horde-princess:
feel like i need to watch this movie 3 times but one thing i thought was an interesting change from the graphic novel was that very little of the destruction in the final scene was caused by nimona herself - most of it was because of the soldiers shooting at her as she made her way to the statue. and then the director attempting to wipe out half the kingdom just to kill her. it really drives home how queerphobia is based on unfounded fears and how a society that vilifies us and mocks the value of diversity in general is only hurting itself.
another big change is nimona risking her life to save the kingdom from itself, a kingdom that always hated her (after one guy showed her there might be something worth saving). though i love the graphic novel’s take on it too i think both endings are brilliant in different ways. to me it shows the shift in nd stevenson’s work, from a story grounded in righteous anger when he was young and in the middle of processing a ton of trauma, to one that reflects a confidence about who he is and his place in the world as a bigender person fighting for justice. nimona saying “it’s time to rewrite this story” is so fucking meta
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anarchapella:
qweerhet:
wild how much fatphobia completely does away with so many things typically regarded as aspects of male privilege
“men’s clothing sizes are simple and easy both to navigate and to find” unless they’re fat
“men don’t have to deal with street harassment” unless they’re fat
“men don’t deal with groping and nonconsensual touching from strangers” unless they’re fat
“doctors take men’s health problems seriously and their pain is seen as real” unless they’re fat
“systemic infrastructure like medical research, crash testing, etc, is all based on men’s bodies, so men get a world that’s literally made for them” Unless They’re Fat
That’s because one of the functions of fatphobia is de-gendering. Being fat makes you less man and less woman. Because being fat makes you less human. Like for the same reason why fat women’s clothes is always hyperfeminine because you have to be performing gender that much harder to be treated like your gender. Fat men have to as well, and there’s a clear difference between how ppl treat fat men who are hypermasculine presenting (beard, lumberjack outfit, ykwim) than like softer looking fat men.
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