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12 MAY 2021 | Changeland Movie âą How exactly did Patrick Stump get the job of scoring Changeland?
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altpress: Coming soon...
Limited Edition @MikeyWay Jazz Bass from @Fender
- drops June 6th!!
[May 30, 2023]
#mikey way#fender#alt press#mcr#ig#return#2023#may 2023#5/30/23#jun 2023#6/6/23#limited edition jazz bass#live#2022#aug 2022#8/23/22#2022 na tour#nashville#bridgestone arena#beemer#2019#dec 2019#12/20/19#la#shrine#photo#originals
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did you write undertaker before? your writing is kinda familiar!
OOC: This guy? Yeah! :) I do in fact still have him, but he's heavily request only because he's not only stab-happy but very much murder-happy and due to that, I'm not really into the game for non-plotted / random stuff.
I'm completely unaffiliated with the Kuroshitsuji / Black Butler Fandom for numerous reasons and I play him as Death Incarnate, so the notion of immortality does not exist when it comes to him, as even he died before in a very gruesome way to take this place.
I'm always happy when people seem to recognise me from somewhere else because of how far apart some of my picks can be, be it muse- or fandom-wise, but this one actually was a lot in Bleach, so makes sense! But yes, good call :)
#â [ queue ]#â [ ooc ]#[ yes i indeed killed on his blog and not only a handful of characters got maimed he's quite a bit to take on ]#[ i went to his first blog to see but he run from Nov 2013 - May 2019#before my brain just short-circuited on him and i gave up trying to redo his blog LOL#that one's just an archive now#i might make him more active in the future#if i have the time that is but the manga is just - a lot - and i just don't vibe with it#can recommend it till just the end of the Blue Cult / Blue Sect Arc but not beyond that ]#[ i also went to look at my overview but i played a total of 26 canon characters over 12 fandoms#ocs even beyond that ]
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#twenty one pilots#twentyonepilots#josh dun#joshua dun#2019#may#may 12#may 2019#may '19#mother's day#happy mother's day
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Dawn of a new day
Zero hours remain
#tears of the kingdom#legend of zelda#2019#botw 2#2022#2023#May 12#5/12/23#please refrain from posting spoilers for three weeks#have lovely gaming
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A grown ass man lured a 14 year old girl out to a park at night, abused her, killed her, dismembered her and scattered her remains in public parks and rivers. Now if that girl was a cisgender girl, the general public would rightfully put the blame on the perpetrator for taking advantage of and murdering a minor.
But because Pauly Likens Jr was a transgender girl, the general public is going full trans panic defense, even though the perpetrator said they met on Grindr, if that was even true. Grindr doesnât verify the age of its users and legally doesnât have to due to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which means half of sexually active queer adolescents will use this app and fall into the hands of predators.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/national/2021-07-12/unseen-part-3-popular-gay-dating-app-grindr-poses-exploitation-risk-to-minors
Grindr has been known to have a sexual exploitation of minors issue, and I just know that people are going to see that Pauly Likens Jr and her killer may have used this app to blame Pauly for her own demise.
Itâs just like they did with Gwen Araujo in 2002 (a 17 year old trans girl killed by 4 grown ass men), Mercedes Williamson in 2015 (a 17 year old trans girl killed by a grown ass man) and Nikki Kuhnhausen in 2019 (a 17 year old trans girl killed by a grown ass man). You stop being an innocent kid who is capable of being victimized when youâre trans. Youâre a threat to other kids your age or younger, and youâre a precocious sexual provocateur towards adults. This applies especially to transgender girls - complete dehumanization and transmisogyny.
This pattern of transgender teenage girls being taken advantage of by adults and killed is completely unacceptable, and society should start acting like it.
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#2024#el pais#202405#20240512#Sergio del Molino#12 MAY 2024 - 05:40 CEST#TelevisiĂłn#PolĂtica#Series comedia#Cine#PelĂculas#Filmin#Francia#vota juan#2019#vamos juan#2020#venga juan#2021
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Tammany Hall, also known as the Society of St. Tammany, the Sons of St. Tammany, or the Columbian Order, a New York City political organization was incorporated on May 12, 1789, as the Tammany Society. Â
#44 Union Square#100 East 17th Street#Neo-Georgian#Thompson Holmes & Converse#Charles B. Meyers#Tammany Hall#Columbian Order#Manhattan#incorporated#12 May 1789#235th anniversary#US history#Tammany Society#New York City#travel#summer 2019#original photography#tourist attraction#exterior#landmark#USA#Tammany Hall Building#2013#under construction#vacation#cityscape#architecture
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Nimona: a Story of Trans Rights, Queer Solidarity, and the Battle Against Censorship
by Ren Basel renbasel.com
The 2023 film Nimona, released on Netflix after a tumultuous development, is a triumph of queer art. While the basic plot follows a mischievous shapeshifter befriending a knight framed for murder, at its heart Nimona is a tale of queer survival in the face of bigotry and censorship. Though the word âtransgenderâ is never spoken, the film is a deeply political narrative of trans empowerment.
The film is based on a comic of the same name, created by Eisner-winning artist N.D. Stevenson. (1) Originally a webcomic, Nimona stars the disgraced ex-knight Ballister Blackheart and his titular sidekick, teaming up to topple an oppressive regime known as the Institution. The webcomic was compiled into a graphic novel published by Harper Collins on May 12, 2015. (2)
On June 11, 2015, the Hollywood Reporter broke the news Fox Animation had acquired rights to the story. (3) A film adaptation would be directed by Patrick Osborne, written by Marc Haimes, and produced by Adam Stone. Two years later, on February 9, 2017, Osborne confirmed the film was being produced with the Fox-owned studio Blue Sky Animation, and on June 30 of that same year, he claimed the film would be released Valentineâs Day 2020. (4)
Then the Walt Disney Company made a huge mess.
