Like I'm sorry y'all I'm just as hyped for the new content as much as anyone but the second I heard Lauren Montgomery was the one directing the first animated movie my heart sank to my god damned stomach.

For those of you who don't know, Lauren Montgomery was one of the co-directors for Voltron: Legendary Defender with fellow LoK creative director Joaquim Dos Santos. For those of you who very fortunately were not on this god forsaken hellsite between the years of 2016-2018 VLD had this website by the god damned throat. From seasons 1 through debatably 6 it was a genuinely good, if weirdly paced show. Then from Season 7-8 the show went down the shitter. FAST.

To make a long story very short that can be easily explained much better than I ever could by a brilliant YouTube miniseries by The Sin Squad. Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos both had an original script that involved killing off one of the characters, but were forced by their production company DreamWorks to keep said character (It's Shiro.) Alive because DreamWorks correctly predicted that Shiro would become the favorite character of the show.

How did Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos react to this news that they had to re-write a heavy portion of the show just to keep Shiro alive? Well they made it work for Season 3-6 with minor jabs towards DreamWorks here and there. Yet the second they could get Shiro introduced fully back into the team on Season 7 onwards they do a litany of things ranging from pretty good to exceptionally bad.

Announce that Shiro actually died but we're gonna fudge with reality and our own universe to bring him back (cool I guess)

Instead of expanding upon Shiro's role as a leader and a character just designate him as a talking head and a wallflower until they get back to earth (Bad)

Upon getting back to earth, the show shoves a half-baked romantic subplot for Shiro involving another man whom we know Jack and Shit about only to have him be on screen for all of like 4 minutes, 3 of them he's fighting with Shiro, and the last 1 minute he's dying. Perpetuating the bury your gays trope yet again. (very derogatory and bad)

Take a character who literally could have been the champion of diversity in an animated show (A gay, physically disabled Japanese man suffering from PTSD) and turn him into a wallflower for what could have been a fantastic growth opportunity and just have him go through even more trauma all for shits and giggles. (Hatred)

LM and JDS both fully admitted that they did all of this and the reason for this being largely because of their resentment towards DreamWorks and they both regret how the show ended. (*Screams into the dark, cold, uncaring void*)

I do not mean this post to be an attack towards Lauren Montgomery. She has a family and loved ones who care about her, sh does not under any circumstances deserve harassment or threats. She is a professional writer who makes a whole lot more money than I do and is able to churn out a literal multi-million dollar franchise in less than 3 years. Even if said franchise crashed and burned in a way that is only comparable to the finale of HBO's Game of Thrones. She has the professional chops and I don't. I am not at all trying to say I could ever fix Voltron after the literal maelstrom of a shit storm it became with the fandom literally threatening to kill people over ships.

But I am never going to forgive her and Joaquim Dos Santos for what they did to Takashi Shirogane. Ever. And after hearing the announcement this morning that she's at the helm of this upcoming animated movie I cannot in good faith just sit by and let people not know what she has done. Yes you can call me a crazed Shiro Stan. You wouldn't be wrong. But Lauren Montgomery and Joaquim Dos Santos both tortured and maimed a disabled Japanese character and turned him gay only for the woke points and to create more pain. They never wanted to make Shiro gay in the first place because they never wanted Shiro to be alive at that point.

Hear me, my parents were some of the most homophobic and transphobic people I've ever met. The second something queer happened in a show they were watching and it wasn't, I don't know, queers being murdered or being hate-crimed, they would change the channel. Nevermind if they liked the show, they weren't going to even see something that could *slightly* be seen as respectful towards us queers. So two men looking longingly at each other in my computer screen was... Fuck, it felt so good. But then the rug would be pulled out from under my feet, homophobia would be back, and I could do absolutely nothing. Just wait until they would say something slightly queer-coded again while I had to deal with shitty homophobia and internalised it more, because it was coming from my favorite shows.

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first, i'm not a violent person. if you talk crap about me and threaten me with violence, sure. i'll rock your shit. but otherwise, i don't care. second, i will never believe that people should get death threats for their opinions, even if they're uneducated, stupid, and harmful to others. it's fighting fire with fire and just not helping anyone.

now that that's out of the way, in NO WAY do i support or agree with kacey. what she has said before is ableist, racist, rude, etc. she has used slurs, aave, and speaks for communities she has no right to. her "apology" was insincere and you could tell not only by the way she spoke, but how even after that, she kept using it. her and her friends/sister tried to force out dream's sexuality by gaslighting him, and forcing to out someone who has already stated before that they ARE NOT COMFORTABLE talking about it is bullshit. i saw someone also mention her friend said "all asians are racist", which as an asian woman i take *great* offense to. it's insensitive not only in general, but considering how much violence against asians is going on in the world today and in the news, it was very distasteful. like what the hell were they thinking? also making fun of dream's adhd and stutter??? are you kidding??? these are supposed to be grown adults and they're acting like they're in middle school. i know literal children more well behaved and mature than them. it's ableist and so freaking rude. you could tell how uncomfortable dream was. i agree with dream, toxic stans are not real stans. and kacey needs to realize that only a small percentage of mcyt fans are like that. she compared us to serial killers. literal murderers. we called her out for doing things she shouldn't, and instead of giving a sincere apology and setting a good example for her audience, she made everything about her and continued her behavior. she doesn't deserve a platform when she continually abuses it. i hope i didn't leave anything out or mis-interpret anything, if i did please let me know.

From what I know about it and the quotes I've seen from the show, it looks good. I heard there's queerbaiting, is that true? After Spn and the queerbaiting in it regarding destiel, though I dislike it cuz of how it was handled after s5 and other reasons I won't get into on this post.