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D.P. (2021) dir. Han Jun Hee EPISODE 1 “A Man Holding Flowers”

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Nevertheless, The Mega Review

This is not a love story. 

It doesn’t matter what the writers, the cast, the producers, what anyone else says about this drama: it is not a love story. It exists, just like its webtoon counterpart, as a cautionary tale. Or, it was supposed to. Somewhere along the way, the writer got lost and we ended on that disappointing finale. All progress was thrown out the window in favor of a cliché, toxic, and typical kdrama ending. I’ve already talked about the finale in my previous post. This one is talking about the series as a whole: the good, the bad, the ugly. 

I have a love/hate relationship with this show that skews mostly towards the latter. I have to comment on the weird, almost meta nature of this show; watching this show, experiencing it, must be a small taste of what being in an actual toxic relationship is like: the initial thrill of starting something exciting and new, the honeymoon phase, the ups and downs, and, just when you think you can’t stand it anymore and want to break it off, it suddenly gets better and promises to change. And then it socks you in the gut right at the end, and all those promises crumble to dust and ash. 

I have no idea if this was intentional on the drama’s part, but if it is, it is weirdly brilliant. Our relationship with the show mimics what Na-bi is going through with Jae-eon. Except we learned better than Na-bi did. 

I apologize if you were waiting for this one to drop right after my previous post. I wanted to get this out ASAP so that I could finally be done with writing for this show about young, stupid, college kids and their love lives but I really needed to get some space from the finale. It was just … ugh. I needed time to deal with it. 

So, now we’re here. Thank you for being patient. Once again, there is probably going to be spoilers mentioned in here; if you have NOT watched the show, then do not read any further. You have been warned. 

Keep reading

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Represent! #4 - “Believe You” (2021)

written by Nadira Jamerson art by Brittney Williams & Andrew Dalhouse

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Inktober day 6: Fairytale girlfriends

Mayakuro because those revue uniforms are really princey like.

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soft kitty

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For real though, why I feel Catriona deserved the crown aside from her intelligence (which is obvious) and the fact that every single thing she wore represented Philippine culture (more on that later, I want to post about that in detail):

1) She believed that knowing English should NOT be a prerequisite to joining Miss Universe, because there are other ways to communicate and touch people’s hearts other than language, which is a huge middle finger to Miss USA’s, Miss Australia’s, and Miss Colombia’s mocking of Miss Vietnam and Miss Cambodia for not speaking fluent English; 2) She believed that the Miss Universe pageant should not be limited to cisgender women only, and believed that transgender women are, in their own right, women too, and was in full support of Miss Spain, the first transgender woman to join Miss Universe; 3) She never wavered in her advocacy for the impoverished children of Tondo, and instead of talking about charity and what she’s able to give to these children, she talks about how *they* are the ones who inspire *her*, and she very humbly acknowledges that her being born in privilege doesn’t mean she can’t learn from these children who bring light in her life. She approaches it not from the perspective of an elite who has wealth to give, but from the perspective of a sheltered woman who has much to learn from the people around her. In short: Catriona embodied true intersectional feminism. Beauty pageants, at their core, is very bourgeois and very othering, but Catriona walked into that pageant siding with minorities and carrying them all with her. She embodied what it meant to be given the gift of privilege and then using it to shine light and give voice to those who need it the most.

It’s the very first time that I truly felt that a Philippine candidate deserved the crown.

Congratulations, Catriona Magnayon Gray, Miss Universe 2018. You will truly change the universe—for good.

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In the Philippines, Kian delos Santos was a 17-yo boy who had been killed by the police back in 2017 after the president had initiated a “war on drugs”. This “war” had given the police a nod to arrest drug suspects and, if needed, kill them.

The police had spotted Kian outside his house, grabbed him and dragged him away where he was beaten down and blindfolded before he was gunned down to death.

The police tried to conceal the incident and filed a report that Kian was a suspected drug mule who held a firearm and “directly shot” at the police, which reportedly made them fire back in self defense. Drug substances and the pistol and cartridges were planted in his possession.

Witnesses and CCTV footages proved against the police and were later found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment a year after the incident.

A heart-breaking witness account surfaced during the trial that Kian, who had wanted to become a policeman one day, cried and pleaded “tama na po. May test pa ako bukas.”

“No more, please. I still have a test tomorrow.”

This is a fight that is encompassing of all region, culture, race, religion. This is a fight for HUMANITY, no matter where you are.

SPEAK UP. SPEAK AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY.

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Please help the Philippines. This is for everyone seeing this right now, especially to non-Filipinos.

