Then another; bolder, this time - an affirmation.

Then another.

And another.

As first kisses went, it wasn’t fueled with passion or fervour. It was cautious. fragile. It was like unspoken words. Like a quiet conversation between two people who were desperate to convey their thoughts, yet scared they would be misunderstood.

i drew a scene from Front and Centre by crazyrandomhappenklance on ao3 :D it’s such a gorgeous rivals-to-lovers fic, there’s frontman keith and broadway-loving lance and so much music and karaoke!! the latest chapter gave me a heck load of feelings 😭💕

here’s the link! https://archiveofourown.org/works/16686847/ ♥

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

I'm so blessed to have inspired such beautiful art by such an amazing artist! I still think I'm dreaming 🙏🏼🙌🏼😭🥺😭🥺❤💙✨

[ao3feed-klance]

MPLC (Merci pour La Cache, Paris!)

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/BcJhWtK

by crazyrandomhappenklance

Lance and Keith are Honeymooning in Paris, the very capital of romance! However, Keith is less than enthusiastic about posing for photographs. Then a chance encounter with a group of interesting people in the park leads them to discover an intriguing and addictive new hobby, which stokes the embers of their eternal competitiveness, and might just persuade Keith to change his mind. Written for the Klance zine: Honeymoon Around the World.

Words: 2468, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Keith (Voltron), Lance (Voltron)

Relationships: Keith & Lance (Voltron), Keith/Lance (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Gay Keith (Voltron), Bisexual Lance (Voltron), Honeymoon, Paris (City), Geocaching - Freeform, Adventure, Post-Canon, Romantic Fluff, Married Keith/Lance (Voltron), Soft Keith/Lance (Voltron), Competitive Lance and Keith, Vacation, Flashmobs, Zine: Honeymoon Around the World

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/BcJhWtK

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

… I’m still alive and KICKing!

My piece for the @klancehoneymoonzine! Leftover sales are now open for a limited time, so now’s your last chance!

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[klfirstdatezine]

Ok! The store has been reopened! This is your LAST chance! We will close the store on the 30th at noon US Eastern.

Jump here to get your pre-order in! https://klancefirstdateszine.bigcartel.com

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

THIS IS YOUR FINAL CHANCE TO BUY THE ZINE, THE COMIC PDF ZINE, AND THE MERCH! YOU HAVE UNDER 24 HOURS!

👉 This zine’s profits will go to ILGA World—The International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Association. We’re turning your💰into 🏳️‍🌈💪 Do it, now!

[pbeltarts]

Boyf riends ? :]

I forgot i sketched up these poses awhile bk so here, boyfs

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

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[klfirstdatezine]

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[k0i-shii]

These two idiots are my favorite

[k0i-shii]

Racing AU🏎🏎

[sweaterthreada]

currently screaming over this official art of yuuri training in st. petersburg with yuri and victor

[desuke-dragon-queen-blog]

Okay non-European tumblr, I’m gonna explain to you why ‘white’ isn’t as simple here as it is in the rest of the world

- Shades of white in Europe range from ‘freshly fallen snow’ to ‘I am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle East’

- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction

- There are Europeans who don’t class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who don’t think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and don’t really give much thought to their skin colour

- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are ‘actually white’. I get it a lot myself. My response is always ‘well I’m not anything else, so obviously I must be’

- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, don’t feel white in the traditional sense. We’re not white like white British people. We’re not white like white Americans. We’re our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc

- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ‘nationality over race’. Being white isn’t as important as where you’re from

- So this really only becomes an issue if you’re an immigrant

- So being white in Europe doesn’t save you from racial discrimination, because sure, you’re technically white, but you’re not white white. Not the right white

- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and don’t bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by ‘chucking away any with a name you can’t fucking pronounce’

- And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like you’ve walked into the ‘Swedish supermodel’ clubhouse and you just know you’re not getting hired

This is all basic stuff and it’s very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like ‘no white person anywhere in the world ever knows what it’s like to face racial discrimination’, it’s really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they don’t give a shit if you’re technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American. 

[rememberthehuntress]

This doesn’t just apply to “darker skin” Europeans either (which I’m sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.

[kieren-fucking-walker]

Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you aren’t from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isn’t that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people can’t experience racism because that’s such a US-centric idea.

[bazbucky]

And if you’re from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you can’t turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UK’s resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?

(That’s Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)

(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)

(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)

(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)

They are white! Just because they are white, it doesn’t mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesn’t mean that they can’t be constantly told that they don’t work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they don’t deserve basic human rights.

