#SHE’S FILIPINO

[wildwheatfields]

RAINBOW UNIVERSITY

Student: Violet Willow

Year: Freshman

Major: Digital Media, Photo & Video

[coldtortelloni]

WHATEVER… i’m posting her separately from my last post. minthara filipiniaña. minthara filipiniaña. MINTHARA FILIPINIAÑA. if you even care…

[chocobje]

Yay gameshow

[dianapaintss]

your favorite artist's favorite artist

[sofiaruelle]

Maru on her day off, working in the lab and part time at the clinic.

[kavalyera]

rosemary in a dress bc. idk. im tired leave me alone

[fyllophobia]

seliph & ares commission, thank you!

[cutiesigh]

「Demo WIP」 Can y'all watch my plant real quick? 🍈

[jesncin]

Characters who know both Clark Kent and Superman, especially Lois, are classically given grief for not figuring out that Clark is just Superman wearing glasses. Have any of them ever used the 'celebrity look alike' defence? That people with no genetic relationship whatsoever looking a whole lot alike or even exactly alike is a thing that happens as a matter of coincidence.

I can't speak for canon so I don't know if anyone's used the "celebrity look alike" defense exactly. I don't personally agree with takes where people like Lois are devastated that they didn't realize it's just "Superman plus glasses" and how obvious it was. Maybe it's because I look exactly like another person, and have been mistaken for tons of other people but. It's way more common than people give it credit for.

A friend of mine put it really well when paraphrasing an old tumblr post: If you worked at a grocery store with a guy who looks exactly like Barack Obama down to the detail- you wouldn't think that's actually the 44th president of the US (moonlighting as a grocery store employee for some reason?). You'd think "dang that guy looks like the president. How about that!" especially when the guy acts nothing like the president. Context is key.

I think it also speaks to Clark's ability to code switch into being a regular mild-mannered guy on the job. Would Lois be shocked to learn that Superman is Clark Kent? Yeah, ideally she should be (I hate you forever MAWS)! Should she be devastated that she didn't realize he just put on glasses? Nah. Because it's not just the glasses.

[anoant-haikyuu-dump]

In the Philippines rn and was hit with a stroke of inspiration

[blackcatarts]

filipino / atenean miku?!

[reallyhardy]

thinking about the way vanessa hudgens and lalaine vergara paras played iconic childhood 'latinas' but they were mixed white-filipino and didn't get to show it or let ppl know it... so it was forever before i knew that the representation really was there... thinking abt standing at a bus stop waiting to go home after uni and some bloke asked me "you're from taiwan?" out of nowhere i said "no i'm half-filipino my mum's from the philippines" and he said "i've never even heard of it where's that" ...the obscurification of growing up filipino diaspora in the 2000s/2010s...

[delatoid]

How dare oomf not eat in exactly the same way I do!! ( It's ok she said she liked my cooking neway yippee!! so that makes up for her eating rice with a fork :*) )

[kavalyera]

hostage

[gio-goose]

Ariaaaa

[photos-or-inkblots]

i just passed 3x13 Parting Shot (and wow do i feel the despair and hopelessness of Huntingbird leaving </3) which was the first episode that subtly points out Daisy’s monolingualism, which always… rubbed me the wrong way. you’re telling me that an orphan who was dead-on obsessed with finding her parents and her heritage and was most likely discriminated in her youth wouldn’t be curious of what language her parent(s) spoke? you’re telling me she didn’t spend her decade (and then some) pre-SHIELD to learn them, even if they’re just wild guesses?

so! consider: the most random group of languages she has surface-level knowledge of inferred from what other people think she is or recognize her as

Chinese: She’s half-bad with the tones, given the lack of resources there would’ve been during the 90s-2000s, but she can read conversations in Mandarin when she stalks Weibo. She’s probably hacked Chinese servers before since we know she knows her way around (see 1x05 The Girl in the Flower Dress, the computer was in Chinese and she completed her hack and then some in seconds.) Cantonese is at a very basic level. very (read: swear words)

Korean: She can read and write still, since it’s pretty easy (i learned the script once nine years ago and it’s still there lol). K-Pop gained notoriety in the US in the 2010s, she might’ve considered it. (is this me plugging my current Girls’ Generation rotation? probably LOL). knows a lot of words, none of the syntax and grammar. Probably listens to K-Pop too. Bonus: she surprises the team when they miss extraction in rural South Korea and need to get on a plane in Incheon for Plan B–the gov’t didn’t like the Avengers’ mess with Ultron–and Daisy gets them a train ride to Seoul despite their translator app showing Hangeul instead of its romanization.

Thai: she tried. she really did. but it’s too hard. she can recognize it when she hears it though. same goes to Vietnamese

Filipino: swear words (yes, even the Bisaya ones). and can probably manage reading upper class Taglish (it’s 90% English anyway)

Spanish: she understands maybe 60% of the rants on Twitter. also Brazilian Portuguese because they’re kind of similar

a lot of these are limited to reading because she doesn’t have someone to practice with </3 and none of them can pass as fluency but trust, she can read and listen

btw her contrast between 3x13, 3x11 and 3x17 hints on her being Hived, which i think is cool