#this is a poster i made but i can't link it because tumblr hates links

[h0lyhandgrenade]

Suddenly outs myself over here as a huge Ghost fan

[shoyudon]

BEFORE YOU FOLLOW !

i am a pro palestine blog, if you are a pro-isr@eli or support isr@el in any kind of form and way. please go ahead, exit my blog, and block me. there is no space in here for you :)

this is a sfw blog for jujutsu kaisen, most i'd do is a little suggestiveness !

i mostly write female readers !

i have no update schedule, i am a college student with an actual life going on — please, do not rush me to update or to do your asks.

english is not my first language, i apologize for any grammar mistakes or typos.

i reblog other writer's fics and post things which are definitely not fics here, so feel free to block certain tags. thank you!

DO NOT INTERACT !

basic dni criteria.

zionists, pro-isr@eli, do not interact with me or my posts.

porn link posters (i don't mind smut— but literal porn links are different, you can't tell me otherwise.)

PLAGIARISM. and if you justify it, honestly, what's wrong with you?

interact with me if you are 15+ please, do not message me if you are under the age of 15- or 25+ — feel free to interact with my posts but refrain from interacting with me, thank you. my posts are fit for 14+ for pure fluff. but slight suggestiveness will be fit for 16+

hi, if you think you fit any of the criteria above, feel free to block me. don't bother coming into my ask to bash me about what i can or can't do in MY own blog.

OHO, GET BLOCKED !

i'm setting my boundaries here in my blog, if you get blocked, that's your part to find out WHY. because, i don't block people for no reason.

you reblog + post porn links. honestly, that's just weird, idek why they're a thing (no offense). i don't care if you're a mutual, i will HARD BLOCK you. i don't mind if you reblog + post nsfw content as long as it doesn't consist shit like stepcest / incest / r@pe / sexual-assault / aging up a canon minor character to write smut about them / etc.

you justify and do plagiarism. it's pretty self-explanatory, right?

you write + reblog stuff like incest, step-cest, r@pe, sexual assault, intense age gap (pedophilia), etc. romanticizing these stuff doesn't make you look cool, it's weird and disgusting. seek help :)

the anon feature is not a place for you to be a coward and start hating, the least you could do is turn the feature off and start hating!

blank + ageless blogs. i know this is an sfw blog, but still, convince me you're not a bot; don't come at me for blocking your account by justifying that "you're just a reader". thanks!

SPAM LIKING 5+ POSTS. reblogs are very much appreciated, it means a lot to us. tumblr will think i am a bot and will throw me into the shadow realm, that's not a great experience!

hating on my works. let's keep the blog peaceful!

tag abusers. i don't want to see smut on the fluff tag, or an "about me" post on the tag meant for fluff or angst, get blocked.

straight up problematic. honestly, if you instigate drama or if you troll for no reason for the sake of gaining attention — that's just really not cool. i've had my share of experiences having a mutual "faking" their deaths for attention and then getting caught on different platforms, it's just embarrassing.

telling me to help you + support you in a drama you made. no. just no. i don't like drama and i'm not going to help you or support you in a situation that you created on your own, you're on your own (unless you didn't and you have solid proof).

PRIVATE MESSAGES !

feel free to message me as long as you're respectful about the approach, i'll be glad to reply to you :)

DO NOT message me just to ask me to support you because you're in a drama, or if you need support to do any other problematic things. or to ask me to go report someone else because you're losing the fight you made.

DO NOT message me to ask me or force me to be mutuals with you, i follow who i want.

DO NOT message me to ask if me you can translate my works in other platforms, i used to allow that thinking there was no harm. boy, oh boy was i wrong. i do not allow translations or reposts on other platforms.

i don't want to be related in dramas or discourses, so let's make this blog a peaceful and anti-drama one!

MUTUALS !

like i said, i follow who i want to. so please don't force me to be your mutual.

if you have a problem with me, talk to me. don't go all pissy and talk shit about me in your blog when you have the option to directly talk to me regarding it.

if you WANT to break the mutual line, HARD BLOCK me. this is like unfollowing me from ig without removing me as your follower. don't soft block me so i do not refollow you or interact with your posts by accident.

if i cut the mutual line, i will HARD BLOCK you. i don't block people without a reason, so if i did break the mutual line — it must have been something you have posted, said, or done. DO NOT try to reach out to me from another account because i will block that account as well. if i did block you, i do not want anything else to do or to be associated to you.

please remind me if a mutual of mine is someone problematic or have posted, said, or reblog any that fits in here so i could be aware immediately. thank you :)

keep in mind to NEVER associate me with the people i used to follow / supported before or were mutuals before. i only associate myself with the people i follow NOW. thank you :)

𝜗𝜚 . back to navi ⋆ masterlist !

