Unidentified Māori women greeting each other with a hongi alongside the entrance to an unidentified meeting house. Image taken for the New Zealand Tourist and Publicity Department, 1900-1909

Mando Culture Studies✨Pt. 2 - The Bonk (Glasgow and New Zealand)

A Keldabe Kiss is a play on the real-world slang Glasgow Kiss, both meaning the same thing: a headbutt.

Keldabe was the mining and steelworks city on Mandalore; the place where the beskar is from. “Keldabe Kiss” is a joke about how aggressive the Mandalorians are; it’s also a reference to the beskar, like you need a beskar helmet/beskar head to fight there.

We’re familiar with the soft version:

Fandom calls this a Keldabe Kiss, but it’s really a Mando version of the Māori Hongi, a nose/forehead bump used for greetings with a lot of cultural significance. This happened because Daniel Logan and Tem Morrison are both Māori and they brought that into their interpretation of their characters.

There’s some funny crossover now because of the mix up of these two terms, like that a full-on headbutt can still be a romantic kiss gesture between Mandalorians, which I love. But the term Keldabe Kiss really refers first and foremost to a headbutt in a fight, memorializing the famous beskar city with so much cultural significance to the Mandalorians! 😍❤️

Taika Waititi doing "Hongi” to Maori presenter at Thor: Love & Thunder Premiere in Sydney

source: Marae TVNZ 

HONGJOONG, MINGI

Hey after the fight, when Jim helps Archie up and they press foreheads/noses briefly together, do you think that was the Hongi?

Today might be a good day to post this WIP. I need to get my surface fixed so I can color it.

I absolutely love the Polynesian greeting where they press their forehead/nose together (the Maori call it "hongi"). Anyway, I wanted to do one of Omega and Echo giving each other a "welcome home" greeting, because I figured Echo was going to leave for a while with Rex this season.

Guerrilla - ATEEZ(에이티즈)

The World Ep.1: Movement

(!NOT ROMANTIC!)

Pops was always there taking care of others, clones and cadets alike, medically and emotionally. The only problem that came with this, was that no one was there for Pops. He needed somone who could treat him and be there for him the same he was for everyone else . Crickette understood this, he saw the side of Pops that not many saw. He saw his weakest moments, his most vulnerable times. Pops cared for his brothers, and in return, Crickette cared for him.

Hongi is a māori greeting, means “sharing of breath.” It’s the act of two people pressing their noses against one another and ‘sharing a breath’.

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what if i put caramelized onions on a grilled cheese. what then

Hongjoong's pink hair is killing me I love him so much he's so pretty what am I supposed to do

Eddie Brock: news reporter

Peter Parker: photographer

Tim Drake-Wayne: photographer

I think I have a good idea for a new fanfic, you guys

Mushies, birds and spring winds🌤🍄🌳♡

im so excited for them

Kya hi madarchod log hai meri college mein

So, do we remember the girl who body shamed me twice and also assumed that me and nerd boy are dating? I legit went to get lunch ten minutes ago (and ate in five minutes and left) but I saw nerd boy with their group and there was more space so I went there and everyone had a plate in their hands but him so i asked him if he'd eaten already and he said no so I said go and eat and he denied so I insisted again and the body shaming girl, snapped ki "kha lega vo, tu kya itni mummy bann rhi hai" and we all know I despise her and my severe mommy issues make the subject sore AND I was already furious at my bailing teammates. I snapped right back ki "tujhe kya hai itna? Aur idhar sabka para Chadha hua hi hai, aaram se bol."

She left a couple of moments later and the fucking fact is that nerd boy didn't feel the need to at least speak on my side. I made someone apologize for implying that he's a fuckboy but NO this bitch calls me his sister and he can't defend me. Fuck you.

Who would’ve thought that one of two other people sent back to Hisui with you was the same one that caused you and your brother utter chaos on the battle subway!