I know that I don't really have a big following here on tumblr but I refuse to be silent about this anywhere.

To anyone who's wondering, "What's happening in the Philippines?" here it is:

We in the Philippines held our elections yesterday, and they are being rigged.

We are at risk of the son of a dictator taking the presidency seat, which endangers our economy, livelihoods, education, safety, and privacy. Every dirty trick in the book happened this election/campaign season - from fake news to broken voting machines and so much more.

The reason why he's in the lead is the result of years upon years of mis- and disinformation and deceit. We cannot afford the Marcoses to take presidency again, not after all the taxpayer money they squandered and the people they had imprisoned, tortured, and killed.

To my fellow Filipinos, continue to fight the good fight. We can't give up now. Di pa tapos ang laban. Kapit lang tayo.

the way other people (esp non filipinos) are blaming filipinos instead of blaming the marcoses for their massive disinformation campaign & probable rigging of voting machines.... it doesnt sit right with me

I mourn for this country and it's refusal to break from a long tradition of abuse.

why am i even studying for my degree when the possible new president of the philippines (bbm 🤮) doesn't have one and faked his credentials?

why is an actor (robin padilla), who has zero experience in governance and is actually a sexist leading the senatorial race; when have candidates who are lawyers, human rights defenders, and over all more qualified than him can't seem to make it to the top 12 (e.g. chel diokno).

why are we over-looking people who has credentials and clean track records?? ang taas-taas ng standard natin sa ibang bagay pero sa mga politiko natin, hindi?

why are we ignoring leni robredo's contributions to our country especially during the pandemic? tha fact that she was being belittled by the duterte administration but was still able to achieve things says a lot about her leadership and skills.

why are we ignoring our history?

forgetting about the people who suffered under the marcos' regime, the wealth and resources that was taken from our country. we are still suffering because of what they did and we will suffer more under the hands of another marcos.

to anyone that would say "but they built infrastructures", are you really putting more value on infrastructures than the lives that were lost? the families who still suffer because of them? the victims who were never found? the people who were tortured, raped? do you not value their lives?

also, sa dami-dami nilang utang dapat lang may pinagawa sila but majority of the money they borrowed, they used it only for themselves.

foreign investors in our country are already pulling out. the stock market slowly going down. do you know why? because they don't trust marcos. our economy will suffer.

those you are rich enough will not experience the consequences of this elections. do you know who will? the poor, the marginalized, the people who we should have been thinking about when we voted.

to my fellow filipinos, do not stop protesting this election. this is for our future. we must stand our ground and fight for what is right and what we deserve. the comelec was biased and because of that we lost a bright future.

the entire world is watching as a dictator's son take power.

i am not crying because leni lost and bbm won. i am crying because our country lost and our people will suffer.

think not for one's self but for our nation.

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there’s just something about building smol neighborhoods that give me so much joy ;-; hopefully it’s something y’all can use in-game for your sims

about sleepy hollow —

40 x 30 lot built in brindleton bay

4 small family-sized houses + layouts for each one

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before you get the lot...

instead of asking for donations to relief funds to access the lot download, all i ask is that you consider making yourself aware of the political climate back home in the philippines. once again, it is under threat of being under tyrannical leadership during election season through rigged ballots, brutal force, and threats of martial law. to take it a step further, the government has shut down a major local broadcasting network to keep citizens and foreigners alike in the dark so as to continue their reign of abuse.

if you have the time and the willingness, i urge you to read up on the political situation my mother-country is facing and extend a helping hand if it is within your means.

resources —

articles and case studies regarding the tyrannical, martial law reign of the marcoses

local artists losing international clients due to the political climate needing support and patronage

how to acquire the lot (hehe sorry for the whiplash) —

send me an ask off anon, and i’ll send you a link :)

thank you for letting me use my blog as a platform and an amplifier to speak on things that are near and dear to my heart.  ₍՞◌′ᵕ‵ू◌₎♡ — c.

Marcos-Duterte possibly "winning" the elections is so bad that the Philippines' Big 4 Universities (University of the Philippines, University of Sto. Thomas, Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University) all declared an academic walk out.

No classes under Marcos presidency.

The youth is mad, the youth is pissed. The Filipinos will not stand for this blatant rigging and cheating of the elections.

Simula pa lang ang laban, sa mga tumindig, maraming salamat, pero sana ituloy natin ang pagtindig hanggang ngayon. Titindig tayo.