[ftmtftm]

Continuing not beefing: I do understand where you're coming from even if I don't entirely agree.

I will say that I wouldn't personally interpret Genderkoolaid's personal expression of frustration as hounding another blogger.

Posting a screenshot with no identifying features of the blog attached and offering no link to the poster at all has made it impossible for me to find the OP at least. (I had been looking to link some transandrophobia resources in a hopefully 'hey this might clear up some misconceptions!' way if someone hadn't visibly done so already, not hunting her down to be a dickhead. I am fully aware that everyone has their personal blind spots and I appreciate people pointing out mine.)

But I feel like making it difficult to find the original blog is by design and out of a genuine desire to avoid sending hate after a person for having a bad opinion online.

I tehink after the posting of the last few days (and let's be real the years long erasure of trans masc issues), we have to extend some grace to people who are feeling on edge and and a bit snappy/uncharitable about people who are misrepresenting the issues out of ignorance. I think I'm also more at peace with an individual getting criticised rather than like... vagueposting about an entire demographic due to

Anyway that's the last I have to say. Again, genuinely not beefing and do understand and respect several of the things you've said. Hope you have a nice day!

Ah I suppose that's where my own personal context fell through - I wasn't accusing genderkoolaid of hounding her specfically, just making a general statement on the fact that she did get a bunch of anons and rightfully didn't want to engage with faceless people when as a popular trans fem on Tumblr she's experienced a lot of harassment that way.

I don't think I made that adequately clear, in part because I didn't really want to publicly drag my gf into things (because my gf and I had been talking about it all day because she and OP are mutuals and had been talking about it themselves earlier in the day) and I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough about it!!

I've gotta head to work so I can't be as indepth in this moment as I'd like but I wanted to put this out there before I left!

[zephycluster]

Precolonial HWS SEA Rant Post, feel free to ignore

If you're still reading, then you're probably looking for evidence or some juicy tidbits to throw back at me or to try and find dirt to cancel me, like typical Tumblr/Twitter. Go ahead, I don't really care.

First off, let me just say that If you like Precolonial South-East Asia AUs, feel free to keep enjoying them. I will respectfully support your passions from afar. This post is just to explain why I don't like it, especially the way they keep insisting/portraying PH in it.

Still here? Then let me begin.

Since the recent confirmation that the ASEAN Six Majors (Can't really say ASEAN 10 atm since it's still missing some people) Were completed and the Ma-Phil-Indo Trio was included, there has been a large surge in 'Precolonial' fanarts and portrayals of South East Asians, those three especially.

Even long, long before, circa 2010's ish, a rather well-known fan universe known as 'Maaf' dealt with their story and how their Author thought their intertwined histories went. Written by (my best guesstimate) an Indonesian writer who wants to explore the old, SEA bond.

When I first stumbled across Maaf (I was in Highschool at the time, around age 16-ish), I took a casual interest in it and tried to read it through. But, I will wholeheartedly admit that at the time, Pre-Colonial cultures of South-East Asia in general, let alone Philippine, did not really interest me that much. The focus (I think) was mostly on Indonesia, a country I didn't really know back then, and the liberal use of 'ancient' names and artwork just made it feel like an entirely Original Work (that needed a degree in History to really appreciate) and not something from Hetalia. I also completely disagreed with what I could gather was the story's portrayal of PH but I'm getting ahead of myself.

Do I hate 'Maaf'? No, I don't hate it. Do I wish I never came across it or that it didn't exist? Of course not. Just because I didn't enjoy it or appreciate it that well doesn't mean I wish any ill toward it, its fans, or its creator.

Fast forward to April 2021, the long awaited inclusion of South East Asia to the canon Hetalia verse. I was happy, the other fans were happy, all was good.

Then started the questionable fanarts, fan theories and fan pairings.

Especially the expansion of Precolonial! PH.

Let's go back to Maaf for one moment. From what I understood of Maaf, PH there was a character who once was like all the other South East Asian cultures, trading with them, all around being a nice family.

But all that changed when the Spaniards attacked, so cry the precolonial buffs. They destroyed everything, ransacked and marginalized the tribes, erased everything that PH was!

