5 Years of Voltron Mini Bang

A Found Family celebration of Voltron: Legendary Defender. Follow us on Twitter @5yearsofvld!

[fiveyearsofvld]

5 YEARS OF VOLTRON PROMPT WEEK

From June 6th-June 10th, celebrate the heart of Voltron with these prompts leading up to the mini-bang!

Tag us and/or use the hashtags #5YoV #5YearsofVoltron so we can see all your creations and reblog them here!

Prompt List Transcript:

June 6 - Past Family || Family Reunion

June 7 - Canon Compliant || Alternate Universe

June 8 - Minor Character Spotlight

June 9 - Coran Day || Lions Day

June 10 - New Altea || VOLTRON!

[fiveyearsofvld]

The AO3 collection for the 5 Years Of Voltron mini bang is here! Check it out and enjoy all the found family content. Make sure to take a look at all the art created to go along with the fics too!

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

[thewoodsinnewbarktown]

My piece for the @fiveyearsofvld Mini Bang, that’s paired with the fic “Skipping Stones” by @parsio. Can’t believe it’s the 5-year-mark to celebrate the show! 

[spazzcat]

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

Happy five years of VLD, guys! 

Have the fic I wrote for the @fiveyearsofvld mini bang, illustrated by the wonderful @HamsLasagna on Twitter!

[kalytera]

To celebrate five years since Voltron premiered, I was partnered with @ItsBrinx (Twitter) for the @fiveyearsofvld mini bang and I got to draw this funny scene from her fic “A Memory’s Calling”. Be sure to check it out on ao3 (@Brinx) if amnesia/found family/Keith whump/established Klance are your tropes!

[thewingsofvoltron]

I've just posted my fic for the 5 Years of Voltron Mini Bang!

Here it is, it's called lonely together and I'm really proud of this one because it took a lot of hard work and dedication in the midst of preparing for exams but I did it!

My partner was @doodlelight who is a gem! Their art is so brilliant, everyone take a look!

I hope you guys enjoy the fic and the art ❤

@fiveyearsofvld

[aucatgirl]

Today’s five years since VLD’s premiere!! This is my piece for @fiveyearsofvld. I was partnered with @quintessenceofdust73, and got to draw a really cute scene from her fanfic Defenders of the Multiverse 🥰

[the-lightning-strikes-again]

A Collaboration to Celebrate the Five Years of VLD Mini Bang

Hi, all! June 10, 2021 is the five-year anniversary of Voltron: Legendary Defender first airing on Netflix. To celebrate, I joined the Five Years of VLD Mini Bang and had the privilege of collaborating with the wonderful and illustrious artist, @cieltee22. They developed a super fun and amazing artwork to align with my story! It was great working with them on this project! 

The Merry Misadventures of Voltron’s Five Original Paladins

Story Summary: It’s been many quintants since Alfor, Zarkon, Trigel, Gyrgan, and Blaytz agreed to a galactic alliance. Alfor has taken to recording their adventures as part of an ongoing status report to his vassals. In doing so, he reveals that the galaxy’s most fearsome leaders have some terribly mundane quirks and weaknesses, and that their warrior’s bond is transforming into…friendship? Rated T.

Please check out Cieltee’s associated artwork here: https://cieltee22.tumblr.com/post/653622389179056128/hello-in-celebration-of-voltron-legendary

You can read my story here on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31862188

Happy Five Years of VLD, all! Please follow the blog below for more content and updates regarding other collaborations!

