#tagalog readables

[teenxskylar]

Ano ba talaga gender ni teenxskylar?

Back in 2015, I was a minor, blogging a bunch of heartfelt posts about my special person. I was scared to reveal my gender back then, given that the lgbt community was not celebrated pa that time. 2015 was the experimental year pa noon, tolerated naman ang karamihan na miyembro ng lgbt (hanggang ngayon pa rin naman, tolerated lang tayo, hindi celebrated, pero this topic is for another blog) and I wasn't ready to come out yet. Hence, I blogged anonymously and with that ang daming nang bobombard sa inbox ko noon. Kung babae raw ba ako or lalaki, kung babae raw ba ako bakit ganun ako mag blog parang lalaki raw yada yada.

I admit sobrang nakakapagod, I can't blog in peace. Hindi ko alam bakit dati kailangan ilabas ko pa gender identity ko para lang tigilan ako ng mga tao. Hindi ba pwedeng basahin niyo na lang ang mga kalandian posts ko back then huhu, gusto ko lang magkwento tungkol sa mga naging crush ko na hindi ko maikwento sa mga kaibigan ko kasi hindi pa ako out noon? Grabe sobrang big deal ang gender talaga noon 'no? Parang hindi nila mababasa ang blog mo if di mo i-indicate yata sa hashtag kung babae ka ba, lalaki or bading. Although I had my own faults din, nilito ko ang mga tao, pinaglaruan ko sila with my gender, minsan nagrereveal ako na babae ako, minsan lalaki, pero at the end of the day its not my responsibility to feed people's curiosity. Ika nga ni Jose Rizal, "my blog, my rules." eme

And I'm thankful na ngayon naging safe space ko na ulit ang tumblr, wala na ang mga toxic people noon na nang abuso ng pagkabata ko, they took advantage of my age knowing na madali akong maniwala pa noon. Kilala niyo kung sino kayo, pero hindi ko na kayo maalala hehe.

#personal #teenxskylar #readables #tagalog

[cheesecrackery]

[ Pinned info post that I'm hoping is readable ]

Name: Cheese or Chii or Chiizu or Keso or idk, just call me what you like atp

Pronouns: he/him, she/her, they/them, and some neopronouns, but honestly you can just use whatever

I interact with @cheese-prime. Also, feel free to interact w/ me in Tagalog because I also speak Tagalog

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My Tags:

ccrackers draws - art

self art - art of myself and my sona/s

ccrackers ocs - oc tag

ccrackers talks - text / not art

ccrackers shits - shitposts

ccrackers answers - asks

person with shades - anon

degen hours - me when posts past my bedtime

warnings are tagged like: cw *content*

Fandoms I currently like to draw for:

Hermitcraft ★

Life Series / Traffic SMP ★

South Park

Myself & my OCs

Nijisanji EN

[★ - means I main it. Bold text means im fixated]

my other sideblogs are @dailygtwscar where I post GTWScar fanart... not daily... and @cheesnt where I used to post mcyt ship art but now I only use it to gush about mumscarian

My other socmed is TikTok, Insta, and YouTube (same username as this one) and Twitter (also same user, just with an extra 'y' at the end)

WARNING: I POST HERMIT/TRAFFIC SHIPPING ART !!!

obligatory "I only ship their characters, not the CCs." disclaimer

I don't main tag it. It's 99% just mumscarian, scarian, redscape, and grumbo anyway. I only tag it with _____shipping, the ship name, and my art tag. So make sure you have the terms you don't like muted. If a post of mine doesn't have these tags, then it's not ship art. Also I don't sign these drawings.. lol.

Please don't use any of my Minecraft yaoi as headers/pfps. Also no edits of my ship art please. And most importantly, pls don't repost them anywhere.

#long post #tags for easy access: #ccrackers draws #ccrackers ocs #self art #ccrackers talks #ccrackers shits #ccrackers answers #person with shades #degen hours

[philippine-esoteric-wisdom]

[yawningpolarbear]