Did that happen? ABSOLUTELY. The Spaniards had this vision in mind that they must spread Christianity to all of the 'savage, unchristian heathens' of their realm. :V /s

But back up a second, back to PH's portrayal in Maaf. The way she (yeah, she) was portrayed there was that she was slowly losing her memories of being a 'true' South East Asian and grew more and more westernized in the process, like some sort of Culture-specific Alzheimer's or something.

Firstly, that is seriously depressing, and secondly, I just really don't see that happening.

Here's why.

Point 1: Even before Colonial Masters, Filipinos as a people cannot agree on anything.

I'll just begin this segment with a Philippine proverb that outlines what Filipinos call 'Crab Mentality' or 'Crab Bucket Mentality'.

"You don't need a lid for a container when you're keeping multiple crabs. If you keep at least two crabs together, they will just pull each other down instead of helping each other up."

I don't know how it goes with Indonesian or Malaysian history class, but what I know of my homeland, both pre- and post-colonial history, we were never really 'united' or 'together' in the sense that Indonesia and Malaysia were (from what I assume).

Let me pull up a somewhat related question on r/AskHistorians.

The reason I brought this up as it shows the reasons why, in my opinion, a single entity that is 'Precolonial Philippines-tan' is an impossibility.

The answers are long and would extend this already long post to stupid proportions, so I'll just quote relevant sentences. The link is here for those that wanna deep-dive into the answer.

"All this to say that there wasn't a name used for the entire Philippine islands before the Philippines that people now would agree to. An interesting comparison would be the Holy Roman Empire, which might also be characterized as disparate politico-geographic groups of relatively small size that had a history of relations between each other, but one thing they had that the Philippines did not was a common language, or at least a family of mostly mutually intelligible languages, so that the name Deutschland or Germany isn't terribly offensive to anyone. If you called the Philippines the 'Lupang-Tagalog' or even 'Lupang-Tao' the other ethnic groups would protest."

For those in need of translation, 'Lupang Tagalog' means 'Land of the Tagalogs' and 'Lupang Tao' means 'Land of People', specifically. The first one is already exclusive and offensive, as the Tagalog peoples are but one of many ethnicities here.

And for the 'Lupang Tagalog' suggestion specifically, it's even more offensive as they are the majority ethnicity (not by much, just around 28%) From this chart from Geography Now! It would basically be alienating everyone else in the 72% remainder that isn't 'Tagalog'.

And even 'Lupang Tao', the most generic name in a local language you can think of, would be met with contempt because the name itself is in the Tagalog language.

Just travelling between two individual island groups today would sometimes require a translator because the words can change very rapidly and very drastically. Here's a sample of some differences coming from a friend living in Visayas (in Red) vs. the words I know living in Luzon (In blue).

Ate vs. Manang = Older Sister

Ibon vs. Pispis = Bird

Tumawa vs. Kadlaw = To laugh

Takot vs. Hadlok = Fear

Kain vs. Kaon = To eat

Ngayon vs. Subong = Now, at this point in time

Iyak vs. Hibi/Gibi = to cry

Talampakan vs. Tiil = Foot (in Tagalog, the word retains its 'body part AND unit of measurement' meaning)

Tulog vs. Tuyo = to sleep (Tuyo in Tagalog is either a dried salted fish or 'to dry')

The kicker is that just like Tagalog is just one of many languages here, so too is the language my friend speaks. Ask an entirely new person, like someone from Mindanao, they'll probably have an entirely new set of words.

It's not just Luzon vs. Visayas vs. Mindanao, either. Here's a map listing some of the ethnic groups here.

Even the way they're written differs from location to location.

While we're on the subject of Island divisions, a casual skim across Twitter and Tumblr has shown that their Precolonial PH has been one of the following ancient civilizations: Tondo, Butuan, Sugbu, Namayan. There may have been others but that was what I have found.

Notice how even today, the posters of Precolonial PH can't seem to agree on what he's supposed to be? With Indonesia it's either Majapahit or Srivijaya and Malaysia it's usually Malacca iirc.

What is the big deal? Well, let's go back to the Ask Historians post. "Why didn't the Philippines ever change its name to remove the colonial mark that being named after a Spanish King has?" The answer: "If you suggested something dating to precolonial times, the other ethnic groups would protest."

Since we're on a roll with maps, let me bring this up.

As you can see, the precolonial PH posts have a reason to not be able to agree on one thing, as there is a LOT of options. Do you also see how THAT list is also split up?

It's split up into those aligned with China (Sinified), aligned with India (Indianized), aligned with the Middle East (Islamicized), and no alignment (Animist). Now, let's go back to the main suggestions for which Kingdom/Polity/Civilization/whatever Modern Philippines used to be.

