#lotor deserved worse

[punkeropercyjackson]

Free my woman,she canonically hates a male character for being a huge asshole but the fandom is convinced she's a tsundere who wants to fix him with her girlhood and thinks it's groundbreaking feminist storytelling and that it's misogynistic to hate it

[coolauntlilith]

Every now and then I replay the first episode of VLD and I wonder why I thought it be a good show lol

[lilflowerpot]

Casually reading LB for the 3rd time 🤫 I just want to share my appreciation for making such a MASTERPIECE 😫I can't even begin to explain how I can physically *FEEL* the sexual tension 😭it's almost painful... and I love how you always answer the questions we ask about the world!!! It is so absolutely amazing and you deserve all the best ♥️♥️ I can safely say I have never read something so perfectly done under Keitor 🤌 Aaaaaand because I'm just a little bit selfish and greedy (this is totally up to you I just wanted to ask anyway) is there anyway I could ask for your view on how the garrison would react to finding out Keith is in a romantic relationship with Lotor. Like would they approve? Feel shocked? Disapprove because he is quite literally the Galra Emperor and the spawn of Sa- Zarkon? How would Keith's bullies, teachers and observers react? I'm just so curious and wanted to know your take 🤷‍♀️ again love your work so much!!

High praise indeed! Thank you so much my love!! (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ‿ ⁄<⁄ ⁄)

The Garrison as an institution would be,,, surprised, to say the least. Cadet Kogane, as Keith was known to them, was all raw talent and jagged edges; it's generally considered a great pity by the top brass that they were unable to mould him into Shirograne 2.0, but ability without obedience is just as useless as the reverse, so naturally they had no choice but to discharge him for poor conduct. To know that an alien Empire was able to make a soldier out of him where they were not is a little galling, certainly, but nonetheless Keith's human heritage and Earthen background establish him as an invaluable foothold and ambassador—

—except... the situation is nothing of the sort they expected.

Because the cadet-turned-consort is, if anything, worse than they remember. No longer jagged but cutting, less bullheaded than brutal, and though his ill-temper has in turn been tempered, rather than shape him into the obliging sort, Keith Kogane stands before them sharp as a whip with all the political power to back him up.

Where the Garrison would have cut the boy down to the shape of a soldier, the Empire has gone forth to forge a warrior of him.

Those that knew Keith a little more personally, though? Beyond that initial moment of jaw-dropped shock, I imagine that it would strike them as remarkable only in that everything Keith Kogane is always has been.

[eddo-tensei]

I believe you and many others have misinterpreted Chloé’s role in the show. She was never meant to be sympathetic, tragic or comedic. She is a hate sink (like that Cecil character you wrote). Her whole existence is to be hated, both in universe and out. Not redeemable, nor something to laugh at, but purely to be hated.

You know what? I've been trying to avoid saying it, but for the sake of this answer, I'm going to allude to spoilers for Season 5 via what was recently found in the scripts. So, if you don't want to be exposed to that, please don't read more.

See, I get you, but they didn't do a good job at actually establishing that. It's true that there was no hard evidence to Chloe having a hidden heart of gold, just that she's more sensitive than she lets on. That said, with the way everything was written, her role as a hate sink was shoddily done at best and actively harmful at worst. I've had the misfortune of reading some of the leaked stuff for Season 5 and it leans more and more into being outright harmful, giving some awful lessons about troubled youth and how they should be handled. It's true that it "cements" Chloe as a hate sink, but it does it by bringing up an event that had zero foreshadowing in the show up to this point and felt like it was only there to tell everyone "SEE?! CHLOE'S THE BAD GUY! SHE'S ALWAYS THE BAD GUY! SHE'S A MONSTER! NOW STOP THINKING SHE WAS EVER GOOD AND STOP LIKING HER!" It's on par with Lotor and the Colony Arc from Voltron Legendary Defender in its execution, possibly even worse than it, and with how it ruined more characters as well as some relationships in retrospect (Not just referring to relationships for Chloe, mind you), I refuse to acknowledge it as canon.

