#also this reads “el filibusterismo”
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currently working on our group’s project for filipino class and all i can say is that i did this design so good <3 i didn’t make it look exactly like the burn book but yh the main features r there
#also this reads “el filibusterismo”#i believe it’s in spanish or old filipino (?)#but i’m more certain that it’s in spanish or old spanish#in filipino it translates to “ang hari ng kasakiman”#which in english is “the king of greed”#then on the bottom#pangkat 3 is group 3#then i blocked out my teacher’s name#risubusiness !
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I am liveblogging me rereading Noli Me Tangere in my fandom blog and honestly the writing kinda slaps. If you wanna read Filipiniana literature, read Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. I promise you it's not as boring as school made them out to be.
Jose Rizal is like extremely snarky and each paragraph has a backhanded statement that criticizes his time period and some of the scenes are really funny
Please, if you've never read the books for leisure before and had only read it for study, it provides such a different experience and you might just like it!
#mayaposts#noli me tangere#el filibusterismo#jose rizal#i do also have to say that a lot of tagalog translations i've read just do not do the book justice like at all#the dialogue in those translations come off as stiff and too deep conpared to other english ones#not sure if it's because i struggle to read tagalog in general but other tagalog stories do not give me this much of a hard time#when reading it#so i do suggest getting an english translation or if you can read the originak spanish#mayapino#philippines#filipino#filipiniana#filipino literature#literature
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tagged by @therepublicofletters!! thank you for the tag ❤
rules: answer the questions and then tag 9 people you want to get to know better (I never do this RIP)
last song: ONEUS' Biala Conmigo, but at this moment I'm in the middle of listening to IDKHOW's What Love
currently watching: I've been alternating between Beyond Evil, Cattleya Killer, Kamen Rider Build, and Showtime's The Borgias
last movie: straight up I forgot about every movie I ever watched for a minute, but last night I was re watching The Eagle (2011) for the twentieth time
currently reading: Rizal's El Filibusterismo, The Story of Jeon Unchi, Mo Du (默读) by Priest
sweet, spicy, or savory: savory!
relationship status: in a committed relationship with reading about the Sforzas
current obsession: fucked up brother dynamics. Mortal Kombat 1 got to me. but also all of that with Drusus and Germanicus. the twin-ification of them. the gens Julia side of the Julio Claudian tree is really intent on. eating itself.
last google search: uhhh. let's see. the most recent tabs I have up on my browser are about Im Kkeok-jeong, the Bonifacio trial documents, and literary analysis on Templar Grail Quest Narratives
currently working on: some illustration and comic layouts, doing some edits on the Trikaranos comic, staring at this Antony/Trebonius fic and begging it to stop unlocking themes I just want it to end
tagging: literally anyone who feels like answering some questions, go wild, consider yourselves tagged!
#im terrible at figuring out who to tag. the usual suspects tho! consider yourselves tagged if you want to answer some questions!#about tag
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𝐀𝐳𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐰! in the Philippines <33
𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲: What it would be like if Azi and Crowley were to be in the Philippines. (just some cute little imagines)
𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬: No Warnings! Chaz is currently working on chapter 8! so for now, i wanted to do something other than the fic, considering that I'm Filipino, Chaz convinced me to do some cute little imagines if azi and crowley we're in the Philippines, Happy Readings!
- The two of them would stroll around divisoria, well, aziraphale liked it due to the many stalls open in every corner, crowley doesn't like it on the other hand, since it's mostly crowded and all, but he does end up buying a duck hair clip.
- I feel like the two would go to one of the national locations/shrines and would go like.. "do you remember when we met him?" "hm.. i suppose? was he the guy..." "yeah. yeah. definitely."
- Would stroll around rizal park for fun, just a cute little date around the park like normal. <33
- Aziraphale would always be glad to go to churches every sunday. just like any other Filipino, maybe light a candle every sermon, then Crowley would take him to a mall after. (SM I LOVE YOU)
- During the early part of the Spanish Philippines period, Crowley would have protested with himself one too many times to do a "Harana" to aziraphale yet end up chickening out.
- Aziraphale would have a personal composed poem by José de la Cruz "Husend Sisiw", Also a copy of Noli Me Tangere or El Filibusterismo in his bookshop, and other literary works, such as Florante at Laura or Ibong Adarna.
- Crowley would probably enjoy a night drive in BGC, maybe even persuade aziraphale to come with him. and the both of them would enjoy eating street foods (siomai, fishball, kikiam, etc.)
- During the time when the urban legend, the manananggal were popular, People may have mistaken crowley as the mananangal once, and he would feed into the rumors too. and aziraphale would joke to him about it.
