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Association among Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Oral Health Service Utilization among Thai over Time
Wararat Jaichuen College of Public Health Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand; Bureau of Dental Health, Department of Health, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand
Oral health service, Demand over time, Thailand
Background: For planning of oral health workforce and oral health service system in Thailand, better understanding in oral health care utilization behavior of population over time is needed. This study aimed to explore only individual level specifically in socio-demographic characteristics which could be influenced in oral health service utilization among Thai.
Method: A retrospective data analysis, which studied cohort behavior of population regarding oral health service utilization was conducted. Micro data from six waves of the Health and Welfare Survey of Thailand covering the year 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2015, were used. Descriptive analysis and binary logistic regression were used for exploring the outcome, applying three matrices of Age-Period-Cohort analysis for the perspective of time. Socio-demographic characteristics of population were divided into predisposing – individual factors, predisposing – family factors, and enable factors. Three different composition of those factors were used for exploring appropriated model for predicting dental health care demand.
Results: All independent variables had significant association to probability of oral health service utilization. However, the odds ratio of education of individual and role in family showed remarkable changes after controlling for age group and cohort. There were wider gaps of odds ratio among age groups after controlling for all independent variables. In the model which was controlled for predisposing-individual factors, gender showed more remarkably impact to oral health service utilization than other variables. After controlling for both predisposing- individual factors and family factors, education of individual showed remarkably impact to oral health service utilization. After controlling for all three factors, variable which showed remarkably impact to oral health service utilization was shifted to region of residence. However, in all models, education of family head impact to oral health service utilization independently from all other control variables. In term of predicted power, although there were not much different among all three models and also base model, the model that controlled for all three factor, which included age group, cohort, gender, education of individual, education of family head, region of residence, and health insurance, showed the highest power of prediction.
Conclusion: Information on gender, education of individual, education of family head, region of residence, and health insurance were recommended to include in forecasting of demand for dental health care. All models which included these set of variables were more appropriated for forecasting dental care demand than considering only differences among age group.
Jaichuen, W. (2017). Association among Socio-Demographic Characteristics and Oral Health Service Utilization among Thai over Time. Journal of Health Research, 31(Suppl. 1), s75-s89. Retrieved from https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jhealthres/article/view/104300


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Hachimoto
Hachimoto on Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:37 pm
holy crap i see that in eastern countries a total non-sense about what islam is.
As Sa'iqa
Location : Western Poland
As Sa'iqa on Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:25 pm
IF you told Saudi authorities that you don't support the rebellion in Syria, they would declare you a kaafir (unbeliever). Even western Muslims are far from tolerant (at least some of them). One Somali man was called an undercover Shia for criticizing Syrian rebels, even though he firmly stated that he is a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim.
And remember that Islam - as opposed to Christianity - lacks a central authority. Everyone can declare that his version of Islam is the purest one and they can spread it as they wish, even with a sword. And due to lack of central authority, other, more moderate Muslims would have no strength to oppose it and if they do, they'll be slaughtered, like other "enemies of Islam"
you sir are a liar and ignorant about what you've said
Islam is a religion and don't need a fake superhumain to lead it, all is clear and well wrote no humain change for the core
there is no ahtority bud it's religion and if there is an authority somewhere ... well you should end with the conclusion that humain have some craft inside your 'religion'
End of HS i'm not here to debate about religions i was just laughing about people talking without any kind of notion for the matter.
Media power again
ali.a.r
ali.a.r on Fri Jun 14, 2013 3:32 pm
If you go to any Islamic discussion board and tell people that you don't support Syrian "fighters", you'll be labelled as either a covert Jew or a covert Shia.
These must be some very interesting places to roam around. Good thing I have more sense than that.
Claim that everyone can abandon Islam without being punished by their ex co-believers
No true Muslim would ever say anything in affirm to apostasy. It is one of the most fundamental Islamic beliefs.
Claim that Muslims have no right to force their wicked superstitions upon other people, even if they constitute the vast majority of the country's population.
Since Im not the preachy-teachy type I dont know loads of scholars, but I know one, Dr. Zakir Naik, and this is what he has to say about that "
The Muslims ruled India for about a thousand years. If they wanted, they had the power of converting each and every non-Muslim of India to Islam. Today more than 80% of the population of India are non- Muslims. All these non-Muslim Indians are bearing witness today that Islam was not spread by the sword. "
Claim that Israel is just a normal country, neither better, nor worse than Islamic countries, and it has the same right to exist as they do.
My own country, Maldives, just recently recognized Israel as a state, and yet we are a 100% Muslim country. Turkey is a pretty major Islamic country, and yet they have relations to Israel, and compared to many other countries, pretty good ones at that.
Funny you should mention Saudis to make your point. Look up Shaykh Ali Abbas al-Hikmi. Hes a Saudi scholar, a member of the Saudi council, and he spoke out AGAINST people going to do jihad in Syria. He also spoke out against the Saudi ban on female sports. And yet, somehow hes still alive and is still a leading member of the council. Wonder what went wrong.
And remember that Islam - as opposed to Christianity - lacks a central authority.
Opposed to Christianity? :roll:If u mean the Pope and the Catholics, then yes. But that is just one denomination of Christianity, and if you want to split hairs then the Shias have their own central leader in the Ayatollah. But just like Protestants dont have a central authority and have their own interpretations of christian teachings, Sunnis have no central authority, and have their own interpretation of things which are not covered by the Islamic core (but each country has its own council which are the highest authority within that country).
Regular on Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:58 pm
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Hachimoto wrote: holy crap i see that in eastern countries a total non-sense about what islam is.
Sorry, I think You are right that we are generally not very well educated when it comes to Islam. Hell I don't know much about my religion either.Most of Eastern europeans don't know much about Islam except how it was presented in Chechnya. Moderates rarely win wars.ali.a.r
Also, Regular. Sharia is Islamic law. All Islamic countries follow it. Its just the degree to which it is implemented that differs. Of course, I assume you meant the strict, radical version when you said "1000 times better than Sharia law". But please note that not every Muslim country is as strict, as say, Sudan where Sharia law is implemented in full. For example, Sharia law states that the punishment for theft is amputation of the left hand. But in my country, which is what most people would call a moderate Islamic country, even if a person is convicted of theft, and proven guilt beyond any reasonable doubt, his sentence is still commuted to a prison term. Likewise, the punishment for adultery is stoning to death, but again, the sentence is changed to a prison term.
Just thought I would try to clear things up.
Sorry and thanks for information. You misunderstood me I've had particularly Syria in my mind and how it was implemented by rebels in Alepo and preached by Al Nusra.
As Sa'iqa on Sat Jun 15, 2013 1:16 pm
Obama and his fanclub are getting insane last days.
The Obama administration is considering resettling thousands of refugees who left Syria during the country's ongoing civil war to multiple towns and cities across the United States, the L.A. Times reports.
A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families.
The State Department is "ready to consider the idea," an official from the department said, if the administration receives a formal request from the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, which is the usual procedure.
The United States usually accepts about half the refugees that the U.N. agency proposes for resettlement. California has historically taken the largest share, but Illinois, Florida, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia are also popular destinations.
U.N. refugee officials, along with diplomats and non-governmental relief groups, are scheduled to meet in Geneva this week to discuss potential resettlement plans. Germany has already agreed to take 5,000 refugees.
"It was probably inevitable that in this crisis, with these overwhelming numbers, governments would start moving in this direction," Lavinia Limon, chief executive officer of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a Virginia-based advocacy and service group, told the L.A. Times. Limon added, "But there will be resistance."
