#nimona i see you

[moonlightsapphic]

wait wait wait wait so are we just not gonna talk about Nimona’s homoerotic childhood best friendship with Gloreth who turned out to be a brainwashed terf and then how it all ended with a traumatic breakup ooorrrrr

#nimona #gloreth #sapphic #wlw #gay #we’ve all been there #it's the sapphic rite of passage #nimona i see you #that montage was so soft until it... wasn't #lesbian #nb lesbian #non binary lesbian #lgbtqia+ #lgbtq+ #toxic friendship #friendship breakup #bi #queer #bisexual #lgbtq pride #girls who love girls #girls who kiss girls #trans #genderqueer #gender non conforming #shapeshifter #terf #transphobia #nimona (2023) #netflix nimona

[suiheisen]

"You can tell that there was a wealth of love that went into making this film so I hope people can take just a little bit of that love out with them." - Eugene Lee Yang | Go Behind The Animation for Nimona

#to the people who keep going: aw they made ballister look like pedro pascal..... have you never seen the beautiful riz ahmed................ #anyway here he is <3 #also eugene drop your makeup line i would buy everything #i’ve been obsessesing over this movie the past few days. beautiful representation 🥹 #anyway. i need to see eugene and riz be boyfriends in a non animated movie now #nimona #nimonaedit #nimona spoilers #riz ahmed #chloe grace moretz #eugene lee yang #lgbtq #lgbt #long post

[artisahobby]

I see you.

#nimona #nimona film #nimona netflix #ballister #ballister boldheart #i see you

[captainjonnitkessler]

You know the first time I watched Nimona I was pretty firmly in the “Ambrosius is being a shitty boyfriend” camp. But the more I think about it, the more I think that if my boyfriend murdered someone in front of me, vanished off the face of the planet for potentially weeks?? and didn’t bother to so much as send me a text message explaining what the fuck happened, probably leading me to believe that I’d accidentally fucking killed him, and then he suddenly showed back up at my job, apparently totally fine, to commit a little light domestic terrorism before booking it the second he saw me . . . I would also probably not be in much of a listening mood the next time I saw him

#ballister: i was trying to see you - #ambrosius: I HAVE A CELL PHONE AND EIGHT SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS #WHY WOULD YOU DEFAULT TO WALKING INTO THE POLICE STATION LOOKING FOR ME #nimona

[samiliart]

Nimona broke my heart and made me feel whole again. There’s just so much to love in this movie: the story, the animation, the voice actors (Hi Eugene ahhhhh), all of it delivered into this reimagined (anti)hero’s journey.

Also, I love how all the recent villains are all metaphors for white conservative religious ideologies - while I do miss the gay-coded Disney villains who completely steal the show, pointing out the real harm and giving people a language to conceptualize this is also *chef’s kiss* nice.

Also, arm chopping is NOT a love language!!! Dead for this line hahahahaha

#nimona fanart #my art #samiliart #fanart #nimona movie #Nimona #ballister boldheart #ballister x ambrosius #ambrosious goldenloin #nimona art #nimona ballister #nimona ambrosius #nd stevenson #I see you nimona #arm chopping is not a love language

[walrus150915]

I feel like a lot of people in the fandom tend to forget this, so I'm just here to give a kind, thoughtful reminder :]

Ambrosius Goldenloin in the movie is an East Asian man (Korean-coded), his skin is tan, his eyes are monolid and his nose is big

He's voiced by Eugene Lee Yang - a Korean-American actor who also has Chinese and Japanese heritage. Eugene Lee Yang looks like this:

During the production, when Ambrosius was decided to be East Asian, artists looked up queer East Asian-American men, and based Ambrosius off of them. Ambrosius is literally drawn to look like Eugene Lee Yang

Please draw him as such, thank you

#nimona #ambrosius goldenloin #no but its so annoying bro #why do people literally forget hes EAST ASIAN #AND HIS CHARACTER TACKLES THE “MODEL MINORY” MYTH EAST ASIAN IMMIGRANTS WERE MET WITH IN USA #race in nimona is important because as one person said #you cant make a movie about a police state and not touch upon the race subject #HE IS EAST ASIAN #PLEASE IF YOURE DRAWING NIMONA THE MOVIE FANART (in the comic hes white yea) THEN PLEASE LEARN HOW TO DRAW MONOLIDS AND BIG NOSES I BEG #why am i so pressed abt this?? #he looks like me bro #his features are my features and im not joking #so when i see ppl erase them #its not well for my self-esteem lets put it this way #please stop erasing his race while drawing #thank you :) #ofc i havent made this post bc of one person who blogged that Golitzine should play Ambrosius what r u talkin abt #Golitzine is a slavic man hes russian #a russian prince #ambrosius is east asian #plus we dont need a nimona live action itd be stupid #a short animated film abt bal's and ambrosius's childhood? sure #thats it #live action remakes SUCK #can you believe i made this post purely out of spite

[stickylizardcave]

