#bahaghari

[last-aid-kit]

bahaghari my best gurl the loml my daughter my darling my my my my my *chews through the drywall*

[istariray23]

Double Rainbow this aftie of 1st December 2023

"Two rainbows intertwined in a harmonious dance, illuminating the sky with an ethereal glow - a gift from nature that reminded us to embrace life's moments of unexpected beauty."

"As the sunlight kissed the raindrops, a glorious double rainbow emerged, reminding us that even in the face of adversity, there is always a chance for something beautiful to emerge."

[unusual-realm]

Bahaghari

Specie: Dragon Deity

Gender: Genderless (Any pronoun will do)

Abilities: too many to be listed. The most important ones are: Feeds on positive emotions, can manipulate the weather and the ground (Like his brother Ciésmok ) Can shapeshift, can make flowers grow from the grass just by walking on it, etc...

Bahaghari is the dragon deity of light and Ciésmok's sibiling. When his brother went insane he had to stop him, he tried to talk but it was useless so the only choice was to trap him with a special mirror he made just for that.

In their small village Bahaghari was always praised because of his good omens, when he was around the crops grew healthier than ever! The sky was mostly sunny with some rain here and there to make sure that the plants don't die and that the weather isn't too hot. But since Ciésmok did the exact opposite everyone hated on him.. everyone expect his brother of course.

Bahaghari is still at the old village, checking if it will ever be populated again and he also keeps an eye on his sibiling.

[kwaderno84]

(image:

©Unsplash)

[pinayelf-archive]

I made it just in time! My contribution for AAPI month: Immy in a Filipiniana inspired by gumamela (hibiscus)

it’s not the Philippines�� national flower, but it’s nostalgic to me as it was the flower that grew in front of my childhood home before we immigrated to the US. I thought the petals would make a beautiful skirt

[yznerpoo]

Short Gossip!

So today, April 25th is the festival of our hometown, The Bahaghari festival, in English, Rainbow festival. There's a history on that.

Anyways, 6 schools compete in a street dance competition, also my school and guess what? WE GOT IN 2ND PLACE! It was the first time that our school had competed and was introduced in our town, the fact that we're the smallest school among the other competitors. My cousin was a part of the dance and he was a good dancer, the fact he's on the front (proud cousin moment). Plus, our props and costumes are colorful and bright.

Also a couple of dancers from other schools fainted because of the heat of this country, I think it's about 37°c, even my phone got hot while filming the dance.

Plus their props and costumes were overboard which makes it hotter, also I heard they never slept while practicing at the previous days b4 the festival, day and night. I hope they're doing ok - :3

[deadbalagtas]

This is indeed an old work of mine from 2019. I suppose I should post the entire comic soon. But thank you for the support, it really means a lot. I also don’t really sign my works because I do believe they belong to the people. But thank you so much for those who remembered me. 

“Red is the first color of the rainbow” - Pro-LGBT propaganda poster from Filipino communists (c. 2019)

[hollowichor]

okay okay okay okay. i'm here to say one thing and one thing only:

would anyone like to RP the vampire who turned Eloise? cos basically her story before being turned is this: she accidentally cursed a vampire to eternal thirst in her hometown (without knowing he was a vampire) and that vampire ended up killing multiple people by draining them of their blood (oops the eternal thirst was eternal blood thirst for him) so she left to a different town because the curse breaks if she's far enough away from the victim.

cue your muse (doesn't have to be a brand new OC idc) being a vampire in this town who's never met a fairy before and doesn't know what eloise is, just that she's not human. we can figure out the relationship dynamic and why/how she's turned cos like. . . the possibilities are infinite. maybe the vampire from before comes looking for her and wants her dead so your muse turns her to be safe. or maybe the turn happens on accident. WHO KNOWS.

please just someone come hit me up on this cos i have hella muse for eloise right now.

[vaccariia]

Hiraya Manawari / May my dream come true, Ikaw ang bahaghari / You are the rainbow, Na tanging naglalapat ng kulay sa aking mundo / That solely gives color to my world

[turtleduckie]

Full komiks of "Pula ang Unang Kulay ng Bahaghari (Red is the First Color of the Rainbow)" by Emiliana Kampilan (Dead Balagtas).

From my June 2019 komik, "Pula ang Unang Kulay ng Bahaghari" - Red is the First Color of the Rainbow

Please feel free to translate, mga kasama. Thanks to everyone who reblogged/posted this on a forum. I don't really write that often or make komiks often as I have shifted my praxis to other org work. I've also become less inclined to maintain any presence. Still, maraming salamat (thank you very much) for promoting and appreciating my work.

