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Digimon and Nostalgia

i have a habit of just kind of passing by in the tags sometimes even when i'm quiet, and i'm realizing i don't know how much i've talked about the thought behind why we decided to revisit digimon last february from start to finish.

okay so fair warning, this is gonna be rambly and a little bit semi-incoherent because i feel like absolute dogshit today but the brain worms on the subject aren't leaving me alone to rest.

i am putting it under a read more for all our sanity

so there's this category of post i always see in the tags that seems to come from a place of either not engaging with enough digimon media or not engaging with the media.

that first one is a bit easier to explain. sometimes people will talk about things they want to see in the digimon franchise, and it's kind of clear that they have a very narrow scope of what they've actually seen from it.

i'm trying to think of an example that doesn't put recent posts i've seen on blast lmao (because that's not the point of this post), but also i think some of the points brought up by this post by @starwardking (pardon the tag) highlight the complexity of the first kind of issue, because it both is and isn't the kind of problem that can be fixed by just finding the right digimon media.

when i saw this post, my first instinct was to point to series like savers and appmon, where a majority of the plot takes place in the human world and allows for a lot of mundane shenanigans. i also think a bit about the earlier episodes of tamers.

(i think to some extent ghost game has a bit of domestic life shit going on, but seeing as it is also a horror anime, part of it is about the dissonance between "Normal for Digimon" and "Normal for Humans." but you also get episodes about little hideaways digimon live in in the human world so they can drink tea and share snacks. you also have digimon that just hang out in libraries and shit like that.)

at the same time, this is also an issue i think that isn't fixed by finding the right digimon media. the comparison to pokemon is what makes me consider this, specifically because of something like pokemon amie. it may have just been a minigame, but it's also something that, especially in the video games, i don't think we have a clear parallel to. i do agree that it would be nice to enjoy a bit of domestic fluff with your digimon!

but then i also recognize that i myself have also skipped over games where i could tell there would be some of that. i couldn't finish survive because it has elements i just can't handle either playing or watching. what i do remember in survive is that you have quite a few scenes early on in the school that are about resource management (figuring out how to digimon survive, as it were). this is done while you're also chatting with your human and digimon friends.

which i think segues better into the second kind of issue, being that sometimes i see these posts and they come from an angle where it seems someone hasn't exactly made an effort to engage with digimon as it is. there's a phenomenal video essay by deep dive on youtube, actually, that talks about this with regards to ghost game.

on the most abstract level, are you trying to be cognizant of your biases going into a piece of art when you take it in? what experiences make it difficult to engage with the text in a way that it wants you to engage? can you even see what the text is trying to say, even if it's ineffectual?

this is also why i wanted to tie this in with the reason i decided to make a blog to track my revisiting of all the different series.

nostalgia is killer, and not in a good way.

one of the things we regularly do with media we enjoy enough to praise is revisit it. if it's been over a year since i've watched something and i am trying to hype it up to someone, i want to not rely on my own memory, but also the text of that individual piece of art.

the second form of this issue comes about when an individual has an Idea about digimon, and they post with a very firm stance on what digimon is or is not. it's a retreading i think of the same reason anyone is willing to not consider appmon part of the digimon franchise (despite the "digimon universe" title).

again: what are your biases coming into a piece of art? do you have certain ideas about what digimon is supposed to look like? do you refuse to give other digimon media a fair chance because of it?

this form is more likely to get me to just block someone so i don't have to keep scrolling past them in the tags tbh. there's a mixture of "it was better in the old days" combined with a blatant lack of media literacy when "attempting" to engage with newer digimon media. you see this in a lot of franchises, to be fair, but it is always frustrating.

like i could also be biased because of my own background, being that i have an english degree, but there's something so... disappointing, i suppose, to the latter form of this criticism. if you're going to have a take, i want to see you articulate it. it's not a school assignment, sure, but what in god's name is making you come to that take?

