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[emperorozark]

please, just take the time to watch this.

[vld-news]

Interview Quote:

Interviewer: Are there any big interactions, whether it’s at a con or online with Voltron fans that have really stood out to you?

Josh: Absolutely. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had fans come up to me and tell me how they suffer from PTSD and how Shiro has really helped them with their struggles. They’re seeing this character that for all intents and purposes is like them.

He’s super strong and he’s infallible, or at least you think. To see that somebody like him still struggles with this on a daily basis and it affects how he approaches his life? The fact that they were able to see that in somebody as seemingly strong as him and how he still has to go through this, it’s so humbling to hear that.

I had somebody come up to me who was an amputee, who loved the fact that they could find representation for that in Shiro as well. All of that stuff, it’s immensely fulfilling to be a part of being able to help somebody through their life’s problems, even in a minuscule way, through a character that I’ve had a part in playing.

I wouldn’t say that’s necessarily why you become an actor, but hearing that makes every bit of rejection, and every part that you didn’t get, it makes it all worth it if you were able to make that kind of a difference in someone’s life. Those kind of things always stand out to me, whenever the character has been able to help somebody through a life struggle.

Josh Keaton discusses representation and Shiro’s importance to fans

[nonbinarypastels]

Wait you support pedophilic ships? That's gross and it does affect real life abuse victims

Anon, I am a real life abuse survivor and what people ship does not affect me because I can easily avoid content for ships that I don’t like or find triggering if I exercise the barest amount of responsibility for my own online experience just as every other abuse survivor can.

What affects me as an abuse survivor is seeing people constantly put my abuse on the same level as fictional stories about fictional cartoon characters who 99% of the time are not even children, seeing people constantly mis-use the word pedophilia to describe anything and everything other than actual CSA, seeing people constantly falsely accused of being pedophiles and pedophile apologists—including multiple other CSA survivors—over the fictional content they read or over not wanting to see their abuse trivialized by having it compared to that fictional content or even just for not wanting to get involved with this ridiculous fandom mess to the point where everyone on this entire website has alarm fatigue over it and doesn’t take actual allegations of actual predators seriously anymore.

What affects me as an abuse survivor is seeing people constantly use me and other CSA survivors as prop in a cyberbullying campaign over ship wars, using us and their so-called “defense” of us to justify telling people to kill themselves, that they deserve to die and be assaulted, and making an absolute mockery of the abuse that I went through and that other CSA survivors have went through by having the audacity to act like shipping an 18 year old cartoon character with another cartoon character in their 20s is just as bad as being sexually abused as a child.

That isn’t me “supporting pedophilic ships”, that is me being absolutely against a fandom culture that normalizes abuse of other fans and puts the well-being of fictional characters who do not exist over the well-being of actual, real life human beings and actual, real-life abuse survivors while advocating for people to take responsibility for their own online and fandom experience by using the resources available to them to avoid content that they don’t want to see.

I don’t like a damn good lot of ships that people ship or things that people write but at the end of the day I don’t care about the kind of fiction people consume. I care about how people treat other people because that defines who they are as a person much, much more than the fiction they read ever will.

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

I’m a real life survivor…and usually I don’t give a flying fuck about what people ship unless it’s one of my ships too and I want to know their headcanons. That doesn’t mean I don’t privately think some ships are nasty, but I know from personal experience that having a so-called ‘problematic’ pairing doesn’t have a causal relationship with being an actual paedophile.

The guy who traumatised me? My cool older friend who liked cooking and hiking. It would be impossible to tell he was into underage boys just by looking at his blog.

This practice of trying to out people as paedophiles for shipping something you don’t like or being on the side of the ace or kink discourse that you don’t like is doing more harm than good. Innocent people are being bullied and having their mental health ruined while actual child abusers are going under the radar.

When I see a callout post for an apparent paedophile on here, my immediate first though is ‘I wonder what their unpopular ship is’, and not ‘I should block this dangerous person’, because so few of the posts have solid evidence behind them.

I’m not going to speak for all victims here, but I’ll say that in my experience, antis make it a huge pain in the arse to find the actual child abusers in a sea of false accusations.

[haedonists]

I want to emphasis this, in particular:

When I see a callout post for an apparent paedophile on here, my immediate first though is ‘I wonder what their unpopular ship is’, and not ‘I should block this dangerous person’

I’ve seen countless people on here point out that ‘alarm fatigue’ is an actual thing and quite literally BEG antis to stop using words beyond their actual fucking meanings, but nothing’s come of it. Not when the most blatantly manipulative and off-the-rails elements on here can continue relying on ‘pedophilia’ as a nuclear button to make sure that anything which ‘threatens’ their precious preferred ship is destroyed, regardless of cost to actual, living and breathing human beings.

