when voltron first started did any of you guys have “a character would be introduced who was clearly somewhat of a zuko-stand in, who was a victim of child abuse, but then went insane, got told by one of our mains that he was “just like his abusive father”, and 2 seasons later we get that same child abuse victim’s mangled horrible corpse shown to us on screen from behind” on your bingo card because I sure as hell didnt

im sorry but im still thinking about how pidge's gender reveal scene was framed as some kind of revolutionary trans moment when it was literally her coming out as cis

I don't like how the narrative focuses on Keith's mom as having left a bigger impact on him than his dad. Like, his dad raised him for the first few years of his life and then died in a fire would he not feel anything for him + just completely goes against the whole "found family, blood isn't everything" theme by making her come back in the first place

Me: yeah I'm rewatching vld :/

My friends: thats such a good show!

Me: ...did yall finish it?

My friends: no! Just up to season four :)

Me: yeah good place to stop

I hate when people say that vld's queerbaiting and lack of representation is "only natural" and that it was "progressive for its time". "its time" was 6 years ago. People act like queer people just started existing.

Season 6 of Voltron: Legendary Defender done. Thanks guys for telling me in advance what a disappointment it was gonna be. I hate it. It's as if Lotor underwent trauma- descent into madness- killer arc all in one episode and boom! Conveniently dead as well. Thank you writers. I hate it now.

I think I'm happy writing My Shotor fics in ao3. Don't need no canon to ruin me mental health more🥹

(They did to Lotor what GOT apparently also did to Dany)

Coran is such an underutilized character. I refuse to believe that he would allow Allura to not be able to believably effectively make diplomatic connections beyond saying “Voltron will be your savior!” or allowing Allura to be super racist towards Keith or allow Allura to be ignorant in how a political opponent like Lotor might just be blowing smoke up her ass

what are your thoughts on keith with more galran traits? if you had to give him a more galran appearance what would you give him? and for any other hybrids too, if you could add/remove some galra traits what would you add/remove?

Keith looks basically entirely human. He should have fangs and claws for sure…maybe pointy lil ears

No comments on the girls, but IMO Lotor would look pretty rad with red Altean marks.

(People have said this before, but it’s kinda fucked up that the “good” mixed race person looks entirely non-Galra, and the “bad” mixed race person is visibly Galra)

Oh god! I don't care what anyone says! I loved Allurance and it was a treat seeing their relationship bloom into such a powerful romance!

But oh my god! Did Lance and Allura deserve better than what they got!

Lance just becomes a farmer and Allura needs to sacrifice herself?

Imagine if Avatar the Last Airbender had to end with Aang sacrificing himself! Allura's death wasn't needed!

Lance and Allura deserved better and I will say that till my dying day!

Voltron Legendary Defender tried so hard to be the next Avatar the Last Airbender and it failed!

they dancing on Amor Prohibido by Selena (longer, fluffy hair and freckles Lance is my roman empire)

here is the link of the tiktok account if you want to say hi :

"the tendency of this fandom to only engage with what THEY want these characters to be#as opposed to what their creators are trying to do and the stories they want to tell" slap this on a bumper sticker, you just summed all cr discourse (about PCs at least) in 2 sentences

It truly is maddening (and it's not by any means exclusive to the CR fandom). The reason why the discourse always goes the way it does is that at the end of the day, the loud fanwanky people only see what they would do, if they were self-inserted into the story, as a valid choice; and they are, more broadly, fundamentally disinterested in what others think or feel. There are several examples of this, and the variety of spaces within the fandom that produce these ideas is an indicator that this isn't endemic to one specific group of people.

-Keyleth is an important character whose feelings and choices are validated by the other PCs and cast even if they still disagree with them, in spite of how she and her preachiness get in the way of the Murderhobo Jubilee? It's not because the cast are all friends and they genuinely believe Keyleth is valid and are interested in how these discussions and choices can guide the story. It's because Marisha is the DM's girlfriend, and also here's my totally unbiased theory that my pet favorite players Sam and Travis secretly hate Marisha and Keyleth.

-Vax's presence is still felt and nodded to in the post-canon VM oneshots? It's not because he was an important character who mattered. It's because Liam wants to make everyone talk about his tragedy because he has Main Character Syndrome. Scanlan Wishes for Vax to appear at the wedding? It's not because he cares about Vex or because Sam and Liam wanted a sweet tribute to Vex and Vax's relationship and by extension Liam and Laura's friendship. It's because Liam thinks Vex's life should always revolve around Vax, and Sam wants to enable him and jerk himself off as the one who facilitated it.