@fiveyearsofvld

[cieltee22]

Hello! In celebration of Voltron Legendary Defenders being 5 years old, I was invited to partake in a mini-bang over on Twitter. For the mini-bang, I was partnered with Lightning_Strikes_Again over on AO3 to come up with an illustration that went with their fic, which you can read here. Working with them was such a wonderful experience and we plan to work together on future projects, or at the very least communicate ideas with one another for our own works. Voltron Legendary Defenders has a very special place in my heart, as I had been along the ride for the series since it came out 5 years ago on June 10th, 2016. I love the variety of characters from the show, but I have a special admiration from the Original Paladins of Voltron, who were showcased in a flashback episode that featured how Voltron came about. I would have gladly loved to see a mini-series of the Original Paladins going through their own learning experience of what it means to become a paladin, as well as any shenanigans they may have ended up in. This is why I loved working with Lightning so much, because our combined efforts bring the OG paladins back to life with snapshots of potential misadventures they could have experienced. I highly recommend checking out Lightning’s fic and also check out the tag ‘5YearsOfVoltron’ or '5YoV’ on twitter to see what other contributors to the mini-bang have come up with. Thank you! (Characters depicted above do not belong to me; this is a work of fanart)

@the-lightning-strikes-again @fiveyearsofvld

[quintessenceofdust73]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31663769/chapters/78362156

Defenders of the Multiverse Chapter 1.

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

@fiveyearsofvld @aucatgirl made a great illustration for this story.

❤️💖💛💙💚

[qalisto]

read more here

for the prompt "alternative universe" of @fiveyearsofvld

[aucatgirl]

@fiveyearsofvld countdown: past family

[fiveyearsofvld]

OP are you okay? I think apps were still open for a while past the deadline so I thought maybe something came up for you?

This past weekend did get away from me quite a bit, but I’ve just gotten all the assignments sent out. Thanks for checking in!

[fiveyearsofvld]

I don’t think y’all sent me who my partner is? I haven’t seen this blog show active green either. Is everything okay?

Assignments were just sent out! Check your Discord friend requests for someone named Dee!

[fiveyearsofvld]

Have the last assignments been sent because I haven’t received any yet?

All assignments have been sent out as of just now! My apologies for the late answers, this weekend got away from me. Some people I could not contact via the socials they provided, so if you have not received a message about your assignment today, please check your Discord friend requests! If there is one from Dee, accept it - that’s me! 

[fiveyearsofvld]

Since the app deadline got extended, does that mean assignments will also be late to arrive? Or will we still get them on the 30th?

We’ll have them sent out tomorrow, the 1st! Just one day late.

[fiveyearsofvld]

Sign-Ups Open for the 5 Years of VLD Mini Bang!

This June is the fifth anniversary of Voltron: Legendary Defender’s season one. To celebrate, we’re hosting a Mini Bang themed after the core of Voltron: Found Family!

What is a Mini Bang, you ask? A mini bang is a derivation of a Big Bang, which is defined by fanlore.org as “a specific type of challenge usually involving long fics and accompanying artwork.” In this challenge, writers and artists will be paired together to create content that tells one story–so the writer will write a fic, and the artist will illustrate a scene/scenes from that fic. Because this is a Mini Bang, the minimum wordcount is smaller than what you would normally find in a Big Bang!

Rules:

Open to both writers and artists ages 15+

Sign up by April 28, complete your piece by May 30; everything will be posted on June 10!

Fic specs: A completed fic must be at least 5k in length and up to 10k (longer fics are allowed, but make sure to communicate with your artist/beta in advance to ensure that they’re willing to read/create for a longer fic). The fic must be proofread/beta’d, either by someone of your choice or one of the betas who have kindly volunteered to look over fics in our Discord server. The focus of the fic must be on found family.

Art specs: A completed art piece must be fully colored with at least a simple background, and must illustrate a scene from the fic you’ve been paired with.

Writer Sign Ups: https://forms.gle/1dzXwCdfP1Z9ZtvFA 

Artist Sign Ups: https://forms.gle/Zj76jkTwt8auQTPs7 

Sign ups are open as of today, and will remain open until the end of the month. We invite both artists and writers to sign up! Please read through our FAQ and Schedule before you sign up if you have any questions.

Thank you all for your interest! We’re so excited to host this event and to see all the found family content that comes out of it! As always, we greatly appreciate reblogs to help spread the word. 

[fiveyearsofvld]

Tomorrow is the last day to sign up for this event!