if you are an artist on tumblr, and your blog is less than 90% art, please have a tag just for your art for the love of god
some voltron future season predictions for literally no other reason than potential gloating rights a year and a half from now:
- each of the voltron lions were forged on different planets and made from unique materials.
- ala black lion = guardian of the sky; came from a meteor that crashed on the Galara home planet
- one of the lions will be badly damaged and they have to take it back to it’s home planet for repairs
- haggar has a strong personal grudge against allura (or alfor) and thats why she turned against altea
- possibly also an evil aunt, just saying
- keith’s dad is not only still alive but hiding out somewhere in space, I would put money on him showing up in person in future seasons.
- this would also go along with the ‘keith’s dad left him’ theory since he might have literally just been carried off into space.
- he’s probably still kinda an asshole tho
- i don’t trust him
- another one of the original voltron paladins is alive, possibly a recluse in some far corner of the galaxy
- possibly one of those crazy wise old people that teach life changing lessons to those they encounter.
- i hope it’s the blue paladin and lance
- alfor survived the attack on altea. we didn’t see him die so in my book, he ain’t dead. at the very least the time between when alfor put allura in the pod and when altea was destroyed is important and what happened there will be revealed to us before the end of the show.
- he even says ‘if all goes well i will see you again soon’ to allura right before he knocks her out !!! that man had a plan !!!!!!!!!!!
- coran was probably in on whatever alfor did bc he was put into the cyropod after allura, likely on alfor’s request to watch after her.
- Hunk is going to go through some kind of heartbreaking tragedy that becomes his will to fight
- I say this because Hunk is the only one of the paladins who doesn’t have a Reason for doing what he is doing yet. (Shiro = revenge on zarkon, keeping his team safe, + just being the kind of good person who literally wouldn’t rest until he knew the galaxy was safe. Lance = his desire to protect earth and to return home to his family. Keith = his quest for knowledge about himself and his past, Pidge = her need to rescue her missing family members, ect.) so maybe his Reason™ is actually going to happen real-time, all the more heartbreaking.
- Lance and Keith will get stuck alone together somewhere and have to work as a team to make their way back to the ship.
- it will be gay.
- they will bond and lance will actually remember it this time
- Lance will attempt to sacrifice himself for one of his team members
- A paladin (probably Keith) will run away and then proceed be tracked down mercilessly by the rest of the team and there is a heartfelt reunion scene where at least 2 people cry (not including me)
- somebody important to Keith dies. likely his mom or dad. because he’s tragic like that.
listen the fuck up it better not be shiro because i will FIGHT- Pidge will find Matt but not her dad. they have to team up to save him.
- alternatively: they find Matt but he doesn’t remember anything about Pidge or himself (just like how Shiro still hasn’t regained all his memories but Worse)
- Lance accidentally commits some kind of grave alien cultural offense and gets thrown in space jail, the team has to spend the rest episode working to save him before he’s executed.
- Lance befriends his cellmate who turns out to be the Important Person the team came to find in the first place.
- Keith gets attached to a cute, tiny alien pet and immediately risks his life for it
- Kaltenecker returns, she lives in the castle in her own grazing pasture. Lance takes care of her and has full on conversations with her daily. like a living cow diary.
that’s all tune in next season to see if i bathe in the fountains of glory or return a Fool to my people
Donald Trump wants to ‘close up’ the Internet
Donald Trump wants to ‘close up’ the Internet
Donald Trump has called for a shutdown of the Internet in certain areas to stop the spread of terror.
In a speech at the U.S.S. Yorktown in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina,
on Monday, Trump referenced the use by ISIS of social media as a
recruitment tool. He recommended a discussion with Bill Gates to shut
off parts of the Internet.“We’re
losing a lot of people because of the Internet,” Trump said. “We have to
go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand
what’s happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas,
closing that Internet up in some way. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of
speech, freedom of speech.‘ These are foolish people. We have a lot of
foolish people.”Some totalitarian governments do it
The notion that the Internet could be shut off is not completely off
base. North Korea does it. Some countries have been known to shut off
Internet service to their citizens in times of crisis. Egypt restricted
the Internet during the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.Other
countries block certain Internet services and sites. China is the most
famous example, forbidding most social networking sites as well as
websites that deal with subjects the government doesn’t want its
citizens to know about.Most Western countries, including the
United States, regulate the Internet very loosely. There are few
restrictions about what American citizens can do and say on the
Internet. Child pornography is one example of forbidden Internet
activity in the United States – Google is barred from linking to it,
and websites cannot display images of it.Why the United States can’t do it
But a full-on “closing up” of the Internet “in certain areas” would be
an impossible task. There are so many players with so much redundancy
built into the system, that the Internet is not just something that can
be turned off with a wave of a magic wand.Virtually every part in the United States has multiple Internet service provider options.
Comcast, (CMCSA) Time Warner Cable (TWC) and the other major broadband companies don’t overlap much. But Verizon (VZ, Tech30), AT&T (T, Tech30), Sprint (S) and T-Mobile (TMUS)
all provide the same service to roughly the same areas. Satellite
companies also provide Internet to most parts of the country.Removing Internet service in certain areas of the U.S. would require
those companies to turn off their cell towers and fiber networks, and to
restrict satellite access to people living in those regions.America can’t shut off the Internet overseas either
Shutting down Internet service in foreign countries could be even more difficult.
Despite a common belief to the contrary, the United States does not
control the global Internet. Servers on foreign soil serve up the Web
and other Internet services to people living abroad.So foreign
Internet infrastructure would need to be disrupted or shut down to turn
off service in certain areas – already a tricky task made even harder
if the countries and companies controlling those servers and cell towers
abroad don’t cooperate.Whatever, Donald Trump wouldn’t want the Internet shut off anyway. Then he couldn’t tweet.
While Trump clearly doesn’t know the first thing about how the
internet works (outside of his Twitter account), don’t let “it couldn’t happen in America” blind us to some
very real ways in which the internet can be made less free, less
accessible, and less useful for things other than government propaganda
and surveillance. And don’t doubt that President Trump (and his party)
would be happy to implement them.the time honored tool of every dictator, censorship is one of the first things out of trump’s mouth. this is real censorship, as opposed to when someone tells you you’re wrong on twitter.
it should come as no surprise whatsoever that 45′s pick for FCC commissioner, ajit pai, is SUPER excited to strip net neutrality from american citizens. if you didn’t know, net neutrality is the principle that currently allows you to access whatever internet site you want, at the same speed as all the other sites, without your ISP spying on you TOO much. the US regulations that protect you in this way are an annoying speed bump for ISPs in their quest to wring you like a wet dishrag until all your money falls out, and of course Team Spraytan works for them, not you.
and hey, if they do want to enact the fuckin lunatic censorship proposed in the article above, getting rid of these protections will be their first stop. what’s the most likely target of this anti-internet offensive? obviously, it’ll be american activists, scientists, and anybody who’s ever used the phrase “tiny hands” – or, as all those folks will be called in newspeak, terrorists.
just one more thing you should keep on your list of Horrible Things To Yell At Representatives About.
so, are hunk and lance leg-endary defenders?
only if you consider Keith and Pidge armed and dangerous.
and of course shiro’s ahead of everyone else.
its still 32 degrees why