skibbo:

bisexualdinahlance:

bisexualdinahlance:

Man @ my fellow white people sometimes you gotta take a step back and realize that even if you have been oppressed for some reason (whether ur queer or a woman or disabled) that we still… have white privilege like I know that’s hard for some of y'all to understand but plain and simple, we have ever since race as it is known today was conceptualized (about 500 years ago at least) benefited from white privileged and we continue to do so today.

Like when a poc (especially someone who is black since we yknow enslaved their ancestors and continue to keep them disenfranchised and enslaved through the prison system) says they don’t feel sympathy for a white group historically isn’t saying that what happened to them is okay, but even oppressed groups (like white women in the 17th century 👀👀) can still oppress other oppressed groups. White women may have been “considered property” and been subjected to marital rape but like, not only did black people experience all of that and more, (considering you know, black people actually were property) white women had a hand in the oppression and foul treatment of slaves, we know this for a fact. No one is saying that white women weren’t and aren’t to some extent still oppressed just that black women experience everything we do and worse because they are both female and black. Black folk have a reason to dislike white people, and honestly most white peoples utter lack of empathy towards the black struggle is not only disgusting but isn’t going to engender any sort of sympathy towards white people, especially women.

(Particularly when historically speaking, black women have always been key movers in the white womens feminist movements and then receive none of the benefits)

heyyy ummm my white followers maybe yall should yknow, reblog this instead of just liking it. even tho im addressing specifics this applies elsewhere

scrawlers:

Lotor tries to get Keith on his side, thinking he can make Keith fall in love with him and do a Face Heel Turn, but in a stunning twist of fate, he falls in love with Keith and does a Heel Face Turn himself instead (courtesy of Keith, to use AJ’s words, “bring[ing] out the person in him, and grounding him”).

my aesthetic: fingerless gloves fingerless gloves

my hands: sweaty :)

setheverman:

setheverman:

ruledeargremlinchild:

setheverman:

holey fuggen shidd

this is the first post of yours I’ve come across that didn’t have 1k notes already, damn.

i’m a big failure, a big big fraud, a loser,

“The Blade of Marmora does not take chances.”

scrawlers:

There’s a sentiment I’ve seen circulating ever since season four’s premier that the Blade of Marmora willfully and readily sacrifices their members without giving a damn about their lives, and that Kolivan especially is cold and doesn’t care at all about the Marmorites who die on their missions. This is a sentiment that I strongly disagree with, because I feel that evidence to the contrary is all over their appearances in the show itself, to the point where you have to be willfully ignoring the canon in order to express it.

Let’s look at Kolivan in specific. We’re first introduced to Kolivan in 2x08 when Shiro and Keith visit the Marmora base in the hopes of forming an alliance. Kolivan does not greet them warmly; instead, he greets them professionally, albeit with a slight edge to his voice. He knows who they are, he says, and he affirms what Shiro says when Shiro says that he must know that one of their own sent them. The fact that Ulaz sent Shiro and Keith to the Marmora base is something Kolivan is not happy about. However, more specifically, Kolivan is not happy about the fact that Ulaz died to save Team Voltron:

Ulaz broke protocol in two major ways: He divulged information about the Blade of Marmora to Team Voltron, and he also gave his life to save theirs. Kolivan disagrees with both of Ulaz’s actions. He does not feel that sacrificing his own life to save Team Voltron’s was the right choice for Ulaz to make. This is not because he doesn’t see the potential value of Voltron (rather, he agrees that they would be fortunate to have the Red Lion on their side in terms of crisis), nor is it because he has any particular beef with Team Voltron themselves. Rather, it’s because Ulaz was a highly competent, capable agent of the Blade of Marmora. He was a member of Kolivan’s team. And to lose him to what Kolivan feels was a rash, impulsive action is not something that sits well with Kolivan. In fact, one could say that the hard edge that he uses to greet Shiro and Keith here is slight resentment toward them for being there before him, alive and well, when Ulaz had to die in order to make that happen.

That said, it’s true that this is a lot of inference. One could easily argue that Kolivan is just upset because Ulaz divulged the location of the Marmora base. So let’s fast forward to 2x12, when everyone learns that Thace has been compromised, and thus the plan to infiltrate Zarkon’s ship has hit a rather rough snag.

Kolivan is the one who points out that they haven’t heard from Thace—and that, indeed, Thace was supposed to contact them two vargas (hours) ago. Note that when he adds that line about how Thace was supposed to contact them, he looks down and away, breaking eye contact with Shiro. Looking down and away like that, with slightly narrowed eyes, is upset body language. The fact that Thace is out of contact, and that he missed the appointed contact time (when ordinarily he wouldn’t) is clearly upsetting to Kolivan. And it’s not upsetting just because he’s lacking information, but because of what it means. As Antok points out, Thace could be captured. As Kolivan himself suggests, he could have been killed. Kolivan’s upset at the fact that Thace did not contact them when he was supposed to is upset at the idea which he is already thinking about, though hasn’t voiced: The idea that Thace was killed aboard Zarkon’s ship, and that’s why he hasn’t contacted them the way he was supposed to.

And it doesn’t end there. Although the fandom has been insistent that the Blade of Marmora is bad for Keith because they (and Kolivan in particular) will “teach him to sacrifice himself,” what we see in canon is actually in direct opposition to that suggestion. In that very episode, 2x12, the ones who we see calling for reckless potential sacrifice are not the Marmorites, but rather Team Voltron, spearheaded by Allura herself when Kolivan says they must abort the mission because Thace has been lost.

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seeing art of child characters drawn in that style