It’s already been pointed out that diluting terms and accusations allows actual fucking predators to slip through, but, at a fundamental level, these people simply do not care about this. All that matters is that the object of their utter obsession (their ship) becomes ~canon~, no matter how many people, both fans and official content producers, they have to harass and threaten and terrorize, no matter how many other individuals have to be hurt by splash-damage from all of this and no matter how many genuine predators can use the dilution of serious accusations to their advantage.

[werewolf-cuddles]

Anti-shippers need to realize that they’re doing more harm than good here.

[theassholeantiarchive]

Agreed.

[skyloon-blog]

All of this. Also to add on, I myself am another CSA survivor and it almost physically hurts how often so many antis will use the term “pedophile”. It’s like so many of them can’t even comprehend how the term itself, similar to the term “rape”, can be triggering (or in my case, almost physically vexed) because the words themselves, the first thing I think of when seeing the word, is that traumatic event in life. I can understand that the actual words are not triggers for many people, but for those that say they care so badly, they use them so frequently without other measures, such as censoring, tagging, warnings, etc.. 

I have also seen several antis who will use the terms and not place any tagging for them. Like, that is 101 when discussing these subjects??? You tag them so others can blacklist and have more control over what they view???

It also may just be me, but it makes me uncomfortable how I have seen so many antis using “pedo”, which to my understanding, first came on 4Chan forums following jokes, eventually leading into the “p//edo-b//ear” meme (a meme dedicated to a character scoping out children to sexualize). I had to grow up listening to p//edo-b//ear memes... Said antis say they are trying to defend CSA survivors and victims, but then use a term that has a history of being used in jokes and memes? It seems more and more everyday they seem more disingenuous...

[imrnortal]

please support motor crush, its a new comic with a black lesbian lead with lovely art style and an intricate plot about motorcycle lesbians & their rival gangs

[twofreespirit]

That’s how you introduce a trans character on TV!

[mitochondiva]

okay but was he played by a trans man?

[a-littleinfinity]

Yes! His name is Alex Blue Davis and they exclusively auditioned trans actors for the part

This interview discusses it: https://youtu.be/j8hFg57av6Q

[v-0-3-deactivated20181223]

small doodle before bed 

I felt like allurance today so here’s some adult au and yes, they both have a cut ear. Allura get her during a fight and felt bad after that, so Lance asked Keith to cut his own to make her feel little bit better.

Somehow, it worked. 

Hey, if I look great with a cut, you look totally awesome.

[skyloon-blog]

What if s3e4 was supposed to be foreshadowing of mind control?

So I know a lot of the major hype involving that episode was about the introduction of the alternate realities, giving us an episode with our lovely Sven, but something I don’t see talked about all that much here is the other half of that episode revolving around mind control.

The Paladins and Allura (who just recently in that season took up the mantle for the Paladin of the Blue Lion) cross over into the alternate reality where Altea was never destroyed, but rather, it was the Galra Empire that fell. While the episode carried on with Allura being awed over a reality where her people didn’t die and the Galra Empire was defeated, it all came to a shocking halt when it was revealed that the Alteans were capturing people of other planets and placing them under mind control. 

All the Paladins took that as their cue to get the fuck out of dodge and took the item they had with them to close the reality, forcing the Alteans on the other side to never have access to expand their Empire.

Now, just in this past season, we caught further glimpses of Haggar controlling Shiro in a similar way that we saw in the season before how she was controlling Narti. Of course, hindsight is 20/20, and now I think that the point of the alternate reality episode was not for the main focal point to be the fact that alternate realities exist (unless there is a plan to bring that in later at some point, which seeing how it was mentioned twice afterwards, there may be a possibility other realities will come into play), but for the concept of mind control and how a race that had extreme control as an Empire, expanding technology and all, employed literal and physical mind control as a weapon. 

Whether the Shiro we have now is a clone, droid, or really just our Shiro with his self being repressed, there is no doubt that Haggar is mind controlling him. As soon as he was recovered later in season 3, we immediately started to see slight behavioral and social changes in him, and also take in note that Shiro comes back THE VERY NEXT EPISODE AFTER THE AR ONE.

I am wondering if project Kuron might not exactly be clones per say, but rather the technological advancement of mass enslaving planets under this form of control like what was showed in the AR episode with Shiro being the test subject.

[action]

This Saturday, March 24, we March For Our Lives

If you stand with the students and activists of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and the 30,000 people killed by guns every year, we’re asking you to turn out for the March For Our Lives. It’s time we say #NeverAgain and end gun violence. 

There are 828 sibling marches planned in conjunction with the main march in Washington DC. This is global, and chances are there is one near you. 

We understand that not everyone can attend a march, so we want to make it easy for everyone to participate. Your voice matters, even if you can’t be there in person. That’s why we’re creating a virtual space with optional ways for everyone to participate:

Join us this Saturday as we livestream the March For Our Lives starting at 12 p.m. EST. The livestream will be at the top of every dashboard on every phone, computer, and tablet that uses Tumblr that day.

