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Allura in Alphonse Mucha artstyle 🌾🌟 !
“I wanna drink flaming grog from a baby’s skull!”
This isn't exactly a discourse question, but... in older posts about vld, you mentioned you didn't think either S/K or K/L would happen, but more recently, you've said that you'd be surprised if it wasn't the intention of the writers to make S/K romantic, even if they couldn't be explicit if that's truly the case. Is there any episode or moment in particular which changed your mind? Or is it just a narrative... feel, I guess, especially after S was confirmed to be LGBT?
There’s 2 major reasons I now think sheith was intentionally written with at least an eye to keeping it open-ended for a romantic interpretation:
1) The end of season 6 - Keith’s tortured ‘I love you,’ which reads as a separate statement from ‘you’re my brother’ b/c of the pause between them and the choice to cut to Shiro/Kuron having a very clear reaction to ‘I love you’ specifically.
2) the spoilers of season 7 ep 1 - not only that shiro is canon attracted to men (gay/queer/mspec), but in particular, the narrative choice to juxtapose Shiro feeling abandoned by Adam and Keith refusing to ever abandon Shiro. How differently Shiro reacts to Adam wanting shiro to take a particular action for his sake vs how Shiro reacts to Keith saying the same. The implication that all the flashbacks were shiro’s dreams.
Like: many ppl have noticed Keith’s devotion to Shiro, but since season 2, I’ve felt that it’s pretty obvious that shiro feels a lot of affection for Keith in particular as well. The reveal that the writers put that affection there with the intent of simultaneously revealing that Shiro is gay/not straight - as the spoilers about Adam & shiro’s chronic disease were both intended for s2e1 at first - made me think ‘maybe the creators always thought of the Sheith ship as more than a fun poke at / expected take on how close shiro and Keith are … and genuinely shipped it.’
It’s clear that’s what they expected to be shipped by the fandom (they underestimated the power of Rivalship in teens especially).
‘Shiro loves you baby (#he’s looking at Keith)’
Keaton’s ‘how about Sheith?’ When sk started to pop up in fandom
it’s always been there. Now it just feels … a lot more likely to be intentional than ever before.
I think sheith probably gets an ambiguous ending. The person that said Keith should just get a harem...😅
i’m looking forward to some dumb an/tis starting a gofundme or kickstarter for their racist lea/kira shit and then wailing when dream/works and other stakeholders nuke them from orbit
#i just……….. #hachi/ko the japanese man #the thief alien turned into a rom/ani #making an alien race mus/lim because you want them to wear hij/abs #ignoring shit like ‘how do dietary laws work’ or ‘how do pray to mec/ca’ when you’re literally a space alien
#so much of is/lam is contextually based on previous earth events #that’s…. the entire point of is/lam #je/sus and moses were previous prophets and muha/mmad was the ‘culmination’ of the religious changes #how do you have is/lam without the exodus? how do you have isl/am without roman occupation of pa/lestine?
#i’m just so ?????????????? #the more i learn about lea/kira the more amazed i am #they complain about vl/d’s representation problems #but the work they’re doing is like #ATROCIOUS tbh #it strikes me as very ignorant white/chris/tian kind of work #'you’re not x ethnicity enough if you don’t look like a '40s cartoon stereotype’ #'your name isn’t ethnic enough for me’ #'religions other than my christianity/christian-influenced atheism are just funny garments and phrases’
#and i’m STILL trying to come to terms with them making the alien thief a romani#this is such basic 101 shit #disco horse on robo lion fandom #if it was just 'we mad so we’re making fanon AUs’ i woudn’t care #but the sheer amount of offensive shit they’re cramming into the AU bewilders me #these are people who’ll attack ANYONE who disagrees with them as racist homophobes #and now when it comes to them making content #they turn out to be some of the most racist shit i’ve seen outside of alt-right circles #and they do it all with the fervent belief they’re enlightening the rest of us LMAO
#i’m looking forward to what they do with jewish pidge #by which i mean i’m bracing myself for them to make a mockery of it all #voltron
i’m ngl, i’ve spent the last 4 hours just trying to come to terms with the fact they named shiro ‘hachiko’*.
