#SHES MAORI

[stark-illerbase]

If men do not stop fan-casting conventionally attractive white women to play a live action omega im gonna start biting ankles

#SHES A CLONE #SHES MAORI #NO WE WILL NOT BE CASTING FLORENCE PUGH OR BRIE LARSON #nEVER SPEAK AGAIN #the bad batch #omega tbb

[annabethwarriorprincess]

I put "Ghosts and we might Die" into Google Translate to attempt to translate it into Maori and i got

Ko nga wairua ka mate pea tatou

Could someone who actually speaks knows Maori tell me how close that is and maybe the actual translation lol?

#im workshoping a new name for Gideon/Kiriona and like. She said thats her middle name right? RIGHT #maori #maori culture #the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #gideon nav

[mayasaura]

At some point I'm gonna go through the books and find every reference to what Gideon looks like, and what her parents look like. Bc I think that could be a valuable tool for artists.

#there is some beautiful-ass art out there that is unfortunately kinda to extremely white-washy #her mom has a broad flat nose with prominent nostrils and she and her dad are both described as brown #she has wide thick lips with dimples #these are important details and I think having a reference guide would save a lot of time #gideon nav #the locked tomb #I know I was critical of that post saying 'WHY don't they look Maori!!' #but my criticism there was aimed at the presupposition that there is any clearly defined way to 'look Maori' #Gideon on the other hand is a character with clearly defined non-european features and most defintely CAN be whitewashed #and having a compliation of what exactly those features are I think would help artists.... not do that #bc I don't care how beautiful it is.... I'm not reblogging that #ntn spoilers

[noelletism]

hi my name is noelletism and I’m addicted to drawing humanstucks

#THEHRE SO FUCKING FUN #btw the flag for feferi is the maori flag #I tried rlly hard on her to get her to look how I wanted her to but something just doesn’t look #Right to me??? #idk it’s like when u know something is off in ur head but u dk how to fix #she still looks good tho imo #my art #homestuck #fanart #humanstuck #aradia megido #vriska serket #feferi peixes #humanstuck fanart #humanstuck aradia #humanstuck vriska #humanstuck feferi #Homestuck fanart

[mucking-faori]

Hate to break it to you Karen, but: if you're an act party candidate and Maori then you are actively working against maori people, contributing to growing anti-maori sentiments and spreading racist disinformation, so I'm not surprised you're getting those comments

#maori #ahau #torangapu #not to mention she's like. clearly trying to jump on the bus with women who have actually been assaulted and mocked horribly online

[ihavedonenothingright]

I find it so interesting that despite using Latin surnames, Muir doesn't care about gender agreement until it comes to Kiriona.

Harrow and Ianthe both have masculine surnames (Nonagesimus and Tridentarius), as do most characters with Latin name endings (us, a, um), but Kiriona? Oh there's something very interesting there.

In Ancient Rome, male citizens were commonly distinguished by three part names: praenomen, nomen, and cognomen. Since I'm still feeling festive, take Gaius Iulius Caesar. His praenomen is Gaius, and is equivalent to a "first name." Iulius is his nomen, and tells which "gens" or tribe he belonged to, in this case the Iulia. And his cognomen is his personal last name, which is what he was known by in public life. There are a bunch of other names that were also used (why keep anything simple), but it's important to note that women, generally, did not have three part names, and were known by their fathers' gens names, feminized, as well as their cognomen (also feminized).

So as "Kiriona" is Maori for "Gideon," it ties Kiriona to her heritage; a gens name telling where she and Jod came from. And "Gaia" is the feminine form of John's "cognomen."

Which stands out first because Kiriona is not particularly feminine, and that could be Muir's attempt to give her that connection (which might have been harder otherwise since she's a prince now), but because her name is also the only one that follows Roman naming conventions, it ties her to him in entirety. It's not just that she's John's daughter, it's that she has no identity outside him now; she is him. A piece of him more than a full version of herself.

