#5yearsofvld

[doodlelight]

lonely together

Omg I had so much fun with this piece! my partner is the one and only @thewingsofvoltron ! This was in collaboration for the @fiveyearsofvld

#art #digital art #5yearsofvld #fanart #voltron #vld #lance mcclain #keith kogane #takashi shirogane #pidge gunderson #katie holt #hunk garrett #Voltron legendary defender

[fiveyearsofvld]

Sign-Ups Open for the 5 Years of VLD Mini Bang!

This June is the fifth anniversary of Voltron: Legendary Defender’s season one. To celebrate, we’re hosting a Mini Bang themed after the core of Voltron: Found Family!

What is a Mini Bang, you ask? A mini bang is a derivation of a Big Bang, which is defined by fanlore.org as “a specific type of challenge usually involving long fics and accompanying artwork.” In this challenge, writers and artists will be paired together to create content that tells one story--so the writer will write a fic, and the artist will illustrate a scene/scenes from that fic. Because this is a Mini Bang, the minimum wordcount is smaller than what you would normally find in a Big Bang!

Rules:

Open to both writers and artists ages 15+

Sign up by April 28, complete your piece by May 30; everything will be posted on June 10!

Fic specs: A completed fic must be at least 5k in length and up to 10k (longer fics are allowed, but make sure to communicate with your artist/beta in advance to ensure that they’re willing to read/create for a longer fic). The fic must be proofread/beta’d, either by someone of your choice or one of the betas who have kindly volunteered to look over fics in our Discord server. The focus of the fic must be on found family.

Art specs: A completed art piece must be fully colored with at least a simple background, and must illustrate a scene from the fic you’ve been paired with.

Writer Sign Ups: https://forms.gle/1dzXwCdfP1Z9ZtvFA 

Artist Sign Ups: https://forms.gle/Zj76jkTwt8auQTPs7 

Sign ups are open as of today, and will remain open until the end of the month. We invite both artists and writers to sign up! Please read through our FAQ and Schedule before you sign up if you have any questions.

Thank you all for your interest! We’re so excited to host this event and to see all the found family content that comes out of it! As always, we greatly appreciate reblogs to help spread the word. 

#voltron #vld #voltron legendary defender #voltronevents2021 #voltron event #5yearsofvld

[quintessenceofdust73]

In chapter 6 the “Fleet of Doom” storyline form the 1980s Voltron crossover movie is revisited with a VLD twist.

Also, haven’t you always wanted to see Keith and Lotor fight a duel? In this sword fight, their words are as sharp as their blades.

A preview:

Lotor raised his sword for a running overhead strike and as Keith prepared to block his opponent’s blade, Lotor kicked him in the midsection. Suddenly winded, Keith fell and was momentarily stunned.

“You are beaten, half-breed!” Lotor jeered at Keith. “Prepare to die.” Lotor held his blade perilously close to Keith’s throat as he lay sprawled in the mud of the nightmare swamp.

Keith entangled his legs with Lotor’s to trip him then sprang to his feet, reclaiming his fallen sword.

“Half-breed?” He asked, dodging Lotor’s clumsy attack as the prince struggled to regain his footing. “Look who’s talking!”

Lotor attacked him again with even more fury than before and Keith deflected every blow with a fluidity and grace that the undead prince struggled to match.

“You’re hardly the warrior who won the Kral Zera,” Keith taunted him.

“I’m still the man who won Allura’s heart,” Lotor replied with a wicked grin.

“With lies and deception?” Keith would have drawn blood with the slice he made to Lotor’s abdomen at that moment, but the zombie-like creature before him didn’t seem to have any...

#voltron dotu #voltron #vld #keith kogane #lotor #5yearsofvoltron #5yov #5yearsofvld #Kallura

[the-lightning-strikes-again]

A Collaboration to Celebrate the Five Years of VLD Mini Bang

Hi, all! June 10, 2021 is the five-year anniversary of Voltron: Legendary Defender first airing on Netflix. To celebrate, I joined the Five Years of VLD Mini Bang and had the privilege of collaborating with the wonderful and illustrious artist, @cieltee22. They developed a super fun and amazing artwork to align with my story! It was great working with them on this project! 

The Merry Misadventures of Voltron’s Five Original Paladins

Story Summary: It’s been many quintants since Alfor, Zarkon, Trigel, Gyrgan, and Blaytz agreed to a galactic alliance. Alfor has taken to recording their adventures as part of an ongoing status report to his vassals. In doing so, he reveals that the galaxy’s most fearsome leaders have some terribly mundane quirks and weaknesses, and that their warrior’s bond is transforming into...friendship? Rated T.

