I Just Made Multiple Playlists For My Voltron Rewrite, (private, Sorry), So I Know I'm Going To Finish

I just made multiple playlists for my Voltron Rewrite, (private, sorry), so I know I'm going to finish it because I've never done that for any of my other long fics which were quickly abandoned. LET'S GO VOLTRON

Hello, I read your response and I’ll say that on a lot of it your right.

However, there are still some points I strongly disagree with.

I’m not going to go discuss with though. I made a mistake with going into your ask and It’s been stressing me out now.

I apologize for starting anything, it was late and I should’ve just turned my phone off.

I hope you have a wonderful day. thank you.

(Please refrain from calling me stupid though, I did not do that to you out of respect please don’t do it to me)

I will apologise for that. As I stated in that response, I had just woken up, so my filter was just gone. I do not think people are stupid for having different opinions, and I do not think you are stupid. It was wrong of me to say that.

I will welcome any challenges to my mindset. I was mostly annoyed because of the whole 'Keith is spoilt' thing as I relate a lot to him. It felt as though I was being called spoilt because of this, which polluted my mind, so to speak. But I do understand if you don't want to debate with me due to what I said.

I was undeniably wrong for calling you stupid. That I will not deny.

I do hope you have a good day from now on. Again, I am sorry

I appreciate the apology.

However I should apologize myself. I did not mean to infer that your or Keith were spoiled. This was late at night and I couldn’t thoroughly explain what I was trying to communicate so I used that word.

I’m terribly sorry if I at all offended or upset you and I will take blame on not using more carefully wording.

It’s a struggle to find someone (online or in person) who wants to communicate truely about the characters and the show itself. I often have to talk within my own head so it’s hard for me to communicate what I’m meaning.

You seem like a genuinely nice person and I would love to discuss more. However I haven’t watch the show in a long while and I need to rewatch it.

Perhaps afterwards if you allow me to we could discuss again.

I thank you for your apology.

(Ps I resent this as anonymous as I’m not comfortable showing my personal tumblr to anyone, please ignore the previous one)

(Double ps the previous ask about lance is 100% correct)

No, no. I probably shouldn't have been offended so easily, especially since you started off the ask respectively. Thank you for giving me a chance and I would absolutely love to debate things about Voltron, and even other shows if we share the same interests.

(Also, yes, the representation in Voltron is lacking and that makes me so sad.)

i really resonate with your opinions about lance and the fandom surrounding him, but you really kill it any time you say some shit like "i wonder if people would treat him the same if he was white"

they 100% would. this is tumblr, bro. most blorbos are white. just look at the previous main three shows, superwholock. lance being cuban has nothing to do with him being treated the way fandom treats him. he is just, like you said, an everyday man who's easy to project on.

another critique i personally have of voltron is that while everyone's skin tone and background is varied, they all have always felt white to me. they have no cultural identity in the show. was hunk's samoan background ever even named or did we just get that from a book or a tweet? i feel like viewers shouldn't have to use outside material to complete the story in front of them.

the fact that we never got that in the actual writing of the show really pissed me off. and this is as someone who's latino. lance has always felt incredibly white to me because the writers spent no fucking time adding any cultural elements into is character. even if he was a no sabo kid incredibly distant from his culture due to growing up at a boarding school, that would still be something. idk if we ever got anything about him being cuban in the show.

part of the writer's inability to write complex characters is also their inability to write poc.

i think this is also why lance works as an everyday man.

my point is that lance would still be very loved if he was white. he's not getting any extra love bc he's cuban. honestly, i feel like his cuban identity just means fanfic writers get to use google translate for shitty spanish lines that make no sense for the story and to occasionally fetishize him. they put no actual effort into understanding his cuban background. and why would they? the writers of voltron never bothered to.

Yeah, no, I get that. Lance is very white, but because his skin isn't and he's canonically Cuban, people tend to forget that? Luz from the Owl House is 100% latina and it feels like she is. Because she speaks spanish and her mother speaks spanish to her. It doesn't have to be in-your-face, but it would have been nice to hear the POC characters mumble their home language under their breaths, or to speak idioms the other don't know because it's not a universal thing.

For example, everyone knows 'don't bite off more than you can chew', but it's 'the one that embrace a lot, cannot keep it together'. They mean the same thing, but it would have been nice for Lance to just come out with that and everyone is confused until he explains.

Or Hunk calling his parents 'tina' and 'tama', meaning mom and dad respectively. It would have been nice if he made dishes inspired by Samoan culture, such as koko alaisa, or something.

If there was just one scene where one of them struggled to find a word in English, I would have been a lot more convinced that they're POC. Just one scene where someone is all 'oh, what was the word. you know? that thing! the thing, you know!'. Just one short scene.

Or, like, a culture clash? As in, they compare something on an alien planet with something common in their homeland and the others are just like 'what? That isn't normal.' And it just delves into a conversation about what is normal in the US but weird in their home countries.

There's just so much that Voltron could have done, but it doesn't which is a massive shame.

anon from before! the one who asked about hunk lmao. yea his ending was terrible, i thought he woudlve ended up being an engineer helping earth create better defense mechanism. his ending was just so terrible...it really made me mad lmfao

Agreed. The only way to make it worse was by killing him off, but I guess they did that to Allura so they couldn't do it to another character... Even if they admitted they wanted to

Heyhey! I'm a huge fan of voltron, and of he who shall not be named from it. I really want to say I respect the fuck out of you. You laid out your reasoning on why you dislike that character INCREDIBLY well in my opinion. I totally see where you are coming from, and I'm truly sorry you cannot escape this character you hate. It's totally valid to hate him, you proved it. I may not dislike him, but holy shit I adore what you said. He really would not be a good fit for the black paladin, I'm gonna be honest. You explained why so well, in words I never could obtain myself even if I've had the same opinion for years. I think the fandom comes up with these headcanons for certain characters that become false reality, and that can make people who have not engaged in them incredibly frustrated for good reason. .. Have a great day, you deserve cold pillows and for your socks to never be wet.

Thank you!! Tbh, I did not expect much to come from that post, I was just kind of frustrated and it was five am, so I was really shocked to see this.

Yeah, it is hard when you hate the most popular character. I lived in it silently for so long and only now have decided to be vocal about my hate, so I'm glad that my first verbal/written feedback isn't immediately nasty.

Also, thank you. That is the kindest thing someone has wished for me 💗