[pannaginip]

DZRH News on Twitter @dzrhnews:

JUST IN: Drag artist na si Amadeus Fernando Pagente o mas kilala bilang Pura Luka Vega, muling inaresto ng MPD

RH29 @/boy_gonzales

2024 Feb. 29

Bahaghari on Facebook: Pura Luka Vega's rearrest highlights LGBTQI's non-enjoyment of freedom of expression and artistic freedom

After months of being released on bail, drag artist Pura Luka Vega has been arrested again, this time by a different court but with the same complaint.

Bahaghari once again condemns the weaponization of the law against Pura and their right to freely express their relationship with faith through art. Evangelical groups have allotted resources to further marginalize an LGBTQI+ person in the court of law. Similarly, many city councils across the Philippines have declared them "persona non grata," following a viral video where they, dressed as Jesus Christ, performed Ama Namin remix in a bar.

It has not gone unnoticed to Bahaghari the double standards at play in this case. Pastor Apollo Quiboloy of the mega-church Kingdom of Jesus Christ was indicted by FBI for alleged crimes against women and children but none of the city councils who have declared Pura "persona non grata" are mum on this issue. Until now, Quiboloy is in hiding even with summons from the Senate in their investigation on the abuse allegations against him. Furthermore, the complainants for the case are all affiliated with the Philippines for Jesus Movement (PJM) founded by Eddie Villanueva, the father of Senator Joel Villanueva, whose office has deployed disgusting tactics to delay the SOGIESC Equality Bill.

The art of drag and other similar acts of expression by LGBTQI+ people are under attack around the world. In the United States, legislations have been passed to criminalize people based on gender identity and expression. In the Philippines where a national anti-discrimination law is absent, LGBTQI+ individuals are subject to gender-based violence.

Pura Luka Vega's case is an attack on LGBTQI+ people's expression on their relationship with faith and religion and the expression of their artistic freedom. LGBTQI+ individuals have different expressions on their faith. Many are still practicing their religion. Some have abandoned it altogether due to the trauma and marginalization they felt in the presence of their religious leaders.

#DragIsNotACrime #FreePuraLukaVega

2024 Mar. 1

[pinayelf-archive]

Sitting pretty 💐🌺

[synnthamonsugar]

DESTINYTOBER: Day 22 - Flare

Read it on AO3

Continued from yesterday

. . .

Aunor Mahal waited from a place between worlds.

There was no sensory perception here, barely awareness of herself as a discrete unit of consciousness amidst the flow of everything else. She felt Bahaghari searching for her in the way all Ghosts separated by death from their Guardians do, and carefully suppressed the primordial urge to respond. Were she practicing thanatonautics, she would attempt to fly far enough away from the veil of the living world to connect to some higher truth. But today she rested on the membrane between life and death, singing.

From the other side, approaching Light, Darkness-tinged and tumultuous. 

She carried the notes of the sun's song to its spectacular crescendo. Solar Light welled within her, reconnecting soul and body. She awoke on fire, comfortable heat in the cask of her chest, the licks of flame pleasant through and on her skin. A moment of enjoyment ruined when the man standing above her turned away from his examination of the decoy ghost, revealing his identity.

Backdraft-quick she gripped Dredgen Hope by his thick, leather-clad ankle. He yowled hideously, doubling over reflexively before he regained control of himself, lifting his leg to stomp at her arm. Letting go she rolled away from him, dodging his boot and propelling herself to her feet, preparing a gout of flame in her hand as the Shadows poured out from hiding and bullets began to fly. 

With an entrance that blackened the floor and set the apartment's sparse furnishings smoldering, the Praxic Warlocks Taeko-3 and Lyra-4 blinked into the room, alight with radiance as they joined the brawl. 

Hot energy arced between Taeko's hands before she unleashed a volley of plasma upon the group who charged her, instantly dispatching both the attackers and a structural beam, the ceiling sagging threateningly where it gave out. Lyra meanwhile fought off a group with searing fists and feet, igniting her opponents wherever she struck and sending them staggering dazedly as their Ghosts fought to heal without being caught in the crossfire.

As her companions handled the others, Aunor focused on Hope. She threw a spray of flame from her hands, but he leapt behind an overturned table before it could hit. Peeking out, he fired several Thorn rounds. Two whizzed by her shoulder, but the third grazed with a sickening sting, breaking her candescent armor with a black-green bruise of hive corruption. In the split-second it took her to assess her injury, Hope had already scrambled to his feet — and toward a hive artifact piled unceremoniously among weapons and other loot in the corner of the room. 

