#asterika may

[catsushinyakajima]

Keith stop aurafarming and pay attention to the bowl

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Also I always see you in the comments of fics I end up loving so I am kindly asking for fic recs

Hey….heh…only took me checks watch ten months-I mean minutes…to respond to this…yeah

Luckily I’ve amassed some amazing recs in that time!!

Ongoing Fics (They def will be completed trust):

Stray by bluemantics/@bluemanticism

You’re in for a ride for this fic. That’s what I’m telling you. This fic starts off with a BANG!! It’s crazy the author is sooooo descriptive and it’s one of those fics where every detail counts. I’m sitting here squinting at the screen like it’s gonna give me hints. Crazy.

escape velocity by existwound/@existwound

Fic of the year or something. Sooo much storytelling and emotions and parallels. I feel so moved by this fic. It makes me wanna do push ups (good thing)!! Read it now.

Say Your Piece and Let It Linger by StillKicking/@still--kicking

This fic has TWISTS AND TURNS!! It’s such a cute birthday fic!…but there’s something deeper going on…hmmm….AAAHAHGS. WHAT IS IT I NEED TO KNOWWWWWW!!! <- this is a demonstration of how you feel when you read this fic.

Part Time Soulmate, Full Time Problem by StillKicking/@still--kicking

Oh…what’s this? Recc-ing StillKicking twice in a row? YEAH CUZ THEIR FICS BE BALLING BRO. THEY BE KICKING (did you get the joke). This is like the soulmate fic. Ever. Across alllll fandoms like idc she invented soulmates. And klance. Yeah. Nonchalantly nods.

What’s Your Type, Mullet? by appapapa

Read all of this last nite bc im insane ab it and its sooo good. Slow burn!! SO much yearning. These boys love each other. I’m clicking my heels together and doing a handstand.

Finished Fics:

Runnin' Back To You by theoriginalriffles/@theoriginalriffles

No one should know how many times I reread this fic. This is a post canon beauty idk how the author does it. I’m so so crazy. What the freak. This fic lowk about me the way I be running back to it.

Tangled by KeithyKeefers

What a BEAUTIFUL one shot that peers into lance’s soul with a microscope. I Love soulmate au. I legit can’t say more w/o spoiling my lips are shut go reaaad!

Come Back to Me, Baby by truelovetakesawhile

DO NOT BE DETERRED BY THE MCD this fic is not a tragedy!! Lotta angst but the summary should explain it. Fulfilling and bittersweet ending. Very philosophical fic. Makes you THINK. I love it so dearly.

kiss me thru the phone by dumdum69

This author has the largest vocabulary ever genuinely they themselves might be oxford dictionary. I be dropping everything to read this fic the way the author drops banger bars every other line. And this fic is sooo funny it cracks me the fuck up.

been living in a lonesome galaxy by Katranga/@katranga

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. AAAAAAA-

Love in Motion by Riceisgood123/@riceisgood123

Okay whateva its an ongoing series buuut it has finished parts! That I am OBSESSED with. I think about this fic a little TOO much. Thank you Ella for bringing me enlightenment (dming me this fic).

close to you by hearttpoem/@hearttpoem

This list isn’t complete without a hearttpoem fic! Genuinely the best fluff out there. Makes my heart feel whole. Guess that’s why they call you HEARTtpoem. This fic is just sooooo sweet and like nice and like. I’m literally smiling writing this stop wtf.

Also….there’s this STRANGE author named AsterikaMay…yeah idk her she’s kinda weird but she’s writing A Little Death, where Keith gets really sick and hallucinates and needs Lance to feel better (she’s such a freak omg), and she’s also writing No Place is Home, where Lance comes home from the war to find out his twin sister Rachel is dead. Yeah…heard she’s finishing these fics…

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escape velocity by @existwound

Let’s pretend i didn’t forget to post this yesterday. Its okay May 8th is also an auspicious day.

