#i was debating with myself how i shud answer this but then i felt like venting a bit

[heero-yuy]

"#i actually have a way stronger opinion about this whole brothers thing that i keep seeing #but im gonna be nice" ok now spill lmao kidding i love ur analyses

from all the tags....

maaaaan, it’s not an analysis tho, just salt, so under a cut it goes

and you kno, I’m usually chill with anything fandom does because things just look very funny when ur not in the tumblr bubble all the time, but this “brothers” thing is just a huge pet peeve for me. 

cuz really

every single time two men in fiction show deep love and care for eachother, in the same way keith and shiro do, and specially in the way keith is with shiro.

they’re always brothers, or mentor/mentee, the older guy is the other guy’s father figure. (then one usually dies or something and the other guy is motivated by that to be great)

always

every. single. fucking. time.

because GOD FORBID one of them is actually inlove or has non platonic feelings for the other

nope! IMPOSSIBLE

And there’s alot of relationships like that that are very ambiguous in nature, and are possibly unconfirmed homosexual relationships... but just try and tell a bunch of straight dudes these characters might be gay. specially if the characters are like super cool and badass characters they admire. Just tryyyy

a man can only look affectionately at another man and admire another man and have a desire to impress him and have him around and be protective of him, only if they have platonic manly feelings of brotherhood for eachother (and very clear female love interests usually)

and u know what? i dun think voltron did anything that really shut down the possibility of keith being inlove with shiro (yeeeeet, totally still might). and I am actually hopeful about seeing a loving and caring relationship between two guys in a popular show for kids not going that same old route it always fucking does this time. 

because i sure wanna be able to say to all those homophobic straight dudes “haha fuck you the characters you love are gay!” , sadly, i actually dun think i ever had the pleasure..

and like not enough i have to always see this shit irl, but then i gotta see tumblr fandom doing that shit. (and i am saying tumblr fandom, cuz voltron fandom is HUGE, and most people outside tumblr’s little shipping bubble have very different (and surprisingly mostly positive) views on the sheith matter, like from what i encountered atleast, people usually just have trouble defining keith’s and shiro’s relationship but no one gone “no way” about romance yet, it’s usually a “you know what...who knows”) 

and you kno, maybe u have never been a gay teenage guy and have never been inlove with someone who you thought u never have a chance with, or maybe u are and have been, but just see the relationship between shiro and keith as platonic, that’s cool. maybe you had different experiences in ur life and you identify with these characters differently. that’s cool. There’s nothing wrong with that. We are all different people looking at the world through different filters. I see Keith’s and Lance’s relationship as brotherly, and it’s impossible to find any content of them not sucking eachother’s faces. I get ya! Sheith is strong, creators gave shippers alot to feast on. Good luck finding platonic content of them if that’s how you see it. I understand how you feel. I hopelessly search the sea of kla//nce for platonic content too.

BUT if you go shit on people who are identifying with these characters differently, or see or just wanna see it as a romantic relationship, and shove the THEY ARE BROTHERS down everyone’s throat to the point that people are scared to say anything else because they might get flooded with hate and have to do ridiculous stuff like reblog romantic art they like as “platonic sheith” or “broganes”

specially when Keith and shiro are not fucking brothers! not adoptive or otherwise!

then ur just being a homophobic piece of shit. 

and i dun care what excuse you use to justify ur homophobia, i dun care if you are a LGBT person. if you shove ur broganes in everyone’s faces and insist keith can only see shiro as a brother or father figure because duuuh late teen guys never fall for their super hot older caring male friends. that never fucking happens! never! who ever heard of a gay teen falling inlove with a 20 something hot guy?? total bullshit. obviously he has to be like a father figure to him. (and I’m guessing it’s totally cool when a teenange guy falls for an older woman and tries to get with her, cuz i have never seen anyone complain about Lance, although i have seen alot of “their relationship is like brother and sister” but i dun think anyone who actually watches the show takes that seriously)

and im not even talking bout a relationship between keith and shiro, they are clearly not romantically involved in the show at this point. (but we’re only two seasons in..)

there’s 0 problems with keith being inlove with shiro. ZERO. NOTHING. and if someone tries to erase that possibly in any way whatsoever, and tries to insist the love and affection keith shows for shiro can only be platonic (yes, despite the “ur like a brother to me” line, that just there as confirmation they are not fucking brothers), then I hope they step on a lego and all their ships sink. cuz this is what homophobia looks like. this is what all those straight homophobic dudes do when you dare tell em there might be other ways for a man to deeply love and care for another man than in a brotherly or father/son kind of way.

and i kno complaining about fandom is pointless haha, but i just hate it when people say they are brothers and make arts of them as if they were actual brothers who grew up together. specially after season 2 where it was confirmed they are not fucking brothers. Like, I seriously hope sheith takes a clear romantic turn at some point and all those ppl will have to shamefully erase all their broganes stuff and pretend they never made any when it all suddenly turns to incest shipping. that would be hilarious.