#Ballister. Ballister BABY.

[ace-and-ranty]

Nimona, the Comic: If you pay a little bit of attention, and you know a little about the creator, you’ll see this is a clear trans metaphor :)

Nimona, the Movie: (CLAMBERING OUT OF THE DOWN WITH CIS BUS) THIS IS A TRANS METAPHOR. ATTENTION, EVERYBODY, THIS IS A TRANS METAPHOR!

#Nimona #EPIC. #'And now you are a boy.' 'I am today >3' #'It would be easier if you were a girl :)))' #Ballister. Ballister BABY. #okay I want to know how many trans people are about to use the 'I got my gender transed by a wishing well' backstory.

[a-dumb-sarcastic-bisexual]

Like the majority of society I’m obsessed with Nimona

And I rewatched it a million times and one thing always sticks out to me 

There are moments when Ambrosius is surrounded by light like a little protective bubble 

That keeps him away from the man he loves more than anything 

#nimona #nimona 2023 #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister boldheart #ballister x ambrosius #goldenheart #he always looks so small in these scenes #like the light is going to swallow him whole #it almost looks like a little kid wearing his parents clothes #like he’ll never live up to the expectations society has placed on him #this man is so lonely for the whole movie #poor baby had to figure out everything by himself #he looks so tired in the second picture #the thing that kills me is in the last scene he tries to leave the bubble #but Bal shoved him back in #bubba looks ethereal throughout the whole movie #this movie man #it kills me slowly #I love it so much #I’m gonna go cry myself to sleep now #people from the rise fandom know I only post angst when I’m sleep deprived

[bananadramaaa]

Nimona movie exactly knows what a cat person needs: a bunch of wet cats✨

#watched nimona yesterday #it was awesome #it was a need to draw these babies #nimona #nimona 2023 #nimona movie #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #ambrosius goldenloin #myart

[moonlightsapphic]

Releasing Nimona on the last day of pride month 2023 was such a great move because it’s a really needed piece of media right now. Lots of countries that legalised gay marriage years ago have been grappling with this rising TERF narrative of “if you’re gay it’s whatever but if you’re trans, non-binary or gender non-conforming in some way you’re a PERVERT! A MONSTER trying to GROOM CHILDREN!” The outrage against simple things like pronouns and drag events, and the movement against gender affirming healthcare have reached a terrifying peaks for contemporary times.

So a kid’s movie set in a fictional country with controlling government officials with personal agendas, with an openly gay couple but also a shape-shifting kid who cannot even be afford to be out is our reality in the US today. Nimona’s feelings about her vibe, body and form, her insistence that she is only “Nimona” no matter what she looks like and her aversion to “small-minded questions” together forms such a beautiful allegory about trans, genderfluid individuals.

Ballister asks her to be a girl, but for whose sake? It’s only for the comfort of people who refuse to understand her, and would rather see her die than let her be herself. And it’s this widespread rejection and loneliness that has eventually made Nimona indifferent to pain, that makes her feel suicidal.

In the end, it is another member of the LGBTQ+ community that truly sees and accepts Nimona for who she is. And that should be a reminder that we cannot let them divide us. Trans people stood up for the rest of us and made historical change happen, and we need to do the same for them. Besides, cis queer people are only the “good ones” until they’re done with trans people and then will turn on us.

#nimona #trans #gay #lgbtq+ #queer #thank you netflix for giving this wonderful adaptation to us #GO READ THE ORIGINAL COMIC BY ND STEVENSON Y’ALL #also goldenheart are so precious and mean so much to me #you guys *need* to see Stevenson’s AU art of them as dads adopting a baby Nimona #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #goldheart #netflix nimona #nd stevenson #nimona (2023) #trans rights #lgbtq pride #bisexual #bi #pansexual #support trans people #bi+ #pride month #transgender #gender nonconforming #non binary #genderfluid #achillean #mlm

[pawprintsonpavements]

No because I was rewatching nimona ofc and it just hit me full in the face that the director did not mean what we thought she meant when she said this.

In the beginning when, before the knighting, she says this to Bal, she's already rigged his sword, she means that the kingdom will see him as a villain, as someone who doesn't belong and who should never have been a knight. ShE'S TRYING TO SAY THAT YOU DONT BELONG AND I KNOW IT AND NOW THE KINGDOM WILL KNOW IT YOU FU-

Like i k this is probably obvious and I'm an idiot for not noticing before but oh god it just hit me so hard-

This re-watch is killing me and I am dying dying from holding back I want to talk TALK ABput this movie it's so GOod but I keep telling my friends to watch it and I have always given fabulous recommendations and yet they don't listen ugh

#and then ambeosius called him teacher's pet #and i damn near died #those babies #i love them sm #goldenheart #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona #netflix nimona #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #ballister x ambrosius

[juice-boxy]

They babygirled him

#NOT that i am complaining #juiceboxy speaks #nimona #ballister blackheart #ive been here since 2015 baby #i love him big ol eyes

[raz-mo]

I love drawing him <3

#he’s baby girl #comfort character fr #my art #fanart #nimona #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #nimona ballister #nimona fanart #nimart

[verdettome]

Twitter is a mess but GOD I can't breathe because of this tweet

HE'S SI

#nimona #ballister blackheart #He's so baby girl #wet cat #LOOK AT HIM

[sylverscourge]

