#jaja-han

[dracosh50]

An art collaboration with @jaja-han!! What a wonderful Shiro to give a Keith to 💕💕💕They're both happy and getting some rest!! it was a real pleasure to collab with you let's do that again soon 💕💕💕

[akaiikowrites]

what is,,, kees family like,,, 👀👀👀👀 hoho

krolia

grew up north of the arctic circle in alaska and probably fought a polar bear once. one of the first women in combat infantry back in the 80s. the pta lives in mortal fear of her. get on her fucking level.

owns a local boxing gym where all the Real Fighters™ go and regularly wipes the floor with every single member.

married her darling ‘tex’ when she was stationed at hood and proceeded to haul her cowboy to all the worst army posts which he was a very good sport about and she loved him for that.

ongoing feud with the neighbors over her tendency to do yardwork in her old army shirts (with the sleeves and half the sides cut off for maximum ventilation) but she don’t give a fuck.

source of Gay Awakening™ for nine girls and counting.

keith comes out to her when he’s thirteen and he’s incredibly nervous but krolia’s eyes just go big and shiny and she clasps her hands together and whispers, “my baby’s gonna be a debutante.”

unironically polishes her shotgun out on the front porch when shiro comes to pick kee up for their first date. casually mentions that she’s got hundreds of acres of national park at her back and diplomatic immunity in three countries. have fun kids, and be back by 10!

it’s okay tho she warms up to shiro the first time she comes home to find kee icing shiro’s knuckles in their kitchen.

krolia: what happened.

kee: someone was a dick, that’s all.

krolia: again? i’m going to call that damn vice principal and -

shiro: was. i took care of it.

krolia: …good man.

the blades are her old infantry buddies who’re basically her family now and she’s the home base for all of them because she’s got the kid. she enjoys the scandal of having a different man (or men) living her in house every other week. fuck the neighbors.

uncle kolivan

super gruff former infantryman and it shows. approx 6′9″ and built like a brick shithouse. no fashion sense now that he can’t wear his bdus every day. fear him.

used to be in charge of the blades back in the day and still the de facto commander of their ragtag found family.

in a weird number of kee’s baby pictures on account of really wanting to hold baby!kee all the time and tbh that never really stopped catch local terrifying veteran lifting his niece off the ground with hugs.

tbqh kee has him wrapped around her little finger. he can deny her nothing and there’s a cherry red motorbike in his garage to prove it.

gives shiro a Don’t You Dare Hurt Her Talk™ that goes down in the Top Five Don’t You Dare Hurt Her Talks™ of history it’s truly inspiring and a testament to shiro’s willpower that he didn’t die of fear on the spot.

uncle thace

the deadpan snarker uncle with Opinions™.

used to pick kee up from school pretty regularly and at least half the student population is still mourning his absence now that kee gets rides home with shiro.

really proud of his facial hair now that he’s allowed to have it. refuses to be seen in public if his goatee ain’t on point.

otherwise kind of a disaster he’s basically coasting through the dating scene on the force of his facial hair, cheekbones, and that one pair of jeans he’s got that really highlights his great ass.

has seen some shit.

only one of the blades who still has to attend therapy but it’s cool. he goes to the va at the same time kee goes to the counselor and afterwards they go to the boardwalk for ice cream.

doesn’t give shiro a Talk™ because krolia and kolivan already beat him to it. instead tells shiro in excruciating detail all the ways kee knows how to curbstomp shiro if the need should ever arise.

shiro: b-baby…can you really shiv me with a nail file?

kee, casually filing nails: yeah, of course, why?

uncle ulaz

the medic who really wishes he’d gone into the air force instead because god damn but secretly he loves his infantry dumbasses.

gets wine drunk at blade reunions and starts recounting all the questionable medical procedures he’s had to do on his fellow blades and it’s hilarious as fuck especially when he gets to the time he had to stitch up kolivan’s ass after a mishap at the gun range.

is actually on shiro’s side and tries to give shiro pointers for how to “infiltrate” the blades during the annual thanksgiving reunion. it happens while they’re ducked behind a bush hiding from the other blades who are currently trying to hunt shiro down to throw him in the lake.

shiro: not that i’m not grateful for this, but…why?

ulaz, amused but also longsuffering: you make kee genuinely happy and i believe in you. now go.

gallows humor for days.

eventually gives shiro the “secret coordinates” to the basement where all the blades hang out after thanksgiving dinner to swap stories of the glory days and watch the big game.

kolivan: really, ulaz, right in front of my beer?

uncle antok

lives out in the middle of nowhere but comes around regularly for the reunions. might be a professional cryptid.

never says anything to shiro, just makes super deliberate eye contact and then rips open a turkey’s rib cage with his bare hands.

[courtesy of @jaja-han] it seems like that might not get the point across enough, so he makes it his duty to find phallic food and break it while shiro watches in thinly veiled horror.

the other blades find this hilarious and help by giving antok more foods that are appropriately shaped.

eventually there’s a bonding moment when shiro gives antok a squash and antok gives him the world’s tiniest head nod of approval before fucking obliterating the squash into orange paste.

after the thanksgiving reunion he disappears back into the woods until christmas he might literally be bigfoot idek.

[wicoppi]

I’ve Got a Date with a Squirrel

Inspired by this and this

Keith, Hunk, and Lance all work at the local library. Keith shouldn’t be trusted alone, Lance is filled with contempt, Hunk is the only one who actually does his job, and Pidge is a closet enabler. 

