Spacepossum

he/him

[ronihilator]

I will fall in love with you, over and over again

i see a lot of cosmic klance and i raise u COSMIC ADASHI

alternative bg bc i cant decide ;p

[rugbin]

Shiro fan art dump (ignore the ever changing art style)

[rugbin]

Shiro vs Haggar Fanart

[queenoftheantz]

i long for tv paint… but it was nice to animate a little! ALSO! first voltron art ever!

[kismetconstellations]

It would be infinitely more respectable if K/L shippers dropped the charade and just admitted that they hate Shiro and Allura because they perceive them as obstacles that stood in the way of their ship becoming canon.

"Shiro", a gay, disabled trauma survivor, "should have stayed dead for the sake of the story, and Allura," a teenaged genocide survivor, "killing herself made sense for her character. I still love both of them, though!"

How do they go about showing this supposed "love"?

-Deliberately sidelining Shiro and Allura and reducing their significance in both interpersonal relationships and the series's overall narrative

-Claiming that Shiro and Allura's manipulative douchebag exes were their One True Loves, and they could only ever be happy in endgame relationships with them

-Ignoring the overt hatred that the executive producers demonstrated for both characters to argue that they (the K/L shippers) and their Fandom Darlings, one of whom was a blatant Creator's Pet, were "done dirty" by the show's staff, because they didn't get to see a toxic fetish pairing profess completely fictitious and mass-hallucinated "love" for each other and make-out onscreen And

-Describing Shiro's arm- the piece of soulless tech grafted irremovably onto his person to force him to mirror his personal tormentor- as his "legacy", and Allura's suicide, the end product of her succumbing to depression and being backed into a corner with no other choice but to sacrifice herself to undo the damage that someone else had done, as "beautiful" and "transcendent".

If this is how K/L shippers treat characters that they "love", I don't want to imagine how they treat the characters they hate.

[bosstoaster]

Shiro-centric Gen Whump and Hurt/Comfort Fics

If you’re looking for Shiro getting his ass handed to him, physically or emotionally, here’s your one stop shop.  Bolded fics are series which have heavy whump and H/C themes, to save me from having to link every single one.

I apologize for the length, but read mores break, both on mobile and if something happens.  Just hit J to skip it if this isn’t your bag.

Let the Spectrum In A series of Five Things, all Shiro-centric.  Every single one has at least some angst and H/C elements.  They can be picked up in any order until part four, at which point they do need to be read in sequential order.  The Crown Jewel of the series is Beast You’ve Made of Me, in which Shiro is forced to take on the role of Champion again by a potentially powerful ally. 

If I Can Live Through This There are some problems Shiro can’t go to the team for, for a variety of reasons.  But for those times, there’s Sam and Matt.  A direct sequel to Beast You’ve Made of Me

Just What You Want 5 times Shiro got hugged by the team.  A non-canon part of Spectrum Verse, though it doesn’t come up until the last chapter.

Like Forgetting The Words 5 times Shiro forgot about his metal arm, and one time he was comfortable remembering

Drown Out Your Mind Continuation from Chapter 4 of Like Forgetting The Words.  Shiro is sick. Very, very sick. The team tries to help.

Ten Years On When Shiro steps out of his lion after the final battle with Zarkon, something is off.  Seems like he missed something.   Ten years of it.

Spark to Ignite Shiro wakes up in the dark.  He is alone.

Light it Up After the events of Spark to Ignite, Shiro picks up the pieces.

Shook the Bones of Me Little things begin to add up, until Shiro is forced to face another change about himself.

Don’t Let’s Start Since Shiro returned, something has been… off about him. But he deals with it, just like he’s dealt with everything else. Until the problems begin to build.

A Season 4 response fic.  Focuses heavily on Kuron, Shiro, and their respective baggage.  The first, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth fics are all sick fics, H/C, or whump heavy.

Get Down with the Sickness Catching space colds is nothing new to Shiro. But this particular bug is nasty and especially contagious. The answer: Quarantine

Calls Me On and On Shiro: Then and now.  A character study.

Rebuild all your Ruins There are consequences to Shiro’s refusal to kill. Pain hasn’t worked on him so far, but another tactic might.

Note: Mind the tags on this one.

All The World Will Be Your Enemy All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed. -Richard Adams

Shiro escapes the Galra earlier this time, and the Garrison take him away before Keith can break him free.  Canon AU.

Take These Broken Wings When Shiro disappears, the Black Lion goes dead, the team struggles under the new understanding of what it means to fight a war, and changes in leadership. Stepping into the position is difficult, and Keith doesn’t know the right answers. But then they hear a radio transmission about the return of the Champion.