- They would celebrate like Filipinos, decorating the bookshop at the start of september. then would have a cute little vacation in Baguio at Christmas. Crowley would drive aziraphale every "Simbang Gabi" yet due to Crowley being a demon, he would wait outside church in the Bentley, waiting for aziraphale to finish.
#good omens#aziraphale#crowley#azicrow#innefable husbands#innefable idiots#i love them#help they're so cute#filipino#imagines
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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.
#misc#gma 7#maria clara at ibarra#noli me tangere#el filibusterismo#jose rizal#suzette doctolero#netlifx#juan crisostomo ibarra y magsalin#maria clara delos santos y alba#maria clara infantes#dennis trillo#julie anne san jose#barbie forteza
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I have developed emotional instability from reading the first five chapters of El Filibusterismo and analyzing the Crisostomo-Basilio, Elias-Basilio, and Maria Clara-Juli parallels. You will also see how my “emotional torture” annotating tab has already been finished AND ITS STILL FIVE CHAPTERS IN 😭😭😭 god bless the people obsessed with reading Noli and El Fili (I am people) AND THEN CRYING BECAUSE THEY GOT SO MUCH ANGST AND RAGE 😭 (also me)
#el filibusterismo#basilio#juli#maria clara#Simoun#crisostomo ibarra#Elias#jose rizal#noli me tangere#RIZAL WHEN I CATCH YOU RIZAL#annotating books#annotating tabs and highlighters were my best investment#if you saw the insides of my copies of El Fili and Noli#it would be very scary and painful#even my friends went: do you not have pity for your books#doesn’t the quote (to be loved is to be changed) exist my friends 😭😭😭
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You're reading El Filibusterismo right and you get to chapter 12 and then shrug something off, maybe it's a mistranslation.
BUT IT KEEPS APPEARING.
so I'll break out the question...
WHAT THE HELL IS JUANITO PELAEZ'S "HUMP"??
I've been in emotional pain whenever his damn "hump" was mentioned so I decided to check a Tagalog version,
Well. That's not any better, synonyms were also "Hunchbacked" and another word for Hunchback in Tagalog is "bukot" which translated to "hump on back" (as well as Hunchback)
So I check it in SPANISH (despite not knowing a single word of Spanish)
It didn't get any better....
So to anyone who knows, hmu😭
I don't wanna go on reading and not know what juanito's HUMP???
#el filibusterismo#Juanito Pelaez#juanito#jose rizal#jose rizal had it coming#/j /j /j#thank you for the novel#i guess#el fili#el noli#spanish
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i will not put noli me tangere and el filibusterismo in perpetua, i will not put noli me tangere and el filibusterismo in perpetua, i will not put noli me tangere and el filibusterismo in perpetua, i will not-
rambling under the cut because i need to figure out something to finish this scene:
the reason why i bring it up at all is because i want to show what a mundane conversation between damien and avery is like when there's not really much else happening in their lives.
much of their conversations in arc 1 were mundane yes but it was like 'getting to know each other (and also letting damien heal a bit after going through the horrors)'. also i will probably need another pass at arc 1 act 2 because i think things are a little messy thematically and i start juggling quite a lot.
-> anyways i wanted that mundane friendship conversation to be about a piece of media. i think literary analysis is something the two of them would talk about (because that's exactly the type of nerds they are, and you've gotta write what you know, yknow?)
there is a precedent for including real books and pieces of media in perpetua. i did it early in arc 1 with mary shelley's frankenstein, to establish perpetua as an educated community, suggest at minerva's sense of humour, and introduce ideas like the rage towards one's creator (with a parent-child / mad science twist).
> haunted hollow (the owl house, but i can't just name drop that one because it's too recent) was mostly used to establish the kind of nerd that avery is, give damien an in-universe blorbo in the form of a zuko/hunter-alike.
>> i might go back to this in arc 3 when the gods chew damien out for not living up to their expectations and compare him to his own blorbo.
> ponyo (which has no in-universe name as of now) was also used to bring in the general theme of "it doesn't matter what you are, i still love you" to the context of damien and avery's friendship. i just needed it to work for a scene and i think it does?
so i absolutely can use real books. the question is whether i should use noli me tangere / el filibusterismo specifically:
el noli came to mind because i'm pretty into it at the moment, and it's thematically rich enough for damien to passionately talk at length about just how hard it goes.
> i'm trying to do this to show that he hasn't just been thinking about haunted hollow for the past 8 months or so, lmao. not that its unrealistic for that to happen, i just think he wouldn't. he's more the type to have a broad knowledge of a lot of different things and then excitedly draw connections between them, rather than fixate on one thing for a long time if that makes sense.
