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Anonymous asked:

May you describe the current situation in v0ltron fandom (after it was revealed that K/eith is 18 years old), when it comes to ant*-/shipping? I'm not in this fandom, but I want to know, how entire discourse looks like now.

freedom-of-fanfic answered:

I let this ask sit for a bit longer than I meant to, but this honestly makes for an interesting case study in what I like to call:

the viral mutation of the klanti movement: aka ‘whatever makes everything but kl@nce problematic is our position on shipping’

Voltron antis are … unusually transparent about their motivations for anti-shipping. Kl@nce shippers in the large majority of instances, it’s all but impossible to believe that nearly every other ship that involves keith (or lance, but to a lesser degree) is conveniently Problematic™ … but this is what many VLD antis maintain, and have maintained continuously. However, because the show, the information we have on the show, and the fandom itself is constantly evolving, the anti position on why ships are good or bad must change as well.

Here’s a post all about it.

There are antis that don’t ship kl@nce, of course, but the vast majority of VLD antis do. I’m borrowing the word ‘klanti’ for pro-kl@nce anti-shippers. They dictate the course of anti-shipping in VLD fandom space.

Key traits of a klanti:

kl@nce is never problematic
any alternative shipping options for keith (and Lance) are nonviable because they are problematic, especially she1th.
everything else is mutable as necessary to maintain the above points.

To be fair, klantis have kept their bases covered from the start. most of the things that have sprung up over the last year aren’t actually new, but simply changes of focus depending on what shippers are saying in defense of their right to ship as they please. And public enemy #1 has always been she1th. Though not so popular compared to kl@nce, keith’s relationship with shiro has received considerable screentime in the show and the creators have joked and teased about she1th. Because it shares keith with kl@nce, it is a threat like no other and must be eliminated. massive amounts of klanti energy has been bent towards this purpose from day 1.

This post will get very, very long, so please head under the cut for a timeline of vld anti arguments and their mutations over time to keep up with the times.

There’s a couple of instances where klantis were forced to entirely reverse their position on certain things. I have especially noted these instances.

and the tl;dr: pro-kl@nce anti-shippers have changed their stance on what makes ships problematic multiple times for the specific purpose of keeping kl@nce ‘pure’ and rival ship she1th ‘gross’, culminating in the amazing switchback of the Paladin Handbook release and subsequent ‘debunk’. if you read this account and still think vld antis are consistent in their position, I don’t know what to tell you.

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