Hunk is generally regarded as the best worker only because he keeps his head down and actually gets work done. 

Keith really shouldn’t be trusted alone with books. He only took this job because it meant he would get paid to read. His new mission in life is to read every book in the building. He’s found the perfect corner to camp in- no one EVER visits the astrophysics section. 

Lance isn’t good at the job he’s paid to do, but he’s really good with the kids. He reads to them and helps them find cool new books. He’s even got a little side-gig going where he tutors some of the kids. 

Allura is the Chief Librarian who mostly stays holed up in her office surrounded by paperwork. 

There’s a small park tucked away behind the library. Keith likes to eat his lunch on one of the benches when the weather is nice. He accidentally made friends with a squirrel and they’re buds for life now. Keith even makes sure to pack a little extra food for it. 

Lance joined Keith for lunch one day but ran screaming back to the library when the squirrel showed up. Something about childhood trauma from when his sister tried to adopt a baby squirrel. When Keith returned from lunch he found Hunk making squirrel noises at Lance through the bathroom door- “Squeaky, uh, squeak squeaker squeakin’.”

When it rains, Keith eats his lunch at the book return while he sorts through the day’s stack. But he’s still got a date. The squirrel manages to find Keith and is let in through the book drop drawer. 

Lance reaches his wits end the day he finds that squirrel perched on a copy of The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe reaching for a piece of food from Keith’s hand. 

Thus begins the Library Memo’s- “No Wild Animals Permitted Inside Library” | “Lunch Breaks Must Be Taken In Staff Breakroom Or Off Property” | “All Staff Must Wash Their Hands Before Returning To Work Lest They Contaminate The Library With Squirrel Rabies”

Pidge runs tech for the library. Lance roped her into helping him make the memos because he’s convinced the machines hate him- “Lance, it’s literally just a word doc on a letter sheet of paper. Pick a font, hit ‘ctrl+P’, and leave me alone.” 

But she secretly loves helping him with the signs. Pidge may have created an instagram account dedicated to the library shenanigans. It’s a weird sort of propaganda but it actually keeps people invested in the library. 

Meanwhile, Shiro is a suffering grad student in need of a thesis muse. 

He’s honestly not even sure how he ended up in the program. All he knows is he joined the astrophysics club as a sophomore in undergrad, Matt started talking to him one day, and the next thing he knows, Shiro is drowning in papers and student debt send help please.

Shiro is really at a loss with his thesis and he’s running out of time to come up with a topic. He’s already exhausted the campus library and this strange community library is his last hope. 

After some poor directions from Allura and clarification from Hunk, Shiro manages to find the section he’s looking for: Astrophysics. Que the dramatic sigh as he stares into the void otherwise known as a wall of books hoping for any glimmer of inspiration. 

Keith, setting his current read on the pile of books in the corner- “Did you come for the view or do you need help finding something?” | Shiro- “Yea actually, a thesis topic and a will to live would be nice.” 

After a bit of snarking, actual conversation, and the hunt for a ladder to reach the top shelf (”really after all the time it took us to get this ladder I could have just climbed you instead.”) Keith has managed to help Shiro figure out a thesis and settle the poor guy’s anxiety. 

Shiro- “Did you study astrophysics?” | Keith- “No. But I basically own this corner of the world so of course I’ve read every book here.” 

Shiro ends up setting up shop in this corner and works on his thesis while Keith brings him books and coffee. 

One day weeks down the road Shiro is pretending to take a 20 minute power nap on the floor while chatting with Keith. | Keith- “You can’t talk and sleep at the same time.” | Shiro- “Watch me.” | Keith- “You should get some actual rest so you can finish your thesis proposal.” | Shiro- “I actually turned that in last Friday.” | Keith- “Then why are you here? Go home and rest.” | Shiro- “I like it here... you’re here.” 

After Keith collects his jaw from the floor, he winds up hovering over Shiro and leaning in for the best First Kiss of his life. 

...just in time for Lance to round the corner- “Oh no no no! I knew it. No one spends that much time ‘studying.’ You too are down here way to much. Of course you’ve been hooking up. In the LIBRARY! Keith! You took an oath! -no i didn’t lance- How could you?! Turning the library into a house of sucking face! There are children here! First the squirrel and now this?!”

Shiro- “Well at least we were only sucking face.” 

And at that a new era of Library Memo’s is born: “Absolutely No Dick Sucking Permitted In The Library!!!”

Blushes abound and these two nerds finally ask each other out. 

Shiro- “This library coffee isn’t very good is it? What do you say to me treating you to a proper cup? There’s a great place next to campus.”

Keith, with a huge grin on his face- “Yea, that’d be great.” 

Shiro- “Good. Then you can tell me all about this squirrel.”

Keith- “Oh. Yea. His name is Bucky; we eat lunch together almost everyday; and Lance is scared of him. If you’re lucky I’ll invite you on a lunch date one day and you can meet him.” 

[zillabean]

i would fight armies for pillbug. pill bugs so gosh darn cute ʕ •̥̥̥ `ᴥ•̥̥̥`ʔ

#PillbugProtectionSquad

[phaltu]

HAPPY BIRTH!

THANK YOU FRIEND!!!

[deductionfreak]

🛌 pink robin 👀👀👀

shhhh

[misterpoofofficial]

do you have a band camp??? 👀👀👀👀

yup!! i do!

[pixlokita]

@jaja-han TRULY INSPIRATIONAL