> on a meta level i want to show infodumping and passion in a positive light (avery finds it cute, etc.) because some of my family members don't really appreciate it. i feel like a freak sometimes, i really do.
BUT ANYWAY. the implications of the books
both noli me tangere and el filibusterismo are very much rooted in their socio-historical context, that being the philippines during the late spanish colonial era, and the way it portrays society and the systems in power is unfortunately evergreen. sometimes it feels like hardly anything has changed 137 years later.
in relation to perpetua, the books show a world that the characters have never experienced, whether that be past or present. damien has filipino heritage but the disconnect is apparent (so ironically it loops back around into being a pinoy diaspora experience?). its something to consider when the gods judge him for not being 'good enough representation'.
i dont know how this is going to play out because captain luna is broadly similar to ibarra, in that they're idealistic, upper class illustrado filipinos who studied abroad and had childhood sweethearts named maria-[something], neither of whom they got with in the end. with bonus queer aspects of their stories because tbh it reads like there was Something between ibarra and elias. but anyway. i dont think luna would've read noli and i dont know how he'd feel about the parallels between him and ibarra. probably not very good!
maria-isabel was named after maria clara YES, but i read noli and fili recently so everything surrounding the luna/ibarra parallels are a coincidence.
> damien will likely pick up on these parallels and that opens up an entire can of worms!! worms that i don't know what to do with! but also its an interesting book and i want more people to read it because it fucks severely.
if you have any suggestions for works that damien can be interested in (thematic relevance to greater story ideal) i would love to hear them
#auri rambles#perpetua progress notes#only on waterfall-ambience.tumblr.com will a character saying “lately i've been obsessed with [book]” require hours of consideration#and several paragraphs of trying to figure out whether it should be a particular book.#ah. the eternal nightmare of needing to talk about something for a scene
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The Case for Klay Infantes x Placido Penitente
Maria Clara at Ibarra came into my radar when I was obssessed with El Filibusterismo and the works of Jose Rizal in general. When I first read the twitter post announcing the new historical portal fantasy, I was a bit skeptical. Maria Clara at Ibarra is about a Gen Z who is also named Maria Clara, nicknamed “Klay” who time-travels into the time period of Noli Me Tangere to learn about nationalism, patriotism and all that jazz.
By the time the show tackled El Fili, viewers noticed the lower episode count compared to Noli and the some glaring exclusion of scenes from the book. Despite the lower episode count, I’m surprised by the impact a lot of the scenes had on me as a viewer. In my opinion, the writers did a fine job adapting the parts of El Fili. I’ll go as far as to say the lower episode count benefits El Fili for me as a viewer. This is mostly personal bias but I found a lot of scenes in Noli to be a bit dragging at times. The lower episode count demanded writers to be more careful with their time. However it can still feel rushed in some parts.
One of the significant changes in the adaptation is the absence of Placido Penitente’s character. From a plot perspective, even for someone who liked El Fili, Placido Penitente is almost a useless character. Rizal added his character for symbolism. Readers remember Placido Penitente for standing up to Padre Millon but beyond that, the character disappeared after teaming up with Simoun and the readers know little to nothing beyond that.
I’m not mad at the show runners for excluding Placido Penitente in their adaptation. The writers of Maria Clara at Ibarra are free to write whatever the hell they want. Instead, I want to make my case for the ship of Klay Infantes and Placido Penitente and why I think not making the 2 characters meet or even interact is a missed oppurtunity. Think of this meta as a thought experiment or speculation. Because Placido Penitente never happened, the meta will be based on not only the original El Fili and MCI but also on lots of speculation. I’m not going to hate on Filay. I think Filay is cute but I’m also a sucker for possible ships beyond the canon ones and how it can narratively impact the story.
Now on with the meta...
Maria Clara “Klay” Infantes, The Gen Z Fighter
Klay, the main protagonist functions as the audience’ self-insert. She is the Gen Z character stuck in the world of Rizal’s novels. As the audience self-insert, she says the things the audience is thinking in their minds as they watch events unfold. I like that her status as a self-insert is informed by her present characteristics. Klay being outspoken is part of her character along with her fierce love for her mother and brother. There were times her outspoken mouth grates on my nerves as a viewer especially when she preaches feminism seemingly out of ignorance of the systems that oppressed these women in the first place.
To the world of Noli and El Fili, she is a peculiarity. A woman who speaks her mind about women being as capable as men? That is preposterous. (sarcasm)
Since her real name is technically, “Maria Clara,” she is also a foil to the Maria Clara of Noli. Maria Clara and Klay are almost opposites in terms of characterization. Maria Clara’s meekness and quiet nature is there to contrast with Klay’s more outspoken nature.
