honestly, i’m a klance shipper. and frankly, i’m fucking annoyed. i’m not gonna call queerbaiting, but i just want to express how fucking pissed i am.

keith was gay-coded, so, so gay-coded. and his interactions with lance were, in fact, romantically coded. i couldn’t care less if klance didn’t become canon, but i don’t understand why you kill off the one of only confirmed LGBT+ characters in the show and then take a man that was HEAVILY gay-coded and pair him with some female that he has had 2 interactions with throughout the season, neither of them romantically coded at all. this is literally the voltron writers pulling some heteronormative bullshit out of their asses and forcing someone who was heavily coded as gay rep into some heterosexual relationship out of fucking nowhere.

i prefer heith, hell, i prefer sheith over this. i’m not just being butthurt. but we got one scene that didn’t even CONFIRM rep, it had to be confirmed OUTSIDE OF THE SHOW. there was no point in keeping hopeful LGBT+ watchers on their toes in hopes of LGBT+ rep if it’s such a minor scene that you CAN’T EVEN TELL that it’s an LGBT+ relationship. and then, you kill off half of that LGBT+ rep, leaving no room for any reunion of a relationship that we got hyped up for. for nothing. they’re forcing heterosexuality onto LGBT+ coded characters. where’s our LGBT arc with shiro and lance, huh? lauren montgomery drew official art that corresponded with the show that hinted at an LGBT arc involving shiro and lance, and by the pattern, there should’ve been an arc. now shiro’s significant other is dead, now apparently allura likes lance back, and they’re hinting st keith and axca. is shiro suddenly gonna get in a relationship in s8 after all that shit went down? is that supposed to be our “LGBT rep”? i’m just. so fucking done.