Zarkon and Lotor are the token cishets

honestly sooo many of the irl girls of color with whom i watched it were only interested because it had brown main characters who look good. vld drawing in non-white viewers with its diverse cast and then devoting half its runtime to white darlings keith and pidge farting about on their own sidequests while fans of color have to remind the showrunners that hunk and lance exist is so… disrespectful

Look, I’m not someone that usually gets involved in this sort of thing but um…

What if the comet the lions were made from chose Daibazaal (the home of the Galra) specifically?  The Black Lion did take Shiro to see Daibazaal and Shiro said, “Was this your home?”

Maybe this is why Lotor can use the Black Bayard so well?

Black Paladin Lotor

also

#I’M GONNA FUCKING EAT A CACTUS GOD

see, we’re going to end with Keith on the Galra throne, only this time the shot will be all light and beautiful, and Voltron standing triumphantly behind the throne. the message clearly being that Lotor failed because he was part-Altean, and the Alteans are the true oppressor race.

allura controlled the castle ship, and even though shiro was the black paladin, leader of the lions, he looked up to allura for confirmation on whether to go ahead with plans. he was an in battle strategist to allura’s overall plan to undergo a mission and to see how that’d played out. it’s rare as hell to see a grown man respect the leadership of a teenager, but that’s what i loved about their dynamic. there was mutual respect between the two, and they realized each others strengths.

jump ahead to season 3. shiro’s gone, so you’d think the only other person to take his spot would be allura, right? WRONG. keith, the most temperamental, the most stubborn, and the most lone wolf out of the entire team is chosen despite allura’s obvious leadership abilities which is dumb. because instead of spending the arc focusing on keith fucking up with leading, we could’ve focused on allura’s frustration with piloting the black lion, it’s differences from piloting the castle, and how piloting zarkon’s lion—the man who killed her father and planet— would be on her emotional toll. shiro and allura are the only ones who has a connection to zarkon that’d make piloting the black lion interesting. keith… has none. 

(allura being in the red lion would be shitty for her ‘supposed’ arc about her being her own leader, because she’s still following her father’s footsteps. i would’ve still kept the rejection of the red lion in for her though to cement this, but i am still anti red paladin allura for that reason.)

many people say she’s better off in a paladin position, and i think having her as a paladin for a season or two would allow her to bond in a way with the paladins she couldn’t before. one of her flaws in season ½ was pushing the paladins too hard, which is understandable, but it’s still a flaw. having her be put in that role and becoming frustrated and understanding why they acted that way would have improved her leadership for when she went back to the castle, but that wasn’t the case.

voltron fandom side 2: id like to see you try

voltron fandom side 1: okay

Dirty Laundry memes everywhere (which was really confusing if you, like me, have never read the fic) 

“Lance is going to die and have his quintessence stored in Blue” theory

Every single Klance playlist featuring the song “Haven’t Had Enough” 

#RedrawLance

Shipping discourse that led to someone calling up their lawyer or something

Tumblr user sinningpaladin pretending to be an intern from Dreamworks 

Lactose intolerant keith 

who the fuck is kevin / kevin kogun 

Pidge but she sounds like gremlin pidge from 80s voltron 

Keith/Lance suggestion blogs 

MATT “I KNOW YOU LOVE THOSE PEAS, DAD” HOLT 

also his dad, samuel “pea” holt 

Keith? cryptid hunter or cryptid himself? both??

Valentine’s poems but klance 

Spideypool klance 

Klance jokes based on the words “cradle” or “bond” bc the bonding moment was the only klance content we had back then 

Gifsets of Shrek/Lance + Barry the Bee/Keith + Shiro/Lightning Mcqueen (x)

Post-season-2 when someone made a post about how she!th has never been more alive which subsequently lead to the longest thread of people adding on the single quote “shiro you’re like a brother to me” 

Swiss roll shiro

Pining keith playlist 

KERMIT pining Keith / kermullet 

Thace is Keith’s dad 

“Voltron characters as ________” (it’s usually something weird like shoes or dogs) 

“shiro breasted boobily”

Paladins’ fashion discourse (objectively, they all suck) 

-”move it sh@ladin”

-the keith’s middle name discourse

-the ‘is keith white or not’ discourse

Everyone taking sides on either shiro or lance dying in s2

Every klance playlist having “Colors” by Halsey and/or that one Troy Sivan (him? For him?)

“Oppa gangnam style” - Keith

Everybody stanning Keith’s “knife obsession”

Greasy keith

The Unofficial guidebook provoking 3 things:

(a) age discourse (again) bc the book said Keith was 18 so sha//ies JUMPED (aka “klance is pedophilia bc keith is an adult and lance isnt uwu” despite there still being a less than one year age difference, them both being teenagers, and the book being unofficial, but i digress)

(b) “keith likes hippos!! thats so cute uwu” vs “keith is dumb as SHIT for thinking a hippo can fit in a crytopod”

© the book not saying where keith is from, just saying hes “half galra” which drove everyone batshit

The 8 month hiatus between s5 and s6 where like. At least a quarter of the fandom dropped

Chartron :3 (rip fallen soldier ✊😔)

The rise and fall of shlav

“Shatt” (just the name, but the rise and fall of that too)

“How many titties does slav have”

Im just gonna type dirty laundry again bc. That was such a big part of the early days geez

Call me, beep me

On thin ice

What a healing pod cant repair

Nothings quite as sweet

Back when Galra Keith was just a theory and people would get legit anon hate for believing and writing about it 

Back when Galra Keith was a theory and every Galra Keith design was just a fursona, and 90% of the Galra Keith fanfics had some furry bs like knotting

The suggestion blogs (may they be happy, whereve life has led them)

People going crazy over season two’s trailer thinking Shiro would die 

The horoscope discourse before the birthday’s were revealed

People trying to guess who’d be the next to have the birthday revealed 

Shiro Is Six memes 

I know y’all already mentioned Dirty Laundry but jesus fucking christ, I don’t think you understand, it was impossible to avoid it. It was everywhere. People would read it just because everyone else was reading it was awful

When someone edited the wikia pages to call Shiro “Space Dad”, state that Lance is bisexual, and proceeded to delete everything on Keith’s page to say nothing but “He’s gay”

People would edit Pidge’s gender and pronouns on her wikia so many times they had to lock it down after like 2 weeks

-”fuck you stop excluding people” copypasta

-queef cocaine

-keith is obsessed with warrior cats 

-that one video of lance with bob burgers audio, u know the one

-”what if shiros hair was alive?”

-editing keith really, really weirdly

Shadam feels like Klance for the first time