I'm well aware that I'm probably alone on this hill but this is basically my ideal dynamic for them. Sorry not sorry lmaoooo

#goldenheart #ballister x ambrosius #ballister boldheart #ambrosius goldenloin #nimona 2023 #nimona #alors art #suggestive #literally everyone else sees Bal as the perma-bottom and i am so so sad bc they were both so switch-coded to me </3 #and I KNOW that if A/B/O gets popular enough that its gonna be omega Bal all the time every time #so i will stake myself on the alpha Bal hill and simply perish here by myself rip me #(also yes im well aware of the omega Am fic thats on ao3 rn i am kissing it so deeply you have no idea)

[1eatboys]

I keep seeing the odd post here and there mentioning that Ballister Blackheart is white in the Nimona comic and it hurts my heart a little each time I see somebody say that bc he’s actually not! Ballister Blackheart is canonically Asian in the comic, he is East Asian and simply has light skin.

I just find it saddening and wrong (granted I’m white myself so maybe it’s not my place to have an opinion on) to erase a character who is canonically a poc just because they have light skin :/

This is not a diss to people who didn’t know or people that were mistaken, that’s sort of the reason I’m making this post, so more people can know the truth rather than be misinformed or assume incorrectly.

(Context of the photo attached is that it is from a QnA Nate did on the Nimona comic years ago)

Edit: added alt text of everything written in the photo

#ig ppl default to the idea that a character who had an ethnicity change resulting in them being a poc means they were originally white #and not possibly a different ethnicity that is also nonwhite #but ballister has always been Asian #his ethnicity was just changed so he is East Asian in the comic and South Asian in the movie #(most likely to better resemble his va riz ahmed who is Pakistani) #ig ppl see movie ballister who has darker skin and then assume comic ballister with lighter skin is white #also possibly bc ethnic features are more obscured with the simpler comic artstyle #there were points in the book where he was paper light so I understand the assumption to some extent ig #but there’s still something so…. weird abt assuming that he’s white since some poc have lighter skin #also the more recent the art you can see nates style better develop his skin tone #nimona #nimona movie #nimona comic #nimona book #nimona graphic novel #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #nimona ballister #nd stevenson #nate stevenson #when will my boy beat the white allegations #also lmk if you think anything I’ve said is out of line lol I was debating even posting abt this bc it’s not really my conversation #also pls read the graphic novel if you haven’t already it’s so good !! ok gn

[mc-tummy-blur]

Wait wait wait Nimona was trying to build a connection with Gloreth after being rejected by animals and Gloreth was accepting of her despite being a shape-shifter but Nimona was seen as a monster by the village which then made Gloreth switch her opinions because her parents and the village told her that Nimona was a monster and tried to kill her then 1000 years later Ballister ended up building a connection with Ambrosius a descendant of Golreth and after being rejected by the knights throughout his whole life basically since training started young Ambrosius was accepting of him despite being a commoner but then he was seen as a murderer by the town which had made Ambrosius changed his opinion on him because of what he had seen and what the knights/Director were telling him but unlike Gloreth who while was reluctant at first to treat Nimona as a monster but then gave into hating her and wanting her to die like the people around her did Ambrosius had been reluctant throughout the whole ordeal but in the end stayed committed to Ballister because he loved him despite what everyone else was saying about him and its like the movie was already drawing parallels to how Ballister and Nimona were the same and viewed as outcasts/monsters/murderers but there's notable parallels to Gloreth and Ambrosius in how they were people close to Nimona and Ballister and it came to a point where they had to go against them but the key difference in what happened was the side they chose and the aftermath when they were being forced to chose a side and it really showcases how their generations were different thus their mindsets were different in handling the situation and its just exactly like in real life when it comes to queer people like people especially children can be conditioned to hate queer people with enough fear mongering/hate speech and that's exactly what happened with Gloreth in how she ended up treating Nimona and it was going to happen with Ambrosius but a saving grace was that he was much older so it was harder to change his opinions on Ballister that and he is in a different time period than Gloreth showing how things had drastically changed and advanced in many areas and i feel that the whole point with the parallel between Gloreth and Ambrosius is that times have changed and how even though our past generations have treated queer people like they are monsters and that we should hate them when in reality its not too late for our generation to treat them like equals and that we should love them like holy shit this movie is so insanely and unapologetically queer in so many ways that I did not imagine was humanly possible

#nimona #nimona movie #nimona spoilers #netflix #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #ambrosius goldenloin #gloreth #nd stevenson #lgbtq #do you see what im seeing here i suddnely just realized this and its so insane to me like theres so much detail/meaning in this movie #like theres layers to this movie i have no idea if the graphic novel showcased this but still #this movie may be a corner stone in queer rep in animated movies #theres also something to be said about how Ambrosius broke the cycle of hatred/bigot ideas in his family bloodline #mctalks

