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one thing that's fascinating about the world building of Nimona I've been thinking about is...what did the knights do in this society for 1000 years?
we're told they are meant to fight and kill monsters, to protect the city. but the twist in the film is that Nimona was the 'monster' from a 1000 years ago. additionally her journey is all about her finding a place to belong because there is no one like her.
so the implication is there are and have not been any other monsters/attacks.
so you have a group of elite knights, trained from childhood with a mission passed down to their children. the elitism is important here because Ballister's entry into the ranks is seen as such a threat. but none of these knights have ever actually fought a monster. they're just a small group of elite families holding onto to their wealth and power by making people believe their swords are needed (remember we know they aren't and never were)
so what do the knights actually do? they are treated in story like celebrity athletes. they do endorsements and commercials. there is also a lot of allegory to them being cops (mostly in the critique of their over zealous training/use of force, Ambrosius not just disarming Bal but ...well literally dis-arming him, the Director being able to destroy evidence of her corruption by claiming Bal has a gun and Todd shoots before he verifies this)
its fascinating world building because the social role of the knights in this society literally impacts the plot. the reason Ballister being a commoner and being allowed to hold a sword is a threat is because suddenly their special culb where they get all the wealth, adoration and importantly get to hold the swords without ever having to actually fight a monster is threatened. suddenly their club where they get all the power with no actual work isnt so special anymore. suddenly the director realizes the queen , who should on paper be the person she is most loyal to has to go. cause the queen isn't treating them as special anymore.
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okay just watched nimona and reread the novel this is the consensus:
if you want a feel good movie, more explicit gay and trans rep, and a more well realized high tech midieval world watch the nimona movie
if you want a darker tone and more morally gray characters, a really compelling twist/mystery, and a gay ass scientist side character read the nimona comic
#nimona#actually another selling point for the book: to all the monster girls#honestly as someone who loved the book so much when i was younger and someone who loves it so much now#i think i like them both equally#the movie has stronger worldbuilding and i think the plot flows better#but god. the slow horror that you feel as the nimona stuff dons on you in the book. oh my god
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I saw Nimona! It was delightful, especially Nimona herself- I loved the animation for her shapeshifting, and she was a total joy to watch. A menace and a woobie. A 10/10 meowmeow who can actually turn into a cat and meow. Tragic backstory has me clutching at my heart, no notes. They did a great job with Ambrosius and Ballister, though they're very different from their original counterpoints (especially Ambrosius, who is wrong but also basically a sweetheart. Ballister is also a sweetheart, but that rings pretty true to the original to me). I think the biggest emotional/relationship change is that the crux of the respectability politics metaphors has shifted from Ballister and Ambrosius to Ballister and Nimona, and I think that really works, especially in the context of the other changes they made. Nimona gets her own xagnetoesque quasi-romance, and on a shallow note I thought that was extremely tragicute and it really worked for me. My only critique is that bits of the movie felt a little rushed. I would have liked it if they had let a little more time pass in-universe and given a few of the big emotional scenes a little more breathing room, but it all came together and it gave me that good movie feeling where you sink into it and stop thinking about the story as a story because you're too busy experiencing it.
#and the worldbuilding was great! the city is a really fantastic set piece#the futuristic medieval vibes were so much fun!#and they did give ambrosius an inner life! very literally but it worked#one tiny thing I'm sad about is that he and Ballister are much younger#but that's entirely a personal problem#it was good! it was fun! it knew what it wanted to be and it delivered#I hope we get a sequel tbh#to that end everybody PLEASE go watch it#and tell the Netflix gods you like it#nimona spoilers
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I keep going back-and-forth between the world outside when Quiet and the Princess leave as mortals being more modern or medieval, then I remembered what Nimona’s world did– mixing a futuristic setting with western medieval aesthetics– with flying cars and holographic phones in the same place that has knights riding in horses and brandishing swords (which may have lasers bulti into them, but still).