Mahal kita

Ayoko talagang nagmamadali pagdating sa pag-ibig. I always want to live in the moment. Enjoy lang muna. Pero bat ganun kapag dumating na, na inlove ka na, parang ginagago ka pa rin ng tadhana kasi sinaktan ka rin at iniwan. Ang masasabi ko na lang, wala talagang nakakaligtas. Mag ingat ka man o hindi, kapag nagmahal ka, masasaktan at masasaktan ka. Ang tanong is worth it ba yung sakit para sa tao na yun. Yung love kasi hindi talaga yan nagtetake advantage. Kapag mahal mo, mahal mo. Kahit nga hindi ka mahal, patuloy mo pa ring minamahal. Walang logical explanation kung bakit tayo nagpapakatanga pero ganun talaga pag nagmahal ka, natatanga ka talaga. Kasi hindi naman utakan yan sa pag-ibig eh. Puso ang nagmamahal, hindi ang utak. Kaya tawanan man ako ng maraming tao or ng taong mahal ko kasi minahal ko sya kahit hindi nya ako kayang mahalin. Hindi ko magawang magalit kasi kasama yun eh. Kumbaga package na, na kapag nagmahal ka tanggap mo lahat ng bagay dun sa tao na yun. Masakit na maliitin or pagtawanan yung nararamdaman mo pero ganun talaga. Kailangan natin tumayo ulit kapag nadapa. Hanapin ang dating sarili, yung masaya. Yung nabuhay ng masaya bago pa man sya dumating. Mahirap pero kakayanin. Kasi nakayanan mo nga sya mahalin ng sobra. Kakayanin mo rin ibigay yung pagmamahal na yun sa sarili mo at hihigitan mo pa. Ang sarap lang talaga magmahal. Huwag tayo matakot. Huwag natin pilitin. Huwag natin ikumpara. At huwag natin ipagkait. I love you all. Good night 🌙

- 🐻

#tagalog #readables #meandmysides #lost love #writing #thoughts #spilled thoughts #spilled heart #spilled feelings #spilled ink #quotes #tagalog readables #tagalog quotes #love #heartbreak #life #feelings #pag ibig

[escafeism]

ikaw ang unang taong nagpatanto sa akin nito at siguro gusto ko itong isulat para hindi ko makalimutan, na tingin ko naman hindi pero sige.. dati ngitian mo lang ako, o madaplisan lang ng kaunti ng kamay mo ang kamay ko, sobrang hirap na agad magpigil ng ngiti na minsan pa nga ay di ko maikubli at tila parang abot hanggang tenga 'yong dagundong ng tibok ng puso ko na halos ay nakakabingi. 'yong paghuhuramentado ng dibdib ko na kahit hanggang sa pagtulog ay damang dama pa rin habang binabalikan ang mga nangyari sa araw na 'yon na kasama ka. at h'wag na nating isama 'yong mga unang pagkakataong dinampian ng mga labi mo ang mga labi ko kasi misteryo pa rin sa akin kung paanong sa liit ng puso ko ay nakayanan nitong tanggapin lahat ang mga samu’t saring emosyon na pinaramdam mo. siguro iyon na 'yong kilig na parang mga bayolenteng alon o di kaya mararahas na kulog - sobrang lakas na hindi mo kayang pigilan, hindi pwedeng ipagkaila. sa nagdaang panahon, 'yong hawak-kamay natin, halik, mga yakap, o kahit sa pinaka simpleng mga bagay kagaya ng pagtatanong mo sa akin kung anong gusto kong ulam kasi ipagluluto mo 'ko, o di kaya 'yong otomatiko mong pagyakap sa akin sa tuwing tinatabihan kita kahit na himbing ang tulog mo, o 'yong walang pasubaling pagsuporta mo sa mga gusto kong gawin - nagpapangiti pa rin sa akin, nagpapakilig pa rin pero wala na 'yong paghuhuramentado, wala na 'yong abot hanggang tengang pagtibok ng puso. siguro ito na 'yong kilig na banayad, na kalmado - alam mong nandyan kahit hindi masyadong litaw. hindi nagbago 'yong pakikitungo mo sa akin pero nagbago 'yong pakiramdam. 'yong dating dayuhan ngayo’y naging pamilyar. 'yong dating bayolente ngayo’y naging payapa. 'yong dating hindi pa sigurado kung saan ang tungo ngayo’y panatag ang loob kasi alam mong sa pag gising mo kinabukasan ay sigurado ka sa puso mong andyan pa rin siya para sayo, walang pagmamahal na magbabago.

m.

#msshearty #prose #lathala #quotes #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #poetryportal #writers on tumblr #tagalog quotes #literature #writerscreed #rejectscorner #readables #love #kilig

[exhaustedheart]

Mahirap pigilan ang sariling huwag paikutin ang mundo sa iisang tao lalo na kung ikaw yung klase nang tao na ganun magmahal. Kahit ilang beses mo pa pagsabihan ang sarili mo, hindi mo magawa tigilan.

