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Details I noticed in my third watch through of Nimona:

(I’m so normal about this movie)

Ballister’s sword originally had a G engraved on it which has been made into a makeshift B via scratchings.

My guess is that the sword either used to be Goldenloins or his families and Ambrosius gave it to Bal at some point as kids (given that Ambrosius is the only one I can think of with a G name)

Also about the sword: people have been pointing out the religious themes (like with the T in “true villain” looking like a crucifix) on that note the symbol on Bal’s sword in this shot looks a lot like the Christian fish

Ballister literally hopped the fence and broke into the knights practice to beat up a dummy as a kid before getting tackled by a bunch of knights

I just thought he was doing an obstacle course when I saw it before but nope! This makes everything about him becoming a knight so much funnier. Also the fact they have this footage? Amazing 100% Ambrosius has it saved to tease Bal with, no way he isn’t embarrassed about that

On a sad note; dang the institute really drilled in “do what I say, be a good kid and don’t break the rules” cause Bal as an adult didn’t even want to break the rules when his life was on the line vs as a kid breaking and entering into an ongoing knight practice while being chased

The director asks Ambrosius for a sword during the roof scene but Ambrosius looks at her and back at Ballister before telling her she needs to get to safety

He saw how angry she looked and knew she’d try to hurt Bal so he sent her away instead

Where Nimona as Ambrosius broke the wall on the miniature of the city being foreshadowing for the end of the movie

Bal batting Nimona off when she starts mocking him for caring about what Ambrosius thinks

So clearly a recurring conversation given Bal’s ‘whatever’ gesture here lmao

Ambrosius being really timid with this crowd of people and overly polite

He’s chasing down a criminal/the love of his life and barely even says excuse me 😭😭 and he half heartedly asks them to move before immediately folding and giving an autograph, we love a man whose great at public speaking but still has social anxiety

Ambrosius’ eye roll as soon as Todd shows up

(He’s so done with him)

Todd’s actual name being Thodeus

Idk why I just assumed this was a different guy the first watch through

#Nimona #nimona netflix #nimona movie #nimona film #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister x ambrosius #ballister blackheart #ballister boldheart #riz ahmed #chloe grace moretz #eugene lee yang #Nimona discussion #nd stevenson #nimona spoilers #slightlyslothspeaks

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So like we already know Toh makes fun of Harry potter in a ton of ways and subverts all of its tropes but I haven't seen anyone bring up the way Toh treats magic disability Vs the way HP treats magic disability.

Specifically thinking about the fact that squibs in HP can't use magic but their whole family can and instead of being allowed into school to learn potions, astronomy, beast keeping etc etc (literally any class except charms and defense against the dark arts really) they're ostrichisised from the whole wizarding community and presumably not given any education whatsoever, not even a Muggle one. And while yeah HP treats this as tragic it also doesn't pose this treatment as wrong or smth in need of change just 'oh the poor disables are born so sad and that sucks but oops what you gonna do'.

Vs the owl house where Luz is similarly magically disabled (she literally can't do magic according to boiling isles conventions). But instead of the show going whoops guess you were born unlucky shoulda had better genes, Luz learns a different way of doing magic and while the community is shocked by this they still accept this new form of magic and allow her into their society. Hunter also falls into this, he's born a powerless witch so instead he uses a staff and artificial magic until he gets a palisman. While toh acknowledges that the world is harder for people like Luz and Hunter it doesn't frame that as the end of the conversation and instead shows that just because you can't do things like other people can doesn't mean you can't find a new way that works for you that nobody has thought of before

God I love this show

#toh #the owl house hunter #the owl house #toh luz #luz noceda #huntertoh #hunter toh #hunter noceda #hunter wittebane #hunter deamonne #owl house #disibility in media #disability #h*rry p*tter #slightlyslothspeaks

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Whenever ppl imply Damian would be homophobic I just kinda assume they're either new to comics or have some internal biases to work out cause I don't know who they're talking about but it isn't my boy Damian ultimate-over-invested-ally Wayne

#not mr showed up to a enbys house at midnight to teach them how to deck a transphobe #not mr had to be physically restrained from decking the transphobe himself by jon #you could not PAY that boy to stay away from pride comics be fr #just know he hated when Tim came out cause he was like dammit now I respect smth about Drake #tim: do you have a problem with me being bi? damian: you being bi is the only thing ive ever respected about you #my boy shows up in pride anthologies more often than like any of the comfirmed queer characters put some respect on his name #he is not helping ppl come out and reconnect left right and center just for yall to imply he'd be a homophobe #he is leading the damn parade #slightlyslothspeaks #batfam #damian wayne #no one does it like him

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Can we talk about the way the knights being pretty much the only medieval thing in Nimona is such a good visual metaphor for the way their bigotry is literally holding them in the past?

