Our country is being fucked by typhoons rn but that wont stop me from drawinggggg
The joke:
El Filibusterismo (The Filibuster) is a novel written by Dr. José Rozal, our national hero and a renowned writer and activist. The novella itself is a sequel to his previous novel Noli me Tangere (Touch me Not). It takes place 13 years after NmT and is set in the Philippines during the Spanish occupation.
Content: GN!Reader, pure fluff, some suggestive mentions
A/N: Guess who's obsessed with a new indie game! It's meee!! I am IN LOVE with Beastfolk Barber, the demo is so cute and fun - I've played it twice already (the pictures used are actually screenshots from my playthrough <3) and if this fic inspires even ONE person to download the demo and give it a try, then I've done my job right!
this one's a doozy, its really fucking long btw get ready for my plant yapping
In verse 1, all members of VBS except Akito and Miku are given flowers when being shown their past selves.
Kohane is given 2 similar flowers here. one looks like a white hibiscus (genus HIbiscus) and a Four o' Clock (MIrabilis jalapa). Hibiscus, because of their short bloom time of 1-2 days, represent fleeting life and beauty, but also celebration. This could reference her newfound courage with VBS, "killing" her shy persona and celebrating her newfound confidence. This idea of newfound confidence is found in the Four o' Clocks, which represent timidity.
An is given the most flowers of all but of a single type, that being a daphne (Daphne odorata). Daphne bushes are evergreens, not wilting, even in changing seasons. Thus they represent prosperity, immortality, and indestructibility in hanakotoba (lit. "flower words", Japanese flower language). Not only is this a horrendous reference to Nagi-san but it could also represent her indomitable spirit born from RAD WEEKEND
Toya's flowers are little hard to see but they seem to be daffodils (Narcissus, also my favorite flower hehe). Daffodils represent vanity but also self-love due to the tale of Narcissus from Greek mythology. Some also regard them as symbols of creativity for their many occurrences in the arts. This could represent Toya's original distain for piano and composing but eventually coming to embrace it for the sake of VBS.
During the instrumental interlude, we are shown the silhouettes of VBS behind a black rose (Rosa) in a white vase. Roses have many meanings dependent on color but black roses specifically represent mourning and death. I theorize it represents the fact that they have all "lost" something in the past, for better or for worse. later, we are shown the vase falling and shattering, possibly representing the idea that they are greater than their losses and failures.
During the bridge, the flowers depicted are daphnes, white (possibly easter) lilies (Lilium formosanum ), and possibly tea trees (Melalueca) and edelweiss (Edelweiss). We already discussed daphnes, so they can be glossed over. White lilies are symbols of both death and rebirth due to their use in both funeral and wedding arrangements. I'm not super sure on these two but edelweiss represent resilience due to their alpine habitat. They are also symbols of undying love as it is a tradition in many places where the flower grows to attempt to scale it's mountainous habitat to pick the blooms for your lover, this practice has largely fallen out of favor due to the risks and its status as a protected plant. Tea trees are a kind of tree native to Australia but cultivated around the world for their flowers and theraputic effects.
In the final chorus, each character holds a flower previously associated with them.
Kohane holds a gerbera (Gerbera jamesonii), The 4th anniversary had gerberas a major motif. Gerberas represent joy and optimism, possibly referencing the fact that many characters, as of the 4th anni have started to resolve their arcs and heal.
An holds a sunflower (Helianthus annus) and has them embroidered on her shirt in gold thread. Ever since The Vivid Old Tale, She has been associated with the jolly yellow flowers, following into her bloomfes card. Due to their golden color and heliotropism trait, they represent joy and happiness, but also false riches. This is because when the spanyards found a field of sunflowers is South America, they originally thought they were fields of gold.
Akito holds a dandelion (Taraxcum officiale). These simple flowers, often regarded by others as weeds, are named for their leaves' shape. The flowers can bloom anywhere and represent resilience and perseverance, reflecting Akito's behavior and mindset. They also appear on his untrained colorfes card.
