cannot believe there are people who aren’t familiar with the 2002 movie Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. it’s not remembered as one of the animated classics of the early 00s because it’s so different than other beloved movies - no talking animals, no fantasy settings, limited comedic elements - but my god did it shine in so many other ways. arguably some of the best 2D animation ever created, outstanding soundtrack, an hour and a half of pure anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism in a kid friendly story about horseys.
Really cool shit about digimon 02 is how a huge chunk of the show have characters constantly talking about how killing is bad and all life is precious and you should find nonlethal ways to deal with your enemies and all that jazz, but the literal second Takeru and Hikari find themself away from the group (see: Dagomon episode) they just start killing people. No question of morality they don’t even pause or bring it up they just straight-up murder bitches. It really hammers home that Daisule & the gang are kids having a whimsical fantasy adventure as heroes called from another world, while Hikari and Takeru are extremely traumatized isekai protagonists who spent a seizable portion of their childhood fighting demons in hell where a “kill or be killed” mindset was the only viable option, and that means the Takari & the rest of the 02 gang have WIDELY different ways of reacting to the world around them.
Haven’t watched digimon in years so I might be misremembering shit but I’m fairly certain that when the topic of killing digimon does eventually come up, Hikari doesn’t give a shit about the actual killing part, the part that saddens her is the fact that her companions will have no choice but to give up on their ideals this time.
hikari and taichi talk about it in one scene in 02 episode 43. taichi basically saying that the new kids arent used to fighting evil digimon that arent mind controlled or created by the dark towers and him questioning if they are capable of doing that if it becomes necessary
she doesn’t even care about the murder part she’s just sad these other kids will have to become like her.
i only have the german dub here rn but taichi goes “thats why you could eliminate them (digimon created by dark towers) without feeling guilty” implying they do feel guilty about the digimon they had to kill and hikari agrees. after saying that if things continue they will be like three years ago and hikari flinches before he says that it wont be long until they will face digimon that they will have to stop at any cost, tailmon and agumon agreeing with him. hikari having this expression
when you have to force your friends to go through the same trauma you did because the world’s built-in algorythm to save itself chose you guys to do the deed. Bottom text.
im skimming through the following episodes and thats also when ken gets kidnapped and they end up killing ladydevimon before she can kill miyako
miyako is very upset and hikari tells her that killing ladydevimon saved the lives of several people
iori has a similar experience in the same episode
he has to think about his father being a police officer but does question if they did the right thing
anyway the end up punting demon to the dark ocean while contemplating their mortality. have a cute frame of them being squeezed into the back of a car
“we want you to keep living and keep suffering” adhghdkjadhgjkd german dub savage as hell. mortality theme comes up again with black wargreymon who wanted them to kill him after losing the fight and wormmon going all “you have to fight and struggle when times are hard”
and by god i miss this agumon who could say shit like “you once asked me why are the way you are and i cant answer that. but i can tell you why i am the way i am: because of all the things i’ve experienced.”
When you delete things off of a mobile device (like a phone or digital camera), the file goes to your phone’s recycle bin (just like on a desktop computer or laptop), typically an invisible folder named .trashes or .trash. There, it continues to take up the same amount of memory storage as it did before you ‘deleted’ it. To empty your mobile device’s recycling bin, plug your phone into your desktop or laptop via USB as a memory device, right click on your desktop/laptop’s recycling bin/trash, and tell it to empty your recycling bin/empty trash. Your computer will empty all .trash/.trashes folders, including the one on your phone, actually deleting the files permanently this time, freeing up your phone/camera’s memory space. Reblog to save a life.
(I know this works on MAC with my Andriod, it’s not too far a stretch to do the same on Windows and/or with other phones as well. In fact, it should be easier to do on Windows since Windows Explorer is more conducive to finding hidden folders.)
FINDING THIS RANDOM POST ON MY DASHBOARD GAVE ME THE BEST ANSWER TO SHIT I’VE BEEN GOOGLING ABOUT FOR MONTHS!!!
aren’t gorillas gentle giants or something. i stay out of his way, he doesn’t maul me, we have a nice time picking out clothes together in opposite sides of the mall
Male gorillas are super aggressive and territorial. Also they interpret nearly every human mannerism as a sign of aggression or a challenge. Smiling and eye contact are both things that zookeepers have to be taught to suppress when they’re in the vicinity of gorillas.
Well unless the mall is his native territory I think I’m fine, I wasn’t planning on smiling at him
This is all irrelevant because the obvious answer is five black mambas. I mean, that’s not actually very many snakes, and malls are fucking huge. And unlike a gorilla you can definitely outrun a snake if it does show up. Find an open space in the mall where you can see any snake coming and just hangout out there. Fucking easy.
Misguided! I would much rather have a mallmate I can easily see and hear coming. I’m confident I can stay out of the gorilla’s way, but if I step on a snake or one otherwise gets the jump on me, it’s all over.
It’s not just about the physical danger either, it’s about my mental health. One gorilla, unless he’s actively mad at me, I just keep a healthy distance between us and make sure I never get trapped. With the snakes, it requires a lot more constant vigilance
They should substitute “chimpanzee” for “gorilla” in this hypothetical.
if it was a chimp i’m taking the fucking snakes
Black mambas have a reputation build on being very venomous and very fast. I’m not sure why you would think you could outrun one (or five) in an enclosed space like a mall.
Malls usually have pretty slick floors, and escalators. I’d choose the gorilla simply because I think that would make an more interesting story (and a better-selling autobiography, I Survived the Mall Gorilla) but I think I’d stand a pretty good chance at avoiding the mamba. They’re fast and aggressive and will chase you but unless we started immediately beside each other I think my sneakers would have the terrain advantage over scutes.
this is too good to leave hidden in the replies
fucking enamored with the implication that this gorilla is fully intelligent but is trying to manufacture plausible deniability like the movie barnyard