#sockdooe

What is the L/K "queerbait" I keep seeing people complain about? Did something major happen between Lance and Keith in seasons Five and Six-- like, they leaned in toward each other as if they were going to kiss only for it to be a gag/fake out?

I watched five seasons of this cartoon and saw absolutely no hint of anything baity with those characters.

Though I do see the validity in claims that fans were baited by Adam's significance in the show being hyped up

only for his actual role to not amount to much more than another means of hurting Shiro, this, in my opinion, is the closest the show got to genuinely baiting its audience:

There's no reason to animate Keith moving in for a hug this way, other than to give the impression that he was about to kiss Shiro like he's the fairytale prince to Shiro's Sleeping Beauty.

i never mind shance!! tsym i had so much fun lmao

Genuinely your one of my favorite artists and I always love your work :,)

Aww!! ;w; Always a joy to see your name pop up on my activity feed, friend!

It’s ok if you don’t!

my friend, i ALWAYS would like to converse about shance. if shance has a million fans i am one. if shance has one fan it is me. if shance has no fans? i’m dead.

do you have any headcanons you like? i can think of a couple.

lance likes to sleep in but shiro is an early bird. so often shiro will wake lance up with the smell of freshly brewed coffee and breakfast cooking on the stove.

they work around the same area, so often they will have lunch together on their breaks. sometimes if shiro is having a particularly busy day, lance will stop by and bring him lunch so that he remembers to eat.

@sockdooe, I think that person was attempting to argue, with some exceptionally odd choice of words, that Sheith shippers are "nasty", because Shiro and Keith first met when Keith was a child. I assumed, based on the seven year age-difference and the fact that Shiro and Adam were cohabitating and headed toward engagement, that Shiro was at least twenty-one and Keith was fourteen and a high school freshman, when Shiro came out to Keith's school.

Not Shiro eighteen and Keith twelve.

Steven Yeun's voice was pitch-shifted in the flashbacks, but not enough to suggest that Keith hadn't even started puberty, yet. And, I don't think even fictional military academies recruit middle schoolers to be communications experts, data analysts, engineers, and pilots.

The majority of Shiro/Keith shippers only ship them in the context of both of them being legal adults, anyway, so I thought we were largely past the Keith/Shiro shippers are "pedophiles", angle.

Evidently not.

I guess I was giving this fandom too much credit.