Another important thing about Klay is her background. Klay defined herself by her struggles even before she came into the world of Noli.
She is a struggling working student who aspires to graduate from Nursing to support her family without her stepdad. She is not the person to back down in the face of adversity especially when her loved ones are at risk. Because of it, she has to create an outer shell to cope with the burden of studying in school and being the breadwinner of the family. She is a girl from a broken family who cries when no one is around because she has to appear strong for her family. Her outspoken nature came from her intolerance to injustices.
At the start of the series, she can’t bring herself to care about the lofty ideals of nationalism as a Filipino because of the struggles she faces everyday. Like the audience, the narrative pushes her to care about her country more and to open her eyes to the injustices that many Filipinos experience. Over the course of the story, she begins to call out the systems that oppressed the Filipinos and pushes for reform and change in the town of San Diego.
By El Fili, she is determined to change the fates of her friends to prevent the tragedies that will befall them in El Fili. She also grapples with the mystery of the fates of the other characters such as Elias and Fidel.
Placido Penitente, The Ordinary Filipino In the Olden Times
I think Placido Penitente is one of the most relatable characters in all of Jose Rizal’s writing. Every teacher would point out Placido Penitente means “Silent Suffering”. Placido Penitente is a poor Indio who was able to attain education in Manila and at UST no less. The narration mentions he is very focused on his studies to the point of not having time for other past times his classmates normally have. He is considered one of the most intelligent by both the characters in the story and the narrative.
As said by his namesake, he silently endures the discrimination of the Dominican priests in UST. His mother instilled to him the value of meekness because of their poor status despite his intelligence. To his classmates, he is very silent. They wouldn’t expect him to stand up for himself. Deep down, anger boiled within him as he endured the taunts of the priests and the mindless lessons he is forced to learn.
To a lot of readers, the struggle is relatable and understandable. If you ever encountered the El Fili fandom, Placido is a sort of fan favorite. I enjoy scrolling through Tumblr to find a lot of content on him and how many fans could relate to him even in the modern age. There are moments in life when we silently suffer to not disrupt the peace of other people. Rizal used Placido Penitente as an allegory for regular Filipinos during the period of the Spanish era. If Placido’s anger is a Filipino’s anger, his suffering is a Filipino’s suffering.
Placido didn’t exactly start out with patriotic ideals or even the moral framework to correct the injustices he sees. I’d argue he also represents the apathetic Filipino. He cares about injustice when he experiences injustice. He didn’t study to become a lawyer out of a sense of justice, rather he did it out of obligation to his parents. Whenever I read chapters focusing on his point of view, I notice a selfishness within them. He quits school because his intelligence is not appreciated. He doesn’t like being insulted and humiliated. These traits were never shown in relation to his relationship with other marginalized groups. Unlike Isagani, Placido is a pragmatic, not an idealist. I’ll even go as far as to say he is apolitical as Klay was in the beginning of her story.
Same Struggles, Different Timeline
It baffles me when people say El Fili is more boring than Noli. My old tutor said she preferred Noli over El Fili. El Fili has a much darker and more political tone than Noli but as a student, I find El Fili more relatable than Noli. El Fili is not only a dark political novel, it is also a novel that places emphasis on the youth characters than Noli did. While Simoun plots to take his revenge, the college students plan to establish a Castillian Academy. I don’t like that MCI lessened the emphasis on the youth characters which I think would’ve been as relevant to Klay.
Now why Klay and Placido? They’re more similar than you think. They’re meant to be relatable characters to their respective audiences. It baffles me when people say the texts of El Fili and Noli are not relevant to the struggles of today’s generation. Klay and Placido are both struggling students. Klay may not have the intelligence of Placido and Placido may not have Klay’s selflessness but in them, I see a similar grit that almost mirror each other.
Although their situations are not the exact same, the issues remain. Placido may not be a working student but he is actively disrespected by the Dominican teachers in his school that more often than not tested his patience. He is in a position where he can’t speak up for his rights out of losing his education. His mother even pleaded him to go the priest’s way despite the humiliation Placido was put through because of them.
Klay doesn’t experience this situation in school but in her everyday life before the events of MCI, she is pitted against authorities that try to belittle her at every opportunity. This is exemplified in her part time job when the café owner forced her to pay for the food the customers didn’t pay. She lost at least 3 days of wages because of them but she can’t speak up.
Placido and Klay were in a situation where they are encouraged remain meek and quiet by their society and peers. And their mothers want them to employ said traits for survival. They are the characters written to be relatable to their audience. If the characters meet, perhaps the audience of MCI and Klay herself may discover that the past rhymes with the present more than they think.
