#junior labao

[applesandbannas747]

A million thanks to @johannathemad for humoring my absurd love of the Labao family <3

[thestarminstrel]

don't very often come into the tag to post my thoughts unprompted, but finished challengers and. eugene.

what did pacat do to him.

i already wasn't expecting great things just based on the preview where eugene, my poor boy, just gave a weak thumbs-up at getting benched. but i had faith and hope as foolish as it was.

like, you're telling me that eugene labao who spent years working to get on the fencing team, every year told his mom "this will be the year", and gave a training camp his all just. gives a forced smile at being booted off the team for state?? what?? if pacat wanted to go with a eugene that cares more about the team than his personal resume, fine. okay. but eugene is allowed to be more upset. he should be. he was given everything he dreamed of by williams saying that they could have two reserves, and now it's gone. i don't care how much a team-player you are, that's devastating. especially as a high school junior (in america and australia i GUESS). if you want to go to college for fencing, i imagine the state competition is a great way to get scouted. also, you miss out on fencing with your teammates for the last or second-to-last time. getting benched as a freshman sucks but you got some more years in your high school career. but eugene's a junior, this is his first year on the team, so now he's fencing state maximum once. that's just a cruel stab in the back by williams, genuinely. he should have been given time to be upset onscreen whether it was privately or with friends.

which then, what the fuck williams. you literally said that you could have two reserves- that you FOUGHT for two reserves- and all the sudden eugene can't compete. i never did high school fencing and maybe things are different in australia, but that seems a little ridiculous to me. like wtf did the higher-ups tell her? "yeah you can have two reserves for one competition but that's it" ???????????????? did pacat have an experience like this or something bc i have no clue how that's a logical train of thought a high school sports organizer can have. i will admit that one could argue she's competitive and wants to win. like sure but then why have a second reserve. could she not decide and was always planning to cut nick or eugene depending on who did better at the camp? what kind of coach is that?? none of the other coaches did that - not even donati and she is neck to neck with williams in this rivalry. it doesn't matter how much she wants king's row to have this gold medal- if williams was intentionally doing any of this, uncaring of whether or not she hurts one of the fencing boys, she should not be a coach actually. period. again, i love early fence williams. but oh my god the way she handled this was so bad.

which then brings me to: what is the point of eugene.

i love eugene, he has been one of my favorite characters since 2020 when i first read volumes 1-3. he is one of the reasons why i get so excited about fence and makes me so happy as a character. but honestly? you could cut eugene out of fence and nothing would change. i know he's not haiden or nichoji, but he was put there for a reason that i think pacat forgot. he never has any signficant screentime unless it's to be comedic relief or be a supporting character to nick, the other "underdog" on the fencing team. i really do hate to say it, but reading challengers really made me wish pacat had written out eugene sooner or not written him at all. he's not treated well as a character, and at this point, i don't understand why eugene is even in this story.

another point i want to make is nick. what the hell is wrong with nick. you're telling me that the same nicholas "zero" cox who was about to give up his scholarship and chance to fence so that eugene, a guy he barely knew at the time, could finally be on the team is the same nicholas who only says "but coach--" when eugene gets kicked off the team? that is a terrible friend. i'm not saying nick should have said "i'm not going to state if eugene isn't!!" but he should have called williams out on it, found eugene later and say "dude i'm so sorry this sucks" -- literally ANYTHING!!! but no, nick bever acknowledges it outside of this panel and is too busy at state apparently to notice eugene being bummed about, you know, not fencing with him. it's so, insane to me that nick became this person that doesn't bother checking in on his bro. that tells me he's more concerned about fencing and seiji - which to each his own but i would drop anyone who did me like that. can't even manage a "how r u doing" text what the actual fuCk. i can not stress enough how much i do not like this nick right now.

in conclusion: i need eugene to have a good cry with his mom or his bros about this bullshit and to eat so much good arroz caldo. please save my son from the narrative, it keeps being mean to him :(((

[anaiya-rose-cepeda]

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Ang score ng laban ay 21-20 16-18 14-12 8-10

Na ang junior high at ang senior high sa plasa ng Pangpang national high schoo.

Sa una ng kanilanh paglalaro ay 8-10 ang score ng junior high-10 at senior high-8 nadapa na si shamiel sa paglalaro para lang makagol.