Thank you to @starsoupart for helping me with this u get 15% of my salary every year

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Moments before collision…

Congrats on 300 Phoebe! This was supposed to be done a month ago but I got nerfed by finals. I’m so glad we’re friends yay!! @the-fandom-phantom

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A Little Death by AsterikaMay | 87.2k (5/5) | Klance | Keith centric | hurt/comfort

A Blade mission goes astray when Keith has an unfortunate run-in with a druid. He falls sick soon after, and is handed into Voltron’s care until he recovers. While he’s there, he contemplates his place in the universe, the depth of his illness and its mysterious connection to Lance, and why he’s not getting better.

completed

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Headcanons for Krolia that are suspiciously thought out enough to imply that this is all I think about:

She grew up in a Galran colony. Her father was the chairman of defense for the colony and her mom was a retired sergeant turned military drill instructor. She had an older brother in the army. So a very nuclear, patriotic family. She was close with her family.

She had aspirations to be a military engineer as a young girl and enjoyed playing outside. She had a childhood best friend named Yorak.

She'd frequently play with the native children of the planet she resided on. It is because of this that she stumbled across a secret murder/trafficking scene led by one of her father's colleagues (I have the lore thought out but its too long for this post). Because she's young, unhinged, and angry, she blows up his office. This consequently kills the man and she runs away from home.

Thus Krolia has begun her independent rebellion against the Galra, which consisted of stealing weapons and going around blowing things up. She's eventually caught and interrogated by the Blades.

She joins the blades as she does not believe she can go back and she has so much anger in her heart.

I'd like to believe that Krolia was a very angry teenager, and that it'd be enough to blind her and make her do some regretful things.

Prior to the Galra capturing the Red Lion, I'd also like to believe that she was a firm disbeliever of Voltron. Krolia would look down on it as a child's tale and a coping mechanism for people who wanteed an excuse not to fight their hardest. She believed that no one was going to save them and that they would die in the war.

The Empire and the Blades located the Red Lion at the same time. Krolia is on the mission to retrieve it, and due to her going back to save a wounded Blade member, they fail the mission and nearly die. The Red Lion saves Krolia's life (wierd lion magic that transcends time and carries Keiths sentiments from the future idk) but then gets captured by the Galra.

Krolia spends the rest of her pre-Earth time searching for the other Lions.

During this time, she runs into her brother on a mission as he is a Galran soldier. He tells her that their dad fell ill while searching for her and died. They fight each other and he dies (parallel to Keith fighting shiro but ending differently)

After betraying her empire and also being seen as an enemy anywhere else due to her race, Krolia didn't believe there was a single planet in the universe she could call home. This is why she was so surprised to find Earth.

Texas Kogane and Keith were sincerely enough to reconsider her place in the universe as a soldier. Unfortunately the war had other plans.

Having a family on Earth shifted her mentality away from "defeating the Galra" and towards "defending the universe."

Krolia threw herself into work to cope with leaving her family behind.

Her mom dies of loneliness and Krolia doesn't find out till years after when that colony is liberated.

She dedicated a whole lot of blade work towards keeping Earth safe and away from the war.

okay that's enough for now! Lmk if yall want more or send me asks about it idk

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Asterika's Spring Sem fic recs!

The Promise by drschnz | 67.6k | College AU | Summer Vacation

Gets into Keith's anxiety and paranoia soooo well. You see how his problems cause problems and how his fears and actions are percieved by others and atdghdhdd. Beach house fic on top. Sooo much build up with such a satisfying confrontation. Loved it.

Bang by vanitashaze | 18.9k | Smut | Autism/ADHD

Holy shit you guys. First off, the author has the funniest language ever, they write totally the way Lance would think. Second off, this fic addresses ideas like consent, body image, capabilities of enforcing boundaries, and self-respect so well! This is fully a smut, but it's a very autistic smut (smut between autistic people, focuses more of the autism). So fucking realistic and good.