#like everything else is futuristic (clothes being the only other exception) #their hatred of monsters is literally visually outdated compared to everything else in the film #!! #also both times we see Bal and Ambrosius out of armour is when theyre being progressive #ie just before bal (a commonor) is about to be knighted and at the end of the film where they fully accept Nimona and open the walls #their armour is a metaphor for the institutes bigotry #nimona #nimona film #srsly go watch it if you havent yet #slightlyslothspeaks #nimona movie

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Gentle reminder;

Burying your gays as a trope doesn't apply to media where literally every character is queer and only one of them dies

That's just called regular character death

#yes this is about izzy hands #sometimes things you dont like in media happen or theres bad writing and it isnt homophobic #ofmd s2 #ofmd spoilers #izzy hands #ofmd #slightlyslothspeaks #personally i think him dying makes sense #he was always gonna die a pirates death and hed completed his arc (as shown in his speech about belonging and then apologising to ed) #the shows going into its last season if he was gonna be in it theyd have to set up and complete a whole new character arc for him #which would detract time away from the remaining characters with unfinished arcs that will get the focus in s3 like izzy did this season #not least of which being the protagonists of the show who are also late coming out middle aged gay men

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Little fandom vent; sometimes I get annoyed at the way fandom reduces Damian down to stabby child who only cares about himself and does murder. Like yeah while I get fandom almost always reduces characters down to their funniest or snappiest traits Damian's just doesn't make sense.

Like his whole character is about how much he DOESNT want to be those things.

Damian cares so so so much about other people he just struggles to express it bc it takes a lot for him to trust someone enough to believe they're not going to pull the rug out from under him or betray him somehow. If he didn't care about other people he wouldn't have spent months trying to find Martha's pearls in the sewer, risking his life bc there was a bounty on his head at this point and further ruining his image with Bruce (who thought Damian was just sneaking off and putting himself in danger). He wouldn't have denounced the league and everything he knew to protect a man he'd met less than a year ago. He wouldn't have purposely failed a timed test as Robin to get across the city as fast as possible (a test that would've allowed him to go out alone as Robin and given him more independence one of things Damian values very highly) instead he went over the allowed time by more than 10 hours BC he helped old women with their shopping and walked women home after they were robbed and he sat with a man he saw crying in his apartment for more than 2 hours just having tea with him. I could go on and on about all the genuinely kind things he does bc Damian's empathy and kindness is one of his defining traits actually.

And yeah he used to kill people and he was more prone to violence than the other Robins but he was literally raised in an environment where his worth and by proxy his survival was tied to how well he did murder. I'm pretty sure if you raised any child in an environment where since they were born they were rewarded for killing and violence but punished for showing mercy and told them that it's for the greater good, that they're special and that there's nothing wrong with killing if the ends justify the means they'd end up the same.

Not to mention Damian fights so hard to not be violent bc he doesn't want to be, the people Damian admires most in the world (Dick and Jon) both based their entire personality around Superman (also it's confirmed Supes is his fav justice Leaguer in supersons). Damian wants to be like them so bad and wants to be kind and outgoing and as pacifist as you can get as a vigilante. Damian struggles so much to be that person but it's not as easy as just stopping when you've been conditioned your whole life that killing is the right move and that your worth as a person and the love of those around is dependent on you doing it. He literally keeps a sketch book where he just draws out all the intrusive violent thoughts he gets while fighting villains to get the anger and compulsion out so that he DOESN'T do those things. And Damian feels immensely guilty about all of his past murders which is shown over and over. When he kills no-body (an action he did to protect Bruce) he asks Bruce afterwards how he's supposed to make amends, how he's supposed to live with it.

