Shiro’s New Look Is Cute And You Cant Tell Me Otherwise 😤

we weren’t queerbaited

while it is unfortunate that adam died, i think you guys are taking things sooooo much farther than they really are. adam was literally just a plot device to show that shiro is interested in men. that’s literally all his character was there for. and while the crew shouldn’t have hyped their relationship as much as they did, we were not queerbaited by them. they were broken up and were no longer together!! the only people who queerbaited us are ourselves for making up head canons of shiro and adam still being together once he got back. that isn’t canon, just our own fantasy!! and i’m tired of people saying they killed off the lgbt rep….they didn’t!! shiro is the main lgbt representation and that’s it! he’s the one we are suppose to be focusing on, not his ex who was there for a minute tops to once again show that shiro likes men! he doesn’t have to be in a relationship in order for his gayness to be valid and legitimate. shiro is a strong poc disabled man and is gay, and that’s so so amazing on its own!! stop overlooking everything and being entitled to how the show writes it story. respect and love what we have, takashi shirogane.

Hunk: Carpe diem - seize the day!

Keith: Carpe noctem - seize the night.

Lance: Carpe natem…seize the ASS.

Pidge: If you guys don’t stop talking, I’m going to carpe someone’s neck and BREAK IT.

Shiro, slowly: Carpe collum…seize the neck.

You know what’s really disturbing to me? The culture that seems to have sprung up around fanfiction. Writers spend weeks and months working on a story – I think my record is six months on A Place For Us To Dream. And so many times readers expect to just be given a chapter even if they don’t give anything to the writer in return.

I’m going to date myself a bit here, but I’ve been reading/writing fanfiction for ten years. And when I first started it was a wonderful community. There was an unspoken rule – if you read/enjoyed it, you review it. You take thirty seconds to tell an author who probably spent anywhere from three days to a week writing that chapter you just enjoyed to tell them you enjoyed it. Even if it was as simple as “Great chapter, can’t wait to see what happens next!”

Writers spend so much time on stories, and then they post it because they have this thing that they’ve invested so many hours into and they want to share it with the world. They know how they feel about the story, and they want to know how other people feel, what other people think.

And when you read it and don’t review, you know what message you’re sending that author? That they’re not worth your time, or you didn’t enjoy their story. So why should they keep posting it? Yeah they might continue working on it in their own time, for their own enjoyment, but you might never see another chapter again because you couldn’t be bothered to take thirty seconds out of your day to tell them how you feel.

I’ve written stories in eight different fandoms, ranging from very small to very big (I’ll openly admit I wrote Twilight fanfiction once. Once. It was an Alice/Jasper story and haters can hate all they want but I’m still proud of it). I took a break for a few years because I fell out of fandoms during college, and when I came back apparently it’d become the norm to just greedily consume writing without telling writers how you feel. And that is one of the saddest things in the world to me because fanfiction is where I really started getting serious about writing. It’s how I’ve honed by skills and become the writer I am today. And that was largely in part because of all the support I got when I was an itty-bitty thirteen-year-old writing crappy W.I.T.C.H. fanfiction.

Everyone keeps saying “reviews don’t matter, you should just write for yourself.” Well, you’re wrong. Reviews make or break fanfiction. Reviews tell writers whether it’s worth their time to continue posting that story online or whether they should keep it on their hard drives and never share it with the world.

Kill the attitude that reviews don’t matter. Start telling writers you like their stories. And if you don’t, if you all just continue to be invisible readers? Don’t be surprised when that writer disappears.

modern au: they love to talk to each other!! 

hey there! thanks for the amazing recs! do you have any musician aus? either Keith or Shiro, I'm not picky!

Ok, this is a popular ask, and we found a lot!

Alien Sex Fiend - Glossolalia @fenri

ongoing. 14/? chapters. 110k. (Mature). Contains: NSFW content, alcohol/drug use, self-mutilation.

It started at a drive-in in the 1980s. This isn’t a story about the immaculate conception that happens in the backseats of high school boys’ cars, nor is it the origin story for a New Wave-fueled cocaine addiction. That would be interesting. Unfortunately, this is a love story; a love story about the frontman of Quantum Queef, a punk band, and a boy who rides a red motorcycle. Also, they fight aliens.

Blackout and Silver Stars - psyraah @shiroganedefencesquad

65k. (Teen).

There really isn’t much more that Shiro can ask from life. He has a loving father, an amazing job, and his best friends touring the galaxies with him, playing their music to armies of dedicated fans. His job is wonderful and life is beautiful, so no, there really isn’t much more he can ask for.