Part Time Soulmate, Full Time Problem by StillKicking/@still--kicking | 54.8k+ | Soulmate AU | Canon-Compliant

THIS FIC IS SO ARGHH! Soulmate au with both POVs?? Sign me tf up. Love seeing how they affect each other and how they think the other perceives them (only to be dead wrong). There is sooo much teamwork in this (CUZ THEY MAKE A GOOD TEAM AND THE AUTHOR KNOWS IT). This fic is beyond beautiful and I'm so excited to see where it goes.

Walk With Me by bluemantics/@bluemantics | 15.7k+ (2/3) | Post-Canon | Mutual Pining

Post canon Klance...dumbasses Klance...WHAT MORE CAN I SAY? These folks got their baggage they refuse to talk about and a bunch of unsaid romance and background adashi im dead. im dead. Im on the floor.THEY JUST GET EACH OTHER!!

love me to my bones (all this time) by ShatterinSeconds/@shatterinseconds | 8k | Post-Canon | Ace!Keith

So any ace fic at all deserves to be put in the hall of fame, but an ace fic from the allosexual POV? AUGH! It's so indulgent to see Lance talk about Keith so respectfully and love him and try his best. And he's never giving up anything to stay with Keith. Also they're dumbasses.

Grin and Bear It by loadingboy/@loadingboy | 192k+ | Brainwashing | Heavy Angst with an eventual comfort

So no list of mine is complete without a fic that induces psychological warfare on the mind. you guys. I read 10 chaps of this fic in four hours. That's how into it I got. I got sooo much tension reading this. Zack is the king of pacing a story. You always recieve snippets of information, but never the full picture, and I ALWAYS WANT MOREEEE. The parts that hurt hurt soo much and the parts that are normal somehow hurt too! I'm not a very emotional reader, but if you are, you will cry reading this EL O EL

vicodin on sunday nights by lykak | 118k | High school AU | Homophobia

You guys. This is the real enemies to lovers. Like! ARGH, Lance has sooo many issues it's not even funny and Keith's existence hurts him it's not even a rival thing. And somehow something beautiful blossoms out of it. Lots of fights, realizations, bonds being made, so much! Truly shows the ups and downs of a closeted high school jock.

been living in a lonesome galaxy by Katranga | 25.1k+ (4/5) | College AU | Friends with Benefits

If someone tells you I have over twenty rereads of this fic no I fucking don't definitely not! Ha! Haha...but fr. This is one of my FAV college aus. First off: Love autistic keith. LOVE HIM. Love Keith and Lance being good for each other. Every interaction with them is so cute. Indescribably so. And Keith, this guy is navigating through so many life issues! People do him dirty smh. I LOVE THIS FIC!!

kick at the darkness by ilgaksu | 61.2k | Dirty Dancing AU | 1960s US issues

I fucking love learning things from a fic. Actual educational fic. Love an author who knows things, so much things, to the point that the fic is deadly accurate. Also, the prose is insane. Beautiful. This fic deals with real life issues during the 1960s in US. We see issues with money, power, race, gender, sexuality, etc. It's all explored. Also...dirty dancing au!

I'd Love to See Me From Your Point of View (For All of My Pretty and All of My Ugly, Too) by mothmanavenue/@mothmanavenue | 5.9k | Fluff | Pining

So much fucking pining. Lance is so down bad. Almost as down bad as I am for this fic. God, they're so cute. They're so couple-y. We really see how Keith makes Lance feel cared for. Ykw, I'm actually about to go reread this NOW. PEACE YALL.

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tw// death (not mega angsty it's like old age stuff. more melancholy than sad) klance old man yaoi

Keith dies first of the two of them.

The death does not come as a surprise to Lance. Someone has to go first, after all. The whole lot of them have been taking turns to die like they’re picking straws from a cup. They’ve reached the top of the escarpment after a long and arduous climb up the steep slope. Lance watches his friends and family take the plummet one by one with his toes at the edge of the drop.

