syrupy blog

Hi.

This is an introduction, I suppose. I'm MapleSyrupPtarmigan (or Maple, or MSP, or M), capitalization optional.

I write things and like music, and like things and write music. I love cats and I almost have a degree in something. My legs, spine, and soul are in chronic pain but I'm the happiest I've been in years.

This blog is finally being used, mainly for writing, mainly fanfiction. Other endeavors can be found in elseblogs and elseplaces. If you find them, say hi, don't tell me I sent you.

If you don't like what I write,

Summary:

Energy cannot be created, nor can it be destroyed; it may only change form.

Being at the Garrison was strange to Hunk. He thought he'd be more anxious in such a new environment. Instead, he just traded old anxieties for new ones.

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this is the last fully-written thing i have. i have plans for the next installment (pilots), and i have a roadmap that covers season 1 of VLD (or, at least, the points I want to get to), although i do need to rewatch it because some things definitely need to be axed or moved around (i'm obviously not just gonna rewrite it verbatim). to be honest i'm more interested in writing the interludes (i have three more planned out) than the main stories, but i still think it's important to show the characters before/during kerberos and during voltron

side note: i tried to "beef up" my writing this time around, aiming to have less lines of just dialogue and instead actually showing what's going on (i mean, i really like writing dialogue, but i also realize that readers are not necessarily going to conceptualize the story the way i do as the author). i'm fairly satisfied with it, despite taught that editing should take away instead of adding

Summary:

Katie wanted to be excited. A part of her was. Hang out with her friends, eat food made with love—fun stuff. So what if she had woken up with a nine out of ten on the chronic pain scale? She'd been through worse.

She rubbed her eyes and tried to stretch. I have got to get a stretching routine, she thought. The thought was, thankfully, interrupted by a car pulling up and a person hopping out.

"You good?" Lance asked.

"No, I feel like shit. But otherwise, yeah. I'm fine."

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something different. decided to infodump in the actual notes than in here, although do have things to say about it here.

Chapters: 3/3 Summary:

Pidge stared at Shiro, as if waiting for a message. "We're not leaving. Not until—"

The door swung open, hinges screeching. "She's right. You're staying here, all of you. Get some rest." Keith waved toward the couch, seemingly ignoring the fact that Shiro's six-foot-tall body barely fit on it.

Lance looked at Pidge, then glared at Keith. "Not until we get some answers, Mullet."

"You'll get answers in the morning. About everything, I promise."

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yippee! it's over (for now). author's notes/infodump under

Chapters: 2/3 Summary:

Pidge stared at Shiro, as if waiting for a message. "We're not leaving. Not until—"

The door swung open, hinges screeching. "She's right. You're staying here, all of you. Get some rest." Keith waved toward the couch, seemingly ignoring the fact that Shiro's six-foot-tall body barely fit on it.

Lance looked at Pidge, then glared at Keith. "Not until we get some answers, Mullet."

"You'll get answers in the morning. About everything, I promise."

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another one. author's notes under

Chapters: 1/3 Summary:

Pidge stared at Shiro, as if waiting for a message. "We're not leaving. Not until—"

The door swung open, hinges screeching. "She's right. You're staying here, all of you. Get some rest." Keith waved toward the couch, seemingly ignoring the fact that Shiro's six-foot-tall body barely fit on it.

Lance looked at Pidge, then glared at Keith. "Not until we get some answers, Mullet."

"You'll get answers in the morning. About everything, I promise."

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Binary stars (1770 words) by maplesyrupptarmigan Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lance & Lance's Siblings (Voltron), Lance & Rachel (Voltron), Lance & Veronica (Voltron), Adam & Lance (Voltron), Adam & Lance & Veronica (Voltron), Adam/Shiro (Voltron) Characters: Lance (Voltron), Lance's Siblings (Voltron), Rachel (Voltron), Veronica (Voltron), Adam (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron) Additional Tags: Lance & Rachel (Voltron) are Twins, Adam & Lance (Voltron) are Siblings, Adam & Veronica (Voltron) are Twins, Hunk briefly appears, Luis and Marco are mentioned, as are Sam and Matt Holt, Biromantic Lance (Voltron), Autistic Lance (Voltron) Series: Part 3 of Signals Summary:

Of twins and satellites, stars and siblings, loves and fears.