Again, I know you have problems with Chloe and I get that the intent for Chloe was that she was meant to be a hate sink, but when the intent is wrought with awful execution and also includes some horrible implications concerning not only Chloe, but a bunch of the other characters, I don't feel obligated to respect that intent. Season 5 brought up a deluge of horrible decisions made for most of the characters. Chloe is just one of them. At this point, with the show becoming so toxic that most of the characters don't feel like themselves anymore, I refuse to call it canon and I believe you should do the same if you actually respect any of the characters. In any case, you're not gonna change my mind on Chloe nor am I gonna change my writing for her just to suit some arbitrary rule for the fandom. I'm already putting her through the Karmic Wringer anyways, so I don't see why you're complaining. Please stop trying to make me hate characters you do. To cap this off, let me repost this:

Oh, and before you make any assumptions, none of this is me saying that Marinette deserved any of the bullying. Just because I don't hate a bully character doesn't mean I think that the people they bullied deserved it. That's just idiotic. I care about Marinette, quite a lot actually, and I hate what Season 5 ends up doing to her in regards to her character.

[empty-blog-for-lurking]

Umm the usual assortment of lance allura and kuron for that ask thingy <33(can be all three or just one if you dont feel like it!!!) scurries away

Thank you for asking bestie ❤❤❤. Ngl my brain is baked these days so I'll be only one this time

Kuron-

three facts about them from my personal headcanons-

Huge ass nerd. Especially about classic lit but he's also this pic about it-

2. Enters 'Shiro look-a-like Cosplay' competition specifically to do the Worst Most Awful impression of Shiro, he also got the scar on the wrong side through makeup (its a coping mechanism leave him alone) If he and Shiro had a better relationship (and Shiro stopped being a bitch about the clone thing) they both would enter that competition and Kuron will win while Shiro will get last and Kuron doesn't know whether to laugh or cry or curl up in a corner and die

3. Fighting for his life anytime he gets a headache or a migraine. Constantly swinging between "it's just a headache! Haggar's dead! It's just a headache! Haggar's dead! It's just-" And "I am going to die"

a reason they suck-

Babygirl I know you are going Through it but you got to stop going behind your teams back and yell at them, Lotor was so not worth it.

Also is just so focused on being The Leader he forgot being Team Member

a reason they are great-

He's just trying so much???!?! Like he is doomed no matter what happened and he didn't even know it but he was still trying his best and he fought and tried to survive till his very last breath 🥺🥺🥺🥺 my boy he deserved better

a reason I relate to them-

I kinda don't? Relatability of a character isn't really my priority as much as studying them in a microscope is. If I had to I guess our tendency to not communicate well and be a bit snappish when stressed? The feeling of not being in control about anything in your life? Otherwise I can't think of any

(what I consider to be) the top tier otp/ot3 for that character-

I still think about toxic yaoi Kuron/Lotor that would never work and destroy them both btw if you even care

But also like screw romance give him as many friends as he wants

five things that never happened to that character that I believe should have happened-

Him getting to live

Him getting to live as his own person

Him getting to live as his own person in his own body

Him getting to live as his own person in his own body and not treated as Evil Shiro clone but a friend

Shiro fucking apologises to him (I know there are others who have done far FAR worse things to Kuron and Shiro has his own trauma and I like Shiro! But also listening to him being mean to my son no. 1 WHILE being mean about my tragic son no. 2 and all I could think of was, "Shut the fuck up forever actually bitch")

five people that character never fell in love with and why-

Again do I really have to answer this one?? Like can't we ignore all shipping fandom? Ugh fine

Haggar (for obvious reasons)

Zarkon (stated as above and in fact these two can be interchanged)

Sendak (sure Kuron hasn't actually met Sendak but he does have Shiro's memories and he sucks in all of them)

Iverson (because fuck him)

Slav (I don't hate Slav but I have to agree with people when they say that Slav and Shiro trigger each other's anxieties and trauma and this applies to Kuron as well)

[fentrashcat]

Tourettes Awareness Month, May 26th!

Kinda lost track of the days so just gonna stop counting them and just do the date instead 😅

Today I'm going to go over some of my pet peeves/frustrations that are related to my tics/TS, or people reacting to it. Some of these I've mentioned before but I'll try to include new ones as well, don't mind my bitter old man persona coming out lol.

⚠️Everyone who has TS or tic disorders will have different experiences, this is just mine

Dentists!

So I have had a lot of bad experiences with dentists, even before my tics were severe enough to be diagnosed and now its even worse. Bc I'm anxious for the dentist, my tics can actually get really bad in the days leading up to it and the day of. I'm also prone to shut downs with dental stuff, so it's almost a double whammy. Luckily my most recent experiences with dentists have been really positive, and they've been extremely patient with me. However when I get a bad dentist the experience pretty much back tracks all the progress I had been making with the good ones.

