#i am ready for the haters to burn me to a crisp

[kitty8804]

As a RWBY fan it can be really upsetting to see so many people criticize the show and try to undermine every little thing about it. Bumbleby being a prime example.

But I will always remember my mom watching volume 9 with me after the kiss scene. This wonderful woman is in her 50s, has zero FNDM involvement, is new to LGBTQ+ content, and has watched volumes years apart from each other with no refresher due to waiting for the next volume. Despite all this her response to me telling her that there were a large group of people who didn’t like that Bumbleby became canon, but also called it lazy writing was amazing.

She looked at me with a confused look on her face and said: “There are people who watched the show and didn’t think these two were going to get together since the beginning?”

[snappedsky]

Borderlands: Skies the Bodyguard 3

The battle begins.

*Links to previous and next chapters in reblog*

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Chapter 25

*For some added Borderlands feel, imagine Indiscriminate Murder is Counter-Productive by Machine Supremacy playing over the following scene.*

           It’s a one-sided fight on the surface. The Jack haters never stood a chance against the Guardians. Any who have survived this long have the sense to stay hidden or on the move.

           Mick Scabbers watches as his followers scurry from the Guardians, wondering what to do next and where the hell Lilith went.

           As if on cue, a door opens behind him. Everyone nearby turns to see a group of people standing in the doorway.

           Lilith, Mordecai, Axton, Salvador, Maya, Gaige, Loader Bot, Timothy, and Skies all grin, almost twitching with excitement as they cock their guns.

           “Firehawk!” Scabbers exclaims.

           Lilith Phasewalks and reappears in the middle of a group of Guardians, burning them to a crisp with her aura.

           “Yes?” she sneers, glaring at Scabbers.

           “Er um…n-never mind,” he squeaks, ducking behind a bush.

           “Let’s hit it!” Axton cheers as everyone else rushes out. He throws down his turret and fires his assault rifle, tearing through charging Guardians. Maya catches any who get by with her Phaselock and they’re quickly dealt with by Salvador as he laughs maniacally. Gaige rides on the back of Deathtrap, shooting her shotgun as it slices through other Guardians. Loader Bot and Timothy stand back to back, mowing them down with their assault rifle and SMG. Skies charges into the crowd, firing off her pistol right and left. Mordecai sets up a perch on top of a building, picking off any in the distance with headshots.

           Meanwhile, a different door opens across the island and Brick dives out, fists raised, ready to start swinging. But there’s no one around.

           “It’s clear,” he announces. Rhys, Fiona, Sasha, Vaughn, Athena, August, Zer0, Krieg, Claptrap, and Gortys exit the building, looking around carefully. In the distance, they can hear the shouting and gunfire of the ongoing battle.

           “Okay, let’s move quickly,” Rhys orders, “and keep your eyes open for any enemies.”                  

           They hurry around the trees to the tallest building on the island; the facilities main control tower.

           “There’s a giant robot in there?” August asks, “how’s it gonna fit through that regular sized door?”

           “The control panel on the inside opens this entire wall to release the Prototype,” Rhys replies.

           “How do you know that?” Athena asks.

           “Ja-I mean…” He stops, warily eyeing Brick, Zer0, and Krieg. “I…ran a diagnostic…of sorts…and found that out. A-anyway, once we release the Prototype, Gortys, you giant up and prepare to fight. Got it?”

           “Aye aye, captain!” she chimes.

           “Good,” he nods and looks at Fiona, Sasha, and Vaughn. “You guys ready?”

           “Lead the way,” Vaughn replies and the four of them enter the building.

           “Oh, this is kind of exciting,” Claptrap giggles, “a giant robot fight.”

           “Why are you even here? How can you help?” Athena asks.

           “I just went with whatever group I thought would be safest,” he shrugs.

           Inside the tower, Rhys motions for the others to stay quiet as they stare up at the giant robot before them. It doesn’t seem to have noticed them and remains unresponsive.

           Rhys pushes a button on the door’s control panel and the whole wall starts folding open. As the outside light spills in, the Prototype powers up.

           “Get back,” Rhys hisses pushing his friends up against the wall.

           “Okay, Gortys, it’s time!” Athena orders as they watch the giant door open up.

           “Right!” she exclaims and grabs her upgrade part from seemingly out of nowhere.            

           “I still don’t get how we’re supposed to pilot her,” Brick remarks.

           A bright light envelopes Gortys and quickly grows bigger and bigger, forcing everyone to retreat into the bushes as she breaks through the overheard branches. Finally the light dissipates, revealing her final, giant form.

