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DON'T REPOST MY ART

A fairly old drawing of Allura from Voltron. I watched all seasons but the last one because I heard it was bad and I didn't want to ruin the series for myself.

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Allura | Diamond

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FIRST GOAL!!!! ⚽️🇺🇸 @braincoins

I had to draw Allura in Alex Morgan’s celebration pose (although I’m now feeeling like I should have done the sipping tea pose).

Sorry for the delay in my posts for Shallura for my birthday. It’s still happening but I’m behind 😭

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All that too^^^^

Srsly, thanks you guys for adding this stellar commentary! Allura has almost no defenders and it bugs me tf out. Glad to see some others defending her and add ingmore nuanced points to just how hard the narrative fucking shat on her, which of course means the ppl behind it.

Side note: I was never trying to let JDS off the hook here. I was just citing LM specifically because it was her who hand-waved with the lazy “fEmIniSt ChOiCe” excuse in that one garbage fire interview. I’m no fan of either of these ppl, but at the end of the day, tbh it’s JDS who has even more of my scorn.

LM saying Allura’s sacrifice was “feminist” because she made the choice to sacrifice herself p much exemplifies the problem I have with the latest trend in feminism where something, an act or decision, is automatically feminist as long as it’s something a woman chooses.

Albeit in this particular example, LM is probably just being lazy and using it as a way to defend herself as a white writer who signed off on stuffing a WoC in the fridge. But I feel like she’s falling back on the “feminist” defense in the first place because of the way the wider movement has idealized the concept of choice.

Obviously choice is important in feminism, I’m not saying it’s not. But just because something is a choice made by a woman doesn’t automatically make it feminist. I make the choice to wear makeup and dressy feminine clothes to work. I make this choice and it is not a bad choice, there is nothing wrong with this choice. But it is not a feminist choice, because in doing so, I still conform to the standards of femininity placed upon women by patriarchy.

Or, my life is boring, so let’s take the example of a far less boring pink cat. Princess Carolyn in BJHM s5 tries to justify defending Vance Wagner (sp?) as actually being “feminist” because in doing so, she was prioritizing the reputation of her own career and the career choice she made in hiring him. Of course it was understandable where she was coming from, but it still wasn’t feminist of her to hire nor defend a blatant misogynist, racist, and abuser. 

I don’t want to remove the concept of choice from the feminist movement, but I think the approach to it should change. I don’t like the idea that every single choice a woman makes is automatically a feminist one simply on the basis of it being a choice. And I don’t like choice being the fallback excuse for lazy people like LM, who think they can use it to get around addressing the harmful tropes and implications depicted in their work.

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Sometimes I see really good group art, but then Allura isn’t in it....

scroll on we shall then

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Yeah man, all of that^^^

LM saying Allura’s sacrifice was “feminist” because she made the choice to sacrifice herself p much exemplifies the problem I have with the latest trend in feminism where something, an act or decision, is automatically feminist as long as it’s something a woman chooses.

Albeit in this particular example, LM is probably just being lazy and using it as a way to defend herself as a white writer who signed off on stuffing a WoC in the fridge. But I feel like she’s falling back on the “feminist” defense in the first place because of the way the wider movement has idealized the concept of choice.

Obviously choice is important in feminism, I’m not saying it’s not. But just because something is a choice made by a woman doesn’t automatically make it feminist. I make the choice to wear makeup and dressy feminine clothes to work. I make this choice and it is not a bad choice, there is nothing wrong with this choice. But it is not a feminist choice, because in doing so, I still conform to the standards of femininity placed upon women by patriarchy.

Or, my life is boring, so let’s take the example of a far less boring pink cat. Princess Carolyn in BJHM s5 tries to justify defending Vance Wagner (sp?) as actually being “feminist” because in doing so, she was prioritizing the reputation of her own career and the career choice she made in hiring him. Of course it was understandable where she was coming from, but it still wasn’t feminist of her to hire nor defend a blatant misogynist, racist, and abuser. 

I don’t want to remove the concept of choice from the feminist movement, but I think the approach to it should change. I don’t like the idea that every single choice a woman makes is automatically a feminist one simply on the basis of it being a choice. And I don’t like choice being the fallback excuse for lazy people like LM, who think they can use it to get around addressing the harmful tropes and implications depicted in their work.