Finding connections and similarities between the past and the present is one of the main themes of MCI. By looking at the past, one can better appreciate the present. This is also the main reason why the professor forced Klay to live the experiences of Noli. A character similar to Klay in terms of situation and struggles can be an eye-opener for Klay herself and the audience.
Yes, I’m kinda salty that MCI didn’t include Placido Penitente in the final product but the writers are put into the position of fitting all of El Fili in like 20 episodes when Noli had 70+.
A Potential Enemies to Lovers Pair?
Hot take: the pair has as much enemies to lovers potential as Filay. An enemies to lovers pair as defined by a lot of people is the pairing of 2 equally strong-willed and proud people unwilling to back down. From the previous parts of the meta, it is clear that both Placido and Klay are proud individuals who suffer the brunt of unfair authorities. What elevates the pair for me compared to Filay, is their similar characteristics and backgrounds. I’m sorry I can’t think of a ship name…
I admit Filay is cute and even an endearing ship. As a viewer, I didn’t expect them to get together but they worked. Their dynamic started out with a sort of rivalry wherein Klay argues with Fidel about gender equality. Over the course of the show, they begin to form a bond which eventually evolves into a full on romantic relationship. That’s cute. It is the ideal progression of enemies to lovers.
Like Filay, I imagine Placido and Klay to have an enemies to lovers dynamic. Placido will find Klay annoying because of her impulsive mouth. She goes against what he was taught since he came to Manila. Seeing someone speaking their thoughts freely for Placido can trigger a nerve in him. The same could also be said for Klay but in an opposite manner. Klay may despise Placido for his arrogance and his quiet nature in the face of the enemy. Similarly, this also goes against her core belief to stand up for what is right.
Placido can be quiet to a lot of his peers but he is also a raging teapot ready to burst. He will sass the hell out of Klay and Klay will bite him back. There will be times he can be the same brand of misogynist as Fidel because of the time periods but I don’t think that should be the main impetus of their rivalry like Filay.
To me they already have a compelling reason to be the bickering lovers: their similar backgrounds and different approaches to dealing with them. Fidel and Klay have different backgrounds with Fidel hailing from a rich family and Klay hailing from a middle class family. Fidel, a rich Ilustrado doesn’t face any social discrimination as Klay does (I meant this in context of the Spanish era). An enemies to lovers type ship with Placido and Klay will have the added dimension of them coming from similar backgrounds. It is not that similar because of the time periods but I think it is close enough.
The tension in their dynamic will stem from their ideologies when dealing with the problem and the conclusion should have them ultimately relate to each other and support one another in their struggles. Speaking of development…
Klay and Placido’s Development
Enemies to lovers implies character development from one or both parties. Part of the appeal of the enemies to lovers ship of Filay is Fidel’s growing awareness of the injustices around him. There is a great tumblr meta made on Fidel’s character development here. Filay also pushed Klay’s development as well. She learns how to be vulnerable in front of others especially Fidel. And she also learns the value of patriotism through her experiences in Noli. By El Fili, she seemed to have already completed her character arc. She comes back to the world of MCI to prevent the tragedies that will befall on her friends.
Once she is in the world of El Fili, she will meet the new characters in the book. One of those characters will be Placido Penitente. The interactions of Klay and Placido would be for Klay, a reintroduction of her past self before the events of MCI. As established, at the start of MCI, Klay considers herself as an apolitical figure. If we follow the same path as the show and Klay comes back to the events of El Fili with newfound knowledge she learned from Noli, then meeting Placido will be meeting her past apolitical self again.
Most of the development will be on Placido. Placido seemed to be the more flawed one in the pairing. Even to the average viewer, his development is obvious. Like Klay, he will learn how to care for fellow Filipinos and gain a new sense of patriotism for his country. Klay can also teach him how to use his voice by example as what happened for the other characters around her in Noli. Their bickering and arguments can force Placido to reconsider his single-minded point of view. At the end, aside from gaining patriotism, he can comfort Klay in her struggles even if he doesn’t understand them fully.
I have to admit, Klay’s development in this pairing is tricky because of Filay. Aside from a technical standpoint of her witnessing the life of ordinary students like herself during the Spanish era, it is almost hard to find a point of growth she could gain from interacting with Placido. For the most part, Klay seemed to be done in her character arc after the events of Noli. When she comes back to El Fili, she does it with the intentions to prevent the tragedies that will befall her on her friends. As she comes to El Fili, I think she also brought with her the idealism and patriotism she had from Noli. She is no stranger to calling out the bigoted men of the past on their narrow-mindedness. Since Placido is a lawyer and said in the narration to be one of the most intelligent students, I think he can meaningfully challenge those views with her.
