Voltron: The Lost Lion

steph | ☀️she/her/hers🌙 | 22 y/o just a university gal who loves writing little scenarios, hopes to publish a novel one day, and is a connoisseur of pastries and iced lattes

[voltronthelostlion]

welcome ⋅˚₊‧ ୨୧ ‧₊‧.

Hiya lovelies, my name is Stephanie (or Steph)!

My ask box is always open, so chats, rants, criticism—anything sfw—is always welcome!!

*ੈ✩Here's some fun stuff about me :)

I use she/her/hers pronouns

My birthday is November 14th (Scorpio 🦂)

Coffee, bear, and bed rotting enthusiast ☕️🐻‍❄️🫶🏻

I love reading, writing, journaling, and overall, being creative

Jellycat and book collector 🙂‍↕️💓

I enjoy walking and chatting with my sissy

*ੈ✩Interests:

voltron, pinterest, fantasy books, rom-coms, the rookie, reign, vox machina, the dragon prince, outlander, twilight, those ambient music playlists on youtube with pretty visuals, baking (i am chocolate chip cookies' #1 fan), ranting in my diary journal, music

*ੈ✩Writing Stuff:

⟡I have a Voltron Legendary Defender fanfiction on Wattpad, ao3, and Quotev

⟡I have a poetry book on Wattpad

⟡I have a few one-shots/random stories on Wattpad too

⟡I have a Gaelic folklore inspired romantasy WIP that I've been putting off lolololol

⟡I have a dragon elemental fantasy WIP that I've been dabbling in since I was 11 🧍🏻‍♀️

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If for some reason you'd like to reach me, my writing email is here: [email protected]

another fun link

[axewithl]

Look back with fondness

[voltronthelostlion]

happy nine years of VTLL on wattpad!!

I know I'm a couple of days late (I just remembered 🧍🏻‍♀️), but I can't believe VTLL is NINE years old?!?!?! And now it's at 500k reads—whoa.

I actually cannot wrap my mind around how freaking long it's been.

Also, probably not an update but an update nonetheless—I'm back to writing the fic and have made the executive decision to not publish anything until I have all of season 8 written out. There's just so much stuff going on (on top of my own confusion), and I already change my mind a lot... so instead of confusing readers and chopping stuff up mid-updates, I'm just gonna have it all written out and released in a massive batch. No idea when that'll be done. But I think it's for the best 🫪😁 It'll be hard cause comments are my biggest motivation for new chapters and cause y'all bring up great points, but if I see any comments pointing something out, I'll just tweak VTLL in editing round #2. I just need all of VTLL to be written already so I can do final big-big edits.

[starsoupart]

red/black paladin dynamics...but it's what could've been

entry for @bluemantics's event, thank you for hosting!! you are such a wonderful presence on here and congrats again <3

+ linework below

[soapyakships]

we’ve been robbed

[voltronthelostlion]

i have read so many VLD theories and analyses, and i'm questioning everything. i want nothing more than to go back and edit all of VTLL 🫪

i don't hate what i have, but i also can't entirely remember what i have 😭 i can't for the life of me remember what's been established

[h0neybumble]

I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM

all screenshots are from sessons 8 ep 6 btw

[voltronthelostlion]

Rewatching season 8 of VLD (I'm on episode 13 rn; not ready for that ending 🫪), and it's not as bad as I remember... but like what the heck is happening? The plot lowkey falls off the rails. I think Clear Day (e8) is when the disconnect happens—for me personally at least. I don't understand all the magic that's happening or the character motivations. I dunno. I'm just confused. And how the heck is King Alfor's soul in Honerva's brain when Zarkon killed him in s3e7 on a bridge? And how is Zarkon there in her mind??? His body's rotting on that random planet Lotor killed him on, and Haggar never sucked up his soul. Why were his eyes a glowing yellow rather than the glowing purple he literally has in every other episode??? I don't understand. What's going on? Not to mention these last 5 episodes feel choppy. And why didn't Allura take all the Dark Entities out of the Alteans? Why'd she stop at Tavo? If you know Honerva can do the kill switch, why don't y'all at least try to make sure they're not all gonna get murdered?

Don't get me started on the mechas and robeasts.

Buddy, what is this? One of the ugliest mechs, I'm sorry.