#I do like how people have pointed out that she may not resent her new name and the sense of belonging it brings her #And that it seems unlikely a name that connects her to her Maori heritage would be entirely negative #I personally like that both parts of her name connect back to Earth #But the feminized “Gaia” got me because it seemed so unlikely among the rest of Muir's names #And then I went down the three part name rabbit hole #And realized it means she doesn't have a praenomen anymore #Like yes Kiriona is her first name #But the purpose it serves!!! Its connection to her heritage!!! #If a late-assigned praenomen could be a gens #Then it would be #Gideon spent a long time in Harrow's head and was partially absorbed #I think there's something in the way her identity has been consumed by others #the locked tomb #nona the ninth #the locked tomb spoilers #kiriona gaia

[kopykunoichi]

Don't forget your promise to come back soon, Echo.

#the bad batch #tbb echo #tbb omega #she loves her big brother so much #it's just goodbye for a little while Omega #I promise #i'm letting his hair grow in a little #just a little theraputic artwork until the new season airs #i love them a normal amount #nose touching = maori hongi = keldabe kiss

[crabs-with-sticks]

I should get hazard pay for two men at the library mansplaining what scientific theory is (and being utterly wrong) to me, young woman in science who is just trying to scan her books about local oral histories.

#I don't normally refer to myself as a scientist because I have more background in the humanities side of archaeology #but fuck those guys #flat out saying to me (a professional archaeologist) that its not a science #And then also not understanding what scientific theory is??? #like the old guy was very adamant evolution was “”real“” and not a theory #he also could not wrap his head around why we were studying Maori archaeology?? #Like he kept asking me why #and I would explain about pa sites and taro gardens #and then he would confusedly ask 'are you Maori' like thatsthe only reason you could find it interesting #fuck that guy #knew things were going downhill after he started talking about how he has a physics backgrouns #then brought up Nikola Tesla then went straight to the muskrat #sigh #At least a bunch of teenage schoolgirls got to see me absolutely smoke those men in an argument while being feminine and wearing a dress #Also shout out to the librarian who had my back #she was a real g #yeah suprise surpise #all the people who were backing me up were women #rant post

[msmoon-and-the-cyberdemon]

Here she is, winner of the BLU Jack poll, Maya!

I don’t have much going for her actual BLU team, but basically, she was in need to find a job with a real good pay, saw the news clipping for the mercenary job and took the chance.

The glove you see her wear would be another type of the Lamprey Maw, called the Bat Claw. However, the claw was actually hand-made by her! Maya majored in engineering and the job allowed her to pick it up again.

More drawings!

Jack is really excited to have another person in his class :)

#my things #my doodlez #my ocs are my children #tf2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 oc #team fortress oc #jack tag #maya tag #tf2 tenth class #she lives somewhere in america but my idea is she’s a maori woman originally from new zealand #but like #her family moved before they went to the bottom of the ocean #tf2 oc tourney #tf2 oc tournament

[termagax]

i think the overwatch lore book released included alf and vaguely mentioned them being made up of "indigenious" australians but it's so vague on weather they mean it was made up of indigenious australians, or just a few of them happened to be indigenious OR if they just mean indigenious as in "australians that lived there right before they got kicked off for the omnics" or like the actual real life indigenious people and it's annnnnnoying

im gonna be so real i think even if it is meant to be like primarily aboriginal people i think it is in EXTREMELY poor taste considering the ALFs purpose in the lore is primarily to "explain" why the junkers hate robots so much. genuinely i think this chunk of the lore is unsalvagable and also OVW hates indigenous people sooooo fucking much

#and also because if it is supposed to be an aboriginal peoples movement then you get the. well why are the only ALF associated heroes white #and then have to do the whole DO THEY INTEND JUNKER QUEEN TO BE NONWHITE BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE LIKE. A PROBLEM. QUITE BAD. #shes already a pretty blatant ripoff of a maori character i would literally jaw drop if they ever say they #explicitly want her to be indigenous in any way. racist as helllllllll

[trinitymarconeptune]

He pirihimana kino ia - He mākaʻi ʻino ʻo ia

#sims 3 #the sims 3 #the sims #ts3 #simblr #malia kalani #when i found those maori tattoos #i immediately figured out who should have them #wish there would be hawaiian tattoos as well or i may create some by myself for game with enough references from pictures #also the caption literally says #she is a badass police officer #in both maori and hawaiian

