#nimona thoughts

[ohmykittenholy]

nimona thoughts that i havent seen ppl mention yet:

the book struggles more with the idea that nimona doesn’t have a neutral, not shapeshifting form, that maybe it’s the “monster” and not the quirky bloodthirsty sidekick she presents to ballister. the movie seems to imply her original form might be this wind nimona starts as in the flashback as she moves through different forms. i see people talking a lot about nimona as a girl, and i think she is when she wants to be and maybe this all is to say that trans shapeshifters rights means we stop asking questions or caring quite so much about an original form (“small minded questions”) but it’s fascinating and i love how the movie handled it.

also, i love that in fantasy movies so often the monster is an ancient evil that can’t really die, just get trapped or blocked out momentarily (cracks in the walls) or seperated for a time. but if nimona is the monster, isn’t that actually beautiful? nimona is always coming back, regenerating, just like, well, the queer and trans communities she’s meant to represent. we’re always going to be indestructible, even when we’re under attack.

[troythecatfish]

Nimona NEEDS a DVD release

Nimona NEEDS a DVD release

Nimona NEEDS a DVD release

[spacedust-ghost]

As a latinamerican nimona fan that happens to live in a country where theres a brand named "Ambrosoli", which owns these gummy bears called "Ambrositos", i feel like i shall start referring to Ambrosious as Ambrosito, as a treat :^)

[tsunderitzy-dream-boy]

something about nimona’s final form having no attack/offensive basis and being a massive shroud of darkness surrounding light. they turned into a monster because that’s how everyone wanted to see them when in reality at their core there is no darkness. there’s no desire to hurt the innocents. they became what everyone saw them as. you get it.

[gertruderobinsonscat]

Some Nimona thoughts that won’t stop rotating in my  brain:

Ambrosius willing to throw hands with Sir Thoddeus for making fun of Ballister, only for Ballister to hold him back with the saddest face imaginable. How often has he been forced to endure taunts from this douche (and others); not because he physically doesn’t have the strength to fight back (he does, we see how effortlessly he mows through those knights when he stops gaf) but because any sign of aggression from him, no matter how provoked, will be seen as a sign that Muslims brown men commoners can’t be trusted? Thinking of how Ambrosius almost gets in a fight with Thod again after  the prison break and the Director accuses them of fighting like “common children” instead of the well bred knights.

The fact that there didn’t seem to be a massive man hunt of Ballister until he showed up, got arrested, and broke out. Did the Institute think he crawled off somewhere to die from his injuries and they were looking to recover a body?

Ballister bluescreening when he realizes that Ambrosius thinks he’s a murderer (imho a worse betrayal than what he did in the comic)

When Nimona goes kaiju at the end Ballister could be forgiven for thinking that everyone was right about her, she’s a monster--after all, he only sees this terrifying figure rampaging in the distance, not her sad backstory flashback. Instead he instantly knows she’s in distress over what he said to her, and he races primarily to save her life rather than protect people from her. 

[echothelesbo]

OH MY GOD OKAY SO I JUST WATCHED NIMONA AND IT WAS AMAZINGGG. LIKE THE ART AND ANIMATION WAS SO GORGEOUS AND THE PLOT WAS AMAZING. *deep breathe*

But like. The part that stood out to me and impressed me the most was how well they were able to spin the ‘hunting the monsters’ plot into being so so identical to real world discrimination. Like the children’s cereal commercial talking about them bragging about the amount of ‘monsters’ they kill is showing the kids being raised in a household/society that teaches them that from a young age, so by the time they have a chance to realize it’s wrong it’s so hard for them to change as it’s so deeply rooted in their beliefs. (Homophobia, anyone?)

ALSO the whole thing with the history that is taught completely demonizing these unnatural beings, ‘monsters’ to the point of blaming them for mass destruction of towns, and how the movie perfectly showed how people in power can simply twist and erase history that they don’t like, to paint a past that’s beneficial for them.

And lastly it showed how bad and huge of an effect it had on Nimona for her whole life and how it took her so long to start healing, being hunted and discriminated against by a society for so long. Showing her nightmares and her occasional wanting to give up.

Nimona is a gender-fluid icon and has all of the gender. In love with the movie. And that’s all for my screaming about how hecking amazing this movie is!

[floxu]

A slight pet peeve I have with Ballister in the movie Nimona is how quick he is to turn against Nimona and question her with just one piece of paper. Like what if it was propaganda anyway, wouldn't experiences and getting to know Nimona be enough?

Counter point to that, he still was pretty unsure about Nimona, as when I look at the scene where Nimona says he changed the way he looked at her, he doesn't say anything and was probably still doubting it. Even still, he "suddenly" changes his mind again when he sees Nimona as a "big black monster" so apparently he doesn't mind her??

I'm just a little obsessed and passionate about Nimona right now, if you have any thoughts or possible corrections to this please tell me about them.

[oriondec]

For some reason whenever I listen to The Crane Wives I think of Nimona 😭😭 Especially Tongues and Teeth for some reason.