#omhcv

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

One More White Candle: Progress

So I liked how I was updating RMTM and decided to do the same thing with OMWC.  As always, lightbulbs are posted chapters and eyes are finished but unposted.  This is what it’s looking like so far:

Some of the chapter names are kind of spoilers, but I’m not going to tell you which or what they are, haha.

#22nd #August #2019 #August 22nd 2019 #omhcv #omwc #liveblogging my writing #liveblogging fanfic #liveblogging voltron

[a-ghost-named-k]

One More Hot Chocolate Vigil Illustrations PART I

#x queues me #29th #June #2018 #June 29th 2018 #vld #voltron #omhcv #x marks the spot

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

the latest chapters of OMWC be like

#24th #August #2019 #August 24th 2019 #liveblogging fanfic #liveblogging my writing #omwc #omhcv

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

CHAPTER 8 OF ONE MORE WHITE CANDLE JUST WENT LIVE

https://archiveofourown.org/works/16482902/chapters/43043423

!!!

#22nd #March #2019 #March 22nd 2019 #liveblogging my writing #omhcv #omwc #my writing

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

me: stops playing pokemon long enough to scribble out a kirishima and then goes back to pokemon

#20th #January #2019 #January 20th 2019 #this is also foster lance #foster lance #omhcv #just like... in case you were wondering #not that he's good at art #he's awful at it #doesn't me he doesn't do his best though #brainblogging

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

anyways the next chapter of OMWC is lowkey emotionally eviscerating me bye

#20th #January #2019 #January 20th 2019 #omhcv #omwc #there is something else with the abreviation omwc #what is it #i must know #liveblogging my writing

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

hot holy DIGGITY damn, omhcv is almost at 500 kudos!

#10th #February #2019 #February 10th 2019 #wow #omhcv #wooow #whoooooo #liveblogging my writing

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

HERE WE GO LIZARDS

The full summary is this:

A sequel fic to One More Hot Chocolate Vigil, this fic is another major installment of the House Voltron series.  If OMHCV uses themes of found family and familial bonds to ultimately craft a story about cohesion, then this fic uses them to weave a tale about stability, continuing on with the OMHCV tradition.  In order to reach stability, however, you must first face uncertainty–in this case a criminal trial that drags first Keith then Shiro into a bitter fight against Galra CEO Zarkon.

#30th #october #2018 #october 30th 2018 #omhcv #foster care verse #nano #nanowrimo #doing it yoooooooooooooooo #liveblogging my writing

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

(Same anon from before)(Hi!) Ahhhh please tell me what the endgame will be!!!! Also, I’m curious to know what the next two fics will be about? It’s so cool you already have two more planned out when I can barely plan out one fic without getting stuck or changing things halfway through 😂

(Hi again! This is the same anon from before, and I’m pretty sure I already messaged you but the wifi near me has been spotty lately so this is just in case my previous ask didn’t go through. If it did, just feel free to ignore this lol) I’d love to know the spoilers about how the fic will end!!! And what are you planning plot-wise for the next fics?? 👀👀 I’m super excited to see what you have in store

AHHHHAHA SORRY THE IRONY IS THAT MY INTERNET IS ALSO BEING A BUTT RN 

I HOPE YOU SEE THIS AND GET THE ANSWERS YOU DESIRE

anyway here we go, spoilers ahoy!  under a cut because Long and also i’m not sure how many of you even follow this fic 

SO like how in canon Keith wasn’t ready to be the black paladin of voltron when Shiro went missing at the end of s2, in OMHCV Keith just isn’t ready to take care of a child.  shiro is supportive either way, but that’s the bottom line.  like, Keith might be a good dad (probably would be if he chose to take that route) but he still has a lot of issues with abandonment and What Happened During His Upbringing that need to be dealt with, and he knows that on some level.

so, yeah... he’s giving up the Little Alien.

but!  this is not the end!  like his arc in s6, Keith is going to have some development and see a few things resolved in the next two fics that will definitely help him figure out everything else!

in the next ‘installment’, i guess we’ll call it, the major plot sequence is a lawsuit against Zarkon and his company, which gets filed near the end of OMHCV (though House Voltron doesn’t know this is happening).  the suit will go to trial around january/february of the next year, just after the Little Alien is born, and it’ll involve all the shady people and shady deals that Zarkon is involved with.  this includes the Galra--the people that Keith’s dad got in trouble with before Keith was born and the main reason why Keith was raised the way he was.  Keith is going to come face-to-face with his dad again after a long time in the system (paralleling how he and krolia meet in canon) and he’ll have to deal with a lot of mental health issues that stemmed from how he and his dad lived.

