I'm currently planning on making an entry for the coming Kodansha International manga contest, and I really really want to win whatever places in there (Second or Third will bring me already to tears and eternal happiness if it would happen), and now I'm doing all that I can just to make my work appreciated by Japanese publishers.
So I'm now looking for different references to forge this manga into fruition. I won't delve into the details, as it might spoil the momentum. But aside from looking for decent, relevant, sensible references, I found something rather disturbing:
There are no decent, relevant, sensible references available in this country. If they do, you must sacrifice half of your body just to get those.
From books to radios, to televisions, everyday they are making effing mistakes about our Philippine myths. Well I know I sound generalizing everything, but how can you say that these people behind media are doing the right thing in portraying our mythological creatures?
Take this for example:
Where in the wild world of sports could you see in television Philippine fairies inspired by LOTR's elves??? Where in the wild world could you see Philippine fairies wearing MEDIEVAL CLOTHING waaay back in the DARK AGES??? And they keep on pimping in their commercial plugs that they are ORIGINAL PINOY MADE fantaseryes?!
Tagalog Romance pocketbooks are guilty as charge.
I never liked reading Tagalog pocketbooks, given their penchant in overusing the friggin STEREOTYPICAL CINDERELLA COMPLEX THEME they so incorporate in every releases they churn out from their publishing company. I remember a writer friend who tried to send a manuscript to them, and even though they liked her story, it didn't passed their MUST-BE A CINDERELLA-CLONE STORY taste. And the worst these books ever do is creating and making STEREOTYPES that they thought that even though the Filipinos reading it can be passed as literates, they are stuffing them with this silly belief that "Filipinos are dumb,therefore we must make our stories so easy to read and understand with their simpletonic minds. I'll choose chick lits over them. And I don't give a damn if you accuse me of a bourgeois colonial mental and I'll give one thousand reasons why Philippine media sucks and continues on being sucker for giving us sucking entertainment we don't deserve.
Back to Tagalog pocketbooks. After I sworn an oath not to read them until I hit 65 when I was in highschool, I saw myself in college asking for my friend to lent me her copies of pockebooks. And even though I tried,I really tried to finish them one day at a time, my brain can't take anymore the 'animosity' their themes give to me. The poor lass from the province, check. The uber-gorgeous, handsome than Brad Pitt (there is even a story wherein the main guy was Tom Hanks look alike, for real! Not that I hate Tom Hanks, but I can't believe he could pass for a matinee idol?O_o) ultra-mega rich guy? Check. A bitchier-than-bithch third party? Check. And a stereotypical love and hate relationship? Double-check. See? And they come in different titles, with different taglines, and different characters. But with that same old formula waaaaay back when Tagalog pocketbooks make their first boom.
(I like you to give me a very good Tagalog pocketbook that stay away from this stereotype, but I'll never take away my animosity from these books because they are showing every time how wimpy,girly and a sorry loser Filipinas are, and they really really need men in shining armor because that's what Filipinas are;wimpy, girly and a sorry loser.)
And that what's the general Pinoy media in general are doing and continuing instilling in our minds- we are wimpy,stereotypicals, and sorry losers, therefore we deserve to be given bullshits for entertainment.
And I hate the Philippine Media.
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