#vld fandom problems

Kl@nce shippers are often awful, but saying that Kl@nce is a bad ship for bad people is not okay.

Kat.aang shippers often attack Zutarians, but that doesn’t mean we should say “Kat.aang is pedophilia/incest and therefore no one should be allowed to ship it because it’s morally wrong” because at the end of the day it’s fiction and people can ship whatever they want. You certainly shouldn’t say “Kat.aang shippers are incels and boymoms,” because that’s actually engaging in harassment yourself.

Perca.beth shippers will go after any ship that isn’t canon, but that doesn’t make it okay for anti-Perca.beths to say “you can’t ship it because it’s abusive and if you like it you like abuse” because again, that’s harassment.

And you certainly shouldn’t punch down on people whose ships you consider “really” problematic. Like the Zutarians who hate on Reylos, and the Sheith folks who mocked Shidge shippers.

headcanoning/theorizing that Shiro and Keith, who have a close bond and obviously knew each other before the story began, who Canonically see each other as brothers and who’s entire Canon relationship had heavy sibling coding, who’s families we know literally nothing about except that Keith was orphaned at a young age - who just happen to both be Asian - could be foster and/or adoptive brothers,

is totally the same thing as

saying that Sam and Rhody, who literally never meet, mention each other, or are mentioned to each other* and have no canon relationship could be related because they’re both black.

I’ve gone through Shiro’s tag, Pidge’s tag, Hunk’s tag, Allura’s tag, Coran’s tag, Matt’s tag, Lotor’s tag, Narti’s tag, Zethrid’s tag, and Nyma’s tag.

I’m not touching Lance’s or Keith’s tags. Nope.

vld s4: one episode shading reducing the characters to a single inaccurate trait/trope where Coran's being controlled by a brain parasite

ya'll: where is Hunk's development? reducing him to a joke ALL SEASON, AGAIN. when will they acknowledge Hunk is a genius too? nothing good for Hunk this season again

Cuban fan: that's really racist and here's why

Cuban fans: that's racist and here's why

I hear you, and I am still irritated at Lance’s & Hunk’s scenes in season two.

I’m also a little irritated about all the Kl//ce shippers in almost all the tags boohooing about what essentially boils down to “there was no Kl//ce in season two”. I have like five different Kl//ce tags blacklisted and I still can’t avoid it. I reblogged that post mostly because I felt like that was OP’s main gripe too.

On the other end, OP also had a point about Lance’s character arc. 

Like yes I wish they would stop making Lance look dumb; the boy was in a space program as a pilot, he may not be a genius like Pidge and Hunk but even if he was at the very bottom - which he obviously wasn’t - he still wouldn’t be dumb.

And isn’t VLD signed in for like 63 episodes? At 12/13 episodes a season that’s five whole seasons. Some of y’all are acting like season three is gonna be the end or something.

Lance’s character arc has been building and it’s probably gonna peak in season three.

Like by all means be mad about how he gets shafted into “the dumb one” and “the funny guy”, - I still am! - but his insecurities didn’t need to be dealt with in the first two seasons, season three is a good place for it.