The Possibilities of Fanfiction
I have to reiterate we are in fanfiction territory and those 2 characters never actually meet in canon so their story can go multiple ways. Ideally, I would want Klay and Placido to develop feelings for each other that is why I wrote this meta in the first place. Despite this I can also see a version of the ship with Filay still being the endgame. For their dynamic to be effective, the show should’ve dedicated more episodes to El Fili. As I write this meta, I composed a series of events and a couple of what-if scenarios of a longer El Fili or even a separate season dedicated to the book.
One of those plot points would be the audience and Klay not knowing where Fidel is so the audience has no choice but to follow Klay as she witnesses the events of El Fili first hand. I’m also a sucker for long winded suspense so in my ideal version, she wouldn’t meet the relevant Noli characters at all. She would’ve met Placido Penitente by accident in Manila while searching for Basilio. I find it strange that even if she supported Ibarra’s efforts of free education for all, she doesn’t seem to care about the characters’ plans to build a Castillian Academy like Ibarra once done in El Fili. Basilio is one of the supporters of the academy so she might have to interact with the student activists (e.g. Isagani, Macaraig) to meet him. To be fair it can be a repetitive plot but with good writing and more time, it can work as a parallel to the events of Noli.
On an additional note, I would’ve also expanded Placido’s role in the novel especially on his collaboration with Simoun.
Ultimately, the show is a work of fanfiction itself. We should be free to do whatever the hell we want with the source material but at the same time we should respect the message of Rizal’s original works. Again, I didn’t write this meta to downplay Filay but rather explore the possibilities of what could’ve been in the El Fili canon of Maria Clara at Ibarra. I’m glad Maria Clara at Ibarra encouraged young people to read the books and pay attention to the themes of Rizal’s novels. Feel free to think of ship name for Placido Penitente and Klay Infantes.
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my catholic high school was very funny. we will put the fear of god in these students but we will also make them read el filibusterismo and the inferno in the same year, two works which totally revere the catholic church
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Been obsessing the 19th century noodle house, "Pansiteria de Macanista y Buen Gusto" since a personal encounter of the structure during the Binondo - San Nicolas tour back in summer of 2019.The establishment roughly translates as "Tasty Macanese Noodle House".
According to historical archives, the three-story commercial accessoria is owned by Don Serverino R. Alberto in 1880. The floor plan showcases the commercial divisions in its design by the Chinese-Filipino community. The former establishment was also mentioned in the 25th chapter of "El Filibusterismo", the second novel of Jose Rizal.
Re-imagined illustration above (for personal amusement) is a study of the first and second floor of what could have been a possible adaptive reuse of the building while retaining the panciteria brand and giving reverence of its past.
To know more about the pansiteria and the rest of the heritage sites, read more on this article.
Enjoy!
#jose rizal#binondo#manila#philippines#san nicolas#pancit#panciteria#macanese#cuisine#chinese filipino#chinoy#filipino#architecture#illustration#visual development#visdev#art#background design#restaurant
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One of the things that greatly piqued my interest when I was reading El Filibusterismo was the symbolism behind the Simoun's lamp and Isagani's act of throwing it into the river just as the wick was about to be turned up, leading to the failure of Simoun's second and last plan.
The lamp contained nitro-glycerin, an element to the plan which Simoun explained to Basilio when he showed him the lamp and told him about what was going to happen.
Chapter 33:
“Yes, nitro-glycerin!” repeated Simoun slowly, with his cold smile and a look of delight at the glass flask. “It’s also something more than nitro-glycerin— it’s concentrated tears, repressed hatred, wrongs, injustice, outrage. It’s the last resort of the weak, force against force, violence against violence.”
After the failure of the plan, there is an entire chapter set in a rich jewel merchant's household wherein some individuals were talking about the failed assassination attempt and the sacks of explosive powder that were found everywhere in the venue of the wedding reception. With no knowledge of it being the bomb, the topic about the missing lamp that was intended as a gift to the newly wed couple and was snatched away by an unknown person during the commotion was also brought up.
Interestingly, Isagani was also there, quietly listening to them talk about the person who threw the lamp into the river, oblivious to the fact that he was right there with them.
Chapter 37:
Momoy turned to Isagani, who observed with an enigmatic smile: “It’s always wicked to take what doesn’t belong to you. If that thief had known what it was all about and had been able to reflect, surely he wouldn’t have done as he did.”
Then, after a pause, he added, “For nothing in the world would I want to be in his place!”
Although Momoy himself knew nothing about Simoun's plans and Isagani's involvement, the fact that he addressed this to Isagani seemed appropriate.
