#gomamonday

Today's the day! Happy Gomamon Day!!! The Goma pod pic is coming later today, time for bed now, goodnight 🦭💤

I originally established Gomamon Day back in 2017, I wrote a small FAQ about it back then: https://tumblr.com/gomamonday/168174866156/gomamon-day-2017, here's an updated version:

Why a digimon?

I’ve seen a few days for celebrating other digimon (Flamedramon, Renamon), as well as days to celebrate pokemon (such as 7/28 as Popplio Day), and figured it would be nice to celebrate a specific digimon species; not necessarily “Jo’s Gomamon”, although that is the one that most digimon fans are familiar with.

Why Gomamon?

Many years ago, along with Patamon and countless virus types, he was established as one of my favourite digimon. I quickly got tired of the Adventure anime and am mostly familiar with them through the old PS1 games. Over a decade ago I decided to begin collecting digimon merchandise, with a main focus on Gomamon and Patamon. Over the years more recently, they appear to me as a sort of embodiment of positivity and happiness, and have helped me get through a lot of negative or otherwise not-so-great times in my life. So for me personally I think having one day to celebrate them would be great to show others how awesome this underappreciated digimon is!

Why December 9th?

December 9th is the day I got a special Gomamon custom-made plushie of my own; in fact, he’ll be 9 years old this year! His name is Natticus, and you can follow his cohost once he decides which username to use (Natticus or NatticusTheGomamon on cohost) or check out his old tumblr archive @natticusthegomamon​. He was made by magnastorm on DeviantArt and is one of the most popular “Gomamon” art submissions there! The date also correlates to the same month Gomamon was first revealed in the Digimon Pendulum Version 2 (Deep Savers) in December 1998.

How do I celebrate?

You can draw or write about them, take some photos if you have a collection (no matter whether it’s gigantic or just one plushie), make a photo story of your own Gomamon’s adventures, livestream a digimon game (Gomamon is obtainable in Digimon Survive, Cyber Sleuth, Hacker's Memory and Next Order!) or just reblog some relevant posts~ Make a Gomamon OC (or ask an OC owner to draw theirs!) You’re free to @ or submit posts to this account anytime from now until then, or you can make your own post(s) and tag them with at least one of these hashtags below so I can find them to reblog here!

#gomamonday #gomamon day

Any rules?

No negative/hateful posts about anyone or mon; we can all love Gomamon without being mean to other monsters right? While I'd like the day's celebrations to stay SFW, if you do make other content (NSFW or "SFW fetish" content) please do not directly tag it under #GomamonDay, use something different like #GomamonDayNSFW instead. Late posts are okay, I’ll likely be celebrating at least all weekend long!

Here’s a small FAQ of sorts about it:

-Why a digimon? I’ve seen a few days for celebrating other digimon (Flamedramon, Renamon), as well as days to celebrate pokemon (such as 7/28 for Popplio Day), and figured it would be nice to celebrate a specific digimon species; not necessarily “Jo’s Gomamon”, although that is the one that most digimon fans are familiar with.

-Why Gomamon? Many years ago, along with Patamon and countless virus types, he was established as one of my favourite digimon. I quickly got tired of the Adventure anime and am mostly familiar with them through the old PS1 games. About 10 years ago I decided to begin collecting digimon merchandise, with a main focus on Gomamon and Patamon. Over the years more recently, they appear to me as a sort of embodiment of positivity and happiness, and have helped me get through a lot of negative or otherwise not-so-great times in my life. So for me personally I think having one day to celebrate them would be great to show others how awesome this underappreciated digimon is!

-Why December 9th? December 9th is the day I got a special gomamon custom-made plushie of my own; in fact, he’ll be 5 years old this year! His name is Natticus, and you can follow his tumblr @natticusthegomamon (made by magnastorm; he’s in the top most popular “gomamon” art submissions on DA!)

-How do I celebrate? You can draw or write about them, take some photos if you have a collection (no matter whether it’s gigantic or just one plushie), make a photo story of your own gomamon’s adventures, livestream a digimon game (Gomamon is obtainable in the newer official digimon video games; Cyber Sleuth, Hacker’s Memory and Next Order on PS4/Vita, and Digimon Links on mobile) or just reblog some relevant posts! Make a gomamon OC (or ask an OC owner to draw theirs!) You’re free to submit posts into this tumblr* anytime from now until then, or you can make your own and tag them with at least one of these hashtags below (within the first 5 in your post) on the day of so I can find them to reblog here! #gomamonday #gomamon day #gomamonday2018 #gomamon day 2018

*by submitting a post/posts you give me permission to publish said post on this tumblr blog.

-Any rules? No negative/hateful posts about anyone or mon; we can all love gomamon without being mean to other monsters right? No NSFW art here either, sorry. Late posts are okay, I’ll likely be celebrating at least all weekend long!

Gomamon Day 2018 Mini-Zine/Fanbook Suggestions Box! For everyone interested in the zine, please submit your input/suggestions here~