Back at it with the John Mulaney memes ✨✨✨

i’m constantly baffled by how averse tumblr is to conflict as a means to drive narrative. like. people in fandom seem to legitimately wants stories to adhere to 90s-sitcom-levels of “nothing significantly affects the initial status quo” regardless of whether this fits the narrative or not, and then get PERSONALLY offended when this (inevitably) ends up never happening.

like characters fighting and disagreeing and even straight up disliking each other is not bad writing. messy personal conflicts where no part is really 100% right are not bad writing. like… yeah in the realm of fanfiction there’s nothing cooler than reading 4773736478382 stories about the characters watching movies or playing board games and being nice and sweet with each other, but in actual media stuff neeeds to switch it up every now and then. stories aren’t meant to be static.

also: just because the way a narrative develops is upsetting/frustrating to YOU, doesn’t means it’s bad writing. sometimes being upsetting/frustrating is precisely the point.

Digimon 30 Challenge #18

18: A moment that made you happy

The Epilogue.

Yes, I said it. The Digimon Adventure 02 Epilogue made me happy.

I know everyone hates it and wants to watch it burn. I know some of the characters’ future jobs were completely dumb. I know it adds nothing to the actual story. I know it’s gimmicky and tacky and forced.

But as an 10-year-old, the Epilogue left me really happy. Nowadays, I’m more cynical about it … but I still find lots of positive things in it.

I’m not saying the Epilogue is perfect. But I like the concept behind it, and I like most things about its execution. I’m willing to defend it. And considering tri. is coming up (and the only thing we’ve been told about its plot concerns the Epilogue), I think looking at the Epilogue in a fair, open-minded way is more important than ever.

So here’s my thoughts on the infamous final scene of Digimon Adventure 02.

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no popular pairings we die like men who have read all 23 fics of our rarepair on AO3

( MY FACE WHEN I actuallysomehowgettoINTERACTWITHTHEFANDOM )

( my face when TOO MANY PEOPLE THEN SHOW UP )

( my face when generally bad people [TERFs, ETC.] show up )

( my face when typical fandom arguments and the like begin )

( my face when THEY NEVER END )

( my face when I TRIED )

( MY FACE WHEN I actuallysomehowgettoINTERACTWITHTHEFANDOM )

( my face when TOO MANY PEOPLE THEN SHOW UP )

( my face when generally bad people [TERFs, ETC.] show up )

( my face when typical fandom arguments and the like begin )

DIGIMON ADVENTURE LAST EVOLUTION: KIZUNA vs.

DIGIMON ADVENTURE OUR WAR GAME / CHILDREN’S WAR GAME

SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON VIDEO BY @izzyizumi

We have what is most likely to be Parrotmon, and now this.

Sorry Kakudou but this film is feeling more like a love letter to Hosoda’s digimon. xDDD And I love it.

YES EXACTLY THAT’S MY FEELING TOO

Hiroyuki Kakudou; Digimon Adventure/02 director source: Digital Scratch

in response to the question:

Interviewer: “ He may be the main culprit, but Oikawa is a character that’s hard to hate. ”

*the DVD’s Footnote, included as well (bolded and italics for highlighting / emphasis mine): “ A given rule — Other conventional rules such as “ The main girl and boy fall in love with each other ” were also not taken on by Digimon. ”

VERY IMPORTANT NON-SORATO RELATED ADDITION / THE FULL QUOTE, TOO: (broken up into paragraphs to make it a bit more readable):

When you look upon the series as a whole to begin with, you become aware that it doesn’t contain a character that is 100% evil. Even among the main characters, you cannot say that all of them are perfectly good: somewhere inside of them they have a dark part of themselves. Among them is the character with the least evil in him, Daisuke. The only thing bad about him is his head. (laughs) There were a lot of anime normally made with the idea that a given rule must occur, but I decided to do them while having doubts about whether or not it was a good idea to take on such given rules without any detail. Even if we went on with these given rules, I tried to take appropriate steps in showing why such things had occurred through step-by-step arrangements and reasoning. That is why I tried to add a little bit of realness each time to the characters, despite the restrictions that they are from anime. And yet although these children have that bit of realness in them, in the center of them is Daisuke with the most anime-like personality. I made him that way on purpose because in a world that has a touch of reality in it, the anime-like Daisuke is prevented from doing much in the first half. But that in a way ends up idealizing Daisuke, which is how I wanted to bring him towards appearing as if he is exactly the right person to save the world.

Also, because this has just reminded me and it is both frustrating and kind of demonstrates very plainly that a lot of people just really struggled with the idea of the main dude not ‘getting the girl’:

b r i n g   o u t   t h e   c r i n g e   p e t i t i o n

@fission-mailure

OH MY GOD YES THAT ALL THE “PETITIONS” DURING EARLIER TRI DAYS (and days before it too)

- PETITIONS TO RETCON THE 02 ENDING - PETITIONS TO RETCON THE CANON COUPLES - PETITIONS TO MAKE TAIORA, TAKARI ETC. CANON - PETITIONS TO CHANGE BACK TO THE OLD ART STYLE

tai to izzy:

@faeriemon

@ OP (HEY I LOVE YOUR EDITS AND THINGS JUST TO SAY ;; ;;)

BUT MAY I / AM I ALLOWED TO SCREAM ON THIS POST ABOUT HOW THE DUB HUMOR AS MUCH AS YOUNG ME WAS ALSO AMUSED BY IT COMPLETELY RUINED THE CONTEXTS OF BOTH THIS SCENE AND BASICALLY THE ENTIRE EPISODE/ARC IN JAPANESE INCLUDING AND ESPECIALLY THEIR DYNAMIC IN THIS SCENE

WITH BONUS TAISHIRO COMMENTARY IF THAT’S OK ?????