#thoughts #tagalog #readables #nevaeh

[blog-zoned]

"Hindi ka ba napapagod?"

"Sa?"

"Sa pagiging tanga."

"Alam mo, kung lahat ng tao mapapagod, kung lahat tayo ayaw maging tanga o magmukhang tanga, sino na lang ang matitirang magmamahal nang totoo?"

#tagalog #pag-ibig #readables

[frompersephoneseyes]

namnamin sa aking labi

ang mga salita na pilit

kinakalimutan sa gabi

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pagsayaw ng mga tala

habang ikaw ay malaya

paano nga ba makakaraos

sa'yong daigdig

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tuloy na lumuluha

sa bawat paghinga

pero ano pa nga ba ang magagawa

kung tuluyan ka nang mawawala

#hades #literature #tagalog #tagalog quotes #spilled prose #spilled poetry #spilled thoughts #spilled words #spilled ink #spilled writing #writing #writings #writers on tumblr #long reads #long posts #readables #15

[sintensya]

Makikipag-sayaw ako sa apoy

Kasama ang mga naliligaw at palaboy.

#spilled ink #spilled words #spilled thoughts #spilled poetry #thoughts #readables #tagalog #tagalog quotes

[iyaaakin]

At kung hindi man tayo magtapos sa harap ng altar sa huli, babaunin ko ang iyong mga ngiti sa iyong labi, na minsan ay lumapat sakin at nagbigay buhay para lumabang muli.  Hindi man tayo pagbigyan ng tandhana na magkita sa oras ng ating pamamaalam,  wag kang mag-alala dahil ang ating mga alaala kasama ng iyong mga liham,  ay nakatago na sa pinamalalim na parte ng aking puso,  kung saan nakaukit ang pangalan mo.  At paulit-ulit ko pang hihilingin na sa susunod na buhay ko, ikaw pa din ang mamahalin at isisigaw ng aking puso.

— r.v

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[gringolet]

INTRO TO ARTHURIANA MASTERPOST

under the cut for absurd length

HOW TO GET STARTED WITH ARTHURIANA

The Arthuriana fandom is very broad and there's no one piece of media, which can be confusing for people just getting into it! There’s no right way to engage with arthuriana, and no minimum level of knowledge or reading you need to attain to qualify. 

The basis of the Arthurian Legend is a body of hundreds of texts written across the medieval and early Renaissance period in dozens of languages and cultural traditions. Which can seem pretty overwhelming, but there are a lot of modern vernacular translations-- you absolutely don’t have to learn old French or anything. I’ll go more in depth on where to get started with texts further down.

You also don’t have to read texts at all. As I said, there is no minimum basis-- if you prefer to engage with modern adaptations, or want to engage with medieval arthuriana outside of reading texts, that's also cool! 

In terms of modern adaptations there is a wealth of choices, which I am very much not an expert in lol, so I’m afraid I can’t give much in the way of reccs. Books I have heard good things about are, Exiled from Camelot, Idylls of the Queen, The Buried Giant, the Squire's Tale series, and Gawain by Gwen Rowley (warning that this one is apparently erotica? Good for him). I trust @princesslibs  for modern book reccomendations. and if you speak French Kaamelott is purportedly a very good tv show. Frankly no modern adaptation will ever be better than Spamalot to me, but that's just my personal take. 

If you are curious about engaging with texts but (understandably) don’t want to read a ton of dense medieval literature, one really cool resource is Norris J Lacy's New Arthurian Encyclopedia, which you can pick up at most used bookstores for under ten bucks. It’s a very thorough easy to look through reference of characters stories and texts. I know a lot of people like the Nightbringer wiki, though I personally am wary of it because it basically never cites sources. It’s a good quick reference though and a lot of people like it, I’d just take it with a grain of salt. Sparknotes also has a lot of summaries of the major texts like Le Morte D’Arthur and the romances of Chrétien De Troyes. You are not a fake fan for doing this I promise. And of course you’re always welcome to send me an ask <3 

Finally, getting started with texts. Quick glossary of terms:

--Verse Romance

    A verse (poem) story which can vary a great deal in length. These deal with the adventures of individual knights, usually Gawain, and tend to have a great deal of magical elements and the stereotypical monster slaying, questing, damosel rescuing knight adventures.