Aunor recognized it instantly. An item of both academic significance and destructive potential, it was the object with which she and her squad had been tasked to recover.

She braced for him to pick it up and make for the exit. She didn't expect him to summon his own solar light and set it ablaze.

As she sprinted for it, he dashed away. She ripped down one of the dusty curtains that darkened the windows and dropped it on the object. Taking a glance over her shoulder, she saw that Hope was prying open the sash, shoulder wedged beneath it as he gauged whether he'd fit. 

"Stop him!" She cried to her fellow Praxics as she attempted to extinguish the artifact. They disengaged from their fights and turned toward the escaping Dredgen, but it was too late — he'd already snaked out the window. 

Throwing the artifact in her satchel, she sprinted over. Peering down several stories to the broken stone below, she found that he'd vanished. 

[hollowichor]

@arcaneprophesied sent: there's nothing left to save now . - Louis to Eloise

Eloise looks neither at Louis or the body behind him. Instead she looks at her own shoes. He could mean so many things by 'nothing.' The most worrisome choice would be herself. She's descended into hell by associating with him.

"This is what you do in your spare time then?" She asks, lifting her gaze to meet his. "Fucking people, then killing them? How the hell have I not met this fate?!" Her voice raises, vibrating with rage. "I should've never made a deal with you. I should've never have met you!" Rage turns to incredulous laughter. Eloise steps back bewildered. "I am a fool. At least I am not a murderer."

[hollowichor]

This town makes a foreign mountain range for Eloise. She's traveled looking for a local flower that could do well in her shop. But no one's given her any help. Perhaps going to a florist is where she should've started. Unfortunately her shy nature's made the plan more difficult. "Nonono!" She waves her hands in protest. "There's no need to apologize! I can. . . Wait." Well, Luce is already attending to her presence. Might as well charge ahead.

"I'm looking for a specific flower? I run my own shop and I also try to preserve species through seeds and pressed specimens. Here, I have a picture." She pulls out the magazine clipping that started the hunt. "Everything I've read says it's local to this area. But apparently it likes to hide. No one's been able to find one for me. Have you seen it?"

a starter for @hollowichor muse: luce thorne

✧˚ · . luce was proud of her little flower shop – it wasn’t huge, but it was well-maintained, and the flowers seemed to be happy under her care. it was quiet and contemplative and made her relatively enough money, and it wasn’t like she had a social life to prioritize, anyway. she was perfectly content to spend her time here – even if it did mean her head was a bit up in the clouds, to the point she didn’t even notice the door had opened with a chime of the bells to signal it. luce jumped when she finally saw them, quickly putting down the flower she had been transferring to a bigger pot.  ❝ I’M SORRY, I DIDN’T SEE YOU THERE, ❞ she said with a quiet laugh, brushing her hands off on the thighs of her jeans to get rid of the dirt. ❝ DID YOU NEED HELP WITH SOMETHING? ❞

[saorlasdraft]

For filipino omens people

Pwede bang akin ka lang

Kahit na nga ngayon lang

Okay lang sa 'kin na 'di totohanin

Basta't kahit isang gabi lang

Pwede bang akin ka lang

Kung pwedeng kahit pahiram

Gamitin, sirain ng paulit-ulit

Basta ngayon sa 'kin ka lang

Alam ko na 'pag 'kay nawala

Mawawala ako dito

Alam ko na 'pag 'kay nawala

Mawawala ako dito

Sa gitna ng bahaghari ang tamang tagpuan

Naubos ka yata sa kakaturo ko ng pagmamahal

Ga'no ba kalalim ang nakaraan mo

O bakit sa 'kin guho na ang iyong mundo, ohh hoh

Pwede bang akin ka lang

Kung pwedeng kahit pahiram

Gamitin, sirain ng paulit-ulit

Basta ngayon sa 'kin ka lang

Alam ko na 'pag 'kay nawala

Mawawala ako dito

Alam ko na 'pag 'kay nawala

Mawawala ako ohh hoh

Langit na ba ang pagitan ng isang metro sa atin

Sa akin pa ba din ang kinabukasan

Langit na ba ang pagitan ng isang metro sa atin

Sa akin pa ba din ang kinabukasan

Ahh hah

Alam ko na 'pag 'kay nawala

Mawawala ako