#shidge

[kseniyache]

What are your favorite ships in VLD?

Hi!

Oh, Voltron! It gave me so many good ships... My first love is Shidge actually. I thought about them in post canon version (because of Pidge youth) or in some AU fics. I've got a bunch of them but in Russian. Never had enough time for translation.

Like this one — it's "War and Peace" AU that I wrote. This art was drawn by my good friend for me.

Then I fell in love with Lotura. It was almost obsession. You know cosmis elves should be happy together and have many cute babies, instead of what happened to them. Lotor's story break my heart every time I think about it. On ao3 there're many of fics I wrote for Lotura's sake.

This amazing art another my good friend drew for my fic.

Plance. Of course. Two dorks in love. Ah, their chemistry even in Voltron series was great. What a potential!

Gorgeous art by @crimsonzoroark

Kacxa. From the first episod I saw them together till the last I love their interaction and communication.

Also Kidge. Sometime i joke that Pidge is some kind of universal solgier, she's good in any ship. Again I thought about them in post canon. If I don't mistake I have smth for them in Eng. I participated in Kidge Zine 3.0: Timeless. But I haven't posted my piece anywhere. Sorry.

My first fic "Stop thinking" was inspired by an amazing artisit fate221 and her comic on Insta. I tried my best to put all passion she drew to the words.

These ships are my fav. I wrote for them, even tried to draw and I transleted fics from Eng to Rus for readers in my country. As you may see they're all m/f ships and I don't especially interested in m/m ships. One time I even felt annoyance about some of them, but... Then I met an amazing Sheith authors, Klance artists... I even translated huge oneshot for Klance and this was so good story and wrote some Sheith fics. Well, I absolutly fine with any ship until their fans push me for loving their ships over mine favourite. As I fully respect other people feelings and preferences, I never told anybody who they should or shouldn't ship.

I hope I didn't dissappoint you by my answer. In Russia we say "For taste and color there is no friend" which means that we all different and we all have a right to have different opinions.

Thank you for your question. It was good to talk about Voltron. Sometimes I miss it very much.

[jesibeii]

I don't think about voltron a lot but the blorbo poll had me reminiscing. I was a hard-core pidge fan and shipped them with literally everyone - but especially shiro. however, I don't think I truly understood the toxicity of the fandom until more or less after the show had ended. I think this was probably because I was so pidge focused and all the drama involved Lance and Keith and Shiro (I was in sophomore year of hs (till senior year) ig, and I just never saw that hatred). So, now, looking back on my relatively good experience with the Fandom, this is how I view sheith. My heart goes out to y'all 🫡❤🖤💚❤🖤💚

[hearmyvoiceoftreason]

standing by and waiting at your backdoor | chapter 8

Bzz.

Bzz.

Pidge could’ve sworn she set her alarm to only wake her up on weekdays.

Yawning, she blindly pawed for her phone on her bed with one hand while the other reached for her glasses, pushing them up her nose as she turned on the screen.

         Keith: @Pidge i’m at your place

         Keith: your mom let me in

The cram session.  

Right.  

Letting out one more yawn, Pidge got off her bed and headed downstairs.

Mom was absently humming in front of the stove, her song accompanied with the sizzles from the pan and the burner, to which Pidge let out a contented sigh at the smell of frying bacon.  

“Morning,” Keith greeted from the table. In front of him was a stack of pancakes from which he took three of on his own plate, along with two eggs and a few strips of bacon.

“He said he didn’t have much for breakfast,” Mom said. “Lucky for him, I already finished the batter when he arrived.”

Keith only nodded at her as he chewed, then gestured to his head before swallowing. “You might wanna fix the bedhead.”

Pidge rolled her eyes but put her hair up with the tie on her wrist as she walked into the kitchen. She greeted Mom with a kiss on the cheek and grabbed a plate and utensils from the cupboards and the peanut butter jar from the fridge.

And even with Mom busy in the kitchen, it was still oddly quiet.

“Where’s Bae-Bae?”

“Matt took him with your father to the lab.”

“Traitors,”

Mom chuckled. “You know our boys,”

“Yeah, yeah,” And it was when Pidge sat down that she realized Keith was giving her a strange look.