On December 14, 2017, Disney announced the acquisition of Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc. (5) Industry publications began speculating the same day about Blue Skyâs fate, though nothing would be confirmed until after the dealâs completion on March 19, 2019. (6) At first it seemed the studio would continue producing films under Disneyâs governance, similar to Disney-owned Pixar Animation. (7)
The fate of the studioâand Nimonaâs film adaptationâremained in purgatory for two years. During that time, Patrick Osborne left over reported creative differences, and directorial duties were taken over by Nick Bruno and Troy Quane. (8) Bruno and Quane continued production on the film despite Blue Skyâs uncertain future.
The killing blow came on February 9, 2021. Disney shut down Blue Sky and canceled Nimona, the result of economic hardship caused by COVID-19. (9) Nimona was seventy-five percent completed at the time, set to star Chloë Grace Moretz and Riz Ahmed. (10)
While COVID-19 caused undeniable financial upheaval for the working class, wealthy Americans fared better. (11) Disney itself scraped together enough to pay CEO Bob Iger twenty-one million dollars in 2020 alone. (12) Additionally, demand for animation spiked during the pandemicâs early waves, and Nimona could have been the perfect solution to the studioâs supposed financial woes. (13) Why waste the opportunity to profit from Blue Skyâs hard work?
It didnât take long for the answer to surface. Speaking anonymously to the press, Blue Sky workers revealed the awful truth: Disney may have killed Nimona for being too queer. The titular character was gender-nonconforming, the leading men were supposed to kiss, and Disney didnât like it. (14) While Disney may claim COVID-19 as the cause, it is noteworthy that Disney representatives saw footage of two men declaring their love, and not long after, the studio responsible was dead. (15) Further damning evidence came in February of 2024, when the Hollywood Reporter published an article quoting co-director Nick Bruno, who named names: Disneyâs chief creative officer at the time, Alan Horn, was adamantly opposed to the filmâs âgay stuff.â (16)
Disney didnât think queer art was worthy of their brand, and it isnât the first time. âNot fitting the Disney brandâ was the justification for canceling Dana Terraceâs 2020 animated series The Owl House, which featured multiple queer characters. (17) Though Terrace was reluctant to assume queerphobia caused the cancellation, Disneyâs anti-queer bias has been cited as a hurdle by multiple showrunners, including Terrace herself. (18) The companyâs resistance to queer art is a documented phenomenon.
While Nimonaâs film cancellation could never take N.D. Stevensonâs comic from the world, it was a sting to lose such a powerful queer narrative on the silver screen. American film has a long history of censoring queerness. The Motion Picture Production Code (commonly called the Hays Code) censored queer stories for decades, including them under the umbrella of âsex perversion.â (19) Though the Code was eventually repealed, systemic bigotry turns even modern queer representation milestones into battles. In 2018, when Rebecca Sugar, creator of the Cartoon Network series Steven Universe, succeeded in portraying the first-ever same-sex marriage proposal in American childrenâs animation, the network canceled the show in retaliation. (20)
When queer art has to fight so hard just to exist, each loss is a bitter heartbreak. N.D. Stevenson himself expressed sorrow that the world would never see what Nimonaâs crew worked so hard to achieve. (21)
Nimona, however, is hard to kill.
While fans mourned, progress continued behind the scenes. Instead of disappearing into the void as a tax write-off, the film was quietly scooped up by Megan Ellison of Annapurna Pictures. (22) Ellison received a call days before Disneyâs death blow to Blue Sky, and after looking over storyboard reels, she decided to champion the film. With Ellisonâs support, former Blue Sky heads Robert Baird and Andrew Millstein did their damnedest to find Nimona a home. (23)
Good news arrived on April 11, 2022, when N.D. Stevenson made a formal announcement on Twitter (now X): Nimona was gloriously alive, and would release on Netflix in 2023. (24) Netflix confirmed the news in its own press release, where it also provided details about the filmâs updated cast and crew, including Eugene Lee Yang as Ambrosius Goldenloin alongside Riz Ahmedâs Ballister Boldheart (changed from the name Blackheart in the comic) and ChloĂ« Grace Moretz as Nimona. (25) The film was no longer in purgatory, and grief over its death became anticipation for its release.
Nimona made her film debut in France, premiering at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on June 14, 2023 to positive reviews. (26) Netflix released the film to streaming on June 30, finally completing the storyâs arduous journey from page to screen. (27)
When the film begins, the audience is introduced to the world through a series of illustrated scrolls, evoking the storybook intros of Disney princess films such as 1959âs Sleeping Beauty. The storybook framing device has been used to parody Disney in the past, perhaps most famously in the 2001 Dreamworks film Shrek. Just as Shrek contains parodies of the Disney brand created by a Disney alumnus, so, too, does Nimona riff on the studio that snubbed it. (28)
Nimonaâs storybook intro tells the story of Gloreth, a noble warrior woman clad in gold and white, who defended her people from a terrible monster. After slaying the beast, Gloreth established an order of knights called the Institute (changed from the Institution in the comic) to wall off the city and protect her people.
Right away, the film introduces a Christian dichotomy of good versus evil. Gloreth is presented as a Christlike figure, with the Instituteâs knights standing in as her saints. (29) Her name is invoked like the Christian god, with characters uttering phrases such as âoh my Glorethâ and âGloreth guide you.â The filmâs design borrows heavily from Medieval Christian art and architecture, bolstering the metaphor.
Nimona takes place a thousand years after Glorethâs victory. Following the opening narration, the audience is dropped into a setting combining Medieval aesthetics with futuristic science fiction, creating a sensory delight of neon splashed across knights in shining armor. Itâs in this swords-and-cyborgs city that a new knight is set to join the illustrious ranks of Glorethâs Institute, now under the control of a woman known only as the Director (voiced by Frances Conroy). That new knight is our protagonist, Ballister Boldheart.
The film changes several things from the original. The comic stars Lord Ballister Blackheart, notorious former knight, long after his fall from grace. He has battled the Institution for years, making a name for himself as a supervillain. The film introduces a younger Ballister Boldheart who is still loyal to the Institute, who believes in his dream of becoming a knight and overcomes great odds to prove himself worthy. In the comic, Blackheartâs greatest rival is Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin, with whom he has a messy past. The film shows more of that past, when Goldenloin and Boldheart were young lovers eager to become knights by each otherâs side.
