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Saxan in Coral Island.
Happy New Year to you. My lazy son as NPC and LI. I think this took about a month to make. 70% of that time is taken by the wedding outfit alone. Commentary on each outfits and his personality backstory under Read More if you're interested :)
Your local veterinarian. He was a bratty and wild child, something his parents tried to coach him out of. Instead, he developed into a lazy and apathetic young man, and eventually his parents learned to accept the person he is. However, he sensed that he's the black sheep or "failure" compared to his successful big twin sisters, irregardless of how baseless it is. Cares for animals, not so much for humans. His character arc can go two ways depending on what you chose during the dialogues. His birthday is on 28th Spring.
He's my Star Wars OC actually. He's a Zakuulan Prince, so I incorporated that aspect into his merfolk form. If you don't see him around town, he might be underwater!
His spring outfit is based on the doodle I have of him from an ask lol. I kinda like the color cyan on him!
I forgot that Scott has a similar hibiscus shirt so I figured it was too late to modify it... Oh well.
Not much to say other than I kinda have a hard time deciding what he should wear for autumn.
He looks super snug. I really gotta learn how to draw coats to make them convicingly thick idk. He lowkey dislikes winter.
I kinda debated on if I should put body hair on him but I decided not to seeing almost every male NPC has them. I think. Yes, it's the ace flag colors.
If you marry him he'll appear in Aesan Gede, the South Sumatran (Palembang) traditional wedding attire. I can't really have his hair free because it'll get stuck on all the golden bits but I kinda am not feeling the bun either so back ponytail it is. Debated whether I should draw the Sundanese one (am half-Sundanese) because it's easier but South Sumatra has been under-represented in Indonesian media so my Srivijayan pride kicked in. Also tumblr keeps killing the transparency for some reason >;[
Does he look Prince-ly enough here? He's based on the barracuda fish. Considered making him a naga like the rest of the in-game merfolk royal family but I've actually drawn him as a merman before so I want to keep him as a... fish. blublubblub.
I'm currently playing his twin sisters and I'm having a hard time choosing the LIs for them helpppp
And no, sadly I'm not a backer on Kickstarter (source: golongan miskin) this is just art.
#coral island#my art#swtor oc#coral island oc#artists on tumblr#asian culture#palembang#indonesia#indonesian culture#cultural clothing#merman#potato prince#potat prince#heritage#indoblr#illustration#concept art#character concept
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The Romance of Inao
The story of Inao originally comes from the Javanese and Malay Panji stories, centered around Prince Panji and Princess Kirana.
The stories have spread throughout SouthEast Asia and they have their own versions of the tales with different names for the characters.
I am going to focus on the Thai dance drama version where Prince Panji is called Inao.
Brace yourselves, this one is long and complicated and a lot of information is not easily available in English so it's not as complete as I would like it to be but here goes.
Inao is the son of the king of Kurepan
Bussaba/Kirana is the daughter of the king of Daha
At birth they are betrothed to each other
When Inao is 15, his grandmother passes away in the kingdom of Manya.
The kings of Kurepan and Daha send him to represent them at the funeral.
In Manya, Inao meets and falls in love with princess Jintara.
After the elaborate funeral celebrations are over, he wishes to stay in Manya with Jintara.
But his father orders him home and Inao leaves, after sending a lovelorn letter to Jintara.
At home in Kurepan, his father decides to speed up that marriage! (Clearly sensing trouble.)
But Inao refuses to go along with this plan and goes off hunting.
Having left the palace, he takes on a disguise, along with a few loyal followers and after an encounter with a bandit, he acquires two captured princesses.
They all head to Manya where the king happily welcomes him and Inao makes Jintara his wife.
Jintra, clearly drunk on love, decides to magnanimously invite the two princesses to be Inao’s concubines (polygmy was standard in this time.)
Inao’s father orders him to return home and marry Bussaba but Inao send’s word that he is no longer willing to go along with those plans.
The king of Daha felt slighted and angry and Bussaba too, felt shamed by Inao’s actions, although at this point, they had never actually met each other. (Can you guess what is going to happen?)
