#Dinu yells into the void

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Im so glad grasshoppers are real because if they weren’t we would have never gotten Kamen Rider so everybody say thank you grasshoppers

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Happy (Early, depending on where in the world you are) Odaiba Day! To celebrate, I decided to partake in the “Favourites from Digimon” meme I've seen floating around to share a smattering of some of my absolute favourite digimon and characters. I hope everyone is able to have a good time celebrating Odaiba day too! Despite its flaws Digimon is something that has changed my life for the better, and I'm glad everyday I made the choice to revisit it and invest myself in the franchise again.

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The completed six (nine in this case) Digimon fanart challenge! I asked for requests in a discord server as well, so I ended up with more than I expected because of that. Thank you to everyone on both tumblr and discord who sent me requests for this!

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Uhmmmmm soo. Over the past few months I've been seeing a lot of complaints or comments that digimon has too many designs which essentially boil down to “There are too many designs that are just humans in costumes.”

And for a while I just nodded my head and went Yeah Alright, because I Understood where it was coming from (the way most perfect + ultimate levels tend to become more humanoid over their predecessors) and thought it was a valid complaint even if I don’t agree. But eventually it got to the point where I got legitimately invested in wanting to know How Many Digimon there were that you could classify as “basically humans” and well. Here I am.

For the past week or so I came up with my own “categories” and counted how many digimon fit under each category to then later put into a graph like the one you see above ^

I did all of this for like, first and foremost My Own Interest, but I decided to share the results anyways in case someone else thinks this topic of discussion is interesting? I'll include as well under a read more a more in depth guide to the data i've accumulated as well

FYI, Important disclaimers: This is all highly subjective. Im not trying to claim these are any sort of objective categories canon to Digimon or that the results are objectively canon. You may think some or all of these categories are deeply redundant, or you will disagree with me over what counts as say, A Monster or A Furry or A Humanoid, and that’s fine. There are also digimon excluded from the total, most notably digimon that are cameo/minor characters in a singular digimon property, or recolours (ie Gabumon versus Psychemon) or which had minute design differences (Like, almost all of the different Agumons) because I thought including all of that was redundant or unnecessary. If there was a major difference in designs (ie Original Falcomon versus 2006 Savers Falcomon) however I did consider it as a separate design. Also, no X antibody designs were included, because oh my god there are already so many digimon and the X antibody designs could probably merit its own pie chart.

Baby 1 + 2:

Explicitly Creatures/Animals/Naturalistic Monsters/etc: 89

Inhuman/Monstrous in other ways (example- Robots/objects/undead): 17

Anthropomorphic animals/creatures (Furries, inclu robotic anthros): n/a

Humanoid but still inhuman/monstrous/weird in some way: n/a

Essentially humans/Humans in costumes: n/a

Rookie:

Explicitly Creatures/Animals/Naturalistic Monsters/etc: 73

Inhuman/Monstrous in other ways (example- Robots/objects/undead): 26

Anthropomorphic animals/creatures (Furries inclu robotic anthros): 7

Humanoid but still inhuman/monstrous/weird in some way: 7

Essentially humans/Humans in costumes: 4

Adult:

Explicitly Creatures/Animals/Naturalistic Monsters/etc: 96

Inhuman/Monstrous in other ways (example- Robots/objects/undead): 51

Anthropomorphic animals/creatures (Furries inclu robotic designs): 18

Humanoid but still inhuman/monstrous/weird in some way: 23

Essentially humans/Humans in costumes: 6

Perfect:

Explicitly Creatures/Animals/Naturalistic Monsters/etc: 64

Inhuman/Monstrous in other ways (example- Robots/objects/undead): 46

Anthropomorphic animals/creatures (Furries inclu robotic anthros): 39

Humanoid but still inhuman/monstrous/weird in some way: 46

Essentially humans/Humans in costumes: 9

Ultimate + Super Ultimate:

