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the end of The Big Short isn’t fucking around

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It probably wasn’t that suspicious. It was always the Lion’s choice who they let pilot them. Remember Allura was concerned in the very beginning because she wasn’t sure it would accept another pilot with Zarkon alive. And we saw it reject anyone who wasn’t Keith prior to this. It would be the clone’s moments where he got more angry than usual would prove to them exactly why he was rejected this time. Considering what they would have learned from his return to them, they’d likely assume it was trauma related (which it was). And when the clone actually established his connection, it eased any suspicions to the Black Lion didn’t think he was ready to return.

Then there’s the added factor of the other character’s flaws to add to the mix. Keith was pushing Shiro hard in ways to try and get him to reestablish his connection, and while he cares for him, it was mostly because he wanted out of the position of Black Paladin. Keith at that time is getting on everyone else's nerves because he’s purposefully dropping the ball, so they’re actually siding more with Shiro’s frustration during this time.

Pidge got tunnel vision when it came to her family, so she wasn’t paying as much attention to Shiro’s situation as she should have. She's also young and has been using Shiro as a surrogate older brother so that’s blinding her too. Take when they got an ultimatum from Zarkon over her father, Shiro was the only person who she’d listen to argue through her tunnel vision.

Hunk is conflict avoidant, and the least likely to be snapped at by Shiro. He’s so comfortable in himself and his relationships he doesn't feel the need to branch out beyond his friendships with Pidge and Lance.

Allura is usually blinded by her own self doubts, so when she is focused she’s ontop of the failings of Keith and Shiro as leaders. Meanwhile Lance was the one who saw the multiple warning signs towards the clone, but he ignored them to focus on his jealousy of Lotor.

Lotor didn’t know Shiro prior to working with the Paladins so he wouldn’t know anything was wrong with him. Kuron also was rather supportive to Lotor and he probably found himself agreeing more with Kuron’s logic. If Lotor had any knowledge of it he’d have taken the clone out immediately.

Coran was the most likely to assume Shiro was having a trauma response. It was a perfect combination of ignorance that created the opening for Honerva.

ok quick vld post but why didn't they question when shiro couldn't pilot black? like, keith could do it whenever, black still letting actual shiro pilot, but suddenly he goes missing then can't pilot black? mad suspicious, and kuron acts weird, so they didn't find it the least bit suspicious?

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You only live once.

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For those of you watching the death spiral of Twitter in real time THIS IS WHY us fandom olds always defend AO3 and it’s donation drives.

Twitter is an incalculable loss for artistic expression, news, and so many other facets I can’t even begin to count.

This sort of loss of information is impossible with AO3 and how it’s set-up. Obviously an AO3 style model isn’t sustainable for every site bc the moment images get involved the server costs skyrocket exponentially, but now more than ever the theory applies.

AO3 is an archive of our own, donators have direct say via vote about what happens to the site, you help shape it.

As long as AO3 has donation drives and doesn’t rely on advertisers it will remain around as a foremost place of art and freedom of expression. What happened to Twitter can’t happen to AO3 as it currently exists. And that is why we fight tooth and nail to protect AO3 from corporate interests and out of touch billionaires like Musk.

I hate that Twitter is dying and that anyone has to experience it, but please learn from this experience!

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Sounds good, the effort team purple lion has taken to reconstruct the story that was lost to us in Season 7 and 8 is incredible.

Maybe have it be multiple parts instead of one video, just a suggestion

You're not the first to ask if I'll do more than one video, and while I admit it IS a potential solution, it's also a LOT more work than I am prepared to commit to at this time. It's a two-part problem, the first being, making videos is HARD work, like, deceptively hard. And I've got MDD to contend with. It's not a manageable project for me to plan for a multiple-video series.

The second part is that, from a marketing perspective, it's much neater and tidier to have one video that can be sent to people encapsulating the best of our arguments. And I AM hoping that this video catches peoples' eyes. It's still my goal to do what I can to FREEVLDS8 and clear the reputations of the Executive Producers of VLD, regardless of how much time has passed. That said, if by chance I miss covering something important in this video I would do my best to rectify that with a second. It's only the responsible thing to do.

It's likely that I'll be sharing pieces of the production process here on tumblr (and twitter, and various discord servers, etc); the kind of content that you'd usually see on a Patreon. I'll be writing the script first, which will basically be a condensed and updated Seek Truth in Darkness combined with Interdimensional Executive Meddling. So you'll get to see that and can offer suggestions if you'd like to :)

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I’m here

With Twitter dying, I decided to rebrand myself over on Tumblr. All my like 5 followers out there that probably forgot about me, I know so popular. :)

So what will I be doing here on Tumblr

This page I will be dumping my voltron metas and other posts. I plan to submit some to team purple lion, however my main idea’s will be kept here.