It can just be really hard to manage my tics during an appointment, and I'm more prone to tic attacks in the days leading up to said appointment, even if I know who I'm seeing is good. This is starting to pass now tho and I actually went back with the dentist on my own for the first time since I was 7 or so last month.

Sleep interrupting!

Being too tired to sleep is a pretty common occurrence for me, unfortunately. When I'm sleep deprived I get more tics than usual, especially in my legs. Usually my legs don't tic bc I sit in ways that make it difficult (criss cross, one leg under the other, on my knees, ect), but when I'm laying down to sleep, it's much harder to find a position that stops leg tics. If I can't stop them, I end up kicking myself over and over, usually right as I'm about to fall asleep so I kick and I'm wide awake again. Some nights it only happens for like 10min and then I can sleep, but other nights it'll be HOURS. On the longer nights I'll try to sleep with my legs crossed or sitting up criss cross, but that's really hard to do sometimes. Most of the times on those nights I just give up on sleeping all together. The days after I don't sleep, I'm more twitchy and prone to attacks, then I either am allowed to sleep that night or just pass out from exhaustion after an attack.

Pre-tic premonition!

Sometimes I'll know I'm about to tic, and I can see I'm going to hurt myself or I know I'm going to throw something and there is literally nothing I can do, I'm just stuck knowing until the tic hits unless I suppress it, which doesn't always works, usually causes recoil, and can HURT.

Thunder!

So I used to love thunderstorms, and find peace in them, but as my tics got more severe, my relationship with thunder changed. Rolling thunder is okay but booming thunder makes me tic like crazy, as in when it's frequent enough I will tic myself dizzy or give myself a migraine. I of course live in a thunderstorm heavy area 😅

BTW if you're into mediocre poetry and have a spare dollar or a Kindle unlimited account, I actually wrote about this in my book I Want To Love the Thunder under the name Fen Lotor only on Amazon

People!

I was going to get into this a lot but honestly the stories kinda deserve their own post, mainly bc it'd be long and people may want to skip it bc the stories could be triggering so I'll generalize here-

1. People making me tic on purpose (luckily a rare occurrence but a really fucking shitty one)

2. People staring (yes its strange, and I understand glancing at me but sometimes people just stare until my tics stop but if I know someone is staring I tic more from the anxiety)

3. Stereotypes (a given)

4. Asking me questions while I'm actively having a tic attack (99% of the time I'm super open about questions but people sometimes don't ask until I'm having a severe attack even if they've seen minor tics or know I'm tourettic)

5. Balloon decor (maybe I'm biased bc I haven't been somewhere w balloon decor since prom but it seems anytime balloons are used as decor there is at least one person intent on popping them)

6. Immediately panicking when I start ticcing (it's less frequent now w people who know me but as soon as people know my tics CAN be caused by something negative they seem to think they are ALWAYS caused that way, no matter what I say so they start panicking and asking what's wrong and won't take "nothing is wrong" as an answer which stresses me out and makes me tic more)

7. 4th of July (this makes me sound like a scrooge and a hypocrite bc I like fireworks. I also don't mind headphoning up and blocking it out for a bit, but for some reason people around me celebrate from 6pm to 3am, July 1st-July 7th, and it's not even dark until 8pm or later)

Okay ended up ranting a bit lol. Thank you for reading, and as always my asks are open if anyone is curious or has questions I'll answer the best I can 😊

Also adding my cooking with Tourette's tag if anyone is curious. I almost included some info on cooking here but it doesn't really bother me enough to be a pet peeve

[dynared]

I really can't decide if sven/shiro being a villian or not existing and possibly have his role as romelles boyfriend taken over by lance hunk or pidge is worse for him. Though given him sidelining keith in VLD either one is well deserved.

I think in this case, a villain would actually work pretty well for a few reasons -

A human villain with a connection to the cast, even if it's a minor one, helps to create personal stakes that a minor Drule/Galra boss doesn't immediately have. He gives the cast a personal connection and an additional sense of catharsis to his defeat (another thing that VLD lacked in spades).

Because the director and producer hate the character so much, there's no need to really hold back with how cruel he's portrayed. There's no need to blunt the effectiveness of him.

