#I really fucking love Nimona
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Guys, sometimes a child can be older than their dad by a few millennia, and we as a society need to accept that.
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Nimona headcanons that I wrote during dinner
Wherever Nimona gets overwhelmed by their emotions they bite things
And you can see that all over the house there are bite marks on cups chopsticks on the couch the boy's arms
You know the normal things
They didn’t mean to draw blood and the boys know that
They do however buy Nimona teething toys because they’re worried she’s gonna break something or hurt herself
There’s a random Polaroid photo of the trio’s arms with matching bite marks
It’s kind of cute in a weird way like matching tattoos except a not nearly as expensive
The trio has a lot of the same vocal stims and they have no clue where half of them came from
One day someone just walks into the house and mumbles “root beer” and the next thing you know the three of them are repeating it until they’re basically screaming it
The funny thing is they know a decent amount of T*kTok audios (or their universe’s equivalent) but they’re never on social media
Most of Ambrosius' life has been dictated by how the media perceives him he’s not gonna stay on social media
Social media is just too damn toxic and chaotic for Bal to handle
He tried to be on multiple social media platforms
It stuck for less than a month and he deleted all of them soon after cause he couldn’t stand it
Nimona just hates social media
In his own words “It’s evil and chaotic but not the good kind”
Everyone in the trio has a weird sixth sense when the other two are even slightly uncomfortable
Ambrosius has gotten multiple calls from Bal in the middle of meetings asking if he’s okay and if he wants to leave
Ambrosius has shown up in the middle of a lot of Nimona’s fights even though he had no idea where he was and that he was even in a fight to begin with
Whenever someone tries to mess with Bal Nimona is just there
Like a weird little fucked up version of state farm
Sometimes when the trio is arguing and Nimona is tired of them talking in circles she will shift some of her features away
Most of the time she’ll get rid of her ears and make a big deal about not being able to hear them
And when she does that they’ll start signing to her and she’ll get rid of her eyes
Sometimes when they're really heated they'll try and tap on her leg in morse code
Which is when she decides to full leave the room and let them calm down
They don't follow her tho cause that's the sign that they've fully pissed her off and they know to walk away and take a breath maybe eat a snack maybe take a nap
Once enough time has passed and they’ve thought shit through they’ll have a little family meeting and talk it out
#nimona 2023#nimona movie#nimona headcanon#nimona#ballister boldheart#ambrosius goldenloin#ballister x ambrosius#goldenheart#I love these stubborn dorks#they're all hardheaded as fuck#they try really hard to respect people’s boundaries#but when they’re passionate about something they tend to dig their heels in#it’s a problem#they’re working on it
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ok so im currently rewatching nimona in the hindi dub (thank you @sir-ballister-boldheart-boldheart for the link! everyone should check out their great posts about it too btw)
and right of off the bat, im kinda obsessed with this line change:
in the OG, Nimonas quip/joke is "The one armed club is about to get some new members"
but in the Hindi dub its changed to "Agar inmisay kisi ka basu pasand ai toh bata'dayna" (sorry if my hinglish isnt the best i dont do this kinda thing often XO)
(which translates to: "if you find a liking to any of these arms tell me")
which is not only equally as hilarious but also soso cute cause the implication shes ready to chop of any arm he wants as a fucked up kinda karma/compensation or as a replacement is just, so good. violent and in character but also establishes a side of care for him early on which is really cool.
#she cares but in the most fucked up and violent ways its so sweet <333#she really said 'arm choping is not a love language unless i do it and by me doing it i mean im gonna chop you a new arm >:3'#also while im obsessed with riz ahmeds british/urdu accent in the og. the hindi dub is so fun and expressive in a compleatly new/different#way. its really interesting to listen to. rare good hindi dub 10/10#also i realy like the directors va in this? shes absolutely amazing and a great actress#psii.txt#nimona#nimona movie#nimona 2023#ballister boldheart#desi tag#nimona hindi dub#(also note for @. i dont wanna clog ur notifs so this will probably be the only time i do so if i post more unless you wish otherwise)
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Thank you to Nimona for being the casual gender queer/genderfluid representation I needed in my life. I wish I had something like it when I was younger so little me would have known that it's okay to not fit into society's restrictions, to not be like my peers and to have my own emotions and ideas. I'm glad kids today have Nimona and I'm glad I got to see it too.