Season 2 response fic.  Written for a big bang. Keith POV.

Kiss from a Rose 5 times Shiro got kisses from the team, and one time he returned them 

Must Surely Be Learning 5 things Shiro learned, and one thing he’s still getting the hang of.

Giggle at a Funeral Stranded and wounded on a planet, Shiro is bleeding out.  Luckily, he can still contact his team.  Unluckily, he’s well enough to talk at them.

Keep Your Head Down Low Based on these two posts.  Zarkon has betrayed the Paladins and broken the Galra away from the alliance with the Alteans.  The young Paladins-in-training deal with the consequences, especially the Black Paladin-to-be.

Dark Necessities Sometimes, the choices are easy.  This is not one of those times.  

Shiro knew what he was agreeing to when he became their leader. It doesn’t make those calls easier.

Take Only What You Need By now, the team knows that if it’s anything less than debilitating, Shiro won’t admit to being sick.  But they help anyway.

Feeling Like a Ghost Fills for Shiro Week 2016

Day One: Dorks on the Kerberos Mission Day Two: Even gladiator fights are never simple Day Three: Fake it till you make it (when ‘it’ is constellations) Day Four: When Shiro’s down for the count, he’s not alone Day Five: There’s more to the connection between Paladin and Lion than Shiro knows Day Six: Snow Day Day Seven: Winter Soldier AU

[drsarcasticraspberry]

Shiro Meta: “I want you to lead Voltron”

So a lot of people have been talking about why Shiro chose Keith to lead Voltron if anything happened to him. I’ve seen this attributed to Shiro’s favouritism or bias towards Keith, but I have another take on things: Shiro’s choice of Keith as his successor reflects his own insecurities about his suitability as leader.

We know Shiro harbours serious doubts about his ability to lead Voltron. In 1x09 Shiro hears Sendak’s voice in his head telling him “Did you really think a monster like you could be a Voltron Paladin?” And in 2x03 when Allura tells him: “You are the Black Paladin now, not Zarkon,” Shiro disagrees: “Yeah, well - the Black Lion may have a different take on the matter.”

See this? This is the face of a man who fully expects to get spat out of his Lion again at any moment. (If you want a really long and interesting meta about Shiro’s relationship with the Black Lion following the S1 finale, read {it’s all about trust} by @headspacedad)

Coming out of that battle with Zarkon in 1x11, Shiro no longer knows if the Black Lion trusts him, or if he can trust her. And it’s easy to see why: the Black Lion forcibly ejected him from the cockpit in the middle of battle. He thought they’d bonded; now it seems like they haven’t.

{relationship status: IT’S COMPLICATED}

But his insecurities go deeper than that: during that climactic battle at the end of season 1, not only was Shiro ejected from his own Lion, he also had a full-blown panic attack onboard the Galra ship and had to be rescued by Hunk and Allura. Allura - the person he’d come to rescue in the first place - ended up saving him.

Right after this battle, an injured Shiro crash-lands on an alien planet and tells Keith: “If I don’t make it out of here - I want you to lead Voltron.” And it’s not just because he’s injured. He thinks he’s failed as a leader. And in that moment, he probably fully expects the Black Lion to reject him again. Or maybe he expects Allura to take him aside and just quietly tell him “Look, it’s not working out. We need to pick someone else as the Black Paladin.” Because how can you lead Voltron if you can’t even keep control of your own Lion? How can you lead Voltron if you panic in the middle of battle?

For the record: I think Shiro is DEAD WRONG and he’s an amazing leader and I have so many feelings about how great Shiro is and what it means to see a mentally ill character in a leadership role but I DIGRESS. The point is: Shiro spends much of season 2 battling his own feelings of inadequacy about his position as Black Paladin.

Shiro’s line that “The Black Lion may have a different take on the matter” reflects his own belief that the Black Lion doesn’t want him as a Paladin. He thinks she’d rather have someone else - someone who’s less of a walking disaster. And again: I really don’t think she does, and I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about this that I will probably write up at some point, but that’s not the point. The point is Shiro firmly believes that he’s not good enough to be the Black Paladin, and that the Black Lion would rather be piloted by someone else.

Someone like Keith.

Remember that battle at the end of season 1? Whilst Shiro was getting spat out of the Lion and having a panic attack, Keith was doing this:

Yep, just casually taking on Zarkon one-on-one, without hesitation. Not only does Keith intervene to save the Black Lion from Zarkon’s grasp - he also fights Zarkon head-to-head, repeatedly charging back into the attack with no regard for his own safety.

