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SIGNAL BOOST: Digimon Adventure 02 The Beginning Movie: SPOILER TAG SUGGESTIONS

As it was pointed out, spoilers for the movie are already floating around, so I'll stick to a certain tagging scheme and use as many of these as possible (and will also try to keep content under "read mores", if possible). I highly suggest using these spoiler tags as well for the sake of providing a good fandom experience for everyone out there!

For general tagging:

#digimon

#digimon adventure

#digimon adventure 02

For SPOILER tagging:

#digimon spoilers

#digimon adventure spoilers

#digimon adventure 02 spoilers

#digmon adventure 02 the movie spoilers

#digimon adventure 02 movie spoilers

#the beginning spoilers

#digimon adventure 02 the beginning spoilers

#digimon adventure 02 beginning spoilers

#digimon adventure 02 the movie the beginning spoilers

#digimon adventure 02 the beginning the movie spoilers

Koushiro Week 2022 Reminder!

What are Koushiro and the gang checking out…?  Ah!  It’s a KOUSHIRO WEEK 2022 REMINDER!

Koushiro week is coming in early October 2022 (October 3-9)!  

Please get ready to celebrate our dear child of knowledge and Tentomon <3

Hopefully the picture is clear, but you can select any prompt any day, or treat any day as a free day!  Wednesday, October 5 is a reblog day for sharing your existing Koushiro and Tentomon content, so everyone has a chance to participate if they would like to <3  The more Koushiro content, the merrier, so don’t hesitate to share your existing content!

Also, it is not expected/required that you submit content for every single day (although you are certainly allowed to).  Post as much or as little as you would like <3  Take care and have fun!

Event tag: izumikoushiroweek2022  

Current Prompt Ideas

Current Rules

SEE YOU THERE!  LET’S GET PRODIGIOUS!

That autism feel when you have met (even just online) the greatest people thanks to your special interests.

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.

I think one of the reasons I hyperfixate so much on Taichi and Koushirou’s relationship in specific even though I really love exploring all of them is just that for most of the kids and their friendships/potential romances there’s so much meta on them and so much discussion even if it’s like, “x character ate spaghetti so they clearly love y character,” and I think it’s all honestly fun and great but just

Taichi and Koushirou have this incredibly wonderful bond that only deepens throughout adventure and they remain two of the closest digidestined from 01 all the way into 02. It’s really not subtext and the two of them spend an incredible amount of time together. While Our War Game is a different director it still honestly showed their progression into being incredible friends and went out of it’s way to show they were two of the closest– neither of them even knew Yamato or Mimi were out of the city or even the country or what Jyou was doing that day, for instance. They always seem to be turning to each other for dire situations and they bring a different strength to the table that’s quintessential to the whole adventure because you really can’t have one without the other and their whole relationship is so incredibly natural, ups and downs and everything. No matter how you want to shape it, they just work well together and it’s so wholesome and amazing and there’s just so much of them to explore further.

But finding anything about them is so hard. If you find posts about Taichi they tend to completely forget Koushirou matters at all to him. Entire blogs will dissect every hair on his head, but you would never know he has a friend who isn’t Yamato and if you’re lucky maybe they’ll mention Sora. And if you’re lucky to find meta on Koushirou you might get a glimpse of Taichi here and there, but nothing about how much they really do encourage and help each other overall. In general there tends to be a complete imbalance that acts as if only Koushirou puts value into their relationship and Taichi just barely acknowledges him– but it’s wholly untrue. There’s plenty of other things, but just even when you think about Taichi’s most emotional arc the character who was there with him and for him was Koushirou– and he was chosen to be with Taichi twice. Taichi trusts him. Taichi asks him to watch Hikari as Taichi protects both of them. He actively cares for Koushirou, too. It’s really there throughout the show and them being best friends is not something that was invented by Digimon 2020.

But I just feel like overall we never really get past this wall of, “Hey wait, do you guys think they were friends?” to look at all the other deeper things between them and then even that’s riddled with meta on other characters and misconceptions and it’s like such few posts exist on some of the deeper level things because it just goes right back to talking about the other relationships and I’ve just been here too long

Filed Under: some such things i’ve been trying to Explain to this fandom since 2015 but never have the right words which are basically. This.

[I’ll just reblog this post in Agreement]

{also just for emphasis on this}: [thanks Digi-stage play!]:

“I’VE WATCHED YOU AT YOUR SIDE ALL THESE YEARS ISN’T THAT RIGHT?!?”

Koushiro literally says it himself that he’s “watched Taichi at his side” all these years but like. And Yet. Yeah ^ {as said up There}

{by the way this was how Taichi later responded to Koushiro (showing clear concern towards him & his safety, ‘but will you be all right by yourself?’, agreeing directly with Koushiro & Tentomons’ resolve.....,,,, so this too}

While I love the Digimon fandom, after spending time in other fandoms I’ve come to realise how negative it can be. For the most part, it’s full of talented & creative people, but sometimes the sheer amount of hate can get me down. It was the first fandom I’ve ever been in, and it’s the one that helped shaped my style of art