Na sa ikalang paglalaro ay junior high parin ang mataas na score na 14-12 na nagtulungan si dadang at si naya sa paglalaro para lang mataas ang puntos namin.

Ng sa ikatlo ng laro ay 16-18 na bansihan ng senior high ang junior high kahit na nahihirapan si labao sa paglalaro.

Ng sa ikapat ng palapag ay 21-20 ang kanilang score kaya natalo ang junior high sa senior high.

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Was Andrew Cunanan born or made a serial killer? This is the question that American Crime Story: The Assassination of Gianni Versace poses with Wednesday’s episode, “Creator/Destroyer,” when it flashes back to Cunanan’s childhood and his relationship with father Modesto “Pete” Cunanan—a stockbroker who abandoned the family after allegedly “misappropriating” $106,000 when Andrew was a college freshman. (The episode contrasts Cunanan’s youth with Gianni Versace’s childhood, showing how the fashion designer was raised by a dressmaker mother in Reggio Calabria, Italy, who—because her parents had quashed her own childhood ambition of becoming a doctor—was determined to nurture her son’s professional dreams.)

Up until this episode, Cunanan has been a confounding character study—equally proud and lazy, a pathological liar who was capable of occasional generosity before his descent into drug use and murder. According to series writer and executive producer Tom Rob Smith, though, the key to understanding Cunanan’s trajectory is his father, who provided the template.

“I don’t think you can understand Andrew without understanding his dad,” Smith told Vanity Fair earlier this year. “His mom is a key figure, too, but his dad really offers the template for Andrew’s life. His dad had this spectacular rise—he came to America from the Philippines and served in the U.S. Navy. I think he worked through night college to get his trader’s license and got this extraordinary job working at Merrill Lynch in San Diego. It was this amazing ascent, and then he burnt out.”

According to Vanity Fair contributor Maureen Orth, whose book Vulgar Favors: the Assassination of Gianni Versace is the basis for American Crime Story, Pete had a special relationship with the youngest of his four children.

“Of all the children Pete has, he put so much attention toward Andrew, maybe because he thought Andrew was so good-looking,” Andrew’s godfather Delfin Labao told Orth. “It was not healthy. His father spoiled Andrew, made him feel he’s got to be somebody and, maybe that rang a bell in his uncertain mind, that that was what life was about.”

In addition to instilling that expectation, Pete embedded his son with bravado, materialism, and, even if Andrew didn’t realize it at the time, the compulsion of a pathological liar.

“By seventh grade, Andrew had developed a line of patter and a penchant for telling stories based on what he had read, and embellished for effect,” reported Orth. “The disturbing grandiosity that would mark his personality had already begun to take hold.”

Andrew was a precocious child and his parents spoiled him—even giving him the family’s master bedroom in high school. (Pete, who had a fraught relationship with his wife, MaryAnn, slept on the couch.) When Andrew was a freshman in high school, Pete even bought Andrew a brand-new sports car after his son was forced to miss an anticipated field trip—to the opera—because he was sick. Andrew was only 14 years old and did not have a driver’s license.

“Andrew, always the con man at school, was himself being conned at home,” wrote Orth. Ronald Johnston, who worked with Pete at four different firms, explained, “Pete always wore expensive suits, would buy expensive cars and expensive homes, and I think Andrew believed that was all for real. Andrew was led to believe by his father that he would attain anything he wanted to attain. And I know his father spoiled him rotten and gave him everything that he could possibly want.”

By the time that Cunanan graduated high school, though, Pete was cycling through a series of jobs and reportedly shady deals to combat his growing debt.

Explained American Crime Story writer Tom Rob Smith: “[Pete] committed what looked to be fraudulent trading activity. He moved down through various trading houses—smaller and smaller ones until he was finally caught. He had all of this fraud that was just circling him, and finally he runs to Manila.”

In 1988, when Cunanan was a freshman in college, Modesto took his cut of a deal that he was putting together, sold his cars and the family’s two “heavily mortgaged homes, and disappeared.” Per Orth, “Their family had literally had their home sold out from under them. MaryAnn was reportedly left with $700. . . . The experience was clearly shattering for Andrew, whose image of his dad as a powerful and reliable protector was smashed.”

