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I LOVE YOU, LEONA FLORENTINO

YOU DESERVE TO BE KNOWN MORE. I HATE SOCIETY FOR MAKING YOUR FOLD YOUR WONDER. YOU ARE A WOMAN AHEAD OF YOUR TIME. EVERY PINOY LESBIAN SHOULD KNOW YOUR NAME AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORKS.

Notable People of Pilipin@ Ancestry [x] Leona Florentino ~ The Ilokana Mother of Pilipin@ Poetry

Leona Florentino was a Pilipina poet who wrote both in Spanish and Ilokano. She is known as the “mother of Philippine women’s literature” and the “bridge from oral to literary tradition”.

She was born on April 19, 1849 to a wealthy and prominent family in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. She already showed great potential and skill at a young age when she first began to write her own poems in her native Ilokano tongue. However because she was a young woman she couldn’t receive a university education for laws at the time. She was then taught by her mother and private teachers, one was an Ilokano priest who was educated in Spanish, at the time a language only the elite and those who could afford higher education could learn. He taught the young Leona the language and encouraged her to pursue her love in poetry and let her voice be heard through written words. By the time she was 10 years old she could fluently speak and write in both languages and used them in her poetry.

Her poems were dedicated to her fellow Ilokanos and they were exhibited in the Exposicion General de Filipinas in Madrid in 1887 and in the International Exposicion in Paris in 1889. They earned fame and her works were included in the Encyclopedia Internationale des Oeuvres des Femmes (International Encyclopedia of Women’s Works) in 1889.

Unfortunately Leona died at a very young age at 35 years on October 4, 1884. Her legacy, though not known by most in today’s showbiz worthy society, is one that has helped form the wealth of what is Philippine literature. Some of her works include “Rucrunoy” (Dedication), “Naangaw a Cablaw” (Good Greetings), and “Leon XIII” which was dedicated to Pope Leo XIII.

Though most of her brilliant work has been lost over time since her death, some of the original manuscripts have been preserved and kept in Madrid, London, and Paris. Today her former home has been transformed into the Provincial Tourism Center (Vigan Heritage Commission) where a statue of her in her honor and dedication sits watching over those who come to Vigan. The restaurant there is also named after her, Café Leona, which was named by a scholar of her work who studied who studied Leona’s work. He wrote that she was “a pillar of feminism in the country.” 

She married a politician named Elias de los Reyes at the age of 14 and had 5 children. One of those children would later be the well known Labor Leader, Isabelo de los Reyes, a Pilipin@ writer, activist, and senator who inherited his mothers passion for literature.

Here is one of her literary works that have survived today.

BLASTED HOPES (ca. 1880) by Leona Florentino  translated by M. Foronda, Jr. What gladness and what joy are endowed to one who is loved for truly there is one to share all his sufferings and his pain My fate is dim, my stars so low perhaps nothing to it can compare, for truly I do not doubt for presently I suffer so. For even I did love the beauty whom I desired never do I fully realize that I am worthy of her. Shall I curse the hour when first I saw the light of day would it not have been better a thousand times I had died when I was born. Would I want to explain but my tongue remains powerless for now do I clearly see to be spurned is my lot. But would it be my greatest joy to know that it is you I love, for to you do I vow and a promise I make it’s you alone for whom I would lay my life. ——– (original version:) NALPAY A NAMNAMA Amangan a ragsac ken talecda dagiti adda caayanayatda ta adda piman mangricna cadagiti isuamin a asugda. Ni Gasatco a nababa aoanen ngatat capadana, ta cunac diac agduadua ta agdama ngarud gna innac agsagaba. Ta nupay no agayatac iti maysa a imnas aoan lat pangripripiripac nga adda pacaibatugac. Ilunodconto ti horas nga innac pannacayanacta  mamenribo coma naseseat no natayac idin ta nayanacac. Gayagayec coma a ipalaoag ngem bumdeng met toy dilac, a ta maquitac met a sibabatad nga ni paay ti calac-amac. Ngem umanayento a liolioac ti pannacaammon itoy a panagayat, ta icaric kenca ket isapatac nga sica aoan sabli ti pacatayac.

