#have you seen nimona?

[tahnnie26]

Nimona <3

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[christadeguchi]

"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

[crispofftheblock]

Do yourself a favor and watch Nimona on Netflix.

[hellishfig]

fascinating to me that in she-ra, catra’s “i’m sorry! for everything!” is in her moment of saving adora by saving her friend (that catra had hated for stealing adora away for so long)

whereas in nimona, ambrosius’ “i’m sorry… for everything” is when he believes that ballister is not the villain, but that his new friend is the monster behind it all

nd stevenson out here giving us different perspectives on saving those we love

[little-cereal-draws]

That's her!!! That's my girl!!!! Dr. Blitzmeyer!!!!! She's here!!

Art by Jeff Turley

[ct-multifandom]

I don’t usually make posts like this, but I’ve been seeing a lot of anti-intellectual junk lately, and I really think we need to put the word “pretentious” up on a shelf until people learn what it actually means.

It doesn’t describe someone who likes artsy-fartsy deep meaning media. People who are pretentious are fake. They’re posers trying to be sophisticated and unique, not like other girls. They pretend to only like stuff they think will make them sound cool when they talk about it. They want to act like they know something you don’t, and they want attention for it.

By definition, if you genuinely enjoy something, you can’t be pretentious. If it resonates with you, and you analyze it, and you don’t care what people think, that’s the polar opposite, actually. If you love obscure experimental prog music, if you watch underground high concept indie films through English teacher eyes, if you spend hours in a modern art museum reading each piece as a vessel for storytelling, if your backpack’s full of poetry books that inspire you, if you play underrated games that were someone’s passion project, if you have an interest in studying the classics or the masters, you are not pretentious.

Of course, some people just don’t like some stuff, and that’s fine, but that’s not what this is about. Don’t let anti-intellectuals shame you for enjoying things just because your interests are inaccessible to them, because they refuse to be brave and put effort into critical thinking. You’re not stuck up for refusing to overlook the craft of artists.

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

I just saw in succession, in my for-you tab, a post calling M! Ambrosius ugly (what) followed immediately by a Nimona x Ballister post. Not by the same person.

What in the fuckity

[walrus150915]

Asian queer people rlly won with Nimona because I'm telling you, the legit cry of joy I let out when I looked at Ambrosius and found myself in him it's ETHEREAL

The nose!!! The eyes!!!! The skintone!!!!!! IT'S ALL JUST LIKE MINE🥹🥹🥹

Like I legit found joy in his appearance because I saw myself and my dad and my other relatives and UHHHHH such a great feeling!!!! Thank you, whoever decided that he should be Asian!!!!!!!

[simcardiac-arrested]

i don’t think we’re ever getting out of the “we’re just friends” “oh yeah those characters are such good friends (sarcasm)” “they’re not friends they’re gay” etc etc hole. we’re never getting out of that hole

[k0uk0]

Ah, I miss my wet cat man so much

[sortanonymous]

I've watched and adored Encanto, Wolfwalkers, Across the Spider-Verse, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. All absolutely incredible animated films that I'm sure will be held up as classics even 20 years from now.

With that said, Nimona is frankly a good step above all of them and my choice for animated film of the decade so far (at least for what I've heard of). An absolutely stellar film on every level. Do yourself a favor and watch it all on YouTube these next few days!

Does it stand a chance at the Oscars? Absolutely not, especially since even the Annies were dominated by Spider-Man. But it would absolutely deserve to. (And again, I adore Spider-Verse and still think it's 100% worthy of the Oscar on its own. It's basically the reverse of the Puss in Boots vs. Pinocchio situation last year. They're both masterpieces, only this time the slightly better masterpiece is almost certainly gonna get left in the cold.)

[saturn-sends-hugs]

i never actually watched Nimona until now, but hOLY SHIT????

….HOLY SHIT??????

it’s literally so good, i read the comic when it first came out and the movie absolutely blew it out of the water. like don’t get me wrong, the comic is still great, but that MOVIE DUDE I CANT—

[carbonatedcartoonist]

Ok first of all I want to make clear-

I LOVED Nimona. It took the simple premise of “everyone hates the outsider” and made it surprisingly complex. Particularly that everyone, even Bal, tries to put labels on Nimona. But she doesn’t fit into any of them and the movie presents this as beautiful.

BUT

I don’t like the ending. Here’s why.

I’m saying this from a white persons perspective so take this with a grain of salt. People that are “othered” are seen as wrong in some way - seen as not living up to the standards of being “normal”. So people in this position have to work their entire lives just to prove that they’re worth existing.

Nimona commits suicide to protect the people. After she dies, then- ONLY THEN - do the people “love” her. Nimona had to give her own life to be respected. Even Bal is happy that she is finally being recognized.

THIS IS NOT A GOOD MESSAGE. The movie should’ve had Bal be ANGRY. He should resent the people of the town. “Oh, so you love her Now??? Well it doesn’t mean anything because she’s DEAD”. It tells people who might be feeling desperate for approval that maybe if they sacrifice their own life, or even do something detrimental to their own well-being, then people will finally see them.

[askdannysroleswapau]

How would Gumball react to this image? :)

(assuming that you mean this in a /lh way)

i think Voidball would be flattered, considering most of their characterization is inspired by Megamind (and Nimona, to some extent) who would consider something like this a compliment

in fact, this sorta reminds me of that scene in Roxanne's apartment with all the hanging scraps of paper where she finally solves the big mystery... god i love Megamind its so good you should go watch it. why has this blog just become me telling you guys to go watch movies recently. what is wrong with me (its The Mucus)

[alpacahat67]

love how my top favorite movies are like pretty studio ghibli art and pretty wizard boy! awooga david bowie dark fantasy film! commentary on how society views and treats queerness (not even just in a lgbtqia+ sense, in a "weird" sense too), government, and organized religion and also there's a dragon! if you don't fucking drink water you will lose everything you've ever loved and end up a sad broken shell of a man but at least david bowie's still hot