Afterward, Andrew flew to the Philippines and tracked down his father—where he found the person he once believed to be a mythic figure living in squalor.

“When Andrew saw the crude poverty in which his father was living, a driving madness took over his mind,” one of Andrew’s teachers told Orth. Smith also believes that Andrew’s trip to the Philippines was a critical turning point.

“I think at that point, if Andrew had accepted that his dad was a fraud, embraced it on some level, and said, ‘This is what life is . . . complicated,’ he’d come back to the States having learned from the experience,” said Smith. “He could’ve done something interesting with his life. Instead, he comes back and continues his lies, telling people, ‘My dad is rich,’ and keeping up that pretense. To me, though, that was the break[ing] point in his brain. At that point there’s no going back.”

“Andrew goes through the exact same trajectory as his dad,” explained Smith. “He had his own rise—finding these wealthy affluent-older men that he’s living with. He ended up in a multi-million-dollar condo in La Jolla, this beautiful paradise, [living with Norman Blachford, a man who loved him.] He’s given an allowance. Traveling to the South of France. And he throws it all away because he can’t tolerate the notion that he is a kept man . . . he leaves and moves into a small place in Hillcrest, and descends through crystal-meth until he’s lost everything.”

Pointing out the similarity of father and son’s arcs, Smith explained, “His dad flees to Manila and restarts his life, but Andrew has nowhere left to go. So he goes to Minneapolis and has a breakdown. When you look at the shapes of their lives, that was absolutely the key of Andrew.”

So how, then, did Cunanan’s father Pete process the news that his son had not only mirrored his descent—he had done so in deadly fashion?

By shopping a documentary that would serve as a star vehicle for himself. Two months after the murders and his son’s suicide, the Los Angeles Times reported that Cunanan’s father Pete had already recruited a Philippines filmmaker, relocated to Los Angeles, and apparently alerted press of the project. Director Amable “Tikoy” Aguiluz VI made it clear that, in spite of Andrew being the focus of the media interest because of the murders, Pete still narcissistically saw himself as the star of the story. “I’m telling [the film] from the father’s point of view—a father who knew Andrew until he was 19—and his discovery of his son all over again,” Aguiluz told the L.A. Times.

As for whether Pete thought his son was guilty of the murders, he told papers, “This was a deep cover-up.” Rather than share sympathy for the victims and their families, he teased a potential F.B.I. conspiracy—“Hopefully, we’ll come up with some plausible explanations when we run the movie.” When speaking to Orth, Pete further revealed that he was asking for $500,000 for the rights to a film and book deal; thought it could make over $100 million at the box office; and even had an actor in mind to play his son.

John F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Their mannerisms are very, very close, almost the same,” Pete explained. “I watch John Junior very carefully. The guy has a lot of moxie in him—that dignity.”

In comparison and retrospect, Cunanan’s oft-told delusion of knowing Gianni Versace suddenly doesn’t seem so far-fetched.

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Press Release, 11/5/13

For immediate release 11/5/13

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16TH Annual Parol Festival December 7

[SAN DIEGO, CA]  PASACAT will host the 16th Annual Parol Festival on Saturday, December 7, at the Jacobs Center, Celebration Hall, 404 Euclid Avenue, San Diego, 1pm - 5 pm.  

The festival is a multi-generational event which centers around the Parol star lantern.  Attendees will experience a Philippine village during the holiday season.  Activites include cultural performances by PASACAT Company and Junior Dancers and accompanied by the Rondalla.  Guest artists include Marvin Calderon, Jr. a top 28 contender in the 2013 American Idol competition and St. Rita’s Folk Choir who will sing Tagalog Christmas songs.

Attendees will be served a merienda of pancit, lumpia and pandesal all included in the ticket price of $12 for adults and $10 for students.  Discounts are available for groups of  twelve or more.    

The popular parol making workshops will be conducted where many children have enjoyed making a parol during the festival.  The highlight will be the Parol Competition where winning parol designs and construction will receive $20 in the elementary, secondary and high school categories.  The Grand Prize Competition will be awarded to the top three - first prize, $200, 2nd prize, $150 and 3rd prize, $100.00.  