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…well, this didn’t age well. 

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human allura (but its the 80s) au

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redrew allura dabbing screenshot from s2!!!

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short haired allura <3

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Normal Brain: alteans have a conservative fashion aesthetic.  Galaxy Brain: allura cute in smol swimsuit 

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these fans have the same rotating hot take on the altean colony problem (’he didn’t actually do it’->’he was trying to save their lives’->’they were sacrificed for the greater good’->’let’s not talk about those lab rats’) and in all the disk horse no one wants to talk about how shady it is that lotor needed all that fucking quintessence while claiming the empire would stop fighting if it just had more quintessence

to do WHAT?

… even back in s3 I was like ‘what the fuck’ at that line bc it’s not as if actual real historical empires haven’t tried to justify their continued existence by whining about the need for resources– 

so either 1. lotor needs the quintessence so he can run galra empire 2.0, greener and better PR, but fundamentally still exploitative, which means the show is driving viewers to accept the inevitability of empire and white supremacy OR 2. lotor needs the quintessence to fulfil his goal of creating an altean empire, a possibility hinted by ‘hole in the sky’ and empress allura + his later admission that he wants to kill the galra, which means the show was going to devote considerable effort to pushing a ‘genocide survivors and their descendants can be Just As Bad as the original genocide perpetrators’ message which vld had NO BUSINESS DOING when it couldn’t even find the energy to give allura any respect or respite as the lead female protagonist who lost her people and her world to the original genocide.

the ONLY WAY out of this madness was to have vld reject empire altogether. and the best, most positive, redeeming arc for lotor would have been to come to that realisation and help allura and team voltron to take down the empire.

but vld didn’t do that. didn’t even dismantle the empire after the fucking war. 

but we got clowns in fandom talking about how allura and the paladins are WaR cRiMiNaLs fOr DaRiNg tO dEsTaBiLiSe tHe eMpIrE… sit the fuck down and think about what it means to protest someone trying to destabilise an empire you oblivious shits.

(I know most of them are americans but that’s no excuse.)

anyway the galra were strongly white-coded and you could actually make the case that lotor’s storyline is doomed to shit bc his mom’s a Crazy Brown Bitch……

bc it’s consistent with the deep level racist fuckery vld actually presented but a lot of the stans don’t get that at all and worse don’t want to talk about haggar/honerva as anything more than the evil abuser mom… u try to talk about the fact that honerva is canonically a genocide survivor and woc and vld NEEDED to come to terms with what that means but nah ‘zomg you think women can’t be villains??’ only… they even have ready excuses for zarkon as being supposedly more redeemable…

and remember that the reveal about the colony alteans is basically only used as a way to punish allura for having trusted someone with galra heritage long enough to fall for him– silly girl– and insidiously to explain why she isn’t fit to lead voltron or the coalition, its actual political ramifications are buried in the text, and the audience is meant to hate lotor only when– the moment when– he says he wants to end the galra.

that’s how obvious the show’s galra bias is and you’re all convinced they’re poor misunderstood babies plagued by poverty (??!) and being oppressed by the survivors of a people they literally wiped out.

vld uses fantasy race and worldbuilding to get us to hate actual poc; uses reverse racist tropes to vilify the darker skinned protagonists; teaches us that the ambitious moc no matter how hard they work are always innately inferior to the white man; has no sympathetic option for biracial ppl who identify more with, or try to identify with, their non-white heritage; spent seasons reducing a disabled gay asian protagonist to model minority plot device for the white lead and as designated whipping boy; psychologically tortured and belittled its black female lead from almost day 1, encouraged fans to suspect her motives, pitted her against the always more sympathetic white guy, demoted her and validated all her self-doubt, and finally fridged her.

and that’s still not enough, we still gotta read cancerous stupidity like that? this fandom really is cursed.

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hey remember when the voltron crew uploaded this picture and then went on to exploit marginalized trauma and call it “diversity and representation”?  that was kind of fucked up.

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I saw this dress and knew I had to draw Allura wearing it 💖

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