#ELIBARRA

[skrimblo]

#i got bored so i digitalized these doodles i did during filipino class um #elibarra #??? #noli me tangere #crisostomo ibarra #elias #my filipino teacher will be burning me at stake #el filibusterismo #simoun #im so delusional #doodle #feeding the elibarra shippers a bunch of scraps i hopr you guys dont mind

[razornioccam]

part of liking elibarra is acknowledging the uncomfortable truth that they would never work out in their universe. not just bc of the obvious real world implications but bc they simply clash too much. ibarra may try to look past that (as seen in him inviting elias to run away with him abroad) but elias knows its simply not possible. they are worlds apart.

ibarra has caused elias so much pain, even if he had no intention of doing so. he hurt him by being part of the eibarramendia family, by thriving at his family's expense. he hurts him by being dismissive of his pleads for reform, by siding with his oppressors, by chiding those who he deems below him- people that are just like elias, reduced to criminals. and he will hurt him again by being capable of change, by being someone worth saving. if ibarra continues down the path of violent retribution, he will hurt the many eliases of the country. elias knows this, and jumps off the boat anyway.

ibarra will hurt elias again and again and again. but elias will always choose to save him. because it's the right thing to do. because he has a real chance at sparking the revolution, even if their ideas of how it should happen differ massively. because unlike elias, ibarra was not made to suffer.

what im saying is jose rizal was a pioneer of toxic doomed yaoi

#elibarra #noli me tangere #el filibusterismo #el noli #al shpeals #sorry guys the elibarra brainworms took over for today #will get back to regularly scheduled programming #do not get me wrong i still love them wholeheartedly #but theyre kinda really fucked up #its part of the appeal okay if you get it you get it #ibarra my problematic king #elias deserves better

[travellingarsonist]

A tiny question

if I we’re to alien stage-ify characters, who should I do first?

#alien stage #alien stage-ification #this tag is mine now :) #/j #project sekai #pjsk #dead plate #noli me tangere #can’t believe I’m going through with this #you can tell I love proseka #the elibarra suggestion is my friend’s fault #If you recognize noli and the characters #No you don’t tf #mizisua #ivantill #lukahyuna #mafuemu #rody x vincent #akikasa #anhane #akikoha #mizurui #elibarra #this is a tag???? #huh???? #wtaf

[brokenborb]

Context: so we made our class vote if simoun or ibarra was hotter

Context²: doodle dump (i drew this all w my fingers sorry if its messy)

Maria appears... once, and some Elibarra

#el filibusterismo #crisostomo ibarra #art #digital art #elias #fanart #maria clara #maria clara at ibarra #rizal #artists on tumblr #noli me tangere #what is happening #elibarra

[phrogdad]

me and the bf at 3pm on a random tuesday by the woods

more self-indulgent elibarra because why not (i miss them so much)

#elibarra #elias #crisostomo ibarra #ibarra #jose rizal #elias noli me tangere #noli me tangere #art #el filibusterismo #elnoli #nolifili #artph #artists on tumblr #maria clara at ibarra #gay people #self indulgence babey

[carrot-felisidad]

Look, I'm gay, I love gay media, and I love gay anime.

But tell me why I can't watch/read romance with gays as the couple? Why can't I sit down to Sasaki to Miyano? To Kobayashi's Dragon Maid? To Given?

Why my preferred gay media be about two side characters who interacted very briefly in that one episode? Why it gotta be two girls who stab each other once or twice per season? Why it gotta be two men who frame each other to murder? Why it gotta be non-canon detectives who has no romantic subplot whatsoever? Why it gotta be two men, one dead, in the middle of a tragic revolution piece?

Why can't I just be normal and enjoy romance when given? Not scrape for a ship when the story is literally the opposite of romance?

#i am ded #akafuri #knb #villaneve #killing eve #hannigram #nbc hannibal #elibarra #noli me tangere #ship #homoerotic tragedy

[thehotshit789]

can you all tell that ang pangingisda is my favorite chapter of noli me tangere

#elibarra #ELIBARRA #noli me tangere #fanart

[hungryyeon19]

I'm new to Tumblr and a g10th student, I have a thing for elibarra and I keep trying to find more fanfiction about it yet I just get sad seeing all the inactive accounts that were once dedicated to the ship 😭🫠😵‍💫

#elibarra #noli me tangere

[katsurolle]

a christmas eve tragedy

#my art #el nolibusterismo #elibarra #noli me tangere #sorry for noli posting. in the year of our lord 2022 #/j. im NOT sorry !!!! i started this last yr but couldnt finish it in time. so here it is now. #anyway hello elibarra fandom r we still kicking </3 #blood cw #injury cw #death cw #ask to tag

[appleflavoredkitkats]

you know, i feel like general filipino audiences mischaracterize elibarra like. a lot. the thing is, i can see elibarra work in theory — these two seem like they're incredibly smitten with each other. but the thing about elias and ibarra is that, for me, they're admiration for each other comes of as shallow. surface-level.