PASACAT will display a variety of parols, from hand-made parols by Jose Morales, Jr. and those from the Philippines, with a number of the more contemporary capiz shell parols available for sale.  Cultural exhibits from PASACAT’s 43 year inventory of costumers, instruments and books will be on display.  

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The Parol Festival always concludes with the Pabitin, a bamboo rack strung with toys and prizes for children to grab as it is hoisted up and down.

“There’s so many people who feel so isolated in the world,” surmised Anamaria Labao Cabato, PASACAT Executive Director.  “The Parol Festival is a wonderful way for families of all generations to connect, and with so many tragedies that surround us, we need to cultivate connections for stronger familes ties which is the foundation for stronger community ties.”

For more information o the Parol Festival, tickets, vendor opportunities,registration for the Parol Competition, contact PASACAT, 619-477-3383, e-mail: admin@pasacat.org, website: www.pasacat.org or Facebook: PASACAT Philippine Performing Arts Company.  

The Parol Festival is partially funded by the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund and the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture.

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[applesandbannas747]

first of all I think a good long AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! is called for because holy shit i love this with my whole entire being. like. you cannot comprehend how much i love this. I love the Labao family more than like…..anyone but my fav 4 characters in Fence XD whoops. Point is, i love them way more than I think I was meant to or than I probably should but I do and so seeing fanart of them makes me go feral. And you drew the whole squad ahh!! That’s crazy impressive because that’s a lot of people and you’ve got them all so dynamic and interacting with each other so perfectly and I’m just grfawedszxc lobe themmmm

we’re just gonna start left to right and go down the line.

ELIZABETH AND CRISTOPHER MY BELOVEDS i love them so much. the milf/dilf power couple we DESERVE. truly just some wonderful, warm, loving parents here and their milf and dilfness is unobtainable because they’re just so in love with each other and I love that too. I love their height difference because Kit is TALL and Elizabeth is Small and so put them next to each other and I’m crying they’re so cute and perfect. I love that they’r holding hands and strolling down the beach—probably like they have for years, since before they had kids—and the rowdy hellions can’t disrupt their peaceful vibes. (I seriously love that they still hold hands. that’s just such a sweet touch and shows how even after all these years, they still want to be holding hands and walking in step). AND THE WAY THEY’RE SMILING AFTER THIER CHILDREN?????? so soft and so loving and ahhh they just love their kids so much and I love that. Literally love them just letting the kids be absolute goons together with fond smiles like ‘ah yes those are our monsters <3’ it’s just perfectly the vibe I imagine them having. Ok but truly they are very attractive no joke. Elizabeth is just so pretty and I love her and her soft smile. And! I love that you drew her hair down her shoulders like she wears it currently, and even gave her her earrings!! and of course I love that her tote and her flip-flops are yellow <3 In fact, I love that all of them but Luna have yellow on them. Her dress is so pretty. I love how soft and hazy it is and the gradient is lovely. Like a sunset blending into gentle waves. And!! It matches Kit’s shorts, with that same hazy sunset aesthetic! Also I like the style of his flip flops. They’re very Dad. Aaaand I love his lil goatee/beard thing. Like it’s just such a look and works for him so I love to see it XD also love them carrying the beach bag and umbrella. And the labaos just have Good Arm Genes tbh because both mama and papa Labao got some good looking arms and I’m right.

Assahhh all the brothers!! I have to say that I love how the big brothers are carrying the little ones just aaahhh that’s so cute!! and I’ve gotta say I am thoroughly impressed with how much attention you paid to their character designs—like the hair? First of all, I love how all of them (including Kit, the Original Blueprint) have that perfectly messy Labao hair. But like, the slight difference in all their styles are still v much there—With Junior’s hair matching pretty closely with Eugene and Kit’s, and Marcus’s being more flipped up in the front, and Fritz with the straight-across bangs and just !!!!!! that’s them!!! And really small details, but I love that Junior is in a tank top and Marcus is in a t-shirt—just like they are the only times we see them in the comic XD I just love that you got their designs down so perfectly and paid such careful homage to Jo’s concept of them <3