The lamp symbolized the fury of the Filipino people. The symbol of rebellion. The final retaliation against the decaying corpse of society. The force that should finally obliterate the oppression that they've penitently suffered through for such a long time.
Isagani had no right to take that away.
Why should and why would anyone want to get in the way of an oppressed people's revolution against the cruel and unjust system that has continuously exploited and abused it for a long time?
Although there is the fact that he is also a Filipino and has stood up for what he thinks is due to his people, he was not as wronged as the some of the characters in the plot (Simoun, Cabesang Tales, Juli, etc.). Basilio himself thought so when he was contemplating about telling Isagani the plan.
Chapter 34:
He thought for a while about his friend, a great and generous soul, and mentally asked himself if it would not be well to tell him about the plan, then answered himself that Isagani would never take part in such a butchery. They had not treated Isagani as they had him.
Apart from the fact that Isagani did not really know what it's like to be personally injured by the corrupt system, he was also an idealist who would most likely oppose Simoun's violent methods.
However, despite what he did, it's important to note that he was totally oblivious to the reasoning behind the plan and only acted out of love and concern for the girl he loved.
A rebellion held back for her who scarcely cared for him after his reputation got stained.
Something about this is vaguely identical to a good man who would do everything to preserve the welfare of a country that harbors no love for him, to shield it from the storm even if the same tempest could cleanse it from its filth.
But Isagani did not even know what that tempest meant. Basilio told him about the bomb but he had no idea of what it symbolized to the oppressed Filipinos who were eager to take part in Simoun's rebellion. All he cared about was Paulita. She who turned his back to him while he unknowingly held back an entire rebellion for her sake.
It almost seems foolish that the plan failed because of a young man's sentiment for a girl who didn't even love him anymore.
However, considering the idealism that his character embodies, it's also fitting for him to have been the one to take the lamp and throw it into the river, tossing away and dousing the idea of a violent and bloody revolution that the author opposed.
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Hi, Everyone. This is my first time writing a blog on a blog site so I hope you give me a warm welcome and don’t expect too much. So since this is my first time writing online and sharing my opinion with you I don’t really know what to write or talk about. But thanks to my school professor giving us this Task Performance we need to write in a blog site and come up with a topic that we are interested in. I picked the topic of why some teenagers prefer to read and consume fiction stories like the one we can see or read in webtoon, manga or other types of mediums rather than real life books with real stories. First of all I am a Multimedia Arts college student so this topic is rather fitting for me and also since I just like reading manga and webtoons anytime that I’m bored I figured that I’ll pick this topic. I think teenagers prefer to read mediums like manga and webtoons because of the reason that teenagers have broad imaginations, Hence why they prefer those mediums that have been mentioned. Also because the topics that are focused in these mediums can be easily digested. While the topics presented in real-life books such as Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo require extreme focus and dedication to understand the main topic.
Also one of the factors I like webtoons and manga as well as other teenagers is due to the fact that these mediums have visual elements that help portray what the author wants to tell his/her audience. We can also acquire copies of these mediums rather easily with the help of the internet compared to real-life books that are hard to get because of sometimes limited publication. Manga and Webtoon are produced slowly and rarely as a whole, thanks to that the consumers have the time to enjoy reading parts of the story and not get overwhelmed with information.
So in my own opinion, I can conclude that some teenagers prefer to read fiction stories rather than real-life stories due to these reasons: Teenagers have a broad and active imagination, The topics can be digested easily, They are entertaining thanks to the creative visual elements. But this is not to say that no more teenagers read real-life stories like those that are mentioned above. Thank you for reading and do not take my words as a fact this is just for my school project.
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i just found your blog and im overjoyed to see somesone so passionate about something that i love too, like romans renaissance..your art is amazing, i love your lineart and the colors you choose😭😭 do you have any favorite articles? books? paintings? you sound like such an amazing and interesting person!!
oh 🥺 this was such a lovely message to read first thing after logging in!! thank you so much 💓
while I don't think I'm so much an interesting person as I am just. very loud about things that I really like and feel no cringe about transferring all of that into art, I have SO many favorite articles and books and paintings, but I'll start with the ones most currently rattling around in my head!