Rather recklessly, the king of Daha decides to marry her off to the next person that asks and the king of Joraka, famously ugly, promptly proposes, much to the King of Daha (and Bussaba’s) dismay. Unable to back out of his rash declaration, he reluctantly accepts the proposal.
But, plot twist, the king of Kamang Kuning ALSO wanted to marry Bussaba, because unlike Inao, he knew what she looked like and he was prepared to fight to have her.
Daha Vs Kamang Kuning
Fight!
The King of Daha was obliged to ask Kurepan for help (which must have sucked) and Inao was ordered to go to Daha and help the king sort out this mess since it was all his fault for backing out of the betrothal.
Jintara does not want Inao to go, fearing the worst but Inao decides that this is one summons that he cannot ignore. Perhaps a twinge of guilt at work there too. He promises to return though. (do you think he will?)
(now in SOME versions, an alternative situation occurs where poor Jintara is tricked away and murdered and Inao goes mad with grief for a time before finally regaining his senses when his original intended comes to save him. In this version poor Jintara is usually a commoner and so, sadly, easily got rid of.)
Inao rides in to the rescue and kills the king of Kamang Kuning.
Entering the palace of Daha to celebrate, he finally comes face to face with Bussaba.
(I like to imagine a Bollywood slo-mo moment here, where a mysterious wind blows Bussaba’s hair back from her face, as their eyes meet and a song starts to play.)
He instantly falls in love and realises what a MISTAKE he’s made. (It’s really all your own fault Inao. Minimal sympathy right now.)
I particularly enjoy the accounts where he is standing by Siyatra (Bussaba’s brother) when he spots her and he is so overcome with passion that he repeatedly kisses her brother, mistaking him for her. (Ok, Inao, you tell yourself that.)
The King of Joraka was ALSO on the way to help Daha but he arrived too late to be of any assistance. (Ugly and useless!)
Inao was now desperate to prevent Joraka’s marriage to Bussaba and the king of Daha was sympathetic but he had already given his word. (Unlike some, he doesn’t renege on a promise.)
Beach holiday filler episode time!
Ok, not really but the king of Daha and his wives and followers decide they simply must climb the mountain Wilismara to make offerings and worship to the Buddha image there.
Madewi, the king's second wife, suggests that Bussaba go and ask the image about her fate. Using lighted candles to decipher the Buddha’s message.
She lit three candles, one for Joraka on the left, herself in the middle and Inao on the right.
Bussaba asks the sacred image to extinguish the candle of the person who is not her soulmate.
Inao had secretly followed her and overheard this conversation and he plays a trick, pretending his voice is that of the god’s and persuading Bussaba and Madewi that Inao is her true soulmate.
He sends his follower Prasanta to drive out the bats and extinguish the candles and the darkness he finds and embraces Bussaba.
Madwei is furious about this (Bussaba less so,) and she argues with Inao who has the audacity to claim that he never refused Bussaba. (I think your dad has a letter suggesting otherwise buddy.)
Inao reluctantly hands Bussaba back to Madewi but asks Bussaba for a piece of cloth from her clothes, to hold when he is missing her. (smooth.)
What comes next is a cycle of adventures where the lovers are separated and have to search for each other before they are eventually reunited in a happy ending but they are not all told in the Lakhon Nai dance drama.
In many versions, Bussaba has to temporarily take on the disguise of a man and she has an active role in trying to help rescue Inao.
In a Javanese version, a demon takes her place and pretends to be the princess, called Candra Kirana in this story and the real princess appears at the court, disguised as a man to win back her man.
#man suang fic inspiration#apo nattawin#khem#thai culture#thai dance#thai literature#Indonesian culture#panji cycle#man suang meta#dance#traditional dance#thai dance drama
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I saw a tweet talking about how non-Indians can't wear Pavitr Prabhakar's costume since many of its elements are derived from Hindu culture and I want to talk about it.
As an Indonesian person whose culture from the island of Java, I just want to say how happy I felt when I saw his costume in Across the Spider-Verse. My culture is heavily influenced by Hindu culture in the past. I wasn't really invested in the movie until I saw him. When I saw him on screen, I instantly thought of wayang, a general term of puppets that originated in Java.
