#Melanesian people

[pixie-skull]

268th edit and inspired by @airasora redesign for Jasmine for her Mx character. I had fun making Kida’s alleged character’s notes ( @little-bloodied-angel and I are unsure if accurate or someone wrote it up as some traits do not add up) and I hope you all like this redesign. Yes, Melanesian people can have naturally blonde hair. Shout out to @little-bloodied-angel for introducing me the animated movie Kirikou and the Sorceress (which I was able to watch for free on Amazon). Shoutout to @thenamelessdoll for her post too that inspired me.

#edit #my edit #Disney #atlantis the lost empire #Atlantis #brother bear #brother bear 2 #aladdin #sleeping beauty #non disney #Kirikou and the Sorceress #the king and I #2D #2d animation #hand drawn #Melanesia #Melanesian people #mesh up

[sanyu-thewitch05]

So based on Ruggie’s appearance, what headcanon do you think applies to him best?

#twisted wonderland #twst wonderland #twst polls #ruggie bucchi #ruggie buchie #I always thought Rook was the Twst equivalent of a white South African #tbh I always thought Ruggie was a lightskinned African #he gives off high yellow energy to me #like if he had curly/coily hair he’d be looking like a lightskinned version of those Melanesian kids people use to prove #that black people can have naturally blonde hair

[cosmoglass]

Took these screenshots from three episodes of ‘Tribes, Predators & Me’ years ago when it was on TV.

1. Kids of the Solomon Islands 2. San mother and daughter 3. Papuan girl

#tribes predators and me #tribes predators & me #solomon islands #coolest hair in the world #san #khoikhoi #khoisan #bushman #papuan #papuan girl #crocodile people #shark people #lion people #kalahari people #solomon islanders #melanesian

[tanadrin]

Sometimes, Chris Hayes' podcast goes off on these weird tangents, and the most recent episode is one of them, quite explicitly. It's about the history of Polynesia, which is always a fascinating subject--the Polynesian expansion, and really the whole history of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, seems like one of those feats with rare equal in human history. It's one thing to roam over the vast steppes of Asia--it's quite another to take a canoe, stick some outriggers on it so it doesn't tip over, and start faring the open ocean.

One point his guest makes that I found interesting is that for the most part the atolls and little islands of the Pacific are a very harsh environment. Big volcanic archipelagoes like Hawaii and Aotearoa/New Zealand are rare. Atolls and other reef islands especially are functionally big limestone slabs, often without any source of fresh water, with no large mammals, and with few native plants you can eat. The weather is nice, sure (when there isn't a typhoon--and I can't help but think a typhoon on a little island must be terrifying indeed), but these are not inherently resource-rich places. That the Polynesian (and Micronesian and Melanesian!) peoples not only could travel those distances, but make permanent habitation on the islands they came across, is kind of crazy! You have to be really prepared, with a package of supplies and technologies that set you up for success. Long-distance trade is possible, but you're not gonna be running any kind of substantial import economy across hundreds or thousands of miles of ocean via catamarans.

The comparison that springs to mind to me isn't a historical one like the European age of exploration, which was overwhelmingly to places already peopled and productive, but to science fiction scenarios of space exploration. You'd have to have a little bit of the wild-eyed zealot to be the sort of person who ignores the cries of "there is no possible useful return on this investment" to settle most of these places. But they did! And they thrived for centuries!

#and totally incidentally created one of the most fascinating environments for historical linguistics ever

[transgenderer]

I should probably finish that book on melanesian religion but like...the big points that you get from the early stuff make the later stuff less interesting

"Cargo cults" in the sense of religious movemenrs that mimic western technology (and use the term cargo) significantly predate ww2 (like, by 50 years)

Melanesian society was like destroyed by western powers using them for borderline (and sometimes literally) slave labor

The male populace was like all in distant plantations and then came back to the villages with broken bodies

White people were mysteriously very rich, this wealth came on cargo ships and source was vague

Revolutionary religious millenarian movements kept popping up the whole time

Preexisting millenarian movements had a thing about the ancestors coming back om boats

These combined to end up with the ancestors coming back and making you as rich as the white people

The magic got "white people stuff" flavored for pretty obvious class/power reasons

As far as I can tell, the idea that cargo cults originated from the plenty received during ww2 is basically straight up American propaganda about how great and generous we are

Uhhh. Yeah

So anyway this makes cargo cults much less sexy. Its just normal magic and millenarianism mixed with western stuff for coincidental reasons about the preexisting religion. Also magic that mimics technology has existed since forever

[soup-mother]

i do appreciate when people make a point of using more neutral and less appropriative terms in fantasy media. like constructs instead of golems and magic points instead of mana. i feel like most people don't know mana is a Polynesian and Melanesian concept and not just a fantasy rpg thing.

