#vld rant

I’m a latte shipper 😞

Like I love klance and everything, and it’s my favorite ship.

But Latte is just so cute

Like they both have silly dumbass personalities, and also very smart (idc what people say, smart/genius Lance is always canon in my aus). Just like. They would get along so well! Pranks? Totally have done that to others and each other (all in good fun though). Making things together? 100% Programmer x Biochemist for the win! (Lance is totally into biochemistry, idc what anyone says!) Like they just so fun!

Latte is just a cute ship!! Hell I’ll take just being friends if it means getting more content on them!

I feel like a person floating in the abyss right now. It’s fucking 2025 and I’m over here obsessing over Latte and just Lance in general.

Season 8 happened, and many of you are not satisfied with it. Nearly all the fandom agreed to never let it affect them. Some refused to acknowledge this latest season of Voltron, and a huge amount of us act as if it never existed. All of this is okay. I understand your anger. I do rant a lot too about all of this privately or to some of my friends.

However, I noticed that there was a lot of hate which was unjustified and unacceptable lately.

Here we enter the spoiler zone.

So at the very end of season 8, Shiro got married with a guy who barely had screentime and who we know nothing of his relationship with our beloved hero, aside from the fact they are happy and in love and wed each other. Yes, it was rushed and yes, this isn’t good representation for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Now, why are you hating on the guy? This is an issue I saw a lot with the Sheith side of the fandom. This is actually within Sheith shippers that I witnessed it the most.

Curtis, Shiro’s now canon husband is disrespected by so many of you it makes me sick. And because of what? He married Shiro. The reason I see the most is “he’s some rando who married Shiro.” Many of those comments are followed with “it’s not Keith who got with Shiro at the end.”, and rants about how LM and JDS could have represented the most beautiful and powerful relationship in the whole show if it wasn’t for DreamWorks barging in.

I’m gonna be critical, I don’t believe they were even rooting just the slightest for Sheith. They did want to kill off Shiro to have Keith has the official and uncontested leader for the rest of the show since season 2. I feel like it was somehow destined to fall with the amount of time they wanted to kill him (I feel like they really hate Shiro in a way).

So yeah, Shiro married Curtis and we didn’t see any real development for their relationship. Is it a reason to hate on the poor guy who didn’t do anything? No. And please, those of you who are directly concerned by this, don’t try to act innocent and accuse him of things he didn’t do. No, Curtis didn’t send Adam to his death, it was Commander Sanda at the head of the operation.

The main reason Curtis is hated so much is because he popped out of nowhere to “ruin your ship”. Yeah, Shiro and Keith could’ve been a beautiful relationship ignoring all the time Keith called him his “brother” and not his “bro” (as in, ‘dude bro’ which isn’t the same) and it didn’t happen. Is this a reason to spit on Curtis? Still a no.

You have no rights to put down a character like this for the sake of a relationship you wanted to see on medias.

Many of the season 8 writings tagged with Sheith on AO3 are a proof of it. Infidelity, cheating and early divorce are not “fix-it” for the wrong in the Voltron show. Those are hate and disrespect shown to a character who was unlucky enough to take the brunt of the rage shippers have after seeing Sheith wasn’t canon.

The same issue happened with Adam (further proof that you really hate all canon romantic partners of Shiro because it’s not Keith). I will not give names, but I remember seeing a comic which made Adam pass for a huge jerk to value Keith’s determination on finding Shiro, having him lash out at Keith and almost insulting his ex-fiance. You think it’s treating a character with respect?

We got some insight of their past relationship from interviews, explaining how they argued about missions because Shiro would constantly put his health on the line which implies he ignored Adam’s concern and brushed off his worry as best as he could. Adam cared about Shiro and loved him. Sadly their relationship was badly handled on screen to make people thinks he’s an asshole, but some of you are pushing it and made him appear as a villain.