Congress is unlikely to warm up to the idea of agreeing to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees into the U.S. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who are currently pushing immigration reform bills, particularly aimed at Latinos who are in the country illegally, will need to explain why they may favor or oppose resettling thousands of Syrian refugees.
It should be noted that Congress resisted accepting Iraqi refugees in 2003 following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Between 1983 and 2009, the U.S. resettled a total of 76,205 Iraqis. Meanwhile, seventy percent of total refugees in the U.S. were on food stamps in 2009. Within that number, 95 percent of Iraqi refugees were food stamp recipients. Additionally, the report shows an unemployment rate of 46 percent in 2009 among Iraqi refugees. A total of 219 Syrian refugees were resettled in the U.S. between 1983 and 2009.
GarryB on Sun Jun 16, 2013 11:22 am
I would say it is a refreshing change actually... a US leader wanting to take responsibility for the BS and situations they create around the place...
And of course he is a second term president so he doesn't care what the American people think of him now...
Location : Slovenia
medo on Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:29 pm
It seems NATO want to go in another war, which will be the same devastating for NATO as Iraq and Afghanistan. Where will the West get money for the war? Will they beg Russia and China for it?The half of Europe is bankrupt and the other half is also in very bad condition. West will be soon forces to disarm even more and sell their equipment to anyone who want to buy it and with no money to buy themselves. This is exactly what China want, West bleeding in another war, while China getting ready for WW3.
I don't know, how the western politicians could be that blind, that they help their own enemies to fight against their allies?
As Sa'iqa on Sun Jun 16, 2013 12:37 pm
China is also slowing down economically. IF growth stops, they will be in great trouble. probably there will be another popular uprising, similar to earlier ones (they have a long history of popular revolts against the rulers)
Location : Croatia
Viktor on Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:09 pm
US accused Syria of using chemical weapons which killed (according tho them) 150 people. Of course its a lie and all fabricated but what is interesting is
that they basically say that weapons of mass destruction killed 150 people in a war which took 94 000 thousand lives making some 0,15%.
So while the use of conventional weapons took 99,85% of all lives lost the problem lies in a 0.15% of lives lost because of weapons of mass destruction
and because of that Obama/Cameron/Hollande want to carry out no-fly zone. Meaning the same thing like in Libya.
Another question arises too. If the conventional weapons are responsible for 99.85% of all killed and weapons of mass destruction are responsible of only 0,15%
dont we have some serious logic flaw in defining things. It is clear that all this "uprising" right from the start was fabricated and so was the destiny of Syrian
nemrod on Mon Jun 17, 2013 9:45 pm
Viktor wrote: .....and because of that Obama/Cameron/Hollande want to carry out no-fly zone. Meaning the same thing like in Libya.
Russia won't allow a no-fly zone.
Viktor wrote: US accused Syria of using chemical weapons............
Everybody here remembers the show of Collin Powell in U.N saying that Saddam Hussain is threatening the world by its weapon mass destruction. 20 years ago, it was Milosevic, and now it is Syria's ruller. This is the hype, propaganda, lies. In that time US did not need any UN agreement, they went...10 years after they withdrew from Iraq, and next from Afghanistan.
At first in spite of this huge lies, Syria -as Israel- did not sign, and hence is not bound by the treaty banning the use of chemical weapon. secondly, Syria is in its right to use whatever is necessary to exterminate this low life rats gangs terrorists, and to secure its terroritory.
The problem in fact since the beginning is not terrorists rats, but who is behind them.
You find USA, indeed, as the gas from shale 'bubble is going to burst, US wants to steal the huge syrian gaz reserve in Meditarannea. Indeed Syria refused to leave them to US multinational, as the greek's governement traitor that is going to leave its national wealth to the banksters of Goldmann & Sachs.
Behind the US governement, and congress, US army, and Pentagon, you find the jewish lobby that order everything. All congressmen crawl in front of the Bnai Brith lodge.
In spite of the huge power of Bnai Brith lodge, they were two men, courageous, that said no to the jewish lobby.
Admiral Mullen, and Fallon.
It is unfair to say its US agressors, US did this, US did that, since the begininng in this middle east region, the Bnai Brith lodge did what is possible to trigger another world war.
The Bnai Brith lodge has never forgiven Vladimir Putin to remove Russia from western infuences, to hunt all oligarchs that were near all jews.
Now Russia is decided to assume its responsability to enter in the History, if reluctants US air force implement a no-fly zone, sure Russia will stand with the legimite syrian governement.
This logic could lead to a catastrophic world war III, but do not forget that the agressors is not Russia, neither Iran, Syria, even US army, but the Bnai Brith lodge.
Location : Indianapolis
SOC on Tue Jun 18, 2013 6:59 am
Viktor wrote: US accused Syria of using chemical weapons
France did it first, and I think some other organization, maybe a UN part, was also involved. So the apparent problem here is that it's only irrelevant if the US is the one making the statement.
Viktor wrote: dont we have some serious logic flaw in defining things
Mass casualty weapon makes more sense as chemical weapons don't tend to actually destroy anything. Pretty sure the only reason we refer to them as WMDs is to make statements about retaliation in kind, as in with our own WMDs. Which is one policy around here that I'd support wholeheartedly...if they actually had the balls to follow through with it.
nemrod wrote: Russia won't allow a no-fly zone.
When they decide to reinforce their naval base with an S-300PM battery or two, I might start taking those comments seriously. Otherwise, all they're doing is just playing the "not America" role on the world stage. Hell, call Iran, call Iraq, get some overflight clearance, and fly some S-300s to the Syrians via An-124s. Or pull a NATO and decide to deploy Russian troops in Syria as "peacekeepers" and dare the West to try something. That right there would stop this nonsense in about thirty seconds.
nemrod wrote: Everybody here remembers the show of Collin Powell in U.N saying that Saddam Hussain is threatening the world by its weapon mass destruction
What I find amusing is that the evidence given in, what was it, 2002 I think, was basically the same stuff that was around the first time I was exposed to it in 1999.
nemrod wrote: Syria is in its right to use whatever is necessary to exterminate this low life rats gangs terrorists, and to secure its terroritory.
Personally, I can agree with that statement 100%.
Viktor on Tue Jun 18, 2013 3:45 pm
Here you go. Perfect reasoning
Regular on Wed Jun 19, 2013 12:56 pm
Rebels by any logic shouldn't use chemical weapon too, it's their own country. But people who 'help' them, like Al Nusra or chemical brigades from Iraq. West wants to escalate it so much so they blame Assad. Even UN is suspecting rebels using sarin gas, but they are powerles
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gaurav on Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:45 pm
Well I think we dont need to advertize the killing..
that photo-OP might be from some Israeli site.. or (Qatari ,Saudi Psy-ops )because otherwise this kind of pics only reflect the American reasoning that Syrian army is killing indiscriminately..
We need to stay away from online Psy-ops ..
Putin about rebels
Corrosion on Wed Jun 19, 2013 8:16 pm
ali.a.r wrote:
But you are quoting somebody who is a preachy type. Indian history for last 800 years is full of wars, most of these were between Muslims rulers and Non-Muslims. Non Muslim Indians are Non Muslims because some fought Muslims, some payed "jizya" tax, some communities resorted to Bribes/Hook/Crook, some made alliances with Muslim rulers etc. Research Indian history for last 1000 years , please.
I am not against Muslims. I understand the difference between Muslims and Muslim Rulers.
Sorry for OT
gaurav on Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:07 am
I wiant to know from where the rebels are getting Konkurs and metis ATGM..
who is supplying them with these. weapons..
How did Saudis got the supply russian made weapons.. ?
What are the routes on which these ATGM are supplied to Syria rebels..