There is a bill called “The Anti-Terrorism Bill” which gives law enforcement agents and military personnel to be able to arrest anyone suspicious without any warrant. This bill can be abused and used to target anyone who is giving criticism about the government, the military, the police, etc.

Imagine getting arrested for posting a meme. That’s a possibility if this bill gets approved by the president. The thing is, the president just made the bill urgent. He wants this bill to be made into a law. Doing so will silence the Filipinos.

So please please help us. Especially those out of the country since there’s no chance that you will be arrested.

I will post some pictures for more information including how to help us.

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Knock, a short comic about the Philippine Drug War and extrajudicial killings

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#JunkTerrorBill: On a Bill that impedes the right of the Filipino People

On May 29, the Philippine Congress approved the senate version of the the Terror Bill which posses as a major threat to freedom of speech, especially during this times when dissent in media platforms is becoming a trend for the modern-day Filipino.

(Credits to College Editors Guild of the Philippines, CEGP)

Now, you might think that this bill just happened to come around but the timing is all too convinient. The reason why dissent is rising among the masses is because the executive branch of the government has frankly done a piss poor job at handling the Pandemic. They have continued to keep us quarantined, with only those considered essential businesses allowed to remain for months. It is only now in June that they have allowed people to work as long as they keep at a skeletal system. The main problem comes down to the fact that the government has yet to implement mass testing and even contract tracing for the matter, making the quanratine lose all meaning in the first place. To add up to all this, the administration continues to accumulate debt to “fight the pandemic” but claim they do not have the budget for mass testing. 

And to make matters worse, the head of the administration decides to fight a virus the only way he’s been fighting things, with machismo and guns. There have been cases where the police overstepped their bounds under the banner of ‘keeping the quarantine safe’ wherein they broke into a private residential building and also a homeless shelter because these places allegedly did not follow quarantine protocols. There was also a case of a soldier killing a veteran having an episode despite the residents of the area shouting he had PTSD and to leave him be. We cannot also discount the rapid increase of the Extrajudicial Killings fueled by the executive’s drug war that pretty much ramped  up police brutality in the Philippines by quite a lot.

Now, this bill is giving them more power to by-pass the Judiciary which is the only thing keeping them in check. As per Rappler: “ the bill would allow the Anti-Terror Council (ATC), made up of top cabinet officials, to do functions otherwise reserved for courts, like ordering the arrests of people it has designated to be terrorists.” 

Here are some as cited by CEGP. Below are some of the sections of Bill 1083, aka Terror Bill, although it feels rather more approriate to be called Martial Law 2.0. Below are some of the questionable provisions in the bill.

These two provisions are quite questionable as their vagueness could allow tagging of dissenters as terrorists. The head of the executive branch is actually quite fond of using mixed words and blurring the lines between dissenters who only criticize in hopes of improvement of the system as opposed to terrorists who seek to destroy it. This only adds oil to the fire, really.

Here we see that included in the wiring tapping are those individuals accused solely upon mere suspicion that would allow the police to invade our privacy just because we criticized the government a little too much more than they like. Now, there have been restrictions here either like between lawyers and clients or doctors and patients but this still stands that this is an invation of privacy,

Now Sec. 29. Detention Without Judicial Warrant of Arrest that takes the cake out of them all. Persons again tagged as terrorists by the ATC under mere suspicion can be detained for up to 24 days without a warrant, which is the first line of defense you have against a police violating your human rights. Although, if you do look up the entire provision, included is a follow up action of reporting to a court Judge “immediately”, there lacks a specific timeframe around the word “immediately” that again could allow the police advantage via vaugeness of this bill in their favor. 

The purpose of this bill is so obvious that National Union of Peoples’ Lawyers chair Neri Colmenares even spoke up, stating that “ This isn’t really to go after the Abu Sayyaf or terrorists, or whoever they call as terrorists… I think the reason they actually need this bill is for the dissenters, the opposition.” (translated from Tagalog).

Save the voice of the Filipinos. Do not let them change the narrative. Hold the government accountable for their lapses. Dissent is not terrorism. Dissent is duty. #JunkTerrorBill

(Since tumblr eats up links, links will be provided with with a reblog. Included there is a petition to junk this bill. Please sign!)

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OKAY BITCHES LISTEN UP as you can probably see my dear country happens to be trending rn and if you look at the tag you'll mostly see vacationy stuff and beautiful beaches! Well ERASE THAT CAUSE I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT SUMMER AINT THE REASON WHY THE TAG IS TRENDING. There is so much bullshit happening here in the Philippines and it can all be summarized to some dick trying to establish a dictatorship here by proclaiming the martial-law-without-a-label that is the Anti-Terrorism Bill. With this bill, the police are allowed to arrest without warrants on the basis of suspicion so basically if you're a filipino and you criticize the president on social media or in rallies YOU CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT WARRANTS AND IT WILL BE LEGAL and this infringes on Section 4 of our Bill of Rights which is our Right to Freedom of Speech. There are other laws that this bill directly violates but all in all the safety and lives of many Filipinos will be endangered. Check the hashtag #JunkTerrorBill to find out more and help spread the news. Things are definitely not as happy go lucky as the tumblr trend algorithm portrays.

