make it gay

After a nearly month of behind the scenes planning, the Voltron Translator and Beta Network is nearly ready for launch! Before @voltranslators goes live however, we need a few awesome individuals to volunteer as the first generation of Network Members.

WHAT IS VOLTRANSLATORS?

Voltranslators will be a bridge connecting content creators with the editors who make their work the best it can be.

Right now, authors have no way of obtaining Betas/Translators beyond just screaming into the Tumblr void and hoping someone hears. We’re looking to change that, and hopefully decrease the trend of languages being harshly google-translated for fics.

WHO, ME?

Yes you! We need wonderful individuals who speak some the many languages that make Voltron characters great. 

We’re talking Spanish, Korean, Japanese, Tagalog, Hawaiian/Pidgin, and many more. We also need some talented Betas willing to work on the next big Voltron story.

FIRST GENERATION MEMBERS

We’re counting down 7 days until the official website launch, and we’d love to have a few volunteer postings available right from day one. You’ll be our first crew to test the system and influence the listing/archive system for future posts.

SIGN ME UP!

Please contact @alchemist-rising or @voxamissa for more information and the private link to the volunteer form. 

Can’t volunteer? No problem - if you know someone who is fluent in more than one language or edits like a pro, please tag or forward this message along to them so we can reach as many potential volunteers as possible!

i used the last page of my sketchbook for this joke

evidence: - keith is reckless - his quintessence is instinct - he’s a very naturally talented pilot - keith dropped out of a prestigious space training program. average kids with big dreams, years of work, and tons of failure or almost failure behind them are way less likely to drop out after emotional events than major prodigy whiz kids - lance was at the top of the cargo pilot class - lance worked his ass off to get there and was really proud that he did - lance was way more aware of the rankings and scores of everyone else he trained with than keith, bc he was way more threatened by them - lance is always reclining if at all possible, in the habit of all overworked teens. if u’ve been doing projects and studying for two weeks and you havent gotten more than five hours of sleep in two days ur always on the prowl for nappable surfaces - we see lance’s discipline in other facets of his character: he has a beauty regime. no-one has skin like his by accident, thank u

Lance: bi

Keith: gay

Hunk: panrom ace

Pidge: gay ace

Shiro: 

It’s very rare to find a pure Hawaiian, there’s ~200 left. So when you’re making your Hunk keep that in mind. Here’s the formula for making a Hawaiian. Asian + Polynesian + Caucasian. For example, I am Hawaiian, Chinese, Filipino, Portuguese, and Swiss. And i had the smallest number of ethnicities out of my friend, I knew one dude with 15. That’s kinda a lot, but not uncommon. 

Also, it’s totally not weird to ask someone what they are. (something i needed to learn not to do in my college because apparently it’s rude??)

I personally would HC Hunk as being a mix of Hawaiian, Samoan, Tongan, Filipino, Portuguese, Chinese, and maybe some British.

Fun fact: the reason we are so mixed was because plantation workers were imported from around the pacific and they usually stayed for so long that they would end up marrying a Hawaiian. Tbh this is probably why we didn’t completely die out in the 1800s.

No one really speaks full Hawaiian anymore, our language is sadly dying out, but there have been efforts made (like charter schools where they only speak Hawaiian to the students) and everyone here knows at least 30 words in Hawaiian. However, we do speak pidgin very frequently, it’s basically a dialect of the islands evolved from the Hawaiians first learning the languages of the traders who came to Hawaii. Because of pidgin we call a lot things by a different name (and most of the time don’t even know it has a different word).

Examples: Mainland for the continent of America, chicken skin for goosebumps, rubber band for hair tie (i’m actually not sure what the real word is…), etc

Also this means that you’re constantly having to translate when you’re on the mainland. I never realized how much pidgin I used until my friends just kept giving me blank stares. It’s very frustrating, especially when you realize you have never known the translation and have to just hope the others will understand.

Hawaii is a very unique place. The culture, the people, the weather, the aloha spirit, etc. Any time you leave the islands for an extended periods you get very homesick because it’s difficult to find things that are authentically Hawaiian outside of Hawaii.

Some stereotypes:

Yes all of us do at least one of these things, surfing, hula, playing ukulele, singing, or swimming.

We do wear “Hawaiian shirts” and “muumuus”, however they are nothing like what you are probably thinking of. We call them aloha shirts and Mu'umu'us, and they are our formal wear. The designs are a lot more subtle and there really aren’t any crazy bright colors. The designs are usually quilt patterns of native flora and fauna

yeah we’re pretty chill with walking barefoot and in a bathing suit. The weather is very temperate and you don’t really need to wear clothes so it’s not really a big deal to see people in various stages of undress. We really don’t care about nudity that much…

Hawaiian Quirks:

we call everyone older than us Aunty or Uncle and pretty much everyone over 20 responds to that. It’s a sign of respect. It also confuses mainlanders a lot because they think we have super huge families, which we totally do, but still I’m not actually related to everyone on the island.

being on the verge of destroying the earth every time someone calls slippers “flip flops”. THEY SLIP ON AND THEY DO NOT MAKE A GODDAMN FLIP OR FLOP NOISE. it’s such a dumb name pls stop. I legitimately thought it was a dumb tv joke for 18 years of my life because tv has never been accurate with anything about Hawaii so there’s no way it was actually accurate with such a dumb name.

automatically judging someone based on their reaction to you saying you’re from Hawaii ex: “OH! You’re from Hawaii??!!!1!!!11 That’s so cool!!!11z!! Do you guys live in grass shacks?? is this the first time you’re wearing real clothes???? do you know what the internet is??!!??? How did you get here??” (yes these are real questions my friends and I have been asked) If you ask any of these we will probably avoid you forever

Using Hawaiian words to describe moral values because they hold so much more meaning than the English translations 

Having a list of local foods you’re gonna have when you get back

layering up once it gets into the 60s (15ish) because hello the coldest it ever gets in Hawaii is 60 and that’s only in the dead of winter.

Freaking out about seasons. We have no seasons here. It took me 18 years to see Fall and Spring and I can count on my hand how many times I’ve seen snow. So yeah, we lose it every time we see snow. Also we wish people a bright Christmas because we’ve really only experienced maybe one white Christmas

Although body image issues are still a thing in Hawaii they aren’t as bad as everywhere else. Hawaiian ads usually features locals without photoshop so we aren’t really bombarded with this “perfect” white body image