#Flerida

[upismediacenter]

LITERARY: Kabanata -1

Ano ang mayroon

Sa naunang kabanata

At binabasa nang walang kapaguran?

Dito na lamang nauumay

Sa tamis ng nilibre mong mango shake

na sa init ay mabilis nalusaw.

Dito na lamang nararamdaman

Ang ‘yong pag-akbay

Nang ‘di bumibitaw.

Dito na lamang nasasandalan

Ang iyong balikat

Natutulog sa biyaheng mahaba.

Dito na lamang nasisilayan

Ang iyong mga ngiti

Na sa personal ay ‘di na nakikita.

Patuloy kong nililirip

Ang bawat pangungusap

Na sinulat ng tadhana.

Mga diyalogong burado,

Mga kilos na ipinapakita

Ngunit ‘di pinag-uusapan.

Sinusuri ko ang bawat salita;

May mali bang naiwika?

Ako ba’y may magagawa pa?

Kahit na may mga salitang malabo

At mga kontekstong ‘di maunawaan,

Patuloy ko itong babasahin.

Kahit na patuloy na nasasaktan

Ng‘di kasiguraduhan,

Ako’y umaasa pa rin.

Bakit nga ba ang sarap balikan

Ng mga bagay na lumipas

Kahit alam na ang kahahantungan?

Kahit na nakasulat na

Ang tuldok sa dulo ng huling pangungusap

Ay hindi pa rin handang pumaram.

Naniniwala akong ang bawat kaganapan

ay may tiyak na kahulugan

at malinaw na dahilan.

At patuloy itong sumisigaw

Hanggang sa unang pahina

Ng susunod na kabanata.

[waltangina]

Proto-lesbiyana si Flerida. Other lesbian scholars see it, and I see it din! Leonatiko siya sa aking paningin. Period.

[swellbloom-kids]

Happy Valentine's Day to these divas

Flerida and Laura kissing. I have no excuses

[sulatni-ree]

i fixed it (i think -)

[variationsonacloud]

I LOVE AO3 OhMYGOSH 😭😭😭

[crazyfortheclassics]

Old Florante at Laura drawing I never got to color

[swellbloom-kids]

Flerida is the Saint of Truth in my Umineko-inspired ttrpg, When the Crocodiles Weep. Yes, the Flerida from Florante at Laura! Here, she represents the force of truth as she tries to get to the bottom of Doña Jeronima's riddles.

I thought giving her the truth theme was appropriate, given that she wields a bow and arrow ("true" aim) and is faithfully devoted to Aladin ("true love").

[the-twelve-guardians]

In my head I'm brewing a version of Laura that's absolutely unhinged.

A Laura that fully buys into her role as the Princess, the damsel to be saved. She is a laurel, a wreath to be placed on the Hero's head as a symbol of his victory. A prize. She is to be won. This is partially due to the indoctrination of her father, the King.

She waits for Florante. Patiently. He will save her, he is the Hero, and fate has decreed that they will ride off into the sunset together. Happily ever after. This delusion is what keeps her going when Count Adolph launches his coup. When he forces her to be his queen. She will not, because she is saving herself for Florante.

To make her Worse™, let's give her metanarrative/time looping powers. She must have been absolutely pissed when Flerida saved her. This is not how it goes, she thinks to herself, even when she narrowly escapes her death. Her Hero is supposed to save her. This story is getting off-script.

And so she resets the timeline. She will endure the suffering of being a princess over and over and over, just to get the Happily Ever After she wants. She doesn't want to be happy if it's not in the prescribed way.

She wants to be saved in the worst sense of the term.

[femprincesstoyourbutchknight]

The kids will be the type to over exaggerate his age comically when introducing him

"This is Florence, he's so sad. He's also 19."