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Ok, nagbabasa ako ng microfics na horror at ang bo-boring?? Ang understimulating and vague. O baka dahil White people ang nagsulat kaya naboboringan ako? Ewan. Parang mas oks pa nga 'yung True Philippine Ghost Stories kahit alam mong kwento-kwento lang. Magaling pala na storyteller ang mga Pinoy. Mas naa-appreciate ko lalo.

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I was scouring my gdrive, looking for an old file that contained a fanfic (tacaraig & penilaez) but I got distracted because I stumbled upon unfinished sketches of fanart instead!

I don't remember drawing these, but apparently I drew these around 2019 and 2021! Will I ever finish these? Unfortunately... I don't think so. ^_^"

I also cannot find the accompanying fanfics. ): But I'll take this as a challenge to write something new instead!

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So this is the first el noli fandom history post I ever made, I think! It's fun to look back. Napaka-articulate kong baliw, charot!

Grabe I just spent the last few days on the el noli and basagani tags!!!!! Bye life!! Tanong lang meron bang "history of the el noli fandom" or sumn? Kung pano nagsimula? I assume it started here kasi kelan lang naman naging fandom focused ang Twitter

HELLO, ANON!

Bold of you to assume I know the History™ of the El Noli fandom! But, ok, you’re not entirely wrong. May alam akong kaunti. But I can only tell you from my perspective, aka when I came in. 

Disclaimer: Hindi ko inaangkin na pawang ako lamang ang “Main Source” ng fandom history. Baka may ibang gusto rin magsalita ukol dito. I encourage people to share and tell their side of the story, too!

Keep reading

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Na-post ko pala ito! Yehey! I hope to write more for el noli and I get back into Alamat ng Nobyembre someday but I know that day is not yet today, huhu

At least may complete oneshot en es ep dobol yu basagani fic ako hehe~ I swear, I'll stop deleting fanfics na. I regret deleting my old basagani fics. My fics are such time capsules whenever I reread.

19 Hunyo 2020. Araw ng basagani! <3 Ang una kong el noli otp!

Eksena mula sa (hindi pa tapós na fan fic) “Alamat ng Nobyembre.”

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Hey! Still into Noli-Fili?

JUMP IN!

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Simoun: Quit your job

Basilio: Why

Simoun: Join my emo band

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Ang new years resolution ko ay maging mas aktibo sa el nolibusterismo fandom kasi na-miss out ko ang pag-celebrate ng ika-10th year ng fandom due to a year-long severe depressive state huhu T-T

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mirrors

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🍃🌻kaulayaw

posting my noli art here maybe i'll get clout (elnoli fandom pspsps)

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you are not made to suffer

elibarra brainworms are real.

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Time to reread Facades again~~~

I'm so happy when people draw Pecson in his canon body type!

It also makes me so happy, when we all collectively agree at each other's headcanons about Rizal's characters, to the point that we write and draw them in our works as if it was canon! Bless el noli <3

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Yeah, no. But i've got so many more projects than I know what to do with..

Yan oh, sneak peak🫣

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Sometimes, I think, "Talikuran ko na kaya ang pagsusulat at panitikan."

And then the world actually gives me people who will actively stop me from such a bold move.

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Nagiging extrovert ako pagdating sa Janus Silang at El Nolibusterismo. I was an introvert, I swear!! ToT)!!

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I need to clarify na unaware pa ako sa giyera sa Palestina when I thought of this word years back huhu I hope it's not offensive, it's just a ship name po

McElibarra is such a funny ship name, wala lang.

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I'm glad my beloved doesn't know about my Tumblr. I am too heartbroken and sad. I don't want her to see me at all. Might give her an ego boost to see how broken I am.