“What?”

“You’re wearing earrings.”

“Yeah, had to reopen the piercings for prom.” She took four pancakes from the stack. “I thought you were gonna stop at Shiro’s first?”

Keith shook his head. “He didn’t reply so I figured he was in the shower when I texted.”

Pidge opened the peanut butter and put a generous dollop on the top pancake. “Don’t you have a spare key?”

“Yeah, but I had to drop these off here anyway.” He reached down to his feet and produced a six-pack of Red Bull which he set on the table with a soft thud.

“Holy shit,”

“Language,” Mom warned before turning around. “Are you going to consume all of that?” From the look alone it was clear she was hoping the answer would be no.

Pidge glanced over at Keith. “We’ll try not to?” she offered.

Her mother sighed. “Fine. But you know the consequences if I catch you awake and making noise in the garage at three in the morning again, young lady.” Then, facing Keith, she added, “Make sure to monitor her consumption?”

Pidge snorted, thinking back to the six-pack of Quintessence Canned Coffee she kept in a cooler at the bottom of her closet that matched the one Keith kept in his locker.

The boy only blinked. “I think I’m the last person you should be asking that.” He picked up a strip of bacon before adding, “Leave it up to Shiro. He should be here in a few.”

“Oh?” Mom asked, turning to Pidge with a raised brow.

“So are Hunk and Lance,” Katie said too quickly for her liking. “Grinding before the Championship and all that.”

“I see.” If Mom was disappointed with the answer, she didn’t show it. “What time are they coming over?”

Keith rummaged into his pocket to pull out his phone. “Lance and Hunk said they’re already on the way and asking if we want anything from Sal’s.” He turned to Pidge. “I’m guessing you want an iced latte with hazelnut?”

“Yes please,”

“How about you, Doctor Holt?”

The stove turned off just as Mom turned around. “I’ll get the same as Katie but hot. Oh, and tell Lance and Hunk everyone’s drinks are on me.”  

“Thanks, Mom.”

“Thanks, Doc.”

Keith and Pidge said in unison, to which Mom only smiled. “And don’t forget to get something for Shiro. He should be over any time now, yes?”

She didn’t even bother being subtle as she glanced at Pidge with what was essentially signaling with her eyeballs.

Pidge heaved out a sigh but quickly polished off the rest of her breakfast before going upstairs.

Best friends or not, she did not want to be in her pajamas while they were over and risk any blackmail material.

(Right, like that wasn’t the only reason she wanted to get dressed for the day when all of her friends already had hundreds of blackmail worthy photos and videos from Junior Year alone.)

Pidge also hoped that by dressing for the day it would hype her up, both for the studying itself and the looks she’ll no doubt be getting from Mom while Shiro would be in their house for the first time in weeks after only showing his face to just Pidge.

         Shiro: Keith’s already there right?

Speak of the devil .

The sight of the private message notification on her screen made Pidge look out her windows and, sure enough, Shiro was standing in the middle of his room.

And, as if feeling her glance, he looked up and waved.

Pidge rolled her eyes and replied.

         Pidge: yep and he helped himself to breakfast

         Pidge: there’s plenty to go around if you want

         Shiro: sure, sure

         Shiro: just gathering my things. be at the door in five.

Pidge looked up to wave goodbye before closing her curtains and getting ready.

And without really thinking about it, Pidge ended up adding a few extra hairpins into the sides of her head as she fixed her hair, if only to avoid ending up with someone else brushing the stray locks away.

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[kukos-satellite]

what are your top five ships from Voltron

Romantic pairings:

Klance (Keith and Lance) obviously

Adashi (Adam and Shiro)

Platonic pairing:

Kallura (Keith and Allura)

Hance (Hunk and Lance)

Shidge (Shiro and Pidge)

extra platonic: Sheith (Shiro and Keith)

[mothmanavenue]

real tired today so here’s a quick doting older brother shiro and spoilt little sister pidge

[harukamitsuki]

I'm procrastinating writing at the moment, so I decided to create a list of the things I hate about Voltron, a show I can't help but love and rewatch 200+ times. I mean. I've been pretty damn vocal about one thing in particular, but I should probably remind people I hate other things too so...

