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I used the term "sarcastic face" because I feel like the illegal emoticon is most often used for sarcasm or especially to make someone mad. It doesn't have the same friendliness that :3 has.

Comment that got downvoted: https://www.reddit.com/r/hatethissmug/comments/1vqe7dn/comment/p4530pj/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

What I want you to do is to fight the downvotes by leaving an upvote on the downvoted comment, which I know feels illegal to say.

‘IF YOU DON’T HAVE BRAIN, JUST F*CK, GO AWAY’

Daniel Stefan Robertsen, the proponent of the 50 megawatt hyperscale AI data center in Oton, Iloilo threatened members of the media after being approached for an interview following his walkout in an ongoing public consultation of his proposed data center. |

“If you don’t have brain, just f*ck, go away. Do you know [the] Filipino privacy law? You are not allowed to take pictures of me. If you do that, I will take you [to] the court of the judge." Rjay Zuriaga Castor

#DailyGuardian

I think there's a difference between giving constructive criticism and looking down on someone.

You can point out a teacher's pronunciation or grammar mistakes without treating her as inferior because she's a non-native English speaker.

Being a native speaker doesn't automatically make someone a better teacher, just as being Filipino doesn't make someone a worse one.

Maybe students choose her because she's bubbly, approachable, patient, and makes them comfortable.

Those qualities matter in teaching too.

And let's be honest about ESL rates.

The fact that a Filipino teacher is willing to teach for $2 an hour doesn't mean her skills are worth $2.

Non-native teachers often work in a market where rates are already heavily influenced by nationality and location. There's a difference between the value of someone's work and what the market is willing to pay them.

What bothered me most about the reaction wasn't the criticism itself.

It was the sense of superiority behind it.

You can be a native English speaker and still have a lot to learn about teaching, humility, and respecting other teachers.

So I can't go to the convention. By no means could I be allowed by my parents in the convention. However, I've always wanted to showcase to them the beauty of the furry fandom, as I've always admired its wonderful art and catchy songs.

For starters, my family owns a printing business which includes repairing printers (and computers too), which means that printers are the primary means to convert art into a hard copy. I've thought of this silly idea where I could get my father to use furry art to test printing, and to use furry songs to test speaker audio (he always uses Sway by The Pussycat Dolls which is getting annoying nowadays), in order to endorse the furry fandom and show it to everyone.

However, I can't just endorse any furry art because some of it could be too weird for my parents. So I was thinking that art from YonKaGor and Wypher would be appropriate enough, but I need more recommendations. As for music, one of the songs I recommended was Best Friend by Studi01 (the Boykisser song would probably give my parents the ick). Are there any other artists and songs you could recommend?

Also I have some news: Currently I'm trying to become a "furry missionary", and I'm working on a book that shows all you have to know about YonKaGor, cats, and furries. Last year was my very first attempt when I went to Masbate, and that was the first phase of my plan. Since the villagers there only spoke Cebuano, I have to translate the text into the language. I brought the book to the local church and interestingly, the church leaders seemed to be fascinated in the furries. They even recommended telling the stories to kids. Please be aware that my main goal is to introduce the furry fandom to the locals to spark their interest, not literally converting or "baptizing" people into the fandom, because that might be disrespectful. If possible, I could look forward for the province of Masbate to have its first furry convention some time in the future.

Here's the thing, the book used YonKaGor's original name and was titled "Kinsa si Yonatan?" (Who's Yonatan?), which would violate international ethics regarding the will of LGBTQ members, specifically their preference to change their name (in the case of YonKaGor, they just shortened their name and perhaps changed the orthography a little from "Jon" to "Yon"), so I'm planning to change it to "Kinsa si Yon" instead. Only my grandmother has the original and only copy of the book, so we don't have to worry much about locals calling YonKaGor "Yonatan" just because it rolls off the tongue. Also, since the book is intended to also have instructions on how to take care of a cat, I wanted to update it based on my own experience taking care of a cat I adopted a few weeks ago.

I'm also planning to add more features in the project, such as a drawing space where people could draw their own "Yoncat", and lyrics of songs from furry artists other than YonKaGor, which means I'll introduce more furry artists to the locals. Note that since the furry fandom is a completely new and foreign topic to the locals in Masbate, I made certain names and terminologies sound more local, such as calling Wildflower "Pilapil" and Seabird "Pilimon", and most of the stories about the Yoncats are based on r/YonKaGorFanfics. I'm also going to make up Cebuano terminologies, such as "iringnon" to describe cat-like furries.

While the book was originally YonKaGor-themed, I also want to add an additional chapter for Studi01. The original copy briefly revealed Studi01 under the localized name "Tisoy", which I think would not be appropriate nowadays given that they're genderfae, and the name Tisoy uses a male suffix, so I might want to change that.

You can view the original copy here and the draft I'm working on here. As you can see, there's still a lot I have to work on. It still has Studi01's old fursona by the way. And for those who can speak Cebuano, it would help a lot to assist me in translating.

24 July 2026 → 204 days since New Year

Given: ½ year = 6 months = 183 days

204 - 183 = 21

Therefore, the date is 6 months and 21 days, hence 06-21.

If you look at their thumbnails, you see them using the same flags over and over again, including the flag of the God-forbid >!Tiananmen Square Incident (minus 1e10 social credit for me, I'm used to it)!<. I think they have no idea what the Cantonese language even is, like isn't it an East Asian language too? Maybe they're just brainwashed into thinking that Cantonese is just a "dialect of West Taiwanese", but it's clearly not. Just because it uses the same writing system (they don't actually, Cantonese is typically written in the Traditional script whereas West-Taiwanese is typically in Simplified) and they sound very similar doesn't mean they're dialects, that would be like saying Hittite and Luwian are dialects just because they're both written in cuneiform.

And looking into it more, it seems like they don't really want to learn any other languages. Not minority languages like Okinawan or Jeju, not majority languages like Hindi and Arabic, not even the holy language of Uzbek. Like, they're stuck with the same three East Asian languages and yet they have the audacity to call themself a polyglot. Is it because they only want to learn "kawaii languages"? West-Taiwanese seems like an outlier for a "kawaii language", if anything I think Breton sounds more kawaii. Apparently they're a hardcore East Asian enthusiast who only believes in the trinity of Korean, Japanese, and West-Taiwanese.

>!Archie, if you somehow found this post, this is just a joke, don't worry (I still care for him)!<

No one ever talks about the prevalence of anti-furries in the Philippines, there are also many of them here, in fact the ratio of anti-furries to furries might actually be greater here in the Philippines than in the US. No wonder I get downvoted for posting furry art, or mentioning it in generic Philippine subreddits. I even got an anti-furry comment here. And there are absolutely no subreddits for Filipino furries like me. Like, does r/furryPH even exist???

I'm really sick of these anti-furries in the Philippines to the point where my life now depends on the furry fandom, because everyone else that isn't a furry is just dull, bland, even toxic. And I get the aging population. There are many more things that I have to complain about my country but I'm just not going to mention them since they violate the rules of this subreddit.

Right now I need your help in getting in the Barkada Furfest convention this September.