#queer#I love Nimona so god damn much#I was a really sad kid#fuck social norms#be unapologetically queer#nimona
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nate d. stevenson fucking loves childhood friend drama and you know what. so do i
#the real reason i watch everything he makes is this btw#am.txt#nimona#ALSO THIS ISN’T MY MAIN TAKEAWAY FROM THE MOVIE THE ACTUAL THEMES AND EMOTIONS GO FUCKING HARD BUT ALSO I LIKE TO MAKE JOKES#how did they add Another childhood friend angst dynamic in here though. thank you#mr. nd has a favorite dynamic and it also happens to be Mine As Well#the actual themes are so powerful. an excellent film about deconstructing hegemonic narratives abt the other + loving people as they are#and also about smashing unjust systems. fuck yeah#i was crying in the club so hard#also as someone who has been a big fan of the comic since it was a webcomic it is a REALLY good adaptation#EVERYONE SHOULD WATCH NIMONA
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Nimoma has good emotional payoff and animation but nothing else to really write home about TBH
It's very SPOP in that way, where the arcs and scenes are solid when viewed outside of the media in gifset or clip form but don't work as well when actually watching what they're from
For sure! I think that's a problem she-ra and toh both share with Nimona—they struggle with setup but then go ham on the payoff, which leaves everything feeling somewhat unearned.
The end of the movie bugged me in particular—Ballister's 180 with calling Nimona a monster (something he KNOWS pushes her to the brink) after one conversation with his ex-boyfriend was...I think out of place?
Normally if you have a character make a wrong choice like that you, as the audience, would be questioning the whole movie if they had ever REALLY changed. Was Ballister's loyalty truly to Nimona or to the Institute/Goldenloin? But, by that point in the movie they had really sold me on Ballister's complete acceptance of Nimona and disregard of the institute, so....why would he turn on Nimona then? I'm surprised they didn't do this plot the other way, which would instead have only made it seem like Ballister betrayed Nimona, you know? Like they did in Tangled. That way you don't undo Ballister's movie long arc with one scene, but you can still have Nimona go berserk and make her way into the heart of the city.
There were also a couple of other things that felt kinda dropped by the end. Ballister being the first commoner to become a knight? The Queen's important role in this society? This kingdom's prejudice going SO deep that not even a child would give Nimona a chance after saving their life, yet blowing up the wall changed everyone's minds in the end?
There were a lot of good pieces, but they weren't quite put together in the right ways.
#I think a lot of my dislike of the movie might have been just differences in taste#That movie was NOT my sense of humor and I disliked how they handled some things#Like...it kinda bugged me how they went about Ballister's prosthetic limb I won't lie.#I also don't know if Nimona ''not wanting to be a monster'' yet also wanting to cause so much destruction around her worked for me#Or at least not the way it was done#Like. I'm ALL for a character that wants to hurt others because of the way they've been hurt. That's based.#But that's not...really what they did? Or at least I don't think so#Like she's not REALLY a villain but she did sincerely want Ballister to be.#She values life. But she also wants to murder people? She wants violence??? Idk. It was a weird mix#She's SO sad that child was scared of her but earlier she like. Completely fucks up another kid's game. For no reason.#God and Nimona being 1000 years old makes a lot of her actions kinda weird. She feels so 14 to me yet she's immortal afssf#Also just not that big a fan of the trope where it's revealed ''this ancient legend was actually kids the whole time!!!''#but I know that's just my tastes#HOWEVER. I also think it made the movie weaker in certain aspects.#Prejudice is learned. So making it feel SO ingrained into the very beings of this world's people#IDK man did not hit it's mark for me#the queer allegory was legitimately very good though. loved that#asks#shera critical#toh critical#nimona critical#I will say skimming this movie for a second time was way more enjoyable for me#maybe I was just in a bad mood yesterday sfdjklsfdjkl#I think some of my points still stand though
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I think the thing I love (need) about certain stories is that in real life you can’t have that many feelings in so few hours or you’ll fucking explode, and take other people with you.