Killing Shiro/Sven as the main villain makes it easier to build to the other Drule/Galra villains more properly, rather than having to rush to Zarkon and Lotor's defeat.

You can still give Romelle time with the other cast after Shiro/Sven is dead.

So for all those reasons, I think Shiro/Sven as the main villain of the first film along with a Drule/Galra accomplice makes a lot of sense.

[eddo-tensei]

I'm actually glad you took the time to hear me out. I was worried that I'd be shuffled off because I was sounding crazy. That said, now that you've clarified it, I really do think you have a point. Chloe should not coddled like she's 4. Her classmates are not responsible for her behavior. Herself and the adults around her are. Secondary schools, especially public ones, tend to be really capricious due to the collective behavior of the student body and even a private school like College Dupont is likely not immune to this. Teachers should be the ones to handle it. The students shouldn't be forced to help.

That said, I do believe she still needs some kind of support system that includes at least some of her classmates. It's true that others have to realize what they have to do themselves. However, I do think that people can't truly improve when they're alone. Obviously, she shouldn't just be coddled, but SOME form of support would help in the long run. When someone is isolated or at least only has negative influences, there's a good chance they're not going to get better. They NEED someone to help them.

The issue with Miraculous is that it seems like it believes only GOOD people deserve support systems and that it's a waste of time to give them to BAD people. Marinette and Zoe both managed to gain support systems by being honest. Now, they both NEED support systems and I refuse to hear people say they deserve to be alone. Still, Chloe needs some form of support from people who actually care for her. However, going by Derision and the later episodes, it's clear that the writers believe that isolating Chloe away from any positive individuals is a "good thing" because then, she would no longer "poison" them. In essence, support systems should be EARNED by people and that it's good if you isolate someone who "deserves" to be alone.

There's a lot of a debate about who should support Chloe, but going by the writer's future plans, who would Chloe have left as "support"? Lila only used her to further her own goals and Audrey still clearly doesn't give a crap about raising her at all. She'll probably be sent to the same boarding school Zoe went to and given how crappy that school was, I can only imagine it'll make Chloe even worse than she already was and that's incredibly distressing.

I believe every person deserves help, no matter how awful they are. It's true that it's difficult to help those who don't seem to want help, but I hate the idea of just letting people destroy themselves. The writers are spreading a legitimately harmful message about children with the way they wrote Chloe and I refuse to accept that. I'd say it's as harmful as what happened with Lotor, except at least Astruc exercised some restraint by not having her killed off like Lotor was. Still, it's extremely distressing that they're doing this with her and I can't understand why people would defend this beyond just saying "she was meant to be bad." As though a writer's intent can't be flawed and harmful.

It is not the victims' responsibility to save their bully.

(Miraculous Season 5 Spoilers be here)

I don't know who all needs to hear this, but I've been seeing some... takes... around the ml fandom. Between Chloe defenders' unwillingness to give her any responsibility for her actions and the writers' determination to ruin her completely, I can't choose a side.

It's not Chloe's 14-year-old classmates' duty to save and bend over backwards for her anymore than it's Audrey's 14-year-old daughter's duty to save and bend over backwards for her. Her classmates are kids with no experience dealing with abusive parents or who can barely sort out their own home problems. Not trained therapists who must know exactly what to do to make it through to Chloe. They're also kids who suffer from Chloe's cruelty all the time and are understandably hesitant to get in her face constantly touting self improvement methods. How counterintuitive to human behavior would that be? Twice bitten (or in this case 100+ times bitten), twice shy.

I'm sure Audrey has some trauma/valid reasons for being a jerk too, but no one is suggesting that Chloe spread herself super thin in the face of her assholery so that she can just CHANGE her.

Chloe's classmates have been nice and open to her, given her chances, gone to her party and tried to include her in group events. They often only lash out at Chloe when she lashes out at them (if that), which is constantly. Marinette went out of her way to get her back in school and made an attempt to get her mother to open up to her. A misguided attempt, but AGAIN, Marinette is a child. She is not a therapist and she was meeting Chloe where she was. She knew Audrey would laugh in her face if she tried to use the "she's your daughter and you should treat her better" route.

Anyone who says the class didn't try hard enough with Chloe/ didn't give Chloe a chance hasn't met a middle school class. Those kids could be horrific to Chloe with all she has said and done. But they're generally nice. And they demonstrated kindness to one another ALL THE TIME so it's not as though Chloe doesn't know how to be kind.

