(A lot of being in the VLD fandom and watching the show as someone who for once wasn’t a weirdo was feeling like we were being punished for the weird shit that other people did?)Īnyway, one of the ships that I found myself interested in specifically because of a) they were pretty and I’m shallow and b) it had potential to be subversive and sexy (in fandom, not the show… a children’s cartoon) was Lotor and Allura. Between the nonsense from the fandom where a huge chunk believed firmly that shipping anything other than their ship was pretty much a sin and another chunk of the fandom went on to be the incredibly icky pro-shipper “anything goes except critical thinking” folks… I get the creators’ response to an extent. In my case, as a serial multishipper, the last half of the series was basically just a constant barrage of “yeah your ship ain’t happening” that didn’t even let up in the final episode. No matter what you actually shipped, chances are that it did not end the way that you wanted it to. Voltron Legendary Defender did all of us dirty.