i think the most painful series to see this with for me are savers and appmon, if only because i did rewatch them to better understand why i love them (and also what i really hate about them!).

savers especially is a show i watched because i was interested in seeing if the "MIB but if the aliens were Digimon" series could handle making any statement about the nature of law enforcement! and surprise surprise, it fucking did!

people probably feel the same way any time i post about frontier, which is a series i've been vocal about my dislike about (though i respect anyone willing to try to make frontiers better through their own art and writing). it's been a struggle to rewatch that series, but i also don't want to make strong judgments with firm backing because i know i have not seen it in years, nor have i seen the original sub.

i don't think i have a nice clean conclusion for this. it's an observation i keep having, and i don't think there's any particular solution for someone like me who just wants people to try a little harder to pick apart the things they like. i want people to understand how stories tick, and the things they both explicitly and implicitly say. it's the english teacher in me, i guess.

[reticent-fate]

[rooks-gallery]

first batch of our artfight attacks!

1 and 2 are part of a revenge chain with @bolinhokidlat (the second of which features a character by @dosshie )

3 is an attack against @alphagodith

4 is revenge against @vhscrow

we're having a lot of fun so far and have been trying tot both not overdo it with individual attacks (for the most part) and also work on some skills that we haven't gotten as comfortable with yet. namely, you might notice we've been doing entirely cel shading so far. we usually prefer doing soft shading, but for the comic we're working on, we need to be able to confidently cel shade, so! yeah, lmao.

also we've discovered you can drag materials/import image materials into a selection and CSP automatically creates a masking layer with that material??? like what the hell??? we've been using this program for like 6 years and you're gonna tell me we didn't notice that? anyways

we continue our quest to attack a silly amount of folks with digimon >:)c

-sky

[dimidium-totus]

“in another life, it would been nice to just do laundry and taxes with you”

[apocalymons]

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[rook-writes]

and today, we learn a very important lesson about unconscious bias in writing called:

"wait, we have fibromyalgia?"

//looks at all their characters writhing in fatigue and agony//

[sugaaz]

18 & 30 and since 30 is ask you anything I'm going to ask you how your day was 🥺

Hiii Sky!! Thank you for sending an ask. I hope you have been well, my friend!

18. Your boba/tea order? Litchi boba/Regular tea. I have very specific tastes.

30. Ask me anything! - how your day was? What a kind question🥺 My day was really good. I finished the first season of Durarara!! today and it was such a fun show. I also went for a walk after a long time so I'm feeling accomplished hehe :)

Thank you so much for asking ❣️💕 30 really made me happy. Love you lots Sky👉👈❣️

[skydigiblogs]

with today's tcg news i'm promising you now i will be insufferable during spoiler season for bt-21 by the way

[argyros-chaos]

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✦ formerly @incorrect-aqueerium (got terminated???)

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[reticent-fate]

part 12/26ish

surely this bodes well and normal

from the beginning

[rooks-gallery]

2nd batch of AF attacks against Frozenova on AF, @poppliolover1 , and RuffledGryphon on AF

having a lot of fun with these icon attacks because they're giving us a chance to get better at cel shading

[aqueerium-inc]

Licherally what have I done that got my old tumblr (formerly @incorrect-aqueerium <- @skylarspacesod) terminated???? So near to June, even; homophobes (Tumblr staff) in my area real??? If you knew me please so kindly follow me back so I can be silly with all the sillier little people on my phone again. Thank you 💖🙏

[apocalymons]

Weekly Digikin Roll Call!

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Or, if you prefer, send a call in a-mon-ymously!

[pusserdestroyer]

Clean version of a comic I drew in history class

[gulistan-blog]

㋡🥀

colors of the sky.

[skydigiblogs]

AAAAAA NOT ONLY DID MY DX COLO COME IN, SO DID MY BOX SET OF APPMON AND A CHERUBIMON CARD I ORDERED!!!

YAHOOOOOOOOOOO!!!