He understands this truth very well—the fixed and irreversible notion of death—far more than the other engraved truth of birth and creation. It has meticulously woven itself into Lance’s shadow and lurked two steps behind him at all times, even well after the war ended.

Still, Lance hadn’t expected it to lunge forward and snatch Keith first.

From the blast that excoriated half of his back to the shock that rendered his heartbeat momentarily still, Lance had always been closer to death. War had branded him with more stamps of violence than necessary. Four fingers chomped off of one palm—at that point, just take the whole hand away. Emphysema for the lungs after all the smoke he’s ever inhaled and tendinitis from all that gun handling he’s done. And then there’s all the other conditions that come with being a human, the silly ones that Lance had never thought to consider during his prime. Diabetes, high blood pressure, migraines, foggy vision. Keith was a lucky one—he never had to deal with such things. Curse his undefeatable genes.

Keith died quietly, at least. Nothing like those rowdy days where he swooped around searching for pernicious battles to strike him down. Not at all. He simply laid down one night to sleep, next to Lance as he always had, and then never woke up. He passed right there, sometime during the creeping hours of the night. In one moment Keith had taken a deep, slumbering breath in and in the next, he didn’t. Never again would he do so. It was a peaceful death for a boy who was once a soldier. In Lance’s opinion, it was the kindest way he could go.

There were no memorable last words. Hell, Lance hardly remembers what he had for dinner the night before. They talked as they always had. Laughed as they always had. The friendly routine of their banter followed them up until the very end.

Lance misses him already.

He weeps quietly after the funeral—the real one where they buried Keith’s body in the same plot as his parents rather than the internationally broadcasted event. Lance cries into his stubby hands while Pidge sits nearby and smokes a cigarette. They’ve both got respiratory illnesses—Pidge has fucking lung cancer, but neither he nor Shiro’s daughter, a well-aged woman, tell her off. They and Coran are the only members of Voltron in attendance at the funeral.

Lance misses him so much. He finds that when he’s all alone in their big house with no job to keep him busy and a piloting license he’s well grown out of, he’s lonely. His daughter and her children come by, and he lets himself be strong, probably for the last time, in front of her. She’s distraught—even at fifty, she’s had Keith for far less time than he has. Lance holds her wrinkling hands on top of the kitchen counter and tells her encouraging words while pretending that Keith is next to him, speaking along.

He misses Keith’s leery sense of humor that didn’t particularly make sense. He misses his rigorous training schedule and he misses that era in their late forties where they decided to explore as much of Earth as they have of space. He misses seeing him at the altar. Lance craves Keith’s presence like a lung or a heart; he constantly wanders into rooms in hopes that he’ll stumble across his husband. Having him for seventy years wasn’t enough. Lance wants more. He can’t believe it’s over.

Simultaneously, this is the only way he’d be okay with letting go of Keith. The currents sweeping him away were calm and gentle. There were no storms, high tides, or downpours. Just a lulling river drifting Keith sweetly, softly. To die of old age in a home he called his own, in a warm bed next to someone he loves, with the rest of his heart only a call or flight away—there was no other end that a darling boy like Keith deserved.

Lance will follow quickly after. He knows. What more is there to do at eighty-four? He’s already accomplished his whole bucket list. Maybe he’ll pick up a minute hobby. Bug Pidge and Silvio into a rubbish knitting club. Something to keep him busy until his time comes too.

How cyclical it is, for them to die in this order. For Lance to chase Keith into death just like he chased him into space. They’ve met and parted in the same manner. It’s just like them.

Lance doesn’t know where death will take them. Maybe they’ll reunite. Maybe they’ll restart, quietly and steadily, like a slowly rising dawn. Or maybe they’ll turn into the stars, just like Allura had. The world will continue spinning and the universe will expand ever so slightly, with two stars twinkling in a little corner.