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Happy pride from the sassy chickens!

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She’s got lions in her heart

A fire in her soul 

he’s a got a beast in his belly

that’s so hard to control

‘Cause they’ve taken too much hits,

taking blow 

by blow

Now light a match

stand back

watch them explode

Superheroes by The Script

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Hello and welcome to my kidge Ted talk. We’ve wrapped up season 8 and I’m sure everyone who wants to see it has seen it by now.

I figured I’d make a little post dipping into pidge and Keith’s relationship through the entirety of the show.

To my fellow kidge fans, we hear a lot of “kidge? They hardly interact.” Which is… not true. But even if they didn’t, why hate on creativity? I’m here to compile the moments that really set the kidge shippers into motion.

I’m on mobile, so unfortunately I won’t have too many pictures, but I’ll try my best. (I also have no idea how to insert a read more on mobile so I’ll apologize in advance)

The obvious

Keith and pidge are often depicted next to one another.

Since the beginning of the show, the animators make it a point to depict them near one another. This is an obvious, as for half of the show they’re the “arms of voltron”. It makes sense, in the same way lance and hunk are depicted next to one another. However, after Keith is no longer piloting the red lion, these two are still always kept in a close proximity. Without getting too “shipper goggles” I’d like to point out that this displays a closeness between the two.

Now that we’re past the basic, surface level observation, I want to get a bit more into their character arcs.

Parallels

Keith and pidge have one thing in common as kids: bullying. Pidge is picked on by kids in her class for being a nerd. Keith is taunted for being “emo” and the loss of his parents.

But they both have something else in common

They both have a similar “comfort person”. Pidge finds this in Matt (her brother). While Keith finds this in Shiro (someone he has regarded as being like a brother). These people inspire them and make them want to excel and do better, despite the bullies or feeling lonely.

Another big parallel is that these people who mean so much to them go missing and propels them both forward to start their arcs.

They become obsessed with finding them

While Keith finds shiro in the first episode, his journey is not done there. While pidge is looking for her father and brother, Keith is trying to discover where he comes from and how he’s related to the galra.

He ends up finding his mother around the same time pidge is reunited with her father. These arcs resolving around the same time is very harmonious and gives them both a sense of peace that makes them stronger characters.

Now that all that’s out of the way, let’s look into the big interacts they’ve had.

S1

We get the Paladins learning to work together, which gives us this excellent “go loose, pidge!” Scene. They work well together from the get go. They are the arms of voltron, after all.

But there’s a dissonance when pidge tries to leave the team. Keith is furious. And I think this is more than a “The team won’t function” right sort of thing, but an abandonment issue. Keith has lost people. Being the arms of voltron, they are a team. If pidge leaves, Keith is alone in that regard and I think it’s evident in how happy he is that she decides to stay.

S4

In the beginning of season 4, keith leaves voltron. They all go to hug him and pidge expresses how much they’re going to miss him. This is another display of closeness. As pidge is on the verge of tears at the idea of him leaving and he gives her a very soft smile that we rarely see from him. (I don’t have a picture of this my bad).

S6

Keith returns to voltron. When he is down pidge helps him up. Not much to say about this but I liked this moment.

S7

This is the big daddy of kidge moments for the show.

We gonna start with the obvious when they get captured. Lance is the first to move, being immediately taken down by Ezor. This is also huge for plance shippers, but I won’t get into that right now. Keith yells for them to let her go. He’s angry and panicked, but they have some sort of blaster pointed at him, showing that they deem him as a threat. He can’t do anything. This will connect to a point I’ll be making for season 8.

We get this cute little moment when pidge asks “what’s that?” And Keith tried to gently explain the drills to her, with a soft smile. This is behavior Keith doesn’t usually display. Zethrid was completely right when she says the team has a soft spot for pidge. Keith is no exception.

There is the scene when they’re fighting the Druid. From Keith’s vision we see him look from Kolivan to pidge. These are people he wants to protect and keep safe.

While they’re floating in space, throwing insults at each other, no one has anything to say about pidge. Because they don’t have negative feelings towards her.

In this same episode, we get the famous scene of pidge grabbing Keith while he’s hallucinating. I’ve talked about this in another post, but I’ll reiterate it here as well. Pidge is on the tail end of the chain when Keith starts swinging. She jumps up from the very end and goes to grab Keith, breaking the hold hunk has on him. This immediately snaps Keith out of it. The animators made it a point to have the person farthest away from him be the one to pull him back. Animating isn’t easy so this is something they had to have gone out of their way to do.

It’s another display of closeness. Much like in the scene with the Druid when he looks to pidge, this is someone he cares about.

S8

Pidge and Keith didn’t get a huge focus this season (which I’m fine with. Gotta let the others shine). But there were two significant scenes that the kidge shippers lost their marbles over.

Not only do we see them sitting together through most of the season, but we get this cute lunch scene during episode 7. Judging by how most of the people kinkade and razavi interviewed were intruded on, I’d say this is probably no different.

There is a moment where Keith is looking at pidge, even afters she’s finished talking. He only stops when Razavi calls out to him. Through his portion of the interview, he visibly becomes more annoyed. At the end he’s asks “is this interview over now?” (Or something along those lines) indicated that he felt intruded upon.

Keith and pidge had seemingly planned to enjoy lunch with one another but were intruded upon, this accounting for Keith’s long look and continuos annoyance.

