#nimona rant

[atinytrashcan]

ok so i'm watching Nimona again (surprise surprise) and i wanna talk about something.

the scene at the tower where Bal suggests going over the wall in order to protect Nimona, and Nimona fires back with "we shouldn't have to run."

as any trans person in America right now will know, this country despises trans people (and the LGBTQIA+ community as a whole, but mostly trans folks). being a trans person, especially a trans kid, or the parent of a trans kid, is really difficult.

as a parent, you want to do everything you can to keep your kid safe. you would move countries if you had to. But a lot of the time, you can't. Most people in America right now couldn't afford to move out, no matter how much we may want to. so many people tell us "just move" but they don't comprehend the cost of that.

we shouldn't have to run. we should be able to live as we are, without fear of people hurting us or wanting us dead.

We Shouldn't Have To Run.

#nimona #nimona netflix #ballister boldheart #rant post #nimona rant

[leandrocrossard]

something really cool happened today that i wanted to share:

my nephew is 9 years old, and a stereotypical little boy. he likes dinosaurs, minecraft, and ninjas.

today i walked in on him excitedly watching Nimona with my dad. (minor spoiler warning!)

i had never heard of it, but i sat down and watched some of it, just to see why he was so happy.

he started narrating it, anticipating parts of it, almost as if he’d seen it before. he had.

we didn’t get to finish it, but i watched it on my own, because it looked fun and i wanted to see how it ended.

and i loved it. it was a fun, exciting, fantastical adventure about the importance of acceptance people who are different to us.

and it had a very clear queer subplot.

one that my nephew hadn’t mentioned at all in his explanation of the film. his summary was “it’s about a monster who helps a knight that was framed for killing the queen”.

and honestly yeah, that is what the film was about.

before sharing it with us, he had watched it all, engrossed himself in the story, took it in entirely, and the part he cared about most was whether Nimona got her acceptance. he wasn’t indoctrinated, or confused, or questioning anything about himself.

he didn’t bat an eyelid over a gay love confession. he just enjoyed the film, raved about it, made my 60 year old dad watch the movie about the monster who didn’t fit in.

he’s still the same little boy who’s been asking us how to get a girlfriend.

the only thing a movie centred around queer and queer-coded characters taught my nephew was that those who are different to him are not monsters. that’s it.

and that dragons are really cool.

#serena talks #sorry for the rant it just made me really happy #it’s been a long time since i saw the world through a childs eyes and it was great #nimona #nimona spoilers #i’m (mostly) straight and cis but i can’t imagine how beautiful this film is from queer and specifically trans perspective

[lolilou-lagaf]

AND ANOTHER THING ABOUT NIMONA-

It's just profondly sad but also terrifying to think of a teenager so hated and alone that she tries to befriend a potential murderer just to not be alone, because him, at least, won't or can't reject her. Like I'm not a parent and I'm too young anyway to get a kid but that a new fear unlocked.

And yes, apparently there is more violence in the book and they maybe do some killing? I haven't read it sorry.

But in the movie, yes Nimona is a punk, she likes violence, she wants to destroy the system but she is not a murderer. The whole point of the story is that she is not a monster. The violence she commits is on the level of any cartoon fight. And even when Ballister gets in danger and she gets angry, she transforms into a dragon but doesn't use her fire breathing , and she saved a child. She makes real effort to not hurt people.

She tries to play the role of villain not because she wants to be one but because:

That is the only role society allow her to play

She thinks she can bond with Ballister that way

She is a 1000 years old immortal shapeshifter, and she wants to be a sidekick. Because she is just that alone. Even when she meets Ballister for the 1st time, all that murder stuff but at the end what she proposes is to talk. Just talk.

In conclusion: give me the adoption paper

#nimona #nimona spoiler #nimona movie #rant #screaming #spoiler

[hkayakh]

Ok OSP isn’t on tumblr BUT in one of their videos Red talked about how before cellphones were invented, essentially no stories had anything close to a system of how a phone works. No people able to easily communicate with each other whenever, wherever, and forever. Nowadays we can have two people phone each other details about how to take down the baddie and even have it be a plot point when they can’t do that.

What I’m getting at is how I think something like that is going to happen with all his new A.I. stuff coming out. I’m talking about chat gpt, image and face emulators, voice A.I.’s.

So far the only thing I’ve seen close is how in the new movie Nimona which (spoiler):

the director says how that wasn’t her confessing to the murder of the queen but a fake, a clone or whatever

And that just barely comes close to the idea of A.I. framing someone

In the future, maybe 5 years I expect to see all sorts of stories that integrate the use of A.I. to fake people and drive forward the plot and storytelling.

#OSP #overly sarcastic productions #story #stories #nimona #A.I. #chat gpt #a.i. generated #voice a.i. #196 #r/196 #r196 #long #story rant #trope talk

[randobambo]

Hadn't watched Nimona until tonight. I had heard bits and pieces about it but was otherwise blind to the plot of the film. I honestly was not expecting the movie to go THAT hard with its themes, and the fact that it hits closer to home now than when it was released is quite haunting.

#honestly fuck Disney for trying to bury this film #they knew what they were doing and it came back to bite them in the ass #anyway 10/10 movie #nimona #rave #rant #text post #randobambo

[nota-fish]

My favourite thing about the new Nimona movie is that it is a prominent queer story that isn’t about accepting yourself, but making the world accept you. Most of the other movies that feature LGBTQ+ folks are based on overcoming the closest and being true to yourself; despite how “wrong” it is in society. Or they are romance movies. Nimona is a kick ass action fantasy that just so happens to have some of the best, LOUD, representation that I’ve seen in a while. The whole aspect of the movie is to challenge what society views as “wrong” not just overcome the personal guilt in being “wrong” to society.