So just before you force your ignorance onto people who don’t hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.

[stealthydice]

Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what I’ve been trying to say for far too long into words!

[jenniferrpovey]

…I didn’t know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.

But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.

For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about “Mexicans” (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).

It’s worth understanding that

1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.

2. They don’t take the same form everywhere.

[syrenpan]

I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.

I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.

Being white is not that cut and dry over here.

[jenniferrpovey]

And being “socially” white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered “white”.

[canthinkofaurl-deactivated20221]

READ THIS POST IF YOURE AMERICAN

[therunninglifechoseme]

I’m American and this is the FIRST time I’ve ever heard any of this. I always think I’m up to date on world issues but wow I am not. Thank you to everyone for sharing! 

[varpusvaras]

About discrimination between nations in Europe, speaking Finnish and Sami languages in schools in Sweden was forbidden from students because Finns and Sami people were considered to be the lower race. Of course Europe has racism against black people, but yes, thinking about Europeans being “white” as whole is weird because a white Finn and a white Greek person couldn’t be more apart with their cultures.

[starshinelightning]

Yes, all of this, and let’s not forget people like the Finnish speaking Finns have historically and from some cultural standpoints a lot more common with native Americans and the Asians and Blacks in America than white Americans, despite our recent “rise” in the social rank of race.

Less than 100 years ago we were considered mongoloid (and while it’s not entirely wrong, though Uralic or North-West Asian and Caucasian mix would be lot more accurate), and were oppressed by another nation (Russia) that tried to enforce cultural and linguistic genocide on us, and before that we were oppressed and practically enslaved by Sweden, not all that differently as in any other colonized nation–which we were for 800 years.

For all intents and purposes, our “whites” are the Swedish-speaking Finns, who to this day continue to be a lot more privileged than the Finnish-speaking Finns, on average.

[sirenfrost]

In Italy, Southern people are considered less than Northern people and I, as a Northern people, can assure you sometimes it’s pretty bad. Mostly thanks to an idiotic right wing party that thinks that Italy should be divided in two: over the Po and below the Po (our longest river). They even think our ancestors are Celts lmao. Also a lot of people from the South are “less white” (again it’s stupid but whatever it’s just to make you understand), because they have ancestors from Africa so they are mixed, therefore their skin isn’t white as snow.

[fabiochampioraro]

Also in Italy people from slavic countries are often victim to xenophobia, people are always ready to see romanians/albanian/russians…etc as culprits for everything, and it’s not unusual to hear someone says “this hairstyle makes you look like an albanian!” or “why are you going out dressed as a romanian” yeah they use slavic people as an insult bc people are led to think that they come here just to steal everything from us. And guess what most of them are white as snowflakes!

I’d like to point out that also italian people have faced discrimination from other european countries. We were, and sadly often still are, always seen as part of the mafia and therefore dangerous, or inferior and poor (y’all can find signs saying pretty nasty stuff online, and i’m leaving this here even tho it’s in Italian), i’ve heard a lady telling his son to stay away from me and my family because we were speaking italian and so we could do “bad things” to him and there were times when in shops we were made feel not welcome because we are italian…..and guess what my family is white.

So please when you are outside the us don’t try to apply your “racial standards” bc they are not valid in europe.

[vanimeldes]

Bless this post forever and ever

[heywriters]

The Scottish, Irish, and Welsh are “white” peoples yet have a long history of oppression by white England. Even to this day you’ll hear celebs from those places (which are in the UK or even on the same island as England) discuss the same things as a POC actor in America, like “there are very few roles for us on TV” or “I only got the job because I changed my name and accent” and “I’ve had to play a servant or a stereotype for most of my career.”

This discrimination may seem less bizarre to Americans when you understand that the white minorities of the UK are descendants of peoples who lived there long before the Romans marched in and set English history as we know it in motion. It’s not about skin color, it’s about conquest, as usual.

[captainlordauditor]

yall really gonna use Mila Kunis as an example of a Ukrainian who faces discrimination and leave out the fact that she’s Jewish?

[elidyce]

When Heroes first came out in Australia, I was watching it with my then-partner, my sister, and a couple of friends. My then-partner, who is American, mentioned that the show had faced criticism because nearly all the main characters were white.

“What are you talking about?” say my sister and I. ‘There are two Italian guys RIGHT THERE.” 

“OMG you cannot say Italian people are not white,” he says.