I love stories where people finally break down their walls, and let someone else help, and it isn’t fucking catastrophic. Where they finally let themselves be loved, and it works at least some of the time.
Where people deal with dark emotions, guilt and shame and everything that invokes them, and they’re still worthy of, if not being the hero, at least being understood. Maybe even forgiven. Maybe even loved. Maybe they’re not so bad after all or maybe they are. Maybe they get redeemed.
I’m still kind of trying to find my way out of that sort of hole, you see, so I need to read and write stories that show me a path, and when and if and how those paths even exist.
And when I do get out of that hole, I need to look back or sideways and see how it’s possible, in case there’s a next time. Or in case I can help other people.
#yeah#this is about#room of swords#nimona#and like p much everything i write and most of the media i'm drawn to#and i don't really mean redemption in the christian way for the most part#although i love how space boy handles it from that perspective#but im not xtian and i think growing up that way is why im so fucked up about this#anyways ignore me im just writing to the void#knew it would happen eventually once i caved and got a tumblr lmfao#me saying a thing#ailinaposting
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I just watched Nimona and..... shit man, I need an hour to process it all.
That was fucking metal.
#it was A-MAZ-ING#i read the original comic a few years ago in highschool#and i really liked it to begin with#but like..... holy SHIT#the characters are amazing#the animation is beautiful#the story is just... fucking METAL#i loved it#everyone needs to watch this#at least once#nimona
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every time someone says “gender ideology” or “the transgenders are corrupting the children” or other bullshit i get a little eviler and more chaotic. like. go on. keep saying it. i mean why do you care anyway but also i will outlive you. my heart will run purely on chaos and spite for the next thousand years and i will blast everyone with my transgenderification beam forever until cis people are a long lost myth. i am your worst nightmare and you cannot destroy me. oh and also i fucked your dad and your mom too.
#ell shut up#nimona really scratched that ‘fuck society be weird and trans and cause problems on purpose’ itch i needed to scratch#and i think i will continue to scratch it in future projects (stay tuned)#i love love love when whiney transphobes get all pissed at my existence. its hilarious. they repeat the same five phrases#so now i’m just like. ‘yeah. and?’ lmao. like come on be original for once#it’s hilarious. like girl i’m just sitting here drinking my apple juice. but also i’m a being of spite and resolve so. ✌️
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i love nimona
#i'm going 2 ramble here in the tags ok. okay? ok#god. look. i went into this movie thinking 'yeah yeah obv trans allegory woohoo' thinkin that's great! but#idk. i thought it would be something that could be brushed aside or sanitized easily maybe. y'know? like passed off as another kids movie#and i thought maybe other trans folks could relate 2 the movie and i was like ok that's cool let's watch it and. it was just#that one scene.#everyone talked abt how they cried and how it really Hit and i didn't get it until then#at the statue#i cried. a lot. and i never do that w media and i don't mean that to be edgy or whatever kssdfkjg but just#oh fuck#they Get It#that part. it reached into my soul and grabbed that core part of me and Tugged.#it Hurt and i felt it. the exhaustion. ready to give up. the cry nimona let out. i cried because i got it. and then i cried harder because#i'd give anything for a ballister in my life#my thoughts are 'they got us in the second half ngl' basically KSDJHFKSJDHFKSD#first half of the movie? great! but second half? oh. oh it punches u in the face over and over and gets better and better#it's so. SO good. god. i don't know when everything clicked 4 me i don't think it was a singular moment but. man. oh man#i need to rewatch that immediately#instantly a favorite. shit#it's so unapologetically nimona. it's so Itself and it's not sorry and i love it and it feels so special and i'm holding it so close#there's 2 much to gush about in these tags there's not enough space but just know. i am Insane about this#sap says#god. fuck
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I read the comic in one sitting less than an hour after finishing the movie, and wow I have many Thoughts™.
- It's very obvious the two versions were meant to cater to different audiences AND tell different messages. I don't get why people are going "But the comic was better! It had more nuance!" just because Nimona was easier to root for in the movie.