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since i have not seen anybody share information on this here, please pay attention to the philippines right now and provide any support you can. if this bill passes, people's basic rights to free speech will be taken from them.

anyone seeing this from the ph, please stay safe and stay strong. these are scary times.

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ACTIVISM =/= TERRORISM

JUNK TERRORISM BILL NOW

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A stunning photo showing Filipinos practicing social distancing during a protest to #JunkTerrorBill #JunkTerrorBillNow 

Because Filipinos aren’t undisciplined. They simply know what rules protect them and what do not.

Also shown: Protesters kneeling in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. 

MORE PHOTOS AND SOURCE CAN BE FOUND IN THE REBLOG BECAUSE TUMBLR HIDES POSTS WITH LINKS. If you have Facebook, share the original post there, which has more amazing photos of the protest. 

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Updated List of WLW films/shows

Attempting to provide the most comprehensive list of TV shows and movies with sapphic characters. TV shows are followed by a list of wlw characters. Some films have been cited with their original title as well as the English translation. Please message me with any missing shows or films.

A

-Adventure Time (Princess Bubblegum, Marceline)

-Aimee & Jaguar

-All About E

-All American (Coop, Patience)

-Almost Adults

-Ana Y Vitoria

-Anatomy of a Love Seen

-Antonia’s Line

-Annihilation

-Anyone But Me (unsure which characters)

-Atomic Blonde

-Atypical (Casey, Izzie)

-AWOL

B

-Battle of the Sexes

-La Belle Saison/ Summertime

-Below her Mouth

-Bessie

-Better Than Chocolate

-BFFs

-Birds of Prey

-The Bisexual (unsure which characters)

-Black Lightning (Anissa, Grace)

-Bloomington

-Blue Gate Crossing

-Blue is the Warmest Color

-The Bold Type (Kat, Adina)

-Booksmart

-Bound

-Broad City (Ilana)

-Brooklyn Nine-Nine (Rosa)

-Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Tara, Willow, Kennedy)

-Bumblefuck USA

-But i’m a Cheerleader

C

-Cable Girls (Carlotta)

-Carmilla (Carmilla, Laura)

-Carol

-Charmed reboot (Mel, Nico, Jada)

-Chasing Life (Brenna)

-Ci Qing/Spider Lilies

-Circumstance

-Clarence (unsure which characters)

-Cloudburst

-Concussion 

-Crazy Ex Girlfriend (Valencia, Beth)

D

-The Danish Girl

-Daphne

-Dead to Me (Judy, Michelle, Detective Perez)

-Dear White People (Kelsey, Brooke)

-D.E.B.S.

-Degrassi: Next Class (Rasha, Zoe)

-Desert Hearts

-Disobedience

-Dope

-Drifting Flowers

-Duck Butter

-The Duke of Burgundy

E

-Elena Undone

-Elisa and Marcela 

-Entre Nous/Between Us

-Everything Sucks (Kate, Emaline)

F

-Faking It (Amy)

-Farewell, My Queen

-The Favourite

-Fear of Water

-Feel Good (Mae, George)

-The Feels

-Les Filles Du Botaniste/ The Chinese Botanist’s Daughter

-Fire

-The Firefly

-First Girl I Loved

-The Fosters (Stef, Lena, Monty)

-Four-Faced Liar

-Foxfire

-Freeheld

-Fremde Haut/Unveiled

-Fried Green Tomatoes

-Friends (Carol, Susan)

-Fucking Amal/Show Me Love

G

-Gentrified (Ana, Yessika)

-Gia

-The Girl King

-Girltrash: All Night Long

-Glee (Brittany, Santana, Dani)

-Glow (Yolanda, Arthie)

-Gentleman Jack (Anne, Ann)

-Gray Matters

-Grey’s Anatomy (Callie, Arizona, Carina, Penny, Amelia, Erica, Teddy)

-Go Fish 

-Godless (Mary Agnes)

-Good Trouble (Alice)

-The Good Wife (Kalinda)

-Gotham (Barbara, Tabitha, Renee)

-Gypsy (Jean, Sidney)

H

-The Half of It

-The Handmaid’s Tale (Moira, Emily)

-The Handmaiden 

-Hart of Dixie (Crickett)