Toya holds a white lily. I already tackled these but they could now resemble the new leaseon life that VBS gave him and his renewed perspective on music. He holds a lily flower in his 4th anni card.
Miku holds a cosmos flower (Cosmos bipinnatus). An American wildflower that is grown for it's tall stems and endless flowers. They represent harmony and perfection. This is because the flowers almost always have 8 petals, according to the Greeks, a perfect number. Miku and the other VSingers often act as a mediator in the SEKAI. They also seem like the perfect, fulfilled gods and goddesses when they actually strive for more, as said by L/n MEIKO in Saki 5.
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This has been something I've struggled with for a while now. If enough people had shown me that they actually cared if I lived or died, maybe my state of mind would be different. Maybe I wouldn't have done some of the things I did to myself, that I deeply regret now. Everyone matters, no matter how insignificant you may think you are, don't pick up that blade. Please. It will ruin you. This is important. Please reblog. This can save lives. This can help so many people. This isn't a joke. This is a serious issue that people need to be more aware of.
Had multiple situations involving friends almost committing, as well as one that mentions it a lot. So I don’t take this stuff lightly. Please re-blog if you see this, thank you.
Hello, I'm Ahmed, 23 years old. I was studying computer science at the Islamic University in Gaza before the war. I aspired to build a brigh
Hello friends, it's me, Ahmed again. I need your help. I almost lost my life last time while looking for work because the place was directly bombed. I'm a university student about to graduate. I lost everything in the war, and I support myself, my younger brother, and my family. I tried to find work, but to no avail. I'm looking for a scholarship to continue my studies. We've been deprived of all our rights. Please don't deprive me of my most basic rights: the right to education, to live, and to eat healthy, good food. I'm searching for a way to support myself. You may not be able to provide financial support, but you can share this. Let's not be a cause of destruction. Please try to support us in any way you can.
My tent is dilapidated and tattered, unfit for human habitation, and extremely hot. I need your help and support.
Hello my friend I am a mother of two little girls from Gaza, Sara (6 years old) and Ameera (5 years old) 💔Before the war, we lived a simple life with a home and dreams like any other family. Today, our home has been destroyed, and we are living in a damaged tent after long months of displacement, fear, hunger, and loss.
My daughters spend their days standing in long lines for water and bread instead of living their childhood 🥺 My husband was also injured while trying to bring food for us during the famine.
I created this fundraiser with a broken heart, only hoping to protect my daughters and give them a chance to live with dignity, safety, and hope again 🙏
Any donation, no matter how small, can help us survive. And if you cannot donate, sharing our story may help us reach someone who can, but please try to support us with a donation because my campaign is still new and my little girls desperately need your help 🌿
Hi, I am Max Langlois. I created this fundraiser for these two little girls. Please read their story below, share and donate if you can.
Please do not leave Sara and Ameera alone in this pain and suffering 💔
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Chapter One
You wake up. You have no memory of what has happened to you, but you have a gut feeling that something is wrong about where you are. Where are you?
Well, let's start there. You're strapped to a chair with a tight rope and are stuck inside of a dingy stone room. You cannot move your arms, but you can move your legs and head. You try to look back and catch a glimpse of an iron-barred window in your periphery. You see a large box on the ground in front of you. You see a metal door to your right with light shining from under it as well as through its keyhole.
First thing I try to do is lean in and bite away at the tight rope presumably tied around my arms since I can't move them. This is in an attempt to free myself from the chair to better explore the room.
Your neck cannot bend that far, but enough struggling makes you fall onto the ground. You manage to wiggle out of the rope by shimmying up through it on the floor, and are freed.
You decide to scream at full force into the wall behind you, the one with the window. A voice calls back, "HEY! KNOCK IT OFF IN THERE! I GAVE YOU ALL THE HELP I COULD, NOW SHUT UP!!"
You are deeply perplexed by this. Was this person the one that gave you the box? Or maybe they were the one that trapped you here in the first place?
You stick the stick in the keyhole, turn it, and the door opens! Unfortunately, the stick got stuck, and you broke it in half.