[zevranunderstander]

whenever i read a take on john gaius on here im just like. you don't understand him like i do

#myposts #tlt #everyone is always like 'i hated john before but moment xyz was when i realized just how awful he was' #but its like. NEVER the imperialism and always something like #'hes a shitty deadbeat dad' and youre like. you know. the fact that he didnt know that he had a kid is like. REEALLY important to the plot #or like. idk everyones soo convinced that he hates gideon and that she means nothing to him and is just like. doll no. 2 #but this has no real textual evidence anywhere? like he doesnt re-name her because he doesn't care about her actual name #he renames her into kiriona (the maori word for gideon used in the bible) and gaia after the earth #with gaia being the female version of gaius. like. given that he is the last person in the universe who remembers earth #and the only person remembering the maori language and any cultural heritages in the world #i think thats a really affectionate name to give someone? #like i am not saying this man has some definite flaws and errors to him #and definitely lets on to having a crueler side that isnt really shown in full yet in the book #but like. some of the things he does just really arent that malicious as yall read them to be #also i seem to be the only bisexual person reading these books because when he said #'come on love. im a way too careful guy to allow for accidents' that was soooo hot of him

[klauste]

i wish i was good at coming up with names most of my ocs are nameless i think 6 out of however many of those forsaken cunts exist have a name one doesnt count bc i had a dream where his name was that so ive been using it as a placeholder for the last 5 years cursed

#i need his name to be something beyond stupid tho thats why its just a placeholder #i think his name was that in the dream bc i remember meeting this lady from nz with it and thinking what an odd way to spell that in eng #or just i had never thought of it being spelled that way with a j sometimes the simple things are oblivious to you ig #she was maori with the most eastern european last name ever #thats what made her so memorable to me then her first name appeared like a dream prophecy #phlegm doesnt count either bc he doesnt feel like my oc he exists to me and his name isnt actually phlegm

[ms-hells-bells]

had my first day of the driving test course and i have no clue if i'm supposed to be there because it's on iwi grounds near main city marae, every other participant was maori, the teacher said a kiakara at the start, end, and before lunch. he asked what some people's iwi are. he explains that the programme started with maori drivers getting fines for having no licence since they couldn't afford the test, and then not being able to pay the fines.

so, i'm just like '....are they just doing this because the course runners are iwi and we're on marae grounds, but the course is for anyone, it just happens to cater mostly to maori because of the context, or is this a course specially for maori, and my work training programme and WINZ have made a terrible mistake'. i missed the window of time to ask, and it's too late now after day one, so i'm just not gonna say anything?? because what would i even ask??

like, for comparison, imagine being american and with a work training manager and you need to get your learners licence, and they're like 'oh, we know some people, i'll book you in for the three day training course' and you go, and it's on a reservation and the teacher is native american and all the other students are native american, and they're saying greetings in iroquios and asking 'who here is mohawk :D' and talking about the police traffic targeting of native americans, and you are NONE OF THAT. and you're just sitting there like 😶

of course, it's different since maori is far more integrated into new zealand, using the language is common, and the government is especially pushing for wider use of maori language and culture everywhere. but just all the little signs put together have me going 'uhhh am i allowed on this course??' lmaoo

#i'm just going to trust my work training course i guess #she had their contacts on file and confidently contacted them to book me in #and surely they would have said something by now if they were meant to be solely for maori and she kept sending them pakeha lmao

[mucking-faori]

Maori names are generally pretty gender neutral and I like my maori name but I also think it would be the funniest fucking thing as a very femme nonbinary person to change my name to like. Tamatoa or Tane-a-rangi.

#maori #takatapui #ahau #would probably make people actually consider not using she/her pronouns too

[pjthetoonaddict]

a Sherlock and Watson redesign

#sherlock holmes #john watson #sherlock #fanart #artists on tumblr #my characters #redesign #digital illustration #digital art #digitaldrawing #character design #sherlock is Maori #watson is Chinese #i based her off the Lucy Liu version but I wanted it to look like she had fought in a war #She was a soldier during the Boxer Rebellion #they are wlw and mlm solidarity