mashed poptatoes ™

carlos sainz, you are the sexiest mf on the grid

I haven’t seen anyone talk about my favorite Nimona scene when they are surrounded and Bal is feeling angry and betrayed and he says “you wanna know who she is?” and she IMMEDIATELY catches up and they know what’s going to happen and that they can do it and they have each other’s backs. Just that moment of utter trust and them being in sync finally… AHHHH.

The way Nimona said transphobia is the real danger to society by having the main villain literally point a cannon at a crowd of civilians to kill a “monster” who only lashed out because that society couldn’t accept that she only wanted to be loved for who she was in all her many facets.

What a month

Ballister is everything I want in a canonically gay character. Pathetic. Silly. Accidental adoptive father. Traumatized. Has a boyfriend who chopped his arm off. Wet cat energy. He’s got it all.

METAL 💥💥💥

Thinking about how Ballister tried to convince Nimona to conform when he’s been singled out and targeted his whole life — how the whole kingdom was against someone outside the original knight bloodline joining them, how he had to work harder and still faced backlash, how even on the day he was supposed to be officially made one of the knights he still visually stood out because his armor was black while everyone (save Ambrosius, Glorith’s descendant) wore white

He was ignorant and sheltered, and he was also a queer elder seeing a queer kid embrace things that scare him because he was hurt just for existing — imagine how much worse it would’ve been if he intentionally rocked the boat like that

Thinking about how, despite everything he tried, he was still labeled the villain and she was still called a monster, and eventually he was willing to throw away everything he knew and loved to protect her. Thinking about the joy he experienced once he started cutting loose and questioning all the limits he put on himself and others put on him. Thinking about how he was tokenized and targeted growing up, thrust in the spotlight from a young and how even then very few people were willing to try and actually see him for who he is. Thinking about how he saw Nimona

Thinking about evolution and growth within the queer community, about in-fighting from actual good (if fear and ignorance based) intentions can be even more damaging than malicious intent, about how for some queer people being seen as “just like cishets” is a matter of life or death while for others embracing being “different” is the thing that keeps them going, and how empathy and understanding of others can unintentionally heal yourself. Something something something, we come together and then we win

[hypnosis voice] go watch nimona right now i promise it’s just a fun light-hearted movie with absolutely no themes of religious trauma and queer allegory that will rip your heart out and stamp on it

You came into my life and for the first time in a long time, I started to feel things again. Nimona (2023) // The Last Of Us (2023 -) // Stranger Things (2016-)

ballister: exists

ambrosius: hiiiiii i love you

i liked it

don't watch the credits they're useless they say

i am going to throw myself out of a window

found family and some of the allegory in NIMONA (2023)

EL WIWI

Nothing will ever match up to November 5th 2020 but June 24th 2023 came pretty damn close

The 2020s news cycle is just a really long version of We didn’t start the fire