Nimona Is Making A Comeback And Gay People Just Keep On Winning

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This week I was planning to write a piece on how I still hadn’t forgiven Disney for its abandonment of Nimona. ND Stevenson’s fantasy graphic novel is a cute, touching, and unabashedly queer tale that so many people can see themselves in. I first read it as a girl firmly in the closet as I entered university, falling in love with its world and characters long before ND would change sapphic representation in animation forever with She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Nimona was the start of something, and we owe it so much.

When it was announced that Blue Sky Studios was set to helm an animated adaptation I couldn’t have been more excited. It’s a story that isn’t afraid to explore the fragility of identity or breaking free from societal norms to embrace who you really are, and now it was set to reach an entirely new audience, to inhabit a stage deserving of LGBTQ+ storytelling without compromise. Sadly it met the fate of many queer stories that seek to pierce the mainstream veil, and was silenced.

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Disney bought Fox, cancelled Nimona, and shuttered the studio behind it for no reason beyond thinning its competitors, leaving a groundbreaking story behind in the process. Fans had already mourned the project, giving up hope that the film would ever be revived given Disney owned the film which at the time of its cancellation was roughly 75 percent complete.

All that work was thrown away, an act that broke myriad hearts with its sheer callousness. But now, against all conceivable odds, it’s making a comeback. ND Stevenson made the announcement via his Twitter yesterday afternoon and I couldn’t focus on work for the rest of the day because I was so thrilled,