Just like Curtis is disrespected and cursed to have a one-sided love with Shiro by watching him cheating on him with his teammate, being put on the sideline but oh it’s okay because it’s “one true love”? No, it’s not.

Out of all the things to say to / about Lance.

Hunk said how they were best friends,

Allura brought up how they first met And of course insults him cause she don’t like him once so ever. Just putting that out there.

Pidge brings up their friendship and gaming.

But Keith.

oh, Keith.

Brings up the bonding moment.

Aww.

He could have said anything about Lance! Like a cliche - like he’s a good fighter pilot or how he’s the sharp shooter or annoying or anything but no.

Our son, Keith.

Brings up one of the most romantically subliminally rep coded moments of All the series.

Mmmmmhhhmmmmmmm.

The only time where Keith showed any true emotion to any of the paladins.

besides space dad

The only time Keith was like.

Visually upset and hurt.

By Lance not remembering.

and the fact that it’s ongoing ..?

YEAH.

Exactly Carol. Exactly.

They could have said Keith is an emotional person who like. Is scared of anyone leaving him. They could have referenced Keith’s blog for that or to show that. They could have just said Keith and Red make a great team but no. They insisted on adding on. To another referenced scene of good teamwork.

“ We did it. We are a good team. “

Ahah. Ahah. The force is strong.

VOLTRON FORCE.

Aha get it. The 80s-

Okay. Fine. Sorry.

But you see what I mean. Let’s keep a count now on Klance references or for you anti-Klancers - “Keith and Lance references”

So I don’t mix you up on what’s canon or not even tho klance is already canon. As this comic book concludes that.

Clears Throat

Alright so. We are on #2 references. Let’s continue.

Sooooo here everyone is.

Talking about how much they love Pidge.

If you’re a klance Stan.

A true one.

You’d understand the canon-ness occurring - scene in the photo above.

;)

WOW WEE. I WONDER WHAT THAT COULD BE A REFERENCE OF.

IS LANCE ALWAYS ON KEITH’S MIND.

Like dang. CALM DOWN KEITH.

we get it.

You’re in love. We get it we get it.

Calm down.

Just in case y’all missed it.

This is-

YUP

You guessed it.

A Keith and Lance relationship reference!

In I believe The Red Paladins

Lance comes into Keith’s room discussing how he feels there’s no room for Lance to be a paladin any longer.

He was doing some serious math and figured out with 6 paladins and 5 lions. He may have not been needed.

At the end, Keith told Lance to let things figure themselves out.

Right as Lance is about to leave the room,

Lovely Keith’s says.

“...And Lance,”

*Lance Turns Around*

“..Leave the math, to Pidge. “

*Lance turns back around smiling.*

SOOOO

There was seriously absolutely

NO NEED.

To add this into the book.

Keith once again could have said something like how great Pidge is like the rest of the team said. BUT KEITH. can’t get sharpshooter outta his head.

*Blasts P!nk song outside Lauren’s House*

“Trueeee Looooveee! It must beee trruuueee lovvveeeeee!”

Like legit. It wasn’t necessary.

But Lauren is finally answering our prays am I right.

THEN.

There’s LANCE.

OUT OF ALL THE THINGS TO SAY.

LANCE IS ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT KEITHS APPEARANCE RIGHT ?!?

HE LOOKED

Bigger,

Cooler,

...Grizzled.

THE MULLETS STARTING TO GROW ON HIM LIKE. I CANT-

Not only that. But Lance is proud of Keith. He was proud he’d be the one out of everyone else to pilot the black lion. He’s proud and glad it was him.

HE RESPECTS THE CHOICE. BRO.

Now let’s look at this beautiful visual aid provided.

Lance could have mentioned his best friend Hunk, or His Gamer Friend Pidge, maybe even shiro Being his life long hero. HE COULDVE MENTIONED ALLURA RIGHT?!? HOW HE LIKES HER?!

or does he ? Heh.

How does he really feel about Princess Allura eh?

NOT TODAY HUN.