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The hachiko thing is a definitive fail. This idea of a community wide AU or 'reboot'...I can see that trend catching on.
there´s deadass people making their own canon now, as in, they´re rewritting voltron and searching for artists/wrirtters/voice actors, i thought you would like to know zshrtdzghb
I am SO excited because that means we’re one step closer to having a fandom-wide scamming scandal
I was rereading some of the HP hall of fame scandals. This reboot thing is going to birth a fandom wank epic.
Dauntless: Destiny Remade (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/K2KnqXmhpP As part of the Galra empire, the Paladins struggle to find each other and become the heroes they were meant to be. But whoever change their fates has only one goal--that without their humanity, they'll fail. While training with the Blades, Keith (full Galra) has troubling dreams of a life lived on a strange planet. He struggles with his training,…
Dauntless: Destiny Remade (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/Sl9gdOmhpP As part of the Galra empire, the Paladins struggle to find each other and become the heroes they were meant to be. But whoever change their fates has only one goal--that without their humanity, they'll fail. While training with the Blades, Keith (full Galra) has troubling dreams of a life lived on a strange planet. He struggles with his training,…
Hey, at least you’ve got these queens
Voltron season 7 saw the Paladins finally return to Earth. But what awaited them was unlike anything the show has done before.
Hypable: One of the things you said of the Shiro reveal at San Diego was that you were willing to adjust the story, when you originally planned for him to die, so you wouldn’t add to the ‘Bury Your Gays’ trope. In season 7, Adam does die in the first wave attack against the Galra. While that resonates deeply through the rest of Shiro’s story, how did you come to that decision?
JDS: We knew that there needed to be massive stakes in that first invasion. There was a little bit of internal discussion from the [executives] when we were initially pitching the story, and especially when they saw the visuals of no parachutes coming out of any of these ships when they were being blown up by the Galra. We wanted people to know that there would be a legitimate sense of loss with this invasion. It’s not just explosions for the sake of explosions. Giving characters that we are familiar with that arc helps the gravity of the situation come across.
LM: And it’s very unfortunate for Adam that he happened to be their best pilot after Shiro was gone. So he just ended up in this shitty situation, where yeah, you’re our best pilot, you have to go out. And it really just ended up fitting the story appropriately. In that a) it was an incredibly emotional thing for Shiro, but b) you have this situation with this person, Admiral Sanda, who doesn’t fully understand what they’re up against. And she immediately just throws bodies at it, in this very Earth sort of way. And the repercussions of that is that someone we cared about lost their life. Whereas, if she’d listened to someone who knew what they were talking about, like Sam [Holt], and not sent them out, and instead sent out the updated fighters, that potentially could have been averted.
JDS: Again, along with us pitching this Earth campaign, there was a lot of excitement about going to Earth internally at the studio. But also with what just happened, they were like, “uh, guys? There’s a lot of inner Garrison political stuff going on.” And we were like, yeah, that’s part of the deal. Earth is not in a perfect scenario.
LM: They didn’t quite realize how dark that story was going to be. If you actually have Earth invaded, it’s not going to be a good situation, for anyone. There are going to be casualties, and Adam just happened to be one of the people that we can recognize that loses his life in the invasion.
Read the full interview at Hypable.com
“it was an incredibly emotional thing for Shiro”
Was it??!!! You didn’t let him mourn or talk about it at all! He just touches his name on a wall before he’s interrupted.
“We knew there had to be massive stakes” like dude! You showed our home planet being decimated! You showed all the other pilots uselessly dying. We got the stakes! They didn’t have to kill Adam to achieve this.
It's also an example of refrigerator stuffing, which is a trope I hate.
Belated thoughts on the rise of the professional fans
I was inspired to think about the professional fans as a class for the first time last year, when the Broken Fandom debate was raging on, culminating in this patented Devin Faraci piece where among other things he compared fans to Annie Wilkes from Misery. His arguments do not merit debunking here, because they are not so much arguments as vilifications of fans, especially fanfic-writing fans. But what kept me thinking, what was interesting beyond the materials of Faraci’s arguments was the way Faraci positioned himself. He writes:
It isn’t just a sense of ownership, it’s a sense of symbiosis. The fan, I thought, couldn’t tell where they ended and where the thing they loved began. This is why fans send death threats to critics who give comic book movies bad reviews. It’s why my name is like Voldemort’s at the DC Movies subreddit - my criticism of the things they love feel to them like criticism of themselves.
