#still not over voltron

[sourcabbages]

"i got sent as backup to this mission and it turns out its u im backing up"

[addictofreading]

I drew this in support of Pride Month, but also because even though it's 2023 I still, for some unknown reason, enjoy the hell out of the Klance ship.

These boys make me so happy sometimes it's stupid.

[linipik]

[PART 11]

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💌~

[toasternuggets]

More Voltron stuff let’s goooo

[purplina]

Did Klance also ruin you when you were a teenager, establishing a base in your personality that would forever works in a red/blue dynamic and broke your heart without any chance of recovery during your formative years or are you normal ?

[v0l-tr0n]

The klance brainrot will never end I fear here’s a WIP for your time

[bluemantics]

keith kogane is the sun and lance mcclain is the ocean. the sun is fiery, passionate, a blazing trail through the sky. it’s a star that the greeks believed to be a chariot, flying overhead at incomprehensible speeds. he doesn’t even realize how he keeps people in his orbit, has no knowledge of his unexplainable magnetism. he attracts the people around him with nothing besides his brilliance.

lance is the ocean. on the surface, he is pretty and entertaining, but he contains unfathomable multitudes. he is flexible and ever-changing, a tide that rises where it is needed and carves away at harsh stones. he is full of life. lance is beautiful and dangerous all at once, guiding those he loves to safer waters and simultaneously drowning those that hurt his family.

how they meet: lance, the ocean, is doomed forever to reach for a sun that will never answer back. he reflects the sun’s light in an attempt to dazzle just as shinily. he fears he will never rise to meet the sun at its level, waves breaking before they can ever truly fly. keith, the sun, will melt into the ocean every nightfall. he will soften in an attempt not to burn it away, his bright yellow light shifting to warm orange. yet, every night, he will fail to become smaller. he will be unable to fight off the darkness he leaves behind.

the sun forever leaves, and the ocean forever chases it, a dance as old as time.

[coolnonsenseworld]

Last piece ❤️💙

There are still leftovers of the Calendar as well as some A5 prints with calendar pieces 💞

linktr.ee/Mezzy (or check my Tumblr for links)

[kismetconstellations]

Because I'm still bitter... The first time I consciously verbalized that "I hate this show", came when, as I predicted, there was absolutely no acknowledgement of Shiro having no living family on Earth, come the Atlas's "launch date" at the start of Season Eight.

We get shots of each of the Paladins interacting with their families, including Allura as a part of Lance's family, which is a sweet touch.

Then, there's a passing shot of Shiro standing alone and isolated on the Atlas's bridge that he isn't even the focus of.

I had a feeling this would be the case when, ahead of the finale of the second season, the Paladins are cheerfully reflecting on their growth and the challenges that they've overcome preceding what they believe will be their final fight with Zarkon.

Shiro, however, is dead silent, back turned to the others, and, when we do see his expression, he's stone-faced and seemingly deep in contemplation. Something that no one acknowledges, or seems to be in any way concerned about, even with Shiro's history of thoughts that he loses himself in being distinctly unpleasant ones.

When he does speak, it's to somberly offer the definitive statement, "You realize, once we defeat Zarkon, the universe won't need Voltron, anymore." The kids naturally express wanting to see their families, again, once the burden of defending the universe has been lifted from their shoulders, even if it means, for Pidge and Keith, going out and finding them.

Shiro, though, voices no such desires. He dons the Fearless Leader/Black Paladin mask and encourages his underlings that they can't fail, and that's that. Cue them looking dramatically out over the horizon before the credits roll.

One could hem and haw and offer any number of supposed explanations for the unsettling absence of any lifegoals for Shiro outside of "defeat the bad guy and defend the universe", especially viewing this scene in hindsight.

"Shiro and his long-term partner split up before the Kerberos mission. Maybe it would be awkward for Shiro to see him, again, and Shiro doesn't want to discuss that with a group of teenagers, especially as their commanding officer."

