Costumes in Maria Clara at Ibarra Pt. 1
Notes and details about the historical costumes from the show according to the stylists. Interview here: (x)
Part 2 of the gifset
Additional notes:
Ilustrado is a term for the educated class of Filipinos during the Spanish Colonial period.
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Maria Bernadete Pacífico "Mãe Bernadete" (1951-2023)
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Justiça por Mãe Bernadete e Binho!
Image: Black Women Radicals. Source: Coalizão Negra Por Direitos. Photo: Conaq
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«¿Te avergüenzas, amigo, de servir a Dios, por temor de verte despreciado? Mira a Aquel que murió en esta cruz: pregúntale si se avergonzó Él de verse despreciado y de morir de la manera más humillante en aquel infame patíbulo». — Santo Cura de Ars.
«Are you ashamed, friend, to serve God, for fear of seeing yourself despised? Look at Him who died on this cross: ask Him if He was ashamed to see Himself despised and to die in the most humiliating way on that infamous scaffold.» — Curé d'Ars
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Since I'm rewatching Maria Clara at Ibarra on Netflix, at dahil may time ako for today's bidyow I'm just gonna give my two cents on this comment:
I think we can all agree that Maria Clara did NOT deserve to suffer the way she did, and yes she deserves to be happy with the only man she ever loved. But Maria Clara's story is the story of many women who were oppressed, and abused by priests during the Spanish era and sadly, this reality STILL exists even up to this day. And as much as I fucking hate to admit this, there are still many untold stories of women (even boys and young men) who were sexually abused by these disgusting hypocrites who call themselves instruments of God, and what's more painful is that the victims are silenced and the abusers get away with it because *coughs* ✨the Church protects them✨
Don't get me wrong, I was baptized and raised as a Catholic myself, but I refuse to ignore cases like these which thankfully in the modern times are being addressed and taken actions of, but I'm not sure how many of these mga sugo ng Diyos are actually punished for their crimes (*clears throat* Church is still quite influential af even in the 21st century 🙃).
Ibarra is a good man with good intentions for San Diego, yet he was framed and accused of being a heretic and filibuster by [again] these fugly Church peeps because they wanted the Filipinos to remain indios: uneducated and poor af. Juan Crisostomo Ibarra is the image of those people who only wanted to help their fellow Filipinos, yet are the ones who are being punished for the most nonsense reasons, and the very people who called themselves his friends and supporters are the same people who turned their backs on him because they were afraid of suffering the same fate as Crisostomo (and Don Rafael) .
In the show, I saw myself in Klay (except that I passed my Noli, El Fili and Rizal lessons 🤣) my only drive to read Noli and El Fili was to pass my Filipino subject. I did not have a full grasp of the lesson that Rizal was trying to teach. The moment I passed my subject, I was like "Oh good! Finally!" but I didn't take those learnings by heart. And I said the very same thing Klay said in the earlier episode, "What's the point of studying Noli and El Fili when I can't even apply it on the course I'm taking or my job when I graduate?" And I admit, history wasn't my favorite subject, I found it boring. I missed the whole point of what my teacher was teaching me.
I could go on and on about the characters of the novels and the show but to sum it all up, every character and events are the very images of every Filipino, their struggles, and the truth about what was really happening in our country. Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo weren't the kind of novels you expect them to be, it is not a stereotypical love story, and it wasn't written to make the readers OR the audiences happy. These novels are here to teach the Klays like you and me not only about our history but also open our eyes to the reality of how this cancer of the society still exists and if we, the Filipino people don't do something to "cure" this, our country will NEVER progress.
As much as I wanted Ibarra and Maria to have a happily ever after they both deserve, I am glad that GMA 7 actually didn't stray away too much from its source materials, because now I understand why I had to learn those books. I understand now why Rizal was named national hero, his novels paved the way for the Filipinos to finally stand up and fight the oppressors.
However, as much as it pains me of how tragic Rizal's novels are, at least in the show, they got a happy ending. Just in a different timeline and universe but still, happily ever after.
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“El Rosario me ha acompañado en los momentos de alegría y en los de tribulación. A él he confiado tantas preocupaciones y en él siempre he encontrado consuelo”.
- San Juan Pablo II
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ROUND 1A, MATCH 16 OUT OF 16!
Propaganda Under the Cut:
Cida:
[No Propaganda Submitted]
La Cenerentola:
Maybe she's a pretty basic Cinderella, kind and sweet and forgiving, but I do just love this opera.
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