Explicitly Creatures/Animals/Naturalistic Monsters/etc: 68

Inhuman/Monstrous in other ways (example- Robots/objects/undead): 41

Anthropomorphic animals/creatures (Furries inclu robotic anthros): 48

Humanoid but still inhuman/monstrous/weird in some way: 95

Essentially humans/Humans in costumes: 17

Hybrid:

Explicitly Creatures/Animals/Naturalistic Monsters/etc: 7

Inhuman/Monstrous in other ways (example- Robots/objects/undead): 4

Anthropomorphic animals/creatures (Furries inclu robotic anthros): 6

Humanoid but still inhuman/monstrous/weird in some way: 8

Essentially humans/Humans in costumes: 7

Armour:

Explicitly Creatures/Animals/Naturalistic Monsters/etc: 40

Inhuman/Monstrous in other ways (example- Robots/objects/undead): 5

Anthropomorphic animals/creatures (Furries inclu robotic anthros): 11

Humanoid but still inhuman/monstrous/weird in some way: 7

Essentially humans/Humans in costumes: 1

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Steel Week Day 7: Free Day

Happy @steelweek! I had planned to do more, but life got in the way, so I was only able to quickly scourge something up for the last day/free day. I hope everyone who participated had a blast doing it, and I'm really happy to see more love given to some of my favourite comic book characters of all time 💙💙💙

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Little fucking goobers…..

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😭

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[Image ID: A group photo of the cast of Digimon Tamers. On top of it is a large circle in the middle with a smaller circle to the left underneath it. In the large circle there’s a rainbow background and faint pink and purple semicircle trim and an excited looking white avatar with antenna and its four arms up in the air. Above this avatar says the text “Ants Digimon Server!”. In the smaller circle is a white background with a red line going through it with the text “18+”. /End Image ID]

HEY!!!!!!!!!

After some deliberation, I've decided to make my own Digimon server!

It’s an in general Digimon server- You can talk about anything related to Digimon, which includes the anime seasons, games, manga, etc. it’s also inclusive for Digimon OCs / Original Digimon universes and projects!

Anyone can join, the only criteria is that:

A) You Are 18+. For a myriad of reasons, big ones being for the sakes of minors safety in the fandom and my own comfort, the server is 18+ only.

B) You’re not a “pro-shipper” or “anti anti” whatever the fuck. If you ship or support incest, pedophilia, rape etc etc you are not welcome here. Get outta my house.

C) You’re not like a racist or a transphobe/TERF or a misogynist or bigot or anything like that.

With that out of the way, link is below!

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[Image ID: A trio of coloured and sketchily inked digital drawings of digimon characters Justimon, Starmon and Superstarmon. It’s a long vertical composition with Starmon at the bottom, Superstarmon in the middle and Justimon at the top. Starmon is a silver star shaped humanoid with blue eyes wearing large indigo boxing gloves and boots which have a golden star symbol on them, a tattered yellow scarf, with black straps on its arms and legs, and a red gem in the middle of its top point. Superstarmon is the same, except it is golden, with a blue gem, and wearing black sunglasses, with tassels on its white gloves and instead of straps golden star symboled red stripes on its white arms and legs. It’s boots and scarf are also white and red respectively. Justimon is a superhero type humanoid with a large red scarf, whose wearing a silver helmet with long antenna and whose costume is bright blue, with various armour plating adorning the arms and chest and legs. It’s right arm is the blitz mode, and it has a belt with a red belt buckle. Starmon and Superstarmon are doing confident boxing poses facing the viewer, whilst Justimon is in a kickboxing pose with its right leg held up high, whilst looking to the side. The background is a dark blue with a simply drawn constellation and stars pattern. /End Image ID]