           “Oh, okay. Now it makes sense,” Brick says.

           “Intruder,” a robotic voice sounds from the building and the Prototype begins to step out.

           “Hurry, guys!” Gortys exclaims and kneels down, resting her hand on the ground. Athena, August, Brick, Zer0, and Krieg quickly climb on and she closes her fist around them. They soon rise up inside her control room, each behind their own control panel.

           “Oohohoho, game time,” Krieg chortles.

           “Yo, Mordy, you there?” Brick asks into his ECHO communicator.

           “I hear ya, Brick,” Mordecai replies.

           “You know, we’ve been through a lot of cool things, but this,” he smirks, “is the coolest.”

           The Prototype exits the building, its footsteps nearly shaking the whole island. It’s not nearly as sleek looking as Gortys, and a lot more angular. Its head and shoulders are broad and square and it only has one, giant red eye that focuses on Gortys as she stands to face it.    

           “Intruder,” it creaks. She lifts her fists, ready to fight.

           Claptrap trembles as he stares up at the two giant bots, both far taller than the surrounding trees.

           “Ah, I-I was wrong! This isn’t cool at all and I do not feel safe!” he cries.

           The Prototype takes another step forward, knocking a tree over, and Claptrap screams and races away.

            Back inside the tower, Rhys quickly closes the giant door and everyone sighs with relief once inside the relatively safe dim lighting.

           “Okay,” he says, “all we have to do is get to the top of the tower where the control room is. Then I’ll take control of the facility, the Prototype will obey me, and we’ll win the day.”

           “So let’s go already,” Fiona orders and they face the stairwell; the very long, twisting stairwell that disappears into the darkness of the towering building.

           “This may be harder than we thought,” Sasha groans.

           They begin the ascent, steadily jogging and keeping their gaze focused upwards. As they climb, an old fast travel station on the first floor suddenly lights up and begins digistructing something, the pixels slowly piecing together. Once it has finished, a voice cries out, “halt!”

           Rhys and the others stop at the third landing, looking around with surprise.

           “Who said that?” Fiona asks.

           “I did,” a pixel-y voice replies as something light blue flies up towards them. It stops, floating in middle of the room and glaring at them. It appears to be a man in a simple suit with glasses, a pocket protector, and neatly combed hair. But he’s pixelated and transparent, like a digistructed clone.

           “What-who-who are you?” Rhys asks, bewildered.

           “I am Peter Nestle, Atlas Director,” he replies, “and I will not allow you take my facility!”

[deepestuniversallove]

Fucking pissed off about the Altean Colony and a rant about Allura and why I hate her

So, I am putting together a mega-video with all Lotor scenes including all scenes with his generals, and just... ALLURA IS SUCH A MEGA CUNT, HOLY FUCK!

I am putting this under a read more, because it is just me, angry-ranting. Any stupid anon messages will be deleted on sight, so don’t even think about it!

How can people still like her? How are there still Lotura shippers? How can they call Allura still a Princess after she has forsaken all of her Princess duties? I have been rewatching Season 8, episode 2 and 6, and am SCREAMING.

WHY HAS SHE FUCKED OFF TO EARTH INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE DAMN COLONY AND APOLOGIZING TO THE ALTEANS THERE FOR KILLING THEIR LEADER AND AT LEAST PROVIDE FOR THEM SO THAT THEY DON’T FEND FOR THEMSELVES?!! 

Killing Lotor has only brought negative consequences that could have been avoided if she had only listened to him! Even more upsetting is the fact that she just fucked off and left the Alteans at the colony alone to fend for themselves. Instead, she should have taken Romelle, let her be her guide, and fucking go there, and teach them about the old Altea and actually lead them like the princess she is supposed to be!

But NOPE, by going to Earth and just leaving them to fend for themselves, she just opened them up to be usurped by Honerva - who only had to mention that she is Lotor’s mother to be revered as a Goddess. If Allura had been there to do her goddamn duties, this would have never happened. The destruction of Oriande (the last remaining artifact and place of the old Altean culture, I might add!!) only happened because of her damn stupidity. Had she led the new Alteans, Honerva wouldn’t have destroyed that place or exploited them for her own purposes.

"Honerva has exploited vulnerable people - MY PEOPLE, and bend them to her will!", Allura says in Episode 6 of season 8. Honerva also says that those are her loyal acolytes and servants. NO, NO, NO. Those are neither Allura’s nor Honerva’s people! THEY ARE LOTOR’S PEOPLE! HE SAVED THEM, HE KEPT THEM SAFE. THESE TWO BITCHES DID NOTHING, YET WANNA CLAIM THE COLONY AS THEIRS?!! FUCK OFF WITH THAT SHIT!!

