something really cool happened today that i wanted to share:
my nephew is 9 years old, and a stereotypical little boy. he likes dinosaurs, minecraft, and ninjas.
today i walked in on him excitedly watching Nimona with my dad. (minor spoiler warning!)
i had never heard of it, but i sat down and watched some of it, just to see why he was so happy.
he started narrating it, anticipating parts of it, almost as if he’d seen it before. he had.
we didn’t get to finish it, but i watched it on my own, because it looked fun and i wanted to see how it ended.
and i loved it. it was a fun, exciting, fantastical adventure about the importance of acceptance people who are different to us.
and it had a very clear queer subplot.
one that my nephew hadn’t mentioned at all in his explanation of the film. his summary was “it’s about a monster who helps a knight that was framed for killing the queen”.
and honestly yeah, that is what the film was about.
before sharing it with us, he had watched it all, engrossed himself in the story, took it in entirely, and the part he cared about most was whether Nimona got her acceptance. he wasn’t indoctrinated, or confused, or questioning anything about himself.
he didn’t bat an eyelid over a gay love confession. he just enjoyed the film, raved about it, made my 60 year old dad watch the movie about the monster who didn’t fit in.
he’s still the same little boy who’s been asking us how to get a girlfriend.
the only thing a movie centred around queer and queer-coded characters taught my nephew was that those who are different to him are not monsters. that’s it.
and that dragons are really cool.
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all the kids are tragedies but nate, vanessa, eric & dan are Shakespearean tragedies (doomed by the narrative) while jenny, blair, serena & chuck are Greek (doomed through their own fatal flaws).
loosely based off x
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I continue to fall into old 2016 amourshipping kalosshipping wars (it’s so fun I’d love to talk about it more I was on both sides of this) and I’m just-
We can all agree now with hindsight that ash and calem aren’t counterparts? Like yeah ash stole the guys clothes and left him for dead in the river i guess- but they’re nothing alike
Alain is a much more accurate and obvious calem fill in if you ask me.
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not to spoil anything but I can no longer keep my secret; I have been working on a 9 chapter Rolan x Tav fanfic and I'm so excited to start putting chapters out, and give Rolan and Tav the love story they DESERVE
in the meantime, if anyone wants to share their favorite Rolan or tielfing headcanons, PLEASE DO - I love hearing them and would love to include things like that in the fic
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transitioning wouldn't have saved L if it'd been done pre-Kira case, because while Light is a raging misogynist who doesn't take women seriously, he would probably go genuinely insane if he was humiliated by a woman on live TV. because how dare she?? there is, of course, an alternate version of this story in which he decidedly Does Not see her as a threat, and therefore does not pursue her as hard as he does in canon, because. well. what could this girl really do to stop him?? She's A Woman, After All. on the other hand, L transitioning During the Kira case, with their weird little relationship already fully established, would probably Guarantee her death, but I do think that it'd have bought her a little bit more time than what she was allowed in canon. because despite what Light thinks, it's actually incredibly easy to make him spiral into frenzied panic, and nothing would accomplish that faster than his rival forcibly ripping that homoerotic lifeline out of his hands. also I do think that he'd be increeeeedibly offended. you're telling him that he's been locked in this life altering battle of wits with a WOMAN for all these months?? maybe he'd have killed her with his bare hands at that point, actually. or maybe he'd have had his, "I AM KIRA; GOD OF THE NEW WORLD!!" breakdown in front of the Task Force much, muuuuch sooner. maybe a good old fashioned transition would have been all it took to crack Light's creepy Barbie doll exterior. "ask not what you can do for misogyny, but what misogyny can do for You." <<< things that L Lawliet says, post transition.
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random njbc childhood hobbies headcanons
chuck was enrolled in a bunch of activities bc bart didn't want him around so he can play piano, do fencing, play polo, row, play tennis, play lacrosse, speak multiple languages and play golf. as he got older he would just ditch but he does help teach henry to play piano. despite being in almost every rich kid extracurricular he can't really swim
blair learnt how to ride a horse along with serena, and actually enjoyed it but had to stop eventually bc she was too intense and made the horses nervous (and eleanor was concerned she'd get too horse girly) she named her horse audrey
serena really wanted to take art classes but lily thought she'd get too messy so she just snuck into them when she was meant to be at ballroom dancing lessons. blair had to help hide the paint in her hair and on her clothes
nate loved doing every sport he could except golf, and he drove a golf cart into a sand bunker bc he was bored and it was unattended (chuck took the blame and the captain kinda knew but never said anything)
blair and chuck were paired up in dance classes when they were like 8 and actually enjoyed it bc they were so in-sync but didn't tell each other
serena wanted to join in on the boys' hobbies but obviously couldn't so nate and chuck tried to show her how to fence. blair was very enthusiastic to hold a sword too
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