KLANCE SUMMER.

hi it’s reg lezbianz formerly-and-again known as reg wlwvoltron and i’m doing awesome

[deckoftrickcards]

sorry for dropping off the face of the earth with my art here’s an allura thingy

[tbhallura]

beach day?!

[wlwvoltron]

what sort of music would lance listen to…

[sarafroot]

Sk8r boy

[liimeon]

hi tumblr. ,.. .. . . .

[wlwvoltron]

saw the mountain goats live. had some wildly overpriced g&ts. it’s 3am and i have to be up at 5. well i think it’s time to post lance voltron.

[wlwvoltron]

are we all thinking about vld again... anyway, apart from all the actual crimes, this show has such a nonsensical and unfulfilling narrative. I know this has all been said, especially about how unfairly the story treats the characters, but now I'm thinking about the mess that was the development of team voltron as a unit. why was shiro not actually shiro for the entire middle half of the story (making everything clone shiro does basically useless emotionally). keith leaves the team for seasons and then comes back and is a dick again. and becomes team leader??? the lion switch in general (though paladin allura was a win). why was lotor basically part of the team for a while. honestly I don't remember the later seasons but I'm pretty sure that when they came back to earth the garrison cadets were given more focus than the newly-complete-again team voltron. really, the team was complete, functional and interacting meaningfully with each other for maybe 2 or 3 seasons total (with episodic exceptions with good 1 on 1 talks); by the end of the show I knew that they got good at fighting together and motivating themselves for the mission, but I would not be able to say that they all really grew together as friends or that they really knew each other well.

no fucking. literally. i’m always always ALWAYS thinking about katie’s theory that the reason voltron is so bad is because shiro was originally supposed to die, but then they had to start rewriting it after season 2 to keep him alive. that is literally THEEE only explanation for why the dynamics (of everything — characters’ relationships to one another, the pacing of the plot, the balance between who got screentime and where, etc etc etc) got so weird and fucked up after season 3: because the show was supposed to be one way, and then they had to scramble to change it to fit shiro back in, after having spent 5 episodes setting up the new team without him. (also, i am always thinking about how season 3 was definitely written with audience input from season 2 in mind……because there wasn’t a single fat joke about hunk following a season of. only that. el oh el)

i’m also always thinking about the way voltron was written, with every writer writing a different script for each episode, throwing it in a pile, & then jds & lm sorting through the pile and picking all the parts they liked & stitching them together…..LITERAL NIGHTMAREEEEEE that is not how you write a coherent narrative😭😭😭.

but yeah, i agree. the characters didn’t feel like friends past season 3, imo. it felt to me like the only character relationship the writers had any interest in developing past that point was allura & lance’s, & even that was done sparingly😭😭😭😭😭😭.

guys what happened to the mind meld from season one. remember that. god. GOD

[wlwvoltron]

ok i’m logging back out i’ll see you guys again soon🙂‍↕️🫶

[wlwvoltron]

and the truth is pidge had nonbinary swag off the charts before we even knew what nonbinary swag was.

[wlwvoltron]

like, the people who were theythemming pidge in 2016 were visionaries. they were prophets for the 2020s. back then the go-to nonbinary look was either a pixie cut or that brendon urie hairstyle, a pair of hipster glasses, and That Damn Smirk. come the 2020s, though? every person with fluffy/shaggy short hair, circular glasses, and an rbf is getting stopped dead in the middle of a conversation to be asked for their pronouns. pidge was the blueprint. and she wasn’t even nonbinary.

[wlwvoltron]

i don’t want to overstate voltron’s impact upon the gen z queer community or whatever but you go to a few gay college parties and everyone starts to look like one of the paladins.

[wlwvoltron]

and the truth is pidge had nonbinary swag off the charts before we even knew what nonbinary swag was.

[stratos-ane]

all legs, no dairy

[stratos-ane]

Julance Day 12: Undercover

[wlwvoltron]

the lion switch was dumb though if anything allura should have just been black paladin OR, barring that, she should’ve been red paladin. i think it would have been way more interesting narratively. but Whatever.

[heynhay]

don't wait up

[ahhrenata]

more hugs please

[wlwvoltron]

i never watched voltron season 8 and i never will because i do not hate myself. as far as i’m concerned voltron had 3 seasons and only 1.5 of them were any good but that is okay.