--Prose Novel or Romance

    A non poetic narrative, more like a modern novel, more likely to deal with the fall of Arthur, sword in the stone, Mordred, fall of Camelot sort of affair. They are usually quite long. Most famous of these are Le Morte D’Arthur and the French Vulgate, but there are a slew of late medieval Prose novels floating around. Eluding Rey.

--Pseudohistory

    I’m gonna b real these are boring I think. These are, as the name suggests, written as accurate depictions of history.  They very much are not, but they claim to be. Most famous of these is Jeffrey of Monmouth, Mr Jeff Mouth himself, and his History of the Kings of Britain, which I haven’t read because it bores me. You can if you want. It’s in Latin. Whatever. These tend to be some of the earliest texts, and include the “lives of saints” stories. Life of Gildas is the only funny one.

--Ballads

    These are only arguably texts, as most of them were written after the time of the “canon” being composed. But I like them. These are songs telling stories, recorded by people like Francis Child and Thomas Percy. They are very short and fun and include stories like The Boy and the Mantle, Kempion, and King Arthur and the King of Cornwall.

--Lai

    A specific type of French verse poem, usually quite short. The most famous collection of lais are those of Marie le France, including things like Bisclavret and Lanval. 

--Traditions

    Since Arthuriana was written all over, there are different literary traditions across time and space. The French tradition is one of the most famous, including works like the vulgate, Chretien and a lot of verse romances. The English tradition is one of the most influential on modern adaptations, including the Morte D’Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. There are also Welsh, German, Dutch, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Tagalog, Greek, Belarussian, Scottish, Irish, Breton, and probably even more. There’s a lot. It’s very cool and sexy.

A note that there is also a big tradition of Victorian revival Arthuriana. I wrote a starter guide to that here, it’s all very fun and like, aesthetic. 

Alright, now, which texts do you start with?

If you’re a little intimidated by long texts or medieval lit, starting with short verse romances in modern translation is a great place to start. These include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which is very good and gay and well known, Lancelot and the Hart With The White Foot, which is very good and gay and underappreciated, or Lanval, which is homophobic but funny. 

If you want to start with what is considered the oldest King Arthur Story, Culwch and Olwen is short and fun!

If you want to read about the grail quest, you can start where it started with Story of the Grail or Percival, then the four continuations, Essenbachs Parzival, the vulgate version of the Grail quest which you can buy paperback for like 5 bucks (I can also scan my copy for you just shoot me an ask <3)

If you want to read about the fall of camelot, I have the Vulgate death of Arthur section scanned here. There’s also the Alliterative and Stanzaic mortes, which are in middle English. I have scanned Simon Armitage's Alliterative Morte translation here. I’m working on my own translation of the Stanzaic but it’s not done lol. If you want the first third or so DM me lol. King Artus is very short and readable and it’s a Jewish text which is really cool.

If you want to read about Lancelot, Chrétien de Troyes Lancelot is his first text. He also has a whole long vulgate section, the first part is scanned here by val <3, and there's Lanzelet,  Sebile is in it so it’s probably very good. He’s also basically the main character of Le Morte D’Arthur which I might as well talk about here uhm. It’s long and fun in places and boring in others but it does have like the version most modern adaptations take from and tells the whole story of Arthur and Camelot from beginning to end. The Keith Baines version scanned by val is the most readable but it is an abridgement I believe. people who like le morte usually read this version so its probably the best choice lol

If you want to read about Gawain, good news! He’s in basically everything. Even texts that aren’t supposed to be about Gawain are doomed to become The Gawain Show Featuring The Protagonist Of This Text As A Sidekick. Which is so funny of him. The Roman Van Walewein is very funny and long and Gawain™. I also recommend, L’atre Perilous, Diu Krone, Sir Gawain and the Turk, and I could go on but for brevity's sake let's start there. 

If you want to read about Tristan, go shoot an ask to Valentine @lanzelet on tumblr because Tristan scares me. 

Thank you to rey @gawain-in-green for helping me find links and put this together! They are also a super great resource for stuff and very cool and nice <3 They have a tag on their blog for full text resources so deffo look at that if you want more scans and links, and an info tag and tons of cool shit that is way better organized than my blog lol

Okay finishing this off, if you want content warnings for any texts, feel free to shoot an ask! I know medieval lit can be A Lot and there aren’t a lot of good warning systems, so if I’ve read it or know someone who has I can give you warnings if you want to read something but are understandably wary . <3

In terms of tagging, Arthuriana and Arthurian Legend are the main ones on tumblr. Arthurian Mythology is also used but tbh shouldn’t be. On Ao3, we’re trying to get our own Arthurian Literature tag but <3 its a whole thing. Anyway the tag is Arthurian Mythology, but I’ll b real, it’s kind of flooded with stuff that doesn’t really belong there, because even though it’s a fandom tag other people unknowingly tag stuff as Arthurian Mythology when it’s like, a knight au. Which is not their fault bc it’s confusing but, ah, alas. ANyhow, feel free to drop in my inbox anytime with questions, suggestions, reccs, etc!