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In Honerva’s case, it infuriates me the most that she has simply taken what Lotor has sacrificed so much to build. He created a place, a refuge, for the last living Alteans, trying his hardest to keep it safe and away from his murderous parents, who he knew would exploit the shit out of it! And in the end, he was right. Honerva did take it all. Took the Alteans and made them in a blind religious cult that followed her every command. Took Lotor’s Sincline ship and made it BOW TO HER. Went and destroyed Oriande, the realm that Lotor always dreamt to find!

As an abuse victim, this is my biggest fear also: that my narcissistic mother will take away everything I have ever built, all progress I have tried to make in moving on from her and the carnage she has caused in my life. Just the prospect alone that she may even possibly be able to take away all of that drives such FEAR into my heart and that Voltron showed Honerva succeed to take away EVERYTHING FROM LOTOR EVEN AFTER HIS DEATH... makes me sick beyond belief as an abuse victim. Fuck the writers of Voltron for writing this steaming pile of shit

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And Allura...NOPE, I am sorry. She is no princess, she lost that title when she left “her people” with no leader. Honestly, she should kiss the ground at Lotor’s feet because there would be NO ALTEA AT ALL if he didn’t have the interest to collect all Alteans and bring them to a safe place. If he hadn’t done that, then there would be only her and Coran left as the last living Alteans. She would have never even known of Oriande. Without Lotor, she would have died twice over - once when Zarkon was readying his weapon to wipe them out and injured Lotor swooped in to kill Zarkon last second, and the second time at Naxzela, when everything was set to explode and kill them all - and they would have died had Lotor not swooped in. After all this, She owed it to him to hear him out and explain more about what Romelle was talking about.

I am sorry, but she doesn’t get to claim them as “her people”, since she literally did nothing for them. Except bring more misery to them. Not to speak of the second colony that was lost and probably full of people that needed Quintessence to be ressurrected. Lotor haters can fuck right off with the accusation that Lotor was killing Alteans. Because what kind of murderer would store away all the bodies in STASIS PODS? Heck, if he had killed them, he would have been better off just chucking those corpses into the nearest Star to burn to a crisp, as that leaves no evidence of the crime. You cannot tell me that this isn’t what you wouldn’t do, dear reader. I mean, imagine you were Lotor and really wanted to kill Alteans. Would you really be SO DUMB to leave evidence of your crimes like this? I mean, come the fuck on!!

But the simple fact that he kept the Alteans in those pods suggests to me that may have had plans to revive them once he got access to the Quintessence field. I mean, think about it! Maybe that is why it was so pressing for him to reach that place!

But back to Allura... I really don’t get the Lotura shippers here at all. Allura was a racist against the Galra, which was clearly seen in the episode when she interacted with the alternate reality Alteans. Commander Hira called the Galra “A SCOURGE”. Allura didn’t correct Hira at all at this moment, meaning that she probably agrees with that. Not to mention that she was HAPPY at the prospect of using the Hoktril-mind control machine to force other alien races to “join the peace movement”. That speaks VOLUMES about her character. Oh, and not to forget that utter disregard that she displayed to the Blade of Marmora and the distrust that she showed Keith as soon as she knew he was half-Galra by blood.

And you mean to tell me that she loved Lotor?

I never heard more bullshit in my entire life.

Had she really loved him, she would have given him a chance and heard him out! But it’s pretty telling that she immediately judged him because he is a worthless Galra just like Zarkon, right?

HOW CAN ANYONE STILL SHIP LOTURA WITH A STRAIGHT FACE? After all the shit she has done to him and all the abuse? Putting him in solitary confinement after he saved their lives, KILLING HIM WITH THE POWER OF THE “LIVE-GIVERS” that she wouldn’t have had in the first place, would it not have been for him!

Lemme give you an analogy about Allura’s racism:

Allura to me is like a Nazi paired up with a half-minority, half-German man. And Allura is a really indoctrinated Nazi. As soon as she hears one rumor about Lotor being bad, she immediately jumps on to shoot him - because his minority side makes him tainted of course.

And you consider this romantic?

Fuck off with this bullshit. 

Allura is a vindictive cunt, never thinking things through and being as un-diplomatic as can be. Or maybe she is even too inbred, seeing how her parents look like they could be closely related, I dunno.