#vld shidge

[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..)

[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.

[mikey-way-enthusiast]

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

[d0g-bless]

oof BIG disagree here

as someone who was here at the start of VLD and was a shidge shipper right off the bat (and still am no surprise yikes), i am going to have to tell you the exact opposite happened.

shidge shippers took the first hit after SDCC 2017 because some person decided to ask the producers the ages of Shiro and Pidge, which then came back and resulted in a huge chunk of the fandom sending hate and threats to shidge shippers.

a lot of us ended up fleeing to Discord servers and the like because people got so nasty on here, and early sheith shippers were often involved in chasing shidge shippers off.

we took the heat early, so when klantis came for sheith shippers, they didn’t really have anyone to back them up on it

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 🫡❤🖤💚❤🖤💚

[toasthoneyandstardust]

I was really busy this past weekend, but I did manage to grind out the past few days of Cringetober!

Day 6 Neko/Animal Features I didn't have much of an idea for it so, so I made a quick edit, originally VF Pidge WAS supposed to have cat features, but he looks more like a squirrel so that's what I'm sticking with

Day 7 & 9 Pinterest Base and Crossover Ship The base for this is from mellon_soup and the crossover pair is VF Pidge/VLD Shiro! @breadstickcat is to blame for this ship, but I actually do think it's cute and is the only kind of shidge I like, the ship name is actually Sharrell though

Day 8 Tumblr Sexyman Plan A was to draw Cecil Palmer since he won the tumblr sexyman poll on here but he has no canon look, plan B was Sans since he won on twitter but i got lazy, so here's the Oncelor LMAO

Day 10 Fursona I chose a Jackalope for this, originally I was just going to do another animal feature thing, but I decided to test my skills on anthro animals, she looks better than i thought she would

[maigo-san]

sweet! i like how you can juggle between your fandoms, lance was so cute and i love how keith was protective. klance was definitely a nice ship, it had so much content in fanfics and fanart compared to the other ships. shidge though hmm, pidge and shiro? i would self insert into pidge in that ship lmao. do you have a favorite klance fic?

I'm a fandom lurker haha I don't usually interact with people and I don't have a vld moot at all, even before the show is over. I have my high school friends who I used to watch with whenever the season came out but we both stop watching for a while because the story is just a mess. Honestly, I feel like I already forgot their canon dynamic because though I can see it on the surface, people have various interpretations of them that it's so fun to find out whenever I read them and that's exactly why I still stick around. I have preferences but I don't feel an obligation to stick to canon and lore unlike rntn and I treat them almost like I treat original works. I say I'm more a part of the kl fandom because the fandom thrives on its own and there are so many interesting fics out there.

If there's one that stuck to me, I guess it's On Thin Ice by anonimina

[battleshidge]

Hey, I just saw the new chapter of Cafe Au Lait (did I spell that right?) was up and I loved it! Thanks so much for sharing it. You rock!

Looking at this message made me realize how many messages I've missed over time OOPS. Especially since this is the first I've updated a VLD fic in over a year. (Extra oops?) But I'm so glad you liked it! And are still there, despite how long it's been.

And for anyone else who's been waiting, you can find it here:

Thanks for sticking with it, and hope life's been treating you guys okay! :)

[kari-izumi]

For me, it has ALWAYS happened to ships I've enjoyed.

The first time it happened in Trek fandom for ENT was because my ship insisted on being salty about the one that became canon and throwing shade about the spoiler character rather than try to discuss what they liked about our pairing. I had no interest in said spoiler character: not for bashing OR gushing, and I had grown ass people who were older than I am now tell me I wasn't a real shipper for accepting canon for what it was.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that of what remains of ENT fandom, that Shrarcher has surpassed both T/T'P and A/T'P as the new Canon King, so I guess there's that.

Although speaking of Canon Kings, VLD was by far THE WORST because it came from people who should have known better, but no. I am not unsympathetic to the trauma first gen Sheith fans experienced on this cursed platform between 2016 and 2018. I nearly typed out a doctorate thesis of the issues I've personally witnessed but decided against it in case the people involved decide to go after the other people again.

I will say that no fandom ever has a ship war as ugly as the one VLD had without two or more groups engaging and that if you in 2023 still have trauma over a fictional ship being sunk, that's entirely on you. Y'all own the nonexistent Shidge fandom an apology for throwing them under the bus for antis too, BTW.

And Ichiruki--whew, chile. At this point, I've just accepted that Bleach fandom will be debating this until the heat death of the universe, if not longer. But what's always baffled me about that ship is that they've ALWAYS had the lion's share of popularity, f ship content from fans, and official merch--a fact people were quick to threw in Kubo's face after the series ended--and it wasn't enough that 90 percent of the fandom prior to 2016 shipped it. No, they had to be nasty and shitty towards Ichihime shippers and Orihime fans entirely.

I've never been burned by ships I never cared about in the first place because I simply never engaged with it and focused energy on the things I did not until people made it impossible to do so. 🤷‍♀️

Really wish that when people go out their way to be dicks over shipping that it's very often not rival shippers being put off from y'all but your own shippers who will move to greener pastures.

[justanotherfangirlst]

[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

[instantpeanutperfectionalsoasimp]

This is addictive.

☆Pls, do not public again/or repost. ☆

Artist: @fate221

[infinity-shidge]

Sleepy times

Headcannon

Pidge can't sleep cos her head is too full of formulas and numbers and plans so she just curled up in Shiros lap and he strokes her hair untill she relaxes and calms down and falls asleep.

Then it's a difficult situation of, does Shiro move to get a blanket and pillow for pidge and risk waking her up, or wait till morning and deal with dead legs

[hpurlnovi]

This is a fanart that I made form this amazing fic from @yaoiface29

Está en español y apenas va comenzando, pero con sólo 3 capítulos ya me esta encantando, la historia es de Hanahaki y es Shidge, está escrito hermosamente y es muy bueno~