My god I bet you'll be the first one to hate the show once it hits the voltron downfall

i was in the vld fandom for 2.5 years and my favourite character was shiro. i don't think anyone who wasn't and who had a different fave can even begin to conceptualize the cluster fuck that was voltron. i don't think any show can even come close to the disaster that was voltron because they 1) broke every bit of their own purposefully established lore, 2) played into albeism and misogynoir to an absurd degree, and 3) did not know how to balance its ensemble cast, regularly sidelined its characters of colour to prop up a white boy's leadership arc, and by virtue of the way the story was structured, certain characters (like hunk, pidge) were completely stagnated for 6/7 and 5/7 seasons of the show because very few characters had over arching arcs and the ones that did took multiple seasons to make any real progress with.

This meant that there's very few seasons, partially due to the chopped up quality of 6-7 episodes > 13, and even then, where you can say "this character Changed." If anything stapling the seasons back together actually makes the cohesion worse planning wise, since S3 (aka where they broke the lore and when I almost quit the show) starts with Keith being made the new leader and if you include S4 in that, he leaves halfway through the season to do a completely different task. And I hated his leadership arc, but like - it's objectively poorly written, good god.

And I had a bad feeling about Voltron from episode 1 of season 2 because I felt like they weren't taking Allura's emotional continuity into account, and called every bit of bad writing S7 and S8 would have months before it happened, because those seasons were the result of 1) non sensical lore breaking and 2) scrambling for the half-assed plot to cover it up.

So TDP would have to sideline Callum and make N'than the new mage character, kill off Rayla and Ezran with zero lead up, and so much more to even come close (probably with some take of "Viren was 100% right to abuse Soren" offered completely uncritically as well). Amaya would lose all ability to be a general for no reason. Every single queer and/or disabled character would be brutally killed off/tortured repeatedly on screen. Don't even get me started on VLD's clone plotline and the druids, in which Haggar is revealed to be Altean, she and the druids practice Altean alchemy, and therefore they should also be Altean. And not only are the druids never explained, but the character who was tortured and experimented on for a year by them is passed over in fighting them to give spotlight to a character who slashes a sword at one of them one (1) time back in s1. I shit you not

AKA to give a sense of what TDP turned VLD would actually look like, please refer to this post

I would take three more season fours easily over any of that bullshit, and TDP would still be an infinitely better show than even TLOK

"You speak to me of weakness? You've become nothing more than one of the witch's monsters! Does she control you as well?" - Lotor to Zarkon, 5x02

This line says a lot. Lotor telling his father that he’s nothing more than a raving monster on someone else’s leash is deeply insulting. Not only does it further exemplify just how little Lotor thinks of Zarkon, it also speaks to his contempt for Haggar as well as acknowledges just how much power she has. Lotor hates Zarkon, but he hates his mother more and sees her as the bigger threat and therefore reserves more fear and caution towards her capabilities. 

This mentality also probably contributed to his prompt execution of Narti after realizing that she was a spy for his mother. Though it would have been hard to cut down a companion so easily, in that moment, he probably saw her more as a dehumanized puppet than a person and his fear of Haggar and the potential discovery of his plans outweighed his sentiments towards his general.

Lotor considers being someone’s puppet to be a weakness. A terrible fate for one who deeply desires freedom and agency such as himself, which is why he goes to such great lengths to avoid his parent’s authority. He desperately wants a sense of control over his life and would naturally fear being used by someone else, especially Haggar. 

And that’s exactly what becomes of Lotor. 

His worst nightmare became a reality as his body was used against his will as a vessel for further destruction he didn’t concede to and then readily disposed of. He was forced to become the obedient monster - a mindless weapon - of the one person he feared and hated most. I dearly hope he wasn’t conscious enough to realize that he was her prisoner but given how he was cognizant of Allura’s presence to some degree, I kind of doubt he even had that small mercy. For him, this would truly be a fate worse than death and one he did not deserve...

Me everytime a fandom show has a BIPOC Major character:

Hmm, are the writers underusing this character, or is the fandom just sleeping on them?

drawing self-ship art or writing self-insert fic is fun and good actually. the only people who think it's cringe are people who are allergic to having fun.

stop the allergens. rise above. draw yourself holding hands with your blorbos.

the concept for this is "what if voltron aliens were like, a little bit less humanoid." Galra (and alteans, not pictured) get to be the most humanoid because theyre main characters lol

[ID: various voltron aliens redesigned to remove many of their humanoid features. The Galra are largely unchanged; the only difference is that they have six limbs. Keith is demonstrating standing on four limbs; he looks not unlike a centaur, although the "horse" part is just a continuation of his body, not a horse (and is also the same color as his human skin, because it is human skin. sorry not sorry). Kolivan is demonstrating standing on two limbs, and towers over everyone else. Krolia is demonstrating standing on all six limbs, which looks uncomfortable but possible.

There is also an example of an Olkari; whose face is unchanged but now is built similar to a praying mantis; a Puigian, who retains the approximate locations of the face markings and horns but looks more like some kind of deer creature; an Arusian, which is built like a snail; and a mer alien, which now looks like a fish with hands and antennae. The Olkari is based on Ryner, and the mer alien is Plaxum. End ID.]

Gonna be a spicy taker for a sec again and say that i don't buy the 'i'm not a ped0 for being attracted to this character because they LOOK like an adult!!!' schtick because then the character designs they're talking about is literally.this

Adults in fandoms being obsessed with 'What REALLY counts as characters having a familial bond' to disprove relathionships in media from being platonic for their groody little ships is infuriating and twitch worthy to me specifically because i'm both someone with a partner and part of a friend group with tons intergenerationalness in it and we consider eachother siblings because of how close we are and how much we love and mean to eachother.'You can't prove they see eachother as actual family!!!!'And then their dynamics are deadass me and my irl found siblings and i know what regular siblinghood is like too because i'm an eldest who gets along with all his younger ones.Y'all can't even pull people romantically,much less have found family rizz so please be quiet and listen to the experts ty

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pierced through the heart but never killed

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Back when VLD was airing I couldn't take Klance and its shippers seriously because:

Klance shippers kept saying Lance was talking about Keith in his vlog when he was explicitly praising his crush, Allura and

Klance shippers arguing it was gonna be canon because VLD/LOK writers made Korrasami canon.

The Voltron fandom was genuinely insane.

This is from a Shallura shipper btw.

Lotor actually did nothing wrong…he’s just the victim of a narrative that’s told from the pov of a bunch of stupid, selfish teenagers 😔

I think we should all just be focusing on that fact that even Millie ships byler like— m*leven is bones

Getting friends into voltron is “DON’T. Seriously. Well okayyyyy but here’s the tea.”

"We need more media where nonblack characters have important relathionships with black characters that aren't overshadowed!!!"You guys couldn't even handle Nico and Hazel,then you couldn't even handle Lance and Allura,then you couldn't even handle Jason and Duke,then you couldn't even handle Hunter and Luz or Gus and NOW you can't even handle Gwen and Miles OR Hobie OR Jessica