🩸 Bad Things Happen Bingo 🩸
Feel free to suggest ideas for these prompts. instructions & info for which fandoms i write for below the cut 👍🏻
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2023 Year of Whump
For everyone who can’t commit to or is intimidated by a daily writing/art challenge, I present a different take on the whump writing/art prompt challenge, reframed for those who create slowly, inconsistently, and on crip time.
In this yearlong writing/art prompt challenge, you choose monthly or weekly. You can go back and forth between monthly or weekly each month. If you choose monthly, you can pick prompts from any week during that month. You’ll end up with anywhere from 12-52 completed contributions at the end of it. The weeks begin on Sunday.
Tag contributions with “2023 Year of Whump” and then “2023 Year of Whump January” (or another month) for any prompt done during that month, so people can see all contributions.
For each week’s available prompts, there are physical/sensory, emotional/psychological, environmental/situation, comfort/caregiving, and dialogue prompts (in that order). You are welcome to mix and match, use only one or a combination of any or all, and to interpret each liberally. You can interpret them creatively, and there are probably infinite possible ways to do so for each prompt. I suggest (but can’t really require) tagging descriptively to help people find content they’re interested in and/or filter out content in their squicks or triggers.
Choose your own adventure
January 1: caged / deceived / unemployed / whispered reassurances / “Who would ever believe you?”
January 8: restrained with belt buckles / abandoned / icy tundra / holding hands / “Save your tears”
January 15: experimental injection / threatening loved ones / warehouse / warm bubble bath / “I promise this won’t hurt”
January 22: grabbed in the dark / public humiliation / hospital emergency department / soft weighted blanket / “You must have imagined that, dear”
January 29: chained to a table / betrayal / end of a relationship / handwritten notes of encouragement / “I’m begging you; I’ll do anything”
February 5: impaled / death wish / jungle / home cooked meal / “Don’t leave me”
February 12: involuntary implant / feeling like a burden / museum / cat cuddles / “I don’t know who I am anymore”
February 19: lightheaded and faint / appeasing out of desperation / abandoned lighthouse / gentle wound care / “I’m your only choice now”
February 26: gunshot wound / trembling with fear / library with soaring shelves / leaving the lights on / “You’re home now”
March 5: emergency surgery / denial / palatial mansion / getting a private bedroom / “Don’t you know; I’ll always know where you are”
March 12: amputation / mockery / apocalyptic nuclear wasteland / firefighter carry / “Just keep looking at me”
March 19: severe fever / rejection / cocktail party / swaddled in blankets / “Do you have any idea what I’ve done for you?”
March 26: starvation / losing the last bit of hope / maximum security prison / getting pain medication for the first time / “Missed me yet?”
April 2: infected wound / resignation / forced to watch / tight hugs / “I promise I’ll be good”
April 9: tied to a pole in the sun / weakening resolve / bustling city square / standing up to threats and mockery / “There’s nothing to apologize for”
April 16: poisoned meals / death of loved one / cursed mountain / hot bowl of soup / “You’ll never get out alive”
April 23: branded / constant insults / forced labor camp / forced to participate / taking bullets in their place / “I’m doing this because I love you. One day you’ll understand.”
April 30: painful wound care / sarcastic defiance / psychiatric hospital / walking them home / “I don’t need help; I’m fine”
May 7: whipping / trying to hold back tears / airplane / offering a kind smile / “I wish it had been me instead”
May 14: tracking chip / hypervigilance / county jail / warm bread / “You don’t know who I really am”
May 21: drained of blood / violated / ancient ruins / soft slippers / “Not my face, please; I’m begging you”
May 28: shackled to a radiator / heartbroken / deconsecrated temple / back rub / “Be careful what you ask for”
June 4: gagged / ineffectual rage / soaring skyscraper in a glittering city / new, clean clothes / “I didn’t mean it; I’m sorry”
June 11: broken jaw / quiet despair / yawning canyon / going to appointments with them / “Oh you WILL be sorry now”
June 18: burned / rules with moving goalposts / arid steppes / whispered reassurance in public / “I don’t remember where that one came from”
June 25: drowning / losing grounding in reality / trash pit / offering a hand / “You’re hurting me; please”
July 2: kidnapped / ostracized / civil war / safe house / “I would say I’m sorry but then I’d be lying”
July 9: defenestration / stalking / shantytown / paying the ransom / “Don’t fool yourself; you LET this happen to you”
July 16: crushed hand / online harassment / courthouse building / cuddling / “You wanted this, didn’t you”
July 23: detonating bomb / existential dread / lakeside villa / getting a ride / “I know exactly what you need”
July 30: earthquake / homesick / horse barn / compliments / “Get up and walk.”