“Yes we fucking can,” says the Italian friend watching the show with us, deeply offended. 

And then we had to pause it and a lot of complex explanations ensued. (Including the fact that Greek and Italian people generally aren’t considered White in Australia and in fact many a Nonna will smack you if you suggest otherwise.)

Basically, ‘white’ is a category upon which no two cultures/countries can agree on the definition, they all think they have the only possible definition, and it usually boils down to Preferred Flavours of Bigotry.

I mean, I’m of sufficiently Irish descent not to have been considered White in New York at certain periods, and I’m so pink and white I couldn’t get stopped at an airport if I tried, so basically it’s all bullshit and ‘white’ is like ‘normal’… everyone thinks they know what it is, but it doesn’t actually exist except as a tool for dividing people up into The Good Ones and The Rubbish Ones.

[arsenicjade]

How Jews Became White Folks and What That Says About Race in America

The fashion identities in the context of a wider conversation about American nationhood, to whom it belongs and what belonging means. Race a

A really good book on the historical whitening of European ethnicities in America ^^^^^

[schadenfreude-personified]

we hungarians are also othered due to our ethnicity not technically being european (hungarians were nomads and came from asia) but more privileged white americans or british folk will just claim we are the same white as them. people also try to erase this by saying we are related to the finns even though our language has more turkish in it (even before being occupied by them).

also, eastern europe is severely discriminated against in other parts of the world to the point where theres even a “slur” for immigrants from eastern europe going to the usa for a better life

anyways nationalism is gross and its racism lite. when youre a nationalist you support discriminating against people for their ethnicity.

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

I've been struggling to define this "our racism is not the same as your racism, and your white is not the same as our white" thing for years. I've recently been able to pick apart where the differences lie, but this post really highlights the issues and differences between countries and cultures.

I consider myself Scottish—I was born in Scotland, as were my parents, and their parents—but like many people in and around Europe, our family trees are criss-crossed with unions from many different European (and other) countries. The distance between countries in Europe is very small compared to somewhere as large as the continental US, and immigration wasn’t the same in the not so distant past as it is now.

One thing that really highlighted things for me a few years back, was this picture I took of myself and others at Pride:

Everyone in this picture is Scottish, but look at the difference in melanin between my arm and the others!

It threw up a lot of questions for me. Am I "white"? Would I be considered white or a POC in another country? I've never experienced racism due to my skin tone, but I have for being Scottish. I have an Irish surname, but that's quite common for people in Scotland.

Going back a hundred years through my family tree, you will find Scottish, English, and Italian blood in me (where my darker skin tone comes from). Go back a little further, there's French and Irish, and gawd knows what else, but I don't relate to any of my heritage in the same way I've seen so many Americans do.

I'm Scottish, sure, but not Scottish in the sense that I can consider myself Scottish because of my ancestors.

So, what am I? What am I allowed to claim I am, given my history? The answer seems to be pertinent to wherever my feet are planted, and who is judging me.

[lesbvan]

What the hell are we going to do?

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

I watched Young Royals and Istg if Netflix doesn't give it a second season, I will riot!

THE TENSION!!! AND CLIFFHANGERS!!!

I was literally hiding behind a cushion for most of it, and my partner was complaining about me yelling "NO!!!!"so much!

[systlin]

purge of 2002? of 2012? what ARE those?

Oh, how quickly the past is forgotten. 

They are part of the reason A03 is a thing now. Not the whole reason, but part of it. 

The Great Purges of 2002 and 2012 are when ff.net got a wild hair up their ass about THINK OF THE CHILDREN and nuked any fic posted on there that was explicit. Thousands upon thousands of nc-17 smutfics were lost.

It’s what led to the creation of alternate hosting sites for smutty fic…AdultFanfiction was the one I went to…but thousands of fics would never be recovered. 

[systlin]

Shit like the Great Purges and the Strikethrough of Livejournal eventually led to fans banding together to create A03, which I would have absolutely KILLED for when I was 15.

[persephonebooklover]

Back up ao3 was created by fans?

[systlin]

It’s…right on the main page. 

[fanfictionanthology]

I love this because I will bet you that persefv has read that bit we are all so inundated with hyperbole and advertising that says that the consumer is somehow in charge of whatever product they are shilling that we all just assumed this was another sales tactic.

[naryrising]

But we’re not even… selling anything…  *quiet sobs*

[wrangletangle]

No ads. No subscriptions. No data selling.

We are the definition of “what it says on the tin.”

[elfwreck]

Is there any way to spread this info? 