The most telling part is where he identifies himself, a critic, not with the fans but with the creators. See, fans also hate me. Faraci has access to creators, to advance showings and to interviews and he is NOT a normal fan like you. He disdains you. He wants desperately to distance himself from you.
Lost in this is the trite hypocrisy of Faraci’s defense of creators, because Faraci, who famously harassed Damon Lindelof off of Twitter, should not be throwing stones. Of course, we shouldn’t demand too much moral consistency of a man who compared the actual kidnapping and assault in the movie Misery to a death threat:
The story is a very, very thinly veiled metaphor for the relationship between pop fiction creators and their most dedicated, most rabid fanbases and the way the creators can be trapped, bullied and tortured by their own creations and the people who love them.
But what if Annie Wilkes had the internet? What if she didn’t have to kidnap Paul in order to make her displeasure with him known? What if she could tweet hate at him all day, or could fill message boards with personal bile about him or could directly send him death threats through Facebook, email or Tumblr? If Annie Wilkes had the internet she would fit right in with a disturbingly large segment of fandom.
Talk about thinly veiled. This analogy does one thing and one thing only, which is to demean fans. In Faraci’s imagination, fans are overweight, lonely, delusional and violent women.
By why? What incentive does Devin Faraci, a movie critic with a large following, someone who first made his bones at a movie discussion forum, what motive does he possibly have by ingratiating himself with the creators and vilifying other fans? What we are seeing right now and what we have been witnessing for years is this rise of a new creative class, the professional fans, who have come up from the ranks of fandom but desperately want to distance themselves from it.
Who are these professional fans? They are gamers who stream for other gamers. They are movie and TV critics. They are “Internet reporters” who cover fandom beats.
Think about the contradictions of this new figure. Their only, only value for the creator class is that they are clairvoyants for fans. They help creators understand the fans, and they can influence opinions and buying behaviors of the fans. In return they are granted access to the creator, in both formal and informal access control mechanisms of creators for fans. Ordinary fans vie to become professional fans, endangering the positions of the professional fans. In this way professional fans have to keep demonstrating their dominance, simultaneously reprimanding fans and catering to them, because their positions demand it. Is it wonder then that when fandom badly misbehaves, then professional fans would rush to distance themselves from it, even when they themselves might have harassed creators?
I believe this phenomenon is relatively recent. Critics used to have come out of the same creative class as creators. Novelists used to be the ones throwing shade at each other’s books.
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Look, I am not condemning Faraci, and even if I were so inclined then it would not be because this article. I am merely describing the social relations, as it were, between the professional fans and the ordinary fans, using Faraci as an example. Nor am I defending fans. In the hierarchy of creators and fans with professionals who badly try to mediate between them, it is always the fans who put creators on pedestals and then find out that we have invested the whole of our passions in corporations, in properties, and in flawed human beings. This hierarchy, if it was not partly built by fans, then it was maintained by us, we who named them The Power That Be.
P.S. I’m also writing this partly because the overwhelming majority of the responses to Faraci’s article have been self-righteous bullshit from people who have been in fandom for years but don’t care to understand how it works. A sample: “It is a radical act for a young woman to love something unashamedly […] Because fandom is the province of young women and, culturally, we find young women terrifying,” “You can’t lump all of your critics together into one big bunch. You need to look at their motivations and what they are asking of you. Hatred and a desire for more diversity in media are two entirely different beasts here.” Many of these are from ~Internet or ~cultural or ~fandom ~reporters, jockeying for the right to speak for other fans.
Amen. I read that article and went "hmmm ok." I think the Star Wars fandom (especially TLJ) has been ground zero for the internet critic/fandom wars.
It’s come to my attention that some people are traversing the interwebs of fandom without ever hearing of the Ms. Scribe Story or the Cassandra Claire Debacle.
At surface level, this is concerning because they are awesome stories, and everyone’s life is made a little better when they find an awesome story.
On more serious levels, fandom is a wacky place, full of people doing wacky, occasionally damaging things to each other. Some of that has evolved, but some of it is the same as it ever was. History rocks because you can learn from the mistakes of others, and maybe hurt people a little less in the future. Fandom being a giant, convoluted web of passion, some history that could use sharing goes missed.