Okay but Junior and Fritz? Adorable I love them. Love Junior charging after Luna and Eugene with Fritz pointing the way onward. And you know whose side they’re on XD Fritz’s little shark swim trunks are adorable and of course I love that they’re yellow sharks!! And his smile is a little sweeter than the rest of the boy’s gleeful mischief, which I think is fitting and darling. Also his hand is like. really well drawn. v dynamic and interesting and im not explaining it well but i like that you drew it that way. I like Junior’s swim trunks too—they kinda match with his parents’ which i think is adorable. And the movement of his tank top is really cool too—and I love the yellow stripe! kinda matches him to Eugene as well (and again, I love that because Kit, Eugene, and Junior are the most similar looking/styled ones, so it’s just fun that Junior matches with both). Also I love how kiddish they look—like the three little brothers all look like little kids, while Luna and Eugene have definitely been through good old puberty. just their little spindly arms trigger my affection so hard. babies. absolute babies. i love them.

Luna. just. love this girl. you know she puts up with a lot (and deals as much as she gets) with four brothers XD I just love the whole scenario and composition of this scene and Luna’s right in the middle of it. I love the way she is running full fucking tilt after Eugene and Marcus. You can tell she is pissed of and she means business. I can imagine the sorts of threats and names she’s yelling lmfao. And her hair is so pretty—i love the way it’s caught up in the movement of her running. It just looks v pretty and dynamic and the shape of it is just. cool. and her suit!! so pretty!! Love the black with purple detailing. Honestly, I’m sure Jesse would approve of the whole ensemble lmfao It seriously looks great on her and I love the butterfly pattern!! With that pretty, almost hazy cast to it that ties it nicely to several of her family member’s suits. and the lines down the sides of it!! so cool! legitimately an awesome and great looking suit, i love it. And the little moon and star logo! Such a great detail for Luna’s suit. and her calves look entirely capable of getting her to Eugene so she can clobber him XD may he rest in peace

Eugene and Marcus, what absolute little shits. I am POSITIVE it was Eugene who suggested Marcus ought to snatch Luna’s headphones (which I also love how true to canon you got them what with the purple padding!) Marcus holding them above him like a trophy is hilarious, and I can hear his manic giggles from that huge grin of his—which I love that it’s got that cute heart-shape to it that Eugene’s smile does <3 And the way he’s joyously kicking his legs is just too fucking cute. I bet he is a handful to keep balanced on your back XD Good thing he’s got Eugene holding him in place. oh Eugene. Older brothers are such a delight. I fucking love that this dipshit can’t help but look back even as he’s running away from the scene of the crime to goad Luna more XD Seriously, I love him. And their relationship. it’s perfect and you captured all the relationships and dynamics perfectly, so this one is no exception but just. Luna yelling while Eugene looks back at her to metaphorically stick out his tongue is so Top Tier I cannot fucking get over it. And as always, I love Eugene’s smile! Even shit-eating as it is currently lmfao it’s so bright and broad and I love the shape of it. And I love his hair being blown all over the place because he’s looking back while running forward haha. plus its so pretty and shiny. all the hair is just fucking gleaming under the sun and i love it. also. Eugene’s legs? you can tell this man does not skip out on leg day. damn. look at that muscle. Just those are some very nice legs sir. (and also i love that we can see he wears his muscle like his dad). Also I love how effortlessly he can hold up his little brother XD HELL to the yeah we love a shirtless eugene. those collarbones are poppin’ and I am here for it. He looks fantastic from tibbies to shoulders to arms as always <3 And his thighs too look immaculate and I love his swim shorts—love that they’re yellow, love the racer stripes, love the cut of them and how they fit on him….love the little happy trail sneaking out of them lmfao really he looks GREAT but nobody is surprised.

Okay and the scenery and vibes of this is just. so good. Love the happy sky and fluffy clouds and the smears of beach complete with those lil grassy tufts and the miniature dunes. and I love how the sand is soft and reactant under all their feet. Speaking of, I adore that the kids are all barefoot. Bet you Elizabeth has all their sandals in her beach bag <3 but it’s so cute that the kids match and I love that they’re so carefree and messy that way, anxious to get on with the fun. and the little pinknesses to their skin is SUPER cute here because it just makes them look sun kissed and its darling <33

I just love this so so so much jsfkhgesf the labaos mean the world to me and im so happy this beautiful art of them exists and i love it with my whole heart 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

summer shenanigans with the labaos 💛