Many people are noting that Nimona isn't very subtle about its message and themes (cue the rainbow breathe weapon). And you know what, I think it's awesome. We're used to thinking subtlety is good, and even queer people frequently agree that queer stories should be "well made" and "not too preachy". That's not wrong in itself, but here's the thing: after spending millennia as "the love that dare not speak its name", we desperately need stuff that isn't subtle, but loudly, blatantly, obnoxiously queer... AND well made, because these are not opposites. Subtlety for its own sake becomes just another closet. After realizing it, I won't be comfortable writing queer subtext anymore -- not until I see queer text become commonplace.

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the original 2015 graphic novel is more insane than the movie cuz like

exhibit A: nimona expresses liking pizza and ballister at first refuses her asking to order in because the delivery to his mindfuck nowhere lair is expensive . later, when an accident happens and nimona gets upset, he remembers that she liked pizza and offers to order in . if that isnt dad behavior idk what that is (im fatherless)

exhibit B :

they went to a science expo slash carnival . they went undercover . a stand seller mistakes them for a father & son and they just... went with it . he carries nimona around . what the fuck man

exhibit C :

ballister freaks the FUCK out when she gets injured way more than he did in the movie and then proceeds to play board games with her to cheer her up

oops hit tumblr picture limit i will continue my dad ballister propaganda in the reblogs

exhibit D :

nimona gets upset & ballister tries to reassure her . he tries to give her a hug but my poor meow meow babygirl nimona (full of trauma) just . pushes him away . im chewing on drywall .

exhibit E :

the craziest of them all . near the end at the final battle when nimona turns into the big ass dark dragon-axolotl monster, in the graphic novel she actually splits into two, the part of her thats gone off the edge (the monster) and the part of her thats the scared little girl she once was . the backstory in the novel is also a lot different than in the movie :

and .

gawd

this concludes my thesis for my dad ballister propaganda . i will walk outside and set myself on fire now .

Part 1 of Nimona as quotes from my friend group’s “no-context-quotes” discord server channel & other assorted nonsensical conversations i’ve had (both featuring @duolingocaticon <33)

Part 2

link with descriptions in the comments!! click on the picture for the name of the dragon (but also they are in order, left to right)

dream outfit

i had to

in reference to this tweet: https://twitter.com/huntrixi/status/1677633543940481024?s=20

3000 year old petroglyph of a man running away from a big snake. With erection. It is one of the many Rock carvings in Tanum, Sweden and was painted red so its easier for tourists to see.

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Two types of music listeners

with the new movie not enough people are appreciating the sheer divorcedness of ambrosius and ballister in the original comic and we Need to fix that

can you believe these men invented gay divorce

Every january goth couples are fucking hard to try and have a halloween baby they're gonna name ophelia or some shit

looking out for his drummer

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the fantasy genre is fun because most of the audience has read tolkien and seen stuff based on tolkien and has pretty much zero other genre awareness. "there should be more badass femme wizards" you are talking about granny weatherwax from the bestselling series discworld available in a dozen languages. "the hero's journey is boring and we need to see the real consquences of lives lived like that" you are talking about uklg's tehanu, which was written before you were born and has sold millions of copies

The shape of perfection