[owldee]

didn’t get to tell this story on tumblr yet but i was lucky enough to get to see nimona early at a special screening + q&a with nd, the directors and producers…and when i got to talk with nate after i told him the movie made me cry nearly 10 times and he was just like “ah yes, i love inflicting emotional damage” and i was like “yeah I’VE NOTICED”

#nate diana stevenson: emotional terrorist #nd stevenson #ok here’s my therapy bill #but unfortunately i understand how catharsis works and i’m gonna have to be paying you #again #two things that are physically impossible for me to watch without crying: #dygiilyiahspjtos #and ‘i see you nimona and you’re not alone’ #nimona #spop

[oaxleaf]

watched nimona, am a bit crushed now, but something i noticed that i found quite interesting is how she wears ‘nimona’ not just as a name, but also as an identity. it’s not just what she’s called, it’s also what she is. and, if i’m correct, ballister hardly, if ever, actually calls her by it until quite late, when he fully starts to accept her as a whole - the shapeshifting part of that whole which he loves rather than a flaw he looks past. and i think that really adds to the trans narrative of it all. it’s not just a name. it’s an integral part of who she is. and how ballister rather calls her a kid or a girl rather than that name, that identity, i think really quite reflects the really common experience of having people in your life that might not outright and purposefully show their hatred or disbelief of your identity, but who are clearly uncomfortable with it and does their best to skirt around it and to not have to acknowledge it

#i think this is a really common experience actually #specifically with parents or relatives or mentor-like figures #like they love you but your queerness is a thing they are willing to look past #rather than see as a true part of the person they love #also how ballister demands some type of explanation #how it simply being who she is isn’t enough for him #he’s unable to understand it as a part of her person #nimona #ballister boldheart #nimona film #anyways this film was so so good and it did make me sniffle a bit

[tahnnie26]

Nimona <3

#nimona #nimona netflix #nimona ballister #nimona movie #fanart #illustration #digital art #my art #my post #I LOVE SO MUCH THIS MOVIE AAAAA #have you seen nimona? #WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR TO SEE IT!!! #i want to draw this #i just wanted to post something #nimona fanart #artists on tumblr #ªªªª #I need to draw Ballister #idk #maybe soon #I still have an artist block #doodle #nimona boldheart

[pdalicedraws]

It’s definitely just because he needs it.

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#nimona #nimona movie #nimona comic #nimona film #nimona webcomic #nimona netflix #nimona graphic novel #nimona crossover #nimonaverse #pd alice draws #nimona nimona #ballister blackheart #she’s kinda more huggy than his Nims so this is weird but so appreciated #anyway it’s not like she hasn’t had miserable awkward sad conversations with *her* Boss about this #but talking about it at all hurts so #y’know #especially when you’re feeling extra guilt over what you assume your counterpart did #(…pssst if you wanna see Nimona talk to her Bal about this stuff) #(I do have a fic about that) #(It’s called Eight Months Later it’s on Ao3)

[slightly-depressed-sloth]

I am not immune to the trans shapeshifter, gay knight propaganda

COMMISSIONS OPEN

#GO WATCH NIMONA #Also it’s 1am here so if you see a mistake no you don’t #nimona #nimona movie #i definitely didn’t watch it twice within 3 days of it being out #nimona netflix #nimona film #nimona fanart #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister boldheart #ballister blackheart #goldenheart #ballister x ambrosius #ballister fanart #nimona ambrosius #slightlyslothdraws

[thepunkmuppet]

yeah I relate to these characters no reason no reason

#if you get this we can be friends #if you don’t get this you either haven’t seen these shows/movies you are completely media illiterate or you are cis /j #obviously there are canon trans characters who I love and adore (i mean nimona is canon but yk what I mean) #cal from sex ed barney from dead end and elle from heartstopper to name a few (there only are a few tbf lol) #but it’s about the SUBTEXT my guy #it’s about going “oh my god I don’t know if this was intentional but it speaks to me and if someone else also sees it then I am understood” #iykyk <3 #trans #transgender #transmasc #transfem #non binary #ftm #mtf #transsexual #genderqueer #lgbt #nimona #gwen stacy #spider man into the spiderverse #starkid #team starkid #starkid productions #starship #starship bug #infinity train #infinity train lake #robin scherbatsky #himym #how i met your mother

[gayspacemonk]

the way nimona explicitly says "get down w the whole system"???????

the way ballister tries to say "no the system is good, we just gotta get rid of the bad person in it"????? and nimona answers with "NO the WHOLE SYSTEM IS BAD!!! we should take it all down!!"

bc like, that's the truth. people often make the mistake of assuming that if you got rid of a few people, bad things wouldn't happen, but if that particular person wasn't doing bad things, someone else would be doing them, that's the way this system needs to work

you can't just get rid of the oppressors and call it a day, you have to also get rid of the system that created the oppressors

#girl i was baffled at this movie #bc that's unfortunately not a common take to see in movies #bc it's easier to say 'lets get rid of the villain and the rest will fix itself' #and like NO #you have to prevent new villains from coming up also!! #nimona #nimona 2023