August 6: nausea / panic / dusty attic / human shield / “I don’t think I can stand up anymore”
August 13: collapsing building / exhaustion / mountain village / helping with food / “RUN.”
August 20: tied to another captive / desperation / public housing projects / new shoes / “You don’t have to pretend anymore”
August 27: strangled / overwhelmed and frozen in place / secret lab in basement / respecting boundaries / “You didn’t have to do this”
September 3: poison gas / screaming uncontrollably / left for dead / combing hair / “Everything I’ve done, I did it for you”
September 10: thrown against wall / painful involuntary spasms / mom’s house / rubbing shoulder / “Your life means nothing”
September 17: smashed kneecaps / dividing loyalties / seat of government / vigilante revenge / “I haven’t taken everything from you. Not yet.”
September 24: stomped on / lies / failed escape / watching TV together / “I promise I’m telling the truth; you have the wrong person!”
October 1: heavy shackles / separated from child / rapid-flowing river / getting a guard dog / “No matter what, you’ll always have me”
October 8: suspended by wrists / exiled / fortress / helping make good an escape / “I’m sorry; I didn’t mean to hurt you”
October 15: coughing up blood / detested by peers / train tracks / holding them up to walk / “Looks like you forgot something”
October 22: forced drugging / gaslit into doubting reality / university / financial support / “Sorry, I can’t hear you over the screaming”
October 29: collapsing to the floor / waking up from nightmares / big box retail store / baking cupcakes / “You’ll stop crying if you know what’s good for you”
November 5: handcuffs so tight they’re bleeding / discrimination / small town diner / proper medical care / “No one should have to go through this alone”
November 12: brutal beatdown / helpless / history repeating itself / having choices / “You look so pretty like that”
November 19: suffocation / bystanders refusing to help / schoolhouse / protection in public / “Just one more time, I promise”
November 26: stabbed / flashbacks / castle / reminders of home / “I can’t remember the last time I did this”
December 3: tooth knocked out / panic attack / boat / photographs from before / “Stay still, or it’s going to hurt”
December 10: forced to eat something vile / forgotten by loved ones / homeless shelter / help with paperwork / “Do it if you know what’s good for you”
December 17: electric shock / shivering / boot camp / verbal reassurance / “It’s for your own good”
December 24: stress position / filth / recording studio / wiping away tears / “It’s not as bad as it looks”
December 31: left out in the cold / disgrace / conference / foot washing / “I didn’t mean it; you have to believe me”
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I was thinking about Lotor and Keith interacting, pretty normal stuff but then I remembered that Galrans are from a planet that is 90% desert and that their view of what is beautiful - black hair fair skin - could have been influenced by that. Dark stuff absorb heat, that's why people who live in places with lots of sun are dark skinned! And idk, mayby lighter belly helps with camouflage? Or something?
BUT THEN I remembered lions and that lionesses prefer guys with dark manes beacuse - dark mane = lots of testosterone = aggressive =good protection for cubs.
Are the garlans the heat one, the testosterone one , both or something completely different?
Alright my loves, we’re going to use this opportunity to compile as much of my former fawning over Keith Kogane as is physically possible, so it’s yet another obnoxiously long post, but I’m going to put the majority of that under the cut for both my sanity’s sake and yours.
The (not even remotely) short answer is this:
The most common colouring of the galra populace is a range of purple tones, as what one would logically assume is a result of natural selection over many millennia, owing to their homeworld’s environment. We know, from what little we saw in canon, that Daibazaal was an arid planet comprised of a largely red-purple colour palette (by the looks of it, red skies over rocky terrain of a somewhat cooler, subdued hue, the appearance of which is obviously influenced by the abundance of red light).