Please check out Cieltee’s associated artwork here: https://cieltee22.tumblr.com/post/653622389179056128/hello-in-celebration-of-voltron-legendary

You can read my story here on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/31862188

Happy Five Years of VLD, all! Please follow the blog below for more content and updates regarding other collaborations!

@fiveyearsofvld

#Voltron #5YearsofVoltron #5YearsofVLD #VLD #Alfor #Zarkon #Trigel #Gyrgan #Blaytz #Honerva #Fanfiction #VLD mini bang #5YoV #thank you to Cieltee for inspiring me to finish this #This was a really fun project #and I'm thankful I took the chance on this #Ended up meeting some really cool people #Please support Cieltee's art with a like/reblog! #And if you have a chance to review the fic I'd really appreciate that as well!

[kalytera]

To celebrate five years since Voltron premiered, I was partnered with @ItsBrinx (Twitter) for the @fiveyearsofvld mini bang and I got to draw this funny scene from her fic “A Memory’s Calling”. Be sure to check it out on ao3 (@Brinx) if amnesia/found family/Keith whump/established Klance are your tropes!

#voltron legendary defender #vld #voltron #keith kogane #5yearsofvld #pidge holt #fanart #art #digital art #kalytera art #voltron comic #procreate

[quintessenceofdust73]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/31663769/chapters/78362156

Defenders of the Multiverse Chapter 1.

@fiveyearsofvld @aucatgirl made a great illustration for this story.

❤️💖💛💙💚

#5yearsofvld #5yearsofvoltron #plance #lance mcclain #pidge #katie holt #voltron #vld #lance #5yov #hunk garrett #allura #keith kogane

[quintessenceofdust73]

In Chapter 5, “What Dreams May Come” the Paladins return to the Dream Dimension, but this time they won’t have to face their personal nightmares alone.

Hunk has the heart of a lion in this one.

There is some sweet Kallura foreshadowing. ❤️💖

There is also a lot of 💦 for your 🌱. Remember this?

#plance #pidge #katie holt #lance mcclain #Kallura #keith kogane #allura #hunk #vld #5yov #5yearsofvld #5yearsofvoltron

[quintessenceofdust73]

There’s 💚💙Plance and ❤️💖Kallura in this chapter. Here’s an excerpt from the fic, featuring Garrison Trio teamwork:

“Okay, so how do we defeat a swarm?” Lance asked as he blasted another robot fighter. He was already targeting another one as it exploded.

“We could blanket them with high-powered microwaves to disrupt their electronics,” Pidge mused aloud.

“That’s only going to work at a close range,” said Hunk.

“Lance, modify your heat ray to the frequency that I’m sending you, then get ready to blast them, but only when they are within the calculated perimeter that I am sending you,” said Pidge.

“Great. So how am I going to get all of them to fly that close to me?” Lance asked.

“Leave that to me and Hunk,” she replied. ”Get out of their visual range behind the flotsam from that skull ship that Hunk destroyed.”

The Green and Yellow Lions flew in attack position against the swarm that was harassing the Lion Force Voltron. One fighter drone hit Yellow Lion with a powerful energy beam, and Lance’s scanners indicated that Hunk’s Lion appeared to go offline, floating dead in space.

“Hunk?! Are you okay buddy?” Lance called to him, unable to disguise the panic in his voice. Even powered down, Yellow had the toughest shielding of any of the Lions, but half of the swarm was now simultaneously trying to destroy him. He didn’t know if Yellow could take that much firepower indefinitely. “Hunk?”

“He’s okay,” Pidge reassured him. “Watch.”

Hunk activated his Lion’s power reserves at a fraction of its usual strength and drifted more than flew in Lance’s general direction. Lance realized what was happening. He waited until Hunk was in close range and then Yellow suddenly went to full power, soaring away from the swarm as Lance blasted the drones with enough microwave radiation to leave the Galra fighters immobilized, floating in space like useless junk.

Pidge was flying at top speed, as if challenging the other half of the robot fighter swarm to keep up with her. The stupid machines took the bait and locked onto her trajectory with their targeting programs. Pidge flew directly towards Red Lion with the swarm on her tail, then veiled Green Lion with the Invisibility Cloak she had designed as she changed direction at the last possible moment. Lance hit them with a blast of microwave energy that disabled all but a few of them. The remaining fighters were picked off one by one by Hunk, who had been waiting in ambush for them just as Green Lion safely reappeared.

#lance mcclain #katie holt #pidge #hunk garrett #vld #Plance #Kallura #voltron #5yearsofvoltron #5yov #5yearsofvld

[fiveyearsofvld]

The AO3 collection for the 5 Years Of Voltron mini bang is here! Check it out and enjoy all the found family content. Make sure to take a look at all the art created to go along with the fics too!