There is another notable change: in the comic, Goldenloin is white, and Blackheart is light-skinned. In the film, both characters are men of colorâspecifically, Boldheart is of Pakistani descent, and Goldenloin is of Korean descent, matching the ethnicity of their respective voice actors. This change adds new themes of institutional racism, colorism, and the âmodel minorityâ stereotype. (30)
The lighter-skinned Goldenloin is, as his name suggests, the Instituteâs golden boy. He descends from the noble lineage of Gloreth herself, and his face is emblazoned on posters and news screens across the city. He is referred to as âthe most anticipated knight of a generation.â In contrast, the darker-skinned Boldheart experiences prejudice and hazing due to his lower-class background. His social status is openly discussed in the news. He is called a âstreet kidâ and âcontroversial,â despite being the top student in his class. The newscasters make sure everyone knows he was only given the chance to prove himself in the Institute because the queen, a Black woman with established social influence, gave him her personal patronage. Despite this patronage, when the news interviews citizens on the street, public opinion is firmly against Boldheart.
To preserve the comicâs commentary on white privilege, some of Goldenloinâs traits were written into a new, white character created for the film, Sir Thoddeus Sureblade (voiced by Beck Bennett). Surebladeâs vitriol against both Boldheart and Goldenloin allowed Goldenloin to become a more sympathetic character, trapped in the system just as much as Boldheart. (31) This is emphasized at other points in the film when the audience sees Sureblade interact with Goldenloin without Boldheart present, berating the only person of color left in the absence of the darker-skinned man.
The day Boldheart is to be knighted, everything goes wrong. As Queen Valerin (voiced by Lorraine Toussaint) performs the much-anticipated knighting ceremony, a device embedded in Boldheartâs sword explodes, killing her instantly. Though Boldheart is not to blame, he is dubbed an assassin instead of a knight. In an instant, he becomes the most wanted man in the kingdom, and Queen Valerinâs hopes for progress and social equality seem dead with her. Boldheart is gravely injured in the explosion and forced to flee, unable to clear his name.
Enter Nimona.
The audience meets the titular character in the act of vandalizing a poster of Gloreth, only to get distracted by an urgent broadcast on a nearby screen. As she approaches, a bystander yells that sheâs a âfreak,â in a manner reminiscent of slurs screamed by passing bigots. Nimona has no time for bigots, spraying this one in the face with paint before tuning in to the news.
âEveryone is scared,â declare the newscasters, because queen-killer Ballister Boldheart is on the run. The media paints him as a monster, a filthy commoner who never deserved the chances he was given, and announce that, ânever since Glorethâs monster has anything been so hated.â This characterization pleases Nimona, and she declares him âperfectâ before scampering off to find his hiding place.
It takes the span of a title screen for her to track him down, sequestered in a makeshift junkyard shelter. Just before Nimona bursts into the lair, the audience sees Boldheartâs injuries have resulted in the amputation of his arm, and he is building a homemade prosthetic. This is another way heâs been othered from his peers in an instant, forced to adapt to life-changing circumstances with no support. Where he was so recently an aspiring knight with a partner and a dream, he is now homeless, disabled, and isolated.
A wall in the hideout shows a collection of news clippings, suspects, and sticky notes where Boldheart is trying to solve the murder and clear his name. His own photo looks down from the wall, captioned with a damning headline: âHe was never one of usâknights reveal shocking details of killerâs past.â It evokes real-world racial bias in crime reporting, where suspects of color are treated as more violent, unstable, and prone to crime than white suspects. A 2021 report by the Equal Justice Initiative and the Global Strategy Group compiled data on this phenomenon, focusing on the stark disparity between coverage of white and Black suspects. (32)
Nimona is not put off by Boldheartâs sinister media reputation. Itâs why she tracked him down in the first place. Sheâs arrived to present her official application as Boldheartâs villain sidekick and help him take down the Institute. Boldheart brushes her off, insisting he isnât a villain. He has faith in his innocence and in the system, and leaves Nimona behind to clear his name.
When he is immediately arrested, stripped of his prosthetic, and jailed, Nimona doesnât abandon him. She springs a prison break, and conveys a piece of bitter wisdom to the fallen knight: â[O]nce everyone sees you as a villain, thatâs what you are. They only see you one way, no matter how hard you try.â
Nimona and Boldheart are both outcasts, but they are at different stages of processing the pain. Boldheart is deep in the grief of someone who tried to adhere to the demands of a biased system but finally failed. He is the newly cast-out, who gave his entire life to the system but still couldnât escape dehumanization. His pain is a fresh, raw wound, where Nimona has old scars. She embodies the deep anger of those who have existed on the margins for years. Where Boldheart wants to prove his innocence so he can be re-accepted into the fold, Nimonaâs goal is to tear the entire system apart. She finds instant solidarity with Boldheart based solely on their mutual status as outsiders, but Boldheart resists that solidarity because he still craves the systemâs familiar structure.
In the comic, Blackheartâs stance is not one of fresh grief, since, just like Nimona, he has been an outsider for some time. Instead, Blackheartâs position is one of slow reform. He believes the system can be changed and improved, while Nimona urges him to demolish it entirely. In both versions, Ballister thinks the system can be fixed by removing specific corrupt influences, where Nimona believes the government is rotten to its foundations and should be dismantled. Despite their ideological differences, Nimona and Ballister ally to survive the Instituteâs hostility.
The allyship is an uneasy truce. During the prison break, Nimona reveals that sheâs a shapeshifter, able to change into whatever form she pleases. Boldheart reflexively reaches for his sword, horrified that she isnât human. She is the exact sort of monster he has been taught to fear by the Institute, and itâs only because he needs her help that he overcomes his reflex and sticks with her.
