“Did you see the way that little girl looked at me? Kids. Little kids. They grow up believing that they can be a hero if they drive a sword into the heart of anything different. And I’m the monster? 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.”
“We have to get you out of here. Over the wall. We won’t stop until we find some place safe, okay? We’ll go. Together. No matter what we do, we can’t change the way people see us.”
“You changed the way you see me... Didn’t you?

NIMONA (2023), based on the comic by ND Stevenson, who came out as transgender in 2022

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

Nimona (2023) + text posts

I was gonna draw something more serious but sometimes u just gotta draw memes

your writing does not have to be good.
your author’s note does not have to go on its knees
for a hundred words before each chapter repenting.
you only have to let the soft gremlin of your brain
write what it wants.

“You can be whatever you need to be now” vs “private Armitage” oh he’s a sick sick bastard

Okay let’s chat bc I’ve been thinking about this for a while. During Sir John’s death we cut to unrelated shots (his legs, Francis with Sophia) and we understand that’s what he’s thinking about as he dies. During Goodsir’s death it cuts to images of nature and we understand that’s what he’s focusing his mind on to try to die peacefully. Then Irving’s death, immediately afterwards we get a flashback scene of the first time he met Hickey. It’s obviously different to the first two but in my mind it’s the same thing. He lies on the ground dying at the hands of a man he was always scared of and he realises he knew from the first time he ever saw him that something wasn’t right, and he did nothing about it, and he doomed himself. I’m gonna go play in traffic

i wish i could infinitely regenerate my body parts so i could explode into viscera for dramatic effect whenever something mildly upsetting occurs

Ot3 meme on Twitter ehe