ngl, the second Big Fic is going to be hard on Keith.  and everyone, but... especially Keith.  he’s gonna have to go backward a bit before he can move forward.  i don’t have eeeverything planned but i do have a few big arcs and i know it’s going to be.... hm.  angstier than OMHCV?  i don’t have a real gauge for How Much angstier but... it will have ups and downs but mostly downs.  just like... a lot of downs.  but good news!  matt is gonna show up!

now, the third Big Fic is... more amorphous at the moment?  it’s mostly still just a collection of ideas and it’ll definitely be influenced by s7/8 when they come out.  i’ve been thinking for a long time about how i want to tackle the Operation Kuron situation in this series and i had a Very Sad Idea a while ago and... i think i’m just gonna do it, tbh.

SO the idea is that Shiro gets in another accident, right?  and hits his head again.  and it’s kind of his journey through recovery, but also it’s an in-depth look at the symptoms that he has to deal with and how unreliable his mind gets after dealing with a second round of trauma.  i’ve heard that in canon Shiro had a chronic illness of some kind, so depending on how that goes down that might get tied in.  it won’t be strictly Shiro POV because he’s going to be a pretty unreliable narrator (more than he is now, anyway) for the duration of the fic.  also, lotor is going to get involved.  

a big part of that last installment is going to be Keith and Allura taking lead in the House and helping Shiro find his feet again while also carving out their own paths.  and of course, the other kids are going to be working and learning, too.  i think at this point the only one not old enough to leave the nest will be Pidge so it will be partly about how everyone decides to move forward--if they want to leave to pursue schooling and careers away from home, possibly reconnecting with their own pasts as they go, or if they can find a way to do whatever they want to do while also juggling stuff at the House.  the whole family might also move out of House Voltron in a parallel to how they lost the castle in s6!  and, as things shake up, i think that Keith is going to get more involved in the Little Alien’s life.  he probably won’t try to get custody back, but he’ll be there for the little guy.  since he got to House Voltron he’s been learning how to Be Steady and Stay The Course--he’s learning how to be a permanent presence in people’s lives and he’s going to put that into action starting with Shiro and extending to everyone else, including the Little Alien.

....ngl it’s going to be sad.  i make myself sad thinking about all the character arcs and events coming in the future for these guys.  i thought that i’d end OMHCV on a high note and then after that it would just be nothing but found family Fluff but... apparently i’m not capable of doing that so.

if you want to get english class about it, which i always do because i’m an incredible nerd, then the big picture is this: OMHCV is about cohesion, the Second Big Fic is about stability, and the Third Big Fic is about persistence.  those are the major themes, you could say, strung together with a motif of family bonds and found family.  the biggest counter-themes would then be conflict, as seen in the way that the members of House Voltron fight and struggle against each other and themselves as they come together as a family in the First Fic; uncertainty, as Keith and Shiro struggle to bridge the gap between the past and the present in the Second Fic in order to find stable ground and move forward again; and discontinuity, as everyone faces the changes occurring to House Voltron as the kids all come of age and Shiro deals with his own mental and physical health.

OMHCV: conflict vs. cohesion

Second Fic: uncertainty vs. stability

Third Fic: discontinuity vs. persistence

which... is kind of how it’s gone in canon, tbh?  the first season is team voltron finding cohesion, seasons two through ~five are keith (and, separately, team voltron) trying to find stability, and season six finishes up with Keith’s persistence in saving Shiro and protecting voltron, which i’m ASSUMING will carry through to the next season or so, finishing up with victory.

and like... i don’t think there will be a real moment of decisive victory in the House Voltron series simply because the war they’re fighting is just life, you know?  but even so, i’m hoping that there will be something good waiting for them on the other side of all this.  even if it is just all of them, together as a family.