As Sa'iqa on Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:39 am
SAA has both Konkurs, Metis-M and Kornet...
BTW: USA & allies want to supply rebels with about 200 9K33 Osa SAM's, in order to create a rebel "no-fly zone". I guess they won't last for long, knowing almost legendary level of Arab technical culture and how they care for their equipment...
NickM on Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:56 pm
Corrosion wrote:
The only Indians who makes these comments like your's are those who failed to get a visa to the US , UK or any of the other Anglo/Saxon states . Indians have historically been trouble makers and that's the reason why it was partitioned to save Muslims from Hindoos & Sikhs who were killing them en mass . Two of the states that were divided had the dubious distinction of creating the maximum number of terrorists who killed Britishers in large numbers.
The only way for India to make progress is if it is broken down into a number of smaller countries along various faultlines.
Zivo
Location : U.S.A.
Zivo on Thu Jun 20, 2013 11:02 pm
BTW: USA & allies want to supply rebels with about 200 9K33 Osa SAM's, in order to create a rebel "no-fly zone". I guess they won't last for long, knowing almost legendary level of Arab technical culture and how they care for their equipment..
Seems far fetched. Who would operate them? CIA agents?
The FSA can barely keep their stolen T-55's running for long.
Cyberspec on Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:30 am
guarav wrote: I wiant to know from where the rebels are getting Konkurs and metis ATGM..
Either an Arab source (ex Libyan stocks for example} or some East European country...or both.
Zivo wrote: Seems far fetched. Who would operate them? CIA agents?
They might have some ex SAA personnel available or they could get get operators from some Arab Army. But I doubt they can get them on the battlefield in the short term or that they'll make that much of a difference if they did. I think the war will likely be decided more or less in the next 2-3 months.
GarryB on Fri Jun 21, 2013 10:31 am
Sounds like it is time to deliver a few Kh-31s or Kh-25MPs to Syria...
Cyberspec on Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:25 pm
Now that the US and allies have publicly committed to arming the rebels, it's likely that Russia will start delivering equipment that had previously been stalled in response. There's talk about TOS-1 Buratino supplies being considered....it would be quite useful in that sort of fighting
Zivo on Fri Jun 21, 2013 8:02 pm
What they really need to send is a few hundred-thousand RPO Shmels.
Maybe then the SAA wouldn't need to rely larger artillery to clear houses and cut back on civilian casualties.
Corrosion on Sat Jun 22, 2013 12:46 am
Great going but I dont want to hijack this thread by replying to any of your non-sense blabber.
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Crooks used multi-stage attacks aimed at Russian Service Centers
June 12, 2018 By Pierluigi Paganini
Fortinet recently observed a series of cyber-attacks targeting Russian service centers offering maintenance and support for various electronic goods.
Security researchers from Fortinet have recently spotted a series of cyber-attacks targeting Russian service centers offering maintenance and support for various electronic goods.
Experts highlighted the hackers conducted multi-stage attacks but excluded the involvement of a nation-state actor.
Attackers leveraged spear-phishing messages using weaponized Office documents exploiting the 17-Year-Old MS Office flaw CVE-2017-11882 that was addressed by Microsoft updates in October.
The first attacks were observed at the end of March when crooks sent spear-phishing emails to a service company that repairs Samsung's electronic devices.
The messages were written in Russian and contained a file named "Symptom_and_repair_code_list.xlsx".
"FortiGuard Labs discovered a series of attacks targeted at service centers in Russia. These service centers provide maintenance and support for a variety of electronic goods." reads the post published by Fortinet.
"A distinctive feature of these attacks is their multi-staging. These attacks use forged emails, malicious Office documents with exploits for a vulnerability that is 17 years old, and a commercial version of a RAT that is tucked into five different layers of protective packers."
Experts noticed that the content of the email was the result of a translation made by a translator service, analyzing the headers of the email the experts discovered that the IP address of the sender wasn't associated with to the domain in the "From" field.
The attackers used a different XLSX file for each email, they used shellcode to perform various tasks to gain access to the LoadLibraryA and GetProcAddress functions that allow it to execute the final payload.
"The two most important functions "imported" by the shellcode are: URLDownloadToFileW and ExpandEnvironmentStringsW." continues the analysis.
"The purpose of the first one is obvious. The last function is used to determine the exact location where the shellcode should store downloaded payload, since this location will be different under different platforms. Finally, Shellcode downloads a file from the URL: hxxp://brrange.com/imm.exe, stores it in %APPDATA%server.exe, and then tries to execute it."
The final payload uses multiple-layer multi-packer protection to avoid detection.
The first stage implements the first layer of protection, the popular ConfuserEx packer that obfuscates objects names, as well as names of methods and resources,
The resources are used to determine the next stage payload, which is encrypted using DES, and executes the decrypted file named BootstrapCS that represents the second stage of the multi-layer protection.
BootstrapCS is not obfuscated, but it contains multiple anti-analysis checks, with the structure "settings" in the resources section determining which checks should be performed.
This check is essential to avoid the code being execute in a virtualized environment and also searches for and shuts dowIt also writes the payload path to the following startup registry keys:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[Specified Name]
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\[Specified Name]
The stage 3 of the payload is represented by a binary resource named mainfile that represents the third level of packing protection, a simple XOR algorithm with the KEY = 0x20 was used for encryption.
Once the payload is decrypted payload it is injected into a process based on the value in the settings resource file.
The stage 3 of the payload resolves a commercial Remote Administration Tool (RAT) dubbed Imminent Monitor. At stage 4, the security researchers once again used the ConfuserEx packer.
The Imminent Monitor RAT includes the following five modules:
Aforge.Video.DirectShow 2.2.5.0
Aforge.Video 2.2.5.0
Injector 1.0.0.0
ClientPlugin 1.0.0.0
LZLoader 1.0.0.0
that allows the malicious code to control the victim's machine, including the webcam.
The analysis of the C&C servers revealed 50 domains registered by the attackers on the same day, some of them were used by crooks to deliver malware, while others were involved in phishing attacks. The experts also discovered older .XLSX samples that exploit different vulnerabilities.
"We also noticed that the pattern of these attacks has become quite popular today. The use of exploits is more efficient than the use of simple executable files, especially since the level of threat-awareness among users has sufficiently grown in recent years. It is simply not that easy to trick a user to opening executable file as it was before. Exploits are a different case," concludes Fortinet.
Further details are included in the IoCs section of the report.
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As the youngest member of #TeamPurpleLion, not only have I learned a lot in just the four months we've been working together, but I've explained a lot of what I've learned to others. Sometimes it's about the history of Defender of the Universe and Beast King GoLion that @crystal-rebellion researched, sometimes it's referencing @felixazrael's musical knowhow or @leakinghate's animation knowledge, and most recently, it's leaning on @voltronisruiningmylife's expertise in how to break down and identify writing to provide corrections to those who see something in a show or article not working but can't tell why. One big thing I learned since starting this crazy ride with my team is a massive hole in my college education on writing, which Felix filled in for me since we hit the ground running. Sure in my fantasy literature class we discussed Aesop and The Hobbit, and what the phrase "The Hero's Journey" means and why it's the monomyth, but there was one thing that my dear professor never taught us, although I'm sure she will in the future. Compared to Joseph Campbell's heroic journey, this other monomyth is much younger.
What is it, you may ask?
Simply put, it's a heroine's journey.
[Image description: Princess Allura with her hair up and wearing her flightsuit from season 1 "The Rise of Voltron" backlit by white light.]
Let's go on an adventure together.