(i'm gonna cite my interpretations of the book so bear with me here since last time i read it was december 2021. also this essay may be rambly and all over the place bc i wrote this at 3am lol)

elias was, i think, the first to be smitten. he valued ibarra because he believed he had the mindset and the power to execute change. that's why he helped him, and that's why he was incredibly shocked by ibarra's beliefs during the boat ride. and i need to emphasize this: that boat ride is so incredibly romanticized by media that it completely misinterprets the scene. if you actually read the damn thing, it showcases ibarra's true colors: he views filipino society as savages that need disciplining from the gwardiya sibil. to me, he's meant to juxtapose elias. while elias understands the struggle of the filipino (aided by the fact that he mentioned during the chase that he internalizes the misfortunes of the native land), ibarra is divorced from it. to my understanding, he is the antithesis of a model filipino: personal, vengeful, and close-minded.

and this is where general depictions of elibarra breaks for me. they are meant to be opposites. this is even supported with el fili's main point wherein padre florentino mentions that to be with your people is to "endure/suffer and work". elias has suffered, has understood the struggle of the filipino, but ibarra closes his mind to it. he wanted to do good only because he saw the filipino in his parents, but nothing else. even when he was imprisoned, he sought violent, personal revenge for HIMSELF.

and just. further insight; let's go to the infamous "then why do you advise me to go away?" line. elias and ibarra, for the first time in the book, receive a paradigm shift. a complete change in mindset and outlook. elias is sullen, pessimistic. does not believe in the chance of his survival because he was broken when he learned that ibarra's grandfather ruined his life. still, he chooses to suffer alongside the filipino. and fucking ibarra still does not internalize it. he goes on a ramble about seeking violent revenge, and even when elias says he'll hurt innocents, ibarra does not care. like, again, there's hardly anything profoundly romantic about this scene. they are self-destructing. elias lost hope in the filipino, ibarra chooses to fulfill personal desires.

BUT, and this is a BIG BUT, elibarra works in tragic ways, i think. because elias aids ibarra's survival in the end. he lets ibarra free not because he thinks he can help the nation, but because he believes he has the chance to be happy, unlike elias. and ibarra, even if he had differing opinions with elias at the first boat scene, was willing to learn elias' perspective. there is some worth in elibarra, but i think a few things need to be addessed.

one thing is; elibarra cannot work if their relationship was similar to how it was near the end of noli. there is a level of self-destruction there that i just absolutely do not think should be romanticized. the "why do you push me away" line is a whiny comment from ibarra showing how he still cannot understand ibarra's struggle. elias helping ibarra live was not because he loved ibarra to pieces, but because he prioritized the chance for personal happiness to exist. and this is is sorta difficult to explain, but to indulge oneself in individual happiness in this context is to sacrifice the chance to empathize with the nation. he fucking sacrifices his hope for the philippines in exchange for ibarra to continue thriving someplace else. so yeah, we need to stop believing that their relationship by the end was butterflies and rainbows because they were absolutely self-destructing.

second thing; even if ibarra is a privileged asshole who got most things wrong by the end, i also don't want to hold him to it, because his vengefulness ruined his life. his ignorance towards the filipino struggle still ruined his life. he is tragic as much as he is complacent. in better situations, let's say au's where they're happier and alive, i think a way to make ibarra's character free and more developed is if he actually found a way to open his mind to the filipino struggle. to get off his european high horse. not only would it be incredibly beneficial for him, but it would make his relationship with elias much more healthier. the thing is, elias how he is pre-chase scene was FINE. he has incredibly profound ideologies about the state of society which i think still we should uphold today. ibarra is the rich, spoiled, tragic brat who needs that sense of change.

the reason i emphasize their ideologies is because these two are founded upon them. these are their CHARACTERS. if ibarra still remains as close-minded as he is, it literally goes against not only elias' beliefs but his fucking existence. ibarra's beliefs are just a red flag period, incredibly classist and racist, and again, their relationship can only work if ibarra wakes the fuck up.

and yeah tldr; if you like elibarra and would like to portray them in other settings, it's important to not romanticize the boat scenes entirely because holy shit their relationship does not work. but it CAN work if ibarra can open his mind to better ideologies, which i think could happen in canon if he wasn't stuck in a miserable situation. but, if you wanna interpret elibarra by the book only, please be careful which parts you romanticize because a lot of it ignores the fact that ibarra exposes he has problematic ideologies + ignores the fact that elias and ibarra were at their lowest by the chase scene.

#noli me tangere #el filibusterismo #jose rizal #elibarra #elias #crisostomo ibarra

[cskyes]

Since they left Basilio and Isagani's fate up for doubts, you ever wonder if Rizal ever planned to turn Basilio into a full parallel of Simoun and Isagani into a full parallel of Elias?

Like imagine, in the middle of Makamisa it's suddenly revealed that Basilio, who was somehow not implicated in Simoun's plot, finished his degree and is now ingrained within the community of San Diego. He works as a community doctor, giving free treatment to the poorer people.