If the Filipino peoples' couldn't agree on something as simple as WHAT TO CALL THE LAND THEY'RE LIVING ON, what more a living, breathing, walking, talking entity that is supposed to be a beacon of all of their 'unified' culture? ESPECIALLY if that entity used to be a currently existing Kingdom/Polity/Rajahnate/Sultanate/whatever.

Tondo? "Of course, always the damn Tagalogs. Tagalog this, Tagalog that. First the capital city, then the language,* THE REST OF US EXIST, YOU KNOW! What about us in Visayas? Mindanao?"

*The national language known as 'Filipino' is just standardized Tagalog*

Butuan? "Wait, you want Butuan to represent us? They're they only Indian-aligned city in the Islam-majority Mindanao! They're not even that many of them! I'm not gonna change my religion!"

Sugbu, the other name for the Rajahnate of Cebu on the map? Lemme bring back my Visayan friend again. According to her, she hails from the Hiligaynon part of Visayas.

"Sure :v and the other islands are what?

Chopped liver?

Not to mention the language and writing barrier helloooo"

And Namayan? Well. I'll let this pic speak for itself.

To summarize, no matter who you pick as Modern PH's previous identity, it will not end well nor be accepted by the other Kingdoms at the time.

"So where does that leave Modern PH, he had to have been ONE of them, right?"

Well, not really. He doesn't HAVE to be one of the Ancient Kingdoms that lasted till the modern day. I mean, predecessor representatives exist in Hetalia canon, after all. Like Modern Greece is a different character from Ancient Greece, Ancient Egypt and Modern Egypt, heck even England and his brothers have a canon mother that was the rep before them.

Or you could even use the same logic that Germany does, in that each specific region has/had its own representative and that Modern!PH is just the 'mediator' between them (cause gawd does PH need one). There could be a Tondo, a Namayan, a Butuan, and a Sugbu, all arguing and this Proto-PH is just trying to make headway in making them all satisfied.

But, even after all this, there is another reason why I personally don't subscribe to the 'Precolonial PH' idea, and by tangential extension, the Indo x Phil pairing.

Point 2: Even without intending to, Precolonial Indo x Phil just comes off as patronizing

This second point is just ENTIRELY personal preference and barely has any facts to back it up.

Again, if you like the pairing and disagree with me, You do you. I will respectfully support you and your passions from a distance.

But for me, Indo being Phil's seme/bae/boyfriend and consistently bringing up precolonial times just comes off as patronizing.

Just one more time, I'd like to point out that I am NOT bashing Indonesia, its people or the subscribers of Indo x Phil. This is just how the pairing feels to ME specifically.

The way I see it, Indo x Phil as a pairing, especially if it extends back into precolonial times, reads the same way as a long-since married couple where the husband/wife CONSTANTLY brings up that ONE outing you had together, or that ONE prom night where you kissed while dancing, even it happened like 30 some-odd years ago and so much more happened since then.

Even in a platonic sense, It reads like two besties where one ALWAYS mentions stuff like 'Yeah but you looked so much cooler back in High School' or 'Back in Grade School you would've known that', or 'Remember back in Pre-school we did X? How could you forget that?'

How does one respond to the notion that no matter what you do now, it will never compare to a past you've already forgotten or barely remember? That the best version of 'you' is already long gone?

"That's because the westerners made you forget your culture! You gotta take it back!"

While it is true, yes, as a collective we barely remember the Kingdom that commissioned the Laguna Copperplate, or created the Banaue Rice Terraces, or created the millennia old bonds that we still share with Indonesia and Malaysia.

But to keep pushing the precolonial identity would be to neglect and cast aside the one REAL binding belief and culture that spans the entirety of these islands we call the Philippines.

We take on all the bad stuff that happens to us, conquer it, and make it our own. Be it natural disasters, foreign powers, or negative stereotypical mentalities.

Yes, we've forgotten the ancient kingdoms of old and are just now digging through the closet for those remnants of the past. Yes, the colonizers imposed that on us, and made us forget. But in the process we've also taken everything that they left behind, everything that they threw at us, and created something that can only come from us.

The lanterns that the Spaniards used to light the way to the morning masses they made us attend became our globally known symbol of Christmas. The junked vehicles that the Americans left behind in World War 2 are now rolling works of art that announce themselves loud and proud on the streets (for better or for worse). The iced dessert recipe that the Japanese forced us to learn while they were occupying the country is now so distinct and famous it is synonymous with us, and is so delicious even Italy has taken notice.

