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The uncontrollable urge to bring home pretty seashells every time you go to the beach, even though you already have hordes of identical pretty seashells from every other trip to the beach you've had in your life ever.

I am the seashell hoarder.

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I know adverbs are controversial, but "said softly" means something different than "whispered" and this is the hill I will die on.

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I just watched Barbie and The Diamond Castle again and hear me tf out. If Liana and Alexa are so financially crippled that they CAN'T AFFORD FOOD. Why are they growing flowers??? Clearly they have some serious gardening experience. Plant some potatoes! Barbie has like 17 PhDs, she can grow some potatoes, right? Why are y'all starving for?

I know this is technically a movie within a movie and Barbie is supposed to be an actress playing Liana, but even then! I'd like to speak to the plastic director who made these creative choices, some awful plot holes going on here, mate, the entire movie could have been avoided with potatoes. Liana and Alexa wouldn't have had to rush to town to sell their flowers because they would have food stocked, they never would have found the mirror and they could live their happy little cottagecore, lesbian- *COUGH COUGH COUGH* SORRY- "roommates" life forever. The End!

Granted, Melody would go on to live her life in entrapment for the foreseeable future, but I'm just bewildered as to why Alexa and Liana would choose to run an unsuccessful flower business and starve when they could just grow food.

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Some people have been saying this, but I don't think it's been said enough and I'm just going to add my voice to the mix.

Nimona's nomination is being framed as an example of "Look at what Disney missed out on!" and I get it. It's a nice, tasty schadenfreude situation and we all like to see The Mouse get taken down a peg.

But I think we need to be very clear; Disney did not miss out on anything because they were never going to take that sort of risk.

Disney was never going to release anything close to the Nimona we got. It would have been sanded down until anything obviously queer or controversial was as faint and unnoticeable as possible by the casual viewer. And then they would still be too scared of any potential backlash. So they would have given the film a limited release at theatres, with no advertising, or social media or support.

Like what happened with Strange World.

You remember Strange World, right?

No?

That's because no one does.

And I believe that was deliberate, because that way Disney can go "Weeellll... obviously we would LOVEto take more risks and have more inclusive stories but that's clearly not what the public wants!"

Look at the original concepts for Wish. The evil royal couple? The peter-panesque star boy that would have made the gen zers go feral the same way millenials went feral for Jack Frost? These could have been the best things about the movie, and even they were scrapped, and replaced with something more homogenised. And those ideas are nowhere near the level of the concepts and discussions Nimona brought to the table.

Disney can barely have explicit gay people. Nimona has a gay south Asian man in a relationship with an east Asian man. As a protagonist! But more than that, you think Disney could ever come up with a relationship as complicated and difficult as Boldheart and Goldenloin's? They would never have the guts to show one love interest cutting off the other's arm in a straight relationship. Let alone a gay one! And then for them to be on opposite sides of the conflict, shifting between feelings of betrayal, and questioning each other motives? That's some adult dark shit for a kids film.

Asha as a character was forced into the quirky girl role that Disney has already flogged to death with Anna and Rapunzel. You ever think they would allow a Disney princess to be as dark and violent and nuanced as Nimona? You ever picture the titial character of a Disney film AS the third act conflict, rampaging through a city in a self destructive rage? Nimona is anti authoritarian, vengeful, bloodthirsty, a pretty explicit trans allegory, and even, by the climax, openly suicidal. You KNOW that terrified Disney.

I had a thing about the Director here too but I was shocked by how long that got so I'll have to save her for a different post.

My point is the things that make Nimona art, that make Nimona a great story, that make the film important and Oscar worthy, are all things that Disney has become too chicken shit to produce. If Disney had released a film called Nimona it wouldn't have been Nimona. I fully believe that if the film hadn't had been 90% finished it wouldn't have been shelved. It would have been lobotomised and vivisected. Everything special and vital about the movie and its message would have been removed, and no one would have known what could have been. Once again we would have gotten scraps and been thankful for them.

It makes me think about films like Wish (and others we don't know the name of, and never will) and think of what they could have been if studio's like Disney were braver and let their artists make art, instead of content.

tl;dr Disney didn't miss out on Nimona because they are incapable of making Nimona. If they had produced it the real Nimona wouldn't exist. We didn't miss out on Nimona. And that's purely by luck.

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You know what I find fascinating about Nimona?

The fact that she wanted to be a sidekick.

Nimona is easily the most powerful being in the kingdom, possibly the world. She could very easily overpower Ballister if she wanted to.

But she doesn’t. She asks to be his sidekick. And then she actually treats him like a boss and lets him call the shots.

Because at the end of the day, Nimona is just a kid. A kid who has probably never had a parental figure in her life.

She wants someone to look up to. Someone to tell her what to do. Someone to take care of her.

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Fans of all! Rejoice! And let us live in harmonious peace, for our similarities far outweigh our differences.

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I decided to be trendy and re-do one of my first attempts at fanart. Tumblr behold: 2023 moxiety vs 2021 moxiety

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When a fic is so good that you just start taking it as canon in your mind, and any other fics are just fanfiction of that one fic...

Neon Groves by LiviJoyann on ao3. You're welcome, everyone.

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My favourite ship dynamic is-

A = Embodiment of happiness, sunshine incarnate

B = Either very emo or very angbry

A: *looks at B*

B: *looks at A*

A: I'm your friend now

B: No.

A: I love you.

B: No.

A: I will support you and love you unconditionally.

B: No!

A: I'll never hurt you or play with your feelings.

B: NO!

And then A falls first and B falls harder and they live happily ever after. The end.

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Shinsou, in a high voice, holding Barbie: hey Ken! I was thinking about going back to school and starting a career!

Deku, in a deep voice, holding Ken: nonsense Barbie. You're staying home and having my kids

Aizawa: what the fuck are you guys doing?

Shinsou still holding the Barbie: playing systematic oppression

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I CAN'T STOP THINKING ABOUT THIS