Imagine Isagani, realizing that trying to reason with those in power never works, decides to join the more underground militant groups, hell maybe we can even sneak in Penitente, Penitente family lore, and a little Penilaez angst.

Maybe we could get a quick look back at the other students too, Sandoval turns into a mini Don Custodio; maybe Makaraig follows Sandoval, or maybe serve as a rival to the Pelaez family in the world of business; Pecson enters the legal world, following Senyor Pasta's philosophy of "Bah! Who cares? All that matters is that you have a good life!," and Paulita? Paulita turns into a kinder version of Victorina, sure she's still somewhat matapobre, but her opinion on Indios are better, no doubt thanks to Isagani.

And maybe at the end we could see Isagani and Basilio meet up again, ending the Elibarra/Basigani angst by finally having a happy ending. They begin the revolution, but this time without the flaws Simoun's revolution had. This time, it was a revolution founded on justice; truth; equality, and not founded on rage; hate; and angst.

#el fili #el filibusterismo #penilaez #isagani #basilio #makamisa #jose rizal #tangina mo Rizal #basigani #elibarra #brain rotting #brainrot #my fucking brainworms are taking over

[skrimblo]

el fili/noli doodles

#noli me tangere #el filibusterismo #haha putangina puro shitpost #sorry senor jose rizal nadogshow ko nobela mo </3 #HAHAHA #crisostomo ibarra #elias #isagani #basilio #simoun #elibarra #my art #doodle

[bobafish]

" Elias gazed at him with such an indefinable expression that on seeing it one might have said that his whole life was concentrated in his eyes." WHY DOES THAT SOUND SO

#elias noli me tangere #noli me tangere #elibarra

[razornioccam]

elibarra comic with 19k likes on twitter LETS GOO ELIBARRA NATION!!! this just reactivated something dormant in my brain

you guys dont get how important elibarra is to me personally. filipino has consistently been my lowest subject since elementary and i rarely ever spoke tagalog (typical 'englishera' lol got teased for it relentlessly). you know what sparked my love for the language??? fucking elibarra . OF ALL THINGS .

i got so invested in them that i started to seriously learn and speak my native tongue because i wanted to fully analyze their interactions. i wanted to have enough knowledge to be able to compare the filipino texts to their english translations, to see if there was any nuance lost (or gained) in their conversations with each other. i hunted down every translation i could find of the boat scene and when i found the one that translated one of the lines to "because you are not made to suffer" i went batshit insane. i had all of their scenes together (and all of the elias scenes bc i love him) fully tabbed and annotated, highlights and side comments and everything. read my first fic written in tagalog because i desperately needed more of them.

got my highest grade in filipino in grade 9 and have since gotten better at speaking the language both formally and casually. from there, i learned to love the overall history and culture because it stopped feeling like a chore. because thats what elias wouldve wanted for me!!!

tldr doomed yaoi so good it sparked a personal revolution within me

now we wait for the annual boost in popularity whenever the grade 9/10s reach their 3rd and 4th quarter. noli me tangere is an incredible book you guys!! if focusing on elibarra is what it takes for yall to lock tf in and really get into it (like i did) then do it! you'll eventually learn to appreciate what jose rizal had to say in the story (and that he really Really loves elias LMAO)

#elibarra #noli me tangere #el filibusterismo #el noli #al shpeals #my fujoisms literally saved my grade #i cant even be embarrassed about it im still proud of the assignments i made for el noli #this is also for my classmate S who was the only other person that was as invested in them as i was #i miss you S wherever you are !!! ELIBARRA LAYAG FOREVERRRR

[waltangina]

May nahalungkat akong old elibarra fanfic, written in full bekimon circa 2014. Not sure if people still read el noli fics, but that never stopped me from writing! Post ko some day. Need ulit mag-ingay sa panitikandoms! And of course, need din dagdagan ng sapphic works for el noli. Sayang naman mga marsinang/ marisisa/ sisalome/ belpeps/ julita ko!!!!

#elibarra #el nolibusterismo #el noli #panitikandom

[el-dritchknight]

Sharing Spaces [Elibarra NSFW]

Fandom: Noli Me Tangere & Related Works - José Rizal

Characters | Ships: Elias/Crisostomo Ibarra

Summary:

In a faraway, foreign land, Crisostomo Ibarra finds home in a man that smells like the sea.

"One room please," Crisostomo says in fluent German. Being a polyglot has uses - for instance, booking rooms at inns in order to escape the tyrannical clutches of the Spanish authorities.

Days of looking over his bloody shoulder as Elias dragged him to safety had turned into weeks of hiding from place to place. From the humblest bahay kubo to a rich friend’s abode, they sought mercy and compassion wherever it was found.

Unfortunately, such doesn’t seem to be found in Wilhelmsfeld. At least, not until Crisostomo fishes out silver coins. They were nearing the end of the supplies he’d brought, but it was no matter.

read the rest on ao3

#elibarra #crisostomo ibarra #elias noli me tangere #el noli #noli me tangere #el filibusterismo #el writes #im back baby