-The Haunting of Hill House (Theodora)

-Heart Beats Loud

-Heavenly Creatures

-High Art

-High Fidelity (Robyn)

-The Hours

-How to Get Away WIth Murder (Annalise, Eve)

-The Hunger

I

-I Am Not Okay With This (Sydney)

-I Can’t Think Straight

-If These Walls Could Talk 2

-Imagine Me & You

-The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

-The Intervention

-Itty Bitty Titty Committee

-It’s In the Water 

J

-Jane the Virgin (Rose, Luisa, Petra, Jane Ramos)

-Jennifer’s Body

-Jenny’s Wedding

-Jessica Jones (Jeri)

-Joven y Alocada/Young and Wild

K

-Karmen Gei

-The Kids are Alright

-Killing Eve (Eve, Villanelle)

-The Killing of Sister George

-Kissing Jessica Stein

-Kyss Mig/ Kiss Me

L

-The L Word (basically all of them)

-The Legend of Korra (Korra, Asami)

-Legends of Tomorrow (Sara, Ava)

-Lez Bomb

-Lianna

-Life Partners

-Light as a Feather (Alex)

-Lip Service (basically all of them)

-Liz in September

-Lost and Delirious

-Lost Girl (Lauren, Bo)

-Love My Life

-Lovesong

-Loving Anabelle

M

-Madam Secretary (Kat)

-Madchen in Uniform

-Margarita with a Straw

-Marvel’s Runaways (Karolina, Nico)

-Master of None (Denise)

-Mein Freund aus Faro/ My Friend from Faro

-A Mi Madre Le Gustan Las Mujeres/ My Mother Likes Women

-The Miseducation of Cameron Post

-Monster

-Mulholland Drive

-My Days of Mercy

-My Summer of Love

N

-Newness

-El Nino Pez/ The Fish Child

O

-One Day at a Time (Syd, Elena)

-Orange is the New Black (a lot of them)

-The Originals (Freya, Keelin)

-Orphan Black (Cosima, Delphine, Kenzie)

P

-Pariah

-A Perfect Ending

-The Perfection

-Person of Interest (Root, Shaw)

-Personal Best

-Pitch Perfect Trilogy

-The Politician (Skye)

-Portrait of a Lady on Fire

-Portrait of a Serial Monogamist 

-Pride

-Princess Cyd

-Pretty Little Liars (Emily, Maya, Paige, Alison)

-Professor Marston and the Wonder Women

-Puccini for Beginners

Q

-Queen Sugar (Nova)

R

-Reaching for the Moon

-Red Doors

-RENT

-Riverdale (Cheryl, Toni)

-Rookie Blue (Gail, Holly)

-Room in Rome

-Rosewood (Pippy, TMI)

-Rough Night

-The Runaways

-Russian Doll (Lizzy)

S

-Sancharram/ The Journey

-Santa Clarita Diet (Lisa, Anne)

-Saving Face 

-Saving Hope (Maggie, Sydney)

-The Secret Diaries of Ms Anne Lister

-A Secret Love

-Sense 8 (Amanita, Nomi)

-Set it Off

-Sex Education (unsure which characters)

-She-Ra Princesses of Power (Spinnerella, Netossa, Adora, Catra)

-She’s Gotta Have It (Nola)

-Shrill (Fran)

-Signature Move

-The Sinner (Heather)

-Skins (Naomi, Emily)

-South of Nowhere (Ashley, Spencer)

-The Spy Who Dumped Me

-Steven Universe (Ruby/Garnet, Sapphire/Garnet)

-Stranger Inside

-Stranger Things (Robin)

-Stud Life

-The Summer of Sangalie

-Supergirl (Alex, Maggie, Kelly)

T

-Tales of the City (unsure which characters)

-Tangerine

-Tell it to the Bees

-Thelma

-Trinkets (unsure which characters)

-Tru Love

-The Truth about Jane

U

-Unfreedom

V

-V for Vendetta

-Valencia

-Vida (unsure which characters)

-Viola di Mare/The Sea Purple

-Vita and Virginia

W

-The Walking Dead (Tara)

-Water Lillies

-The Watermelon Woman

-Wentworth (Bea, Allie, Frankie, Bridget)

-When Night is Falling

-With Every Heartbeat

-Workin’ Moms (Frankie, Giselle)

-The World Unseen

-Wynona Earp (Waverly, Nicole)

X

Y

-Yes or No

-You and Me Forever

-You, Me, Her (Izzy, Emma)

-Younger (Maggie, Lauren)

Z

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-The 100 (Clarke, Lexa)

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Saying that man and woman are the only genders is actually LESS nuanced than saying that earth, water, air, and fire are the only elements.

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