Teach Me the Courage of the Stars

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[aquilaofarkham]

it's been one of those weeks. pass the gay dads

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[mayhasopinions]

this line fucking hit.
but it's true.

queer people for years, centuries, have been oppressed for being their most authentic selves, by the people who call themselves heroes and us the monsters, even nowadays with the most recent law for allowing discrimination against queer people in America. They call themselves the good guys, the saviours, the ones completely in the right and justified for hating against people just trying to live their lives. And apparently we're supposed to be the bad guys in this story.

i'm so glad that this movie came out when it did, the world really needs it.

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[fairylolz2]

Nimona hits different when you realize that it's never stated if there ARE actually any other 'monsters' like Nimona, in fact, the opposite is implied.

The movie seems to hint that, well, Nimona is the only one, which- holy fuck, that means every commercial about killing monsters, every campaign against them, every single lie the history books have turned into truth...

It's all just in reference to her.

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[09emenems]

Nimona was an amazing movie, it hit close home.

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[gender-luster]

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[mayogee]

I see you, Nimona.

(nimona screen cap redraw. this film has me sobbing and crying)

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[wwapich]

nimona doodle from memory (kinda)

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[pointless-doodle]

Can't stop her now!

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[kesslersymbolic]

Love how a character can say she's not a girl, be genderfluid in the text, answer every question about what she is by reinforcing she is who she calls herself, and people talk about it being subtext or coding... Like what does it take for something to be openly queer to you? Does a character have to turn to the camera and say "I am transgender"?

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[yazmmy]

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[chai-ky]

By far the most unrealistic part of Nimona was that anyone believed Ballister was capable of being a villain.

Look at him. Look at his face. Look at his big brown eyes. This man has never done anything wrong in his life. I'm currently forfeiting all my worldly possessions to this man and his puppy-dog, disney-princess eyes. You're going to look this man in the eyes and accuse him of murder? Stfu

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[lady-psi]

I've noticed something in Nimona and I'm adding pictures (UPDATED), but look at the catch lights in the eyes. Nimona has slightly rounded tilted diamonds,

Boldheart has squares (or sideways diamonds),

and the institute has diamonds

Golden Loin has triangles when he doubts the institute or is being purely himself

but diamonds when he's fully on their side.

Glorith has the same eye shines as Nimona in the beginning,

but when she says her famous line, they're diamonds.

Boldheart's catch lights are always a square, or sideways diamond. He never fit in at the institute, but always stood for truth and honor.

This is just something I noticed that I think is cool.