To understand the heroine's journey, I want to give you all a rundown on what exactly the hero's journey is first. While it was never neatly labeled as "The Hero's Journey" until Campbell, studies on common themes and plot points began back in the 1870's. As time moved forward, Campbell published his 17 steps to the monomyth in 1949 (The Hero with a Thousand Faces) and as we move toward the present his monomyth is eventually dubbed as "the hero's journey". I won't overload you with the dates and stuff I needed to study since that's a) not the point of this piece and b) Campbell's monomyth is actually secondary to the main one in Voltron: Legendary Defender. That said, it's the backbone of a lot of literature both old and new, and while not every story follows these 17 steps outlined by Campbell or approaches them in the same order, you'll find everything from the story of Christ to Lord of the Rings somewhere in these steps. It's just that a lot of times the steps of the hero's journey aren't ever really explained, so you as a reader/viewer/consumer will see them and will have a gut instinct as to what's supposed to happen, and when it happens you feel great! The story followed a formula that satisfies its audience! But it also makes a story that doesn't follow a formula feel fundamentally wrong, from just a mild discomfort like putting on a shirt and buttoning it slightly off, all the way to triggering strong emotional responses including panic attacks or tears. Stories are designed to bring forth emotions from their audience, but what good is a tragedy without a lesson to learn? How can we enjoy an empty marriage when the couple has no chemistry?
So with this piece, I hope to illuminate just what the steps of the heroine's journey are, contrast them against the hero's journey, where VLD fits into all of this, and through that demonstrate why they are not interchangeable even though they share similar names.
Part I: Of Heroes and Heroines
In The Hero With a Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell outlines seventeen steps, which are laid out in this diagram by Reg Harris:
[Image description: diagram of The Hero's Journey using a circular diagram shape separating out the seventeen steps into eight categories, divided into the Known World and the Unknown World.]
In Maureen Murdock's The Heroine's Journey, she writes the heroine's journey as follows:
[Image description: The Heroine's Journey depicting a cyclical diagram of the narrative, featuring 10 distinct steps that loop back to the beginning at the top.]
The Heroine's Journey is fundamentally cyclical in nature, and while the diagram above shows the Hero's Journey as a circle as well, it ultimately has finite start and end points. One of the key differences between these is that the Hero's Journey explores internal character in an external adventure and the hero achieves a (theoretically) lasting peace once their journey is finished. Conversely, the heroine must constantly evaluate themselves in the bigoted environment that tries to disenfranchise them.
As a note, while I use gendered terms such as "hero" and "heroine", I use them as gender-neutral placeholders to label which monomyth I'm speaking about at present. Women can undertake a hero's journey, and men can undertake a heroine's journey, particularly when you examine them in an intersectional lens.
A heroine's journey, at its heart, is an examination and acceptance of the self in an unaccepting environment, and its cyclical nature stems from the fact that whenever a heroine moves into a new environment, they have to make that journey over and over. They can be a queer man of color, a white stay-at-home mom, a disabled nonbinary person, whatever the case, the constant need to re-evaluate their place in the world is what marks the heroine's journey as separate from the hero's journey.
But while it's cyclical in nature, we should start at the beginning nonetheless.
[Image description: Alfor (right) holding Allura (left) in the Castle of Lions. She says, "We can't give up hope!" and he replies, "I'm sorry, daughter."]
In The Heroine's Journey, the story begins when an event causes the heroine to separate from the feminine. A significant event spurs them to reject the prescribed role of the patriarchy, which in the case of a woman could be a mother, a damsel in distress, a wife, etc. The heroine is put into a box and chafes against its edges because it cuts them off from their ability to reach for the masculine, the power and privilege it affords. This marks a stark difference from how our archetypal hero lives and begins their own adventure. The hero lives a fairly mundane life for the brief time we see them before the first element comes into play: the Call to Adventure. This is generally an external force spurring the hero to action, as opposed to the internal force of the heroine.
The hero then will Refuse the Call and will be introduced to the Mentor they will come to rely upon, whereas the heroine typically immediately begins on a journey to become more powerful/masculine, generally through rejecting femininity. Princess Allura does not inherently reject her own femininity. She rejects the helplessness of being forced into cryostasis after her people have been destroyed and embarks on embracing her masculinity by finishing the war her father and Zarkon started 10,000 years ago. The heroine Identifies with the Masculine and Gathers Allies, which we see Allura do in the pilot of season 1 of VLD. She awakens to find a team of five men and her male adviser Coran, her allies in the coming intergalactic war, and she takes up the metaphorical lion herself as the pilot to the Castle of Lions, changing into her armor–pink, to honor the fallen–for the fight against Sendak as he tries to claim the Lions of Voltron for Emperor Zarkon. Her choice of pink, particularly pale pink, is reminiscent of the breast cancer awareness ribbon, baby pink, it is an intrinsically female color that she dons to assume the role of her father, King Alfor. The narrative is reminding the audience that Princess Allura–the first nonwhite Allura, no less–is just as much a princess as her previous white and blonde iterations are warriors.
After choosing their allies and undertaking this quest of gaining power (not to be confused with empowerment, our heroine is still operating within the confines of the patriarchy here), our heroine undergoes trials and faces enemies that try to persuade them back into the box, into what's known and fundamentally safe and silencing. The words may be kind, be delivered kindly, but ultimately they can be boiled down to a single message: "go back to where you belong." For the hero this is a point of no return as an external journey. The hero can choose to go home and leave saving the world to someone else, or they can choose to face the trials that bar them from their prize. But the heroine? They can't. There is nobody who can save the heroine's world because for them because their world is what they are trying to escape, and often they are the prize for a hero. It's up to them to save themselves, and at this point in time, adopting the masculine and the power of the father figure is the way to go. And it works. Princess Allura, again while she does not get discouraged by the men around her to remain an idle princess, because this is the 21st goddamn century, her conflict arises from inexperience. King Alfor supports her drive to finish the war and take decisive action, to finish what he started. The Paladins challenge her authority as a sovereign in the beginning because even if she's a princess by birth, she has no planet and they're not of her planet or species anyway, and until they themselves undergo trials in the first few episodes do they appreciate that Allura is still critical as a person, despite her lack of sovereign weight.
Together, she and her team move through the obstacles and the war against Zarkon together, while simultaneously trying to build a coalition of allies to aid in the fight. In fact, much of the plot of VLD takes place during this stage of the heroine's journey, and it's here where we as the audience follow Allura as she meets her animus in the form of a Shadow figure: the cunning Prince Lotor. He takes on the role of the challenger to force Allura to better herself, and as Allura rises to the occasion each time, he is textually impressed by her battle skill, then by her intellect. The most iconic moment of Lotor as a Shadow (aka: the half of herself that Allura doesn't want to accept yet), is when he baits Voltron into battle, then pilots his cruiser through the volatile environment of Thayserix. He expresses disappointment at Voltron's ability in battle, but when Allura in Blue rises to meet the challenge he lays out, he praises her, even if he textually does not realize who is in Blue at the time.
[Image description: Prince Lotor in profile, a pleased expression on his face, and the subtitles read "Someone's learning."]
As a brief aside: the animus comes from Jung and is often paired with an anima, or masculine and feminine energies. The key takeaway is that these energies are complementary to each other and exist in a balance. While they typically are portrayed in a more heterosexual context, like everything else in this meta, the terms are used in a gender-neutral context when not applied directly to Allura's storyline. While Lotor could be likened to either Meeting the Goddess or (Wo)Man as Temptress in the hero's journey, a key difference between the heroine's journey animus and either of these feminized roles is that the Goddess and Temptress are two separate figures–generally women to male heroes–and are generally not equal to the hero physically or mentally. The animus, however, is intrinsically the perfect match to the anima of the heroine, being their complement and their intellectual and physical equal. Lotor is not meant to be seen as the woman on Indiana Jones' arm, he's meant to be a force in his own right, challenging Allura to better herself and raise the standards for them both. It's fitting that this occurs in an episode full of fog and a dangerous abyss, because the traditional hero descends into a metaphorical (or literal) one to encounter these flattened versions of feminine energy.