You walk through the door to find a home-like area. It is home-like, but not homely!
There is a large floral-patterned rug on the floor, a sink, a fridge, and a bookshelf. There are glass windows on either side of the room, as well as a door with four locks.
You admire the rug for an extended period of time. Man, that's a niiice rug… oh? There's a little lump under it. You try to straighten out the rug but the lump doesn't shift. Odd.
Anyways, you walk to the door and see the four locks do not match the shapes of the suited keys. They are simply four gray circle shapes, arranged vertically, with keyholes. Looking at the keys, the grooves on each are almost exactly alike. It seems you'll need to find the order that these keys go in!
You lift the rug up and find a rock where the lump was. Under the rock, you found a card! It's the 3 of Hearts. You can't think of any good use for the rock, so you just put it in a corner and take the card. Now the rug can be admired to its full extent. :)
The inventory will now be placed at the bottom of the post.
Come to think of it, you ARE pretty darn hungry. You mosey over to the fridge and open the lower compartment. You find… naught but a pickle jar. There's only one pickle inside. Eh, you'll take what you can get!
You take a bite of the pickle and—OW! feel something hard inside of it. You eat around it to find a fifth key, in the shape of a star! You take it and the jar of brine.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key
You experience a sudden bout of choice paralysis and decide to inspect the bookshelf. All of the books are unsorted, so it may be hard to find one that you'd want. You take a look at one part of the shelf:
Iris Chronicles: Book 3, Iris Chronicles: Book 5, Colonel Kernel's Book of Terrible Riddles, The Floating House, The CLUB: Book 1, How To Make a Secret Bookshelf Entrance, Iris Chronicles: Book 8
You don't even remember what kind of books you liked. None of these really jump out at you…
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar of Brine
You try to grab How To Make a Secret Bookshelf Entrance, but the book stays put. You pull and pull, then try to push it, and the bookshelf swings open! You assume that the book is showing you an example.
You walk through the shelfdoor to find a bathroom-ish area. There's a large lit-up mirror and sink with a jewelery box on its counter, a toilet with a plunger next to it, and an empty bathtub. You see no windows.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar of Brine, The CLUB: Book 1
You look at your reflection in the mirror. …what ARE you? You examine what you believe to be your face, but it appears to be made of a dull metal. In fact, your whole face looks like a large square! Your circular eyes are glowing a deep navy blue, as with your rectangular mouth. No, there's no mistaking it. YOU ARE A ROBOT! …you suppose you never paid attention to your metal hands. But this explains why you didn't remember where you came from. You didn't come from anywhere!
Welp, after having a ten-minute identity crisis, you decide to doll up your apprently metal body with some jewelery.
You open the box and automatically put on the pearl necklace, the pair of ruby and sapphire rings, and the diamond earrings. They fit well hooked around your odd ear antennae.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Brine Jar, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
Thank you! I may look around the bathroom some more? Check if there's anything in the tank of the toilet (if it has one) or if something was left in the drains
You check around the rest of the facilities. First, the bathtub. Apparently, it wasn't actually empty, the curtain was obscuring the steel bucket inside of it! You take the bucket.
As for the terlet, you remove the tank lid and find… a plastic bottle floating inside, full of the tank's water. Gross. You're not taking this unless absolutely necessary. You open the main lid and find nothing clogging it, but decide to take the plunger anyway.
Aside from that, looks like there's nothing else in here. You take one last glance back at the mirror and see that your eyes and mouth are glowing a dark, minty green. Odd. You think further about this while pulling the secret entrance shut.
i figure since i am a robot the glow must be natural, perhaps i have christmas lights inside or perhaps i am powered by fireflies... i find that i do not know what christmas or fireflies are! it must not matter, but my mind wanders, and so do i, with my newfound discovery of being an alleged robot i am perplexed and thrown off by the circumstances i find myself in, but oh one beautiful robot i am, the jingling of my accessories that probably do not belong to me brings me a certain comfort, in a seemingly metaphoric punishment of my vanity, kleptomania and obliviousness, i trip on the rug whose beauty i had admired earlier, and for a short lived moment i thought i had surpassed, the jewelry and inventory items scatter on the floor around me.