The two stories linked are from early 2000s Harry Potter fandom. The Ms. Scribe Story is a tale of one person’s aggressive use of sockpuppets to work their way up fandom hierarchy. The Cassandra Claire Debacle is about how the top name in that fandom hierarchy is a plagiarist.
They’re prime examples of fandom being fandom in intensely negative ways. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a brand of fandom toxicity that isn’t on display in some way within these write-ups, and while that is admittedly sort of depressing, having things to point at that make you stop and think, “Wait, I’ve seen this before, this is not a thing I want to be part of,” can keep you out of some of the deeper fandom pitfalls.
They are also deeply fascinating reads. If you haven’t explored them before, or only know the summary versions, give them a shot.
I still have a moment of distinct disbelief every time I see one of Cassie Claire’s published works in a bookstore.
Oh gods so do I
It’s WEIRD
Apparently she lives somewhere around Western Massachusetts, because when the movie came out I saw notes attached to posters for it in our local multiplex saying “by a local author!”.
I had the sudden, wild urge to stand in the centre of the lobby and go “LET ME TELL YOU A THING OR TWO ABOUT THIS LOCAL AUTHOR”
me enjoying the voltron fandom without engaging in The Drama ™
I'm just remembering the post-HBP ship wars that wrecked every forum.
The thing that pains me the most about this whole voltron queer rep ordeal is the fact that people are now dismissing vld as garbage for its less-than-stellar queer characters, when the show is actually very diverse and high quality in other aspects like race, female representation and inclusion of physically disabled and mentally ill characters, that not many other animated shows for kids include.
Any other show at vld’s level of fame but that didn’t even try to get queer rep in the first place would never have gotten backlash for not trying, but the moment an effort is put, it is dismissed as nothing just because it isn’t perfect and its creators are sent hate even when they are not the ones to blame for how execs cut the rep.
Of course voltron can and should be criticized for what they’ve done (especially for the misleading advertisement). But branding the whole show as regressive for it is certainly out of line.
My significant other doesn't do social media, so I'm trying to gauge the queer rep success from his reactions. In Korra, the "I've never had a girlfriend" line got a literal "alright! Bisexual!" high five. In VLD, crickets with Adam's intro. They had to be so careful with this that it took a lot of the good away, and I can't fucking understand how an extremely tame gay relationship got nuked by executive meddling. We have to finish the season together before I judge fully.
A Brief History of LGBT+ Characters and Why the Death of Adam in Voltron is Worth Being Upset About
So uh…. Good morning.
So I think it’s pretty obvious by now that the reception to season 7 has been less than… good. The fan base has been shattered. People are upset, angry, and abandoning this series in droves (I’ve lost over 50 followers as I write this, just from people no longer wanting anything to do with this show) and have been incredibly vocal as to the reason why.
They killed Adam.
After two weeks of receiving praise for the relationship that was revealed at San Diego Comic Con, fans discovered on Friday night that Adam’s existence would be short lived, further contributing to this popular “Bury Your Gays” trope.
And I’ve seen people confused at this outcry. They don’t understand why people are so upset at this tiny side character’s death. What’s the big deal, right? It’s war! There’s supposed to be casualties!
And to that kind of response I have to narrow my eyes and go:
“Oh…. maybe you understand the history of this.”
Because it is a history. A rich one. “Bury your gays” isn’t a trope in the same why that “Fake dating” is a trope. It’s not popular out of coincidence and I feel like many people are ignorant of that, which is FAIR! Because most voltron fans are young, most tumblr users are young, so I don’t expect you to be watching documentaries on LGBT+ cinema in between studying for your chemistry exams.
So that’s where I come in. Buckle in children as I take you on a journey on why the “Bury your gays” trope exists, and the harmful ramifications that it has had on the LGBT+ community since its inception.
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Solid explanation as to why this trope is toxic. I also learned about the history of LGBT+ in cinema history, which makes it grosser.
Reblog if you too are enjoying these last moments of peace before the Voltron fandom explodes
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Finally getting around to posting an Allydia fic. "The Banshee and the She-Wolf" featuring werewolf!Allison. https://archiveofourown.org/works/15620433