The trials continue for Allura through the seasons, and she makes many allies and continues to face their enemies head-on, and once Prince Lotor, now Emperor, cements his place as one of Allura's allies he shifts from the Shadow figure challenging her to the animus in full, being encouraging and supportive as they work together as allies to find Oriande, a mythical place that should yield them the secrets of unlimited Quintessence. While Lotor challenges Allura in a traditionally masculine way (physical trials, battle, strategy), he also encourages her in a decidedly feminine way through Altean history and mythology, as Altea is very feminine-coded compared to the Galra Empire, which through Zarkon represents a familiar and violent strain of masculinity that seeks to crush Allura and force the universe to fit his will through abusive language and physical violence and genocide. Allura taking up the battle in Alfor's place is simply her continuing the cycle and seeing power in masculine terms, rather than breaking the cycle.
Now here is where the diagrams diverge even further. Until this point, the journeys followed fairly similar trajectories. After the trials and battles of the heroine's journey, they experience the boon of the journey, which the hero does not achieve until they face further trials and temptations. As such, we will continue to follow the heroine's journey model and I'll explain the significance of the flip.
Part II: Not the Place to Arrive
One of the significant things about the heroine's journey is that when a woman undertakes it, it's empowering and her becoming her most unified self. Campbell once reportedly said to Murdock, "Women don't need to make the journey. In the whole mythological journey, the woman is there. All she has to do is realize that she's the place that people are trying to get to." In the hero's journey, often a woman's place is as the prize, rarely is she her own agent. As I stated previously, the hero and heroine journeys do not have to ascribe to gendered protagonists, however the reality is that the hero's journey is very patriarchal in nature since it was formulated primarily through the study of male heroes and does not take into account the constant reassessment heroines must face. For heroes, they simply must survive going from point A to point B. Heroines are always subjected to reevaluation within their environment and the people around them, so their journey never really ends.
All this is to say that the hero receives their boon at the end of their story and that's the end of it. They get a happily ever after and can return to normal life and spread their bounty to those in need or dearest to them.
The heroines?
They get their boon at the middle of the story.
And there's still more to come for our heroine as they build toward the climax (pun intended).
Princess Allura receives the boon of Oriande's secrets with Lotor by her side, which in pretty much every literature class would become a discussion on the ways this represents sex, or the the ways Allura is interacting with the world in terms of gender, particularly how they discover Oriande after having an emotional reaction in Haggar's lab and activating the Altean compass stone. In the heroine's journey, this boon is often of the same significance as the hero's boon/reward at the end of their journey, but for the heroine it's false. It's fleeting. It's not meant to last. This is the turning point for our heroine because while yes, our heroine achieved the goal of the adventure, they did so by consciously or unconsciously shunning the feminine. In Allura's case, she's still taking after her father, trying to follow in his–and to an extent Zarkon's–footsteps by mastering the unlimited Quintessence.
And true to form, before season 6 is out, our heroine seems to be betrayed by her animus, returning him to the status of Shadow figure as he challenges her to unleash the power within one final time. Princess Allura thinks Lotor lied to her and has been harvesting Alteans for their Quintessence when Keith and his mother Krolia discover a living Altean in the Quantum Abyss, and with the budding on-screen romance between Allura and Lotor, this betrayal cuts our heroine deep. To her, he not only lied about there being no more Alteans left, but he actively continued the genocide his father began 10,000 years ago. That's not an easy thing to get over. So Lotor assembles Sincline, which bears a visual resemblance to a wingless dragon–the last metaphorical dragon she faces before moving into the next step of the heroine's journey–and with Allura in Voltron the two battle it out in a tragic action-packed scene that leads to Voltron overloading Lotor with Quintessence and leaving him in the Rift.
With the dragon defeated and the boon lost, the heroine has to sacrifice not only her animus, but the last vestiges of her home to try and undo what following the masculine has done: close not only the original Rift, but all the fractures in reality caused by their battle.
And what does a girl who has already lost her planet, people, and lover have left to lose?
[Image description: The five Lions of Voltron flying away from the massive Rift, the Castle of Lions flying straight toward the center of it.]
The heroine following the footsteps of the masculine always comes at a major cost to them. In Allura's case, she has to sacrifice her castle in order to make right the harm done to the literal universe. In this case, she mirrors Zarkon in his destruction of the universe, but rather than directly harming billions of lives on uncounted planets, she creates a literal hole in the universe because of her blindness to the consequences of the actions of herself and those around her.
And much like her father sending away the Lions, she must send away her castle in the hopes of saving the universe from greater destruction.
Part III: Transcending the Rift
From the gain and loss of the boon, things look dire for the heroine at this stage in the journey. In Allura's case, she is without people, without planet, without castle, and as she learns at the beginning of season 8, her found family has families of their own–other than Coran, that is. Our heroine continues to lose pieces of the things and people surrounding her at the beginning of the story: which Murdock refers to as awakening feelings of spiritual aridity or death. She is losing her place in the universe even faster than before, when she stood on the shoulders of her father, and she must move forward. Allura passed the point of no return all the way back in season 1 episode 1. As the heroine, she broke free of the safe mold she knew for the past 10,000 years, and every episode since her awakening she has had to try to forge forward on the path she knew: that of her father. Now, though, her father's methods have failed her, just as they failed him, leaving her with no option but to keep moving forward and to approach her journey from another angle.
[Image description: from left to right, Veronica, Allura, Romelle, and Pidge (mostly off-screen) in a clothing swap shop as Allura speaks. Caption reads, "I could give you a royal decree of service from the Crown Princess of Alte…"]
Allura not only must deal with the loss of her place in the universe, but she must also deal with the fact that by leaving Lotor in the Rift, she abandons half of herself as well. Physically she is a whole person, but if we look at her role as an anima and what her fears and strengths are, destroying her animus throws her self-knowledge out of alignment. She's careening away from the safe path of her father, but she must now rediscover the strengths within herself without succumbing to her weaknesses and do so by stepping out of her father's shadow.
Season 8 is rife with emotional buildup and no payoff. We as the audience don't know what happened to Lotor for the whole of season 7 and we see Allura struggling to deal with all her losses, we travel to Earth and meet the MFE pilots, a plucky bunch who probably were meant to lay groundwork for a new Vehicle Voltron, and we see that Haggar/Honerva is the final big bad of the whole show, ready to vindicate the son she lost to the Rift, but also 10,000 years ago when he was born and she became the Witch we love to hate. So when we join Allura and the gang on Earth with Luca in the infirmary, and Allura's final trials begin…
Or they should have.
[Image description: Lance and Allura kissing in rainbow lighting where they are artificially-colored in red, then pink, then blue from top to bottom in front of a fading background of warm yellow at the top to gray at the bottom.]
Instead, we are treated to the final acts of a hero's journey, but still following our heroine through the steps.