You think about things and then trip on your face melodramatically. Ow! Wait, were you designed to feel PAIN?? What kind of jerk would program you to hurt?
Oh, and god damn it. The jar of brine shattered when you stumbled! Now the rug is soaked in a sickly, pickly odor. You instinctively pick up your dampened items, and notice your reflection in the glass shards of the jar. You see a deeper green this time.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar Lid, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
You're already in the home room, and you decide to look closer at the quad-locked door. The door itself is a relatively plain metal door, but the frame is a work of art. It seems that someone carved the wood into many small figures in fighting poses, no two weapons are identical except for four at the top, all holding swords.
Each lock is identical to the eye, they're all gray and circular-shaped. They're arranged vertically on the door. Twisting the knob yields no result, and you doubt you could break the door down.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar Lid, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
My name is Qusai, I was born in Gaza and I am 16 years old. The war came and I was in the third preparation and I could not complete my studies. I had a house and a place to live in, but unfortunately it has been completely destroyed and our area is subjected to constant warnings and displacement of the population. I do not have any source of income. My father is unemployed after we had a bird shop where we rely on a source of income, but it is destroyed because of the war and we can hardly buy expensive food and because of famine and lack of money, we cannot manage ourselves with our simplest daily needs, so I hope you stand by my family and help make our lives better and make sure that no matter how much it is, no matter what it makes us happy and helps us make our lives better
My name is Qusai, I was born in Gaza and I am 16 years old. The war came and I was in the third preparation and I could not complete my stud
Please donate as much as you can so that help my family even a small amount and tell people about my suffering
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Chapter One
You wake up. You have no memory of what has happened to you, but you have a gut feeling that something is wrong about where you are. Where are you?
Well, let's start there. You're strapped to a chair with a tight rope and are stuck inside of a dingy stone room. You cannot move your arms, but you can move your legs and head. You try to look back and catch a glimpse of an iron-barred window in your periphery. You see a large box on the ground in front of you. You see a metal door to your right with light shining from under it as well as through its keyhole.
First thing I try to do is lean in and bite away at the tight rope presumably tied around my arms since I can't move them. This is in an attempt to free myself from the chair to better explore the room.
Your neck cannot bend that far, but enough struggling makes you fall onto the ground. You manage to wiggle out of the rope by shimmying up through it on the floor, and are freed.
You decide to scream at full force into the wall behind you, the one with the window. A voice calls back, "HEY! KNOCK IT OFF IN THERE! I GAVE YOU ALL THE HELP I COULD, NOW SHUT UP!!"
You are deeply perplexed by this. Was this person the one that gave you the box? Or maybe they were the one that trapped you here in the first place?
You stick the stick in the keyhole, turn it, and the door opens! Unfortunately, the stick got stuck, and you broke it in half.
You walk through the door to find a home-like area. It is home-like, but not homely!
There is a large floral-patterned rug on the floor, a sink, a fridge, and a bookshelf. There are glass windows on either side of the room, as well as a door with four locks.
You admire the rug for an extended period of time. Man, that's a niiice rug… oh? There's a little lump under it. You try to straighten out the rug but the lump doesn't shift. Odd.
Anyways, you walk to the door and see the four locks do not match the shapes of the suited keys. They are simply four gray circle shapes, arranged vertically, with keyholes. Looking at the keys, the grooves on each are almost exactly alike. It seems you'll need to find the order that these keys go in!
You lift the rug up and find a rock where the lump was. Under the rock, you found a card! It's the 3 of Hearts. You can't think of any good use for the rock, so you just put it in a corner and take the card. Now the rug can be admired to its full extent. :)
The inventory will now be placed at the bottom of the post.
Come to think of it, you ARE pretty darn hungry. You mosey over to the fridge and open the lower compartment. You find… naught but a pickle jar. There's only one pickle inside. Eh, you'll take what you can get!
