Lotor Week // Day 1 - 10,000 Years 

Something I noticed on my season 7 rewatch is how supportive James is of his fellow classmates. I know a lot of fans shit on him because he didn't get along with Keith but let's face it, none of Keith's peers liked him it wasn't just James. But when the students are trying out the simulator James is shown cheering them on and looking just as let down as them when they fail. He might be strict but he's one of those friends that will cheer you on and I found that adorable.

I know right. Look at this boy.

James is a good boy. A good person. Yes, he may be a stickler for the rules but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he’s an asshole. He was friends with his fellow students, excluding Keith of course, but something tells me that Keith wasn’t a very popular student. But with everyone else, he was encouraging and kind.

Let’s not forget that James doesn’t always put rules first. He did help sneak Keith and Hunk out so that Hunk could find his family. He didn’t care about getting in trouble.

If there’s anything I hate, it’s people who put rules over kindness. People who’d rather just play safe and secure their own well-being instead of bending the rules a bit to help others. 

James didn’t do that. He bent the rules. He helped Keith and Hunk. So even though his profile says that he does follow the rules, he isn’t an asshole. His profile even said that he’s a dependable friend, which he has proven multiple times to be. 

I’ve said it many times and I’ll continue to say it until the end of time. 

James 👏 is 👏 a 👏 good👏 boy.

Dusted off a WIP from the summer

Shance's first kiss giving each other the soft slow kisses that turns into Shiro pulling Lance on top of them and they begin to make out.

keith is probably a bad kisser…or at least a really awkward one.

animation: when still images of your boys kissing just aren’t enough

Rules of a Happy, Healthy Fandom

Rule 1, Don’t like, Don’t read

Pretty simple and straight forward. It doesn’t matter if it’s tagged as a ship you dislike or you’re 10 chapters in, if you don’t like it or it disturbs you too much, stop. The back button is your friend.

Rule 2, Properly Tag

If your fic contains anything possibly triggering or squicky, tag it. If your fic is an AU, tag it. If your fic is about a ship, tag it. Vice versa, do not overtag or improperly tag. If your fic is based around Stucky, don’t tag Stony.

Rule 3, Filters are your friend

If the app or website has an option to filter tags, use it. If you need to download an extension, download it. If someone has missed an important tag, you can politely message them requesting to add it.

Rule 4, Don’t harass people for shipping your NoTp

We all have that one ship we absolutely positively hate with every fibre of our being. And chances are, someone hates your Otp with the same ferocity. Don’t harass people over shipping your NoTp.

Rule 5, Do your research

If you’re writing a fic and a plot point or character is introduced you’re not sure how to write, research it! Google is your friend! There are also blogs dedicated to assisting people with certain topics such as @writingwithcolor

Rule 6, Your kink is not my kink, and that’s okay

Chances are, someone gets off to something you hate. And, that’s okay! We all have different and varying tastes!

Rule 7, Feedback keeps content creators creating

Likes, comments, reblogs, and recomendations keep your fanfic writers writing. Where would writers be if no one read their works? Where would artists be if no one bought their art?

Rule 8, If you want it, write it

It’s bound to happen to everyone, you just can’t find a specific fic for a specific ship or it’s that one rare pair no one appreciates like you do. What do you do in this situation? You write it yourself! It may not be the best-written or most poetic or maybe it’s just a pure crackfic, but that’s okay!

Rule 9, Fanon is not Canon

Likewise, headcanons are not canon. And if someone has a different headcanon, that’s okay! Sure, we may ignore canon for fics but headcanons and fanfiction and fanart are not canon!

Rule 10, Fiction is not reality

And the most important of all, fiction is not reality. Writing abuse fics does not mean you support abuse in real life. Writing suicidal characters does not mean the writer is suicidal. Writing glorified murder fics does not mean the writer supports murder in real life.

If you have more positive rules, feel free to add! These are just 10 little rules I find to be very important for a happy healthy fandom. Remember, fandoms are supposed to be for fun! You write that shameless self-insert Mary Sue OC, you write that rarepair smut, you write that 250k slow burn Coffee Shop AU! You make fandom as fun as you want it to be!

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

hiya! any fics in which keith is raised galra (regardless of being half human or not) and deals with some cultural shocks/differences when getting to know human shiro? many thanks :)

The Golden Hour - GoldenTruth813 @goldentruth813

74k. (Explicit) Contains: nsfw content

After a space mission failure, Shiro loses his arm and his career. Two years later he's settled into a quiet and simple new life on his farm, but when a beautiful alien crashes in his field, he discovers the answers to his questions—and possibly the keys to his future—will come from the stars.

Traditions? - Strange and Intoxicating -rsa- (strangeandintoxicating)

3k. (Teen)

The moment Keith sees Shiro he knows—this human, this beautiful human, was meant for him.

Keith just wishes he understood how to human. Just a bit.

AKA: Keith doesn't understand Earth culture and proceeds to embarrass himself. It's okay—Shiro loves him anyway.

The Spar of Love - ninamyyly @ninamyyly

3k. (Mature) Contains: nsfw(ish) content, trans Keith

When Keith first came to train with the Blades, they assigned him a personal mentor to look out for him, show him around and to help get him used to their ways. As soon as he laid eyes on him though, Keith knew that he would be in far more trouble with Shiro than he ever could’ve anticipated.