#my post

[spacelazarwolf]

"TMA/tme is just like any other axis of oppression, like black/white or abled/disabled!!" Except it's not. We say black and non-black, not antiblackness-affected and antiblackness-excempt, because we understand that there are non-black people, such as South Asians and Melanesians and other POC who can be affected by antiblackness. We don't say ableism-affected and ableism-exempt because we understand that oppression is dynamic and abled people can still face ableism, especially if they become temporarily disabled. We don't say homophobia-affected and homophobia-exempt because we understand that non-gay people can face homophobia, and no, it's not misdirected homophobia, it's homophobia. If a straight boy gets beat up in an alley for wearing lipstick, it's homophobia, plain and simple, not "misdirected homophobia". Should said straight boy be a spokesperson on homophobia? Probably not, but he was still still a victim of homophobia. No one is saying trans women should be deplatformed from talking about transmisogyny, and yes, trans women face the majority of it, but that doesn't mean that GNC cis men, women of colour, men of colour, and trans men are exempt from transmisogyny. Nobody is exempt from facing bigotry.

^^^^

#ask avishai

[madamlaydebug]

{💨🛸🙌🏿🙌🏾🙌🏽💨🛸☄️}We’re descendants of the , Nommo, Ancient Anunnaki , Ancient Lemuria ,, Ancient Atlantis , Ancient Sumerians ,Akkadian Empire, Ancient Kemet , Ancient Etruscans , Ancient Akkadian , Ancient Assyrian Empire, Ancient Persia , Anatolian Civilizations, Ancient Kush , Dogon Tribe, Songhai Empire, Mali Empire, Ancient Igbo Tribe , Ancient Americas Olmec, Aztecs, Toltecs, Mixtecs, Zapotecs .Ancient Mayans of Bonampak Chiapas , Zulu Warriors, San Tribe , Moors ( Muurs ) , Washitaw Muurs Melanesian , We’re the original people of Ta meri You’re welcome.

[gsirvitor]

obsessed with the reply where you just make stuff up about cannibals. assume you do that often.

So, there are multiple tribes, one is the Etoro, another I know of is the Sambia tribe;

Cannibalism in Oceania is well documented for many parts of this region, with reports ranging from the early modern period to, in a few cases, the 21th century.

Archaeological evidence has also been found.

Human cannibalism in Melanesia and Polynesia was primarily associated with war, with victors eating the vanquished, while in Australia it was often a contingency for hardship to avoid starvation.

Cannibalism used to be widespread in parts of Fiji, once called the "Cannibal Isles" among the Māori people of New Zealand, and in the Marquesas Islands.

It was also practiced in New Guinea and in parts of the Solomon Islands, and human flesh was sold at markets in some Melanesian islands.

Cannibalism was practised in Papua New Guinea as of 2012, for cultural reasons, and for dietary reasons the last reported case of Cannibalism was in 1964.

Kuru is a neurodegenerative disease found only on Papua New Guinea, and was restricted to natives of the Foré linguistic group in Papua New Guinea’s Eastern Highlands and neighboring linguistic groups, the Auiana, Awa, Usurufa, Kanite, Keiagana, Iate, Kamano, and Gimi.

Kuru was caused both by their ritualistic endocannibalism, and their cannibalism of other tribes, it's a prion disease, caused by consuming the flesh of other humans, like mad cow and chronic wasting disease.

This disease was stopped because the ritual endocannibalism was outlawed, it was outlawed because the practice is barbaric, crude, repulsive, backward and primitive, and spread disease.

Oh yes, can't forget, Kuru isn't gone, it's hyperendemic to the populations of the Foré linguistic group, and can take anywhere from 14 to 40 years to show symptoms.

So yeah, we don't defend cannibals here.

[kiyzeiin]

So you already discussed your hc for Luffy's ethnicity but what about the rest of the crew?

great question, i’ve been pondering about this for a while, it’s just when i saw luffy, i just knew he was my pasifika cousin 😭 i have reference sheets w all their hcs i’m working on to post later but let me go ahead n lay out rq how i would imagine the strawhats! i try to be as canon compliant as possible when assigning them.

usopp - afro-caribbean, specifically jamaican 🇯🇲

luffy - indigenous on both sides. so afro native samoan-brazilian. i stand by that forever. polynesian luffy real 🇼🇸🇧🇷. malagasy too. historically malagasy people are austronesian relatives as well anyway (malayo-polynesian) 🇲🇬

nami - thai-swedish. she’s ethnically fully thai, but when bellmere found her and nojiko, she took them to her hometown in sweden to be raised. im a firm believer in southeast asian nami 🇹🇭🇸🇪

zoro - afro japanese-caribbean. been a blasian zoro truther since day one. so japanese and haitian 🇯🇵🇭🇹