Shiro must have seen and heard this and thought: “That’s the kind of Paladin the Black Lion deserves. That’s the kind of Paladin she wants.” A brave and decisive leader, not a hot mess. Someone who’ll charge at Zarkon head-first; who can keep it together in the midst of battle. Shiro thinks he should have been the one battling Zarkon, not Keith. As Black Paladin and leader of Voltron, he should have been the one to charge at Zarkon and try and take him down. Instead, he was having a panic attack, and Keith was the one who stepped up.

Shiro chooses Keith to be the next leader of Voltron because he thinks Keith is the kind of leader Voltron needs, and the kind of Paladin the Black Lion deserves.

It doesn’t particularly matter that this choice doesn’t make a lot of sense, or that the team might be better off with a more cool-headed and thoughtful leader. This is not a rational decision on Shiro’s part. It’s a decision rooted in his own insecurities. His decision-making is flawed: not because of bias or favouritism, but because of his own sense of inadequacy. He looks at Keith and sees someone who will take on Zarkon without hesitation. He looks at himself and sees a failure. And he concludes that Keith is the kind of Paladin the Black Lion wants - that she would rather have Keith than him.

And the Black Lion spends most of season 2 proving him wrong, but that’s a meta for another day.

(thank you @bentfire for the screencaps btw)

[rou-tan-tan]

Sooooooo I haven’t used my tumblr much in a long time but I’ve fallen into Voltron hell so here’s a bunch of them. Follow me at (@rou_tan_tan) on twitter to see more posts. Idk if I’ll be back to tumblr much.

[bonkalore]

Oh yeah! I had these last month or something… forgot to post even after scanning.

Was good getting some nice Monster!Shiro in again~ I wanted to get him in his usual clothes and paladin suit (tho I didn’t finish the page with the normal clothes…). Though he has his own conscious back he still has some monstery tendencies that he doesn’t always quite notice at first, but everyone else generally does… Most of them get used to it after a while and don’t mind tho.

Also have the headcanon that the paladin suits can adjust to the size and shapes of their user (considering the black paladin before was freakin Zarkon…), much like how the Altean anatomy seems to be with being able to change as well. Would make sense.

[elizamgarts]

Art summary of 2024

I think I improved a lot but I love each of these

[interstellarstowaway]

Hey! First little Adam/Shiro drabble that I’m posting. Pre-Kerberos flight gone wrong type of stuff. Also, fun fact, Naval Pilots have a higher heart rate during a carrier landing than in combat!

Hangar’s Half Empty

The sound of metal on metal fills my ears, probably imagined. The tension in my hand, from trying to maintain glide without an engine, makes it feel like I’m still behind the controls. The swell of the ocean in the throws of a storm still seems to fill my vision. The static of the radio undercuts everything, with a familiar voice on the other end of the line coaching me through a carrier landing. “Shiro…you’re shaking,”

Adam’s voice tunes me back in to reality, and the fact he’s holding my hands. I can barely keep them still against the tremors. “Won’t tell the flight surgeon, will you?”

My attempt to break the tension falls flat.

“Takashi, you’re okay. You landed safe, the plane is intact enough where it will probably just be filed as an incident. It’s okay,”

I feel the tell-tale sting of tears. I barely manage to turn-key what I’m thinking into English. “I…I could have lost you. I could have bailed out, drowned, and you would have been left here”

Adam barely hesitates, and then I feel his grip on my hands tighten.“But you didn’t. We’re both safe, and stuck on an aircraft carrier. But we’re safe,”

It’s sheer luck there was a carrier this close, and that I could pull off landing on it without the chance to go around. With a routine transport mission across the Atlantic, nothing was expected to happen. I still can’t wrap my head around how my engine flamed out.

“Adam—that was close. Too damn close. I’m better than that. We’re better than this,”

I don’t even know what I’m saying anymore. It feels like I’m talking to fill the air, to know there’s still oxygen in my lungs and not water.

Adam pulls me into his arms, and I let him. I grip his uniform like a life line. With my chest against his, I finally feel the way my breathing stutters, like I can’t get enough air in. The hot-sting of tears finally overflows, and they land on the shoulder of Adam’s shirt.