This list will be long, so read more under the cut!

1 - Okay, let's just get the obvious one out of the way: Lance. Reasons why can be seen here, here and here. The first link really goes into the details, the second one is more confusion as to why people think Lance is treated the worst, and the last is more why Lance would be horrible as Black Paladin. MOVING ON TO NEW POINTS!

2 - The ships. Specifically... ahem... Klance, Sheith, Allurance, Lotorance (Lotor/Lance), Shidge (Shiro/Pidge), Shance (Shiro/Lance). Those, in my opinion, are the top offenders. I've explained my grievances with Sheith in a post here. It's not that it's paedophillia, it's the bond. As for the rest, while I dabbled a bit in Klance and Allurance in the aforementioned posts against Lance, I've yet to actually explain.

First of all, the fans are awful. Tip: If you keep trying to force people to like your ship instead of letting them get to their own conclusions, they're just going to hate that ship even more. This isn't a Voltron-specific thing, but it's still rampant.

Second of all, Lance doesn't treat either of them well. He's constantly antagonising Keith, even when Keith stops biting back in season two. The closest he gets to respecting Keith is telling him to suck it up when he's upset that the Black Lion chose him. Keith does try to be amicable to Lance, but it doesn't work because Lance is always picking a fight.

And Allura. Lance is constantly ignoring her boundaries and invading them. There isn't a single moment where they're alone together and they feel like friends, much less pining, before season seven. The only time is when Allura encourages Lance to take up Red, and he didn't even notice she was upset that Red rejected her. In fact, Lance just keeps talking about himself and how he was rejected, ignoring how Allura was rejected twice, and by the Lion her father piloted. Allura also never reacts well to Lance's flirting, always ignoring him and frowning when he does. If Allura, at least, used to laugh at his terrible attempts at flirting, maybe I could try to believe it.

Third, general grievances with these ships.

Lotorance. Lance hated Lotor from the get-go. They barely have a scene together without Lance glaring at him. If they shared some sort of chemistry outside of Lance hating him from afar, and if the writers didn't make Lotor a twist villain for no reason, then maybe. As of now, I only like it as a complete crack ship.

Shidge. Pidge is fifteen. Shiro is twenty-five. You do the damn math.

Shance. I can definitely see Shiro being Lance's bi awakening, if I believed canon Lance was bi. (Canon Lance was straighter than a chopping board, but fanon Lance is a walking bi flag). But them being together? Ignoring that Lance is 17 and Shiro is 25, if you can do that, it wouldn't feel like a healthy relationship. Lance is blinded by hero worship and, from his canon personality, he likely wouldn't realise if Shiro isn't faring well or would just constantly pile his troubles onto him without thinking about if Shiro could handle it. So, yeah, don't like this ship.

So, yeah. I don't like any of the popular ships, which is surprising. I don't hate all of them. I do like Kallura, (should have been canon), and Shallura, (surprising, because I really do like gay!Shiro), and Shunk, (who doesn't, honestly?). But I tend to prefer the nicher ones. Katt (Keith/Matt), Heith (Hunk/Keith), Hance (Hunk/Lance)...

3 - The writing. Usually, I would respect the writers because it's hard as fuck to plan and write an entire series, but they just kept missing. They would set up so many interesting plots and ideas, only to do absolutely nothing with them. This, in and of itself, is not enough to make me lose respect, but that's not all. Plot holes, terrible escalations, too slow pacing, (slow burns are good - great, even - but not when things are supposed to be happening), horrible romances... It's to the point where, for a long while, I avoided the show and only read the fanfiction. There are so many people who don't watch the show, only exposed through fanfiction and social media posts, because the writing just isn't good.

The writers get things right few times. I'm sorry, but if your entire job is to write a coherent, well-thought out story, why did they do such a bag job at it? I'll tell you why - they let the fans control what they did. Shiro was never supposed to come back. He was supposed to die at the end of season two and never come back, but the fans wanted him back so guess what? The writers brought him back! In doing so, they cut right into Keith's character arc and made him go through it off-screen. The fans built Lance up as the main character and fan-favourite? Well, the writers just decide to hand him everything. Reward him for being the fan-favourite and then ruin his character by never making him work for what he got.

