dont shatter their power fantasy. how will they survive?

what gets me is it's a legit opinion instead of something like "YOUR SHIP IS PEDOPHILIA EVEN IF THE AGE GAP ISN'T VERIFIED BY CANON!" but in this case it's "if someone as a person believes in (xyz bad belief) you are not allowed to like their work"

like i totally believe it's not good to support ppl who believe in terrible shit bc funding them is bad, but if you aren't funding them you get into a grey area.

you aren't going to convince anyone who likes the work that they are bad people or aren't allowed to like a free thing.

Yeah, if someone's not actually financially supporting the creator... i mean, that doesnt count for the creator at all

in fact that will just antagonise them. you are better off explaining why the whole thing makes you uncomfortable and raising points with ppl on an individual basis if you want them to care about a creator's opinions.

sob yeah, i think some ppl have trouble understanding that there ARE ppl who can separate a creator from their work. the internet seems to experience a thing where their opinions change when they find out things they don't like about a creator.

no matter how bad the creator's opinion is, as long as they aren't paying for that person to have a platform, it just seems counter-productive to tell ppl they can't like a thing.

like you won't win. there is no way to win that. you'll only speak to people who already agree with you. anyone who doesn't will mock you, roll their eyes, or ignore you.

The internet needs to read some Barthes

the internet needs something, that's for sure. but i do have to say i like this variation better than the "you aren't allowed to like shiro and keith from voltron putting their mouths on each other because that means you support child abuse" that goes around and around and around.

"otabek can't be with yurio because that's pedophilia"

I don't want to remember that hell... I will take this over that

i like both of these pairings so inevitably if i ever feel like looking for them i see that hell again and again and again and it's like presumably you are in the US because im pretty sure we're the only country where we're taught it's cool to shove our values on everyone else

we have a lot more important things going on right now than your pairing wars please do literally anything else with this excess energy

I have seen the darkest parts of it because i have artist friends in the vld fandom and it's a Bad Time. I'll take what is essentially people clashing over whether or not the author is dead when you consume a fiction over actual slanderous accusations

my favourite part is how it appropriates social justice terminology and guilts people who don't see it for what it is into falling for it because they don't want to be bad

fortunately for me the more it's hated the more i like it so it's impossible to put me off

LMAO I'm. Also like this tbh.

i literally did not care about sheith as a pairing other than "aww that's kinda cute but too healthy for me to actually LIKE like" until i saw ppl ragging on it and talking about how unhealthy and harmful it was and my brain did a slow headturn

next thing i know i wrote 20k words about it on ao3 despite having no inspiration for writing ever anymore

You impress me every time our paths cross

I'M IMPRESSED TOO. NOW I'M SUPER EXCESSIVELY INTO IT EVEN IF IT'S NOT ABUSIVE OR FUCKED UP OR EVEN FILLED WITH BICKERING. all thanks to the brain

i thought i knew myself.

the healthiest i get is "pointless bickering all the time constantly"

it's genuinely so.... stable... and mutually supportive. it's wild that this became such a shitshow because of arbitrary anime ages

i'm incapable of viewing it as anything but a particularly ugly shipwar where ppl grasp for straws to make the pairing bad bc they like keith and shiro but are more interested in other pairings and feel threatened by a fictional pairing.

all because some people don't want to believe "late teens" includes ages 18 and 19.

yup

truth

a lot of ppl pushing the "keith is underage" narrative don't even know vld as a series. they just blindly take other ppl's words for it.

And then there's the people who are like this is a KID'S SHOW and . Let me tell you. This is the only iteration of voltron that is a 'family show'

literally any child searching voltron has about 30 years of residual mech otaku spank bank material they are gonna find.

including recent adaptations in the comic world that are super NC-17

RJFKLSDJLFKJSLFKJSF THAT DIDN'T EVEN OCCUR TO ME SINCE THIS IS THE ONLY ONE I WATCHED. well shit, that just makes it even dumber.

Listen. Lotor has a literal sex harem in the original Voltron. There was never hope here.

rgfasdkjfhasdklfhakjg god damn. CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW THAT'S HANDLED IN THIS VERSION

Yeah it's. People have completely forgotten this is a bunch of adults revisiting a show they watched as kids which was. A mech anime. And did as mech anime from the 80's do content-wise.