#I just think while having the guys go into modern times would be neat. some storybook elements should be kept#and Nimona’s whole aesthetic for their worldbuilding matched those two PERFECTLY#with enough mystery to what’s beyond the wall and if there are more ‘magical’ creatures like Nimona out there that wouldn’t make#birdboys and demon princesses feel out of place#in conclusion: Nimona and Slay the Princess should crossover#slay the princess spoilers#stp-posting
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while watching nimona, my friends and I got into a huge argument about how they could have scottie terriers with no scotland and jazz with no harlem renaissance so now I too just like to drop explicit references to real world things in my fic that have 0% justification being there in the first place and i feel like the funniest mfer alive
#current kill count:#italian food#rube goldberg#boomers#the universal constants#actually obsessed with the worldbuilding in the nimona movie#idk how it is in the webcomic#but ive been having a time working out how an industrial city that size is able to keep itself fed#with no international relationships and thus no imports#yet with no visible dedicated space for farming or livestock#future tech you might say? made all in house with no global exchange of ideas or technology??#where'd you mine the metals for that big fuck off canon of yours huh director??#short answer is it doesn't work#long answer is#im inclined towards a lil bit of north korean style propagandist isolationism and a lil bit of 18th century dutch mercantilism#digging into this with the enthusiasm of a dog with her chew toy#stay tuned#he who controls the canals controls the universe
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Quick tangent here, but.
The Princess Bride is one of my favorite swashbuckling movies, and it has a sword fight that is such a cool example of what a sword fight can be, that a whole generation of kids got inspired to learn the history and the fighting techniques. It reinvigorated the sport.
It's not trying to be an accurate sword fight. It aimed to be dramatic -- to be the vector of character development and musical turns and dramatic reversals and backstory reveal -- and it absolutely understood the assignment.
Nimona might be doing something like that. I still have a way to go before the end. But what it's really conveying isn't as much about specific lines of dialogue.
It's saying, "Hey, viewer? You aren't alone, even if it feels like no one else understands what you've been through. And sometimes people like you will tell stories when they grow up, stories that help others like you to know that they aren't alone."
#nimona#live reactions from s#spoilers probably#storyteller tag#meta and worldbuilding discussion#media criticism and related discussions#s documents linear time
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The city in the Nimona movie, how big is it and how did they build it if it’s confined inside a certain area that nobody goes outside of? Like, how did they source their materials? And where do they get their food from? Is there farmland inside the walls? How would there be enough to feed everyone? Where did they get the materials to build all their technology, irl isn’t most of the material for building those things sourced from other countries? Also there are skyscrapers in the city, can the people at the tops of those not see past the walls and tell there’s no monsters out there?
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there's no implications in the movie that theres hospitals. i know theres people off screen getting leeched.
#s.txt#''they have phones and technology but no hospitals?'' yes <3 its called good worldbuilding#nimona#i know they show hospitals in the comics but. in the movie. they do Not. hope this helps
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i want to write about nimona but the canon has huge lore gaps in the exact places i want to work.
what is outside the walls? im guessing not monsters, but are there other human civilizations and no one has ever made contact despite the world being at flying cars level of tech?
are there other supernatural creatures, shapeshifters like nimona or more traditional 'monsters' like dragons? if not, why is the kingdom so convinced of their existence? if there are, why isnt nimona out being friends with them?
for that matter, has nimona spent the last 1000 years in the kingdom? if yes, what was she doing? did she actually spend time blending in so consistently that she disappeared from public consciousness? if no, why was she back in time to have adventures with ballister?
and like. lore gaps can be fun to write in! i have ideas for possible answers to a lot of these questions! in some cases they could potentially answer each other! but in a lot of cases id just be making up whatever i want and the fic writer in me who likes finding interesting things to work with in the canon itself is grumpy.
#nimona#basically my worldbuilding&hard-magic loving brain is having a hard time fixating on one 99min movie#instead of like. six interwoven book series. an eight-season tv show. an 8000 page webcomic
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diversity win! this sad pathetic middle-aged man is angsting over the husband he lost
#to be clear this is about our webcomic but also bhjkj#nimona#a weird amount of parallels can be drawn between our comic and nimona actually gjbku whoops#like characterwise#not so much worldbuilding wise
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An Introduction to Akasen-ism
Hey there! Welcome to my blog! I only just recently started using Tumblr and perhaps it would be a good idea to properly present myself to you guys!
About me
Akasen (he/him).
Gay.
19 y.o.
Brazillian, might post in portuguese
University student, majoring in Computer Science.
Uses a lot of tonetags.
Interests and fandoms
Current Fandoms:
A Ordem Paranormal TTRPG
Nimona (I still haven't read the novel, sadly)
Encanto
Baldur's Gate 3
Interests
Fantasy, writing, magic systems in general, action and lore.
Mythology and folklore.
Diverse and creative application of magic.
