amo gid na ya

adult, they/them, chillin

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a scene from @starknjarvis27’s xuexiao fic, keep you close like a slow dance!!

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doodled a small snippet of @veliseraptor’s very tender songxuexian fic, the beauty of your repair. their yi city trio works have been rotating non-stop in my brain 🥹💛

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Corner of a Garden (1879) by John Singer Sargent

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luo binghe driving lessons gone wrong

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assorted doodles for TGP’s Shen Yuan's School for Unrepentant Assholes!! it’s funny and devastating in equal measure and i’ve been enjoying it a lot 🙏

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“Binghe can be so ferocious!”

In the continuing adventures of my Fanfic Appreciation Lifestyle, this is a moment from chapter 28 of TGP’s Shen Yuan’s School for Unrepentant Assholes which I love and is the current fic for which I go ‘I need to take my lunch break to consume this instead of food’ if an update hits while I’m at work. Everyone is severely damaged and all of them need hugs and I’m having a very good time reading about it.

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i picked a really funny password for this account so every time i log back in to mope i feel marginally better

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i am massively overdue for a very very good week where not a single bad thing happens and everything is easy

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Closer

[makingqueerhistory]

Hello!! Do you have anything on the lesbian/sapphic history of Philippines' ?

I have been spending a lot of this year specifically focusing on learning about queer history from the Philippines, so yes!

I haven't written an article about her yet, but Leona Florentino is a great name to look into:

"There is Leona Florentino who actually wrote love poems for women; but Ilocano literature scholars would not dare see the mother of Isabelo de los Reyes in such an “unflattering” light. The official story is that her poems like Para ken Carmen had been “commissioned” by men who wanted to impress the women they were courting. However, in her poem Nalpay a Namnama, Florentino talks about a love that is hopeless and doomed from the start because she loves a woman. In line 10, she claims to love “iti maysa a imnas.” The Filipino translation of Isagani R. Cruz uses musa for the word imnas, which suggests that it is a woman, but is still ambivalent. My source, Clarita Gaoat of Vigan, Ilocos Sur, explains that imnas is actually a synonym for balasang, dalaga in Filipino, maiden in English. How can we keep denying Leona Florentino’s love for women when she herself has made it quite clear?"

Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz

I also think it would be worth checking out:

Tingle: Anthology of Pinay Lesbian Writing

Jhoanna Lynn B. Cruz

Also Nice Rodriguez is a name that might be worth looking into!

Hope this helps as a starting point!

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Best of the Myrmidons

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Centaur Watching Fish by Arnold Böcklin (1878).

I love love love Böcklin’s mythical pieces, they have this sense of realism, and often even sensitivity.

[thestuffedalligator]

I thought I recognized the style so I looked it up and I’m so happy because this is the same artist who painted Centaur at the Village Blacksmith.

I love that this was a subject he apparently went to multiple times. Centaurs in perfectly mundane situations.

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Don’t worry, he also painted them doing what they do best - beating the shit out of each other.

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listening to my lola sing worship songs … maybe heaven is on earth

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Text taken from this post by @idontmindifuforgetme :)

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self-portraits over the years

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[damnabledimples]

This is actually in the National Gallery Singapore. Here is a FB post by UOB, a local bank who sponsors the gallery they’re displayed in.

These paintings depict Spain and the Philippines, where Spain is presumably “guiding” or “leading” The Philippines forward. Spain colonized and subjugated The Philippines for 300+ years. We inherited a lot of Spanish words and customs and surnames and f*cking C*tholicism.

These were painted by one of our famous artists, Juan Luna, in the late 19th century. (He painted several versions, these are just 2 of them.) I guess it’s supposed to illustrate the hope that Spain and The Philippines will move forward as equals, but personally I feel like it’s just a propaganda fluff piece to appease the colonizers. 🤷‍♀️

So yeah, on the surface it’s easy to romanticize this. But actually it’s just an artistic record of Spanish colonialism.