💫🌟 Ride on Shooting Star 🌟💫

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[Image ID: An inked digital drawing of Digimon character Amphimon. Amphimon is a cyborg humanoid wearing an altered diving suit, they have large chunky gauntlets and boots, lightning bolt embellishments across their design but most notably on a buckle at their waist, on the bottom of their chest armour and on their diving helmet window. They have diving helmet style shoulder pads, a large jellyfish like skirt connected to the buckle made up of two layers- a puffier top layer with jellyfish markings on it and a longer flow-ier bottom layer- and large circular pads at their hands, feet and knees. The ones on their knees and hands have a cross symbol on them and the ones on their feet have a minus symbol. They have large jellyfish antenna coming from their diving helmet and the exposed parts of their body- such as their forearms, waist and at the inner upper thighs- appears made of straps. They’re in a front facing action pose, with their right leg and arm pointed down whilst their left leg is raised the calf slightly tucked in, and their left arm is raised over their head. /End Image ID]

I haven’t seen all of ghost game yet but Amphimon is by far my favourite new digimon from it

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A collection of random digimon drawings over the past few months…..

1: Was bored and wanted to draw a bunch of the different types of Numemon

2: Doodling of a digimon OC of mine, he’s a Rosemon (He/him only please)

3: Completed request for @poppliolover1 of Ghilliedhumon!

4: A birthday gift for @skydigiblogs oc Shade!

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A lot of people point out and joke about and compare the change in fashion Hongo undergoes after the first fourteen episodes, when he returns properly to the show, around the late forties episode mark, which is very understandable to do to be fair because he really does start letting that chest peek through. This might just be reading into it too much, but, to me, I always viewed this change of fashion to simply reflect Hongo's change of character. Along the way I've noticed once Hongo is properly reintroduced, there’s a much less heavy emphasis on his suffering and his feelings of depression, even in the ending narration for each episode- not to say that he suddenly doesn’t Have Those feelings anymore, more that they’re (probably) less of a major forefront on Hongo's mind. I always read the implication personally that Hongo started dressing more casually and even arguably more fashionably to be a reflection of him slowly learning to accept what he is now- becoming more comfortable in his own body again, literally and figuratively. Of course, this is all simply one ant's thoughts, that doesn’t really take in things like say cultural influence or show behind the scenes/production changes, it’s just a nice thing for me to muse about

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AH!

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If you think about it long enough and hard enough then all Digimon are transgender

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Most absolutely batshit inaccurate take I ever saw about Kamen Rider, at least the original series, is that it’s a series about suffering and about one specific guy's constant suffering and loner solitary nature like, in the vein of gritty batman media or some shit and it’s just blatantly not true LMAO. I would honestly argue that one of Kamen Rider 1971's main themes is a lot more about human connection and solidarity, of how you can’t do everything by simply yourself- from the help of Tachibana and the racing club, to Taki, to the youth rider squad. (And that’s all Like, ignoring as well the literal existence of Ichimonji, thereby making the argument that it’s about only one rider automatically mute)

A really good example of this is one of the late stage episodes, around the episode 80 mark, where the cast of characters is led to believe Hongo genuinely died, and spend the episode grieving and wondering what to do, with the main reaction being that even if Hongo died, they will continue his mission because they loved him, and they cared about the same message of peace and justice too. In regards to the “suffering”, The main thing there to me anyways is that the show takes care to examine Hongo (and Ichimonji's) trauma, and often has this idea of Kamen Rider enduring hardships willingly for the sake of people around them, but I absolutely wouldn’t call this a sort of like Grimdark angstfest. It just like, baseline respects the horrible things they and other characters go through and tries to be sympathetic to them about it, without voyeuristically making it the absolute focus in a like torture porn sort of way lol.

Idk. Im almost finished the series and this take popped up back in my head, because I was told it when I was first looking into watching the show, and I'm very glad now in hindsight I didn’t let it deter me. I love Kamen Rider 1971 and I will not tolerate misinformation about what it’s actually about

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In better news. LOOK how fucking cute he is im going to lose my mind