Gonna Give The Gayliens Everything They Want

And the prompt list for the 10 year vld anniversary is officially live!!

What is it? A month long event celebrating the 10 year anniversary of Netflix's Voltron Legendary Defender

When is it? The Fest will be hosted from May 12th to June 10th 2026, so it'll be held over 30 days

How can I participate? By creating fanworks based on the prompt list, this can range from just doing one or two prompts over just doing the golden or going all out and completing the whole list

What are those golden days anyways? Those are prompts focusing on you and your relationship to the show. Feel free to use them to highlight your fav aspects or to chat about them

Okay but how do I get my work linked to the event? By either @-ing us directly or using the #vldtenyearanniversaryfestday[current date]. There'll also be an AO3 collection and a discord channel (both will be linked once available)

So our rules:

and most importantly we're all here to have fun so please understand that the rules are a way to ensure that

This is an open to all Fest we will not be tolerating bullying for any reason be it ships/headcanons/whatever. There is no except fors or buts in this, this is a multiship friendly event

The use of LLMs ("Gen AI") is strictly prohibited for this event

Please be sure to tag content warnings if they apply uncensored, so people's personal dashboard curation actually works

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR REQUEST AND SO SORRY FOR BEING SUPER LATEEE

OMg this was definitely a challenge!!! Your request was sitting in my inbox for so long and today I just randomly thought of it and then ... Idk I decided to draw it out of the blue 😭

Anon, there’s a point here where I’ll agree with you and there’s a point where I won’t.

The point I’ll agree with people: Morally, Lotor did wrong. Draining the Alteans was murder. In fact, it’s in sympathizing with Lotor and looking at his emotions and his behavior that I think we see the clearest in-universe condemnation of that decision.

Lotor basically shows a huge amount of shame about this entire issue. He tells the entire colony nothing’s going wrong, but at the same time, the dead Alteans are given a memorial. Even when he’s completely angry at Allura and stops trying to ask for her forgiveness he justifies it only in terms of necessity- Lotor at his most generous to the colony thinks of it as a necessary evil. When he really feels like he has to defend his choice, he basically does so by snarling about how Alfor and Voltron weren’t there to protect him or any of the other Alteans- that he, and his solution that would cost a significant number of their lives, were their only option.

That’s the tone of someone who would have really loved it if he felt like there was a better answer, but, as far as he could tell, there wouldn’t.

Here’s my first issue:

because if you refill them with random quintessence they will be new people completely.

See I guess it bugs me because I feel like a large amount of the appeal of Lotor’s character hinges on him being someone who earnestly wants to be a hero, but is conflicted by this calculating, bitter survivalist’s instinct that if he doesn’t take his, right now, and guarantee his own power, he’s not safe, the universe is gonna rip him to pieces.

We see that Lotor commits to heroic values in environments and contexts where they don’t win him any points- that was a huge part of s3e1. At that point, Throk doesn’t mention that Lotor himself is a “half-breed” and thus never going to be good enough in the empire’s eyes no matter what he does- he just talks up how Lotor’s too compassionate, too diplomatic, too cooperative- he refuses to get with the empire’s “program”.

But we also unquestioningly see Lotor do harm, and, as a Lotor fan, I think the rush to cast aspersions on the colony bothers me because in order to paint Lotor as blameless, you have to discredit his own words on the subject.

Though admittedly, that’s my second line of defense, because my first line is- “isn’t it kind of deeply uncomfortable in our current climate to accuse a teenage girl of lying about being hurt by a comparatively older and more entrenched guy?” because sure Lotor’s an underdog in a lot of areas but Romelle is about one of the only people in the cast he legitimately had a lot of power over. Especially considering Lotor himself doesn’t attack, threaten, or try to discredit Romelle once, even if him doing so would have saved his bacon there- instead he basically opens with “she’s telling the truth but I want to personally explain” and at a later point he pretty much says he doesn’t blame the paladins for being revolted by what he did.

Which, talking a little more about Romelle, I’m willing to accept as a possibility (though I don’t think there’s that much evidence for it just yet) there might be more complexity to the colony story, but I really doubt Romelle’s a liar here for three reasons.

Here is my theory: Dayak is Galra-Altean.

Honestly, anon, I’m so glad you asked, since I have a whole headcanon with minimal canon warping that I go off of for Narti and her backstory.

A lot of that involves this handsome fella from s8e3.

Here’s the thing.

Regarding this individual, who I decided to name since canon doesn’t. I call him Avki. We’re told a couple of things about Avki, mostly by Lahn:

We’re told Avki was either synthesized or heavily altered by the empire and was intended to be a weapon

This didn’t work out as intended, because Avki proved aggressive to any and all galra.

We also know a couple of things. Avki is sapient: he is able to hold a conversation with Keith. This also tells us that Lahn is lying when he says that Avki failed as a weapon because it is indiscriminately aggressive. Because Avki obviously evaluates Keith.

Ozar is busy working on a new toy for his daughter to play with. Something she’d found on the ground after the kiddos decided to accompany the adults on a cargo run ((All returned but noticeably dusty and dirty from hiding)). Ozar is focusing on the little interior while Bur-Ban stands by giving some thought on what to do.

Maybe incorporating a light stick for night time uses. (No, Ozar won’t. He’s worried Haylee might run off into the wilderness.)

Nai is watching his uncle work. Both of the kids are excited but Nai wants to see if it can fly. It cannot.

Clip studio paint- 5 days (in total )

Below—Bonus progress photos

It has Ozar so it made me finish it. I get like that when I think bout him and I don’t know if it’s a blessing or curse

Child! Cairis and Older! Rocket done for @cairis-in-the-field and @rise-abxve!

These were two full body flat color digital art commissions that were commissioned by @silvarbelle !

Keith: (งಠ_ಠ)ง ^^^

I understand you Shiro.... the Galras are so hot🫦

I'm getting more and more addicted to drawing galras💜