THE OTW WAS CREATED BY FANS SO WE’D HAVE AN ARCHIVE THAT WASN’T SUBJECT TO CORPORATE REVIEW. 

Nonprofit, so that nobody could ever say, “this isn’t making enough money; it’s getting shut down.” (See: Geocities, Quizilla, Figment, G+.) With lawyers involved and a firm awareness of the legalities of fanfic, so nobody would decide “we’ve gotten a nasty letter from a megacorporation with lawyers, so we’re hiding because we can’t afford to face a lawsuit. (Jedi Hurtaholics, Trevizo’s Millennium site.) With teams, so that an argument between co-mods didn’t result in the destruction of a whole archive. (Gryffindor Tower, Detention.)

AO3 IS OUR SITE.

It is by fans, for fans. Fans do all the coding. All the legal paperwork. All the abuse/tos violation complaints. Fans make all the choices about policies. Fans decide how to run the fundraisers. Fans write the blog posts. All the volunteer staff are fans; all the people who train them are fans. Fans wrangle all the tags. 

(And the other OTW projects, too. Fans manage the entries at Fanlore. Fans run the Open Doors project. Fans publish Transformative Works and Cultures.)

EVERYONE WORKING FOR THE OTW LOVES FANDOM. Wants it to survive. Wants it to be awesome for everyone.

(Knows that it can’t be awesome for everyone; some approaches to fandom just clash hard. But they strive to minimize those clashes as much as possible, because they love fandom.) 

AO3 is not some company that decided, “we’ll make a site for fanfic and then…” I don’t know what people are thinking is the reason. Money? Data harvesting? Tax shelter? Amusement and pity?

Nope; AO3 was fans saying, “Livejournal sucks; we’re tired of this fucked-up ‘rebuild every three years’ garbage; WE NEED TO OWN THE DAMN SERVERS.”

That’s the “of our own” part of the name. OTW isn’t a “them” running the site “for us.” It’s “us” making places for “us” to share what we love with others of “us.” 

[dirtydragonthoughts]

This this this.

I was there for all of that shit, and AO3 is a godsend. If you enjoy or create fanworks, support AO3, donate if you can, and remember why it’s there in the first place!!

[olderthannetfic]

Fandom history really does get lost quickly. For current 20-something fans, AO3 has always been there.

[caeseria-deactivated20220911]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 21/? Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keith/Lance (Voltron) Characters: Lance (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Coran (Voltron), Kolivan (Voltron) Additional Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha/Omega, Alpha Keith (Voltron), Omega Lance (Voltron), omega biology, Mutual Pining, Sharing a Bed, Mission Fic, Undercover Missions, Missions Gone Wrong, Bonding, Mating Bites, Mating Bond, Claiming Bites, Rivalry, Slow Burn, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Fake Marriage, Friends to Lovers, Sexual Tension, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Getting Together, Kissing, klance, Body Paint, Gay Disasters, Scent Marking, Frottage, BAMF Lance (Voltron), I am so happy that is a tag!, Fights, Blood and Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Rimming, Blow Jobs, Anal Sex, random pop culture references, Happy Ending, Canon-Typical Violence, Captivity, Handcuffs, Angst, Coercion, Lance (Voltron) Whump, mild whump, Verbal Humiliation, Kicking ass and taking names, Healing, Fluff, Fluff and Smut Summary:

When the Blade of Marmora requests assistance on an information gathering mission, Lance and Keith go undercover as a bonded alpha and omega pair. At first, it seems like this is going to be more like a vacation than a mission – right up until everything falls apart and they realize how unprepared they really are. Now, Lance and Keith have to fight to not only survive, but to make it out together. They’ll have to rely not only on their skills as Paladin, but the bond they’ve created and nurtured between them.

New chapter is up at last!!! <3

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

Thanks, @caeseria!

Thanks, @Kare!

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Caz.

[crazyrandomhappenklance]

It's finally here!

Front and Centre, Chapter 13:

At Long, Long Last, May the Truth be Heard

Keith is angry and shaken when he discovers something by accident about Lance that he never saw coming. Hurt, he shoots from the hip—a move that forces him to finally talk about his past and reveal the painful truths he's been keeping secret for far too long.

If you need a refresher, I wrote a recap in the author's notes at the beginning, lol! I realised it's been a while 😶

I know this part of the story is something people have been waiting patiently to find out, so I hope y'all enjoy it 🙂

Let me know how you feel about it after!

[sarafroot]

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