- The comic was written back when ND Stevenson was still trying to process a lot of stuff, so all the characters are morally grey/straight up evil and the climactic battle is between a Ballister who regrets turning against Nimona, even if it was to save others vs. a Nimona who's too hurt to care if her lashing out was going to hurt innocent people.
- By the time Nimona got a movie adaptation, ND was a lot more secure in his sexuality, so the climactic battle was Nimona vs. the Director, the symbol of religious oppression and bigotry. It's not just about your friends turning on you because you're "too much" for them anymore, it's also about a society that would rather bring itself to the brink of ruin than coexist with you.
- (I totally get why people were upset about Ballister's surname change, though. Like come on, the media dubbing him Blackheart just to be mean was RIGHT THERE).
- Nimona's metaphor for not shifting is such a neurodivergent thing. Even in the comic, Nimona's parents insisting she's a monster who replaced their daughter is reminiscent of the changeling myth, which is what many parents thought their neurodivergent kids were—changelings who replaced their "real" children.
- Ambrosius being trained to cut off HIS BOYFRIEND'S WHOLE FUCKING ARM instead of merely disarming him is a very cop thing to do. As much as cops claim they're trained to de-escalate situations, their training still teaches them to treat everyone as a potential threat, and that level of constant vigilance can turn anyone into a trigger-happy/arm-choppy bastard. Even the Director, who can use a sword but probably hasn't actually fought someone in ages, STILL can't see Ballister reaching for the squire's phone without assuming he has a weapon.
- And on that note, the Queen getting killed simply because she was trying to reform the Institution and allow commoners to become knights? That's the best "no such thing as a good cop" metaphor I've seen. Because even if there ARE good cops and they ARE in leadership positions, the system will crush them before they make any meaningful change. It's not a good institution that turned rotten, it's an institution that only exists to spread its rot and refuses to be good.
- That's why Ballister's characterisation is so different in the movie vs. the comic. Comic Ballister had 15 years to come to terms with his trauma and the Institution's evildoing, while Movie Ballister is still freshly traumatised and hasn't found a way to define himself beyond the role he was assigned by the Institution.
- Not to mention Comic Ambrosius was not very noble to begin with and genuinely believed Ballister was better suited to villainy than heroism, while Movie Ambrosius never wanted the glory that came with his lineage in the first place and only antagonised Ballister because of indoctrination he needed to unlearn (which he did, all by himself, after witnessing the lengths the Director will go to just to kill Nimona).
- It really shows how important it is to surround yourself with loved ones who are open to change. Comic Ambrosius can love Ballister all he wants, but he'll still blast his arm off because he thinks Ballister deserved it anyway. Movie Ambrosius will stop to question what "the right thing" even means, even if he didn't love Ballister enough to defend him unconditionally.
I have so many more thoughts bubbling beneath the surface, but I'll probably address them some other day. In conclusion:
[ID: A pink-haired Nimona grinning evilly while holding up a knife.]
Watch Nimona. This is not a request.
Edit: Added more thoughts!
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gay people. ballister spending half the movie firmly believing that if he just talks to ambrosius, ambrosius will believe him. and when he does. god. first off that imagery of the devil and angel on their shoulders respectively for ambrosius & the director and ballister & nimona. mwah. masterpiece. anyways. when they finally. finally. get a second face to face. ambrosius not believing him. did you ever really know me at all. what are you going to do kill me too. insane. happy pride to ballister ambrosius and their ten minute divorce. and THEN. the fucking. god. scene between them at the bar. nice homage. insane. but yeah. because i love you. oh but thee brainwashing. ambrosius the hero the goldenboy easily believing everything he's told. i want to go back to the way things were. anyways i had a point here i swear i had a point. he cut off his fucking arm ambrosius you sick son of a bitch i love you
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feel like i need to watch this movie 3 times but one thing i thought was an interesting change from the graphic novel was that very little of the destruction in the final scene was caused by nimona herself - most of it was because of the soldiers shooting at her as she made her way to the statue. and then the director attempting to wipe out half the kingdom just to kill her. it really drives home how queerphobia is based on unfounded fears and how a society that vilifies us and mocks the value of diversity in general is only hurting itself.
another big change is nimona risking her life to save the kingdom from itself, a kingdom that always hated her (after one guy showed her there might be something worth saving). though i love the graphic novel's take on it too i think both endings are brilliant in different ways. to me it shows the shift in nd stevenson's work, from a story grounded in righteous anger when he was young and in the middle of processing a ton of trauma, to one that reflects a confidence about who he is and his place in the world as a bigender person fighting for justice. nimona saying "it's time to rewrite this story" is so fucking meta
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Nimona spoilers!!!