But he meets Keith anyway. Keith with the cute smile and his quiet humour, Keith with the little secrets and hidden shadows, guarded so closely that Shiro doesn’t want anything more than to protect him.

Shiro hasn’t felt this out of his depth since he was seventeen, but he’s never heard a sweeter song.

But boys spring infernal - amorremanet @amorremanet

408k. (Explicit). Contains: implied/referenced self-harm, eating disorders, past abuse.

Keith’s a broke, autistic history student at Kaltenecker University. He has trauma he doesn’t acknowledge, a depressive downswing that he’s ignoring, his Mom’s old knife, and a support network of about two people (his ex-girlfriend, Allura, and Kolivan, his academic advisor). His life’s a mess and his apartment’s a shit-hole, but at least they’re his.

Then, Keith yells at the punk band keeping him awake at four in the morning and the last thing that he expected drops into his life. Namely: Shiro, with long hair and new scars, but clean, sober, and away from his abusive ex. Worse, Shiro seems happy to have found Keith again.

This joy wouldn’t be bad if it made sense, but to Keith, it absolutely doesn’t. Shiro shouldn’t want Keith back in his life after what happened between them in Chicago, and there is definitely no way that Shiro ever loved Keith back — right?

Tear Myself Away (From You) - edenaaa

4k. (Teen). Contains: background Kuro/Lance.

“You – you return my feelings…” Keith couldn’t believe what he was hearing. Shiro’s thumb began caressing his face, traveling from his cheek to the corner of his mouth and scarcely touching his bottom lip. “And you needed a song to admit it.”

“I guess we’re not as good at recognizing our feelings as I want us to seem,” Shiro murmured, the words exchanged between the almost nonexistent space between them too intimate.

“You’d better kiss me or else I’ll be seriously going mad.”

Paradise - Mikiri @mikiri

ongoing, 1/3 chapters, 3k. (General).

Music is a force that brings people together, that tells stories full of emotion, and it can do wonderful things. For Keith, it is a way to express himself, but also to make money for rent. For Shiro, it’s his life long dream, music is everything he is, and that is why he’s a conductor.

They fall into orbit around each other, like binary stars, never talking. Until one day, Shiro screws up the courage to finally talk to his favorite busker.

Matt? He’s just there to point and laugh.

The Heart and the Shape - Pyriphlegethons @pyriphlegethons

ongoing. 3/? chapters. 16k. (Mature). Contains: A/B/O dynamics, self-harm, drugs, background Hunk/Pidge and Allura/Lance.

Keith never expected heavy metal to look and sound so good.

(Shiro is the vocalist of a metal band, and Keith falls hard fast)

blue eyed baby - ShirosRedKnight @shirosredknight

763 words. (General).

voltron rockband!au. everyone wondering just who that love song shiro wrote is about.

- Caroline & Kel

Record Score

Third and final piece of Message Received (See my fic-list for parts one and two) not exactly what I’d had planned, maybe not what any of you wanted, but I hope you like it anywayyyy….This wasn’t even what I had planned to post lol but eh I think this was more anticipated.

Softly dedicated to all of my extremely patient followers, I appreciate you all.

Word count: 5363 Rating in case you stumble on this since we can’t tag responsibly anymore: lemon. (would you call this grapefruit?? Nahhh the next series I’m working is grapefruit.) Ship: Klance (Pff) now with some previous Jaith (And if ya’ll hate James you can shush, Jaith as exes who ended amicably will always be one of my favorite things so just shush up.) Where we left off: Keith had responded to Lance’s accidental phone sex with an extremely purposeful sex tape. Lance is now on his way to have at the guy he apparently could have had from the get go.

—

It’s one thing, Lance figures, to punch an address into his uber app so that he doesn’t have to think about anything but Keith until he gets to his apartment. It’s another thing entirely to think of nothing but Keith and not get a hard on in said uber drivers back seat.

And even better to grow so incredibly anxious back there when he realizes that Keith not only lives off campus but a way off campus. Like— away, a way.

It’s twenty minutes before Lance recognizes Keith’s bike in a parking lot and knows he’s finally getting close. The uber driver shoots him a look.

“Man, try not to drool on my seats will you,” he scoffed.

Lance rolled his eyes and leaned his forehead against the window glass, his leg bouncing nervously.

“I have been a perfect gentleman James, don’t give me that shit.”

Keep reading

Have you read Of Tricks and Sweets and Werewolf Teeth??? It's got possessive werewolf shiro and stripper lance ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I have not, but now I gotta! :O

SPOILERS

I love Lance’s family. XD

A little late to the party, but I wanted to show my respect for Oppy…

So long, friend of humanity and progress…