#keith stans

[rigb0ner]

[theenoathee]

Once Voltron is over

Everyone who’s currently like “omg don’t even say the v word around me it’s a shit show and everything about it sucks and if you like it you’re a little bitch” is gonna be like “THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES 😭😭😭 I was voltron’s number one fan and I stayed with it when everyone abandoned it and I’m gonna have 1000000000 posts about how much I love it and how I’m gonna miss it and ugh I love JDS and LM and they’re my idols what huge MOODS 😫😫❤️❤️✌️”

And that’s the facts that’s the tea thank you

[shutup-and-trust-me]

I think Shiro can and should move on. Give him the White Lion or maybe the Blue Lion. Give him a castle ship. Make him a diplomat! It's all great and valid! But why /sever the bond with Black/ simply because Allura essentially pulled everything that was Shiro out of the Black Lion? Why not make Shiro pass the position as black paladin to Keith because he wants to and because Keith deserves it? Again, why /sever/ the bond when they could've made him move on on his own? That's the frustrating part

Okay, THIS… I can agree with. 

I feel like the leadership transition could have been done a LOT better, and that Keith should coming into leadership because the team wants him there, because he’s needed, because he’s the preferred choice instead of the ONLY choice. 

Doing this just seems really contradictory to building Keith as a leader. Additionally I wish he was shown to be more well-received and liked in-show by his paladins and crew members as a leader, rather than dismissed and ignored in favor of Shiro. I wish the points that were obvious to viewers (as in, the ones that are paying attention,) were more obvious to the team itself, because it almost seems like the team itself doesn’t see how smart and capable Keith is as a leader outside Shiro. And we’ve been seeing leadership in Keith since season 1. 

Examples include, 

Keith telling Pidge not to leave the team, we can’t form voltron, or else they’d be sunk. Later, in the very same episode, The castle and all five lions are bombed and nearly completely stolen. If Pidge had taken off, they would have lost everything.  -S1E4

“Your kick threw off our balance. We fell.”>> “I’m gonna do a cool kick!!”>>> “No, we’ll fall!”>>>> “Quit living in the past! 

>>>>> “Oh, no!” [grunts]. - S1E3

Keith’s one man rescue mission to save Shiro, his introductory sequence of the very first episode, where he not only distracts the garrison with bombs, but outruns them in a vehicle slower than they are with 3 strangers using only his flight/maneuvering skills. Following that, immediately after the rescue/getaway, he provides the team crucial direction to the Blue Lion, after tracking it in the desert by himself on instinct and skill alone. -S1E1. 

Predicting Zarkons Ambush And Advising against it.

Zarkon: But now your new Paladins will come for you, and they will deliver Voltron to me,Keith, to Team: Or Maybe we shouldn’t go on this mission at all. We’ll be delivering the universes greatest hope, to the universes biggest enemy. --S1E11

Pushing the Black Lion out of the tractor beam, then fighting Zarkon head on to prevent him from getting to it, while Hunk retrieved Shiro and Allura from Zarkons Ship -S1E11

And this is just Season One. There’s even MORE of this in the seasons since then!

Keiths actions from the very beginning haven’t just been helpful, they’ve been absolutely integral. If Pidge had left, there would be no Voltron. If he hadn’t taken the three of them on his bike, there would be no Voltron. If he hadn’t felt the blue lion calling to him, telling him to search, there would be no Voltron. If he hadn’t fought Zarkon against Corans plea’s, Zarkon would have gotten the Black Lion from Shiro and there may have been no way to get it back, and there would be no Voltron. 

His actions save the team as a whole again and again and again. His thoughts predict outcomes of team and enemy decisions alike with scary precision that has even been labelled prophetic by some in this fandom. It’s no wonder Black chose him as her Paladin. It’s so easy to see what Shiro was seeing in Keith. 

And yet, fandom and team alike don’t ever seem to acknowledge it. And it’s frustrating. 

I wish the team had come to see and value Keiths leadership as much as the writers and directors do. I wish it was shown to be just as important and valuable as Shiro’s. Keith shouldn’t be Shiro’s stand in. He should be appreciated as a leader in his own right. There’s no need to Sever bonds, and it would have been so much better if the leadership transition had been brought about by as much preference as there was need. 

[shutup-and-trust-me]

your posts also uplift the keith stans in the sheith tag since keith is one half of sheith, and the other keith stans appreciate you defending their boy. (and sorry, I thought your blog was you being fed up with the "ONE TRUE PALADIN uwu" thing shiro stans pushed since S3) definitely keep your posts in the sheith tag though! sheith shiro stans should know better smh, they aren't lance stans tier just yet since I don't see them threatening lauren or calling her a white bitch

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anon this is so touching? I’ll admit I had several people come to me in my DM’s venting with me about Keith Treatment but... I guess I didn’t realize I was also doing that for the Keith Stans? 

I made this as a burner for venting, figuring no one would listen to me, because I’ve had terrible fandom experiences all around and wasn’t expecting anything less than backlash, but I’ve surprisingly gotten more people launching themselves at me more than anything!! 

I agree, I shouldn’t have made that comparison and I’m sorry. I do think if the shiro stans keep it up they might get there though. (Also, harrassment is anti behavior, not lance stan behavior, though unfortunately we know those two categories overlap a lot...) And I AM fed up with UWU ONE TRU PALADIN bullshit, but I’ll make a separate post. 

Since I’ve received this encouragement I’ll definitely keep using this blog more often. I’m glad it’s been so nice for Keith fans, because honestly. Keith needs more love. REAL LOVE. Not “uhu he makes a good ship accessory for my fav” love. 

Everyone is welcome to come into my inbox or my DM’s to talk or vent with me about this anytime. 

[allurahimesama]

i love how i actually provided examples of keith being a bad leader, yanno, evidence?? and his only argument was literally “SHUT UP KEITH’S A GOOD LEADER BECAUSE I SAY SO!!! I DON’T NEED TO SHOW EXAMPLES!!”