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" I swear slightly more when there aren't children around, but not that much. "
Noelle Stevenson
Children
Swear
Much
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" I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it. "
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Love
Quite
" 'Nimona' was originally a vague idea I had when I was in high school, when I was just getting into shapeshifting characters. It was a straightforward superhero story at the time. Nimona was named Nightshade, and she had an eyepatch for some reason. There was nothing really special about it, though. "
Noelle Stevenson
Story
She
School
" It seems like everyone in my peer group has more 'Pokemon' knowledge than I do. "
Noelle Stevenson
Group
Knowledge
Everyone
" It was definitely a very appealing prospect to be in a company, especially as an art student: we had it hammered into us that the odds of us finding a job, especially fresh out of school, was very slim, and we could expect to work as a bartender for the next three years after we graduate. "
Noelle Stevenson
Art
Work
Three
" The first movie I saw was 'Prince of Egypt' - that was the first movie I saw in theaters. "
Noelle Stevenson
Egypt
Movie
First
" I was a junior at school, and I had just taken my first comics class, and we were doing an exercise for this other class where we had to create our own characters,and 'Nimona' just kind of came out of that. I decided that I liked her so much that I wanted to do a comic with her. "
Noelle Stevenson
Exercise
Create
Kind
" It's not hard to figure out when you're not welcome. "
Noelle Stevenson
Welcome
Figure
Hard
" I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters. "
Noelle Stevenson
Know
Hands
Kid
" Fantasy is usually considered an escape, but it's also a way to deal with weighty real-world issues from a safe distance and in a context where you usually have some kind of power that you don't have in real life. "
Noelle Stevenson
You
Distance
Escape
" I've always liked shape-shifter characters. I gravitated towards characters like Mystique from 'X-Men,' Zam Wesell from 'Star Wars,' and Tonks from 'Harry Potter.' "
Noelle Stevenson
Characters
Always
Like
" I think comics has this rap of being misogynistic, and that's certainly not untrue. "
Noelle Stevenson
Think
Being
Comics
" 'Winnie the Pooh's Grand Adventure' - the movie where Rabbit adopts a baby bird and raises her, and then the bird grows up and flies away and leaves him - I cried. "
Noelle Stevenson
Him
Bird
Away
" I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds! "
Noelle Stevenson
Fun
Career
Freedom
" I think technology is changing and growing, and the best approach to have is to be self-aware and aware of what's going on around you and also have some idea of who you are and how to make that ever-changing climate work in your favor. "
Noelle Stevenson
Think
You
Your
" I personally always have a hard time relating to queer characters in media because I didn't really see myself in them. They were kind of pigeonholed early on as the gay character, and they would naturally end up with the other gay character who would emerge at some point as their love interest. "
Noelle Stevenson
Time
Myself
Media
" I tend to bristle at people praising alt comics as some kind of perfect comics paradigm, because there's quite a lot of misogyny in its history as well. Like, in my first comics class, every single great comic creator we studied was male. "
Noelle Stevenson
History
Perfect
Great
" 'Runaways' was exciting because it was something brand-new and fresh, and I'm hoping to be able to bend the rules in my own way of what a Marvel superhero story can be. "
Noelle Stevenson
Story
Superhero
Rules
" Social media is basically the entire reason I have a career right now. Like everything, my readership for 'Nimona' came because I was active on Tumblr. "
Noelle Stevenson
Now
Social Media
Reason
" People are like, 'Are Nimona and Ballister romantic?' And I'm like, 'No! Of course not.' 'Well, are Ballister and Goldenloin in a relationship?' And I'm like, 'Yeah, okay.' "
Noelle Stevenson
People
Okay
Romantic
" I've always kind of gravitated toward characters who are a bit distant from the narrator or the point-of-view characters, so that's kind of important to me, to set up a different character who would be the point-of-view character for the story. "
Noelle Stevenson
Character
Important
Kind
" I am very interested in female characters and bringing a new perspective to mediums where not necessarily that's been valued at all. "
Noelle Stevenson
I Am
Been
Perspective
" I was always looking for the female characters in sci-fi and fantasy who were more than just the girlfriend. "
Noelle Stevenson
Girlfriend
Always
Fantasy
" There are some things that are more appropriate for different audiences. But the goal with all ages is to create comics that anyone can read, that don't talk down to kids. Kids can handle a lot more than people think. "
Noelle Stevenson
People
Goal
Create
" There's a whole world of people out here whose experiences are not being reflected in the media that they're reading. And that does affect the way we view ourselves... and the people we think we can be. "
Noelle Stevenson
World
Reading
People
" Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice. "
Noelle Stevenson
You
Will
Want
" I've always had a lot of story ideas rattling around in my head, but 'Nimona' felt very tangible very early. I knew the ending. So I just started making more and more pages, and then I made it a webcomic, like, 'OK, I'm really gonna do this.' "
Noelle Stevenson
Always
Early
Ending
" I think my lack of 'Pokemon' knowledge and complete confusion at the descriptions makes people think I'm adorable, like a lost baby duckling or your grandmother trying to use an iPad. "
Noelle Stevenson
Lost
Baby
People
" It's easy to feel like you don't have any control over yourself or your life or your body as a teen - everything is changing so fast, and a lot of it feels so outside of your power. I think that's why a lot of teens form really strong attachments to fictional characters or celebrities, draw their own characters or write themselves into fan fiction. "
Noelle Stevenson
You
Life
Power
" It felt like a huge risk when I first started putting my comic online. It was very scary to put myself out there that way and to open up something that I cared about very dearly - and to be the only creator involved with it. "
Noelle Stevenson
Myself
Like
Open
" I've been a huge animation fan since I was a kid, so the idea of seeing my characters in full motion on the big screen is completely mind-blowing. "
Noelle Stevenson
Seeing
Animation
Big