Two Hearts In Bloom - GoldenTruth813 @goldentruth813

32k. (Teen)

Keith is a half-Galra, half-Terran born and raised on Ender’s Colony—a space station for Galra displaced after the war. Despite never quite feeling like he belonged, it’s also a place he never thought he’d leave. That is until he gets the chance to participate in an intergalactic exchange program with Garrison University on Earth.

When he gets to Earth, no textbooks on cultural norms could have prepared him for the strangeness of Terrans. Everything from their food to their customs leaves him with more questions than answers, but the one thing that grounds him even when he still feels lost in space is his new roommate, Shiro.

As the Terran holiday of Valentine's Day approaches, Keith is determined to show Shiro how special he is, but why do their courting rituals have to be so confusing?

Courted - Xyriath

5k. (General) Contains: a/b/o dynamics

Shiro has worked like hell to get where he is today: an accomplished ambassador to other planets despite his Omega status. After all, not all species have the same dynamics, and they don't care whatever Shiro might be.

This time, however, Earth messed up, and when he realizes that the Galra share those same dynamics, he prepares for a difficult task ahead.

But what he finds isn't anything like what he's expecting.

Unconditional - ptw30

20k. (Mature) 

The warrior sobered instantly, and Keith wondered if he’d said something wrong. But then those gray eyes snapped back, and the challenging grin returned. “May I kiss you?”

What kind of question was that? And just what the ruggle was a kiss?

BOM Keith meets former-gladiator-turned-Galra-soldier Shiro.

-Alex & Cas

hello, i’m super sorry if you’ve already answered this but do u have any past life/ reincarnation sheith aus? THANKSin advance!

Don’t Take Me For Granite - TruebornAlpha @runicscribbles & @itdans

ongoing, ¾ chapters, 34k. (Explicit). Contains: NSFW content.

Keith is a sculptor who falls hopelessly in love with his statue until a meddling love god decides to help things along.

The Brightest Star Calls Me Home - midnightflame @bymidnightflame

1k. (Teen).

A summer’s night. A rooftop party. Keith recalls a dream that haunted him and spills his fears to Shiro.

multitudes - ShirosRedKnight (SweetFanfics) @shirosredknight

5k. (Mature). Contains: attempted suicide

“You said you grant us both immortality!”

“You wished for your souls to be bound together. We granted you your wish. You are his anchor. He will find his way to you in every lifetime.

–It’s a love story spanning 8+ centuries. No one was meant to chase after love for that long but what other choice did they have?

Amaranthine - midnightflame @bymidnightflame

35k. (Explicit). Contains: NSFW content, major character death, violence.

Keith had watched him fall. One moment standing there, then knees had hit the dirt and the rest of Shiro’s body had followed. One moment was all it took for the world to run black, then fire up red as blood across the earth. Just when grief sinks its claws into him, morning breaks with scenes Keith knows because he has already lived them, knows that in just a few hours his entire world will end once more.

Shiro had watched him fall. One moment standing there, and on the next, Keith’s body had dropped to the ground, heavy and silent. One moment for the panic to start snarling in its cage and set the world buzzing with static in his ears. And just when the grief sinks in, morning breaks with scenes Shiro knows far too well because he has walked every step of them, and he knows that in another day the best part of his world will end once more.

It happens again and again, their world recycling itself as one end is traded for another. That is until the inevitable reality of their circumstances brings Shiro and Keith to a standstill, leaving them with a choice hinging on their faith in the universe.

Hypermnesia - ardett

7k. (Teen).

The five times Keith forgot and the one time he didn’t.

(A 5+1 fic based around reincarnation and AUs.)

and its sister fic:

Perennial - LittleWhiteTie @littlewhitetie

23k. (Teen).

Keith and Shiro find each other in every life. (A series of connected AUs)

1. Shiro will do whatever it takes to promote peace between his nation and Keith’s. Even if that means staying quiet about the way the prince makes his heart ignite with the power of a thousand suns.

2. Shiro doesn’t have a soulmate anymore, but he finds the next best thing in a boy in his astrobiology course.

3. Selkies are never safe, not when Hunters are near. Keith breaks Shiro out of the laboratory facility he was taken to, but Keith is captured in the process. Shiro needs to go back for Keith, but he can’t when his ability to take his human form has been stolen away.

4. Keith takes care of Shiro after he escapes from a Fire Nation prison, his arm irreparably burned. Hoping to take down the Fire Lord, they search for a new way for Shiro to bend the elements, confronting Shiro’s fear of fire along the way.

5. A Galra rebel breaks Shiro out of prison, asking for his help in shutting down a weapon that threatens the lives of the entire planet Princess Allura rests on. Shiro’s Altean heritage will allow him to destroy the crystal that powers it, but not without a cost.

- Cas & Kel

posted with OP’s permission, check out @pejaposarambi ‘s art for Sheith lovechild Sven! au. 

also, I want this as my morning alarm 

https://twitter.com/pejaposarambi/status/1046638274419339264

(original art link for first, second, and third art)