Which leads me onto the other thing (and hopefully the last cause wow this is getting long) even Damian at his absolute worst only performs extreme violence out of either self defense or logic to him. He doesn't do it out of maliciousness (or at least that isn't the motivating factor). His worst actions were probably in his introduction where he 1) He accosted Alfred and stole the key to exit the batcave 2) Decapitated a villian 3) Attacked Tim

So let's get background on these events from Damian's pov. Damian has never been told who his father is and has to duel his mother every year on his birthday for the chance to find out. And then on his 10th birthday he wins and then that same night he's taken on a plane to go live with this man who he's told about on the plane ride over, then his first impression of him is Bruce fighting a bunch of manbats. His mother says she's leaving him with him indefinitely not telling him when she'll be back. And then this man who he only found out about hours beforehand takes him on another plane to a foreign country where he knows no-one and he finds out his father has other children as well. He's then locked in a small room adjoining a fucking cave full of weapons and told virtually nothing with no-one really talking to him except for them telling him that oh yeah everyone you know and trust is evil and your whole world view is wrong. And then when he yells at Bruce and has what's honestly best described as a temper tantrum (BC oh yeah he was literally 9 years old until a couple hours ago) Bruce in a bid to try and control his anger (since he's not sure how dangerous he is yet) uses league tactics on Damian telling him that he's dishonouring those who taught him. So the literal child whose spent his 10th birthday being flown around the globe to be a dumped in a foreign country with a man he's never met and only knows is a good fighter with a family consisting of an unknown amount of other allies who are similarly trained and then was locked in a room after being told his whole life is a lie might be forgiven for latching onto the only familiar thing here and going 'oh! Now I know how this works'

With the knowledge that Damian definitely decided from this conversation that the bats operate the same as the league it's pretty clear his reasoning is

1) Accosting Alfred and and stealing the key - a) I don't think you'd wanna be locked in a space by a bunch of strangers either no matter how nice the space is b) he probably assumed it was a challenge to see whether he was able to break out and a way they were testing his worth/ability

2) Decapitated a villian - once again assuming this is a test and trying to prove his worth/help his father in the mission to stop crime he was just told about

3) attacked Tim - a) Damian assumes that since Tim is home that he must be the current favourite and it's already known that in the league the way you replace someone is by killing them thus proving you were better than them. B) in the league if you were not the favourite/the best you were disposable c) the only way Damian knows how to earn/receive love is by performing violence, it's pretty reasonable that a 10 year old would try to go above and beyond to earn their new father's love (especially for a child like Damian whose always looking for that unconditional love he's been denied)

From Damian's perspective here he's being the best son anyone could want, he's doing the most past the point he'd be expected to and only being met with anger and disgust. Not to mention that from his view he's literally ensuring his safety since once again in the league Damian was one of the only people whose safety was ensured by proxy of him being the heir/favourite, we literally see them kill other leaguers as part of training.

Like this isn't to excuse what he did or say it's right but it is to point out that it WAS right from Damian's point of view and that he doesn't do what he does out of malice or blood thirst he's just a small child who quite literally didn't know any better.

(also him being mean is similarly a self defense thing, it's fairly common in abused kids. It's the logic of you can't hurt me if I hurt you first/you can't hurt me if I don't let you get close enough)

#damian wayne #honestly i feel like most ppl have only ever read his introduction and it shows #so while we're here read his run with Dick's batman and also born to kill #also supersons and gotham academy bc omg wholesome #batfamily #batfam #fandom #fandom analysis #meta #slightlyslothspeaks #dc #dc robin #damian al ghul #tbh too damians canon personality is already pique comedy without just making him a murder baby #boy is literally just a tsundere #like no he wont say outright that he likes maps and hanging out with her #but he will set up an entire scavenger hunt and detective game AS ROBIN to gift her a first edition D&D book #i think what im trying to say here is just that Damian's main love language is gift giving and acts of service

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Have we considered that Bruce Wayne is just a semi-verbal autistic?

#like its already basically canon #he literally finds it harder to speak and dislikes conversations after doing smth traumatic or strenuous #bruce wayne #batman #autistic batman #autism #batfam #slightlyslothspeaks

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WAS ANYONE GOING TO TELL ME JIMMY OLSEN WAS 14 OR WAS I JUST SUPPOSED TO LISTEN TO A RADIO SHOW FROM THE 40'S MYSELF

#WTF WTF #HELPPPPPPP #THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH OMG #NO WONDER HE TREATED CLARK LIKE A HES WAYY OLDER THAN HIM WHEN WAS ONLY IN HIS EARLY 20'S #ITS BC JIMMY WAS LITERALLY A SMALL CHILD #jimmy olsen #superman #clark kent #the adventures of superman #superman radio show #dc #I AM REELING #slightlyslothspeaks #superman's pal jimmy olsen

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hello i think we both had the same rottmnt -> dc pipeline 🤝

The pipeline is so real 🤝

Started with Lego batman for me and then descended into comics. Had the sad so I watched the Batman ninja turtles movie and it slapped so I watched Rise and now I'm watching through the 2012 tmnt series too

#the amount of media ive gotten into cause of the lego batman butterfly effect would be truly embarrassing #if that film werent such a banger #ask #slightlyslothspeaks #been trying to convert my friends to no luck so far #batfam #batman #dc #rottmnt #tmnt #fandom pipeline

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Just wanted to say I absolutely love your robin designs so far, especially Jason's! and if you're cool with it I'd love to adopt some of your ideas into my own designs

Thanks!!!!

