Me, a Filipino, watching Namor burn the Spanish colonizers to the ground:

Ahhhh my Capiz Christmas tree topper arrived in time for Christmas! I wasn't sure it would but omg it's so much better than I'd hoped for 🥺⭐✨😍🥺😍⭐✨ I was between this style and a parole type star but I love the glitter of Capiz lanterns and windows so much ⭐✨⭐😍😍⭐✨

Call me a Filipina the way I Fil you up with my Peen ;)

I don't know how much people know about filipino culture, and I admit I am still learning so much, but there is a concept called hiya that I wish wasn't so demonized.

In filipino culture we don't talk back to our parents. There is an idea of family harmony that is super important. Keeping the peace. It was ingrained in me to find ways to keep peace since I was a child. I was performing hiya before I even knew what the word meant.

Hiya can be translated to shame. Basically the idea that you don't do actions to shame your family. You don't air out dirty laundry. You don't do things to embarrass them on purpose. I do admit there are problems in our culture where we enable abuse because we prioritize harmony but not always a positive harmony. We sometimes are asked to internalize discomforts we shouldn't have to to 'keep the peace.'

But there is another concept about the virtue of hiya that I don't think westerners understand. Filipinos at heart are peaceful people. Colonization has damaged us and our culture deeply. But hiya remains. Hiya is putting yourself in the other's shoes to understand. It is empathizing with your enemy to know why they do the things they do. It is understanding we are all human and hurting and growing. Filipinos don't give up on people that easily, and sometimes it's to a detriment to ourselves, but I don't think that's necessarily an evil of our culture.

There are people who hate me on this website but I understand that they are judging me for a tiny sliver of what they see. They don't know who I really am. They see me as an enemy and attack.

But I refuse to attack back. I refuse to participate in lateral aggression and contribute to the cycle of the problem. I will not tolerate abuse, but that doesn't mean I have to become an abuser. I can understand that the people who hate me are hurting and are just trying to protect themselves how they see fit.

I think westerners can learn from filipinos and I think filipinos can be proud of that part of our culture. Yes we should call out the problems with the concept, but I don't think throwing it out is the answer either.

Hello, I'm back from ...wherever I was and I come bearing new artwork and announcements!

I'm in the mists of starting my online shop and these are in the first sticker line up to be sold! I got more designs in the works but I wanted to flex some traditional skills with gouache and I'm real happy with how these turned out.

Stay tuned for more updates.

That everyone lost their mind when Ryan Reynolds joined Tumblr but I’ve seen nothing of him on my dash since

Meanwhile Lynda Carter (now Tita Lynda in my brain) quietly slipped in and is thriving

It’s v wholesome but also on brand for Tumblr

My Favorite Filipino Things 🇵🇭

My mum from The Philippines and have relatives there, but I hardly speak any Filipino and not much contaction and I feel British than Filipino, but there few things I’m like from my mum’s country.

Jeepney

Skyflakes

Three National Heroes Rizal, Bonifacio and Luna.

here's a cass 🦇

and also a jay 🗡

"kung ako yan di kita gaganyanin" magtu-2023 na po pls maghanap kayo ng bagong line

“It’s just like Probinsyano”

- my mom after watching four seasons of Game of Thrones

*I worship you Tumblr don’t remove it

Chilchuck!!!

sana ako na lang~ 🎶

bat kase nandun ka sa kanya? 🎶

sana ako na lang~ 🎶

kasi mas bagay tayong dalawa <3 🎶

one of the most Peepaw Ever

weirdly, i dreamt of Ghost earlier. he made himself a Tocino Sandwich and he literally said this to me in the dream.

"why couldn't shuro have just been honest about what he felt with laios and falin it's not that hard" are you. are you White