Lance not only talks about Keith and their friendship but is looking at him with true emotion.

And who else would he share the pool with like- Come On Lance . You’re tryna make it slick but it’s so obvious. Stop trying.

Now discussing Keith again -

Keith discusses both hunk and Pidge in the same picture and text, he separates Lance from that. And makes it his own lil category. How “Lance seemed to have a problem with me” like aww Keith didn’t share any rivalry once so ever. He still liked Lance even when Lance claimed they were rivals. He had no problem tho in reality. Lance really didn’t either.

IM CRYING. ITS SOOO CANON MAN.

Consider Lance's character: He loves his family and missed earth more than anyone else. In addition to this, we can see how tired he is in S8.

Now, he wanted to be a pilot, this is true. He wanted to explore the universe and he has. He has explored it, died, seen friends die, seen entire worlds destroyed, and got betrayed and ridiculed.

Why, especially after becoming a widower(k they're not married I get, don't care rn) why would he wanted to be anywhere but with his family?

He loves his Voltron family, sure, but they can take care of themselves. How terrified must he have been when he realized earth was taken over? That he might have lost his family?

Honestly what I'm trying to say is that maybe Lance wasn't made to be great beyond Voltron and I think that's okay. We know, he knows, everyone knows he has the ability to be, but... I think his choice of living a quiet life while spreading peace every once in a while is so in-character it hurts.

When has Lance ever wanted anything but the people he loves to be happy and safe? Thw only thing he has ever wanted for himself was to be a good pilot and damn, he is. But he never wanted anything other than that.

He didn't want to be a representative. He didn't want to be some intergalactic peace bringer like Keith.

Keith and Shiro have no family other than eachother: it's easy for them to do things away from earth because they have little there.

Lance and Pidge decided to stay on earth because they spent their teens in space and want to be with their family.

So, like, Lance's choice makes sense and he's happy so whyre yall mad?

Not everyone, in any reality, is made to be great and live their lives doing great things. Others, like Keith, want to continue their work but Lance doesn't want to and that's fine?

Also, notice the difference in both Lance and Keith's personalities. At the beginning, Keith didn't want to do anything for anyone but himself and Shiro. He didn't even really want to be a pilot after Shiro disappeared. Lance did.

Now, they've changed and grown up and realized what they really want to spend their lives doing and what's so wrong about that?

Yall call Lance a dedicated family man and think it's cute but get mad when he pursues that character?

"Queer-baiting this, queer-baiting that, how dare the creators put so much queer-baiting only to betray us like this?! AAAAAAARGH!"

...Except, all the "queer-bait" you saw was accidental "subtext" (heavily amplified by your over-tuned Shipping Goggles) the creators unintentionally added by virtue of being bad at developing characters while insisting so recklessly on deviating from the original Voltron Story.

Meanwhile we mecha/super-robot fans actually got baited into watching a fucking horrible series, believing it was going to be a wonderful fresh take on a classic mecha series that a lot of old-school fans hold dear to their hearts, only to find the creators were incompetent fools whom hated mecha, and that the "fandom" didn't care about mecha either, only shipping wars, discourse and infantile harassment.

VLD didn’t queer-baited you, but sure as hell they fucking mecha-bait us the OG fans!

I have been going around tumblr recently and I have noticed that a lot of fans have written a goodbye/thank you letter to VLD, which is hours from its final season airing, and I've thought about joining in ‘ya know, jump into the bandwagon with my fellow emotional hardcore fans and decided to write a letter of my own. A rant/goodbye/closure letter.

Okay, okay, I'm totally gonna be real here. I'm actually typing this under... emotional duress (???) so, please don't judge me; I just need to let this all out...

And I've had this for a while, saving it all up until the day before THE day. You know, just wanted to get it all out all at once

I wish Voltron had more episodes. Eight seasons should be released a year separately with 24-26 episodes released weekly per season. Eight seasons. One season a year. Plus OVAs.