-Beauyasha and Fjorester become canon? It's not because the players wanted it and it happened naturally. It's because there was a secret behind-the-scenes push to "force" those ships to become canon instead, and like, Dani Carr is some sort of shipping puppetmaster who made the players do it, and "they" (whomever "they" is) decided to sink Beaujester or Widojest because it was "obviously" going to become canon before the pandemic hiatus gave them time to "make the corporate-approved ships happen".

-Beau and Caleb try to reform the Empire and dismantle the Cerberus Assembly from within? It's not because it makes sense for their stories or that people who would take this position regarding a corrupt government might have a valid perspective that differs from your own. It's because the people at Critical Role Productions LLC are all spineless neoliberal cowards who won't commit to real activism. The best activism, after all, is violent, and violent revolutions have always resulted in stable aftermaths, and the real world has never demonstrated that this mindset is foolish.

-Relatedly: Caleb doesn't kill Trent personally? It's not because the most poetic justice would be to deny Trent the thing he wants most from Caleb. It's because "Limo Brain" is too obsessed with tragedy to have the stones to do "what needs to be done".

-Asmodeus, DnD Satan, turns out to also be CR Satan? It's not because it fits with the cosmology and the lore; it's because Matt Mercer is too attached to the "establishment", and the Prime Deities should have actually turned out to be the bad guys because of my personal baggage about Western religion and Christianity they're a little mean to my blorbo sometimes.

There's a pattern here: fans had expectations that they'd built up for themselves after projecting and building up fanon and deciding what players meant before they explained themselves fully, and when the players strayed from that, they were derided for all manner of reasons. I think we're seeing that same pattern play out in C3 as the story progresses in a way that fans dislike, and in fact we have seen fanwank spread whenever someone does anything that interferes with personally catering to a) the favored ship and/or b) the favored philosophy. (Orym, Ashton, FCG, Percy, Pelor...all valid when they affirm the Fandom Opinions and all disdained when they don't.)

Don't get me wrong, I think there's a place for comfort stories that deliver a personal catharsis. And I'm not going to dismissively say "well if you want it so bad make your own" because, as an artist, I am very familiar with the fact that creating is hard and draining and sometimes you just need to consume instead. But when you become so wrapped up in yourself and your feelings to the point where your perspective is the only valid one, someone else's feels like a betrayal when it isn't. It's always "They aren't doing what we wanted and here's why they're terrible people because of it" and never "Hmm, why is this what the cast wants? Let's examine that."

This isn't a new phenomenon, but I think it ultimately stems from not assuming that other people can differ from you in major ways in good faith. There are a lot of reasons for that (some more understandable than others), but I think you rob yourself of the potential to enjoy something new when all you do is demand what you already want. No matter what you're doing or where you are in life, you tend to become a better and wiser person when you open your mind to what other people have to say, no matter how mundane the subject matter. Sometimes the stories people have to tell are challenging—and the only healthy way to deal with that is to engage with them on their own terms.

i used to be wickedly into voltron, i mean, i never interacted with the fandom barely except for maybe catnippackets' art but anyway i kept watching for a while, ever since it came out but when they killed allura i stopped watching because what the fuck was that for

NO LITERALLY EXACTLY 100%

I thankfully dodged apollo’s nuke because I watched the first season before literally AHYONE got into it but then. never finished the show until it was over and by then the fandom had died down. but YEAH ABT ALLURA

AND THE THING IS??? THEY COUKD HAVE EASILY SACRIFICED THE LIONS INSTEAD OF HER I FEEL. LIKE THEY SAVED THE UNIVERSE OR WHATEVER SO WHAT IS FHE NEED FOR THEM ANYMORE???? LIKE. I STILL DONT GET WHY THEY DENIED ALLURA OF ALL CHARACTERS A HAPPY ENDING AFTER ALL THAT. season 8 just fucking sucked and don’t even get me started on the epilogue 😶

i do feel like sexualising the spanish language, especially when it comes to latine characters, is an ongoing problem here... bc there's a clear difference between like. spanish speakers (and others for whom english isn't their first language) finding joy in seeing a character speak in their mother tongue and the idea that their romantic partner would appreciate it too because it's their culture and heritage and they love the way it sounds and their mannerisms when they speak it, vs white (non-spanish) people who are fetishising it by putting it in their smut to make things sexier

Last month I did the color wheel challenge and honestly it was so much fun!

Re editing my PowerPoint and this killed me

allura in the style of hades! i like to think she would be one of my favorite gods to get a boon from <3