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REESE ;; 20, he / him / his , audhd geek

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I just realized I dipped for like five years and then inexplicably returned to tumblr so I guess formal comeback post ???

Hi! My name is Adrian, & I like to use the name Reese online/with friends :)

I’m a guy, he/him/his. I’m 20 (12/21/05) and I live in maritime Canada.

I’m an autistic free spirit just sort of figuring out how to live my most authentic + ideal self. I use tumblr to feed my beasttt my geek tendencies. I ♡ pop culture !!!!!

I luv sharing my thoughts & passions with people so don’t be afraid to reach out if u have any questions or just anything you’d like me to hear :]

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I didn’t forget about you all my digi friends 🫶

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Why are Yamato and Takeru literally the borderline brothers. Once you start looking for it you never unsee it ever again

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I love when they draw Kyoko a little scary. My cryptic offputting wife

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I miss her

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High as fuck 20 y/o boy maternal instincts are coming back at how much TK grows up from 8 to 11. Whaaaat the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

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I think there is something so deeply important about how even though Takeru carries so much weight and damage his warmth and brightness hardly ever wavers.

The confrontation between him and Ken is brought up a LOT and I think about it often for what it represents. This is a pretty dark moment in the context of his character and they don’t shy away from that but even still. His role here is not out of malice. The scene to me is just to demonstrate the weight of the antagonistic forces at play for Ken who at this point still treats it like a twisted game and Takeru is the perfect kind of mouthpiece for that. Because like. Okay I’m gonna try to make this cohesive and it’s maybe gonna hit its mark like 70%. Takeru representing hope means that he has to walk a FINE line between the light and darkness in the digital world. Like he gets VERY familiar with both sides but contrasting with Hikari he doesn’t really walk that line personally?? He just kind of. Sees every angle and takes in the weight of it all in a kind of observant sense???

This has been pointed out now and then but a very notable struggle Takeru has that carried on through adventure is like. Doing as much as he can to avoid feeling helpless to the things that happen around him. I think that feeling that he dreads so much is precisely why it was so perfect that he was the one who showed Ken he had no idea what he was dealing with and then they add to the parallels even MORE with Wormmon later but that’s another convo. I think it’s so important that even being fully aware of all of this weight and making it very clear that he IS vulnerable to it he still like. Chooses hope. And goodness. People tease the idea of him tapping into his ‘dark side’ and think it’s a really cool badass idea but I think if you’re gonna do that it’s also important to show that as is he is deliberately choosing not to let it overpower him.

I think a lot about how important it is for him to come to terms with the darkness in the world. He carries on a really polarizing pov from being the kid partner of a righteous holy warrior but like. His moment in episode 37 where he acknowledges that light and darkness have to exist in tandem and how they have to accept that they can’t completely be rid of the bad things in the world but that still doesn’t change what he’s fighting for and how that leads to him officially forgiving Ken… ojhhhhhhh ohhhh my bones oh my bones

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total drama character analysis calling to me again like the devil on my shoulder

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reject modernity revamp the cringe self inserts you made when you were 8-12

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im trying to draw consistently WEH!!!!!

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post digimon yaoi when they least expect it

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My son egg & his brother cheese

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some sorta old sorta brand new products of my 02 rewatch

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I love how much more subtle and gentle iori and takeru are about forming their jogress bond when they realize they’re the last pair left. iori being the driving force is sooo personal to me… how careful and methodical he is and how badly he wants to understand things even though he knows it goes way deeper than the moral compass he was raised on… lots to grapple with and unlearn… but he’s receptive and pursues it in such an open way as opposed to daisuke & miyako who are like. Very unapologetically them. And I feel like that’s so important for someone like Takeru who like. Doesn’t quite realize how withdrawn he actually is. I don’t think he realizes how enigmatic and elusive he is when it comes to his personal feelings. Seeing this little man go on a whole little adventure just to know what the hell his deal is like “huh. he could’ve just talked to me…” <— CLUELESS

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If 02 gives you anything to take away about Takeru’s character it’s that he’s very observant and introspective and most of his strongest feelings are on an unspoken subtle level even if he’s very lively and seemingly open when talking with people. He kind of takes on a smaller scale supportive role as default and it’s almost like he doesn’t realize he’s inviting you to treat him with that same introspective curious attitude… he doesn’t realize how much he eludes people with what side of him is the most ‘real’. it’s rlly fulfilling having iori bring that to his attention in some way. Whereas everybody else is kinda like Oh! That’s Hm! and lets him sort of set the vibes between them

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I love how much more subtle and gentle iori and takeru are about forming their jogress bond when they realize they’re the last pair left. iori being the driving force is sooo personal to me… how careful and methodical he is and how badly he wants to understand things even though he knows it goes way deeper than the moral compass he was raised on… lots to grapple with and unlearn… but he’s receptive and pursues it in such an open way as opposed to daisuke & miyako who are like. Very unapologetically them. And I feel like that’s so important for someone like Takeru who like. Doesn’t quite realize how withdrawn he actually is. I don’t think he realizes how enigmatic and elusive he is when it comes to his personal feelings. Seeing this little man go on a whole little adventure just to know what the hell his deal is like “huh. he could’ve just talked to me…” <— CLUELESS

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it lies on him to complete the “hitting the mentally ill jogress partner” trilogy

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she’s growing on me. she speaks to the cringe self insert enjoyer in me ❤️

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Im fried as shit rn but would you guys be interested if I posted meta blogging on pop culture & media I enjoy and did stuff like linking my letterboxd and mostly dedicating it to like. My introspective take on fandom. Embracing geek culture by throwing a bunch of words at you.