#voltron: legendary defender gif

[serpenteaus]

thought me coming back to tumblr would be fun? well take THIS

[kismetconstellations]

@sockdooe, I apologize in advance if you're as clueless as I am, but I genuinely want to know.

What is the L/K "queerbait" I keep seeing people complain about? Did something major happen between Lance and Keith in seasons Five and Six-- like, they leaned in toward each other as if they were going to kiss only for it to be a gag/fake out?

I watched five seasons of this cartoon and saw absolutely no hint of anything baity with those characters.

Though I do see the validity in claims that fans were baited by Adam's significance in the show being hyped up

only for his actual role to not amount to much more than another means of hurting Shiro, this, in my opinion, is the closest the show got to genuinely baiting its audience:

There's no reason to animate Keith moving in for a hug this way, other than to give the impression that he was about to kiss Shiro like he's the fairytale prince to Shiro's Sleeping Beauty.

Continuing to interpret two teenaged boys butting heads and competing with each other as "sexual tension", even after, from what I read, the voice actor for one of those boys confirmed that his character is exclusively attracted to women, does not count as legitimate queerbaiting.

[eaion]

[pidges-lost-robot]

Keith

lower aspect one if the above one kills your screen

i’m not very good at animating but i wanna start trying cause i got procreate dreams ages ago and then decided to use toonsquid here

[clangrogu]

[booksunet]

came here today for voltron's funeral.

fly high u lil animation space show... you were fun to watch when i was in high school and i'm sure we'll still have your drives flying around the universe o7

[siblingskissing]

Sheith Ship Board

Requested by Anonymous! Feel free to request!

[timsstims]

[ ♪ ] The Ghost Inside / Broken Bells

[nicolaz-stimz]

Hello! Could I request a stim board for Shiro (Voltron legendary Defender)!

His aesthetic is space and his colors are a bluish purple :D! (Also could one of the gifs me slime? Idk they’re oldu satisfying to see as gifs to me)

Thanks! Hope you have a good day!

“Patience yields focus.”

Shiro // Voltron

credits!!

x x x | x x x | x x x

[watchandread02]

How do you put that much into a 20 min episode?!

First of the fight against Lotor

Then them having to evacuate the castle to save the universe

And lastly Allura reviving Shiro

[kismetconstellations]

✧ Allura cuddling with her mice ✧

[eaion]

KEITH and KOSMO in Voltron: Legendary Defender S06 E02 - Razor's Edge

[pidges-lost-robot]

The wip form

Keith run!1 from what idk but he run

[clangrogu]

My Taste in Fictional Men Pt. 2: Long, Blonde Hair (That’s all it takes, apparently)

Lotor (Voltron: Legendary Defender)

Daemon Targaryen (House of the Dragon)

Legolas (The Lord of the Rings)

Aemond (House of the Dragon)

Aaravos (The Dragon Prince)

[deconstructing-klance]

Unhinged Klance Shenanigans #1

While working on my posts, I do a lot of research. My schooling involved research to support my ideas. I like to find anything that can back up what I say or confirm any Klance news. I like to be accurate, transparent, and thorough. If any official VLD news comes out that Klances does happen post show and confirms all of the supposed "Klance coded" moments, then I'll admit I was wrong.

But I still won't ship them because, in my opinion, they're not good for each other and would not last long in a relationship for various reasons. That's a blog post for another day.

Anyway,

I came across this while researching ... and I was just floored.

"As human beings, we deserve the right to have Klance be canon."

Much entitlement. Such audacity.

Let's take a look at the language here. (This is my speciality.)

Deserve is a verb. It stems from an Old French word, deservir - deserve, be worthy of, earn, merit.

Interestingly, deservir comes from the Latin deservire - serve well, serve zealously.

Breaking deservir down: the suffix de = completely, and servire = to serve.

And, according to Etymonline (my favorite website ever WHICH NOW HAS A MOBILE APP), the Latin sense of the world evolved from "to completely serve/serve completely" to "be entitled to because of good service," and then to the French "be worthy of."

This is a LOT to unpack.

Firstly, let's take a look at the original meaning of the Latin deservire: serve well, serve zealously.

I think it's pretty known that Klancers serve their ship pretty zealously. Almost to the point where it's a little scary. Maybe even a little cultish.

As much as I love VLD, making my own head canons, and acknowledging how much it means to me as a person, I do know that it is fiction. Just because something is fiction doesn't make it less valid or important. Saying "It's just a show" severely invalidates how deeply it has impacted people. But, at the end of the day, Voltron is a beautiful piece of fiction that has been shared with the world.

A fictional ship that has such a chokehold on you that you make a petition to get it canonized ... that's overkill.

And it can't be said that the majority of Klancers serve their ship well. Because raise your hand if you've seen Klancers bully people for not shipping Klance, or you have been personally bullied by a Klancer.

That brings about my second point concerning the modern day meaning of deserve: to be worthy of."

Frankly, because of the bad Klancer attitudes, they don't deserve to have Klance canonized. They're not worthy enough to have that ship canonized because their vitriol kinda dragged down the fandom.

This is what I mean about being tired of Klance shipper attitudes. Being a human being does not entitle you to have your preferred ship be canon.

As a human being, you deserve health, prosperity, love, and kindness.

DreamWorks would never take this seriously and I'm glad this petition didn't go anywhere.

Suggestion for the future: if you want to start a peition, your name really should be on it, because that's one way to show you genuinely stand behind what you're petitioning for. Notgivingmynameforprivacyreasons, I wish you luck in your future endeavors.

Also, I don't see any credit given to Ikimaru for the Klance art that was used. I may not be a Klance shipper, but I think her art is beautiful. (See? Even as a non-Klance shipper I can validate her art and see the beauty in it.) I even considered commissioning her for a time, before I realized she doesn't do commissions anymore (at least, last I checked), and after thinking it over figured Ikimaru probably wouldn't accept a non-Klance VLD commission. And that's completely okay.