robin - double native as well !! native costa rican, the bribri people, and indigenous to eastern russia, yupik. she’s a challenge to figure out but i just know this is a native woman. 🇨🇷🇷🇺

jimbei - melanesian cousin fijian-indian !!! 🇫🇯🇮🇳

franky - italian american. only fueled by how water 7 is allegedly based on venice 🇮🇹🇺🇸 but also consider panamanian franky …🇵🇦 exactly. so he’s either panamanian or italian american to me

brook - afro-austrian ethiopian. an ethnically east african black man from austria(i also get new orleanian from him IF he were american)🇪🇹🇦🇹

chopper - if he were a human, indigenous canadian first nation (inuk) absolutely 🇨🇦

vivi - nubian and sudanese vivi on top !!! 🇪🇬 🇸🇩

sanji - french ……… 🇫🇷

i have headcanons for ace, sabo, dadan and some other characters too but this post is getting really long. to be continued !

#ask #my truth #thank you sm for asking /gen #helped me solidify my ideas #one piece headcanons

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about the Solomon Islands, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#solomon islands #the solomon islands #oceania #country polls #polls

[intersectionalpraxis]

Here is a statement from the ULMWP President regarding Indonesia’s genocide of indigenous people in West Papua, dated December 2023.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C1O0YZXIrip/?igsh=b2ZlMXQ2M3V2aXR3

The Indonesian occupiers displaced more than 80,000 West Papuans in the finals months of 2023, leaving them without shelter, food, or medical care. Indonesian paramilitary units, including some that utilize Israeli-made weapons, are being deployed in West Papua.

Last month, Indonesian soldiers opened fire on a group of West Papuan women and children, and burned dozens of villages to the ground.

"To all the West Papuans, whether women or children living in the refugee camps, students in the cities, or elders in the bush -our home guards, who suffered for years and kept the flame alive by raising the Morning Star during the darkest days of our movement -you are not alone. The world is hearing your cry. This year, the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) leaders issues their own communities calling for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to be allowed into West Papua, adding their voices to the existing calls of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) and Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS). Thank you to all Melanesian leaders for your consistent support. Indonesia cannot hide their shameful secret anymore[...]"

Free West Papua.

#feminist #social justice #current events #current news #west papua #free west papua #global politics #global news #human rights #human rights violations #genocide #united nations #indonesia

[irawhiti]

#there's pros and cons to each option here i'm having trouble with so i'm outsourcing it lol #this isn't a definite We Are Going To Make This Server thing btw. just thinking about it a bit more in depth rn. planning #the main issue i have with a Global Server is i want it to be specifically a server for racialised groups #and there's no way to really define that without it being a fucking mess

[chilewithcarnage]

Sadly Indonesia is guilty of occupying indigenous lands as well. They have displaced 100,000 (and murdered 500,000) Melanesian indigenous people in West Papua, over 55 years of occupation. Palestine and West Papua deserve freedom.

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[mudaship39]

Info about me and my WIPS art and projects as a as a disabled and queer/trans native of color writer artist and creator

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I write about Black, poc, Indigenous, disabled, and or lgbt characters in disabled, bipoc, and qtipoc futurism.

Im the writer and creator of the precontact and post land back Bipoc and qtipoc futurism project. It’s a hybrid science fiction cyberpunk and magical high fantasy comic books and graphic novels series Chronicles of War.

Basic info is the pinned post of my tumblr. More information is on a google doc on my google drive.

Im the performing artist spoken word poet of the spoken word poetry book Heart of Fire Dragon, Soul of Flame Pheonix, & Sea Fairy Ocean Blood that is about being a disabled native, an Asian Native, a displaced disconnected diaspora, & QTIPOC.

The cut and censored version of it is linked in the pinned tweet on my twitter mudaship39. Uncut and uncensored version is on a google doc on my google drive.

If anyone wants to pay me for the poetry book and or the futurism project as a disabled writer, artist, and creator. Be sure to dm or pm me. There is a specific way to do so as a disabled writer artist and creator.

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Do you want to read a spoken word poetry anthology book I wrote as an Asian native Pasifika artist who’s a songwriter and spoken word poet? Its called Heart of Fire Dragon Soul of Flame Phoenix and Sea Fairy Ocean Blood. It’s about being a disabled native (autistic, neurodivergent, chronically ill, & mentally ill disabled), a displaced disconnected state side diaspora, being an Asian Native (as a Vietnamese Kinh, French, Chinese Hoa, & Polynesian Tahitian Indigenous Pasifika person of color), & about being a QTIPOC (queer and trans third gender Indigenous person of color). I have been working on it for a long time as a storykeeper, language keeper, and culture keeper. It includes a personal foreword and personal afterword to Indigenous people specifically Polynesian, Micronesian, and Melanesian audiences. The cut and censored version of it is linked in my pinned tweet of my Twitter mudaship39 if you are interested in reading something like this. The uncut and uncensored version of it is on a google doc on my google drive. Need email for google doc invite link. Let me know which version you prefer to read if you're interested in reading something like this. Be sure to like and reblog my pinned post to boost my art to other native of color mutuals.

