#lancesweep

[klanced]

good morning everyone. today marks exactly one year since Lance lost the blorbopoll and i am still incredibly bitter about that.

[dashflashy-arts]

Graaaaghhhh I did not go to Tumblr for a break just to witness toxicity again. That's it. I'm scared for life from these two fandoms but I dont care anymore

A blorbo and a babey interact (in the Mall Au)

[butchelves]

If these polls had happened in like 2017 there wouldn’t be any competition. Lance would’ve won the blorbo poll after the first round. The red and blue duo poll wouldn’t have even been made because everyone knows who would’ve swupt the entire polls. How quickly we forget our roots.

[autopsycak3]

jsut once let us feel some relief, some happiness, something that isn’t lost hope

[convivial-metanoia-tree]

really shouldn’t be reading about the voltron renesaince right now i have homework to do... but its like an addiction. I find myself delving deeper into the rabbit hole. I can’t stop myself. The gates are wide open and I find myself in an inescapable realm. I cannot tell the dream from the nightmare. I only know blorobo.

[autopsycak3]

it’s me and him against the whole fucking world

a girl must see her special little character at least once a day lest she get consumed by rage and start throwing rocks at people

[klanced]

Lance may have not swupt the polls but he swupt our hearts and I think that still means something

[butchelves]

Lance won in my mind. Who else could start a voltron renaissance other than a renaissance man like Lance. He’s a winner to me

[pechagummy]

#LanceSweep 🖤

[cursed-princess-club]

Lance sweeping Blaine is great he deserves it.

LANCESWEEP lance out here making us proud

[ashkazora]

Concept- around the time the team was fighting Haggar in different realities twitter poll against paladins and other important galra or some figures (idk i never watched past s6 years ago) is going on. Obviously #lancesweeps so now he not only has to deal with dead gf he has to do it while being crowned with absolutely most inane titles he certainly doesnt want right now (he only loses in 2 fucking polls and that's against sans undertale and hatsune miku)

Lance gets crowned the most pathetic man, best DILF, best twink, and so much more. He’s literally going through the five stages of grief but the moment he gets back to earth, he finds out he’s become an internet funny man, despite having no kids, a swimmer’s build (and is pretty pathetic because his gf died). He doesn’t even know what undertale is.

More angst idea: Whenever he gets particularly depressed, Lance distracts himself by seeing what new discourse is posted about him. Some #lancesweeps fans always argue that he shouldn’t be glorified because hes a child soldier. Others say he’s a war criminal. But most just make art and write fics of him in either crack, lewd, or both situations. It’s a good distraction from how bad he feels, and the sheer attention from the polls means he can stay as a farmer and people WILL doxx him. To get away from the attention Lance goes on some lone missions but of course, #Lancesweeps somehow spreads to other universes.

Less angst idea: to honour his loss against Miku and Sans, he changed his armour colour to match Miku’s hair, and uses his new, Allura given space STD powers to make his eye glow. The internet loves it.

[daggryet]

OH KAISA YOU DONT KNOW THE HALF OF ITTTTTTT do you know how many panels there were at the time????? 2016 alll the way through to 2018 it was "lance is gonna get a big moment soon... huge for his character you will all love it" then the moment would be him like... saying one (1) emotionally intelligent thing per season... like they KNEW. the showrunners KNEW how popular lance was (i think at one point he overtook even keith for the amount of merch sales by character) so they would always answer fan questions about him like they were building up something HUGE for him... i specifically remember at the time people asking questions along the lines of "is lance ever going to move on from allura?" and they answered like "lance thinks he wants allura but thats not what he needs, and he finds what he needs this season" <- some bullshit to that affect AND THEN THAT NEVER HAPPENED.

the fans were lied to SO OFTEN it was ridiculous. and to make it worse they pushed out these 8 seasons over the course of only 2 years, so all these writing decisions were made in REAL TIME. there was NO PLAN. so they literally saw the popularity, and the people wanting him to have more and purposefully ignored it (because they hated their fans but thats a whole other discussion)

THEY IGNORED LANCE BECAUSE THE VIEWERS LOVED HIM??? 😭 i'm actually crying how tf is this real, no wonder you've all got the thousand yards stare of wwi trench soldiers over this show

also yasss lancesweep (in merch sales, not... character)

[autopsycak3]

literally

tumblr not having polls during the height of voltron was actually an insanely intelligent move. if you thought the replies to the polls are batshit now imagine what 2017 voltron tumblr would have said. think about it for a second. we dodged several bullets. now go be a good little veteran and vote for lance <3

[klanced]

i am dead serious right now i am completely flabbergasted that lance is so far behind in the blorbo poll. like at this point i’m convinced that scorned voltron enjoyers are purposefully throwing and voting for yuri out of spite/trauma.

like FIRST OF ALL lance was absolutely the poster child for voltron. he was the fandom darling and he was EVERYWHERE we brought him EVERYWHERE. he was the community little guy. you could not go five feet without seeing a pastel background lance icon. AND he was also the projection character of all time like people had to invent a brand new tagging system on ao3 just to organize their #langst whipping boy content! AND THEN the juxtaposition of the increasing flanderization of his character in canon vs the heaps and heaps of fancontent made about him??? how can we forget the fanarts! the dedicated alternate universes??! THE SHIP WARS??????

literally NOBODY else was doing it like him girlie was a different boyo every week. #LANCESWEEP

[klanced]

i am in your walls.

#LANCESWEEP

[klanced]

Lance had literally no impact as a character if you weren't directly involved in the fandom. I had several Voltron- and Voltron-adjacent mutuals at the shows height, but all you ever really knew from the outside is that it was some people in space. Yuri on Ice was to a much greater degree about the characters--again, I never had direct involvement, never watched an episode, but through cultural osmosis I knew all about Yurri, his character arc, and his dynamic with the other guy (Victor?). Lance absolutely cannot compete, not in the sense of website blorbo. He's too specific, with no greater cultural relevancy whatsoever. He wasn't even gay.