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zenolaliaBelow the cut, find me complaining aimlessly about ship wank relating to, of course, Voltron. But nothing to do with sheith, klance, or inter-ship wars.
Just the behaviour of, tragically, Lotura shippers.
Sometimes I forget straight people exist.
Like, I know Lotor/Allura is, ostensibly, a "straight" ship, but it's so far removed from what typically gets passed off as romance for straight audiences, that I forget it's still, well. Straight.
It's easy for me to perceive Allura as a queer woman, and Lotor as a genderqueer person (I hestitate even to use man, that's how deeply baked it is), and I just. Forget the straights.
There's so much about the ship that matters more, anyway, than the assumed gendered experiences of Allura and Lotor respectively. Like, survival, and genocide, and child abuse, and war, and starvation, and betrayal, and hurt, and picking your own life and your own family long after the one you were born in has crumbled to dust.
But, it's a romance between a man and a woman, between a prince and a princess specifically.
So there's, like. A LOT of straight people in the fandom spaces for it. Like a lot. Now, obviously I'm not going to be naming names or identifying details or quotes, but jesus fuckign christ. I just honest to god forget that straight people don't automatically have to experience the isolation and exclusion of queerness. Plenty of them experience isolation and exclusion, but it's not universal or assumed in the way it is with queer folks.
And it's so exhausting and, yeah, isolating, to be surrounded by straight people in a fandom space when you're accustomed to queerness.
I'm just very tired of it, I guess. And then there's the other issue.
It's an M/F fic. Which a great many people involved in "queer fiction" tend to automatically write off as useless. Which means they also tend to avoid the ships, which makes queer and queer-adjacent Loturas rarer than they already are.
But anyway, if I ever do get around to the voltron fix-it that I outlined, I'll have to absolutely work in an "episode" on how every single character in it is very queer.
Just the behaviour of, tragically, Lotura shippers.
Sometimes I forget straight people exist.
Like, I know Lotor/Allura is, ostensibly, a "straight" ship, but it's so far removed from what typically gets passed off as romance for straight audiences, that I forget it's still, well. Straight.
It's easy for me to perceive Allura as a queer woman, and Lotor as a genderqueer person (I hestitate even to use man, that's how deeply baked it is), and I just. Forget the straights.
There's so much about the ship that matters more, anyway, than the assumed gendered experiences of Allura and Lotor respectively. Like, survival, and genocide, and child abuse, and war, and starvation, and betrayal, and hurt, and picking your own life and your own family long after the one you were born in has crumbled to dust.
But, it's a romance between a man and a woman, between a prince and a princess specifically.
So there's, like. A LOT of straight people in the fandom spaces for it. Like a lot. Now, obviously I'm not going to be naming names or identifying details or quotes, but jesus fuckign christ. I just honest to god forget that straight people don't automatically have to experience the isolation and exclusion of queerness. Plenty of them experience isolation and exclusion, but it's not universal or assumed in the way it is with queer folks.
And it's so exhausting and, yeah, isolating, to be surrounded by straight people in a fandom space when you're accustomed to queerness.
I'm just very tired of it, I guess. And then there's the other issue.
It's an M/F fic. Which a great many people involved in "queer fiction" tend to automatically write off as useless. Which means they also tend to avoid the ships, which makes queer and queer-adjacent Loturas rarer than they already are.
But anyway, if I ever do get around to the voltron fix-it that I outlined, I'll have to absolutely work in an "episode" on how every single character in it is very queer.
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Date: 2019-02-06 03:57 pm (UTC)It's always so frustrating when you see fans or fandoms take what a character wants others to believe about them as face value for who they actually are.
looking at you, Karkat Vantas, Dave Striderno subject
Date: 2019-02-06 06:41 pm (UTC)P5 is absurdly long, and persona/smt games just aren't my speed, you know?
Like, here's my entire knowledge of every character in the game probably. Hopefully, this will be entertainingly incorrect for you, an actual fan. Think of it as a "what I learned about P5 from my dashboard."
Your player character, who may be a delinquent? You live in a cafe.
The autistic gf. She's a baby.
The blonde gf. She's fashionable.
The valedictorian. She's as smart as she is stubborn.
Big sister lawyer-San. Definitely overthrows the entire Japanese government with a cell phone.
The French girl (wait is she actually French?). She's rich.
The blonde boy. He runs real good.
The artsy boy. He's so asexual it hurts, and I love his extremely dumb speech patterns.
The teacher who moonlights as a maid.
There's a cat, who is perhaps in lesbians with blonde gf, but also possibly is a boy, anyway I ship it.
There's a doctor? Like a back alley human experiment doctor? But she's a good guy???
There's a magical boy detective. He and the main character are definitely fucking, even though that's not a romance tree option.
And finally, there's your good, good uncle, who makes the coffee and has never done a thing wrong in his life, he adopted his ex-girlfriend's kid after she and her husband died for fucks sake, he's a good man.
And somehow there's over 100 hours of storyline with these people, which is insane and I say that as a kingdom hearts player.
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Date: 2019-02-07 09:23 pm (UTC)You've.....basically got it, honestly. magical boy detective and main character are hatefucking, and Rich French Girl is also the one who fights with a giant axe and a grenade launch, so she's got a well-repressed but violently brutal side. or a S&M kink, whichever.
in conclusion,thank you for letting me nerd the fuck out about a franchise you don't even know in your comments