Even after all this? Even after all the 425-ish years total we have been under a foreign power, with all the progress we've made as a country, a people, and a nation, you would still imply our fragmented, jigsaw puzzle state of being in the past was better just because it was pure 'South East Asian' like everyone else?

We might not be as well put-together as Indonesia or Malaysia, but we made this melting pot of angry, leg-pulling, dogpiling, Native, Mestizo, Chinoy, and Fil-Am crabs OURS, damnit!

It's now 4:30 AM and I have work in 5 or so hours. I'll be going to sleep now.

[sylvaetria]

Is it possible to make someone have at least an attraction? (I know you can't make full blown love)

Actually, you can make someone love you, with a little something we refer to on Tumblr as “targeted love spells.” But, it isn’t a good love made from those spells, let me tell you. Not to mention, those spells are not good spells either.

(I am taking this opportunity to make a point; these are some things I really wanna say and get written on my blog, because it needs to be said. I’m not mad at you for asking, or accusing you of anything, but just saying some important things on this topic. And it’s likely gonna come off a bit blunt or harsh, but it is a sensitive topic, and it’s something I have a lot of feelings for.)

Think about it this way. If the spell works, this person is getting feelings for someone they never had before. They don’t have any clue why. Maybe they don’t even know you–maybe they actually hated you before you cast the spell–but now there’s this unknown and uncontrolled desire for you coming out of nowhere. They’re extremely confused about it, and themselves, and you. They don’t even know what to do with these feelings. Right there is not a good start to a relationship – the other person should be 100% willing and sure they want to be with you.

If your spell works the way you wanted it to, maybe you’ll actually end up in a relationship with them. But the entire time you’re together, they’re most likely just completely screwed up over this. They may have never wanted these feelings, or to be with you, but here they are. No doubt they’ll be questioning everything that’s happened so far, and will happen in the future.

And when the break up happens–and I promise you it will–it’s not gonna be nice, neat, and clean. It’s gonna be ugly, an explosion of emotion and, honestly, probably resentment towards this person they never liked before and they’ve no idea why they do now.  They’ll let out all the confusion and feelings built up during the relationship in the last moments. I’d say you’d be lucky to even remain friends with the person after that.

So.

You can make love. But it isn’t good love. This is why a lot of us disapprove of targeted love spells. Also because it equates to, essentially, magical rape, particularly if your relationship is a sexual one. Someone made a poster with huge text saying “Love Potions Do Not Equal Consent!” (Sadly I can’t find the source for this anymore; if anyone knows it / the artist, please send me a link.)

And it’s accurate, hidden under the guise of pop culture, and obviously not illegal in our society, but still true to the bones. Casting targeted love spells are usually done unbeknownst to the target. Are you really gonna tell someone you’re casting a love spell on them specifically? No. They’d think you were weird, or maybe worse. But that doesn’t make it any less against their consent, or any less wrong.

“Making” someone have attraction to you is still in the same vein, especially if it leads to anything sexual. It is done against their consent; they likely had no knowledge of the spell being cast, and it’s possible that they never wanted anything of the sort to happen with you in the first place. It is still forcing your feelings on someone else, against their will or knowledge, just because you want to be with them. Think of what that means in a sexual context.

However, your safest possible route when it comes to doing love spells, is go for non-targeted love spells – these are spells that are geared to draw love toward you, but not from anyone specific, nor do they have to be romantic love either. You can “narrow down the search criteria” by adding information about the sort of person you want to be with (i.e., they have blue eyes, like video games, tell bad jokes and smile a lot, etc.). These spells are also good for specifying that this person will want to be with you, and be happy doing so. 

Because, what’s the point of casting love spells if the love is forced and won’t even last? That’s another thing that gets to me about targeted love spells, and probably why I’m writing this out - these things never last long, or well, and I don’t get why people even wanna risk it. When the alternative – drawing someone who wants to be with you to you – is much nicer, a pleasant invitation for love to be known to you, and more likely to lead to success, rather than forcing love on someone specific who likely doesn’t even want it.

You can also cast spells on yourself called glamours to make yourself appear more attractive. These are cast on yourself with the intention of appearing more beautiful, desirable, etc. They don’t affect every single person, but it can be used to try to attract the attention of people in that manner. And they’re non-targeted, so the spell itself is cast only on you. 

That is what I have to say about this.

I do not endorse targeted love or attraction spells.

I can support non-targeted love spells, or non-targeted glamours for attraction, but I have no respect for the people who manipulate those sorts of spells to be targeted on someone specific. I can’t.