#anti sheith

[the-feral-gremlin]

Cw: mentioned nightmares, death in dream. Also

Sh*ithers DNI

I think Shiro couldn’t look Keith in the eye for the while after the clone fight, even though He knows that it wasn’t him and it wasn’t his fault, but he still blames himself for the scar on his little brothers face and all the hurtful words the clone said.

I think he lies awake at night, replaying the fight over and over again in his mind, wondering if Keith feared him as much as he feared himself. I think he’d dream of his brother’s blood on his hands and the feeling of falling.

#just Shiro remembering the clone fight #i’m rambling #takashi shirogane #broganes #broganes angst #sheith dni #anti sheith #keith kogane #voltron legendary defender

[l1zardfxck420]

shaladins act like it is normal for a 25 year old man to date 17 year olds

#anti shaladin #anti sheith #vld #voltron legendary disaster #voltron legendary disappointment #i like voltron but holy shit is it a mess of a show

[ettuleo]

PSA

hello just wanna make a psa that if you are a sheith shipper please do not interact with me or my page. i personally am not comfortable with the ship and would rather not interact with ppl who like it. no hate towards yall but please also like gtfo my page thank you <333

#just block me #voltron #vld #takashi shirogane #vld shiro #anti sheith

[ursie]

Ok I know it’s been years but can we talk about how actually fucked up sheith was as a ship and how badly the writing staff handled it..Like people really tried to defend it multiple times and it’s like in s1 they’re literally highschool children and Shiro is literally an adult. Then to shut down the ship they said they’re brothers twice every season-then gave Shiro a prev partner (who they killed off???) then married him to some rando-instead of at any time just. Explicitly Disavowing the ship in any capacity at fan events ect. Like genuinely fucked up that happened like how is nasty ass ships on the internet so normalized that sheith was viewed as even vaguely ok within the fandom 🤢 like you’re literally saying you hc Shiro (the canon gay dude) as a groomer and pedophile. Wow. Diversity win 😭

#vld discourse is so funny because sm of it was allowed by the staff because genuinely they wanted to profit off it like. die #i babble #vld #tw pedophillia #anti sheith #tw incest

[animentality]

#twitter #sheith #voltron #fandom discourse #fandom #ao3 #proship #antis

[elen42564]

#takashi shirogane #shiro voltron #tagging sheith so antis don't see it

[cushfuddled]

I've been rewatching Voltron

#sheith #'It's good to have you back.' 'Good to be back.' #'How many times are you gonna have to save me before all this is over?' 'As many times as it takes.' #'Shiro please...you can't do this to me again!' #'Shiro's the only person who never gave up on me. I won't give up on him.' #'His suit has the ability to create a virtual mindscape reflecting its wearer's greatest hopes and fears...' #'...And in this moment your friend desperately wants to see you.' #'The red paladin's connection to you runs deep. Deeper than the rest.' #'You found me...Keith.' #'Keith...I was dreaming. You saved me.' 'We saved each other.' #what the FUCK #I wonder if any antis will read my book and then find out I'm a Sheith shipper like *Tommy Wiseau voice* 'everyone betrayed me'

[siblingskissing]

Sheith Ship Board

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#sheith #proship #antis dni #proship community #proship please interact #siblings proship #shipcest / #shipcest #takashi shirogane #keith kogane #voltron: legendary defender #Vld #Sheith aesthetic #space

[avidbeader]

So, I've been doing the Great Sheith Reblog for a while now, gradually reblogging almost everything I shared before that was tagged as Sheith. Lots of art, gifsets, fics and recs, old merch posts, and meta to go around with the occasional dash of salt because lord, dumbness about shipping brings out the salt sometimes. But most of the time it's a lovely nostalgia hit and a reminder of why I still love this ship with all my fandom heart. It's bittersweet sometimes, seeing the usernames that left with Tumblr's worst decision ever, the fellow fans who have moved on to other things, and yes, the hopes and dreams we had before Season 8.

Long blathering under the cut: musings about the persistence of anti-shippers and what queerbaiting actually means.

But occasionally what both amuses and frustrates me is how things line up because it's 2024 and we still have klantis/antis over on the former Twitter spreading the same lies about Shiro and Keith - about their ages, about how they met, about what their relationship is. Right now over there, arguing is happening again because someone put up a clout-chasing poll about which mlm ship was the most influential and included KL but not Sheith (KL beat Johnlock and then lost to Hualian, so I'm happy twice over). Side note - I think if we take "influence" as a completely neutral term, then yeah, KL has been a huge negative influence on fandoms as it was one of the places that allowed puriteen attitudes and anti behavior to grow unchecked for so long. That helped turn some ship fandoms into cults, in which you had to believe with utter certainty that your ship would be canon or you weren't a "true" fan of the ship. That put more emphasis on opposing a rival ship through wank and harassment instead of focusing on the joy and fun of creating for the ship you supposedly love.