Our heroine wears down to the persistence of Lance, who in a heroic journey would receive a fair princess as his boon, and Allura is trying to find a place to belong. In seasons prior to this, Lance acts like a goofy everyday guy, very much a typical character in many present-day stories that allows the audience to see themselves in him. He fantasizes about wooing the princess, calls himself a ladies' man, tries to be funny, he's a pretty typical character that a male audience is more likely to sympathize with, and as such the fantasy is pairing up with the prettiest, smartest, etc. girl in the story. The woman as a boon, the Goddess, and the Temptress are never on equal footing with the male hero, and even in the case of female heroes, the meeting with a god(dess) means that the female hero is worthy of being a consort rather than the equal that a heroine is to the anima/animus. In fact, Campbell reportedly told Murdock, "Women don't need to make the journey. In the whole mythological journey, the woman is there. All she has to do is realize that she's the place that people are trying to get to." In the hero's journey, if the hero is male and heterosexual, the women will always be the prize, the virginal ideal, or the sexualized damnation, and in all of them, the woman is meant to be receptive to the man (and doesn't THAT sound like some familiar rhetoric). Never is the woman an agent in the hero's journey when it fulfills a male fantasy. And it is this very same box that spurs a heroine to begin their heroine's journey: this breakdown of people to individual parts as determined by a patriarchal society.
While Lance is a hero in his own right, in Allura's heroine journey, he acts as an ogre that comes dressed as a male ally all the way back in season 1. He's a Subverted Nice Guy in that he's constantly trying to woo Allura, but ultimately he's still reinforcing the same patriarchy that not only plagues Allura in this iteration, but also in previous iterations of the Voltron franchise. The Nice Guy doesn't challenge the heroine like the animus, but rather encourages them to stay in place or to fit a predetermined mold once more.
[Image description: Lance's fantasy, with him standing triumphant over Zarkon as the team cheers him on, Allura kneeling at his right side and looking up at him, while a flag with his face waves on his left.]
Many of the silly shots in the series have been foreshadowing, whether in the most direct sense or in the promise of subverting what's portrayed. In the case of this screenshot, by the time Lance gets the girl, Zarkon is killed (by Lotor), Allura has already had an intimate relationship (with Lotor), and the team collectively became heroes and allies of Lotor before the end of season 6 happened. Lance, textually, is not Allura's equal as an animus, and while he doesn't quite view her as his equal–especially in earlier seasons–he can only textually become her equal when she is at her lowest point, and he's still affixed to the idea that she's a prize, going so far as to say that "winning prizes is my specialty" in "Clear Day". Really, it's a messy relationship dynamic that tries to show the audience why, as they stand in the canon material, they don't work. Not only is Allura still not his equal, but his fantasy comes about at the hands of others, or with the help of others, and he comes second. He plays a role, but he is not the singular hero he once fantasized about being. Textually this subversion is teaching him a lesson about becoming his best self and acknowledging that he doesn't have to be the hero, the payoff of which should have come in season 8 as Allura completes her heroine's journey to become her most unified and realized self. It's meant to be his apotheosis, the new perspective and enlightenment brought to the hero after facing all the trials of the journey as a part of the final reward.
Allura, fighting with this sudden loss of herself, must now also help spearhead the war against Honerva, the archetypal Bad Mother, in an alchemist-versus-alchemist battle for not only Lotor's physical soul but for Allura's metaphorical one as well. This is a new fight, the gauntlet thrown by someone other than her animus, and after all his tests, she must still rise to the challenge with the same energy, but she must do so with new knowledge now that she knows she cannot rely solely on her father.
But what's the next step for a heroine trapped in the arid desert of the unknown self and with the weight of the world pressing onto them?
They must descend to the underworld and begin the transformation from the masculine methods to unleash the femininity that's been locked away this whole time.
And who do we have to escort Allura to the metaphorical underworld as she falls asleep?
[Image description: A close-up of Lotor's face in deep shadows as he stares head-on at the "camera".]
Her Animus, acting as a Shadow once more.
His entrance is littered with sex. Not literally, but metaphorically. He greets Allura while she's in bed, the camera does a gratuitous slow pan over his body in a way that many cameras exclusively afford to women, the presence of a blooming flower with an erect stamen, the lighting of the preview–altered in the final season itself–is purple even, a romantic and spiritual color. You know the joke in college English classes about how everything is sex except sex? That's this scene in a nutshell. He's always been drawn and behaved in a way designed to appeal to the female gaze (an essay in itself), but this scene really takes the cake.
[Image description: Lotor as viewed in profile from a low angle in a Garrison room, looking down at a juniberry flower in a pot.]
And it's this scene where we see Lotor give Allura the first critical piece of information for how she can stop Honerva/Haggar, but also reminding her that some people do not change. While Allura must change to achieve her realization, he reminds her that Haggar is still the same witch, and that her pain of losing Lotor becoming public does not excuse the fact that she has not expressed remorse or tried to change herself, let alone her hand in not only his downfall but in the brainwashing of the Alteans. She is an antagonist so focused on the wrongs done to her that she justifies the wrongs she does to others with them. Allura, however, expressed remorse and wanted to save Lotor as soon as she realized what was going on, which further cements the ways in which their fates could have been the same or switched had they made slightly different choices. Honerva is 10,000 years too late. Like Lotor mirrors his father and in "Shadows" is shown to be more empathetic, Allura mirrors Honerva and both prove throughout the show to have stronger moral compasses than their predecessors. They are the Emperor and Alchemist, and while fate decrees they must take up the mantle left behind, their free will dictates that they should not blindly follow their footsteps if they truly wish to make a lasting change. Narratively, they must forge a new path if they are to bring the universe to peace again.
[Image description: A close-up shot of the juniberry flower with Allura visible in the background, but blurred. The subtitle reads Lotor's line, "The witch may change her name, but she will always be a witch."]
Lotor tempts Allura to take the entity into herself, and when she reaches out to connect with it, she is taken further into the dreamscape and finds herself back on Altea and greeted by her mother. This marks the beginning of the reconnection with the feminine, but while Allura has always so desperately missed her family and Altea, she finds herself in a precarious position. Suddenly, she is in the very same mech suit that Luca was found in, and to save Altea from the Galra fleet overhead, she makes the decision to use the planet's Quintessence. However, in the process of destroying the Galra fleet, destroys Altea as well. As her world crumbles, her mother congratulates her for a job well done. This presumably mirrors the dropped plot about the Altean Colony and the decisions Lotor would have been faced with, and after "Shadows" would lend both Allura and the audience a greater appreciation for the position he was in before he died.
And when she finally wakes?
[Image description: Allura sitting up in the Garrison bunk, looking at the mice, the juniberry dry and wilted in the foreground, blurry. The subtitle reads, "It was only a dream."]
Our oh so sexual symbol is wilted, and Allura wakes up alone.
With the visual deflowering and this new revelation about the kinds of decisions those before her have had to make, Allura can begin reconnecting with the feminine in earnest without falling into the old placements she may have been subjected to at the beginning of the story. This would have continued further with Allura reconnecting with her animus in the missing episode @leakinghate titles "The Descent", especially fitting as she continues her descent to her feminine roots as a heroine and to reconnect with her lost animus. Reconnecting and reconciling with him–and with the side of herself he represents–is critical to her achieving unity within herself and being able to face Honerva head-on.
Once the heroine has descended to the underworld, begun the reconnection to the feminine, and returned with new knowledge on their relationship to their emotional side and the aspects overshadowed by the masculine, they are ready to begin healing the mother/daughter split. This in essence is the heroine returning to the old knowledge she has cast aside when following the path of the masculine/father, but approaching it with a new understanding and perspective. Think of it as understanding why your parents enforced rules like "don't run into traffic". As a kid, the danger may not be obvious, but as an adult you're able to look at the same situation, see over obstacles younger you might not have, and realize "oh shit, that's a car". That said, the heroine does not allow themselves to get put back into the same or even a different pre-prescribed role because they now have a greater understanding of the situation at hand.
