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I just wanted to draw more keith and matt bonding ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ive never watched an episode of voltron in my life but i jus read an article about how joaquim dos santos and lauren montgomery explicitly lied to press about their involvement in the failure of voltron and that they were singlehandedly responsible for the homophobic writing and ending and went out of their way to ignore the comments of both their hired sensitivity consultants and lgbt employees and im SCREAMING

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春 🐝🌸

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DOUBLE OUCH

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So sad we never saw Shiro use the black bayard. We were robbed I tell you. What possibilities do you think it would have turned into if it was used?

we were horribly robbed and the wild thing is that Shiro’s black bayard reveal should have been one of the most basic ‘givens’ on the show.  It’s potentially the longest running fandom speculation for the series.  We went two seasons with him not having it, watched everyone else get their bayard forms and then upgrades, watched him win back the black bayard at the end of season two and it should have been the most obvious basic story point to show us what it turned into for him.  It’s like inhaling and expecting there to be air.  There are just certain story beats you just know a story is setting you up for and you, as the viewer/reader look forward to the fulfillment of.  Shiro’s bayard form was just about the most glaringly obvious and simplistic set up for a story beat in existence.

And @voltron and @dreamworksanimation couldn’t even manage something that was the story writing equivalent of baby food.

if anyone ever deserved to have the word ‘professional’ slapped off them, this would be that.

Its a sign of abject failure on the ‘story’s part that we, the viewers, have to come up with the answer for that story beat ourselves.    But since we do, here we are.

Personally, I expected all along, and I know I’m not the only one, that Shiro’s bayard would take the place of his Galra arm.  It would have been satisfying in that it would take the place of something the Galra had ripped from him and forced on him with something that would be a gift of love and welcome bonding between him and his lion that had also escaped from Galra control and that they’d willingly won together.  It would have also let us continue to enjoy him fighting as dynamically and amazingly as he did before so there would have been no need for a new fighting style to be developed for him.  And - to me the most beautiful part of the ‘what could have been a wholesome lesson’ - Shiro doesn’t NEED his arm.  The black bayard coming and going would have shown the viewers, some of whom, including children, might be missing limbs, that you don’t NEED both arms to be complete and effective and useful and involved and important.  That a leader could do plenty - including pilot his lion - with just one arm and it wouldn’t hinder or slow him down in any way.  When he needed the prosthetic - the black bayard - it would be there for him but he didn’t need it to be a ‘complete’ person.  That Shiro is just as vital and necessary and active and involved and a leader without both arms - and other people can be too.  The black bayard being Shiro’s right arm could have been redemption and a powerful partnership between him and the lion he worked so hard to free, understand and bond with.  Not a crutch but a link.  I honestly believed right until season eight (even knowing how horrible seasons seven was) that we’d see Shiro use the black bayard.  It was unfathomable for me to imagine anyone would make it such a pivot point in the story and then throw it all away.  Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ah.

In other, fluffier and entirely speculative news I was also partial to arnis/eskrima sticks, like Nightwing in Batman uses.  They seemed like they’d fit Shiro’s fluid, up close leveraging style beautifully.

What do you think, gang?  Technically the bayards change to fit whatever the user needs but suits their style.  What other theories can we get up in here about what Shiro’s Black Bayard is?

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【I didn’t even get a chance to say goodbye. 】 ​​​​

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Here he is!!!

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Shiro: Take care of your father. Don’t give up. We’ll see each other again, even if it takes light years.

Matt: I love you but why are you like this.

Shiro: Excuse me?

Matt, being led away by Galra guards: Light years measures distance, not time!

Matt, fighting off the guards trying to restrain him: YOU WERE SENT ON AN IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH MISSION, HOW COULD YOU NOT KNOW THAT?!

Matt, foaming at the mouth: HOW DID YOU EVEN GRADUATE FROM THE GARRISON, NO, DON’T TOUCH ME, I NEED ANSWERS!

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keith, in the quantum abyss, soft smile on his face: yeah and then there’s our sharpshooter, lance–

krolia, internally: shit. his parents named him after a weapon? thats fucking metal as fuck. thats so fucking cool. why the fuck didnt i think of that?? i should have fucking thought of that. i cant believe i fucking agreed to “keith.” motherfuck–

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Happy Birthday to One of the Pillars of Voltron..... The Goodest Boy....................

Hunk if youre out there……………….. You Are IT , babey.

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She has had Enough.

(based on a shit post by my friend @astrolatte on twitter)

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Not to suddenly remember I’m overwhelmingly a Voltron blog or anything but a thought just hit me:

What if blue galra and purple galra aren’t actually different phenotypes? Like… what if the thing is galra are just covered in fur, and grow a bluish winter coat that they shed in the spring for the lighter purple one, and the reason why at any given moment you’ll have individuals of both varieties present is because frequent space travel and exposure to other environments throw their biorhythms off… so if you take a group evenly split between blue and purple galra and put them on an ice ball planet for a year they’ll all be blue?

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“Did you model your outfit after your pet’s color scheme?” “Maybe. Did you?”

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See you space cowboy