And that poll prodded someone to create a Google Form for soliciting answers as to what the biggest examples of queerbaiting are in media. And of course people are saying KL and Adam/Shiro, among other things that are not at all queerbait. These are examples of people guessing wrong and getting mad about it. Queerbait requires that the producers/writers/etc. say outright that a ship is going to happen and then it doesn't, without any influences from the powers above them making changes. Not received fan "wisdom". Not marketing doing things without consulting the producers.

And I just reblogged someone's ask in which they said they felt queerbaited by Sheith solely because of the "brother" line in "The Black Paladins". The answer is excellent and worth a ready if you haven't seen it on my blog already.

Breaking it down:

KL is not queerbait. KL was never planned as a potential ship and LM/JDS said so multiple times. They said it never occurred to them as a possibility and by the time KL's popularity took off they were too far along in the writing to try and go back and make changes, because animators need time to draw. LM flat-out said she was surprised that it became a thing. If the producers are telling you over and over in no uncertain terms that a ship had never been on the table and couldn't be added to the table now, that's not a case of queerbait. And they spoke of Lance's love interests as female every single time. JDS/LM never said anything that would lead fans into thinking KL was a possibility without the deliberate and willful misinterpreting of their words.

Adam/Shiro is not queerbait. Adam is a minor character in a series with a large cast. He has two functions: to be evidence of Shiro's status as a queer man and to be a "face" for all the pilots that died in the first wave of Sendak's invasion. Some people try to claim that LM and JDS queerbaited with their answers at SDCC 2018, but they're wrong. The only thing LM said was that we would see more of Adam in S7. And we did. She did not promise we'd see more of him with Shiro. That was people inserting what they wanted to hear, just like them trying to elevate Adam's status to a fiancé when again, LM clearly stated that they were serious and considering getting engaged. Not engaged. Not married. Just a couple that was serious about each other but broke up.

I don't consider Sheith to be true queerbait. It might fall under the cryptoqueer situation explained at the end of the post linked above, but JDS and LM were mostly very careful to talk of Sheith in terms of deep friendship and devotion to one another, after the initial wave of support for fan content during S1, prior to the klanti movement taking off. The only thing that skirts the line for me is a quote, I think from JDS, saying that if Shiro had a new love interest it would be someone he has known a long time. Or maybe that was about the romances in general being developed over seasons and not Shiro-specific - I would need to research. (Yet more proof that the endcard "wedding" was not planned since we didn't see the unnamed groom until S7 and they never interacted.) And that was said before studio execs started meddling and caused the trainwreck of S8.

I do think we were supposed to have an open ending for Sheith. Klantis like to point out a storyboard artist claiming that "no one wins" this ship war as evidence that KL was supposed to happen and got changed, but that statement applies if Sheith is left open-ended and Allurance happens, even without the endcards.

When I have a chance, I'll try and dig up the links for the various quotes I mention above. Thank you for reading if you made it this far!

#voltron #sheith #why K/L and A/S are not actually queerbait despite anti claims

[the-real-lordrisley]

Nothing pisses me off more than sheith and endhawks being labelled "proships" by some people

Both of these pairings consist of two, unrelated, consenting, adults

#i hate pro and anti shipping culture so much #its just sucked the life out of everything #sheith #endhawks #vld #vld keith #vld shiro #takashi shirogane #shiro #keith kogane #voltron #voltron legendary defender #mha #my hero academia #bnha #mha hawks #bnha hawks #hawks #keigo takami #enji todoroki #endeavor

[hojichasunrise]

Think I am going to start shipping Sheith to piss off some antis. Oh, so you think a 25 y.o. with an 18 year old is horrible and impermissible and I'm a terrible person? Hold my beer sweetheart.

#proship #vld fandom critical #anti anti #sheith #shidge #i can and i will

[iota-in-space]

Gooosh I remember back when the Season 6 trailer dropped and it showed that clip of Keith returning and stepping out of the ship, with the pan up shot revealing that he looks a bit different. So many KL shippers talked about Lance being lovestruck and stuttering over his words at seeing Keith with his glow up. But then Season 6 actually came out, and Shiro literally stumbles over his words and is actually distracted by Keith and is all smiley. And not a damn word from that side of the fandom

#I really wish I could look back at those posts….. #I definitely remember seeing someone say Lance should fumble his words bc he’s so smitten with Keith’s glow up #but then Shiro does that exact thing #even in the trailer Lance and Keith kinda butted heads so idk why they expected ship stuff from that scene #mine #I loved when antis would talk about a KL dynamic and it’s like….they’re literally talking about Sheith though

[rosiec4ke]

i’ll never emotionally recover from tbis ship

#iykyk #kick #klance is canon king #sheith anti 4eva #sheithers dni #i feel like i just traveled back in time to 2016

[raven]

i watched the first season of voltron like 3 times when i was 15 and dont remember any of it. even back then it never stuck with me. so whatever idc about voltron. but sheith shippers were so fucking insane if someone shipped sheith you know they are the worst kind of fandom person like genuinely rancid vibes

#the concept of antis existed pre voltron (I was there. I was being an anti pre voltron. <3) but i feel like sheith really made like #'anti-anti' a thing. not that we werent fighting wars regularly but it really became a moral crusade for them