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negativecorrelation · 5 months
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i like hanging out with u
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negativecorrelation · 5 months
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We’ve almost unlocked five more pages of the Bloom Book!!
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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i am normal and calm and definitely not crying right now
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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Nimona (2023) + text posts
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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nimona is abt living in a surveillance police state where the only path to acceptance is conformity as a tool of oppressing those like you. it’s about how a privileged white woman afraid of imagined dangers can often be the greatest threat of all. it’s about how our nature is acceptance, but even a single moment of misinformed paranoia can give rise to lasting cycles of bias and abuse. it’s about how systems of belief will always find a way to validate the harm they inflict upon others, even if it means turning one child into a myth and the other to a monster. nimona is also. a film about a dancing pink shark in sunglasses
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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also the way that the nimona movie showed that hate is a taught behavior?? the way that gloreth, the hero worshipped for slaying monsters, was fully accepting of nimona until her mother told her what to believe? until that generational bigotry was passed down? the way the director’s motive wasn’t even power like most evil government figureheads in media, but rather a fear of monsters destroying the kingdom because that hate had been instilled in her too, like it had in gloreth? the way ballister was also indoctrinated into hatred of “monsters” until he was just as outcast as one? because only then was he willing to change and learn?? and how even people with good hearts and good intentions like ballister and ambriosius and even the queen herself are still capable of perpetuating bigotry and unnecessary violence when they don’t take the time to understand or learn about the “others” they supposedly hate????????? i need to lie down
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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I don’t have the capacity to be coherent right now but. this movie is so good
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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sometimes i just wanna let ‘em
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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i don’t know what’s scarier
i dont know if anyone else has talked about this, i just wanted to ramble, might even delete later if i feel funky (tw: mentions of suicide / suicidal ideation. i will not censor words, for ease of those who mute them)
so nimona. as a transmasc person with a fluid identity, the movie nimona shot me in the fucking heart
the first time nimona says “i don’t know what’s scarier”, i felt seen. i have never felt more seen by a movie before. 
“i don’t know what’s scarier: the fact that everyone in this kingdom wants to run a sword through my heart, or that sometimes, i just wanna let ’em.”
the first time nimona says this, it is an indication that she is passively suicidal. she won’t kill herself, but sometimes, she wants to die. she wants to be killed. that is what passive suicidal ideation is. 
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https://www.psycom.net/depression/passive-suicidal-ideation
its something that many people experience, including me, but it generally isn’t talked about in movies. thats why i felt so seen.
the next time nimona says  “i don’t know what’s scarier”, she is actively suicidal. she has reached her breaking point and is ready to fall on the sword of gloreth’s statue. that is the emotional climax of the movie, a damn good one that made me ugly cry.
“i don’t know what’s scarier” being used to show how she is passively suicidal, and then repeated word for word when she is about to actively commit suicide, was so fucking powerful to me
because its true, those thoughts are scary. to feel hunted for being different (trans) and wanting to die because of it. it hurts and its really fucking scary. it resonates with me deeply.
thats all folks, i promise im okay <3
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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something about the wording of "i just wanna' let them"... and how that line of dialogue is played again in the transformation & attempt scene. like. they don't have to remind us Nimona is suicidal, or why, it's easy enough to connect the dots -
but repeating "let them" as Nimona approaches the statue on her own. the statue is static, Nimona is moving, so seemingly, she is the one attempting to take her own life. but the static statue is also the embodiment of the actively hostile world. they took Nimona's friend, turned her against her, then propped her up as the symbol of hating everything Nimona is, and made her very environment constantly triggering, constantly aggressive, constantly hateful
showing Nimona be ready to impale herself on the sword by just.. falling onto it, because it's always there, always waiting for her to give in; the movie paralleling Gloreth's pose at multiple points throughout and showing how it's dynamic, how the different and rejected are constantly attacked by others; then replaying the specific line of dialogue just underlines how even if we see Nimona walking towards the statue, we know she's been pushed every step of the way
and how that just. unapologetically acknowledges that when a trans person is pushed into taking their life, it's not (just) them committing suicide: it's the bigoted committing murder
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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Nimona - Concept Art
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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hi tumblr im back with more nimona..🩷
edit: 4K NOTES? thank u so much… also i love reading your guys silly hashtags on reblogs u guys r too nice
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negativecorrelation · 6 months
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so. I watched nimona. I am going insane.
god. I have so much else to say and I am going to say it eventually but a thing that really stands out to me and speaks to me is. in that scary shadow nimona scene, ballister doesn't pull the typical "I know you're still in there."
he says "I see you, nimona."
that is nimona. that isn't some horrible creature nimona has been warped into she needs to be saved from. that's nimona desperately lashing out at the people hurting her trying to defend herself. that's nimona scared for her life and trying to end it so the pain stops. that's nimona. not a monster that she was turned into. just a terrified, broken kid who he'd failed.
he doesn't tell her to switch back. he doesn't tell her "this isn't you!"
he tells her he sees her.
he sees she's in pain. he sees she's trying to make the pain stop. and he doesn't call her a monster. doesn't say this form is something to be rescued from.
it's nimona at her worst. her human girl form isn't her "true" self. it's a version of her. and it's a mask as well.
he doesn't tell her the mask is who she really is. he doesn't tell her who she really is.
he tells her what she's been saying all movie.
she's nimona. no matter what form she takes, she's nimona. and they have no right to punish her for being something other than normal.
and that's what she needed to hear, I think. someone saying they're sorry at her worst. not to stop her from hurting other people, but to stop her from hurting herself. for him to intervene once it was HER at risk was proof he meant it. he wasn't just trying to placate her so he could win.
that's why he was able to talk her down.
because he saw her. every part of her. and he still said sorry.
because her being "scary" or "different" doesn't mean he wasn't the one who fucked up.
I apologize I am so incoherentbit is late at night I just watched this movie this probably made no sense but this is a fucking fantastic metaphor and I will scream and cry!
(please keep the tws if you reblog)
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negativecorrelation · 7 months
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I really appreciate that there was a character in Joy Ride who did not want to have sex and did not have sex. That character was supportive of their friends who wanted to have sex and did but it's nice that even in a raunchy comedy there was someone who could be interpreted as asexual and they weren't shamed for that or, god forbid "cured"
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negativecorrelation · 7 months
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negativecorrelation · 7 months
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the fact that the first female human experience barbie goes through is being self conscious and experiencing sexual harassment mirrors how growing up as a girl one day you’re okay and the next all of a sudden you feel bad about your appearance and are receiving unwanted advances is something that can be so fucking important to be recognized in film
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negativecorrelation · 7 months
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