In Allura's case, this means revisiting the plan on how to take down Honerva, and realizing that she must pursue the course laid out by her trip to the underworld to not only save the universe, but awaken Lotor from being a robeast. Part of the conflict against this plan comes from the team, who see the entity she took within herself as dangerous. While that's true, stopping the plan also prevents Allura from growing in strength to be able to fight Honerva. The power flowing within her that Lotor referred to back in season 6 is at her fingertips, and like his visit in "Clear Day" reminded her, she need only take it. During both parts of the "Knights of Light" episodes, Allura is confronted with shades of Honerva's memories as they dive deeper, and it's here that we as the audience and the cast are meant to learn what truly became of Lotor after he was imprisoned in the Rift, and it's meant to be utterly jarring to everyone. Instead, with how the scenes were edited together during the post-production alterations, Hate aptly points out in "Seek Truth in Darkness" that Honerva promising vengeance and seeing Lotor's corpse has next to no impact. Or rather, it does to the audience–a melted corpse isn't exactly Y-7 appropriate–but the characters don't really react to this revelation at all.
That said, it's more than likely that Allura genuinely believes Lotor to be dead (as opposed to a sleeping prince), which would explain her aggressive reaction to seeing pre-Rift Zarkon, and we don't see his reaction to learning what he did to his son, either. This would be a prime location for Zarkon to experience and express remorse for what his actions have done to his son, subverting the toxic masculinity narrative his character had been representing prior.
At the end of "Knights of Light Part 2", Hate mentions that Allura would need to make another trip to the underworld to commune with Lotor and realize that no, he's not dead, but also that she not only must defeat Honerva, she must do so in order to save Lotor and free everyone of the cycle of violence that began 10,000 years ago. This is the final descent she makes before she can heal the wounded masculine, both in herself, and Lotor directly.
[Image description: Allura in profile inside the cockpit of Blue Lion, unconscious. Her window displays measurement increments and stars in red-tones, while Allura herself is lit in blue tones.]
After the end of this episode, however, Hate mentions that much of what was there is butchered in the post-production editing, so I will be extrapolating based on the content we have in the season as well as utilizing her analysis of the story as it should have been.
When Allura wakes up from falling unconscious, this is when we should see her proposing to save her animus, and it should come with a discussion with Lance about how they don't click romantically. That said, in the version on Netflix, we see their relationship continue, however much of their shared body language doesn't necessarily even match up with an awkward couple. Lance seems sullen and possessive, and while he might still be sullen in Allura's original heroine's journey, he would have had this moment of growth in which he learns to let go of Allura. She's his fantasy, and not only is that unfair to Allura, it's also unfair to him, and he doesn't need to be the hero or the guy that gets the girl. He can be himself, silly, sharpshooting, video game-playing Lance. A genuinely nice dude, which completes the subversion of the Nice Guy trope his character embodied for so long.
"Uncharted Regions" is a hot mess of an episode in terms of narrative flow and consistency, but this would have marked the beginning of the alchemist vs. alchemist fight for not only Lotor's soul, but the universe. Honerva uses the Sincline mech and her new mech to start tearing holes through realities, and once Allura jumps into the fray, that moves the audience into the next missing episode proposed by Hate: "Storming the Pyramid". This would be where Honerva uses Allura to revive Lotor because she did not receive the life-givers' blessing, and Allura would do it, literally healing the wounded masculine, but also falling right into Honerva's trap in the process. This would almost certainly be a highly-controversial thing among Allura's allies, but like Allura remaining on the path she knew, it's easier to accept Lotor as pure evil who got what he deserved, when at no point is there a definite case against him. In fact, "Shadows" is designed to render him as a sympathetic character, and seeing his melted corpse is even more horrifying after seeing him as a baby and child. But that's the way it is when a heroine breaks the mold. The heroine defines their own role, and as part of that, it gives them the ability to help others break theirs. The heroine experiences true empowerment by divorcing themselves from the power structures that defined them before, and doing so with the greater knowledge of their internal masculinity and femininity. Allura revisiting the war of her father with the lifegivers' knowledge to compound her intrinsic alchemical abilities is the moment when she achieves union within herself, and it manifests physically as reviving Lotor, her animus.
It's after this point that we see the Purple Lion and Purple Paladin manifest, our namesake.
In "Day 47", Kolivan references the team sizes the Blades of Marmora use. He references four and five as the usual sizes, but six occasionally happening, but what he says next is particularly interesting.
[Image description: Kolivan being filmed for an interview, saying, "Seven seems rare, but… it could happen."]
The Voltron team had four Paladins briefly after Shiro disappeared and before Allura took up the mantle, but the full team always has five. After Shiro returned for good, their team became six Paladins.
Now, with the healed animus Lotor on their side, they could have the rare seven-person configuration that Hate discusses at length in "Seek Truth in Darkness".
With the anima and animus aligned together at last with no secrets, they can unify externally the same way Allura unified internally, and battle against Honerva properly. Now, Team V, Lotor, and the entire universe can face Honerva head-on and stand a chance at winning.
We also should get the emotional payoff for Lotor as an abuse victim in his own arc, closing up this nice little loose end that hurts way more than it did before season 8 dropped.
[Image description: An up-close shot of Lotor glaring into the "camera" in green lighting and saying to Haggar, "maybe I will take pity on you when the time comes."]
And it's worth mentioning that while the final battle is exciting and action-packed, the final surrender of Honerva comes quietly, in the rift of all realities. The characters of Team V are able to deliver their character-based arc lessons, it's a somber moment of learning as Allura, using once more the blessing of the lifegivers, enlightens Honerva to her memories and what she's done, but also restoring her sense of self the way Allura was. This is the final healing of the mother/daughter split, and it's significant that Honerva's abuse victim not be her healer. Not only does Lotor (as far as we know) lack the ability, but it's never the victim's job to heal their abuser, just as it's not the obligation of the oppressed to appease their oppressor. Honerva can finally move on and begin atoning for what she did by setting the ghosts of the Paladins of old in her mind free, but that still begs the question of what our heroine and her animus must do to finish the job.
This is where Lotor would get his second chance, in the most literal sense of the term, where he faces a similar trial to the one in Oriande back in season 6 and the burning question for a man so concerned with survival and cunning.
Is there something he would give up the life he has known and fought so hard to keep for?
And this time, the answer is yes.
Allura.
It was always Allura.
While Honerva is able to stop the rift from expanding by, well, not expanding it herself, she lacks the ability to properly close it the way that it was closed the first time. It takes one final adventure, one final unification by the anima and animus, by the heroine and her Shadow, and one final goodbye. Allura and Lotor, born of an age long past, become the lifegivers eternal through staying behind to close the rift.
The lionhearted goddess of life and her stalwart champion of survival.
[Image description: The final scene after the credits, where an Allura-shaped nebula is nestled up against a smudged, darker nebula with a sea of stars among them, and the five Lions of Voltron flying toward the nebulae.]
Dos Santos, Joaquim and Montgomery, Lauren. Voltron: Legendary Defender. Netflix. 2016-2018.
LeakingHate. "Seek Truth in Darkness". VLD Visuals Detective and Imperial ApologistTM. 2 Mar. 2019. https://leakinghate.tumblr.com/post/183160042843/seek-truth-in-darkness
"Maureen Murdock's Heroine's Journey Arc". The Heroine Journeys Project. https://heroinejourneys.com/heroines-journey/
Murdock, Maureen. The Heroine's Journey. 1990.