Then we have the hand grabbing scene. Keith could have reached for anyone; lance, hunk, allura. But as usual, pidge was closest to him. His focus in this moment doesn’t seem to be entirely on the team, but mostly in pidge. They’re clinging to each other and he’s trying with all of his strength to pull her back up.

When the Paladins finally disappear, Keith falls to his knees and begins banging on the ground in distress. Much like the scene with Zethrid and Ezor, Keith gets very panicked and upset when he can’t help those he cares about. He feels helpless.

But an important thing to note is that pidge is holding onto Keith as much as he’s holding onto her. This a mutual bond between the two. It comes back to the scene in space when she grabs him. They’re a figurative lifeline for one another. Both literally and figuratively trying to pull each other out of dispair.

Whether romantically or plantonically, I think it’s important to regard how close these two actually are. As Bex said and the writers and animators have indicated, they “secretly adore each other”.

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sorry but voltron legendary defender RULED this website for like two and a half years. you couldn’t go a day here without hearing about it. i devoted my precious high school years to its study and analysis. it was wildly popular, considered extraordinarily well-written for an animated children’s show, and revived voltron in pop culture and the public eye. and now it has been pulled from netflix (who PRODUCED IT) and the only official way to watch it is to pay for it on youtube or amazon. and that’s only the first six seasons. i’m so serious there is no legal way to watch seasons 7 and 8 of voltron. how did we even get here man

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zukka T_T

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Was starting to watch Voltron because I was curious about Klance... here I am, 3 episodes into the series and shipping Kidge instead <3

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Alright, but what about Keith training with Pidge early in their tenure as Paladins to show her how to take down opponents several times her size?

It's one of those small ways I think I'd make the team a team— a unit that's made of people with unique skills that can come together and be better together.

Keith can't offer her emotional support the way Shiro can, he can't be a tech nerd with her like Hunk, and he can't be a general nerd or easy for her to hang out with the way Lance can, but what he can do is help her learn the skills he had to find out the hard way.

He can show her how take a hit, how to use her greater speed and agility against anyone she can't risk getting caught by. How to take what she lacks in physical mass and turn it into something just as deadly. It's something he can do for someone he cares about.

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So, while I was working on this drawing, @erisenyo let me read some of their fic Work To Be Done, Before Drowning. And the ideas they'd expanded upon from the ask that started it all had me hooked and my brain sparkling even more than it had been initially. I don't want to spoil anything (I've rewritten this paragraph a half a dozen times absolutely gushing about everything that made me go feral over this idea), but I couldn't help but to make another drawing, this time inspired by their writing.

Go read their fic. It's fantastic and unsettling and intriguing.

While this isn't exactly fufiling the prompt of 'first kill' for @atlararepairmonth, it does very much go hand in hand with the previous drawing to tell a completed story. If the first drawing is telling Hahn's version of the events, then this is Sokka's.

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The wings of Voltron

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i feel like i see a lot of zukka posts about sokka flirting with zuko and zuko not picking up on it (because he's autistic and/or has trouble believing someone would be into him) and while of course it makes sense for zuko to be oblivious it's kinda funny that people are depicting sokka actively pursuing zuko when if there IS any zukka in canon it's zuko seeing a cute boy going on a reckless quest and IMMEDIATELY being ride-or-die. like he smirks and shows off his fire-breathing and sokka's just like "okay yay he helped with the plan" completely unaware bc he's focused on the mission and also suki. sokka tells suki to go escape bc she's been there longer and she says she'll stay with sokka and it's a sweet couple moment and then zuko pipes up "i'm staying too" like yes i am also with sokka :) even though he was literally the one who convinced sokka to stay and look for hakoda so him staying wasn't really in question. like the whole episode he is trying to be super supportive to sokka and maybe make some small attempts to flirt and meanwhile sokka's mostly just thinking "i'm a worthless piece of shit who got my father in prison" "omg suki!!!!" "hmmm how do we escape?" "omg dad!!!!" "hmmm how do we escape (again)?" and zuko is barely in there at all (except maybe as part of the escape plan)

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Sokka sketchpage, now in colour!

★ patreon || website || bluesky ★

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/65761423

I did it! I managed to actually finish this. 3 weeks late, mind you. But anyway :-)

@atlararepairmonth

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30+ year old women are the backbone of this website

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avatarnetflix That’s a wrap on Season 2. The time of Sozin’s comet draws near. AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Season 3 is now in production!

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So, @erisenyo sent me an ask about Sokka/Hahn for the prompt of 'first kill' and boy did that make my brain sparkle like a disco ball. The idea of an AU in which Sokka and Hahn team up and hunt down Zhao for what he did to the moon spirit (and subsequentially leading to Yue's death) really held so much potential.

So here it is, the aftermath of their first kill, for @atlararepairmonth (with more to come later).

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Now it's down to 6K signatures!

The last days of the petition against conversion therapy are FASCINATING to watch. I have been following it pretty closely for almost a year now, and the progress was, above all, steady. There was this jump when some algorithm in Finland picked it up, but even that was local.

And now, everyone is panicking.

Which really shows.

These past three or four days, multiple countries have reached the threshold. Even more notably, the number of signatures in total, the ones that we need to get one million of, are growing rapidly. There are only 400'000 signatures missing. Two days ago, it was closer to 600'000.

You can see the progress here:

Consider joining the fun by making everyone around you sign it!