Aight listen. I’m aro ace. Not even a little bit attracted to men. Never have been, never will be.
But.
If Ballister Boldheart looked at me like THIS???
I would fold in HALF. I’d cave in SECONDS. I’d give this man the whole fucking WORLD.
And he’s not even *my* boyfriend.
Ambrosius. What the fuck.
What the fuck Ambrosius???
You’re telling me that the LOVE of your LIFE looks at you like THIS
AND YOU REALLY STILL THINK THAT HES A MURDERER???!?!???????
BOY ARE YOU BLIND
Anyway that is all
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like i get ambrosius and ballister gay kiss at the end and all but nimona as a character herself was so fucking trans coded??? and it was done so well that i could, as a trans person myself, who's had to hide their entire life and been bullied for it, literally relate to every word she said and everything she did. the conversation with ballister on the train? where he tells her to 'just be normal', and how 'its easier' and she responds with, 'easier for who?' i think thats what really sold me on her as a trans allegory. the bits where nimona had to keep specifying that she was 'just nimona' to ballister? ugh. perfect. 'i feel like if i don't shapeshift i'll die'? actually so fucking true. i love this movie. this movie was SO SO SO good i swear i love it SO MUCH. please go watch it and make it a staple for animated movies that started off the 20's with a solid bang. please i need this.
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Have you read/watched Nimona? If so, thoughts?
The kind of emotional gutpunch I can't bear to watch without ample preparation. The first ten minutes are the hard part for me - it's always a wrench for me to get through a "good-hearted character is cruelly framed" plotline, so I really appreciate how quickly they get that out of the way and how Nimona immediately brightens the mood when she shows up.
Overall, truly one of the best examples of how a creator can use their personal grief and rage at injustice as a medium to sculpt a story. The narrative manages to feel deeply authentic to a real emotional journey while still feeling completely contained within the story. I'm not entirely sure how to put this, but sometimes when a writer gets allegorical with their experiences, it can feel like the story gets put on pause so the characters can turn out to the audience and speak in the author's voice about their thoughts on the subject - a pretty clumsy way to communicate a message. Nimona does not do that. Instead, the many real-world parallels to bigotry, propaganda, queerphobia, church corruption, xenophobia, and regressive policies driven by terror of change feel like they arise naturally from the setting within the story rather than being imposed on it from the outside, which is extremely quality writing and characterization. Nimona's story is so clearly informed by ND Stevenson's life and gender journey, but Nimona herself feels like her own person who is messy and grieving and putting up walls and self-destructing and still - still - a fundamentally joyful, gleeful person who absolutely loves being alive when she isn't being brutally beaten down for the crime of existing inconveniently.
Also, it's a comparatively minor thing, but I really like how, like with She-Ra, Nimona creates a world that is passively non-homophobic, with gay relationships front and center and evidently regarded as completely fine and not worth commenting on - which, to me at least, made both stories remarkably relaxing and comfortable to immerse myself in, because I wasn't being randomly jumpscared by reminders of real-world hate - but it still uses allegory to address the real-world roots of homophobia in the form of xenophobia, correlated injustices like classism, and the monster-ification of The Other. So it can clearly state "hating people for how they exist is Always Fucked And Wrong" without having to dunk the queer audience in the icebath of "hey remember how people in the real world think you personally should be dead?" Again, not sure I'm phrasing this super clearly, but it's a balance ND Stevenson consistently strikes with his work, and I really love how he does it.
Animation's gorgeous, voicework is consistently top-shelf, love the aesthetic of Cyberpunk Arthuriana. Wins across the board.
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