Don't Lose Hope.

After watching our candidate, her team, and supporters put all their work, effort, time, money, and tears into the 2022 Elections, it feels like a dark shadow has been cast on our country again and there's nothing we can do about it.

I'm so sorry to the families who were victimized by the Marcoses. I'm so sorry to those who died trying to stop a ruthless and corrupt dictator, only for his son to wind up as President of our poor and starving country. I'm sorry to victims of the Marcos family, to those victims whose bodies were found and those whose bodies are lost in a place that their loved ones cannot find. I'm sorry to those who witnessed Martial Law and celebrated when Ferdinand Marcos was ousted, thinking their children won't have to suffer the way the Filipinos did in the 70s-80s. I'm sorry to those in lower socioeconomic status families who voted for Leni with hopes that she would be able to bring about change as our President. I'm sorry to everyone who hoped for a better future, only for evil to prevail.

Our hearts ache. Today, I watched my 81 year old grandfather sit on his own in a depressed mood because he couldn't believe that after doing his part in history by joining the EDSA revolution and voting on May 9, he was watching history repeat itself. He is too old to worry...but he worries because he cares the future of his family and country when he is gone.

But this is only the beginning. Before things will get better, they will get worse. But things can still get better. We cannot lose hope, because that's exactly what our corrupt government wants.

If you are lucky enough to be in class A and B, please do your part to help the less fortunate. We will suffer, but we will not suffer as gravely as those who live hand to mouth on a daily basis. It is easy to think that they might deserve it because they were the bulk of the voters who supported the Marcos family's return. But the truth is that their return has been carefully prepared for, for decades. Fake news, vote buying, poll manipulation, cronyism, corruption, political dynasties. The real evil lies in those with power and privilege who are educated enough to know better but choose not to do better. There is a reason why education is normally given the smallest budget, because these corrupt politicians benefit from the less fortunate's ignorance and miseducation.

The day will come when we are called to rally again and fight for our freedom. Until then, do not lose hope and do not forget to act as the miracle in other people's lives. The evilness of our government should not push us to tolerate and enable such behavior or worse, be as uncaring and without compassion as they are. Our country can be better if we continue to push ourselves to be better and demand our government to be better.

God bless you guys. To the non-Filipinos, please pray for our country or help spread the news about what is happening to us. We really need it.

Ignoring for a moment the alarm bells sounding off with inconsistencies in the vote count, voter disenfranchisement, and countless accounts of vote buying.

The absolute fuckery that is the Philippines national elections should serve as a huge fucking warning sign to the rest of the world at what a campaign of disinformation, historical revisionism, and an army of paid trolls can accomplish in the time of social media.

That the son of an ousted dictator—who was exiled, has a warrant out for his arrest in the US, and with zero remorse still lives a life of obscene wealth from the billions of dollars stolen from the nation—is able to run for president at all, already makes absolutely no fucking sense.

That he might also win—despite running against the best public servant this country has seen in aaaages—is ludicrous on a mind-melting level.

This guy—with no significant accomplishments of his own, a proven liar, too chicken shit to face other candidates in debates, lacks the grit and intelligence to answer questions from the press, and can’t string together any words of substance that would explain his platform? This guy? Just because he has a strong presence on TikTok? This guy??

Overseas relatives and foreign friends asking how this could have happened—Dude, we’re just as confused as you.

PLEASE SUPPORT FILIPINO ARTISTS!

This is going to be a bit of a read but I’m going to try to keep it as concise as possible.

The Philippines just held elections yesterday, and it’s getting really messy over here because of the current unofficial count showing Bongbong Marcos, the son of a previous dictator, in the lead for presidency. I’m not going to get into the details of the politics, and I don’t want to make this about the candidates, but essentially a lot of investors are pulling out of the country and PH stocks are falling. This has led to a rumor that PayPal will be shutting down in the Philippines (likely because of what happened in Russia), but there is little to no real basis for the claim, especially since the situation is quite different from Ukraine.

However, news, no matter how credible, spreads fast on social media. A lot of PH artists are the sole source of income for their families and rely a lot on commissions from international clients via PayPal, and while it is highly unlikely that the service will become unavailable here, they have every right to be worried.

Another issue is that because of the news surrounding the election, a lot of clients from overseas are backing out of commissions simply because the artist they were working with is Filipino. I’ve seen posts where clients say that it’s “too risky” to commission someone from the PH, even though they have no ties to politics or for some, aren’t even of voting age. It’s likely that the whole PayPal situation is a reason as well.

