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my-current-obsession · 3 days ago

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every time i see bakudeku compared to k/ance (now specifically in terms of them getting shafted in the ending and/or accused of queerbaiting) i take psychic damage

#i am NOT tagging this one mainly because i don't want to bring down the fucking horde of klance shippers on my head #i was there. i was part of the fandom. and i STILL don't understand how or why THAT was the massive ship #y'all are clinging to something that stopped being relevant after SEASON ONE in an EIGHT SEASON LONG show #lance spent the ENTIRE series crushing on (and eventually fully falling in love with) allura #allura who slowly started to reciprocate. allurance CONTINUED to get ship tease EVEN as she fell for lotor #literally 85% of the significant klance moments/interactions were in the first season #i don't know how y'all kept clinging to a ship that gave you absolute scraps #as for keith. again i watched voltron myself. i even BRIEFLY shipped klance when the show first came out #because again - season one was GREAT for them. a strong foundation for a ship! but that foundation was NEVER built upon #then season two hit and i was quite happy to pivot to sheith which is where i remained until the ending #keith spent the entire show very devoted to shiro. you don't have to read it romantically but it's a hell of a lot easier to do so #than ever imagining he'd feel that way about lance after he just. basically stopped caring about him post s1 #meanwhile lance slowly let go of the (one-sided) rivalry and just focused more and more on allura #comparing klance and bakudeku feels like a fucking crime to me.#klance was a once-promising rivals to lovers arc that IMMEDIATELY fizzled out into them being kind of friends.#but specifically The Friends Who Never Hang Out kind. while both parties were lowkey obsessed with someone else.#this ship was NEVER going to happen when it became clear around s4-5 that the writers DID NOT CARE about it at all #(and they went on record saying they were surprised it was so huge!)#meanwhile until the trashfire epilogue bakudeku spent the ENTIRE series obsessed with each other #they were friends to enemies to rivals to friends with everyone HOPING they'd get a canonical 'to lovers' tacked on #they got the MOST development in the series individually and as a pair (platonically or otherwise)#THIS ship had legs and was only denied greatness because it was struck with the typical shounen homophobia curse #PLEASE stop comparing one of the greatest arcs and relationships (even if it stumbled at the finish line)...#that i have EVER seen... to That. to fucking... two bros chilling in a hot tub (five feet apart cause they're not gay)#(except keith MIGHT be. just not for lance. sorry not sorry.)

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