#brownpuffball

Well friend, I wouldn’t call them queerbaiting yet since this is only the second season out of six planned seasons. I think it’s really important to establish them as characters before we jump into the romance stuff. Now on Voltron fandom, Shiro is very explicitly an Asian man and Voltron fandom keeps on insisting that he must be kept at an age and role that leaves him functionally sexless. Racist much.

nope, not really @brownpuffball or rather, if the fandom’s treatment of Shiro picks up aspects of racism it’s because they’re part and parcel of the rhetorical toolset that antis thoughtlessly pull all their arguments from

don’t let that obscure their primary motivation:  the policing of ships. given the diversity of the cast, you can see how blindly attributing racism to these accusations rapidly comes unhinged

now, as to the time aspect of queerbaiting, you have to remember that this is a multi-aspect accusation, built on showrunner conduct, known expectations, diversity rhetoric trotted out at cons, interviews, and social media, all conspiring together in the face of the fact that --

Exactly, you get it. All servants are great servants at level 100.

Thank you!!!! LOL yes, I have high expectations for this month!!

The 2012 Ramayan is on Netflix

The 2012 Ramayan is on Netflix

I understand where she's coming from though. It's easy to feel that way about the first person who seems to understand you. All the same, so glad he rejected her.

I’m also really sorry because I didn’t know that Hunk and Shay have been said to have a romantic arc so I was butting in from a place of insufficient information.

it’s all good!

Ah, I guess I might have been unnecessarily defensive because I’m also Asian so for that I apologize. I’ve always felt that policing ships is just a thing antis do for one thing - power. They want to exert power over the fandom by policing ships and headcanons. They also want to exert power over the staff by making demands and sending petitions. The intimidation tactics and harassment are just another tool of enforcement that they use to achieve that goal.

no worries! I didn’t read you as defensive, so there’s naught to apologize for

now the reasons why antis police ships gets a bit complicated and definitely has some individual psychology at work, but on the whole I think it’s important to maintain a good sense of the causative order within which these things take place

antis are effectively radicalized fans, ideologues, and ideology doesn’t spring out of a vacuum. but most antis, I have a feeling, don’t go into a new media property looking to bash folks. they have a framework that instead tells them whichever ship they like must be the Best and Most Moral ship while other opposing ships are Problematic