Tabletop RPGs my beloved!! While I'm always open to learn new systems, I'm mostly into DnD, Ordem Paranormal and City of Mist.
I also make homebrews for AOP and plan to make some fics involving Ordem Paranormal in the future so I can spread the word of AOP /hj.
Endlessly yapping about magic systems and magic in literature and magic in general.
I also enjoy gaming, mostly RPGs but I consider myself ecletic in taste.
My fics
♦ Dark Seeks Light
Ostracized, neglected and considered a curse and a stain of the otherwise perfect image of the Familia Madrigal, Mirabel realizes on the bottom of the pit that she is a shadow in a family of shining stars, that not only she isn't part of them, she is opposite to them. In a last plead for a candle that pretty much ruined her life, she asks for a place to belong and people that can understand her.
In the following day, in the middle of Isabela's bertrothal dinner, she suddenly started glowing in a golden light, before disappearing before their very eyes.
She woke up in a strange room, amidst six strangers of different languages and nations, before they magically started understanding each other and founding out that they share more than they expected: the fact that they were all giftless. Upon learning this, Mirabel ignites the hope that with them, she can find a place to be herself.
Encanto Fic.
Current incomplete.
Has a lot of focus on the OCs, in some cases more than the Madrigals themselves.
High Fantasy with magic being a constant, ever-present aspect of the Arcane Nations.
Will be pretty long.
Lots and lots and lots of worldbuilding
Queer people everywhere (it's my setting of magical people I make the rules).
Contains OC x Canon.
A lot of exploration of the magic system.
♦ The Narrative Around Us
People are simply not aware of the sheer power stories hold.
The citizens of the kingdom go about their days without having knowledge of people with powers born from stories: Rifts, whose powers are concealed by the ever present, yet invisible, mist. Those people are vessels for the respective legends they represent, those powers shaping them.
However, one common knowledge for every rift is that the narrative around their mythos will inevitably make them gravitate and change their own stories to fit their own. They must fight their own stories internally, lest they are devoured by them. So when Ballister becomes the Rift of Gloreth, knowing that there is scarcely any bigger honor, he vows himself to give himself wholly to her story, to be a vessel, however, as he learns about the world of Rifts and the Mist, he is blocked from fufilling his destiny.
Nimona AU - Inspired by City of Mist TTRPG
Currently incomplete.
Features some OCs but the protagonists are Ballister and Ambrosius.
Quite a lot of depictions of religious trauma-- But things get better (eventually).
Urban Fantasy with action and investigation.
Bal is kinda of a vigilante in this AU.
#fanfic#worldbuilding#blog intro#nimona au#nimona fanfic#nimona oc#ttrpg#magic system#ao3#ao3 writer#ao3 link#oc x oc#oc x canon#fantasy#high fantasy
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Visual Storytelling: The Production Design of “Nimona” by Gnomon
#nimona 2023#movies#cartoons#behind the scenes#interviews#livestreams#production design#adaptation#pinkfluidnf#worldbuilding#symbolism#design#i'm so glad this vid exists since the online Nimona artbook went offline#nimona2023
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Watching Nimoma (part 5)
I really hope they kill Todd of the Punchable Face.
The worldbuilding of futuristic medieval is so richly done. And I feel like there's some social commentary there about how, with all our tech, we're still laboring under medieval mindsets.
"Was it a sea otter or a river otter?" "Does it matter? It BIT me!" "Well, there's significant anatomical differences between the two." HA! That Knight is now my favorite.
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"nooo auri dont start a new project" and i wont. but what if queer wizards, intellectualism, isolation, and the pain being connected/disconnected to a culture and society that simultaneously loves and hates you.
#auri rambles#i know nothing else about this story other than the broad themes a bit of worldbuilding and the protagonist being a wizard named tasia#who wears a suit for most of the story and transforms herself into a dude to try to appeal to her love's parents and for gender fun.#(she doesnt get the girl in the end)#its like (handwave) idk loosely inspired by rizal's works but its closer to ig nimona in that its the current state of things#but with fantasy elements#tasia lives in 2 worlds and one of them is much more overtly fantasy catholic & evangelical than the other
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NIMONA IS SO GOOD YOU GUYS
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the best thing you can do to make your fictional world cooler is to put people in full armor and give them huge stupid swords and such but also let them use iphones and facetime eachother. i want ancient curses and legendary powers and artifacts and MAGIC but i also want delivery drones and streaming services [both of which could also be considered curses]
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