Octoquincho

Let’s skip the flowery intros and get to the point, because this is important.

Lotor’s vindication and reunion with Allura were originally part of VLD s8 and I can prove it. Most animation relating to this plot was excised, while other clips were re-purposed to make it look like he was dead all along: but some are still in there.

The removal of this plot line was one of the major factors in completely messing up season 8, and it was a change that was made very recently; no earlier than August in fact. There is a significant, non-zero chance that an unedited version of Season 8 exists in its entirety; completely finished.

The evidence is below the cut.

Trigger Warnings: Gore - that image and discussion of it, body horror, sexism, and major character death.

I dare say I noticed a theme in VLD that Keith can’t utter “I love you” UNLESS HE’S JUST GOTTEN THE SHIT KICKED OUT OF HIM, and so this comic was born.

Extra:

Shiro has a wellness and lifestyle channel where his videos regularly feature videos of him working out (his favorites are martial arts and sparring, usually in very little clothing), his cooking failures (turns out you can’t cook everything in a microwave) and motivational videos.

Keith, loathe as he is to admit it, is completely smitten and regularly falls asleep watching his videos. It’s a crush that is safe because it won’t ever go anywhere even if it constantly earns him ribbing from lance and hunk.

At least until one day on his way to work when Keith sees a guy stuck on the side of the road with a broke down car. He pulls over to help and to his surprise the shock of white hair that pops out from beneath the hood belongs to Shiro.

Shiro, who it turns out is even more attractive in person and somehow exactly like he seems online (funny in the cheesiest way possible, easy to talk to and nicer than any normal person has any right to be).

Keith leaves two hours later covered in motor oil, having fixed Shiro’s car (but possibly done some damage to his heart). That night he falls asleep watching Shiro’s most recent video, painfully aware he now knows exactly what Shiro’s cologne smells like and what it feels like to have their pressed together from thigh to shoulder.

Keith can’t even muster up actual annoyance when he realizes he’d forgotten his favorite leather jacket atop Shiro’s car, not when it meant he’d got to spend hours with him.

Keith assumes that is that and goes about his day. At least until his phone begins to blow up with close to fifty messages from Lance screaming at him to check Shiro’s YouTube channel. Making excuses to duck out of the auto shop he heads outside and opens the app where he sees Shiro’s newest video and damn near has a heart attack.

Help me find my Cinder-fella

Yields

Focus

…right, Shiro?

Yes, it’s still possible to get posts to show up, but in the case of the search function, it’s only if they have no links - not even links to other Tumblr posts. For people like me who include links to other chapters in my fic so readers can get caught up on chapters they might miss, this is a huge problem. I basically have no choice but to include those links, or else I would make things massively inconvenient for my readers.

So why am I telling everyone this? Because this means reblogs are becoming more and more important to creators. With posts so difficult to find in searches and tags, reblogs are one of the few other ways for people to find new artists or writers.

You’re under no obligation to reblog my stuff, of course, but I want to put it out there why reblogs are so important to those of us who write/draw/create content.

Girls, taught to ignore their anger, become disassociated from themselves.

Anger is so successfully sublimated that girls lose the ability to understand what it feels and looks like. Is her heart racing? Does she feel flushed or shaky? Does she clench her jaws at night? Is she breaking out in hives? Does she cry for no reason? Laugh inappropriately during difficult conversations? Fly off the handle over something that seems inconsequential? You can see where I’m going here…those crazy girl hormones, right? Better to just think of it as a phase.