I am personally of the opinion that the great desert wastelands that covered a vast majority of Daibazaal’s surface were comprised of purple sand, and so the most successful Byal & Kyx ancestors were those whose fur best camouflaged them against said sands as this allowed them to hunt with greater efficiency, increasing survival, potential to reproduce, and potential for their kitlings to survive and reproduce. The Aalk’s ancestors originated from Daibazaal’s mountains, the high altitudes of which meant that the air was thinner (simply put, the less air molecules there are the more transparent said air is, showing more of the black space), and as a result this would have slightly darkened the sky to a deeper shade, turning red to - you guessed it - more of a purple. The Dox hailed from Daibazaal’s dense jungle areas that were darker due to the thick foliage, the leaves of which were commonly red meaning that the thick canopy bounced more red light and so the undergrowth was lightly deprived of it.... so again the galra saw more success in those members of their species that most closely matched the purple tones of their environment.
...which is a very long-winded way of explaining that the galra as a whole evolved to be a purple people, basically, in the same way that many creatures match their environments (if you google ‘desert mammals’ for example, you’ll see that they all share much the same sandy colour palette despite their physical diversity).
So building on that, the general galra sensitivity to light (see (3.) below) means that they tend to favour rich, dark, highly saturated colours over pale pastels which bounce light more easily. If we combine this with what you’ve said about dark manes in lions generally being an indicator of higher testosterone levels (which I didn’t know, but love because it fits in perfectly with everything else I’ve developed) then the evolutionary line would likely be influenced by darker galra being more attractive partners on both a superficial level, and a practical one. As well as increased aggression and competitiveness, additional benefits of healthy testosterone levels include: better heart function, increased muscle mass, stronger bones, and even improved spatial cognition (this being how people acquire and use knowledge about their environment to determine where they are, how to obtain resources, or how to find their way home)... All of which, as I’m sure you can imagine, would be greatly coveted among a warrior people such as the galra.
The long (I say, as if the above isn’t that) and pre-established answer, is as follows:
I just finished watching The legend of Vox Machina and I’m obsessed !! 😱😱😱 I need season 2 like yesterday 😂 Vax & Grog are my favourites 💖💖
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AroAce Keith Masterpost
Valentine’s Day is a struggle for a lot of aromantic and asexual people out there, including me. So I’m making this compilation of my fics that feature aroace Keith in hopes of providing some comfort, or at the very least, distraction.
- Not Another Goddamn Love Story
- Picking Up the Pieces
- The Ace Arms of Voltron
- Dented Armor (Dark)
- Don’t Try to Fix Me (I’m Not Broken) (Dark)
- If You See Something… (Dark)
- Gentron Week 2k19: Two Can Keep a Secret
- Gentron Week 2k19: Oh My God They Were Roommates
- Gentron Week 2k19: Dressed to Impress
- Whumptober 2k19: All the Same in Love and War
- Discord Prompts: Heartache
There’s also an AroAce Keith Zine! I had the honor of participating along with several other talented writers and artists. It’s FREE TO DOWNLOAD as a PDF and as a Heyzine.
For more AroAce Keith content, check out @justheretobreakthings
Ooh! So what if you did Held At Gun Point. With Keith being held at gunpoint and maybe Lotor is holding the gun and to save Keith's life the other paladins have to make some sort of deal with Lotor (probably giving up the lions)
But With a Twist - Lotor is going to kill keith either way. He told Keith that himself.
~Held at gunpoint ~
Lotor was getting impatient, his plan to get the lions was taking far to long. He’s been on the castle of lions for almost one earth year it was time for a new plan. Of course Keith was the only paladin who didn’t trust lotor, unfortunate really as Keith was the only paladin lotor believed was worth fighting. Lotor hated to admit it but their ability’s we’re almost identical, if anyone would cause a problem for him in the long run it would be Keith. That’s when it hit him ! He could fix two problems at once. Lotor was quick to grab his sword and head to the training deck.