"Maybe they intended for Shiro's family to show up later and simply didn't have the time to include them, or he has a strained and/or estranged relationship with his family and wasn't too concerned with going back to them."

"He's been declared legally dead, and the cartoon made to sell toys to kids didn't want to bog their child audience's brains down with the confangled nuisances of bureaucracy."

"Maybe Shiro had no personal desire to return to Earth, and would have assisted Pidge in looking for Matt and Sam had he lived."

And, any of these would be more interesting than what we were actually given, which is nothing, because the showrunners didn't know how to and weren't equipped to handle the sheer level of complex and compounded trauma they had afflicted Shiro with. It was easier to brush it all aside, as that shot of an out of focus Shiro so deftly displays. Especially once Shiro had been killed and effectively permanently replaced as the Black Paladin, then brought back to life and retired to "boring adult" status. They killed his partner off-screen, following the dissolution of the relationship, and briefly showed Shiro mourning the loss,

and I guess that was their "emotional pathos for Shiro" quota met for the rest of the show.

After that, he was gifted his own ship and the position of Captain/Admiral aboard it to sequester him off with Sam, Iverson, Veronica, Slav, a similarly unceremoniously demoted Coran, and the rest of the side characters, under the guise of him being promoted to a position of actual significance. And, as much as I love Shiro having his own ship, and the figure he cuts in that stylish and immensely flattering Admiral coat, it shouldn't have to be said that this is both a massive insult to his character after he had the most narrative significance and pathos of anyone during the first two seasons, and a cheap, cowardly tactic employed to avoid the reality that the writers have alluded to Shiro seeing himself as having no purpose if he isn't performing a heroic duty to others, and being passively suicidal when no such duty exists.

"Don't look too closely, everyone! Let's not linger too long on this!" Otherwise, you'll realize that Shiro, in fact, has no one to support him outside of people who already have families of their own. And, "The universe won't need Voltron, anymore", was really Shiro saying, "The universe won't need me, anymore."

And, damned if the brain trusts behind this show didn't try to prove how little they needed Shiro, only for their story to fall apart at the seams after killing him, and the quality to, fittingly, take a nosedive straight into the abyss once they committed to nerfing and sidelining him while having other characters pitifully attempt to retrace steps that he had already taken, stumbling over his distinct and unforgettable bootprints.

[jajanvm-imbi]

Hey remember when I said that this was the most frustrating thing about being a Helluva Boss enjoyer?

Yeah I was wrong.

The most frustrating thing about being a Helluva Boss enjoyer is explicitly stating multiple times that I like show and then get called an anti and homophobic and media illiterate when I complain about the direction it has taken.

I LIKE the comedy

I LIKE the animation and artstyle

I LIKE the more serious plotlines like the government agents plot and the Cherubs plot

I LIKE the themes of friendship and found family

I even like most of the songs!

And ofc the voice cast slays every time

But just because your show has angst and tears and drama and sad music doesn't automatically make it "good".

Just because your characters are queer doesn't automatically make them good or well written characters

This fandom is so frustrating to deal with when you want to express your more nuanced takes of it

This is probably gonna be the last post I make about this subject and about Helluva Boss in general, this shit is too stupid to deal with

[sicklyworm]

I blame Lance McClain for all boy failure qualities I may possess.

[sora-of-uranus]

God himself could not have prepared me for this. I hate my friend so much

[disgruntled-screaming]

I... don't really understand why people acted so overdramatic over VLD's ending.

I mean in terms of crying over fan art of characters that died because they were depicted as alive in the art piece.

Uh...

Please touch grass.

[chocommii]

i was suppose to draw trigun for the twins birthday but I saw a old Voltron piece and um.. got disgusted. this is dedicated to my self a couple of years ago

reference pic..

[toasternuggets]

All I think abt is Voltron Klance and I got my first Klance request so I guess I’ll be busy lmao 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 I love Klance sm I am crying

[nemdem]

sooo what are the gays watching these days? ive already finished good omens, voltron, our flag means death, sonic prime, and supernatural, hit me with something else