#Being Filipino

[m-kyunie]

If I don't draw him every so often I'll die (real)

#ff7 #final fantasy 7 #zack fair #crisis core #ffvii #my zack is trans. & hes dominican-filipino bc I said so. 1 of his dog tags is Cloud's. #idk in case ur new around here #Reanimator - Joji is my Zack theme muah so give that a listen......the vibe is so Org Crisis Core #wanted to put him in smtg I wld wear & then pushing myself with the super-saturated colors! just being very willy-nilly

[cinnamonsikwate]

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White

#dungeon meshi #shuro #toshiro nakamoto #look you can hate him for other things but this is very clearly a case of cultures (& personalities influenced by these cultures) clashing #shuro is japanese/east asian-coded and laios is european white boy #i am not japanese but i also come from a collectivistic society #pakikisama is a filipino value both prized and abhorred #it relies heavily on being able to read social cues and prior knowledge of societal norms #shuro being from a different country/culture is important to his character #his repressed nature is meant to contrast with laios' open one like that's the point #they both had similar upbringings but different coping mechanisms #shuro explicitly admits that he's jealous of laios being able to live life sincerely #anyway the point is they were operating on different expectations entirely and neither had healthy enough communication skills #to hash things out before they got too bad #re his attraction to falin i personally believe he unfortunately mpdg-ed her #she represented something new & different. a fresh drink of water for his parched repressed self #alas not meant to be #i'll be honest the way ryoko kui handles both fantasy & regular racism in dm is more miss than hit for me #i don't doubt that a lot of the shuro hate is based off of marcille's pov of him #marcille famously racist 😭 #characters' racist views don't often get (too) challenged #practically everyone is casually racist at some point #anyway. again if you're gonna hate shuro at least hate him for being complicit in human trafficking & slavery #he couldn't help falling for the wrong woman goddamn 😭 #calemonsito notes

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is. Bad/gross food is rarely a DISH - when food is bad it's because it's been badly made, whether because of skills or available ingredients. but a dish p much only exists recognisably and has a name because someone likes at least one version of it.

which is to say. there isn't really a way of naming a dish, school of dishes or specific food culture and going EW ISN'T THIS DISH UNILATERALLY CONCEPTUALLY DISGUSTING without denigrating quite a lot of people.

like you don't have to like it in any form. but it's eaten and shared because it's good to a not insubstantial number of people when cooked right.

(and I don't really understand how you approach that with total incuriosity when it's a dish you haven't tried like. ARE rocky mountain oysters good? Maybe! I would very much eat some to find out!!!!)

this is actually something the British food poll did in a way the American ones I've seen haven't really - they described how the food they're imagining is, specifically, badly prepared (grey meat and veggies; unseasoned shepherd's pie). which is wildly tipping the scales by calling it British Food but. like. that is an on point definition of why that food is gross.

(this also applies to American chocolate, which like. Broad category but I think most of us understand this refers to low-cocoa high-sugar chocolate, probably with bucolic acid. so we are being invited to imagine Badly Made Chocolate not. the concept of chocolate)

personally I just think it's very rarely a good or funny idea to shittalk how gross any given food culture is. partly because food is important and culturally evocative for most people, partly because it's very...alienating? to be like WHO COULD EAT SUCH A THING? just because you wouldn't, and largely because to be frank it says more about you than about the food that you have so little imagination or curiosity that you can't imagine why a food might be enjoyable to folks who aren't you.

yes this includes jello salad, I would like to try it. ONCE. if it wasn't appealing to someone it wouldn't be so widespread.

#red said #like. as if talking shit about people for eating offal or offcuts particularly hasn't always been hugely loaded in race and class terms #ewww can you believe filipinos eat tripe. can you believe Chinese people eat pig feet? #YEAH I CAN AND YOU SHOULD TOO. Those are normal parts of an animal to eat and it's weird that you think it's weird #but it's also. a really common racist trope right? like. how often does racist rhetoric mention food being 'weird' or 'smelling bad'? #because shitting on someone's food and calling it gross is a really good shortcut to shitting on them and their cultures #implying they're dirty or animalistic or cruel or undiscerning or have bad taste #this isn't crying RACISM AGAINST WHITE PPL btw #just saying. maybe in general we should shut the fuck up about finding entire schools of cooking gross #and it's interesting you know. bc Americans in the notes of the American food posts recognise there are race and class sensitivities there #but not that there might be similar sensitivities around mocking another country's food

[motziedapul]

IF YOU WANNA LISTEN TO A HORROR PODCAST

✨That's "actually scary" ✨With a Filipina immigrant lead ✨Set in Toronto ✨With supernatural horrors and immortal rich occultists from the 1900s ✨ With an analog sound (phone calls+tape recordings) ✨ BIPOC leads

FOLLOW @hinaypod

#calling all listeners #i gotta stop being embarrassed about hyping hi nay up #hi nay podcast #hi nay #hinaypod #horror podcast #filipino podcast #audio drama #my writing #filipina lead #analog horror #sort of

[nangua]

@nosebleedclub prompt: detente - the easing of hostility or strained relations

#writeblr #writers on tumblr #writing #spilled ink #spilled words #my writing #love me a good ol' dad poem #i didn't realize how prominent being filipino was to my writing. lol