always always always Michael Kinnucan's Incest, Cannibalism, and the Gods: The Rise of the House of Atreus is on my mind
some other things I’m currently thinking about
Jane Wilson Joyce's translation of Statius' Thebaid (and to go with it, Statius and Virgil: The Thebaid and the Reinterpretation of the Aeneid, Randall T. Ganiban)
The Letters of Apolinario Mabini
Ma. Soledad Lacson-Locsin’s translation of Rizal’s El Filibusterismo, but especially this part from the translator’s introduction:
A sequel to the Noli Me Tangere, the El Filibusterismo is a book for all seasons for peoples existing under oppressive regimes. It begins where the Noli leaves off, where love, romance, heroism, idealism and tragedy turn to hate, bitterness, anger, disillusionment and vengeance. Unlike the Noli, which is largely a narration of events and the softer emotions, the Fili is dominated by dialogue, ideology and the angrier passions. How to capture the nuances of a language of almost a century gone by, in today’s English and with the same rage, is itself a story.
this Alison Stone poem, Caligula
Spartacus and the Slave Wars, Brent Shaw
April Blood, Lauro Martines
Introduction to Yakuza Movies [Part I]: From Hero to Antihero, an interview with Yukio Todoroki and Naoto Mori
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo’s painting, La Barca de Aqueronte
Also this Kenny Park Romeo and Juliet illustration lives in my head rent free at all hours
#i like ancient tragedies because one of my first and more passionate loves is the asian gangster genre lmao#anyway tysm for sending this anon 🥺💓💝💕 I hope you have a nice day!!!#ask tag#rec tag
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Book asks 12 and 19 🤔
12. did you enjoy any compulsory high school readings?
most compulsory readings i had in high school were either the bible or just have somewhat christiany-themes to it cuz i went to a catholic school (i knooow) but there was this rare time we were made to read tell-tale heart by edgar allan poe and it was just ♡ there was also these two classics called noli me tangere and el filibusterismo that come hand in hand and we never got to finish it but i read it over my free time for funsies ahaha (my mom tells me noli is better but between u and me,, i think el fili is phenomenal)
19. most disliked popular books?
i feel like this is a popular answer but the first thing that popped in my mind was the acotar series (i read books 1 - 4 and the novella cuz i'm a gremlin who likes buying series in bulk). i'm really not just a fan of the fae thing in general lol also my storygraph rev would tell u otherwise but i also hate rule of wolves,, not really a fan of how a book that's supposed to be following nikolai showcased so little of him :<
— based on this ask game —
#galaaaaa you're baaaack#omg hiiiii#i'm still navigating thru tumblr cuz i keep forgetting how to use this hellsite after long breaks#and seeing familiar people strangely makes me emotional </33#i mostly lied abt liking row cuz all my friends hated it and i like being contrarian haha#it really isn't worth it but i'm like too lazy to edit it either haha#i just had the realization that i lie abt liking certain books omg#asks
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The period of enlightenment (1872 1898)
Dr. José Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, is not only admired for possessing intellectual brilliance but also for taking a stand and resisting the Spanish colonial government. While his death sparked a revolution to overthrow the tyranny, Rizal will always be remembered for his compassion towards the Filipino people and the country.
The country‘s national hero is also known to be one of the greatest writers Philippines was
blessed to have. His writing caused the Filipino people to have the courage to fight for theirFreedom against the hands of the Spaniards. He was the man behind brilliant literary outputssuch as Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo which are considered to be precious treasures ofthe Philippine Literature.
Rizal had been very vocal against the Spanish government, but in a peaceful and progressive manner. For him, “the pen was mightier than the sword.” And through his writings, he exposed the corruption and wrongdoings of government officials as well as the Spanish friars.
While in Barcelona, Rizal contributed essays, poems, allegories, and editorials to the Spanish newspaper, La Solidaridad. Most of his writings, both in his essays and editorials, centered on individual rights and freedom, specifically for the Filipino people. As part of his reforms, he even called for the inclusion of the Philippines to become a province of Spain.
But, among his best works, two novels stood out from the rest – Noli Me Tángere (Touch Me Not) and El Filibusterismo (The Reign of the Greed).
In both novels, Rizal harshly criticized the Spanish colonial rule in the country and exposed the ills of Philippine society at the time. And because he wrote about the injustices and brutalities of the Spaniards in the country, the authorities banned Filipinos from reading the controversial books. Yet they were not able to ban it completely. As more Filipinos read the books, their eyes opened to the truth that they were suffering unspeakable abuses at the hands of the friars. These two novels by Rizal, now considered his literary masterpieces, are said to have indirectly sparked the Philippine Revolution.
Marcelo H. Del Pilar is the most famous journalist in our history and is also considered as the father of Philippine Journalism. His contributions as a lawyer, revolutionary, and propagandist emulates his patriotism, bravery, and intelligence.
As a firebrand, Del Pilar operated with blasphemous humor to wage war on the friars. With his use of the Tagalog language instead of Spanish (Rizal used Spanish), his propaganda in the Philippines became a double-edged sword: a castigation of the friars which agitated them, and a call to action among Filipinos
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