I’ve spent the last couple of hours with impeccable posture, trying to turnkey the events from the accident to senior officials. Now, it feels like Adam’s arms are the only thing holding me upright. “No, we’re not. You took the training you had and made the best call you could. Any lesser pilot would be a smoking wreck in the Atlantic right now,”

I tuck my head into the crook of his neck and feel his pulse against my skin. A reminder that I’m even here to feel it. I whisper against his carotid artery, like it can carry the words straight to his heart. “I don’t want to leave you,”

“Then don’t. Fly just like you did today, and stay,”

He runs a soothing hand up my back, and I just want to crumble. Adam keeps talking.

“I’ll always be on your six. Where you go, I go. That includes finishing this mission, and going home. Okay? Neither of us are going home alone. We both made sure of that today,”

I try to say something, anything, but I just choke out a sob. “Adam—fucking hell-,”

He just keeps whispering reassurances, like if he says them enough times they’ll erase what happened only hours before. “You’re okay, it’s safe. You’re here, I’m here, we’re both okay,”

He makes a cramped bunk on an aircraft carrier feel sacred.

I’ve spent my entire life knowing how I’ll die. But all I could think about during the engine failure was Adam opening our apartment door, wearing a set of tags that don’t have his name on them. Alone.

Every other close call or emergency, I’ve fallen back on my training. Wind your watch back once, then get to work. Back before I had the weight of a ring added to my tags.

This is the thought that breaks me?

I feel another wave of panic threatening to pull me under. Yeah, I guess so.

I finally manage to catch my breath.

“I don’t give a damn if we’re at the Garrison or not. Wherever you are is our home,”

I press a kiss to the side of Adam’s neck, and I feel his hold on me tighten. Adam presses a kiss in reply against my hair and mumbles “Right back at you,”.

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Might post either a follow up to this, or one where Shiro comforts Adam after a training accident :)

[utenapilled]

something about being made of stardust

[kismetconstellations]

I want to talk, for just minute, about the amount of self-disparagement in Shiro's statement, here. He's grievously injured, ailing, and trapped in a tiny cave with creatures lurking outside, waiting for their next opportunity to attack him.

Despite this, he's been repeatedly assuring Keith that he's "all right", and inquiring after Keith's well-being whenever he hears Keith struggling over the comms. Then, Keith expresses his belief that Shiro's presence and influence changed his life, and Shiro agrees. On the grounds that he's actively made Keith's life worse.

Keith's response to this extremely concerning assertion?

Nothing. He hears Shiro cough, tells him, "Stay with me, Shiro," and that's it.

This is an example of exactly what I mean when I say that Shiro has no support system. His best and closest friend hears him say something seriously disconcerting while in a state of utmost vulnerability, placing all of the blame for Keith's current predicament on himself, which is objectively not true, and does nothing to refute him. No, "Hey. Stop beating yourself up. We're gonna be just fine". Or, "How could this possibly be on you? Did you purposely eject us from the Castle?". Or even, "When we get out of here, we need to talk about why you feel like you don't matter and something completely out of your control is your fault. It's not like you asked to be here, either."

Maybe I'm expecting too much from a young adult with his own trauma whose interpersonal skills have already been shown to be lacking. I know I expected too much from a team of showrunners who believed that dark content automatically equals mature content, and insisted on shoving as much disturbing subject matter and questionable to outright deplorable messaging as they could manage to get away with into a series aimed at children. Shiro was never meant to heal from his trauma. The intention was to kill him to pave the way for Keith to take his place as The Chosen One.

But, in this fandom's determination to woobify their favorites to the extreme based on said favorites' moments of insecurity, they seem to have forgotten that the most blatantly traumatized member of the cast is the most blatantly traumatized member of the cast. Self-loathing and passive suicidal ideation are every bit as much a part of that as Shiro's flashbacks and the fear-induced paralysis that seizes him when a repressed memory resurfaces from the dark corners of his mind to drag him under. And, he, too, deserved all of the sensitivity, care, and love that they believe their favorites do, which makes it all the more abhorrent that he was repeatedly denied it in this show's canon.

[missaturn1]

I've been having a tough time, but somehow I did manage to finish this beautiful Shiro on the 29 :)

Happy birthday Shiro 💕

[jiveyuncle]

The team revisits some friends on the Frozen Planet 🥰

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I had fun participating in this little freebie digital zine with the KL Renaissance Server. I’m offline in general nowadays, but anytime I popped by, people have been pretty cool there.

If you want to view the rest of the Vapour Trails zine for free, here’s the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZpA76vfmuFPqQI3q3k6GgdM8u6WUggik/view?usp=sharing

And if you want to check out the Klance Renaissance Server, here’s that link: https://discord.gg/m55DrrRX

Hope y’all enjoy 💕

[coranfucker94]

background study :)

[spacepossums]

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