[punkeropercyjackson]

Was thinkin' bout how Hiccup Haddock and Percy Jackson hold up big time as childhood fave male protagonists while Harry Potter and Danny Fenton keep digging their own graves the more i remember about them and then realized that Harry and Danny were intentionally written as 'ordinary teenage boys' while Hiccup and Percy were written as disabled(Hiccup's health problems and his prosthetic + Percy's adhd dyslexia and implied ptsd)and not traditionally masculine(Hiccup because he dosen't live up to his cultures ideas of manhood and Percy deliberately acting not like a stereotypical guy because he thinks those are gross and weird).Yeah that'll do it

#obvs danny's not NEARLY as bad harry but he's IMPOSSIBLY mid and the only reason he gets hype is being a generic white boy #that can be read as binary transmasc and that's really all it takes in fandoms fir them to go feral over him.sad💔 #anti harry potter #anti dp #hiccup haddock #percy jackson #perseo jackson #cookie jackson #pandora jackson #penthesilea 'pen' jackson #trans hiccup #autistic hiccup #adhd hiccup #hiccup has anxiety #hiccup has mdd #filipino hiccup tag #bi hiccup #transfem percy jackson #bigender percy jackson #team parent percy jackson #autistic percy jackson #punk!percy #httyd #t4t hiccstrid #hicpip #pjo #perlex #good times #summerposting #💌

[leon-on-the-froggy-chair]

Remembering that one time i got cancelled in a tiktok comment section for implying Luis isn't white

#all i did was defend someone drawing him with tan skin LMAO #someone in their comments asked why is he brown and i said “bc hes brown” and that resulted in a lot #i was apparently erasing years and years colonization committed by Spain or something #by saying Luis isnt white #which idk as a mixed poc with latino and filipino background that was really fucking funny #and they thought i was calling him mexican and accused me of romanticizing people of color for some reason?????? #i should hunt down the thread because it was like being in the twilight zone #i love rambling context in my tags LMAO #luis serra

[stillgotme]

𝕴𝖇𝖚 ‡ 𝕲𝖔𝖉𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝕯𝖊𝖆𝖙𝖍

It's in the blood and this is tradition

She moved with such grace, yet killed with no mercy. One barely had time to take in her beauty before she reaped their souls. After what happened to her, she was going to make sure every man feared her. 

No one ever escaped.

So she earned the name Ibu, the Goddess of Death.

#the sims 4 #ts4 #sims 4 #ts4 edit #ts4 render #simblr #simblreen #simblreen 2023 #aliya's sims #amongussy #roxy #theseus 08085 #as promised here's the edit i said i'd do before japan #it fit spooky season so here we are #ibu is the goddess of death in filipino mythology and roxy is filipino #think of john wick being known as babayaga #i can once again write a 5 page essay on what all this means #the song and her lore all come together for this #yes only i know it #but ANYWAY happy simblreen sorry i disappear and drop a random edit nowadays

[threestripeslider]

Splinter cutting up fruit and just wordlessly giving it to his sons as a snack without being asked as a silent sign of love and care can literally be so personal–

#rottmnt #hamato splinter #hamato yoshi #turtle files: headcanon #he's an asian parent that is literally canon you cannot change my mind #AGAIN! LOVE AND CARE IS STORED IN SLICED FRUIT!!! #LOVE IS STORED IN FOOD!!! #bro i literally cannot [starts crying] #my filipino relatives have done this all the time #my mom especially #and my dad who's white af does it too now #especially with our own apple tree #THERE IS JUST SOMETHING #TEHRE IS JUSTS OMETHING SO CARING ABOUT BEING GIVEN SOME FOOD WITHOUT PROMPTING

[fregget-frou]

@autisticempathydaemon said they loved my Angel listener (along with everything else it was SO SWEETTT OMLLL<333) so here’s a doodle for you! They’re also one of my favorites!

Look at that face.

Full of mischief.

Some fun facts about them: they’re native! Specifically they could be from the Salishan (but I don’t know too much so I leave it ambiguous) and are half Filipino, born and raised in British Columbia, Canada around Vancouver. They were raised by their mom and brothers, then moving to dahlia for college.

They originally planned to secure a high end job in Vancouver just going to California for school but they met David. They still visit their family as often as they can.

They’re 5’4, the shortest listener! Aklag is still beefy and could definitely throw David over their head. Their callouses are from being raised on a farm, and they’re starting to fade now.

I took them out of another story I made a while ago so I’m still trying to tweak them seamlessly so I’ll actually maybe probably not but make a backstory sheet for my listeners?

Thank you sm for your words and I hope you like it!