Ahskakajhska absolutely if ppl wanna use my designs I'm totally cool with that so long you credit me in the tags or smth (Def not just so I can see all the awesome stuff you guys are up to 👀👀 don't know what you mean)

It'd make me a bit uncomfortable if ppl used them on commercial stuff like stickers and prints but other than that go forth and be free to create, my children

#fr tho im like so flattered by this #look mama ppl like my character designs #ajakakkjakakakakskhskakaka #also dont feel the need to credit me if its just inspiration or elements of the design #like i am not the first person to put jason in cargo shorts and i certainly wont be last #ask #batfamily #dc comics #batfam #dc #slightlyslothspeaks #slightlysloth robin redesigns #<<<< a whole bunch of ya started following me for specifically those so im gonna tag related stuff with that for you <3 #ya'll can feel free to also use that tag if you dont wanna @ me for whatever reason

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The temptation I feel to flesh out a group of characters whose faces you don't even see and who have been in a single episode

#yes this is about the cat ninja girls from samurai rabbit #i cant stop thinking about them and their many crimes #so much shinanigann potential #im just thinking that theyre probably gonna be fleshed out next season and render all my headcanons moot #but oh the temptation to make so much fanart of these blorbos with no names #samurai rabbit the usagi chronicles #samurai rabbit #yuichi usagi #slightlyslothspeaks #blorbo #feel like im going insane helpppp

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Reading The Gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue is like watching the most inept D&D party scramble their way around Europe with no money, no items, no weapons (save for an indestructible violin) and very few useful skills and I love that for them

#the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue #tggtvav #the gentlemens guide to vice and virtue #monty montague #henry montague #percy newton #felicity montague #tlgtpap #queer lit #I just finished reading it and omg did I love sm #also the man on the front cover looks homophobic #no i will not elaborate #Felicity is the only reason they aren’t dead in a ditch somewhere #slightlyslothspeaks

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Just binged invincible and oh my the amount of therapy this boy is gonna need after having his face used as a bludgeoning weapon

#imagine going to a therapist like ‘oh yeah one time my dad killed a train full of people with my face’ #invincible #I very much enjoyed it #invincible spoilers #mark grayson #omni man #slightlyslothspeaks

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My favourite thing is everyone in the PJO fandom just universally agrees that Percy has been the star of at least one buzz feed unsolved video and there are people commenting on the vids about him like ‘wait isn’t that the kid that blew up the school bus with a cannon’ and ‘he set fire to our school gym and then ran off’

#the camp starts making up stories and spreading them on the internet to cover their trail but no-one can tell which ones are real anymore #Percy is just too done to bother to remember #percy jackson #pjo #Percy just becomes a cryptid #pjo fandom #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo headcanon #pjo text post #rick riordan #slightlyslothspeaks

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Ok so message for all my cis folks out there on how to deal with trans people being dead named/misgendered, it’s really simple actually, you just, lemme see here:

✨✨Correct them✨✨

Unless this a specific situation where the trans person isn’t out and correcting them would out them, correct people 👏

It’s really scary correcting people when you’re trans and most the time it isn’t malicious so you feel bad and you don’t want to have to explain to people you barely know that you’re transgender

It also reinforces the ‘screaming trans person correcting everyone’ stereotype when we do. Some cis people get really defensive when they’re corrected and it’s stressful dealing with that multiple times a day so a lot of trans people just let misgendering/deadnaming go.

It doesn’t matter if you barely know them or if you’ve never even talked, if someone misgenders them just correct them. Don’t call yourself a trans ally if you do nothing when misgendering and deadnaming happens

#transgender #trans pride #trans #trans rights #trans ally #transgender ally #transmasc #transfemme #non binary #cisgender #trans advice #trans advocacy #trans man #trans memes #transition #slightlyslothspeaks