Of course Keith was there just as lotor had hoped he would be. Lotor knew skill when he saw it so the pair sparred for a while before lotor lunged forward a pulled Keith towards himself with Keith’s back flush with his chest. Lotor wrapped his arm around Keith’s throat keeping him close in a chokehold. Once Keith had let down his guard dropping his bayard in defeat lotor put away his sword and pulled out his gun placing the barrel to the side of Keith’s head. He bent down slightly and whispered in Keith’s ear.
Lotor - I guess you where right about me after all keith ...
Keith - Why are you doing this ?
Lotor - Because your the only paladin that worries me and quite frankly I’m bored by these waiting games.
Keith - All you wanted was the lions !! I knew we shouldn’t trust you lotor ! The paladins will never give you the lions
Lotor - Perhaps, but they won’t be so quick to say no if your life depends on it now will they ?
Keith - I ...
Lotor - Of course you’ll die either way. I’m afraid that your fighting skills are too much of a problem for me to allow you to live.
With that lotor began on his way down to the main control room where the other paladins where. The huge doors slid open, the paladins stood frozen for a moment before they cautiously stepped towards lotor. Shiro was the first to speak...
Shiro - Lotor what are you doing?!
Lotor - Give me the lions and your little paladin here gets to live, refuse and he dies.
Keith- Don’t ! Don’t give him the lions, you know he will kill me either way ! Shiro... look at me ... it’s ok
Shiro - Keith I ... we have to try ...!
Keith- NO ! Promise me Shiro ! Don’t give him the lions !
Lotor - Enough! Give me the lions or he dies !
Shiro’s eyes flicker between Keith and the team. Allura nods and Shiro tells lotor he can have the lions. Lotor let’s him go and Keith drops to his knees gasping for air but he knows that lotors not done with him yet. Once all five lions are loaded onto lotors ship he waits until all eyes are on him and lines his gun up with Keith’s head. Keith and the paladins realise a moment to late that the bullet is heading straight for Keith. Lotor watches the bullet go straight through Keith’s head.
Blood splatters everywhere as Keith falls to his knees as the blood continues to drip down his face. His body starts going numb as his eyes roll back and close slightly and his body slumps to the ground. His lifeless body lays in a pool of crimson and his skin pales in comparison. Shiro places a hand on Keith’s cold skin tears rolling down his face, he slowly rests his forehead on Keith’s bloody check and whispers softly in his ear ...
Shiro - I’m so sorry Keith, I was supposed to protect you. I failed you I’m sorry. I ... I promise I’ll get you back to earth and you’ll be buried next to your father, you’d like that huh ....
Lance placed a gentle hand on Shiro’s shoulder before whispering a “You did good by him Shiro, we gave him a family that’s all that matters.” The rest of the team let there sobs and tears flow freely now ... They all made a vow that they would get the lions back and save the universe to make Keith proud, then they would get him home to be with his father where he belongs.
{Word Count - 707}
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Long awaited Keith x Veronica edit as requested, also what would their ship-name be?
From our Instagram @/bravepaladins
So many good tropes on your card, it’s hard to choose! But I think I’ll go with Left for Dead, with Keith as whumpee of course and maybe Shiro as the main caretaker. Could be that Keith loses a battle against a Galra or two during a mission, and they leave him for the Paladins to find…or for some extra angst, the Paladins have to leave Keith behind on a mission and believe him to be dead.
~ Left for dead ~
The paladins where on planet Naxzela. Their mission is simple enough get in, find the information they need and get out. If only the mission was going as smoothly as it should be, the paladins where out numbered the second their feet touched the planets surface. The galra where ready for them, as if they knew the paladins where coming. After what felt like hours of fighting against the Galran soldiers the battle was lost and the paladins where captured and placed in a small cell. Now all the paladins knew not to panic but of course when one of your own is badly injured the panic settles itself in the pit of your stomach before you even notice the feeling. Keith was clutched close to Shiro’s chest while he attempted to calm him. Shiro’s attempts where doing very little to distract Keith from the pain seeping throughout his whole body.