Also who doesn’t love a dancing shark.

#i could rant about this for hours #nimona #nimona movie #netflix #queer pride #transgender #trans representation

[felt-squirrels]

#felt rants #nimona #nimona book #essays #guys it’s over 500 words long and my conclusion was #“anyways i wrote this listening to the entirety of the crane wives discography sorry if it’s a bit long winded”

[surprisearson]

Just saw someone in the Nimona tag complain that they want more tragic and ambiguous media that's more mature for the queer community and honestly? Don't get it. You have the comic. You do not need a one to one adaptation of it. Meanwhile, me? I want a story where I live at the end. I've seen enough of the other version and it's good and sad real and interesting but maybe right now I want a story that says I'm something worth more alive and something that ought to be protected. Yeah, the movie is very simplistic at times but I'm okay with that because its simplistic message is trans people deserve to live as they are and I didn't think I'd see that in this political climate rn. Idk. Frustrating stuff. It sucks when good representation is so low people feel like it has to carry everything for every person. I hope we get to the world where we get the sad and ambiguous and angry trans movies AND the happy and hopeful ones.

#nimona #rant #delete later perhaps

[flytomy134340]

sometimes a family is a black cat, a golden retriever and a shark and that's okay ♡

art by: nd stevenson

#nimona #not my art #art by nd stevenson #nd stevenson #nimona movie #nimona comics #found family #ballister blackheart #nimona ballister #ballister x ambrosius #ambrosius goldenloin #laika rants

[hidingoutbackstage]

Never has a video thumbnail and title looked so unappealing

#sid rants #sid bitches #i haven’t watched nimona and i still think its unfair to put her on a thumbnail with a transmisogynistic caricature and a h*zbin character #(idk who that white boy is)

[lunar-jewels]

Apotheosis

#my art #you can always draw nimona for enrichment. it's always morally correct. #i love her so much #the transgender urge to imprint on shapeshifters with a sordid history #who eventually grow beyond their conditions and become all they're meant to be #anyways vee and nimona are the gods of my new religion #idk seeing the movie meant a lot to me #especially after reading the comic #i don't think i've ranted enough about nimona on this blog but it's one of my favs. and one of the only movies i've #ever (willingly) rewatched. so here's nimona. i am rotating her in my mind. i love her. i feel so seen by her story #nimona

[chronicsyd]

this is late and May be a hot take but the Golden Globes should have gone with Nimona instead of Wish for best animated film, not that it would be a guarantied win or anything cause Across the Spiderverse is on there or because they have a second entry with Elemental being on there but mainly because Wish is just so cookie cutter Boring. and that's definity been a big problem with Disney as of late that I mentioned with one of my previous posts about Wish but Wish has just been one of the most Egregious examples of this.

Because the thing with Nimona was that it had an interesting story, interesting characters and isn't the same characteristics that have been slapped onto the lead since 2010.

cause these other companies (Dreamworks, Netflix, etc.) have actually been taking risks with making their stories instead of "trying to appeal to everyone" cause as we've seen, it just simply doesn't work.

that is all.

(Also before you start I'm not "making everything gay now" "forced diversity" "making everything 'woke' now" and blah blah blah i actually dont give a shit about what you have to say it's 2023 now gay and people of color just Exist and having them in film more often is just normalizing it)

#golden globes 2024 #these nominations are bad #nimona #disney wish #yea im still going on about this #boring #disney is real boring now #nothing is woke #people just exist #short rant #sorry for the rant #honestly idk

[sir-ballister-boldheart]

Not the ra/dfem in the tag complaining that people with a certain """"""privilege""""" might end up relating to Nimona 💀 Babe, the movie was warning us about people like you

#rant #might delete later #lol #nimona

[biblicallyinaccuratespoons]

SO I WATCHED NIMONA AND I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT THEIR BREAKDOWN ABOUT BEIN A MONSTER AND RELATING IT TO TWILIGHT AND HOW MUCH HE WOULD SOB IF SOMEONE CALLED HIM A MONSTER WHILE IN WOLF FORM.

ALSO WAS IT JUST ME OR DID THEIR MONSTER FORM LOOK LIKE THE IMPRISONED???

#zaiah rants #legend of zelda #linked universe #linkeduniverse #skyward sword #twilight princess #lu twilight #nimona

[raspberry-arev]

I just watched Nimona. It was different from the comic, yes, but still so incredibly whimsical and well-animated

I do wish Ambrosius had long hair, but Ballister's design? Unparalelled, constant wet black cat vibes. And Nimona's expressions, the pointy canines, her insistence on being JUST NIMONA when questioned about her nature- wow. So good

#sorry ranting #delete later #nimona has my nonbinary heart

[byyliss]

Just saw the animation category for the Oscar this year.

Im 100% that Nimona wont get the award, because I highly doubt those old farts will give an openly lgbt movie an award.

That being said, i will admit that im at least happy with most of the selection for this year. Usually the choices of the category are flaming hot garbage. But im glad they at least put nimona in there.

And they put a Ghibli film! Last time they had one it was Spirited Away. It sucks that they never let other japanese animated movies get the spotlight or even be considered.

My bet is that Elemental will win, because its the least sucky Disney movie from last year and i wouldnt put past Disney to bribe the judges to get the award just to feel better about themselves (i would have put Once upon a studio in the short film category tbh)

I hope im wrong and they at least give it to Across the Spiderverse.

#oscars #film #nimona #spiderman across the spiderverse #disney #rant #movies #movie