Nimonaâs shapeshifting functions as a transgender allegory. The comicâs author, N.D. Stevenson, is transgender, and Nimonaâs story developed alongside his own queer journey. (33) The trans themes from the comic are emphasized in the film, with various pride flags included in backgrounds and showcased in the art book. (34) Directors Bruno and Quane described the film as âa story about acceptance. A movie about being seen for who you truly are and a love letter to all those whoâve ever shared that universal feeling of being misunderstood or like an outsider trying to fit in.â (35)
When Boldheart asks Nimona what she is, she responds with only âNimona.â When he calls her a girl, she retorts that sheâs âa lot of things.â When she transforms into another species, she specifies in that moment that sheâs ânot a girl, Iâm a shark.â Later, when she takes the form of a young boy and Boldheart comments on it, saying ânow youâre a boy,â her response is, âI am today.â She defies easy categorization, and she likes it that way.
About her shapeshifting, Nimona says âit feels worse if I donât do itâ and âI shapeshift, then Iâm free.â When asked what happens if she doesnât shapeshift, she responds, âI wouldnât die-die, I just sure wouldnât be living.â Every time she discusses her transformations, it carries echoes of transgender experienceâand, as it happens, Nimona is not N.D. Stevensonâs only shapeshifting transgender character. During his tenure as showrunner for She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix/Dreamworks, 2018-2020), Stevenson introduced the character Double Trouble. Double Trouble previously existed at the margins of She-Ra lore, but Stevensonâs version was a nonbinary shapeshifter using they/them pronouns. (36) While Nimona uses she/her pronouns throughout both comic and film, just like Double Trouble her gender presentation is as fluid as her physical form.
Boldheart, like many cisgender people reacting to transgender people, is uncomfortable with Nimona. He declares her way of doing things âtoo much,â and insists they try to be âinconspicuousâ and âdiscreet.â He worries whether others saw her, and, when she is casually in a nonhuman form, he asks if she can âbe normal for a second.â He claims to support her, but says it would be âeasier if she was a girlâ because âother people arenât as accepting.â His discomfort evokes fumbled allyship by cisgender people, and Nimona emphasizes the allegory by calling Boldheart out for his âsmall-minded questions.â While the alliance is uneasy, Boldheart continues working with Nimona to clear his name. They are the only allies each other has, and their individual survival is dependent on them working together.
When the duo gain video proof of Boldheartâs innocence, they learn the bomb that killed Queen Valerin was planted by the Director. Threatened by a Black woman using her influence to elevate a poor, queer man of color, the white Director chose to preserve the status quo through violence.
Nimona is eager to get the video on every screen in the city, but Boldheart wants to deal with the issue internally, out of the public eye. He insists âthe Institute isnât the problem, the Director is.â This belief is what also leads the comicâs Blackheart to reject Nimonaâs idea that he should crown himself king. He is focused on reforming the existing power structure, neither removing it entirely nor taking it over himself.
Inside the Institute, the Director has been doing her best to set Goldenloin against his former partner. Despite his internal misgivings and fear of betraying someone he loves, Goldenloin does his best to adhere to his prescribed role. As the Director reminds the knights, they are literally born to defend the kingdom, and itâs their sacred duty to do soâespecially Goldenloin, who carries Glorethâs holy blood. This blood connection is repeated throughout the film, and used by the Director to exploit Goldenloin. Heâs the Instituteâs token minority, put on a gilded pedestal and treated as a symbol instead of a human being.
Goldenloin is a pretty face for propaganda posters, and those posters can be seen throughout the film. They proclaim Glorethâs majesty, the power of the knights, and remind civilians that the Institute is necessary to âprotect our way of life.â A subway PSA urges citizens, âif you see something, slay something,â in a direct parody of the real-world âif you see something, say somethingâ campaign by the United States Department of Homeland Security. (37)
The film is not subtle in its political messaging. When Boldheart attempts to prove his innocence to Goldenloin and the assembled knights, he reaches towards his pocket for a phone. The Director cries that Boldheart has a weapon, and Sureblade opens fire. Though the shot hits the phone and not Boldheart, it carries echoes of real-world police brutality against people of color. Specifically, the use of a phone evokes cases such as the 2018 murder of Stephon Clark, a young Black man who was shot and killed by California police claiming Clarkâs cell phone was a firearm. (38) The film does not toy with vague, depoliticized themes of coexistence and tolerance; it is a direct and pointed allegory for contemporary oppression in the United States of America.
Forced to choose between love for Boldheart and loyalty to the Institute, Goldenloin chooses the Institute. He calls for Boldheartâs arrest, and this is the moment Boldheart finally agrees to fight back and raise hell alongside Nimona. When Goldenloin calls Nimona a monster during the ensuing battle, Boldheart doesnât hesitate to refute it. He expresses his trust in her, and itâs clear he means it. Heâs been betrayed by someone he cared about and thought he could depend on, and this puts him in true solidarity with Nimona for the first time.
During the fight, Nimona stops a car from crashing into a small child. She shapeshifts into a young girl to appear less threatening, but it doesnât work. The child picks up a sword, pointing it at Nimona until an adult pulls them away to hide. When Nimona sees this hatred imprinted in the heart of a child, it horrifies her.
After fleeing to their hideout, Nimona makes a confession to Boldheart: she has suicidal ideations. So many people have directed so much hatred toward her that sometimes she wants to give in and let them kill her. In the real world, a month after the filmâs release, a study from the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law compiled data about suicidality in American transgender adults. (39) Researchers found that eighty-one percent have thought about suicide, compared to just thirty-five percent of cisgender adults. Forty-two percent have attempted suicide, compared to eleven percent of cisgender adults. Fifty-six percent have engaged in self-harm, compared to twelve percent of cisgender adults.
