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I finally watched The Sound of Music and like I get it now, I get it. 

It’s a beautiful two hour love story of a strict man finally opening his heart again and then a fifty minute public service announcement to hate the nazis. Brilliant.

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Never felt more bisexual.

PEDRO PASCAL as REED RICHARDS and VANESSA KIRBY as SUE STORM in THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS (2025)

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“From Palestine to the Phillipiness…Stop the US war machine” seen in Mexico City

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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I just realized I’ve survived everything I’ve ever encountered in life. I have a 100% survival rate. I’m fucking nailing it.

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surprised this hadn't been made yet

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is this bitch ass january ever gonna end or what?

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oh mother… i was just starting to dream the silliest and softest of dreams

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ugh god okay there are so many fantastic stranger missions in RDR2 but the one that makes me nerd out and want to throw something is getting the former slave catcher's stuff.

hear m out: if you choose to go through the entire house, look at it all from start to finish, you get a story. child's drawing, family photo from 1855, letters dated post-war that detail loss of employment, loss of family connections, loss of respect. and then destitution.

everything that NPC says is so accurate. 'i was respected one! i had a profession!' the ones that make me feel the strongest are 'they changed everything! they took it all away!' and his insistence that he 'still exists'.

like, listen listen, don't pity him ever. but people felt that way! some still do! that northerners came in and took everything away from the south and dragged them all to ruin! and i love that R* included that. that bitterness is so important, if you want to understand how the civil war is remembered and why the KKK formed and everything afterward.

and R* does it in a way that really hits you hard. you have to go into the basement, see the chains still on the walls. read the list of slaves returned for money. and ending it on 'minnie and child' was brilliant.

i really want to do an in-depth post about that entire region, the Raiders, the Grays an Braithwaites, even our nameless Confederate veteran who believes he picked the wrong side. i want to talk about all of the things R* got right and show the real-life inspiration for what we see in the game.

hell, i can even yell about the fact that the battlefield is still littered with human bones, splintered trees. the trees, especially. there are accounts of survivors talking about how the hail of bullets and balls would be so thick that trees would splinter apart. and dead bodies were often left by the losing side and the towns nearby had to bury thousands of strangers. the smell would infect the air for miles, the bodies would pollute water ways and just....it devastated the natural world as much as the people in it.

and this is a VIDEO GAME.

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Apolaki Wept. (click for high res.)

Apolaki, the sun god of the Tagalog and Pangasinense folk of the northern Philippines, was said to have wept in great sorrow at the suffering of his people during colonial rule.

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Hero of the Year 2025

I'm calling it early - I doubt anyone will beat The Right Reverend Mariann Edgar Budde

(I sure hope I've addressed her correctly)

For the most stunning act of bravery, class, integrity, and speaking truth to power that has graced the USA in far too long.

Not a single shake in her voice as she spoke directly to one of the most vengeful, spiteful, and (unfortunately) powerful people on the planet, while also receiving glares of hate and outrage from the despicable VP and his wife.

It's not the first time she's stood up for what is right in defiance of trump's actions, but while many may speak out on it, there have been scarcely any with the backbone to follow through on the opportunity to do it to his face, and especially on live television. She had her moment, and she didn't waste it.

May she be the inspiration we all take forward with us into the turbulent times ahead.

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In 2024, I managed to finish 14 Filipino-written books; among them, I can recommend seven:

Lucia Dreaming by Lucia Asul—This is a dream diary written and illustrated by Lucia Asul. It has a very cool art style, and dreams range from creepy to horrific to cosmic. The smell of this book is also unbeatable, IMO. It's the best-smelling book I've ever read.

Isabela by Kaisa Aquino—I have a review for this one here. I hesitate to call this a novel; it reads like a short story collection featuring women and men with similar names, all surrounding armed resistance and agrarian strife in Isabela to Manila. Very literary in the way it was written.

The Three-Cornered Sun by Linda-Ty Casper—Another one that I've written a review on. This historical fiction chronicles the Philippine revolution and features a family who found themselves on different sides of the war. Many beautiful and existential passages as the war went on. This book also features some of my favorite passages on rivers.

Love Without a Heart (May Pagsinta'y Walang Puso) by Inigo Ed Regalado tr by Soledad Reyes—A romp. I had such a good time with this book. It's a romance novel written in 1921, and the melodrama is so fun to read. Nothing hits like this anymore, I swear.

Tiempo Muerto by Caroline Hau—Is yet another one I've written more about. This is set on the fictional island of Banwa but tells the history of Negros, in an ancestral Bahay Na Bato House, where the protagonist's mother was lost in the aftermath of a typhoon that hit the island. Has a gothic, haunted house vibe in places but is ultimately about agrarian strife and the connection of resistance with our mountains. A really great read.

Tao sa Prowa: Mga Tala, Mga Taon ni Allan Popa—This is a series of vignettes featuring mundane things, then the author's reflections springing from them. This is a beautiful, well-curated collection. A bit pricey for a zine, but whatever. There are plenty of nuggets of gold in here.

Manansala by Enrique Villasis—Speaking of beautiful collections, this poetry collection features, converses with, meditates, reacts to and reimagines some of the works of the legendary cubist Vicente Manansala. As a nature writing fan, I especially loved the nature-adjacent works, but what I love most is the concept of this poetry collection. Auto-buy author sakin si En Villasis after reading this.

There you have it, my recommended Filipino-written works! Tell me if you've read books from this list and what you thought about them!

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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"I understand. If my, uh... If mine, brought strangers into our situation, I wouldn't be happy either."

insp | anonymous asked: joel/tess or tommy/maria

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Me, not in America but with friends there I exclusively talk to on TikTok:

me rising from my tumblr grave now that tiktok got banned: hey squad!