#omhcv #omhcv spoilers #my writing #liveblogging fanfic #liveblogging voltron #ahhhhhhh #sorry i just wrote an essay for you lmfao #rocks #I'M JUST SO INTO THE WORLDBUILDING FOR THIS SERIES DIDSJISJESKEKSK #there's a lot going on with these guys #like you think shiro is stressed out NOW? #it's going to get just #soooo much worse for him as time goes on #ahhhhhhhh #pls let me know if i'm rambling too much to make sense of any of this #i just got excited #Anonymous

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

What’s this I hear about sequels to the one more hot choclate vigil story??? Do tell 😮

YES

SEQUELS

i’m planning two more Big Fics, probably of a similar length to OMHCV which, at my best estimate, will be a tad longer than 100k words.  

the response so far has been... like, wow.  people have written me ESSAYS in the comments letting me know how much they enjoy the series and what it means to them.  i’m so glad that people are interested in the sequel fics!!  the third one is still kind of amorphous plot-wise, but there’s enough there for me to know that it’ll be comparable to the first and second Big Fics.

ngl, though... i’m moving away from the voltron fandom a bit.  like, it’s become kind of draining to be involved with all the drama and discourse and such? i enjoy it, and it’s probably obvious by now that i enjoy arguing about things, but i don’t have the attention to detail required to stay on top of every single thing the creators post to twitter and every single interview and scrap of content that comes out, which is what you need to have at your disposal in order to even understand the discourse.  it’s no fun feeling constantly out of the loop and waiting for the next round of call-outs to come from some unspecified direction.

i’ll still be all over s7 when it comes, and i WILL finish these fics.  it’s just going to take a while haha.  though i do a lot better when people still show interest?  like, sometimes i forget to work on the next chapter and then someone will comment and i’ll be like O SHIT WADDUP so i hope you guys will continue to give me feedback.  i need to keep the momentum up aaaahhhhaha

i really don’t plan to let you all down, is the bottom line here.  i love the show and the characters, and the world i made in OMHCV is very dear to me still.  PLEASE come and talk to me about it lol.  i am literally always down to talk about House Voltron and the fam.

#omhcv #liveblogging fanfic #liveblogging voltron #rocks #brainblogging #Anonymous

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

well anyway

#14th #May #2018 #May 14th 2018 #why do i gotta keith stan in the comments on my own fics #literally 90% of the friction between lance and keith in this verse is lance-driven #like??? #why you putting all the pressure on keith to apologize anyway? #lance was literally the one who started it #GOD I'M SO SALTY #i'm salty give me a minute #just a fucking minute #deep breaths #liveblogging fanfic #omhcv #lmfao sorry i'm not actually angry at all #i'm just uh #kind of annoyed that they're kind of annoyed

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

i know what i want to do to rewrite the next OMHCV chapter but i don’t want to do it

so uh... rip that i guess

#20th #April #2018 #April 20th 2018 #nah i'll get over it #eventually #liveblogging fanfic #omhcv #smh at my own shenanigans tho #i keep having fleeting urges to Do Things that don't even last long enough to like #get out materials or switch tabs #smh

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

Hey guys!  I have a thing for you!

Are you following the foster care fic?  Do you wish you could read it but some of the themes are not to your tastes?  Well, here you go!  This is for you!

It’s just a oneshot based in that universe, a snippet of the day eleven-year-old Lance arrived in Shiro’s care.  It’s short and sweet, made of emotional hurt/comfort with as little angst as I could put in there (there’s still a little because I’m me, but I tried).  I really think you’ll like it.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/13766331

#22nd #February #2018 #February 22nd 2018 #omhcv #liveblogging fanfic #my writing #salvage #no keith in this one #it's too early for my boy #but allura is there! #and coran! #it actually explains how they get their names #:'D

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

hey wanna see some funny dialogue i just wrote?

“It’s cool, we just did some primal screaming at the underpass and now we’re good.  Right buddy?”

Keith makes a so-so gesture with one hand.

“Well, anyway,” Lance says, rolling his eyes, “we’re gonna eat the leftover spaghetti because Hothead over here hasn’t eaten since yesterday and is suffering from low blood sugar rages, like a dingus.”

#23rd #January #2018 #January 23rd 2018 #liveblogging fanfic #omhcv #omhcv spoilers #lmfao like anyone actually cares #but it's still funny #someday i'm going to compile all the best foster lance quotes and they'll be GOLD

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

i have no self control so... here it is

#11th #December #2017 #December 11th 2017 #omhcv #my art #fin #ahhhhh

[the-ghost-of-jason-todd]

*moves foster care au stuff out of my general voltron doc because 500 pages of unsorted fic stuff is a little untenable*

*has a quiet anxiety attack for the next three hours*

#12th #March #2018 #March 12th 2018 #liveblogging fanfic #omhcv #it was nearly half of the entire doc?? #obviously it was the right move to separate it #i do not understand why my brain is being persnickety about it #brainblogging #my brain: you can't have two different documents!!! #me: watch me??!?