When Boldheart offers to flee with her and find somewhere safe together, Nimona declares they shouldnât have to run. She makes the decision every trans person living in a hostile place must make: do I leave and save myself, or do I stay to fight for my community? The year the film was released, the Trans Legislation Tracker reported a record-breaking amount of anti-trans legislation in the United States, with six hundred and two bills introduced throughout twenty-four states. (40) In February 2024, the National Center for Transgender Equality published data on their 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, revealing that forty-seven percent of respondents thought about moving to another area due to discrimination, with ten percent actually doing so. (41)
Despite the danger, Nimona and Boldheart work diligently against the Institute. When they gain fresh footage proving the Directorâs guilt, they donât hesitate to upload it online, where it garners rapid attention across social and news media. Newscasters begin asking who the real villain is, anti-Institute sentiment builds, and citizens protest in the streets, demanding answers. The power that social media adds to social justice activism is true in the real world as it is in the film, seen in campaigns such as the viral #MeToo hashtag and the Black Lives Matter movement. (42) In 2020, polls conducted by the Pew Research Center showed eight in ten Americans viewed social media platforms as either very or somewhat effective in raising awareness about political and social topics. In the same survey, seventy-seven percent of respondents believed social media is at least somewhat effective in organizing social movements. (43)
In reaction to the media firestorm, the Director issues a statement. She outs Nimona as a shapeshifter, and claims the evidence against the Institute is a hoax. Believing the Director, Goldenloin contacts Boldheart for a rendezvous, sans Nimona. From Goldenloinâs perspective, Boldheart is a good man who has been deceived by the real villain, Nimona. He tells Boldheart about a scroll the Director found, with evidence that Nimona is Glorethâs original monster, still alive and terrorizing the city. Goldenloin wants to bring Boldheart back into the knighthood and resume their relationship, and though thatâs what Boldheart wanted before, his solidarity with Nimona causes him to reject the offer.
Though he leaves Goldenloin behind, Boldheartâs suspicion of Nimona returns. Despite their solidarity, he doesnât really know her, so he returns home to interrogate her. In the ensuing argument, he reverts to calling her a monster, but only through implicationâhe wonât say the word. Like a slur, he knows he shouldnât say it anymore, but that doesnât keep him from believing it.
Boldheartâs actions prove to Nimona that nowhere is safe. There is no haven. Her community will always turn on her. She flees, and in her ensuing breakdown, the audience learns her backstory. She was alone for an unspecified length of time, never able to fit in until meeting Gloreth as a little girl. Nimona presents herself to Gloreth as another little girl, and Gloreth becomes Nimonaâs very first friend. Even when Nimona shapeshifts, Gloreth treats her with kindness and love.
Then the adults of Glorethâs village see Nimona shapeshift, and the word âmonsterâ is hurled. Torches and pitchforks come out. At the adultsâ panic, Gloreth takes up a sword against Nimona, and the cycle of bigotry is transferred to the next generation. The friendship shatters, and Nimona must flee before she can be killed.
After losing Boldheart, seemingly Nimonaâs only ally since Glorethâs betrayal, Nimonaâs grief becomes insurmountable. She knows in her heart that nothing will ever change. Sheâs been hurt too much, by too many, cutting too deeply. To Nimona, the world will only ever bring her pain, so she gives in. She transforms into the giant, ferocious monster everyone has always told her she is, and she begins moving through the city as the Institute opens fire.
When Ballister sees Nimonaâs giant, shadowy form, he realizes the horrific pain he caused her. He intuits that Nimona isnât causing destruction for fun, sheâs on a suicide march. Sheâs given up, and her decision is the result of endless, systemic bigotry and betrayal of trust. Her rampage wouldnât be happening if sheâd been treated with love, support, and care.
Nimonaâs previous admission of suicidal ideation repeats in voiceover as she prepares to impale herself on a sword pointed by a massive statue of Gloreth. Her suicide is only prevented because Ballister steps in, calling to her, apologizing, saying he sees her and she isnât alone. She collapses into his arms, once again in human form, sobbing. Boldheart has finally accepted her truth, and she is safe with him.
But she isnât safe from the Director.
In a genocidal bid she knows will take out countless civilian lives, the Director orders canons fired on Nimona. Goldenloin tries to stop her, finally standing up against the system, but itâs too late. The Director fires the canons, Nimona throws herself at the blast to protect the civilians, and Nimona falls.
When the dust settles, the Director is deposed and the city rebuilds. Boldheart and Goldenloin reconnect and resume their relationship. The walls around the city come down, reforms take hold in the Institute, and a memorial goes up to honor Nimona, the hero who sacrificed her life to reveal the Directorâs corruption.
Nimona, however, is hard to kill.
Nimona originally had a tragic ending, born of N.D. Stevensonâs own depression, but that hopelessness didnât last forever. (44) Though Nimona is defeated, she doesnât stay dead. Through the outpouring of love and support N.D. Stevenson received while creating the original webcomic, he gained the community and support he needed to create a more hopeful ending for Nimonaâs storyâand himself.
The comicâs ending is bittersweet. Nimona canât truly die, and eventually restores herself. She allows Blackheart to glimpse her, so he knows she survived, but she doesnât stay. She still doesnât feel safe, and is assumed to move on somewhere new. Blackheart never sees Nimona again.
The filmâs ending is more hopeful. There is a shimmer of pink magic as Nimona announces her survival, and the film ends with Boldheartâs elated exclamation. Even death couldnât keep her down. She survived Gloreth, and she survived the Director. Though this chapter of the story is over, there is hope on the horizon, and she has allies on her side.
In both incarnations, Nimona is a story of queer survival in a cruel world. The original ending was one of despair, that said there was little hope of true solidarity and allyship. The revised ending said there was hope, but still so far to go. The filmâs ending says there is hope, there is solidarity, and there are people who will stand with transgender people until the bitter endâbut, more importantly, there are people in the world who want trans people to live, to thrive, and to find joy.