I was looking on the nimona fandom wiki and saw this concept art and I'm crying omg its so cute. Look at the cuteness, its overwhelming. I love these little characters so much sob

#nimona #nimona concept art #ballister boldheart #nimona 2023 #nimona movie #nimona official artwork #just admire bal's pure raw dad energy I beg of you #nim is just a baby protect them at all costs

[ryllen]

together let's go to the mountain ⛰️

#twst #twisted wonderland #treyjade #trey clover #jade leech #fanart #i don't know why there are less people in english fandom that ships them together #i am going down for them so hard just by being fed by all the fanarts from the japanese fandom #i love how they can support each others on the things they like #trey like cooking jade like eating #jade like mountaining trey can absolutely go along with him & match his pace with his physical fitness #plants? terrariums? mushroom? strawberries? no problem they both like to hang around in the botanical garden #trey giving mean eyes and show his meaner side oh jade would go absolutely ballistic #i just love them both together so much 🎶 #they are my comfort ship #and how jade is the baby girl but he is taller than trey oh absolutely adorable

[wtrclrsndrunknpstls]

The loml yall he’s done

#ballister fanart #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #ballister x ambrosius #nimona ambrosius #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona ballister #nimona #nimona movie #drawing #fanart #my baby boy #gloreth #the director #wtrclrsndrunknpstls

[collabwithmyself]

Nimona + glowing eyes

Inspired by @crackinwise!

#BABY'S FIRST GIFSET #collab fanarts #nimona #nimona spoilers #ballister boldheart #flashing #flashing tw

[beingcocoa]

#nimona #nimona movie #nimona film #netflix #netflix nimona #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #nimona ballister #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #twitter #boss baby

[bananadramaaa]

I was in the mood to sketch little kittens✨

#little queer babies #i love them so much #nimona fanart #nimona movie #nimona 2023 #nimona #nimona gloreth #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #goldenheart #myart

[stealthetrees]

Why is comic Ambrosias so desperate for a homoerotic sword fight with Ballister?

Like, does he think it will fix his relationship?

#ballister boldheart #nimona #nimona comic #why does ambrosias call you baby girl #ballister x ambrosius #ambrosius goldenloin

[a-dumb-sarcastic-bisexual]

More chaotic Nimona headcanons

Whenever Ambrosius and Nimona want to mess with Bal they do a poor imitation of his accent

Or they’ll use British slang with an American accent 

You’d think this would get boring or the duo would get tired of this

But no

Watching this grown man’s cheeks inflate like a puffer fish never gets old 

One day Bal decided to get back at them by speaking in an American accent

This went on for the whole day and whenever the duo mentioned it he just looked at them like they were crazy

He pretends like it never happened and when the duo brings it up he’ll give them that same look

Ambrosius and Nimona go back and forth between knowing he’s fucking with them and questioning if they imagined it 

Sometimes when he thinks they’re forgetting he’ll say in an American accent “Do you remember when I” and then he’ll stop talking and walk away

It’ll send them spiraling for days 

I find immense joy in the idea that the trio not taking shit from anyone and messing with reporters for fun

One reporter got a little too comfortable with Nimona and asked her to explain in detail her “origin story” and how her shifting works

Like she's some fictional superhero and not a person standing in front of them 

So he straight up acted like he had no idea what the reporter was talking about 

And when he told them that he saw them shift as they walked in they replied in a concerned tone "Sir I have no idea what you're talking about"

And slowly but surely Nimona started to convince the reporter and the crew that they didn't save the kingdom

Shapeshifters don’t exist and they were here to discuss the economic crisis the kingdom was experiencing

And the moment when she knew that she had convinced them all she shifted to look like the reporter and walked out of the room without saying a word

No one in that room kept their job

A lot of people like to act like Bal is a hero not because he helped save the kingdom but because he’s an amputee

They act like he’s someone with an expiration date simply because he’s disabled and often treat him like he’s incompetent 

So he messes with them

A lot of these reporters will insinuate all the things I mentioned but they’ll never say it outright 

So he’ll pretend like he doesn’t know he’s an amputee

He’ll slowly manipulate them until they have no choice but to say outright that they’re treating him like he’s less than human because of his disability

And then he’ll act like he’s just discovering that he’s disabled 

Saying some “Oh my Gods my arm is gone… OH MY GODS IT’S GONE” 

People stopped mentioning the arm after that 

There was one reporter who was really outspoken about the fact that the “Golden Boy” was so easily manipulated by the Director 

And was questioning if someone so easily swayed should have a hand in rebuilding their society

Ambrosius finally sat down with an interview with this dude and the reporter just starts digging into him

Hammering him with questions like “Why didn’t you see through the Director’s lies” “Why did you lead the manhunt against Bal” and “Where were you when the wall fell”

And Ambrosius starts throwing out questions of his own like “Weren’t you very close friends with the Director and weren’t you very outspoken on social media supporting her” “Why were you saying and I quote ‘we need that gutter rats head on a spike’” and finally “what were you doing when the wall fell?” 

And this man had receipts too

He was basically silent when Ambrosius was brought up after this incident

#nimona 2023 #nimona movie #nimona headcanon #nimona #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #goldenheart #I love these chaotic dorks #we love some gaslighting bitches #yes baby mess with the media #fuck with their heads