#about nell

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

👗 Nell at the not wedding?

[ozziyo]

i received a vision of their life like 5 years after veilguard

[homoquartz]

a show doesn't necessarily have to be ABOUT queerness to BE a queer show. it's a cultural dialect that cishets don't quite speak.

edit: i gotta clarify that the shows do indeed still have to have actual queer characters in them to count

[mini-minish]

have you heard? arianna minyard is not allowed to go on a date unless her sister does 👀

[captainfairygodmother]

Not gonna lie, this was all I could think of every time Sofia showed up

[sorryimlatecapt]

happy six month anniversary to buck being kissed into bisexual realization to all who celebrate 🥰🎉✨

[stargirldotcom]

- doomed by the narrative

richard siken/ goodbye kiss- lana del rey/ revenge of the sith novel/ the haunting of hill house/ richard siken/ @jediheretic/ titanic (1997)/ exile- taylor swift/ aeschylus/ the haunting fate of eleanor crain: a character analysis of the haunting of hill house

[jamnsketch]

mark of the beast

[fromthestacks]

I finally finished Renegade Nell tonight (listen I have very long viewing queues and people love to recommend shows to me (because I always say yes when asked if I want a recommendation)) and hey Disney+ what the fuck. This show is fun as hell and challenges a lot of gender stuff and is just generally a delight. Why are networks even bothering to sink time and money into all these great shows if they’re only gonna give them a few months to find an audience? There’s more stuff to watch than ever before and since I’m still doomed to a life of labor I don’t have enough hours in the day to get to everything on drop day. STOP PREMATURELY CANCELLING SHOWS YOU JACKASS NETWORKS.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, go give Renegade Nell a shot if you haven’t yet

[dr-lizortecho]

[marzipanandminutiae]

Apparently Mike Flanagan is working on an adaptation of Carrie, and everyone is saying things along the lines of "I know he's going to be the one to give us a book-accurate Carrie" and that's insane to me because a) he has never worked with any plus sized actors as far as I can remember and b) the closest he ever gets to book accuracy in anything is looking at the book once, maybe

Carrie is thin and conventionally attractive. but she's gay! not for Sue Snell, though; that would make too much thematic and narrative sense. she's gay for [throws dart at board] Donna Kellogg, a character who never appears in person in the book, and who is actively friends with the villain. This Makes Sense! Representation Win!

(although the one thing I will say re: Carrie's size is that the book does pull a But Not TOO Fat on her at one point, mentioning that "her body chemistry won't let her get past a certain size" or whatever. And some people who see her in her prom dress think she's pretty, which in the 1970s came with a weight limit even more than it does now. So she's not thin, for sure, but as written she's probably more average-sized than actually heavy)

[randomestfandoms-ocs]

OTP questions Josh & Nell?

who worries about what they will look like when they are older?: Both but Nell

who hogs the blanket?: Josh (Jeremy comes by it honestly)

who eats the others uneaten pizza crusts?: Josh

who is more likely to cry over a sad book or movie?: Nell

who talks smack while playing video games?: Nell

who sings along with the radio?: Both of them!

who would enter them both into a talent show?: Josh

who would accidentally set the kitchen on fire while cooking?: probably neither

who would throw the other into a pool?: Josh

who shops for groceries?: Josh

who kills the spiders?: Nell

who is the morning/night person?: I feel like they’re both morning people tbh

whO PROPOSES?: Josh

[ozziyo]

Nell grew up in the lords of fortune, which means for a solid few years there was a dwarven child just living her most insane life as the littlest lordling of them all

bonus closeup on the top illustration

[fortheloveofwbb]

my thoughts recently: jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan

me when I sleep: jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan

me when I wake up: jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan

me when doing literally anything: jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan jordan

[dontcallmenelly]

the way i gasped when i first saw this scene like

[greencloakedfae]

Thinking about the dynamics between the 'good' and 'bad' sides in renegade nell.

Sofia ofc is obsessed with catching Nell, which starts as a quick action to cover for Thomas but then kind of spins out of control into a full obsession with finding her and killing her. Poynton is curious about Nell but only really in a way of trying to figure out how best he could use her to his advantage, either through figuring out how she got her strength or through Sofias obsession with her.

Meanwhile, Nell outwardly doesn't really give a shit about them throughout the show. Her focus is pretty only on keeping her sisters safe and finding out how to get past this whole bounty issue. Its a safe bet she hates Thomas, yknow on the whole account of him killing her father thing and then framing her for murder. Queen of repressed feelings honestly cause she doesn't really address it during the show, she hasn't got time to.

She does get to rant about Sofia though!! Though I get the impression she more just finds Sofia a nuisance. A big nuisance, on the account of trying to kill her with magic and all that, but its fustration she shows outwardly not hate. And I don't think Nell is really aware of Poynton until they figure out theres a plot against the Queen, literally meeting him for the first time as she tries to kill him. Nell even readily works with Sofia at the end, being really civil and almost nice all things considered.

Nell is the root of their problems, but the root of Nell's problems is just the whole system.

And then coupling this with the flip side, where Charles and Polly are infatuated with her. So many people have a lot of big feelings about Nell and she is just trying her best to sideline them for more important things. Like not being captured and protecting her family.

I would have loved to see how these dynamics would have changed in season 2 though. You could definitely feel Nell's feelings about Sofia switch from neutral annoyance to proper hatred in those last few scenes. Ahhhh