In a world thatâs so hostile to transgender people, itâs no wonder a radically trans-positive film had to fight so hard to exist. Unfortunately, the battle must continue. As of June 2024, Netflix hasnât announced any intent to produce physical copies of the film, meaning it exists solely on streaming and is only accessible via a monthly paid subscription. Should Netflix ever take down its original animation, as HBO Max did in 2022 despite massive backlash, the film could easily become lost media. (45) Though it saved Nimona from Disney, Netflix has its own nasty history of under-marketing and canceling queer programs. (46)
The filmâs art book is already gone. The multimedia tome was posted online on October 12, 2023, hosted at ArtofNimona.com. (47) Per the Internet Archiveâs Wayback Machine, the site became a Netflix redirect at some point between 10:26 PM on March 9, 2024 and 9:35 PM on March 20, 2024. (48) On the archived site, some multimedia elements are non-functional, potentially making them lost media. The art book is not available through any legal source, and though production designer Aidan Sugano desperately wants a physical copy made, there seem to be no such plans. (49)
Perhaps Netflix will eventually release physical copies of both film and art book. Perhaps not. Time will tell. In the meantime, Nimona stands as a triumph of queer media in a queerphobic world. That it exists at all is a miracle, and that its accessibility is so precarious a year after release is a travesty. Contemporary political commentary is woven into every aspect of the film, and it exists thanks to the passion, talent, and bravery of an incredible crew who endured despite blatant corporate queerphobia.
Long live Nimona, and long live the transgender community she represents.
_ This piece was commissioned using the prompt "the Nimona movie."
Updated 6/16/24 to revise an inaccurate statement regarding the original comic.
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21. Stevenson, ND. (@Gingerhazing). 2021. "Sad day. Thanks for the well wishes, and sending so much love to everyone at Blue Sky. Forever grateful for all the care and joy you poured into Nimona." Twitter/X, February 9, 2021, 3:32 PM. https://x.com/Gingerhazing/status/1359238823935283200
22. Jones, Rendy. 2023. ââNimonaâ: Netflixâs Remarkable Trans-Rights Animated Movie Is Here.â Rolling Stone. July 3, 2023. https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/nimona-netflix-trans-rights-animated-movie-lgbtq-riz-ahmed-chloe-grace-moretz-1234782583/.
23. Keegan, Rebecca. 2024. âWhy Megan Ellison Saved âNimonaâ: âI Needed This Movie.ââ The Hollywood Reporter. February 22, 2024. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/megan-ellison-saved-nimona-1235832043/.
24. Stevenson, ND. (@Gingerhazing). 2022. "Nimonaâs always been a spunky little story that just wouldnât stop. Sheâs a fighter...but sheâs also got some really awesome people fighting for her. I am excited out of my mind to announce that THE NIMONA MOVIE IS ALIVE...coming at you in 2023 from Annapurna and Netflix." Twitter/X, April 11, 2022, 10:00 AM. https://x.com/Gingerhazing/status/1513517319841935363.
25. ââNimonaâ Starring ChloĂ« Grace Moretz, Riz Ahmed & Eugene Lee Yang Coming to Netflix in 2023.â About Netflix. April 11, 2022. https://about.netflix.com/en/news/nimona-starring-chloe-grace-moretz-riz-ahmed-and-eugene-lee-yang-coming-to-netflix.
26. ââNimonaâ Rates 100% on Rotten Tomatoes after Annecy Premiere.â Animation Magazine. June 15, 2023. https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/06/nimona-rates-100-on-rotten-tomatoes-after-annecy-premiere/
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Walz has served as Minnesotaâs governor since 2019 after 12 years in the House of Representatives and now chairs the Democratic Governors Association. He has built a reputation as a folksy politician who can get things done, as Minnesota has adopted a number of progressive laws during his tenure. According to a poll conducted earlier this year, Walz enjoys an approval rating of 55% among Minnesotans. Since Minnesota Democrats achieved a legislative trifecta in the 2022 elections, Walz and his allies have used their power to push a slate of progressive policies. The governor has signed bills protecting abortion access, expanding background checks for prospective gun owners and legalizing recreational marijuana. âRight now, Minnesota is showing the country you donât win elections to bank political capital,â Walz said last year. âYou win elections to burn political capital and improve lives.â That philosophy has endeared him to progressives, who threw their support behind him as the veepstakes kicked into high gear over the past two weeks. They reshared clips of Walz lovingly mocking his daughterâs vegetarianism and tinkering with his car to paint him as the dad that America needs right now.
This is fucking awesome! Honestly, sincerely good news and a very promising pick for the potential Harris Administration. An aggressive, unabashed, popular, populist left-winger with a track record of enacting real, substantive help for people is capital-G Great.
What has he done, specifically?
Abortion rights
In a 1995 ruling, the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in Minnesota. In January 2023, Walz signed the PRO Act (Protect Reproductive Options Act) into law, making abortion a "fundamental right," as well as access to contraception, fertility treatments, sterilization and other reproductive health care.
The law made Minnesota the first state to codify abortion rights in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 ruling in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which nullified Roe. v. Wade after nearly 50 years of precedent. In April 2023, Walz signed the Reproductive Freedom Defense Act into law, shielding women and providers from any legal action originating from the patient's state.
Pro-LGBTQIA+ legislation
In March 2023, Walz signed an executive order to protect the right of residents to have access to gender-affirming health care. Weeks later, he signed the "Trans Refuge" bill, banning the enforcement of arrest warrants, extradition requests and out-of-state subpoenas for those who traveled to Minnesota for care.
"When someone else is given basic rights, others don't lose theirs," Walz said. "We aren't cutting a pie here. We're giving basic rights to every single Minnesotan."
Paid family, medical and sick leave
In May 2023, Walz signed a law creating a state-run program to provide paid family and medical leave for Minnesota workers, funded by a 0.7% payroll tax on employers, by 2026.
Legalization of recreational marijuana
In May 2023, Minnesota became the 23rd state in the nation to legalize recreational cannabis use. Three months later, people 21 and older could start to possess certain amounts of marijuana at home and on their person, in addition to legally growing up to eight plants at a time.
Restoration of voting rights for former felons
In March 2023, Walz signed a bill that restored the right to vote to more than 50,000 convicted felons who had already served their time.
Universal school meals
Amid the increase in food insecurity for many Minnesotans during the pandemic, and the subsequent strain on the state's food shelves that remains to this day, Walz signed a bill in March 2023 that ensures all K-12 students in the state have access to free breakfast and lunch on school days.
Do you know what makes this even better?
Fuck 'Em. I know negative partisanship is important and can help motivate right-wingers to vote, but they're going to vote anyway. And him being afraid of Walz is just a sign that he's a good pick, in policy and politics.