And the Sincline x Hoverva!mecha is SO DANG UGLY.

teeny tiny head, unicorn-horn-looking pointy thing.

And you're telling me that Voltron's sword could cut through the Altean Acolytes this easily this whole time???

They struggled all of season 7, episode 13, nearly DIED trying to defeat it, and they had the sword in hand, mind you, and now they just... sliced and diced it? huh??? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BRO???

I know the VLD team was stressed/rushing and whatever, so I try my best to give the creators, animators, and storytellers grace, but what the heck, man. It's such a poorly written plot. And I can't even figure out what to do about it for VTLL 🧍🏻‍♀️ I've read so many metas, analyses, and rewrites to get an idea, and I can't wrap my head around it. I don't understand what the show was going for in the last half of season 8.

I'm complaining a ton—I know—I just feel robbed. Ships/romance aside cause I don't even care anymore, I feel like the characters were robbed of their arcs, and like the entirety of what Voltron started out with was lost. At the end of the day, at its core, VLD is a show about teamwork, friendship, determination, and, dare I say it, the indomitable human spirit (indomitable being spirit?—you get what I mean).

I feel as though the final episodes of VLD failed to fully capture these themes and messages.

The entire Honerva plot should've been fleshed out better, in my opinion.

[voltronthelostlion]

sorry about being so mia. I see I've got emails from ao3 (<3333!!!!!). I'm going to reply to those over the weekend :)

I dunno when VTLL’s next chapter is coming out because I’ve yet to start it, and it’s mostly new stuff—meaning I don’t have much from old VTLL. I have some, but barely anything. I also don’t know what I want to do for it, so I went old school and wrote down all my scene ideas on a piece of paper, and then over the weekend I’m going to cut out each scene and order it to how I want it.

My mental health feels like it’s at an all time low. Which probably isn’t necessarily true because my mental state has improved significantly over the years. Idk. I’ve been feeling really anxious and depressed and stressed lately, and today I’ve reached my threshold. There’s this suspended weight hanging over my head, and it feels as though it’s going to crush me any second now because it just keeps getting closer and closer to me. I’m just sad. VTLL’s normally my outlet for stuff, but we’re at the point where I have no energy, willpower, or motivation to even daydream about it. I have so many ideas for these next couple of chapters too.

Hoping to get out of this funk soon. Maybe I’ll revisit some of my one shots and edit them. Baby steps are progress, after all.

[voltronthelostlion]

small part of Chapter 51 without context

Nothing's the color I want, but I can't draw, so shoutout to Canva 😁

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[voltronthelostlion]

i'm sad cause VTLL is too big now, and the command-F trick I use via ao3 to locate something isn't really working anymore when I have the entire work loaded :( I like having the whole thing laid out for me in a tab cause I know certain lines or chapters, then I can easily find them.

RIP—my favorite ao3 thing to do.

It's been slow sailing since we hit the 500k-word mark, but now it's really, really slow.

[voltronthelostlion]

deconstructed ice cream cookie sandwich (essentially a homemade cookie with a scoop of my favorite ice cream atm—shoutout to the Whole Foods ice cream sale!), instrumental vibey music, and writing VTLL—I know that's right 🙂‍↕️😍

[voltronthelostlion]

I’m deleting screenshots from my Google Photos (stay tuned 😭), and I have so many screenshots of some old chapter I wrote back on August 11, 2018. My iPad had a bad connection, and I was writing directly on Wattpad (?????), and it wasn’t saving, so instead of freaking out, I took screenshots of the entire chapter 💀💀💀💀

This is cracking me up right now

[voltronthelostlion]

i fell asleep last night oopsies

But Chapter 50's out now!

[voltronthelostlion]

trying to cook up VTLL's new chapter but I keep getting distracted by James Griffin 😔🥀

[voltronthelostlion]

Finished chapter 50 last night!!! I don’t know what edits it’ll need and I still have to give it a final read-through, but yayayayay!!!!!!

Won’t be publishing it on the 21st, though, cause it’s my sister’s birthday and we’re doing a roadtrip 🙈

I’m thinking of publishing it once I’m home from work tonight. We’ll seeeeeeeee

[liv0bug7]

idk if the Voltron people on tumblr are still alive but here’s a Keith.