Cause JPN doesn't have the same kinda content censoring for like. Preteeny shows as we do.

i'm legit only familiar with gundam wing, evangelion, escaflowne, and now VLD bc overall mech just doesn't interest me. i watched gundam wing because i was 14 and it was anime. i watched eva because all cool anime kids on the internet did it. i watched escaflowne because a friend loaned me her VHS.

i watched VLD because lance's smarmy face was adorable and also shiro is an interesting design

I just mean that like. It was very explosions/death and had background bosoms when it could find reason to throw them in there

the 80's in a nutshell

now i'm like oh man. i hope they find good ways to imply lotor is horrible and it upsets people when ppl start pairing him with shiro or keith.

oh ok so basically every old anime but just with giant robots.

yea yea

HAHA people already pair him with lance for the fuck of it and im like let's see where this madness goes

i wish i could read stuff with lance in it bc i really do like lance but LANCE IS TREATED SO WEIRDLY BY THE FANDOM. he's like their self-insert character where they project whatever they want onto him.

yeah they are REALLY weird with lance

im like im sorry lance is a shit boy but he's a good shit boy. but accept that he's a shit boy

LIKE HALF OF THE FUCKIN KLANCE SHIT THE LAST I LOOKED WAS "KEITH ARGUES/PICKS A FIGHT" AND IT'S LIKE NO?????????? KEITH DOESN'T GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO PICK FIGHTS WITH LANCE OR ARGUE WITH HIM FOR NO REASON.

if keith is arguing with lance it's because lance has done something really fucking dumb in the past and he's trying to correct it and/or lance started it

YEA exactly. Exactly.

Lance is the picker

it makes me crazy and i hate seeing it done so backwards but i'm also a little in love with keith's character bc of his subtle complexity so i may feel too strongly about it.

"keith didn't get development in s1" YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH PPL I SAW ON THE INTERNET ONCE watch the way they animate him half his character is told in body language

keith is very action not words

because he's a mech protag and they are either energetic hero types or. subdued trauma types

also ppl who think lance would be healthier for keith than shiro would be make my head explode. like listen, lance has some inadequacy issues he needs to work on. perhaps the picking fights is cute to you but THAT'S NOT HEALTHY RELATIONSHIP BEHAVIOUR YOU IDIOTS.

I HAVE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT THIS CHILDREN'S PROGRAM BECAUSE I LOVE KEITH VERY MUCH.

YOU ARE. VERY CORRECT. LANCE DEFINITELY WOULD BE THE im testing your opinion of me type

IT WOULD BE GREAT IF IT WAS DONE PROPERLY. i really don't think they'd last though esp not as they are currently. keith is too solitary and lance would be way clingy for him.

please someone write a fanfiction where they get together and mutually decide this shit isn't working out and then become even better friends afterwards.

im into one-sided lance having a crush on keith but not even knowing he has a crush on keith, too. my tastes are very specific for this pairing.

wheres the fanart of lance hugging keith in his sleep and keith trying to claw out of his clingy-ass iron grip looking visibly vexed because he really wants to be fighting a robot right now

someone out there has to share my vision i'll look at that content

my only contribution to klance art is lance making fun of keith for having to put a stupid pink barrette in his hair for fooling around so he can see anything he's doing but that's from years ago

see i love them when they're done right. they're adorable. UNHEALTHY IN MANY RESPECTS, BUT ADORABLE.

like do people not see that lance's rivalry actually is in his head. keith doesn't think he has anything to prove.

i mean he's guilty of taking the bait once provoked but he doesn't naturally think i'm gonna outdo lance.

yea lance isn't

on his radar at all as far as that goes

ive seen ppl be like "well keith had an attitude at lance in ep 1" LANCE'S FIRST INTERACTION WAS LITERALLY BUSTING IN TELLING KEITH HE WASN'T SAVING SHIRO AND THEN HE WAS BAD AT FLYING A LION.

lance is the picker

without a doubt

keith has deeper shit to deal with

i never realise how many feelings i have about this dumb show until i talk about keith. keith i love you. keith you're too good for this fandom. keith you're not nearly as hotheaded as everyone tries to pretend you are, you're just a very emotional boy who probably doesn't know how to handle his feelings very well.

amen