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Im also a writer and creator who writes bipoc, disabled, and qtipoc futurism. I write magical high fantasy and science fiction books, comics, and graphic novels. My bipoc, disabled, and qtipoc futurism project called Chronicles of War. It is a cyberpunk science fiction and magical high fantasy hybrid comic book or graphic novel series. It is precontact and post land back. That is about several disabled, bipoc (or Black Indigenous and or person of color) characters, and qtipoc (or queer and trans indigenous people of color) main characters. One is a Asian pasifika/Afro latine native demigod metahuman and alien hybrid superhuman superhero in a cyberpunk world in the near and far future. The other is an Afro Asian native coded magical human with fae elvish, hobgoblin goblinoid, & giant kin ancestry who’s a spellcaster, swordfighter, and gunslinger adventurer in a magical high fantasy world. Both of them are qtipoc disabled and bipoc. There are other bipoc and qtipoc main characters in other worlds pre contact and post land back. Such as a Sami Indigenous and European Scandinavian coded third gender god/goddess Jotunn Loki. Such as a third gender Afro Indigenous Chickasaw Native Freedman were lion and were leopard hybrid character and her friend a Afro Latine South American Native were jaguar and were cheetah werecat hybrid character. Both of them living in a town of Afro Indigenous Freedman and hybrid humanoid communities. Such as a Central and South American summoners of kaiju or titans based on Nahuatl Quechua and Maya Indigenous mythology. Such as a female Asian and Asian Native half human half firebird and lighting bird monk fighter. Such as a Indigenous Pasifika sea pirate. It has Black, Native, poc, queer, trans, & disabled representation. It has Indigenous and indigenous pasifika representation too actually. If that’s something you are into. Need email for google doc invite link also if you are also into this.

If anyone wants to pay me for the poetry book and or the futurism project as a disabled writer artist and creator. Be sure to dm or pm me. There is a specific way to do so as a disabled writer artist and creator.

Cover art of the Spoken Word Poetry Book: Heart of Fire Dragon Soul of Flame Phoenix and Sea Fairy Ocean Blood:

Upcoming project once i find cast crew and a studio and network to green light it: Modern take movie about Medusa and her blind lesbian love interest. With more diverse characters since modern take with disabled, queer trans, and bipoc representation like my other wips and projects.

Polynesian Micronesian and Melanesian sports anime or cartoon. Each season being about different Pasifika sport. Volleyball football ruby rowing or canoeing sailing. Each season with different main characters. Characters from past seasons returning in cameos. Gay volleyball with a vahine femme main character about a pasifika girl in varsity hs volleyball. Hawaiian or Tahitian and her partner is Tongan or Samoan.

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[witsserviceablesubstitute]

As an Australian the Huana are always the obvious choice for me in Deadfire. Given that I come from a settler colony in an Archipelago that was brutally subjugated by Imperialism, strip-mined of resources, and whose various native people and cultures were shattered (in many cases beyond repair). It's so unbelievably erroneous to think Aboriginals on the mainland and the Polynesian and Melanesian on the Islands were less sophisticated in their sociopolitical understanding of eachother and the world around them.

An example being how the various different cultures within Australia, Polynesia and Melanesia, and South East Asia had the most complex maritime trading system in the world before it was thoroughly destroyed by the ignorance, arrogance, greed, and xenophobia of Western Imperialism. But, really, understanding that there are more ways than pastiche-Roman to exist well as a society should go without saying by now. So too should it be understood that you don't have to display sociopolitical complexity to have a right to freedom and sovereignty.

It's interesting, though, how many people choose the VTC. I understand the attraction given its unregulated philosophy on animancy— which is vital to uncovering how to move forward without the Gods messing with everyone in Eora any more than they already do (imagine if Gods and their drama were real and they were actively meddlesome, how much of a nightmare that would be). However, it is also an extremely American choice to make because the VTC is private enterprise and unregulated industry. It's baby Capitalism. I can't help but look over at the US and the philosophy of The Outer Worlds and think about how choosing the VTC isn't going to end as ideally as hoped.

I'm sure choosing the Huana won't for me either— especially if the caste system and isolationist tendencies get worse over time— but I stand by it because the caste system isn't any more extreme than how other factions subjugate people. Nor are the Huana wrong to be weary of outsiders considering the state you find The Deadfire Archipelago.

Mostly I wish there was a Pillars 3. 😔

#pillars of eternity spoilers #pillars of eternity deadfire #pillars of eternity #pillars of eternity 2 #pillars of eternity 2 spoilers #poe #poe 2 #obsidian games