The longer the paladins stayed in the cell the weaker Keith got and the more distressed he became. Suddenly there was a loud explosion coming from the other side of cell block. From the smoke of the explosion three rebel fighters emerge telling the paladins to follow them. Unfortunately however the guards came quickly and began shooting at the rebels and the paladins. The Galran guards blocked the only way of getting back to where Keith was, there was no way to get to him.
Rebel 1 - Paladins there is no time, we must leave...
Shiro - No ! We can’t leave without Keith. There has to be a way to get to him, he’s injured we can’t leave him he has no way to defend himself not in his current state.
Pidge - Shiro the galra are blocking the only way to get to Keith ! We need to move, NOW !
Rebel 1 - The green paladin is right, there is no other way to get to the red paladin. We must leave without him ... I am sorry but we must go !
Shiro - B... but , we ....
Lance - We will come back for him Shiro , but first we need to get out of here and back to our lions then we can come back and save Keith!
Shiro - Fine ! As long as we come back for him !! He’s my brother I’m not letting him die here !
Keith used all the strength he had left in an attempt to beg the others for help but his voice was far to quiet to grab their attention and was lost amongst the sounds of blasters firing and shouting. All he could do now was lay helpless on the ground of the cell and hope the paladins came back for him. He realised he had yet to check over his injuries himself to out of it at the time, now was a good a time as any. Keith slowly sat himself up leaning against the cell wall for support and looked himself over. He was in worse shape than he thought, his armour was cracked and covered in blood, his under suit was completely shredded and he had huge gashes in his side and on his legs. His body ached, he was far to weak to move and his eyes have began to droop closed slowly over time. He has no idea how long he’s been out but it must have been quite a while since he’s no longer in the cell he was before, now he’s in a small room with nothing but a toilet, sink and a bed. He’ll admit it’s more than he’s seen in other galra prison cells so at least there’s that.
The paladins reached the lions and just in time as four large Galran cruisers entered the planets atmosphere. The paladins got so caught up in the battle that they hadn’t been able to get to Keith for quite some time. Now however the galra fleets where gone and the paladins raced back to the cell they left Keith in. They looked around the empty cell with wide eyes nothing but Keith’s blood that had stained the floor was in the room. Keith was gone ... he was probably dead, the injuries he had sustained where bad and the rate he was losing blood was not a good sign.
Sometime after the mission on Naxzela the paladins where searching a Galran cruisers cells for pidge’s dad and brother. That’s when they saw Keith and their faces fell .... why hadn’t they looked for him ? They had assumed he was dead and not even bothered to look at the possibility he was alive. Though he was alive he was in bad condition by the look of his pale sweating skin his wounds where infected, they needed to get him back to the castle and into a healing pod.
Once Keith was ready to exit the pod Shiro was there ready to catch Keith as the pod released him. Shiro’s mind wander while he waited, the guilt of not looking for his brother, the one person who never for a second be-lived he was dead was starting to settle back in the pit of his stomach. He didn’t have long to dwell on it though as Keith fell into his waiting arms and looked up at him sadly.
Shiro - Let’s lay you down Keith, you need to rest.
Keith - O..ok Shiro ....
Shiro slowly helped Keith over to the nearest bed in the med bay and laid him down gent. Shiro laid beside Keith soothingly running his human hand through Keith’s messy hair while his Galran hand ran his thumb over Keith’s knuckles. The actions must of comforted the younger paladin because Keith slowly fell into a deep, restful sleep nestling his head on Shiro’s shoulder.
{Word Count - 951}
Im a sucker for whump with a somewhat happy ending so here is the first square of my bad things happen bingo ! Hope you like it @actress4him 💖
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Prompt - Blood loss
The mission was simple all Keith and the other paladins had to do was buy Kolivan and a few other blade members some time to break into the Galra ship. Easy right? Apparently not.
Keith had gotten separated from the group during the first fight when they arrived. Keith had been running in what felt like circles for god knows how long but as he turned a corner he was met with five druids. The druids pointed their magic directly at Keith who drew his blade ready to fight. The magic from the druids sliced up his legs with no mercy, by the time Keith had gotten close enough to the druids to strike he was too weak to hold himself up. In one final sweep one of the druids sliced Keith's legs from under him, he let out a scream and slumped to the ground.