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đș now watching: "hotel del luna" (jihoon x reader)
part of my svtflix milestone event. warnings: cussing/swearing, mentions of death. more content under the cut. enjoy watching!
hotel del luna's guestbook, as managed by lee jihoon.
Name: Han Seung-woo Check-in date: August 17, 2019 Reason for stay: Seung-woo was a street artist who passed away in a tragic car accident at the height of his career. He stayed at hotel, haunted by the regret of never completing his masterpiece mural, which he planned to dedicate to his late mother. Reason for leaving: The hotel manager tracked down Seung-woo's original sketches and helped arrange for a modern artist to complete his mural at a public plaza. Witnessing his vision come to life brought him peace. Check-out date: January 11, 2024
Name: Choi Min-ji Check-in date: May 4, 1997 Reason for stay: Min-ji was a nurse who sacrificed herself to save patients during a hospital fire. She lingered at Hotel del Luna because she couldnât forgive herself for leaving her younger brother behind, feeling she hadnât done enough to care for him. Reason for leaving: Decades letter, her brother passed away; the manager brought him to the hotel. During their reunion, he reassured Min-ji that her sacrifice inspired him to become a doctor and save lives, fulfilling her legacy. They crossed into the afterlife together. Check-out date: October 9, 2024
Name: Kang Mi-young Position in Hotel del Luna: Receptionist Check-in date: July 8, 1975 Reason for stay: Mi-young was a renowned opera singer who lost her voice in life. She became the hotel receptionist to welcome guests with warmth and kindness, making up for the bitterness she had shown in her final days. Reason for leaving: A guest, who was a devoted fan of her opera performances, recognized her and reminded her of how much her art had inspired others. This helped her regain a sense of purpose and release her regret. Check-out date: December 31, 2024
Name: Park Jin-ho Position: Concierge Check-in date: January 12, 1843 Reason for stay: Jin-ho was the very first staff member of Hotel del Luna. He accepted the role of concierge after passing away as a penniless merchant who regretted his life of greed and failed relationships. He hoped to redeem himself by helping guests find closure. Reason for leaving: After serving at the hotel for over 180 years, Jin-ho finally forgave himself when the manager thanked him for teaching them the value of love and selflessnessâ something he had yearned to learn in his own life. Check-out date: June 8, 2024
Name: Lee Jihoon Position in Hotel del Luna: Proprietor Check-in date: August 23, 1290 Reason for stay: Jihoon lived over a millennium ago during the Goguryeo era. He was the leader of a band of thieves and was devastated after the massacre of his loved ones; namely, his bandit group and closest friend. Fueled by vengeance, Jihoon killed various people in his fury. Deity Ma Go punished him for his sins by bounding him to the Hotel del Luna. He was warned that he would only be unshackled from the hotel once he is able to replace his fury and grief with remorse and love. Reason for leaving: You N/A Check-out date: N/A
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Sascha Schneider (born September 21, 1870 in St. Petersburg, â August 18, 1927 in ĆwinoujĆcie, actually Rudolph Karl Alexander Schneider) was a German professor, sculptor and painter, who became known primarily as an illustrator of the cover images of travel stories by Karl May.
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"When a severe water shortage hit the Indian city of Kozhikode in the state of Kerala, a group of engineers turned to science fiction to keep the taps running.
Like everyone else in the city, engineering student Swapnil Shrivastav received a ration of two buckets of water a day collected from Indiaâs arsenal of small water towers.
It was a âwatershedâ moment for Shrivastav, who according to the BBC had won a student competition four years earlier on the subject of tackling water scarcity, and armed with a hypothetical template from the original Star Wars films, Shrivastav and two partners set to work harvesting water from the humid air.
âOne element of inspiration was from Star Wars where thereâs an air-to-water device. I thought why donât we give it a try? It was more of a curiosity project,â he told the BBC.
According to âWookiepediaâ a âmoisture vaporatorâ is a device used on moisture farms to capture water from a dry planetâs atmosphere, like Tatooine, where protagonist Luke Skywalker grew up.
This fictional device functions according to Star Wars lore by coaxing moisture from the air by means of refrigerated condensers, which generate low-energy ionization fields. Captured water is then pumped or gravity-directed into a storage cistern that adjusts its pH levels. Vaporators are capable of collecting 1.5 liters of water per day.
Pictured: Moisture vaporators on the largely abandoned Star Wars film set of Mos Espa, in Tunisia
If science fiction authors could come up with the particulars of such a device, Shrivastav must have felt his had a good chance of succeeding. He and colleagues Govinda Balaji and Venkatesh Raja founded Uravu Labs, a Bangalore-based startup in 2019.
Their initial offering is a machine that converts air to water using a liquid desiccant. Absorbing moisture from the air, sunlight or renewable energy heats the desiccant to around 100°F which releases the captured moisture into a chamber where itâs condensed into drinking water.
The whole process takes 12 hours but can produce a staggering 2,000 liters, or about 500 gallons of drinking-quality water per day. [Note: that IS staggering! That's huge!!] Uravu has since had to adjust course due to the cost of manufacturing and running the machinesâitâs just too high for civic use with current materials technology.
âWe had to shift to commercial consumption applications as they were ready to pay us and itâs a sustainability driver for them,â Shrivastav explained. This pivot has so far been enough to keep the start-up afloat, and they produce water for 40 different hospitality clients.
Looking ahead, Shrivastav, Raja, and Balaji are planning to investigate whether the desiccant can be made more efficient; can it work at a lower temperature to reduce running costs, or is there another material altogether that might prove more cost-effective?
Theyâre also looking at running their device attached to data centers in a pilot project that would see them utilize the waste heat coming off the centers to heat the desiccant."
-via Good News Network, May 30, 2024
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Metriorhynchids were a group of fully marine crocodyliforms known from the mid-Jurassic to the early Cretaceous of Europe and the Americas. They were the most aquatic-adapted of all known archosaurs, with streamlined bodies, smooth scaleless skin, small front flippers, larger hind flippers, and shark-like tail flukes. They may also have been endothermic, and might even have given live birth at sea rather than laying eggs.