Chloe is 14. Not 4. She knows what kindness looks like. She's not an alien, scouring the dictionary and hoping someone will PLEASE teach her how to kind. She, at this point in time, does not want to be kind. Funny thing about recovery. You have to want it. YOU have to want it. Any professional will tell you that. It takes more than people continuously bending over backwards in the face of your cruelty. All that will result in is doormats. Sabrina has been "kind" and bending over backwards for Chloe for years. Well, a lot of good that's done. No. In order to heal and to improve, you must be at a point of accepting responsibility for you and DESIRING change.

Chloe isn't there yet. Nothing her classmates do will change it. Maybe it'll take time and reflection. Maybe it'll take a new setting. Maybe it'll take a harder fall. But she's not ready and that's no one's fault but her crappy parents and hers.

I don't mind Chloe having to suffer an incredible low to rise, though I'm not sure if that's what the writers are doing. The leaks for future episodes seem a tad too... vengeful- especially where Andre is concerned.

But let's not lean all the way to the other end of the spectrum and eliminate Chloe's personal responsibility from the matter. The primary factor in her turnaround will be CHLOE.

[void-tiger]

AU where Dyak’s and Lotor’s relationship is actually developed. And although she’s still a Stern Space!McGonagal or Space!MaryPoppins, she doesn’t use that frikkin riding crop while teaching basic history, and actually learns how to be tender.

[punkeropercyjackson]

Saved this tweet for the 'canon-induced character assasination for amatonormativity pandering' brand

[lnkedmyheart]

No cause let's talk about it. Mind you I will get pissed off as I go and my typos will get worse with my rage. This is the warning.

The whole idea that Alteans were some God like perfect, faultless race was some serious horseshit. Cause I just know that the only reason they made Allura look black is because they knew how similar Alteans were to actual real world colonizers. Tell me, seriously tell me, after careful consideration, that Altean bullshittery doesnt sound like the early stages of british colonization.

Like here you have these aliens with a whole monarchy system going on that go about boasting about their intergalactic diplomat status like Alfor and his buddies weren't going around to all these other planets and taking over those places by instilling this idea that nobody can survive without them. For a race that prided itaelf on being diplomats these people, specifically Allura and Coran were pretty shit at being diplomatic. Half of Allura and Coran's dialogue has a comment belittling other races. They run around calling people primitive and acting like they are their saviors. Allura in particular is given this nasty god status by every oppressed race and like not once does she ever turn down that label.

And the whole bs with Alfor making fucking WAR MACHINES to fight some rebels???? This man made a whole world ending war machine to fight a bunch of dudes with blasters and swords. Like talk about being a psychopath. But noooo we have gotta point out how evil and mean Zarkon is.

Like Zarkon was just as badly effected by the rift as Honerva was, hell Honerva was the one who was going absolutely insane and went off her rocker because of her ambition and hunger for power and knowledge. All Zarkon wanted to do was bring her back, and then when the rift became unstable what did this idiot supposed diplomat super genius suoer godlike bitch Alfor do? He blew up the entire fucking planet???!

Thia fuckass hoe blew up the home of an entire race, the entire civilization, everything gone up in air in one fell swoop. He turned an entire race into refugees who no longer had a home, nothing that belonged to them and nowhere they belonged. He left them at the mercy of other races and everyone knows what happens to refugees in refugee camps. Why am I making this political? Its just a cartoon! Well fucking Alfor made it political!

And what the fuck is Zarkon supposed to do now? His people are stranded, they are left living on board ships for thousands upon thousands of years because some bitch ass doesnt know how to make decisions cause he's only got the seat via nepotism. Oh no but Zarkon is the bad guy here, Alfor and his quirkily racist daughter are the Godlike pure people.

Oh and its so vile cause as long as Lotor is the good guy he's his mother's son, he's an Altean. Such a good man because of his race uwu. But the moment he turns evil he is suddenly a galran? Like it wasnt his mother who was the one who cause he entire fuck up in the firat place because of her very Altean pride, obsession and ambition??? Like FUCK Allura and Keith's bonding and the blades proving the Galrans are not all bad, Allura returns to making it all about Lotor's race. Her growth? Non existent!

