#gomamonday2018

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!