The writers decide to pull a J.K.Rowling and went 'aw, yeah, Lance is bisexual!' despite him never showing an interest in a guy throughout the entire show, other than being a big fan of Shiro. They throw in gay!Shiro at the literal last minute with some background character who only ever had one line. Thanks, DreamWorks. It's not like you could've just let Adam live so Shiro could be going home to SOMEONE.

Unexpected things always happen. An actor being unavailable, a sudden irl event making it so the episode you planned would appear tone-deaf, the joke you wrote was less funny and more offensive... So on and so forth. Sometimes you have no choice but to change what you have planned because delaying it would just make the studio and the fans mad. Just... TRY to make it make sense. And don't fold to the fans, dammit. Shiro should have stayed dead because he just doesn't do anything when Allura and Keith saved him. The main character should have stayed as an ensemble, rather than pushing Lance as the central focus, because it would have left less reasons for me to hate Lance and give other, specifically Hunk, the development they deserved.

The show also never adresses traumatising shit, (*cough cough* Keith's sacrifice attempt *cough cough*), but that can be forgiven because it was aimed at children. I do, however, like that LM corrected an interviewer when they asked about Keith 'attempting to kill himself'. It was quickly corrected to 'sacrificing himself' because that's what it was! I'm sick of people acting like he was suicidal because he wasn't. He was actively scared of what he was going to do, i.e. sacrifice his life for everyone's sake. He tried to do it for the greater good. Would you call one of the many who died during wars suicidal? No. You would call them noble and heroic for their sacrifice, because that's what they are. That is what Keith was trying to do. He saw the only way out and decided one life in exchange for the many is a damn good deal and took it. Saying he was depressed and suicidal is undermining the actions he took.

So, yeah. In my eyes, the writers did two good things. Correcting the mistake belief that Keith was suicidal, and creating this shit-fest of a show. (God, I love/hate Voltron).

4 - How Pidge is treated by the fandom. Pidge is so mean. She's rude and callous and selfish and that's okay. What's not okay is acting like these traits make her a queen. She's rude, fine. She's callous, fine. She's selfish, fine. She's incredible for this? Um, no? Stop treating her like she's just sassy. She's mean. I mean, not long after Shiro's death/disappearance, she calls Keith, who is mourning Shiro so deeply, a 'loner'. Without even getting to know him. She just deems him a loner, even though Keith is just so genuinely kind?

Don't get me wrong. I love Pidge. She's great and she's an absolute joy to write. I admire her tenacity in trying to find her missing family members while also able to put the universe before them. Watching her break down about Matt when she thinks he's dead is so utterly heartbreaking because I really did like her.

But acting as if she's perfect because of this? No way.

(Also, I refer to Pidge as 'she/her' only in these posts. I much prefer gender neutral or trans Pidge.)

5 - Hunk's treatment. He deserved SO MUCH BETTER! This sweet, precious boy. He's the only one who reacted approppriately to becoming a child solider. He's an anxious, terrified kid and he's still able to swallow that fear and fight on because there are people, people like Shay, who have no idea what freedom means and if the sky is blue.

He's the only one who has to find and fight for his family when they get back to Earth, which makes me sad. Very sad. He cares so much about his friends. Even if he's scared, he'll still put himself in danger for them.

But the narrative treats him like garbage, reducing him to the comedic, fat joke, while Lance never treats him like a best friend. He deserved so much more than what he was given.

6 - The people in charge were so obsessed with doing every character dirty. They wanted to keep Shiro death, wanted to kill Keith after admitting to not knowing where they were going with him, tried to kill Hunk who did nothing wrong to deserve this, and actually killed Allura off when they realised Allurance would not work in the long-term because Lance would not be able to part from Earth for so long while Allura would not be able to stay confined to Earth at all.

7 - Lance fans would hate him if he was white.

[alohaasaloevera]

WARNING!! MENTIONS OF VLD DISCOURSE PLEASE PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!

yo I need y’all’s opinion on the Sheith vs Klantis (or just Klance) discourse way back then??? I personally think Shiro and Keith’s relationship is platonic but I would actually like to hear other people’s view points of Sheith whether they shipped Klance or Sheith or none.