You take a bite of the pickle and—OW! feel something hard inside of it. You eat around it to find a fifth key, in the shape of a star! You take it and the jar of brine.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key
You experience a sudden bout of choice paralysis and decide to inspect the bookshelf. All of the books are unsorted, so it may be hard to find one that you'd want. You take a look at one part of the shelf:
Iris Chronicles: Book 3, Iris Chronicles: Book 5, Colonel Kernel's Book of Terrible Riddles, The Floating House, The CLUB: Book 1, How To Make a Secret Bookshelf Entrance, Iris Chronicles: Book 8
You don't even remember what kind of books you liked. None of these really jump out at you…
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar of Brine
You try to grab How To Make a Secret Bookshelf Entrance, but the book stays put. You pull and pull, then try to push it, and the bookshelf swings open! You assume that the book is showing you an example.
You walk through the shelfdoor to find a bathroom-ish area. There's a large lit-up mirror and sink with a jewelery box on its counter, a toilet with a plunger next to it, and an empty bathtub. You see no windows.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water-Flavored Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar of Brine, The CLUB: Book 1
You look at your reflection in the mirror. …what ARE you? You examine what you believe to be your face, but it appears to be made of a dull metal. In fact, your whole face looks like a large square! Your circular eyes are glowing a deep navy blue, as with your rectangular mouth. No, there's no mistaking it. YOU ARE A ROBOT! …you suppose you never paid attention to your metal hands. But this explains why you didn't remember where you came from. You didn't come from anywhere!
Welp, after having a ten-minute identity crisis, you decide to doll up your apprently metal body with some jewelery.
You open the box and automatically put on the pearl necklace, the pair of ruby and sapphire rings, and the diamond earrings. They fit well hooked around your odd ear antennae.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Brine Jar, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
Thank you! I may look around the bathroom some more? Check if there's anything in the tank of the toilet (if it has one) or if something was left in the drains
You check around the rest of the facilities. First, the bathtub. Apparently, it wasn't actually empty, the curtain was obscuring the steel bucket inside of it! You take the bucket.
As for the terlet, you remove the tank lid and find… a plastic bottle floating inside, full of the tank's water. Gross. You're not taking this unless absolutely necessary. You open the main lid and find nothing clogging it, but decide to take the plunger anyway.
Aside from that, looks like there's nothing else in here. You take one last glance back at the mirror and see that your eyes and mouth are glowing a dark, minty green. Odd. You think further about this while pulling the secret entrance shut.
i figure since i am a robot the glow must be natural, perhaps i have christmas lights inside or perhaps i am powered by fireflies... i find that i do not know what christmas or fireflies are! it must not matter, but my mind wanders, and so do i, with my newfound discovery of being an alleged robot i am perplexed and thrown off by the circumstances i find myself in, but oh one beautiful robot i am, the jingling of my accessories that probably do not belong to me brings me a certain comfort, in a seemingly metaphoric punishment of my vanity, kleptomania and obliviousness, i trip on the rug whose beauty i had admired earlier, and for a short lived moment i thought i had surpassed, the jewelry and inventory items scatter on the floor around me.
You think about things and then trip on your face melodramatically. Ow! Wait, were you designed to feel PAIN?? What kind of jerk would program you to hurt?
Oh, and god damn it. The jar of brine shattered when you stumbled! Now the rug is soaked in a sickly, pickly odor. You instinctively pick up your dampened items, and notice your reflection in the glass shards of the jar. You see a deeper green this time.
INVENTORY: Spade Key, Heart Key, Club Key, Diamond Key, Water Soda, Half Stick, 3♥️ Card, Star Key, Jar Lid, The CLUB: Book 1, Pearl Necklace, Ruby Ring, Sapphire Ring, 2X Diamond Earring
pride on tumblr is so fun!!!11!!! the heart turns into a rainbow when you hit the like button 😆😆😆 the tumblr staff and algorithm continues to be exceedingly transphobic and especially transmisogynistic. trans women are getting banned left and right for merely existing. please don’t let another version of rainbow capitalism distract you