Rhacheosaurus gracilis here was a metriorhynchid that lived in warm shallow waters around what is now Germany during the late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. Around 1.5m long (~5'), its long narrow snout lined with delicate pointed teeth suggests it fed on small soft-bodied prey, a niche partitioning specialization that allowed it to coexist with several other metriorhynchid species in the same habitat.
Unlike most other marine reptiles metriorhynchids didn't have particularly retracted nostrils, which may have had a limiting effect on their efficiency as sustained swimmers since higher-set nostrils make it much easier to breathe without having to lift the whole head above the surface. The lack of such an adaptation in this group may be due to their ancestors having a single nasal opening formed entirely within the premaxilla bones at the tip of the snout, uniquely limiting how far it could easily shift backwards â other marine reptiles had nostrils bound by the edges of multiple different bones, giving them much more flexibility to move the openings around.
(By the early Cretaceous a close relative of Rhacheosaurus did actually evolve nostrils bound by both the premaxilla and the maxilla, and appeared to have started more significant retraction, but unfortunately this only happened shortly before the group's extinction.)
Metriorhynchids also had well-developed salt glands in front of their eyes, but the large sinuses that accommodated these glands may have made their skulls ill-suited to deep diving, being more susceptible to serious damage from pressure changes and restricting their swimming to near-surface waters only.
Preserved skin impressions in some metriorhynchid fossils show several unusual "irregularities", including curl shapes, small bumps, and cratering. It's unknown what exactly caused these marks, but they may represent scarring from external parasites such as lampreys and barnacles.
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SĂ©on, Nicolas, et al. "Thermophysiologies of Jurassic marine crocodylomorphs inferred from the oxygen isotope composition of their tooth apatite." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375.1793 (2020): 20190139. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0139
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Spindler, Frederik, et al. "The integument of pelagic crocodylomorphs (Thalattosuchia: Metriorhynchidae)" Palaeontologia Electronica 24.2 (2021): a25. https://doi.org/10.26879/1099
Young, Mark T., et al. "Convergent evolution and possible constraint in the posterodorsal retraction of the external nares in pelagic crocodylomorphs." Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189.2 (2020): 494-520. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa021
Young, Mark T., et al. "Skull sinuses precluded extinct crocodile relatives from cetacean-style deep diving as they transitioned from land to sea." Royal Society Open Science 11.10 (2024): 241272. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241272
Wikipedia contributors. âMetriorhynchidaeâ Wikipedia, 12 Nov. 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metriorhynchidae
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#science illustration#paleontology#paleoart#palaeoblr#rhacheosaurus#metriorhynchidae#thalattosuchia#crocodyliformes#crocodylomorpha#pseudosuchia#archosaur#art#marine reptile#lamprey#barnacle#parasite
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DnP Interview Masterlist
This is a work in progress! If you have any other links, send them to me!
Jan 2025
Shut Up I'm Talking Podcast (video) 26/1/2025 | mirror | add-on
Dec 2024
RNZ (audio) 10/12/2024 | mirror
Radio Adelaide (audio) 10/12/2024 | mirror | mirror
Junkee (article) 6/12/2024
Junkee (video) 6/12/2024
Today Show (video) 5/12/2024 | mirror | mirror
Nov 2024
Buzzfeed (article) 22/11/2024 | mirror | mirror
People (article) 1/11/2024 | mirror
Oct 2024
People (article) 6/10/2024
YourEx (article) 5/10/2024 | mirror | mirror
Master up to 2023 (courtesy of @stillarchivingdnp)
YWGTTN promo master (courtesy of @dailydnp)
May 2024
Dan: Times Radio (video) 11/5/2024
2023
Dan: Anthony Padilla (video) 17/1/2023
Dan: DNA Magazine (article) 9/1/2023
2022
Dan: Santa Barbara Independent (article) 30/11/2022
Dan: Gay Times (article) 11/11/2022
Dan: heatworld (video) 1/11/2022
Dan: Hits Radio (video) 21/10/2022
Dan: The Star (article) 5/10/2022
Dan: Buzz (article) 12/9/2022
Dan: Manc Union (article) 18/8/2022
Dan: Square Mile (article) 29/7/2022
Dan: metro.co.uk (article) 9/6/2022
2021
Dan: How To Academy (video) 1/7/2021
Dan: 1883 (article) 30/6/2021
Dan: RNZ Nine to Noon (audio) 30/6/2021
Dan: GQ (article) 30/5/2021
Dan: Waterstones (video) 24/5/2021
Dan: Amazon (article) 12/5/2021
2020
Dan: Guardian (article) 26/12/2020 | mirror
Dan: Pink News (article) 4/12/2020
Dan: Attitude (article) 7/10/2020 | mirror | mirror | preview
Dan: ITV Britain Get Talking (audio) 7/10/2020 | mirror
Phil: Evening Standard (article) 3/2/2020
2019
Dan: BBC (video) 5/9/2019 | mirror
2018
HMV (article) 10/12/2018
Toy News (article) 5/3/2018
2017
Edinburgh TV Festival (video) 24/8/2017
2016
Penguin Platform (video) 10/11/2016
Stand Up to Cancer (video) 15/10/2016
Variety (article) 4/10/2016
The Big Wakeup Call (audio) 21/4/2016
2015
Star Sessions (video) 20/11/2025
Huffington Post (video) 19/11/2025
WOCA Radio (audio) 17/11/2015
Sunday Times (article) 8/11/2015
SugarScape, Pt. 2 (video) 11/10/2015
SugarScape (video) 9/10/2015
2014
Rock Forever Magazine (video) 19/4/2014
2013
The Independent (article) 1/6/2013
The 4:01 Show (video) 17/3/2013
Dan: Elision (article) 13/1/2013
2012
Dan: Huffington Post (article) 26/11/2012
#dan and phil#phan#bookmark#daniel howell#amazingphil#ok i think this is all we got so far? i can't remember or find anything else from this year
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