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I feel like people really underestimate the impact that your mode of transportation has on how you see and think about and interact with your city. Like, driving makes your city feel like a few islands, pockets of space where you regularly go and new ones you discover only when brought there for a purpose, but all amidst an ocean of just, filler. Taking public transit makes your city feel like a network of corridoors, a glowing grid along which you may discover new things, but whose alternate winding paths you only take when given to by circumstance. Cycling makes your city feel more human in its scale, and while you can only go so far, the spaces through which you travel are far more often built for people, not machines, and that difference is tangible, while your freedom of movement gives you more opportunities for exploration. Walking can only take you so far, but you see everything meant for you along those places, and every street feels like it carries potential, with no barriers to stopping and partaking of whatever piques your interest. I think, among these, driving is the one that by far most isolates you from the place you live, while the others are, in decreasing order, most utilitarian, and in increasing order, most personally connective to your shared space.

discovering a friend has the same problem as u

Are you ever in a really good mood, having completely forgotten about your chest and then you go to do something and you're reminded it's there and you just

Oh. I still have those… Shit. 

I feel like people really underestimate the impact that your mode of transportation has on how you see and think about and interact with your city. Like, driving makes your city feel like a few islands, pockets of space where you regularly go and new ones you discover only when brought there for a purpose, but all amidst an ocean of just, filler. Taking public transit makes your city feel like a network of corridoors, a glowing grid along which you may discover new things, but whose alternate winding paths you only take when given to by circumstance. Cycling makes your city feel more human in its scale, and while you can only go so far, the spaces through which you travel are far more often built for people, not machines, and that difference is tangible, while your freedom of movement gives you more opportunities for exploration. Walking can only take you so far, but you see everything meant for you along those places, and every street feels like it carries potential, with no barriers to stopping and partaking of whatever piques your interest. I think, among these, driving is the one that by far most isolates you from the place you live, while the others are, in decreasing order, most utilitarian, and in increasing order, most personally connective to your shared space.

So, y’all. Some of you may remember a webcomic called NIMONA. It actually started on tumblr! Then it became a full webcomic. And then it got published as a graphic novel.

It’s done by ND Stevenson, who was behind tumblr-favorite She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Also notable for the lady lumberjack story, Lumberjanes.

NIMONA was the first big one. Delightfully queer and vitally anti authoritarian and very tumblr through and through. (There is a character literally named Ambrosious Goldenloin, pictured on the left there.)

Many years ago Netflix announced that it would be making a NIMONA film. Then it went silent. Then the mass cancellations happened.

Then, today, they announced the film is coming out on June 30th.

Will it be a retelling if the original? Will it be a prequel? A new derivative story? No idea. But it’s important to me. And it’s made by queerfolk, openly, aggressively queerfolk, who have never hesitated to tell queer stories.

So I wanted to get info out on this. Get people hyped. Because marketing engines certainly won’t. We need to remind corporations that we are a statistically significant “consumer demographic” and that queer stories can and do sell, and shouldn’t be shuttered away.

So. Yeah. Consider buying and reading the original, consider watching the film.

The comic is relatively short, so jumping right in and giving it a shot is your best bet. But the tldr is, a an extremely tighly-moraled, long-code-of-honor Supervillain and a chaotic, not so honorable shapeshifter end up teaming up up to fight against the “good guys.”

Y’all on tumblr love the short stories on the writing prompts about “what happens when the supervillain realizes [thing is bad?] and ends up being a dad figure who might be willing the burn the world down a bit? The NIMONA comic is very much that.

No idea what the film will be like, but hey!

I need to get something off my chest. Boobs. I need to get boobs off my chest