Oh and dont even get me started on the whole redemption arc bs, if anything Honerva was the LEAST deserving if a redemption arc since she was always the one responsible for half the chaos that happened in the flashbacks that led to Zarkon becoming evil, though the final nail in the coffin was put in by Alfor, that bitch! What did Zarkon do? Want to protect his people? Love his wife?? Take revenge for his lost home??? Oh such evil in one man, I have NEVER seen a more villainous reason ever!

The canon universe alteans were just one step away from becoming the evil Alteans from the alternate universe.

Zarkon deserved that redemption arc he was the one who deserved to be understood, whose motive deserved to understood and brought to the forefront and those motives, the realisation of Alfor's stupidity and more and how it fucked over the Galrans should have been a lot more important than that clone fight, than whatever stupid crap that was in the final season.

Lance becoming Altean was such a horseshit move just to appease lance stans cause it had no relevance to anything. So you can transfer races now? Or is this just another gimmick out of Allura's random bag of convenient magic tricks. Please it was absolutely pointless. He becomes a damn FARMER! WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK??

Oh and the awful AWFUL queer rep, from a dead Blaytz to dead lesbian villains killed in the same ep where they are revealed to be lesbians, to Shiro suddenly getting erased from the memory of every single main character and turning into this background stock image or silent non existent entity. Just say you are terrified of letting your main characters interact with a gay man and go. Not to mention I think Shiro was gonna die in season 2 and they just bought him back because merch. He became more and more pointless and if they hadnt wasted so much time on trying to shove him into the story and by extension making the entire thing a clown show we'e have gotten actual development for Lance and Hunk (though Hunk is wishful thinking cause who cares about the overweight guy who isnt conventionally attractive, nah just pair him with a sentient rock and call it interracial romance points).

Krolia was such a waste of opportunity ngl, she could have been so cool, instead we got tall purple Keith but with tits and a generic ass no name man. Also HORRID character design.

Kosmo the teleporting dog was just a cute mascot addition to Keith because they couldn't make Keith even more of a Gary Stu by giving him the teleportation ability, now could they? I like dogs, I love them, but in a universe so vaste with so many creatures, a space wolf looks like a literal fancy dog???

And that last season was actually garbage. Controversial opinion, Shiro should have stayed dead and I say this as someone who liked him, the redemption arc was bullshit, Allura dying made no logical or narrative sense, that last minute wedding with the dude who had no name and was called the wrong name in the audio version was ridiculous.

Honestly, I am kinda glad Zarkon died before they could butcher him anymore in real time

If i started bitching about just how horseshit and undeserving vld was of praise you'd have to end me to actually get me to stop. It had shit writing, the absolute worst characterization, no flow of the narrative, the plot was flimsy, shit just happened for the sake of happening, had the absolute worst form of rep, the red-blue bullshit blinded people into thinking they were watching rep when 90% of the time the characters barely even progressed cause the writers couldn't write dynamics for SHIT. The only compelling dynamic was between Shiro and Keith and even that got so tired and irritating to follow and ofcourse the gay guy became a nobody to the main cast the moment he was revealed as gay! And we had to root for glorified colonizers who belittled literally everyone they came across and people just overlooked it cause the princess's skin colour was black, the actual best dynamic potential between Hunk and Lance was never explored, Pidge just did shit with zero consequence and the show staff just said and did shit knowing full well people would eat out of their palms and then on being called out acted like they had a moral high ground.

[lilflowerpot]

Heyo! So, less of a question, but I just wanted to say that your fic has officially become my go-to whenever I need some delicious Good!Lotor in my life. Like just the other day I started thinkin how dirty canon did him and had to reread your fic to make me feel better. Oh! heres a question (tho you may address it in LB, but...): what are your thoughts on Canon's Haggar/honerva redemption where as lotor was last scene as a melted blob? I could sorely use some Lotor defense rn....

(⁄ ⁄>⁄‿ ⁄<⁄ ⁄) ahhhhhhhh that's very sweet of you to say, tysm my love!! Lotor honestly deserved so much better than canon ultimately gave him, so I am happy to be of service ♡

As for condemned!Lotor vs redeemed!Honerva....................... I have gone OFF on this topic several times before and it drives me absolutely mad every damn time because,,, like,,,,,, what a fucking joke?? So the abused child was, yes, willing to sacrifice the few to save the many, but in wHAT FUCKING WORLD IS THAT WORSE THAN HAGGAR WHO EXPERIMENTED / TORTURED / KILLED FOR PERSONAL GAIN AND ALSO CREATED THE KOMAR?

