This Is So Gay My Heart Might Just Burst

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if i ever misgender you:

it is not on purpose i promise

im very sorry

tell me your correct pronouns and ill use them

spray me with cold water

What a magnificent life to live

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!

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😃 @indiarosecrawford

i think love is stored in nighttime conversations and “did you eat yet” and books left outside your door and “i waited to watch this with you” and splitting something in half to share and “im proud of you” and folded towels and “you can pick” and heads on shoulders and “you’re right, that was shitty. im sorry” and knocks on doors and “DINNER!” and stupid jokes and “hey i got this for you” and coffee made just right and… there are so many ways people say i love you silently every day over and over again if you only listen

i wore red eyeshadow today and this lil mexican boy like 10 yrs old had his silver chain and hat and was all puffed up machismo but got all shy walkin over to the counter and was like “i really love your eyeshadow” in the most genuine awestruck voice. can’t believe i almost didn’t wear it. i almost missed out on bein “masc mexican dude wearing makeup” representation my heart was so full