Sometimes I wish I knew more grad students so I could figure out if what happened re: studying for my prelims actually was morally urky on the part of my profs like I suspect or ~just how it is~
This is what teachers do. PLEASE listen to the kids!
Update?
Hey. I haven’t used Tumblr as much as I used to partly because of the changes in December, but also I’m in the middle of a major depressive episode, I’m having to quit school, and I’m losing my apartment at the end of the month.
I’m not a good place for the above reasons, but ig if you need to contact me, DMs or Dreamwidth are your best bet. (Dreamwidth is where I’m most active.)
Finally got this Bubblefish all prettied up! She was missing her charm, and while these are not MLP, they’re just the right size and I think they’re very cute. I’ve had them for many years, my mom got them for me at the Aquarium at my request when I was about 12. I think I like the seahorse best, do you like any of them more?
I wasn’t that fond of this pony the first time I restored one, but her sweet/sassy pose has grown on me. In addition to the new charm, she’s been cleaned up (had a bit of tail rust), and her scuffed up fishbowl has been polished clear again.
Hate doing this but I’m in dire need of money so here some very cheap commissions? 1 dollar = 1 gif
thank you for your time
They found another aneurysm in my mother’s head and they don’t have the needed equipment here to operate her. We need to go to Milan so if you could commission me or donate to me it would greatly help us to afford the train tickets
I’m going to try to talk more about characters who don’t get a whole lot of discussion on this blog. This is partly to help me cover more aspects of DoTU but also because I noticed a lot of my posts center around the same small handful of characters. With that said, I’m writing about Coran as he existed in DoTU.
Who is Coran in DoTU?
Coran is Princess Allura’s royal adviser and, before that, King Alfor’s adviser for many years. Prior to Zarkon’s conquest of Arus, he had a family of his own consisting of his wife Leda and his infant son Garrett. He was also a very close friend of King Alfor and took a vow to protect Allura at any cost, even his own life.
Zarkon’s brutal invasion of Arus left Coran and Allura, who was still a little girl, the only survivors of the royal court. For years they hid in the bombed out remains of the Castle of Lions, waiting for the day they could restore Arus to its former glory. After the arrival of the Voltron Force and liberation of Arus, Coran resumes his duties as adviser and serves as a fatherly figure to both Allura and, by extension, the Voltron Force.
Personality
Coran is proper, traditional, and serious. He often serves as the voice of reason, though he’s sometimes too quick to lose hope in times of crisis. He is duty bound and takes his vow to Alfor to protect Allura very seriously; his motivations and many of his actions, as overbearing as they sometimes are, are shaped by this. Unlike VLD Coran, who often defers to Allura’s authority, Coran in DoTU will undermine Allura in his attempts of protect her and prepare her to eventually be the Queen of Arus. He doesn’t want her piloting the Blue Lion and, in one early episode, actually ties her to a chair to prevent her from doing so.
This attitude does soften somewhat as the series goes on. In “The Sincerest Form of Flattery” there’s a scene where Allura is taking a beating during a training session in the Lions. Nanny demands Coran tell the Voltron Force to stop, only for Coran to shoot her down.
Nanny: “Enough, enough! Coran make them stop! Princess could be killed just because you want them to practice!”
Coran: “She’s highly skilled and these drills ARE necessary.”
But while he does recognize Allura’s skill as a pilot, he’d still rather not have her in the Blue Lion. In “The Summit Meeting” he proposes to the male members of the Voltron Force, with Allura completely absent from the conversation, that he take over piloting the Blue Lion. And later in the same episode he suggests making up a reason for Allura to leave Arus, showing that he hasn’t moved past his tendency to undermine Allura in the name of protecting her.
Something I wish the DoTU fandom explored but didn’t was Merla’s connection to the Muses of Norn. To be fair they’re easy to overlook because they only appeared in one episode, “No Muse is Good Muse.” If those who don’t know, the Muses of Norn are legendary group of physic maidens who, at one point, were captured by Merla and never heard from since. It’s never explained WHY she did this. However, this one of the very, very few details we learn about Merla’s life prior to the events of DoTU.
The Muses are also of interest because, for me anyway, they raise questions about Merla’s own physic powers and how she obtained/mastered them. The show makes it clear her abilities as a physic are extraordinary; even Haggar is cautious around Merla because of them. Maybe Merla was born with various mental powers (mind reading, control, telepathy) but was largely unable to control them. I imagine hearing other people’s thoughts at random could be pretty freaky, for example. Or she had a degree of control, but didn’t have access to the people and resources to help her master them. That could very well be the case if such abilities are rare. So one day Merla, upon learning about these physic maidens, kidnapped them and forced them to train her. That’s one possible theory.
But I don’t think I ever saw any fan theories or fic that explored this. Hell, I don’t think I ever saw them mentioned in any fanworks at all. Kinda a shame, in my opinion.