University of Kansas. "Science Fiction Writers Workshop: Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey". KU Guinn Center for the Study of Science Fiction. http://www.sfcenter.ku.edu/Workshop-stuff/Joseph-Campbell-Hero-Journey.htm
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Okay I just had a horrifying thought while reading Murdock's "The Heroine's Journey" because my brain is Terrible (and I apologize in advance if this sounds really incriminating towards Lance's writing/development and this comment's length)
All the earlier comparisons Allura made of Lance to Alfor (which ring hollow to me since, imo, Alfor had a willingness to let Zarkon lead by acknowledging their respective strengths ["I'm a better alchemist than military leader, Zarkon. I'll stick with being your right hand." 3.06], whereas Lance resigned himself to Keith leading after the Black Lion didn't validate his "moment" ["Okay, you can do it. This is your moment." "Not only am I not meant to be the leader, I guess… I guess now I'm not even meant to be a paladin." 3.02])…now discomfort me even more because…what if that's one of the reasons Allura sought out Lance after her break up with Lotor, the loss of her castle, and being isolated physically and emotionally on Earth and from the surviving Alteans?????
She used Lance to fill the void from missing her comforts and markers of her Altean identity with the man who she weirdly kept comparing to her father "Lance, when you accepted Keith as the new leader of Voltron, it proved that you value a strong team over your own need for glory. Just like my father." (3.02)
The above comparison ring hollow for me because Alfor was proactive and coming from a place of self assurance. Lance is not at that point in his story, and really, what we see aired doesn't demonstrate that he ever reaches that point with his arc. He does not learn to genuinely see his own worth and contributions to the team, but hides behind a goofy bravado. Moreover, it seems counterintuitive to me to compare Lance to another respected individual such as Alfor (see his one-sidedly perpetuated conflict with Keith and Lotor bred from envy), when the goal is for Lance to see his own merit where it doesn't require him to be the leader/hero to love himself or be loved by others
ANE TO EVEN FURTHER THE GRAVE I HAVE MADE HERE, Lance trying to be all "it's dangerous" to Veronica really…echoes the sentiments he kept badgering on Allura during the entity arc ("You didn't need to come along on this mission."
"What are you talking about? I've been going on these missions for months now. No one knows the terrain better than me."
"Yeah, I just don't like to see you put yourself in danger."
"First of all, that's very sweet, but knock it off. You're an idiot if you think I'm not going to defend our home." 7.10)
("I don't like the idea of using Allura like this. We're messing with powers we don't fully understand that have ruined countless lives. It's… it's dangerous." […]
"This is too dangerous. Honerva is gonna use the connection to find us, to find you."
"No, this is how we are going to find her. But first, I must learn how to utilize this energy to do so." 8.10)
("Allura, please. What we just saw, it was all because of the entity. The same one that's inside you. You need to get rid of it." 8.11)
Lance comes off as patronizing with his concern over each respective woman's well being, despite the women being more equipped and knowledgeable to handle their missions. His lesson is about positively recognizing different strengths for optimal results, starting with his own. Alfor also shows this unsolicited overprotective nature over Allura, ("You hold a dark entity within you. Don't you know how dangerous that is? That's what led to Honerva and Zarkon's end."
"I know the danger. But now I have the power to stop Honerva. You had to make a difficult choice in war by sending the Lions away. I also had to make a difficult choice. I'm not going to be afraid to use the power I have." 8.10) despite his AI back in 1.01 says this to her: "No, daughter, you were right. I made a terrible mistake, one that cost the universe countless lives. Forming Voltron is the only way to stop Zarkon. You must be willing to sacrifice everything to assemble the lions and correct my error."
Whoo, this got long and I'm not even sure what my objective was to share this, but these were some observations that struck me as I was reading "The Heroine's Journey"… which, thank you, Team Purple Lion, for leading me to it! It's really eye opening, and makes me that much more determined to see the VLD staff's true vision of Season 8! Thank you for the inspiration and thank you for all the research and evidence you've compiled over the months.
I'll leave this long-winded post on a hopeful note that I believe is just as illuminating as the starry silhouette of Allura and Lotor chased by the lions: "King Alfor connected the lions to Allura's life force. She alone is the key to the lions' whereabouts."


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This new blend will be released in November. Here's my review.
The smoky, woody, earthy, lightly musty, moderately sweet Cyprian latakia is the main component. The latakia comprises 41% of the blend, and due to creator Joe Lankford's expertise, this isn't a lat-bomb as all the varietals have their say in every puff. The blended Turkish/Orientals are woody, earthy, mildly floral, somewhat dry with some buttery sweetness and a couple pinches of spice in an important support role. The nutty, earthy, mildly molasses sweet Tennessee burley and other burleys also have a sugar note as a strong secondary player. The percentage of the plumy, raisiny, figgy, lightly spicy Acadian perique is less than the burleys, and by consequence, is a little less obvious. The citrusy, grassy, lightly tangy Virginia is a condiment that lurks in the background. The strength falls short of the medium level, while the deep, rich taste is a step past that, narrowly missing the medium threshold. The nic-hit is a hair past the center of mild to medium. No chance of bite or harshness exists here. Being an easily broken apart crumble kake, it will burn a tad slow with a cool, clean, well balanced, fairly complex, consistent flavor from start to finish. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires some relights. Has a very pleasant, lightly lingering after taste. The room note is not very pungent. Can be an all day smoke for the veteran, and is certainly repeatable for those less experienced. Three and a half stars out of four.
Thanks for the preview, Jim!
Don't know how I missed this. Sounds like another good one from SPC!
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By: Roy Mark | May 26, 2009
Emulex President and CEO Jim McCluney in a letter to stockholders calls Broadcom's offer inadequate and proof that Broadcom that has fallen behind Emulex in the converged networking space.
Converged networks developer Emulex sent a letter May 26 to stockholders urging them to reject the unsolicited, nonbinding $9.25-per-share offer from Broadcom, which initiated a $764 million takeover offer in May. Emulex has characterized the offer as a lowball attempt in a down market.
Broadcom's $9.25 per share represents a 40 percent premium over Emulex's April 20 closing price of $6.61 per share. Broadcom has maintained that the offer is not a hostile takeover bid, but filed a lawsuit to block a poison pill that the Emulex board approved. In addition, Broadcom is also seeking from Emulex stockholders a preliminary consent solicitation statement to amend Emulex's bylaws to allow stockholders to call a special meeting.
"We are pleased to hear from the stockholders we have spoken with that you agree that Broadcom's offer significantly undervalues Emulex and that it is an opportunistic attempt to capture significant value that rightly belongs to all of you. We continue to strongly urge you to not tender your shares into Broadcom's tender offer," Jim McCluney, Emulex's president and CEO, wrote in the May 26 letter.
Calling the Broadcom offer "grossly inadequate," McCluney said Broadcom's tactics prove Emulex has an early lead over Broadcom in the converged networking space and show Broadcom's inability to effectively compete.
"Converged networking is widely recognized as a critical emerging technology for the data center, and Emulex has beaten Broadcom to provide the complete solution required to address this market," McCluney wrote. "In our view, Broadcom is well aware that it does not have the technology to compete due to its lack of Fibre Channel capability-an integral component to the technological offering."
McCluney also urged Emulex's stockholders to reject Broadcom's move to amend Emulex's bylaws, claiming it is an attempt remove Emulex's board and appoint Broadcom's hand-picked nominees.
"We believe these nominees, if elected, will pursue Broadcom's self-serving agenda of acquiring Emulex on the cheap to the detriment of Emulex's stockholders. Please understand that providing your consent to Broadcom will increase Broadcom's leverage and provide no benefit to you," McCluney wrote.
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