I'm also wishing for a VLD movie. I know this is too much to ask but the show is so good I wanted it to last for a loooong time.

Voltron had so many plots just rushed! And potential developments and exploring more of the universe lore!

Plus, I'm not sure, with all the plot devices and plotlines they've put, would everything fit in just 78 episodes.

Sometimes, I feel like it isn't enough, that we're not getting enough. Maybe it's the pacing or the lack of episodes showing what's going on with the rest of universe.

I mean, what of the Galra? They don't exactly have a home planet so how are their lifestyles, besides military? Like, what about the children? Where do they exactly live? etc. (a lot of things confuse me, like the age gap... I mean, Lotor’s over 10K decaphoebes old and his nanny is still alive... his nanny who knew him as a child...)

Really. I wanna be honest to myself here. If VLD had that many storylines, they should've had arcs for it. Not cramp each storyline into one episode! Alternate reality, plot devices, etc. I’m just not making sense here...

This sorta feels like Star Wars. The movies weren't exactly enough so they made spin-off tv shows... which I hope VLD will have... one day... that isn’t horrible or will ruin the franchise.

Oh well... I suppose I can still dive into the fandom and keep on requesting... I mean, at least I’m not alone here, I’ve got fellow fans who knows this feeling...

One more thing I've got to confess, I WANT FEM!LANCE TO HAVE HAPPENED TO BADLY!!! No offense but I wish Lance was the one genderswapped to female, not Pidge; though I wouldn't mind alongside Pidge.

If Klance becomes canon and Fem!Lance becomes more popular and gets more art/fics, my Space Rangers all survive and live happily ever after I can accept this as peacefully and as calm and content (still cry on the inside) as I can.

BTW, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING VLD! THE ENTIRE CHARACTERS, CAST, AND CREW, @thebestlaurenmontgomery, (and whatever the tumblrs of the other cast and crew members are...) EVERYONE WHO WORKED THEIR HARD BUTTS FOR THIS! I’ve had my complaints, but I could not ask for a better show. I know it felt like a short time... but it was a fun run while it lasted!!!

Setting aside my ranting above, I just want to say that while it felt like a short time, Voltron has given me so much... great relatable characters, happy smiles and sad tears, the journey of a lifetime, so, so many wonderful moments that I wish could go on forever...

Even though, I spent less than a year with them... I’ve felt like I’ve bonded with them for just so long... I love them all to the bottom of my heart dearly, and now just seeing them go... hurts. A feeling I haven’t felt for a long time. They may just be cartoon characters to some people, but to me, they felt real, I want them to be real, because I want to join them... heck, I would take a shot for them if we were fighting the Galra. ...so, so many characters I wish I could hang out with much longer... There’s just so much... such a big universe with so many people...

Argh, I’m just so bad with words... but I hope you all get what I’m trying to say...

The show has made such an impact on me...I’ve met so many awesome people, I’ve had the chance to support so many amazing content creators, I’ve read and seen so many artwork and fanfics... I’m gonna miss this show BAD. I’m gonna miss my favorite Paladins, so so much.

I love being a part of this fandom. And no matter how much it hurts, I do not regret it.

(Even after the show if over, I’m never gonna stop shipping Klance, so KICK me until the day I die!!!)

I just wish there was more... that I could’ve joined right from the beginning... I joined way too late, like, MANY seasons way too late. I missed out on a lot...

I mean, really, like A LOT. The feeling of waiting, anticipation, guessing, etc.

The best I can do is just savor every moment I have the best I can... (Quiznack, writing this is making my heart ache).

I’m just hoping Voltron actually exists in real life...

Now if you excuse me *sniffs* I need to go grab a lot of boxes of tissues... *cue waterfall tears*

On another note, I've noticed that a lot of people have problems with the Lion swap...???

Okay, go easy on me on the comments.

Oh, and one last thing... It’s been an honor flying with you all...

And now my heart just broke. (I must now emotionally, mentally, and spiritually prepare myself)

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