Maureen recalls arriving to Alpha Centauri.
A small redesign, I wanted to be a little creative and decided to add a certain breed of duck
breed: harlequin
THE BIG NIMONA DRAWING IN ND STEVENSONS STYLE I AM CHEWING THE WALLS
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
Are we not talking about the autistic knights in Nimona???
The ones with the otters
Please
Please can someone find screenshots
It’s the one with the (paraphrasing)
“It but me—“
“Were you bitten by a river otter or sea otter?”
And then later when the two see said otter (Nimona):
“I can understand your confusion, has characteristics of both a sea otter and river otter”
(Both get attacked)
y’all literally do not know how much it means that they showed ballister and ambrosius love and romance even more than it was shown in the graphic novel. i tweeted Nate a long time ago and asked if the two had been together in the end of the novel, years and years ago. he had said yes, but that he wished he had made it more well known and showed more of them. Nate finally got to do that with this movie. i’m so proud of him and his work and so glad i got to see the couple that helped me realize who i was shown even more clearly.
Okay hear me out--
Same vibe
My favorite moment of Nimona is when Ballister and Nimona were partying and dancing while the Director is under the pressure of cancel culture.
Uh guys, in case you aren't all caught up, the graphic novel that started as a little queer comic on Tumblr by ND Stevenson (creator of Shera: Princesses of Power) has been adapted by Netflix into an adorable movie about the contemporary genderqueer experience. Go watch Nimona. RIGHT NOW. (Also read the book!)
The movie also features an API gay couple. Ambrosius Goldenloin is an Asian American descendant of the revered knight, Gloreth, and he dyes his (very bisexually styled) hair blonde to match hers and fit the white saviour image that the public expects from him. He is manipulated golden child of a conservative white woman trying to assert control over the kingdom. Ballister Boldheart is a darker-skinned (desi! muslim!) British Pakistani sweetheart who had to bootstrap his way to the top and still couldn't win model minority status with the head of the institute, and is framed for crimes he didn't commit and condemned by the state. The character designs are both modeled after their voice actors, Eugene Lee Yang and Riz Ahmed.
They are archenemies. They are lovers. They are husbands but also kind of divorced. They will find their way back to each other because they are simply victims of the same system, and they are just so soft for each other and what they want to protect. They are also Nimona's dads. They're slightly different from how they were in the book, but I'm so glad for the changes. And I'm so glad for what remained exactly the same as ND Stevenson envisioned years ago:
[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