There’s going to be an @action-packed dashboard takeover with original art sourced from the Tumblr community and @creatrs.

Sign the petition and make your voice heard.

Donate to March For Our Lives, if you can.

You can show your support that day by posting your illustrations, your poems, your promises—anyway you want to express yourself. We even have stickers to add to your photos, if you want. They’re a collaboration between Tumblr Creatrs (@creatrs) and our friends at Kanvas. 

They’re in your app now. Make sure to tag your posts with #NeverAgain so everyone can see your support.

This is it, Tumblr. This is how change happens.  When people ask #WhatWillYouDo, you can point them to Saturday, March 24; To the march you participated in, the money you donated, or the messages you spread across the globe with social media.

Good luck and stay safe.

[jewish-mccoy]

People really think antisemitism isn’t a huge problem. Meanwhile a former member of the US Nazi Party just won the GOP nomination for Illinois

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

I would hold this up as an example of anti-Semitism being a growing problem, but the truth of the matter is that people will still continually find ways to dismiss this by saying Jews are no longer the primary targets of Nazism (which is categorically untrue). 

The idea of genuinely fighting anti-Semitism is so deeply abhorred by the activism community right now that despite giving passing lip service to being against it on a theoretical level, the excuses to actually include anti-Semitism as a form of oppression to be tackled just keep piling up. 

As you can see in this post, the efforts to divorce Jews from Nazi victimhood is already in full swing, and I fear it will only continue. There is very much a desire in the activism community to make right-wing anti-Semitism a hatred of the past, or completely inconsequential, and no matter how bad it gets, I have very little faith that they will do anything for us as it mounts. 

Once again, we’re on our own. 

[jewish-mccoy]

You’re absolutely right. While it’s obviously antisemitism, people will not see it as such because erasing Jews from their activism is what they do best.

[alangertz]

[alangertz]

these are old sketch

[newtxcrank-deactivated20170617]

I see no downside here. On fridays, we wear dicks.

[thepeskycritter]

okay but. whats the opposite of nonbinary?

[pyroteknich]

Binary. On Fridays, you become JARVIS.

[qwanderer]

SOLD

[nehirose]

i’m in

[queeranarchism]

I am sick of debating who ‘fits the labels’ or who ‘has historically been a part of the movement’. These things do not matter to me at all. My queer community carries a ‘refugees welcome’ flag and will always have a place for people whose struggles are different from mine but who benefit from the shelters I’ve helped build. We are most menacing, most magical, most disruptive as a queer movement when we have no borders.

[janestrider]

What’s Sendak up to?

Dude hasn’t been seen since S1, shows up in S5 as Haggar’s candidate for the throne, peaces out when it all goes to shit, stealing some guy’s whole fleet, and Haggar just lets him go. 

So what about that? Did they really bring back a big villain just to be another random boss for Voltron to fight? Not exactly.

Sendak is headed for Earth. 

I’m impressed that you managed to escape. Perhaps it would be worth the trip to your planet to see if the rest of your kind have your spirit. Of course, they will all end up broken, just like you.

This has already been foreshadowed in S1E5 Tears of the Balmera. And the fact that Sam Holt went back to Earth in order to help build its defenses is further foreshadowing that said defense will be needed.

But why Earth?

Just before he books it from the Kral Zera, he focuses on Voltron wrecking shit. He knows this is a battle he can’t win. But let’s not forget Sendak’s go to strategy when he’s in over his head: threatening what his enemy cares about.

He forced the team to split up by burning the Arusian village.

He and Haxus made Shiro surrender by threatening Lance.

He tried to make Pidge surrender herself by torturing Shiro. 

So what’s the best way to make Voltron surrender? Attacking its paladins’ home planet, of course. 

Screencap credit: @bentfire​

[noerixo]

Full piece from the keith zine ❤

[andantegrazioso-deactivated2018]

A beautiful purple colored rice field in Yuanyang, Yunnan Province, China | Enrico Barletta

[chomoarchive]

**URGENT TW: CP**

https://pervert2.tumblr.com this link leads to a user that has an image of blatant cp in his likes. Do not look just to the blog and report to the fbi and missing and exploited children center

Also this user has liked posts of molesting children as well.

@the-map-community-is-dangerous @comrade-lecter @anti-funshine @anti-pedo-patrol @report-a-predator @pedophilia-isnt-lgbt-you-sickos @sicknastypedotakedown @sicknastyvengence @ anyone else to signal boost and report this user thank you.

[comrade-lecter]

@theassholeantiarchive @yoonbum-indrag

[theassholeantiarchive]

https://report.cybertip.org/index.htm

DONT LOOK JUST REPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!