#I wish things were different

[poetdaughter]

my heart tonight is with black and brown people, with trans people, with women, with undocumented folks, with Palestinians, with poor people and every person in this country and beyond it that will be affected by the results tonight.

[beargyufairy]

To the world, you may be one person. But to one person, you may be the world

[imilla-hippie]

Entonces me di cuenta que por más que pasen los años, por más que vaya a terapia, por más que me desahogue, ella siempre fué, es y será mi más grande inseguridad.

[thatdemiboymess]

My mom called me when she found out about the Trump assassination attempt and before hanging up the call she asked me to just...please be more careful. Proposed that maybe I should chill out with the pride pins and all, considering the political environment at the moment, just with how things are, ya know? But I can't. Not now. Shit is so fucked.

[ettuleo]

I lied. I don’t like sex. Put your clothes back on. I’m gonna explain how releasing multiple seasons a year ruined voltron: legendary defenders

this was originally a twitter thread but it is truly how i feel about the entire series as a whole. all this to say these are my own thoughts and opinions.

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typically a show takes at least a year or so in production; making sure story lines make sense, characters are able to be developed instead of being flat (which happened to a lot of voltron characters ;-; but the characters are amazing) and to smooth out any wrinkle or hiccups. 

In doing 8 seasons in two years the writers were not given the ample amount of time to smooth out the wrinkles and to give us a fully fleshed out piece of work. Take for example Bojack Horseman. The show ran from 2014 to 2020 and it only had six seasons. in these six seasons tho the writers were able to tell an amply dark story but also giving us in depth backgrounds of the characters and we watched the characters grow and change (for better or for worse). the writers were given time to be able to tell that story and is why Bojack is highly praised. 

the voltron writers were not given the same treatment, instead they were rushed to give us 8 seasons in such a short time (this isnt taking account the poor animation team which was probably being worked to the bone bc its no joke animating tbh). 

Instead of characters that we see grow and change over the seasons, there was only like one person to have a charcter arc (pidge) and the character was hated on because of it. 

Like Lance got barely ANY character arc, he stayed the same throughout the entire show and we really never saw him grow and realize his own potential and no longer be insecure and feel like the seventh wheel of voltron. 

this can also explain why adam was introduced and killed off so quickly, there was just not enough time to even give shiro a proper backstory episode to show him making the decision to go to kerberos. 

Each of the seasons were also short and have little episodes because of the rush. I mean we saw lotor get a redemption arc and then it suddenly is thrown away so that haggar can be redeemed which made zero sense for her character.

if the writers and animators and the rest of the team were given rest time in between the seasons we would of seen an entirely different show (now that can also be false but im sticking to it could of been better) we could of seen each character grow and change and even get backstories for everyone.

i would of loved to see more garrison days of everyone and to see allura's life before Altea was destroyed (plus we could of gotten more fun filler episodes like monsters and mana where we see the characters personalities better).

people hated season eight and rightfully so, i cannot blame them. For lance to go back to farming with his family in cuba which has extremely racist undertones and for allura (the only black character) to be killed off does not also look good either.

allura didnt even have to die and for her to sacrifice herself just doesnt feel right. i understand fully that the show was EXTREMELY popular and the demand to get more episodes was at an all time high, but it was absolutely foolish and borderline amateur hour to rush production.

which is crazy because some of these show runners worked on amazing shows like avatar and korra. i know a lot of people who loved voltron feel betrayed by the eighth season and stopped participating in the fandom overall because of the betrayal they felt.

i feel like now a lot of times we as a fandom forget about this bc its been a few years since the finale and a lot of us rather use our own headcanons and fanon rather than the actual canon because it gave us nothing at all except for amazing characters.

okay to end this rant, the show feels half baked due to the way the production was rushed to get out these eight seasons in two years. if the writers were given the time (which honestly the show would probs still be going on now as we speak in the year of our gods 2022), the show could have lived up to its actual potential instead of being a dumpster fire (i use that lovingly but also not) we would of seen growth and change in characters and a lot of things we hated would of never of happened potentially. 

so yeah, thats my rant on the destruction of voltron. thanks for coming to my ted talk

[brain--rott]

quiet seething resentment

[sailermoon]

I fear that continuing to live here will only harden my heart but also there are good people and things here… maybe samwise gamgee was onto something when he said “there’s some good in this world and it’s worth fighting for”

[youonlyzingonce]

[yourestillinsidemyhead]

not going to be happy for a very long time

[acutabovetherest]

Poverty is the gun to my head. Chronic pain and mental anguish are my bullets. I barely have to pull the fucking trigger.

[feyriejane]

yall don't know platonic yearning like I do 😤

[i-am-just-a-skeleton]

can't get any fucking time to myself can i

i hate being responsible and doing useful shit and then having no time to relax and do the things i want to do

[beargyufairy]

You were a wonderful experience

You were everything

[arsenicflame]

feeling some kind of way about all my friends living so fucking far away tonight

[comfortableinthesilence]

Finally back home after a long and stressful afternoon! Turns out my grandad has a minor heart attack but he's okay! The hospital are keeping him in for observations! I’m tired and down mentally, having kept a brave face on for my rather upset mother but as I reminded her, he’s in the right place! My minds racing with thoughts and the what ifs but I guess that's my burden to bare! Up for work at 5am but so very tempted to take a personal day, so who knows!

Probably going to be up for a few hours as I'm too wired! Feel free to ask me shit to distract my thoughts!

To anyone else that has had a shit day for one reason or another, sending you what good energy I have to you 🫶🏻😌🌻

[rositxespinosa]

I'm having a moment of feeling extremely overwhelmed. Not to mention frustrated and upset about things that are beyond my control. But there are things I want to do, things I have to do, things that need to be done, and things to worry about (anxious girls unite). I don't want to feel the way I do at this moment. I'm trying to breathe and figure out where to start. My feelings of anxiety and being overwhelmed have been very frequent and strong the past few weeks, which I think is worth noting.