#I originally took them from an old idea I had for a book #basically their family got torn apart after their mom died so they left to California to try to avoid it #see their short hair in my first drawings of them and now after a couple years it’s long again #they were really connected to their mom so her death hit them really hard kinda making a wall around them #instead of being grumpy it’s more of a shallowish happiness of avoidance #David was really the only person to get through to them and I find it very convenient that they’re both parallels #I also made Darlin’ native and originally one of their childhood friends #darling moved to Washington #they stayed in British Columbia #not really being able to be themself #not fully being able to embrace their native nor Filipino heritage #just an idea of someone dealing with grief and I like how that they’ve evolved last my og idea thru Raudio #hint hint their slow hair growth and gaining back of weight to show their healing process #eventually I’ll draw their brothers #aurgghh I just like them a lot and had a lot of unfinished ideas for them I’m glad people like them #redacted asmr #freggzocs #freggzartz #redacted audio #redacted audio fanart #redacted asmr fanart #redacted asmr angel

[erial-c]

i keep hearin abt the april role reversal au redacted patrons talk abt and i would be excited but im literally frm the other side of the planet so im a day ahead and therefore have to wait longer for it💔💔💔💔💔

#redacted audio april #redacted audio #redacted asmr #redactedverse #sorry for being filipino

[lxkeee]

My hands hurt lol, really spent two whole hours writing by hand my project cuz we're required to submit it by writing it by hand 💔💔💔

#at least im done wtf 😭 #it was in Tagalog too #whats up with words being longer once it's translated into Filipino? #writing the word sex to pakikipagtalik is so aaaahhh #and i did a lot of mid pauses when writing cuz im wondering if im using the letter u too much 💀 #anyways #the horrors persist #but so do i #avoiding discord rn cuz im a pussy #😁✌️

[fiddles-ifs]

Bautista is a bit funny for me as an international fan of GW because I had a homeroom teacher with the same name, I wonder how they'd do in that position LOL. I do appreciate their character 'cause I don't often see my country in media, or really any of SEA that much, this is the first time I've seen it represented in IF specifically.

hehe thanks!!!

Bautista as a homeroom teacher would be the long-suffering type that tries to remain stoic even when their students catapult pencils into the ceiling. Their students swing wildly between thinking they're a hardass and (for the most part unintentionally) the funniest person alive. They try and impart important life lessons onto their students, but just end up exasperatedly explaining that no, carving your eraser into a throwing star shape is not technically a weapon, but that does not mean you can throw it at each other. Now read this passage from this book about World War II and shut up.

#greenask #m bautista #hehe these sorts of asks make me extraordinarily happy !! #baut has an interesting character arc as sb whose family is filipino-american #but also as someone whose 1st generation immigrant family is at least grandparents #and pretty assimilated bc of many many decades spent being ground down in the military industrial complex #a lot of their characterization comes from feeling adrift #heehee greenwarden brain go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[reallyhardy]

“Lately, it seems like Filipinos gravitate towards foreign influences more: our appreciation for our culture has slowly started to fade. So when we heard of the concept of this boy group, we couldn’t help but think it was risky,”

“For Pinoy K-pop fans, they would judge Alamat based on their standards: glossy sets, Korean-style choreography, and even physical appearance like light skin and colored eyes,” Creative Director Jason Paul Laxamana says. “Since Alamat doesn’t follow their formula 100%, many perceive them to be doing it wrong.”

But these risks seem to have paid off, as they’ve built an impressive portfolio of songs that illuminate the Philippines’ illustrious culture.

ALAMAT + official music videos [part two.]

#ALAMAT #ppop #ppop rise #ppopedit #philippines #gifs by me #more eyes on them! pls! they are SO good #and really championing like #being inspired by traditional artwork music and pinoy history #i enjoy them SO much because its just SO filipino #not just like kpop but in filipino languages

[puppyeared]

Spirit tracks is fun teehee

#ITS FUN HAVING ZELDA AS A COMPANION OK… title character gets to be playable omg #god. they are everything to me idk why but spirit tracks zelink is my fav by far #It feels more earned I guess? The other zelda games I’ve played p much established zelink as like some unspoken thing #Like uhhh skyward sword gets brought up a lot bc childhood friends. And breath of the wild although I do like botw zelink #But like you get to see their relationship develop in spirit tracks like they go from oh cool we’re teammates to YOU ARE MY BFF #I also like Zelda piping up whenever something happens like. I remember I used to go swimming here do u wanna go swimming when I get #My body back. Also I like being nice to her we are besties your honor #2nd image is my fav expression in windwaker when his magic gauge increase HIS FACE IS EVERYTHING PLEASEEE #I also drew tetra wearing something like baro’t saya? Using her game model and pictures of dresses and the boxer codex #Everything I’m putting on here is experimental anyway cause I’m checking Wikipedia on my own culture 🫡 #BUT HELL IT WOULD BE COOL like tetra could have a more rugged baro’t cause like she’s a captain and she needs it when on open sea right #And I can imagine tracks zelda having more of a traje de mestiza dress because it’s more fancy right.. waving my hands #Sometimes Filipino zelda can be something so personal bro #My art #myart #doodles #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #loz #Spirit tracks #wind waker #took link #Zelink #zelda #Tetra

[yonpote]

thought i may as well grab my phil notice but i didnt screenshot the context TT phil did a poll about whether you should spell philip with one L or two, and i replied that there's only one L in the philippines 🫡🇵🇭

#notice #also in my private circle later i said i lied abt there being one L #the filipino govt is constantly taking L's......... #mabuhay btw