Keith must have lost consciousness for a few moments because when he opened his eyes the druids had disappeared, Keith felt at his head to call for help but of course, his helmet was on the other side of the room. He used the little strength he had left to pull himself towards his helmet. Keith managed to reach his helmet but the energy he used to get to it was all he had left because before he was able to put it on he was slipping into darkness again, consciousness slipping from his grasp.
The paladins had attempted to check in with Keith after realizing he was missing from the team. They feared the worst and well they were right too because on the other side of the huge galra base Keith was bleeding out. Pidge was able to lock onto Keith's armor's signal and the paladins followed quickly behind her.
The paladins first saw Keith's unconscious body sprawled out on the floor but it was lance who noticed the pair of legs on the opposite side of the room and the trail of blood that ran between Keith and the legs. Once lance informed the team the paladins were quick to move into action.
Once Keith was safely inside the castle Coran concluded that the druids had used magic to cause the damage and although Altean tech is progressive it does not possess the ability to re-grow limbs. Coran also mentioned that if Keith was to survive he would need a blood transfusion the pod could sustain him for now but not forever. Lance Knew what he had to do, he informed Coran that he could give Keith a blood transfusion because he was an O blood type and could donate to anyone. With the green light from lance Coran raced to gather the amount of blood Keith needed. Once the blood had been collected Coran removed Keith from the healing pod and hooked him up to the machine pumping Lance's blood into Keith's veins. After what felt like forever Coran came out of the med bay informing the paladins that the blood transfusion was successful and that Keith could now finish healing in the healing pod. Shiro and lance both let out a large breath they hadn't noticed they were holding.
Kolivan was the first of a few blades that came to see Keith in the healing pod. Kolivan approached the pod slowly easing down next to it, he placed his head and right hand on the outside of the pod and a single tear escaped the corner of his eye. The paladins watched on confused by the sudden and rather out-of-character show of emotion shown by Kolivan. A masked blade stood beside the paladins and explained that he and a few other blades had noticed an unusual bond forming between the two.
----------- Two weeks later -----------
Kolivan hadn't left the castle of lions med bay since Keith had arrived even appointing Thace as temporary head of the blades in his absence. Coran had announced this morning that Keith would be exiting the pod this afternoon now that his wounds had fully healed and the paladins began crowding around the pod. All the paladins jumped at a sudden low growl escaping who they can only assume were Kolivan's lips as they grew closer to the pod. Before anyone could mention the growl the pod slid open allowing Keith to fall into Kolivan's waiting arms.
Coran had ushered everyone out except Kolivan who refused to leave Keith's side and allowed Keith to settle before telling Keith the news of his now missing legs. The other paladins held their breath on the other side of the med bay doors awaiting the reaction of the news. The hallways where silent for a brief moment before a pain filled sob echoed through the castle followed by soft purring which seemed to be coming from a much older and ruff voice than Keith's. Kolivan was seen purring softly to Keith which seemed to calm the sobbing boy drastically.
{ WORD COUNT - 819 }
I’m re-watching Voltron legendary defenders for like the 10th time 😂😂
Anyone else have the problem of having really cute ideas for fandom drawings but can’t act draw so they never turn into anything 🥴🥴🥴
Kolivan and Keith are such an underrated / unused ship and I love them 🥰 if anyone has written / found any good fan fics based on Kolivan x Keith feel free to drop a link to me 💜💜
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Voltron: Legendary Defender Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Keith & Kolivan (Voltron), Keith/Kolivan (Voltron) Characters: Keith (Voltron), Kolivan (Voltron), Lance (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt Additional Tags: Valentine’s Day Summary:
Kolivan learns about an Earth holiday meant for couples. After being apart from his mate for so long, he finds this is the perfect chance to show how much he is cherished. Now if he could just figure out why humans gave each other hearts of all things.
I have stories spread out all over the place between here, AO3, and the Voltron Amino. On that note here is a V-Day Kolieth I made for the Voltron Amino. I’m just now posting it on AO3 and here. My bad.