I’m relatively new to this fandom (I started consuming vld media in late 2022), and god even I know the fandom way back then was crazy.. people definitely took it too far.

Also Sheith isn’t incest??? Maybe it’s weird for some people (including me) but c’mon they aren’t even related 😭😭😭

WTF…. People thought Plance was pedophilia?1!1?!1?11! Pidge was like 15 and Lance 17 at the start of the show and the law in the us says an 18 yr old and a 16 yr old can date, just no hopping on the vegetables….

Yooo klantis were crazyyyyy…. Now I understand why klance gives people PTSD

Anyways… just tell me about how you interpret shiro and Keith’s relationship and why

(Also I haven’t watched VLD past season 3 so I don’t know a lot of the lore..)

[mosscreeper-ao3]

Life update: they got my dad on temporary dialysis successfully (to quote the drs there was a risk of “catastrophic bleeding” while they set it up, which is a phrase I never want to hear again) and he’s stable now. The drs seem confident that he’ll recover as long as we essentially give his body a break by having machines temporarily take over for his organs but it’s still VERY scary.

Expect more Voltron content than Mass Effect for the immediate future.

Voltron was something we enjoyed together so it’s my comfort show atm. My dad always projected onto Shiro while I projected onto Pidge and when we watched it together those were respectively our favorite characters. He still has Pidge as his favorite to this day because they remind him so much of me.

Thanks for standing by while grief and worry tag team me.

Also a huge thank you to anyone who has ever donated blood. By dad would be dead without it.

[tbrownhill05]

This is my second fanfic. Voltron time ❤️💙💛💚🖤🩷💖😊💖⭐️

[mikey-way-enthusiast]

me when kidge and shidge 😨😨 (pidge is 14 and keith and shiro are in like their 20’s)

[just-antithings]

hellooo

whats the pride flag in your pfp?

6/7

it’s in the pinned post!

[clingyduoapologist]

clings the second you said you got called a pedo for liking a noncanon ship with a 3 year age gap I knew you had to have been a plance shipper you just have the vibes

(I am so sorry btw the discourse around the 'pidge x keith/hunk/lance' shippers was insane)

who ARE YOU reveal yourself……

[mosscreeper-ao3]

If you ever see me referring to them as brothers a bit too often in my fics and such, this is why.

WHY THE FIDDLE FACK FUCK DID I JUST SEE SHEITH IN THIS DAY AND AGE

THEY ARE B B BROTHERRRRRSSSSS

[komohine]

Hi hello welcome to my blog

You may call me Komo or Ashen, they/them only please!

This is mostly for the maybe one other Jaith shipper out there who 1) doesnt ship Sheith and 2) is still alive in 2024 looking for content… like me… dw pookie i will be your jaith content

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Shaladin shippers. Especially Sheith and Shidge shippers. I am EXTREMELY anti shaladin. So it would be best if we never met 💞 see why i hate it here

People who ship Pidge with anyone actually. If their ages dont touch neither do they.

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Fujoshis and anyone weird

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ALSO!! Here’s my Jaith playlist for anyone interested :3

[yaboysafttheenby]

So, I just finished Voltron, and...I really, don't ship anybody with anybody, heck, I'm a sucker for gay rep. BUT I EVEN SHIP SHIRO WITH ADAM OR THAT GUY HE MARRIED and I definitely don't see the chemistry in and ship Allurance, it looks so forced -but kinda natural to me, idk WHY at the same time-, y'know, why did they just randomly date at almost the end of the show. But...I am a fan of platonic ships, like sibling relationships .

Like Platonic Sheith, big bro Shiro and grumpy little bro Keith

Or Platonic Shidge, big bro Shiro and genius gremlin lil sib Pidge/Katie (I headcannon Shiro calls Pidge, Katie. This is separate for my ftm Pidge fancannon)

Or Platonic Shiro/Keith/Pidge, dad bro Shiro, grumpy bro Keith, gremlin genius lil sis Pidge.

[mothmanavenue]

indulgent older brother! shiro is my favourite shiro

he looks at pidge and sees matt and it hurts so much that holding her and indulging her the way he can’t anymore for him is all he can do so the nightmares don’t burn as much. he thinks it’s absolution