All of the things happening in the Philippines is NOT the fault of anyone but the corrupt government officials. So if you’ve been looking for someone to commission, please look into filipino artists!

A lot of them are on Twitter and Instagram as far as I know, and you can probably find a few easily by just searching! I’ve also linked support threads here and here that have a lot of people in the replies.

PH artists on tumblr feel free to promo yourself however you like under this post too!

I have all of like 350 followers on here, so I don’t know how many people I can reach with this, but hopefully this can help out a bit…

comelec ng pilipinas everybody

filipino tumblr currently crying over election results and cursing out bbm's name.... sitewide sleepover except we're not sleeping anytime soon

I— same

If you don't know what's going on the in the Philippines, the short answer is that our elections happened on May 9, 2022 and the results are an embarrassment to our history and we, as a country, are fucked. Currently in the lead, based on the unofficial and partial results of our commission on elections (COMELEC), is the son of a dictator we ousted in 1986, whose family has yet to payback the BILLIONS they owe the people and apologies for literal YEARS WORTH of crimes against humanity. Instead, they gave history revisionism through TikTok and fake news to the masses, manipulating voters to think the years of Ferdinand Marcos Sr. were the best in the Philippines, when it was anything but. Now, his son Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos Jr. (BBM) is being pushed into power when he has NO DEGREE, NO CREDENTIALS, AND HAS MULTIPLE CASES OF TAX EVASION, and that is just the tip of the iceberg for this family of thieves and plunderers. According to COMELEC's partial and unofficial results, BBM's winning over Leni Robredo, the current Vice President of the country, who has an amazing track record as VP for 6 years, an ACTUAL POST-GRAD DEGREE, and is an attorney.

I refuse to accept this result, not because Leni is my candidate, but because there have been multiple reports and evidence of around 1,800+ Vote Counting Machines (VCMs) "malfunctioning", missing or corrupted SD cards, vote-buying for Marcos and his party, some reported attacks at voting precincts, and just mass electoral fraud. COMELEC has done jack shit about all these accusations, even claiming they've received no complaints about the election when we know that's a lie. COMELEC also dismissed several disqualification cases against BBM just today, May 10, 2022. They even transmitted the unofficial results at lightning speed last night when this has not happened before and we know for a fact people were still lined up at precincts waiting to vote, some even until 3 AM, because of the aforementioned broken machines and SD cards and they refused to leave their ballots in the care of staff at the precinct for fear of tampering with their ballots. They claim it's because they were "prepared", but it's clear to us that this election has been bought and rigged in their favor.

We have hundreds of youth protesting these unofficial results and they are already being labeled "militants", when all they carry are cardboard signs and their passion to give the country a leader it deserves, while the opposition is preemptively celebrating and trying to declare themselves the winner when the fight is far from over. We are still waiting for official results, but we are not satisfied with this election. They have failed to ensure it is fair. We will not acknowledge a presidency built upon lies, deceit, and oppression.

Fuck Marcos and, if need be, kitakits sa EDSA🌸

martial law files (IMPORTANT)

i'm sorry if you found this on tags that you expect for content to show up, but i'm dropping here an important part of history in the Philippines that people from other countries need to know.

the Marcos family want to get rid of this information, TO ERASE THIS PART OF HISTORY. they're planning (maybe even starting already) to revise history books to get rid of the cruel past that their family caused to the people of their own country.

as a Filipino especially from Negros Occidental where they purged the sugarcane industry, leaving everyone in the province starving to death, I WILL NOT LET THE PAIN OF MY ANCESTORS BE FORGOTTEN.

MARTIAL LAW FILES

a lot of files are already missing from when i first checked. but i'm trying to spread what is left of it more on social media platforms that are more for western consumption.

i will not let this part of history be forgotten.

feel free to ask for translations of some parts, because some of the files are in Tagalog.

i just want to get this out here: if you, who has watched the philippine elections transpire, decide to think of us filipinos as stupid for voting for the dictator's son without accounting for the amount of propaganda shoved in our faces for the past 6 years AND the millions of pinoys against him, fuck you. DNI. especially if you want to "distance yourself" from filipino businesses because you're "scared for your safety"? putangina mo. this and to the people who are treating pinoy artists the same way y'all treated russian artists as if they're on putin's side. i hope you all choke

Hindi pa tapos ang laban.