R E A L L Y

I don't think I can surmise my distaste for this particular Choice™ any more concisely than I did in the tags of a post from three years ago:

#here's a complaint I have from canon: you're telling me that little star-explorer Lotor- #-who did everything he could to work //with// the people of Ven'tar's planet rather than subjugate them as Zarkon wanted- #-failed at Oriande.. while Haggar succeeded?  H a g g a r #I don't CARE that she used to be Honerva or that she retrieved her memories of that time before entering Oriande #the last trial was presented as one designed to unveil the participants' moral disposition.. and you want to tell me that it found: #''I will work alongside the people and beg my father on my knees to spare them'' Lotor #somehow a //worse person// than ''I designed the Komar turned Naxzela into a bomb and enjoy experimenting on conscious beings'' Haggar #...........nah

[ear]

season five is almost here ........... we’re already halfway thru vld already ... thank god...........

[ghostvibesonly]

ooh there should be a fic where the team’s trapped in an alien family game show and can only choose one member to escape while the rest remain trapped there forever and keith and lance are the only ones to vote for each other, tying in with how the creators said lance will end up with someone who chooses him first, and then lance explains that he picked keith because he’s the future (his future perhaps??? 👀 ) and- oh wait a minute.

wouldn't it be so fun if there was a fic in which lance saves keith's life with an impressive shot and keith is so stunned by it that he literally stops in the middle of a battle to stare with his mouth wide open. or maybe even a fic in which keith is upset about something and the entire team looks in lance's direction expectantly except lance doesn't even see them and instead he goes over to comfort keith out of his own volition because he cares and they all know he cares which is why they- oh. wait. never mind

[fire-of-the-sun]

"You speak to me of weakness? You've become nothing more than one of the witch's monsters! Does she control you as well?" - Lotor to Zarkon, 5x02

This line says a lot. Lotor telling his father that he’s nothing more than a raving monster on someone else’s leash is deeply insulting. Not only does it further exemplify just how little Lotor thinks of Zarkon, it also speaks to his contempt for Haggar as well as acknowledges just how much power she has. Lotor hates Zarkon, but he hates his mother more and sees her as the bigger threat and therefore reserves more fear and caution towards her capabilities. 

This mentality also probably contributed to his prompt execution of Narti after realizing that she was a spy for his mother. Though it would have been hard to cut down a companion so easily, in that moment, he probably saw her more as a dehumanized puppet than a person and his fear of Haggar and the potential discovery of his plans outweighed his sentiments towards his general.

Lotor considers being someone’s puppet to be a weakness. A terrible fate for one who deeply desires freedom and agency such as himself, which is why he goes to such great lengths to avoid his parent’s authority. He desperately wants a sense of control over his life and would naturally fear being used by someone else, especially Haggar. 

And that’s exactly what becomes of Lotor. 

His worst nightmare became a reality as his body was used against his will as a vessel for further destruction he didn’t concede to and then readily disposed of. He was forced to become the obedient monster - a mindless weapon - of the one person he feared and hated most. I dearly hope he wasn’t conscious enough to realize that he was her prisoner but given how he was cognizant of Allura’s presence to some degree, I kind of doubt he even had that small mercy. For him, this would truly be a fate worse than death and one he did not deserve...

[whatthehelliswrongwithme]

Voltron Part 29

Okay, guys, gals and nonbinary pals. It's time for the season 6 finale! As always I'll also put my thoughts bout this season as a whole into this part. Hope you enjoy!:

Lotor, hows the weather like in there? You know? Up your arse. Because you're so fucking full of yourself

Is Keith's scar-thingy permanent?

Lotor: "Omae wa mou shindeiru"

Voltron: "NANI?!"

This asshole is worse than Abra with all these teleports

Remember when I said that this show couldn't get more anime, when Sailor Moon appeared? Well now they've got a sword...... that's on fire

Pidge you just send you lion head/Voltron's fist flying towards Lotor. Weren't you sitting in that?

Allura, why won't you leave Lotor in the quintessence-realm? Do you still have feeeeliiiings?

Is it done? Is the ass dead?

Let the joyous news be spread, that wicked old ass at last is dead!