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this is a...thing. as noted, this started out as something different, and i think i'm happy with it. thanks

author's notes below the cut

Signals (4413 words) by maplesyrupptarmigan Chapters: 4/4 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lance/Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt Characters: Lance (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Lance's Siblings (Voltron), Veronica (Voltron), Rachel (Voltron) Additional Tags: Lance & Rachel (Voltron) are Twins, Adam & Lance (Voltron) are Siblings, Pre-Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Trans Female Pidge | Katie Holt, Biromantic Lance (Voltron), Garrison Trio forever Series: Part 2 of Signals Summary:

Iverson was right. We're not a team, we're just a mess of—of mixed signals. His eyes lit up, electric blue glinting in the moonlight. Which is why, starting today, we're gonna start team bonding time. We're not a team, yet, but we can be. We just need to communicate better!

Pidge looked at him flatly, remembering the simulator. And how do you propose we do that, Mr. Tailor?

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Signals (3353 words) by maplesyrupptarmigan Chapters: 3/4 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lance/Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt Characters: Lance (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Lance's Siblings (Voltron), Veronica (Voltron), Rachel (Voltron) Additional Tags: Lance & Rachel (Voltron) are Twins, Adam & Lance (Voltron) are Siblings, Pre-Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Trans Female Pidge | Katie Holt, Biromantic Lance (Voltron), Garrison Trio forever Series: Part 2 of Signals Summary:

Iverson was right. We're not a team, we're just a mess of—of mixed signals. His eyes lit up, electric blue glinting in the moonlight. Which is why, starting today, we're gonna start team bonding time. We're not a team, yet, but we can be. We just need to communicate better!

Pidge looked at him flatly, remembering the simulator. And how do you propose we do that, Mr. Tailor?

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Signals (2293 words) by maplesyrupptarmigan Chapters: 2/4 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lance/Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt Characters: Lance (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Lance's Siblings (Voltron), Veronica (Voltron), Rachel (Voltron) Additional Tags: Lance & Rachel (Voltron) are Twins, Adam & Lance (Voltron) are Siblings, Pre-Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Trans Female Pidge | Katie Holt, Biromantic Lance (Voltron), Garrison Trio forever Series: Part 2 of Signals Summary:

Iverson was right. We're not a team, we're just a mess of—of mixed signals. His eyes lit up, electric blue glinting in the moonlight. Which is why, starting today, we're gonna start team bonding time. We're not a team, yet, but we can be. We just need to communicate better!

Pidge looked at him flatly, remembering the simulator. And how do you propose we do that, Mr. Tailor?

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Signals (1219 words) by maplesyrupptarmigan Chapters: 1/4 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Lance/Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt Characters: Lance (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Hunk (Voltron), Lance's Siblings (Voltron), Veronica (Voltron), Rachel (Voltron) Additional Tags: Lance & Rachel (Voltron) are Twins, Adam & Lance (Voltron) are Siblings, Pre-Relationship, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Trans Female Pidge | Katie Holt, Biromantic Lance (Voltron), Garrison Trio forever Series: Part 2 of Signals Summary:

Iverson was right. We're not a team, we're just a mess of—of mixed signals. His eyes lit up, electric blue glinting in the moonlight. Which is why, starting today, we're gonna start team bonding time. We're not a team, yet, but we can be. We just need to communicate better!

Pidge looked at him flatly, remembering the simulator. And how do you propose we do that, Mr. Tailor?

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The three-body problem (1637 words) by maplesyrupptarmigan Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Hunk & Lance & Pidge | Katie Holt, Lance/Pidge | Katie Holt Characters: Pidge | Katie Holt, Lance (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron) Additional Tags: Pre-Relationship, Pre-Canon, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Trans Female Pidge | Katie Holt, Colleen Holt is a supportive mother, Matt and Sam and Shiro are mentioned too Series: Part 1 of Signals Summary:

The three-body problem is the problem of taking the initial positions and velocities of three point masses and solving for their subsequent motion. Unlike two-body problems, no solution currently exists.

Or, Katie Holt becomes Pidge Gunderson. And, whether she wants to or not, makes some friends along the way.

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first (public) fic, blahblahblah. years on this hellsite and i still dunno how to use it. testing the waters on actually being publically active in spaces.

anyways, this fic is pre-plance shit. i dunno how good it is, or how "accurate" it is. it's a rewrite/canon-divergence, so i can do whatever i want, like making everyone explicitly queer.

if i actually knew how to use tumblr this whole spiel would be in the tags, but i refuse to do that. that's weird. kinda funky.