Resources on Current Events in the Philippines

Okay, as I mentioned, I don’t want to actively explain every detail I know about the current situation, but I have here below a couple of sources you can look at if you’re interested to know more.

A thread explaining what’s happening and what had happened in the past

An overview of the 1986 People Revolution

Confession from a BBM troll whistleblower during a radio show

Full Magic 89.9 radio show episode including the content above (talks a lot about the implications of the current results, the martial law era, and the previous administration)

Ang Mga Alingawngaw Sa Panahon Ng Pagpapasya (Echoes in the Midst of Indecision) short film

Torture methods utilized during the martial law

Young Martial Law Victims

Rebranding by the Marcoses with the help of Cambridge Analytica

Over 5000 pages of official documents, books, and news articles about Martial Law acquired from this link. (make sure to secure an offline copy because there is a possibility that this will eventually be taken down knowing their knack for historical revisionism)

About the death of 17-year old Kian delos Santos during Duterte’s war on drugs (his daughter is currently the leading VP candidate) and How the Duterte government underreported drug war killings

List of Online Legal Assistance and Initiatives for Filipinos (keep this just in case)

If you all can, try to also secure a copy of Conjugal Dictatorship (by Primitivo Mijares) [free and full copy here] and Dekada ‘70 (by Lualhati Bautista)

It is also highly recommended to watch The Kingmaker documentary. Links of free copies we’ve found so far: from youtube (only available in the Philippines), from vimeo (tagalog version), and from bilibili (english version available anywhere) – links provided by @deflatedball

Prometheus Unbound, a Marcos-era Resistance poem with a hidden message written by martial law-era student and activist Pete Lacaba (using the pseudonym Ruben Cuevas).

YOU GUYS IT’S DECEMBER 10TH YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS HAS BEEN IN MY QUEUE SINCE FEBRUARY

It’s December 10th now and I’m putting this in my queue for next year.

It is indeed December 10th

i really like that mary wasn't made to be the female character that gets between the popular gay ship but is in fact a whole character with goals and development like fuck yes

Reblog with your score

HOW?

you can’t seriously exclusively play minecraft?

i can and i do

“And though Calamity is here, because of you it will not be here forever.”

Gonna be thinking about Calamity for a very long time my friends. 

Ok so like I know we're all just starting to settle down again, but I just gotta say:

The calamity officially began the moment Vespin Chloris attempted the ritual. The betrayers had already been released from their prison by the time episode one began. The Lord of the Hells had already created his puppets and sent them throughout Exandria; it was only a matter of time.

We don't know what would have happened in a timeline where Laerynn didn't cast blight in an instinctual and desperate attempt to save the ones she loved. Or in a timeline where Zerxus wasn't fooled by the god of lies' honeyed words. We don't know what would have happened in a timeline where the ring of brass had decided to take the night off and look the other way, allowing the city to land normally, yet still dooming the world. But it's still very likely in all situations that once that ritual occurred, Calamity was inevitable.

The Calamity was the result of the Age of Arcanum, an age dedicated to a bunch of know-it-all wizards fucking around and finding out, certain they could avoid consequence. If not Vespin, Aeor had already begun creating weapons intended to kill gods and Avalir had created their response in the form of the taxmen. That much wizard hubris was going to cause a catastrophic event at some point or another.

So, in this context, none of the PC's mistakes mattered. Laerynn blighting the tree of names meant nothing except expediency, same as Zerxus.

What did matter, however, was their other choices. Cerrit's choice to walk away, to ensure his children's safety. Nydas choosing to make sure that the skyships were available to the populace, to save the children at the sorcerer's university. Patia's choice to use her teleport to preserve not herself, but her knowledge, in the hopes that the new generation could do with it what she could not. Loquatius' decision to stay behind on the material plane, with the woman he loved, to protect her with all he had, down to his last healing word. Zerxus' choice to stick with his beliefs and redeem Vespin for but a moment, a moment enough to give them all the time they needed to see things through. And Laerynn's choice to ensure a future for Exandria, by using her life's work to do not what she intended it for, but for what it needed to do in that moment.

Even in the darkest of ages, when catastrophic failure seemed to be the cause of all of that pain and suffering and loss, it was not, in fact, failure that defined those people's lives. It was their decision to continue on despite their failure and despite their odds that gave the world it's last bit of hope.

Calamity was inevitable. But the choices made in those moments saved the future, far more than their mistakes had doomed them.

people who write for like the new yorker think that the piece of kitchenware that symbolizes the working class is the mason jar but it’s actually this

real mvps

Those hillshire farm containers are like the patterned flour sacks of our time

consider

Izzy: Ooh. Ooh daddy!

Lucius, Black Pete, Wee John, and literally every single viewer:

“I’m gonna try and undo some of the… damage from that interaction.”

Oluwande/OFMD

A dragon fruit dragon?! 😍

god i fucking love Buttons as a character. a competent, grizzled seaman, communicates telepathically with seagulls, clearly worships the Old Gods, horny for the sea…already SO fucking weird and intense, and then for NO REASON on top of everything else they decided to throw in “longs to consume human flesh”. truly no one is doing it like this writing team

the "ooh daddy" scene in ofmd makes me feel like i'm going to die but i would not under any circumstances wish for it to be removed because i feel like it is integral to izzy's character

trying to recover from a teenage brain that formed during the self-deprecating meme era of the internet 

For those who have trouble reading that:

Imagine being a black, gay drag queen in the 1800s after being born into enslavement AND having the style and cachè to throw soirées that the girls had to come to! That’s why I don’t want to hear this “we’re not our ancestors stuff.” You’re right!

From The Very Black Project Page- William Dorsey Swann was a gay liberation activist. Born into slavery in 1858, he was the first person in the United States to lead a queer resistance group and the first known person to self-identify as a “queen of drag”. Imagine the queenery of this icon.

He was a slave in Hancock, Maryland and was freed by Union soldiers after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. During the 1880s and 1890s, he organized a series of balls in Washington, D.C. He called himself the “queen of drag”. Most of the attendees his gatherings were men who were former slaves, and were gathering to dance in their satin and silk dresses. William was arrested in police raids numerous times,including in the first documented case of arrests for female impersonation in the United States, on April 12, 1888. In 1896, he was falsely convicted and sentenced to 10 months in jail for “keeping a disorderly house” (running a brothel). After his sentencing, he requested a pardon from President Grover Cleveland. This request was denied, but but he was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community’s right to gather.

He was known to have been close with Pierce Lafayette and Felix Hall, two men who had also both been slaves and who formed the first known male same-sex relationship between enslaved Americans.

When William stopped organizing and participating in drag events, his brother continued to make costumes for the drag community. Two of his brothers had also been active participants in his drag balls.

Imagine how intelligent and ambitious this man had to be to come up with drag balls in the 1800s! Imagine how many terrible concepts he had to unlearn by himself to be a confident gay black man who does drag in the 1800s! Imagine how courageous he had to be to fight for lgbt people as a former slave in America in the 1800s!

William Dorsey Swann is the original queen, the original drag mother, the original activist. Tell his story!

Translation: Person behind camera; *knock down one card* “Go.” Other person;“Is your character mentally stable?” Person behind Camera; *Looks at card* “Yes” Other person; *Slaps down all but one card* “IT’S MOMO”

I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS.  THERE WERE ONLY A FEW DOZEN NOTES WHEN I SAW IT LAST.