Good. Won't miss him

Noooo! Not the castle!

Sailor Moon hasn't said a word the last few episodes. But simply by standing next to Allura, I know that this ship exists

I love the idea of them saving the universe, while having all of their shit packed into the lions

They're just glorified U-haul trucks now

Hunk, what kind of eagle-eyes do you have to have seen this castle-diamond-thingy?

I don't really care about Shance. But I appreciate the scene of Lance angsting over Shiro

Heeeeey!!! "Shiro" is Shiro again!

But why the fuck is all of his hair white (gray?) now?

Also, wouldn't it feel fucking weird to just like not have your body anymore. And instead someone else's. Even if it's an exact replica of you....

But, also: SHEITH!

They're finally going to earth!!!! I've predicted it since season 2 and now it's finally happening!

Thoughts on the season as a whole:

I really, really liked this season

Seriously, better than season5 and much better than season4

Many good episodes, fave was probably "Cheaper by the dozen, but it's just Shiro" because of !Sheith!

But the DnD episode was also really good

I disliked that Keith aged 2 years on the space whale, to bond with his mom

Because it wasn't acknowledged AT ALL. Even though 2 years is such a long time!

I'm still conflicted about this whole "Shiro was actually a clone" thing

Might actually make another "Rant"-post about this

(Also, in terms of foreshadowing: Apparently "Kuron" literally means clone. So I can see how that theory existed.)

(I just knew, that "Kuro" means black. And I thought that this was supposed to mirror the Shiro-white thing)

{Huge thanks to @living-for-fiction and especially @non-plutonian-druid for explaining!}

It's nice to have Keith back in the MAIN-main cast. Feels good to have him back. Missed him

Shiro is his own whole situation. I'm glad to have him back. I just hope that the writers won't fuck his character up

Lance had some serious self-reflection since season1. And I actually kinda enjoy him now. Being so smitten by Allura is kinda cute

Allura is weird. She's got that whole angst/confidence issue going on, because she was fooled by Lotor. But honestly, she's kind of right. She really should have been more suspicious of him

(Also: Why didn't you "die" this finale?)

Pidge is my sassy, unhinged nerd daughter. And no one can take that away from me

Hunk is my nerdy, sunshine boy who's a little bit too much into cooking. But I still love him, and he had some good scenes

Lotor's dead. Good. Finally. Hated him from the start. He was irredeemable ever since he killed Furry

Moustache man is great. I'm still mad that the fandom gave Shiro the title of "Space dad", when he's clearly so much more deserving of it

Krolia, Sailor Moon and space wolf..... seem interesting? They haven't had any real time to shine

Though I still absolutely love Sailor Moon's design

Sheith! There was so much Sheith! And that's great! So much content! And honestly, these two just have the best dynamic between all the characters

Allurance is cute. And I'm kinda rooting for it now. I just hope, that it won't be as one-sided anymore

Lotura had a kiss! But also, one of the people involved in this ship died. So.... I'm sorry for any Lotura shippers

Klance, Plance and Punk had a few crumbs here and there

Shallura starved the past few seasons, and is now a skeleton in the corner. It's cute, but there's like no canon content/potential anymore

Predictions/Hopes for season 7:

Are they gonna do a space road trip to get to earth? Will they make truckstops, sit in a diner and drink milkshakes?

When Voltron combines, do you think that everyone inside can just walk from one lion to another? I want them to just, float through space, combined as Voltron, living out their lives.

Seriously, just imagine them, basically using their giant-murder-robot as a house

Sorry, Allura. But I want Keith to replace you again. You can do your own thing with this castle-diamond-thingy and the team-constellation of S1 and S2 returns

ACTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT KEITH AGED 2 FUCKING YEARS!

Season 1+2 felt like one big arc, and it ended in a mech battle against Zarkon. Season 3-6 felt like one big arc and ended in a mech battle against Lotor. I'm gonna guess that S7+8 are the next big arc, which will also end in a mech battle, probably against space witch

I'm honestly expecting the worst, because everyone seems to dislike S7. So.... maybe I'll be positively suprised

I've noticed that the parts, where I just review 1 episode are getting more notes? Are these smaller, bit-sized parts better to read?

Anyways! Once again, thanks for all the support I've been getting! It's really fun to read your guy's comments! Appreciate all kinds of notes! Love Y'all!!!❤