"Flerida, please we're talking to a rebel leader-"

"No no no didn't Florence have his 13th birthday last month? Fuck, I remember when he took his first steps"

"Don't swear Campbell this is serious"

"Yeah Campbell don't swear in front of the 7-year-old"

"Butch, you're no longer allowed to play with the gun"

"iM NOT PLAYING THIS IS IMPORTANT TRAINING WHICH IS WHY I NEED TO DISABLE THE CHILD LOCK—"

sick of this anti-aging obsession. let's go in the opposite direction. i want more characters who are hardened & grizzled & have a face lined with the harrowing tribulations of time--and then halfway through the narrative u find out they're 27

[blackbutlerbrainrots]

Uhm, this post is just a rant about why I created this account. Even if it's not the full reason why, you could kind of guess the full reason by now. You can read this if you want, it's quite literally just a rant BECAUSE I slept so much that I have so much energy to write.

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I am obsessed with old literature stories that are written like a poem. I don't know what they're called like in English because it's in a different language ;-;

I'm reading a story, or "awit", called "Florante at Laura" and my god, I just love their story so much. Like the dynamic of loyalty and faithfulness. Also shout out to the side couple, Aladin and Flerida, I like the power dynamic of the two.

Can't forget about my mans, Adolfo. I expected more to his death. I mean, he was such a good villain too, so I naturally expected he'll have like a good death scene and so on.

Anyways, these are just rants because I swear I am really bursting with hyper fixation and my friend suggested I should make a Tumblr account.

And so I naturally questioned her about what kind of fandom will I write about. I'm not new to tumblr and was always a lurker. Until recently, I became more focused on black butler again. I have read the manga so many times that I can write WC of 20k about black butler and it WON'T STILL BE ENOUGH.

[waltangina]

NAHANAP KO RIN!!!

I FINALLY FOUND THE PAPER THAT ANALYZES FLERIDA AS A PROTO LESBIAN!!!! AMONG OTHER CHARACTERS!!!!

This is one of my review of related literature for my thesis on Philippine lesbian studies. Sharing it here for the folks who want to dare pick up lesbian studies, too! <3

[beholdtheleaves]

Flerida and Laura kissing. I have no excuses

[sulatni-ree]

so nice, so cool, so friendly !!

[monotonous-minutia]

Erismena part 3

I love them your honor

gonna check on my "''bro'''' my buddy my pal

:(

done

again? will these kids ever catch a break?

each trying to defend the other and nobly prevent their accidental companion's death and king's just like fuck that you're both annoying

i don't like the sound of that

oh shit

and there it is

that escalated quickly

that's better

okay we're going shirtless now are we

what exactly as comic about all that (tho i do have some suspicions based on a few other lines that this translation is a bit off)

okay i take it back that line is hilarious

another surprise family reveal

the most awkward hug in history

once again Aldimira fails to read the room

Alcestaaaaa

that awkward moment when...

to say the fucking least

I think Erimante is regretting getting out of bed this morning

oh thank god

at least one of her boyfriends doesn't have some surprise identity

pretty sure Alcesta and the king are makin eyes at each other there

lovely.

but I'm so curious what happened with Flerida?? and is anyone going to tell Clerio that Idraspe isn't dead? and is Agrippo like a creep or okay or what's his deal I cannot read that guy

overall I really enjoyed this! genderfuckery abounds so i can't even imagine how ridiculously queer this must be when there are more mezzos. The story was kind of hard to follow at first and a lot of the names are so similar it got confusing. but the characters are so fun and I love (most of) them and the performers were great! The set and costumes were really cool too, just funky enough and not distracting and the lights were so cool. And of course I loved the music, that early baroque stuff just sweeps me off my feet; I know a lot of people don't like how there aren't a lot of individual arias/ensembles but I just love how all the pieces flow into each other. it's lilting and lovely and this production handled it really well with the smooth scene changes and character entrances and exits.

great way to start Week #3!

[addictiedtocrimedrama]

Not me and my friend bashing Florante from "Florante at Laura", agreeing that Flerida is a girl boss, and planning a hypothetical situation where we beat the shit out of Konde Adolfo with another friend, bashing his head with a shovel killing him, then finally burying the body with the same shovel used to kill Adolfo.