Okay godspeed!! Have fun reading, watching, browsing, etc! 

#arthuriana #arthurian legend #arthurian literature #arthurian mythology #:/

[philippine-esoteric-wisdom]

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[mickothoughts]

                     A Relayed Message from Officemate

            Nung araw na dumating ‘yung last day ng isa kong workmate, walang duda na nalungkot kaming lahat, nakakalungkot kasi nawala s’ya hindi dahil sa nag-resign s’ya kundi dahil Terminated s’ya. Nalungkot kami, kasi sa tuwing nag-o-overtime kami ng hanggang umaga, s’ya ‘yung tao na gagawa at gagawa ng paraan para manatili kaming gising, sa pamamagitan ng mga assorted kind of humour na meron s’ya. Sobra s’yang nakakatawa, kahit na Gangsta ang galawan n’ya. Lahat ng hirit n’ya, walang sino man sa’min ang hindi pwedeng matawa. Kaya sobrang nakakahinayang nung nalaman naming tuluyan na s’yang tinerminate ng company.              Hindi sa niyayabang ko ang naka-palaman na mensahe n’ya para sa akin, sobra ko lang na-appreciate ‘yung pagiging thoughtful n’ya, hindi ko inaasahan na sa pagkatao n’ya, meron din pala s’yang soft side. Hindi ko inaasahan na na-a-appreciate n’ya pala lahat ng tinuturo ko sa kanilang lahat, dahil parang hindi naman nila shino-showcase yung mga natutunan nila, somehow at some cases. At least. Sobra akong natuwa and in the same way nadurog ang puso ko nung pinabasa na sa’kin ng co-leader ko ‘yung relayed farewell message n'ya para sa’min na superior n’ya.                Pero ang talagang dahilan kung bakit ko nai-post ito ay sa dahilang may isang lesson akong muling napatunayan.                Nasabi ko kanina na medyo ‘Gangsta’ ang galawan n’ya, at totoo, literally, dahil ‘yung ugali n’ya kasi sa labas ng opisina, nadadala n’ya pa rin hanggang sa loob, minsan nagiging bastos kasi s’ya in two ways. Hindi ko na lang ie-elaborate.                 Marunong naman s’yang sumunod sa mga instructions namin, lalo na siguro kapag nasa mood s’ya, pero lagi din kasi s’yang natutulog, tapos hirap na hirap s’yang i-reach yung ‘designated quota’, plus ‘yung quality ng mga files n’ya hindi talaga maganda, kaya pag-dating sa statistics n’ya, lagi s’yang bagsak.                 Nakakalungkot lang isipin na mula nung na-receive n’ya na ‘yung last warning Memo n’ya, tsaka pa n’ya naisipang baguhin lahat ng Bad traits na pinapakita n’ya, kung kelan warning na, tsaka n’ya lang naisipang seryosohin lahat ng bagay tungkol sa trabaho. Maganda sana yung thought na nag-effort s’ya para maka-abot pa next year, pero bakit hinintay n’ya pang umabot sa puntong sagad na ang lahat.                 Doon ko natutunan na, may mga tao talaga na hangga’t hindi nalalaman ang halaga ng isang bagay, hindi s’ya gagawa ng mga bagay na magpapakita na ini-ingatan n’ya nga ito, at hindi n’ya ito hahanapan ng dahilan kung bakit kailangan n’yang mas alagaan pa ito ng husto.                 At dahil doon, nalaman ko ang sagot sa tanong na,                     “Bakit kung kailan alam na nating huli na ang lahat at ramdam na nating hindi na tayo aabot sa dulo, tsaka lang nating ma-iisipang mag-bago.” © 09/04/2017 | Learn how to know the worth of things before discarding it, and learn what things are worth keeping

#kwento #long reads #readables #relatable #Relayed messages #tagalog #lifelessons

[yawningpolarbear]

Minsan doon mo lang naman talaga nalalabas yung sakit eh, sa pagsusulat.

