Ok but Shiro James and Acxa holding a weekly Keith Fanclub Meeting. Krolia and Kolivan are invited to meetings obv but not ones about the trio's Unquenchable Keith Thirst.
well obviously there is the keith fanclub where krolia and Kolivan and anyone else are welcome but there’s also the midnight keith society which is shiro james and acxa get drunk and cry about how hot he is
james: as facilitator of this week’s session, allow me to announce tonight’s topic: hair
shiro, slamming his drink on the table: SO SOFT
acxa, muffled into her arms with 6 empty glasses around her: the enfds do thje flioppity thign…
james, crushing a beer can with fury: two days ago he tucked it behind his ears. since then I have never known peace
NGL I opened up my inbox this morning like yIkES. Y’all don’t fuck around with these questions lol. But anywayyyyyy…
I am aware that a lot of people feel uncomfortable about how the show dealt with Adam. As a queer, I too would have preferred he not die - my general mood is let the gays live - but that being said … his death made sense to me in terms of narrative? It didn’t seem like it was unnecessary, and from the interview snippets of LM and JDS, it does seem like they thought it out and this was the best course of action to further the plot.
Adam as a character might have deserved better treatment, but considering that we had like 3 seconds of him in general, I’d be hesitant to say he’s anything more than a plot device, like Ulaz or Heath. And we’ve had characters like that before (those two bois lol), that are introduced as plot-furthering devices only to be killed off for emotional value - RIP various Blade of Marmora characters - and that was Adam’s entire purpose. Firstly, as a way for VLD to explicitly say that Shiro is gay, and secondly, as a way to make the viewer go “OH SHIT EARTH IS FUCKED”. JDS and LM explained it far better than I ever could in the snippets I’ve read (which I’ll amend with if I come across my dash, but won’t go looking for because I’m not going to subject myself to the antis’ bullshit), but honestly, I don’t see his treatment as anything more than furthering the plot.
TL;DR I would have preferred he lived and get why that would be disappointing, but I understand why they chose to kill him off.
‘I mean this means nothing they still buried their gays’
wow i guess youre right lets just throw the whole thing away because apparently having a gay person (one. a minor character and not our only representation) die in a war that devastated the earth while the other is the literal hero they didnt want to kill off to avoid that very trope is worse than if we had no representation at all.
they should have just let dreamworks no-homo it instead and deny kids the chance of
having the concept of a gay relationship portrayed to them so naturally and casually because it wasnt perfect. deny them what we never got.
“A relationship that strong and that far along, you don’t just stop having those feelings,” voice actor Josh Keaton, who plays Shiro, tells Inverse. “Even if there are circumstances in life that make it impossible to be together, you still love them. And [Shiro’s] doubt is, ‘Did I make the right choice? Should I have stayed home and made a life there?’ That eats away at Shiro the entire time he’s been gone.”
But Shiro almost didn’t have an Adam to get back to. As it turns out, some unknown decisions behind the scenes nearly forced Shiro’s personal life to be more vague than the explicit reveal of Adam as Shiro’s fiancé.
“I don’t really know all of the going-ons behind the scenes,” Keaton carefully makes clear to Inverse, “but it almost wasn’t going to happen.” Alternate takes of Shiro and Adam talking to each other were recorded that were way less explicit about their relationship. “We had to record other stuff to make it more vague,” Keaton says.
But the cast and crew of Voltron never gave up, knowing full well what it meant to have a character like Shiro be gay in an all-ages, action-adventure cartoon. “All of us were really clamoring for it,” he says. “We were like, this is important, we can’t just water it down. I was really upset about it. Bex [Taylor-Klaus] was really upset about it.”
Luckily, things turned around. “Everybody came together because it was something all of us felt was important to see and to have. Even the PR people at DreamWorks helped a lot. Everybody was on the same page.”
“Gregory Gilbertson [director of the criminal justice program at Centralia College in Centralia, Wash] also explained that the lateral vascular neck restraint, the name of the chokehold used to restrain Frank, is typically a last resort. Because of its potential to restrict airflow, Gilbertson said it is typically used when deadly force is the only option.”
‘so dreamworks lied about meeting adam in season 7′ well i mean. we met him. his character was introduced and it was pretty much explicitly stated that shiro and he were dating HE JUST WASNT A MAIN CHARACTER IN THE STORY AND THE
CREW *WARNED* YOU YALL PLAYED YOURSELVES IF YOU BUILT HIM UP
I’ve seen these posts saying, in the words of one of them, “If your job requires you to go against your religious beliefs then perhaps it is time to change careers?” in reference to healthcare workers and government employees who want to deny services to lgbt ppl or others whom they condemn, and i just feel like those posts don’t attempt to understand internal logics at all
like, fundamentalist christian doctors don’t deny trans people medical care because they believe that somebody should provide the care but they just don’t want to be the one to do it. they deny the care because they don’t believe the person should receive care. Their refusal to provide care isn’t just “oops you’re in the wrong field,” as if they were a person with a peanut allergy working in a peanut factory. It is an intentional and calculated part of why they are in the field in the first place — to extend religious control and condemnation to the medical realm.
the pediatrician who spent an entire consultation telling one of my friends at 16 or 17 that he would go to hell if he kept choosing to be gay wasn’t just “not cut out for the job,” he was specifically in that job in order to do that particular thing. Kim Davis didn’t deny the gay couple a marriage license because she couldn’t personally do it, she denied them a marriage license because she thought that people like them should not get marriage licenses and that a clerk should deny them and by god she was going to be that clerk
Saying “if you can’t provide services then why are you in that job!!!” to fundamentalist christians almost always misses the point — that they are in that job specifically so they can selectively deny service