#voltron #vld #5yearsofvld #5YOV #voltron event

[quintessenceofdust73]

“Clear Day” is the beginning of an alternate universe Voltron Legendary Defender fanfiction series. It is one of two prequels to my story for the 5 Years of VLD event. Prequel 2 is called “The Greatest Gift” and my upcoming brand new story for the event is a big crossover called “Defenders of the Multiverse.”

I highly recommend that you read “Clear Day” if you think Plance should have been canon. This story describes one way it could have happened. 💙💚

In “Defenders of the Multiverse” Kallura has been canon since 1984. ❤️💖

Prompt: June 7 Alternate Universe.

#5YoV #5YearsofVoltron #5YearsofVLD #plance #lance mcclain #pidge #katie holt #voltron #vld #Kallura

[quintessenceofdust73]

Chapter 3 “Healing Wisdom” has been posted. In this chapter, the Paladins grow in wisdom when they meet their older, wiser Voltron Force counterparts face-to-face.

If you’re not following this multichapter fic, you’re missing out on the space battles, sword fights, magic, danger, angst, dreams, nightmares, romance, friendship, corny jokes, and giant robot fights. What are you waiting for?

This is what VLD Season 8 could have been.

💚💙Water your Plance.💦 🌱 Sharpen your Juniblades.❤️💖 And hold onto your wigs! 🚀

#plance #Kallura #lance mcclain #pidge #katie holt #keith kogane #allura #hunk garrett #darrell stoker #vld #voltron force #voltron crossover #5yov #5yearsofvoltron #5yearsofvld

[quintessenceofdust73]

Summary of Chapter 8 “Apotheosis and Infiltration”

In this exciting conclusion to the battle with the giant robeast, the Paladins, the Voltron Force, and the Lion Force must work as a team to engage in combat with the mightiest opponent any of them have ever faced. But exposure to Haggarium has drained the Voltron Force’s mecha of all of its energy.

Paladins Keith and Allura are still missing, Paladin Hunk is caught in the monster’s vise-like grip, and the Lion Force Voltron is being tossed around by the behemoth like a discarded toy. How will the Defenders of the Multiverse triumph over such a mighty foe?

An excerpt:

Darrell Stoker was surprised to see a teenaged girl in an armored spacesuit floating just outside of Green Lion’s emergency access hatch.

“Katie Holt, have you gone mad? There’s a battle going on out there!”

“Let me in! I’ll explain inside.”

Darrell, who had his own armored space suit’s helmet sealed, opened the hatch for her manually.

“What are you doing here?! Our Voltron is about to become scrap metal when that thing uses us for target practice. All of our systems are down. And where’s your Lion?” Darrell asked frantically.

“She’s right outside. I have a cloaking device,” Katie explained.

“Wait, your Green Lion can turn invisible?!”

“Of course! It’s a special modification that I reverse engineered myself.”

“Genius!” Darrell exclaimed, clearly impressed.

“Look, I’ve to get you and the other pilots out of here—-“

“No. There’s no way that Keith or Allura or any of us would abandon Voltron—“

“You won’t be abandoning Voltron. We’ll be protecting him while you guys go on a sabotage mission to help us destroy that robeast.”

Darrell’s mouth hung open in shock, then he grinned from ear to ear. He could definitely see why Paladin Lance loved this girl so much.

“Come on!” She gestured toward the hatch, and Darrell opened it to the void once more. “Now you have to help me convince the others.”

#Plance #pidge #katie holt #Darrell Stoker #lance mcclain #hunk garrett #Kallura #keith kogane #Allura #Voltron #voltron force #DotU #5yov #5yearsofvoltron #5YearsofVLD

[quintessenceofdust73]

This is the second prequel to my upcoming story for the 5 Years of VLD event.

“The Greatest Gift” is an angsty sequel to “Clear Day” and it is told entirely from Colleen Holt’s point-of-view. It is all about the power of love, not just romantic love, but the love of family and friends. It will break your heart. Have the tissues ready when you read this one.

Chapter 1 of “Defenders of the Multiverse” is coming June 10, 2021!

June 8 prompt: Minor Character Spotlight

#5yearsofvoltron #5YoV #5YearsofVLD #Plance #pidge #lance mcclain #katie holt #colleen holt #sam holt #Kallura

[quintessenceofdust73]

Chapter 2, “Paladins in Peril” has been posted.

Please reblog the gorgeous art by @aucatgirl for this story. It is stunning! 😍

#Plance #Kallura #pidge #lance mcclain #katie holt #hunk garrett #allura #keith kogane #5yearsofvld #5yov #5yearsofvoltron