#Old Philippines

[lucemiart]

wandasho at the magayon festival in albay, philippines! 🎪✈

my piece for our sekai zine over on twitter! it was an honor to represent my hometown and one of its many beautiful festivals 🫶

[webdiggerxxx]

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[cookieshower]

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[ano-po]

The canon event where you move out of your Asian household and you realize you can throw your single-use plastic bags/containers because you have glass, ceramic, or woven baskets to keep your things. Your mind says "what if there is a new thing you must contain?" but you answer with "I don't have much to contain anyway." You have one eco bag that also works as a tote bag sometimes. It's holding on. It's very sturdy. You use it for books and groceries and gadgets. It's only one and you don't feel the need to buy another. You throw away the batteries (safely) that are empty, because what's the need to keep them around, only to be forgotten? Most of your things are solar-powered and rechargeable anyway. You don't buy clothes that you think you'll use somehow. You only have 5 sets of carefully thrifted clothes or heavily saved long-lasting designers. They're all adjustable. You accepted that the human body is ever flunctuating. You realize you don't have to keep that scrap of fabric. You bought one microfiber cloth you use for every kind of surface. You can squeeze it and it's all dry, not staying in the kitchen wet and slimy. You realize you can throw away the sticks you found in the woods NOPE NOPE I NEED THESE STICKS HERE thaNk you very much these are good sticks see KALI-KALI SIZE WOW nope these are staying!

[sailorbaguette]

an and gumi’s seiyuus are half filipino 🥳

[danikoshi-doodles]

My metric for measuring my art improvement over time is how well I draw Rizal slash hj

[gardenoblues]

Wednesday: Let's just sleep, its late.

Tyler: Okay. Goodnight.

Wednesday: *sniffles

Wednesday: It's a good name, you know?

Tyler: Babe, why do you hate our child?

Wednesday, 8 months pregnant:

JOSE’ JUEVES MAXIMO FRIDAY ADDAMS Y JEAN-PIERRE GALPIN, IS A GREAT NAME.

Tyler: *face palms

[ask19thcentury-doctorgilbert]

Hi!!! I'm not sure how old your blog is, but I've stumbled across it now! I was just reading some of your stuff and I wanted to know: Is 'Devai" the term you're using for the Nation-people? I never know what to call them myself, like how would humans refer to them as, do they know they are their country people, and what not. If Yes, how did you come up with the term 'Devai'? :0

Hello!!

Yes, 'Devai' is the term that I use for nations in my headcanon! It's based on the word 'Diwata'. In pre-colonial filipino tradition, the Diwata are nature spirits who protect the land and sometimes the people who reside within their land too. I thought that it was appropriate, given what nations are supposed to represent!

Devai (or Devas, singular) is how they refer to each other within the Devai community. Humans have come up with different names for them across the centuries. "Nation" is a relatively recent name for them, which I like to think started to be coined by the masses in the 19th century, particularly in Europe.

As for whether people know them or not, I think that varies greatly depending on the culture and the devas in question themselves. There are Devai who are bonded to communities who are 100% aware of who they are and what they represent. There are some whose identities, by choice or otherwise, are on a strict need-to-know basis. Devai can blend into society easily as they don't appear different from the average human. Really, the only way you'd be able to tell that there's more to them than they seem is if you 1) saw them in a fight, 2) spend a prolonged amount of time around them.

Hope that answered your question!! ^^

[littlestpersimmon]

I love your ocs so much!! Every drawing of them just has so much personality it’s really beautiful! If you don’t mind me asking do Lea or Pablo like listening to music/ what music do they listen to?

Yes, they both do!!!!! Thank you hehe. Do you like Rondalla / Harana (Philippine Serenades)? if so you are in luck, since they live in the 1900s; its all they listen to-

[danelloevee-sky]

Umaraw man o umulan, di sasablay

[webdiggerxxx]

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[a-very-tired-jew]

So you know what happens to old merch from campaigns and events, right? Like, the NFL makes Super Bowl winner merch of both teams and whoever loses has their corresponding merch donated to other countries. That's why you'll see people in South Asian countries with Eagles Super Bowl Winner shirts from Super Bowl LVII. What do you think is going to happen to the Let's Go Brandon stuff?!

[flamboyant-king]

Cammy went on a trip for a month to meet up with old friends and told Harvey to do the same. So, Harvey had to fend for himself socially without his emotional support fairy and he realized, "Hey, I can do this. I don't need to have Camellia with me all the time to do these things I've been afraid to do....but I do *want* them here."

For Cammy's side, they realize that it's nice to have a home to keep coming back to. The fairy village used to be that, but Harvey's garden is their home now.

And yeah, I cry, what of it?

[smashorpass50plus]

Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu?

I'm surprised nobody has requested her yet.

[kunehocomplex]

up in the clouds

[postcard-from-the-past]

Mt. Mayon volcano on the Philippines

American vintage postcard