Kasi wala ka namang nakakausap na makakaintindi at sarili mo nalang talaga yung meron ka

#tagalog #one liner #meandmysides #readables #thoughts #quotes

[cannedthoughts]

Putangina, nasaan na? Ang pangakong ginhawa, Nasaan na? Ang ipinangakong ligaya, Nasaan na? Putangina. Nasaan ka na?

#hugot #tula #tagalog #poetry #filipino #readables #thoughts

[junietuesday]

I'm going to write a Be More Chill fic and I was wondering what some things are that I should include for Michael being Filipino? Like common Filipino things, parts of the language he might use, and especially what to avoid doing? Thanks!

note: i’m full filipino, while michael is mixed, so if any mixed filipinos have anything to add, feel welcome! im gonna start with the “donts” bc getting salty kickstarts my brain. formatted for readability

don’t make him call his mom “ina”. we don’t use that. that’s a word for like, essays (and the national anthem apparently according to my dad). “nanay” (for tagalog speakers) is a more casual word, and shortening that to something like “nay” is even better

dont make him fluent in tagalog. most of the filipinos raised in america i know can’t speak it at all, only understand it, and the ones who do know it had to consciously learn it as a foreign language. you can have other people speak to him in it, but likely he’ll be replying in english

there are some words we use tagalog in though! usually it’s words english doesn’t have a one-word exact translation for, which deserves its whole own post tbh so i wont go into that here. oh and yes there are proper tagalog conjugation rules but who cares about those, just use english conjugation

i’ve said this before and i’ll say it again: rice. rice is a staple in like, every filipino meal. plain white rice btw, maybe garlic if you wanna get fancy. a rice cooker is a must-have in any filipino household. you can eat any meal with rice if youre not a coward. oh “ulam” is the word for stuff you eat with rice and “papak” is to eat something that you’d normally eat with rice without rice, two more tagalog words we do use. we eat w spoons and forks (including meat, we cut the meat with the side of the spoon). and you can look up filipino dishes for bonus points but 1) we also just eat stuff like chicken or whatever with rice, you dont need to do a crazy amount of research and 2) we eat all kinds of food, not just filipino of course, which don’t have rice. dont worry if this point intimidates you its not as important

superstitions are a nice touch, bc filipinos are very superstitious people. we eat noodles on birthdays and on new year’s bc they symbolize long life, and we jump up and down on new year’s to make ourselves grow taller, and we leave coins on windowsills to invite riches, and we spin our plate around if someone leaves the house during a meal or else it’s bad luck, and we can’t sleep with wet hair or we’ll go blind. that kind of thing

OH IMPORTANT: we call older sisters/cousins “Ate” and older brothers/cousins “Kuya”, usually the oldest is called the honorific alone while the rest have a nickname attached. it’s not seen as overly formal or anything, tbh it feels weird to be called my name by my younger siblings. basically the only time you wouldn’t do it is if you felt uncomfortable being overtly filipino around someone. the word for aunt is “tita”, uncle “tito”, grandma “lola”, and grandpa “lolo”, used the same as they are in english. you also use honorifics for friends of your parents (sadly i dont know of any nonbinary options)

more for oc making but filipino names tend to be an english first name paired with a spanish last name. there’s a long history there (you can even look up a list of the last names spain permitted filipinos to have) but yeah this formula is pretty sound. oh and you know namesmushes we use for ships? yeah filipinos sometimes give namesmushes of them and their partner to their kid as legitimate names. i have multiple aunts named this way. (also not a namesmush but my dad seriously considered naming me “bambina” until my mom shot him down so uh take that how you will)

OH ALSO IMPORTANT: filipinos have this thing called blessing, a way for showing respect to elders. basically, the older person holds out their hand, palm-down, and you take it and put it to your forehead. idk where it came from but it’s not an old-fashioned tradition, well it is but we still do it a lot so

that’s all i can think of for now, here you go! you can also go to my “#filipino” tag for more, such as insight into shitpost worthy filipino culture

edit: i didn’t prioritize well originally so i moved a few bullet points down here bc they’re less important but kinda just. things i want to see in filipino characters fjdgdjfhdg

parents. pointing at things. with their lips. it’s a thing and i do not know why. either you know exactly what theyre talking about or youre totally bewildered. no in-between

in the philippines, christmas starts on september 1 and goes to like, halfway through january, so often even if we don’t actually celebrate christmas that long, many jokes are made. idk i just want to see more filipinos making christmas jokes

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