I'll go give a rundown to elements of Pavitr's costume that resonated with my culture (and just cultures in Java and Bali in general):
The mask (even the tikka/tilak is rectangular like Pavitr's):
Left: Javanese mask, right: Cirebon's tari topeng dance
The bangles
Pictured: Wayang orang, also if you look at the left picture, he has a "tilak/tikka" similar to Pavitr.
The "dhoti"
Left: Kamen, a type of Bali bottom garment, Right: Sundanese men lower garment
General wayang pictures
Left: wayang golek (wooden puppets), right: wayang kulit (shadow puppets)
Conclusion
If he were to wear his original costume where he wears the dhoti I wouldn't have felt such a connection. Mind you, my culture rarely gets represented in pop culture like this, if even at all. There's Raya but that movie mostly represented mainland Southeast Asia. Basically what I'm saying is that people from Java (especially the Javanese, Sundanese, and Madurese; the Balinese have so much representation already) are starved of representation and that Pavitr's Spider-Man costume is sort of a "breadcrumbs representation" for us. And I'll take it.
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Hello everyone!
Sayembara Benang Raja, a zine I hosted has finally been completed after months of work!
Our zine can be download in Gumroad and itch.io
This zine is all made by queer individuals from Indonesia. Despite our lgbt-friendly history in here, queer content and culture is now very looked down upon in Indonesia, so I made this zine as a way to raise Queer Indonesian's voices and get everyone's works out there. Please consider checking it out! Everyone worked so hard for this <3
Other than queer content, we also have a wide array of Indonesian culture in this zine, too!
Thank you all!
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In Indonesia families dig up their loved ones every 3 years in August, to spend quality time with them. They call it a Ma’nene festival.
I guess if you’re used to it, and was brought up in this culture, it would just be a normal part of life.
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There’s currently an Umbrella Festival in my city and you must see some of the offerings
Somebody crocheted a batik pattern!
Owls!! (There’s symbolism here but I can’t remember what)
Hand-painted umbrellas!
Patchwork umbrella! That sound you hear in the distance is my mom and aunt screaming
Embroidered umbrella!
Umbrellas made of tree barks!
Dry leaves are used to decorate umbrellas!
There are other crafts as well
Patchwork that makes me weep
Handmade chess set made of pine depicting characters from traditional Javanese characters
Origami (on an umbrella). They offer origami classes, too!
More pics on my insta if you can find it lol (it’s not a secret account. I’m just not interesting)
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Dirgahayu ke-77 Indonesia!
Happy Independence Day to Indonesia! We have fun games like eating crackers tied to a string. the rules is you eat cracker tied to a string. just eat the cracker don't eat the string.
Multiple versions bcs i can't choose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sasando: Traditional Multi-Genre Musical Instrument
In the world of music, the diversity of musical instruments is crucial in producing various captivating nuances. One example of a musical instrument capable of playing multiple genres is the Sasando. Sasando is a traditional musical instrument originating from the island of Rote, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), Indonesia. This article will delve into the details of Sasando, including its origins,…
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Inspired by Indonesia's wayang kulit 💕💕
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[Indonesian->English] @sherlysely.makeup Instagram Post- Color Coded Translation
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PUTRI PARIWISATA KALIMANTAN SELATAN 2022
MISS SOUTHERN KALIMANTAN TOURISM 2022
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Vocab:
DAUGHTER
TOURISM; TRAVELLING
KALIMANTAN (BORNEO)
SOUTH
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Please correct me if I made a mistake
$5 translation commissions here
#color coded translation#indonesian language#indonesian vocab#indonesian#indonesian translation#indonesian langblr#indonesian phrase#indonesian culture#indonesia#bahasa indonesia#bahasa#bahasa inggris
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Good day, Indonesian side of Tumblr! Can someone help me enlighten about the Javanese mask dance and if this is more or less accurate? Terimah kasih!
#a bit of indonesian stuff here#back when it was under dutch control#not sure about the accuracy but i want to be sure#i may be wrong or something#indonesian culture#indonesia#cw: colonialism#jo gar#island detective#west of guam#raoul whitfield#the javanese mask
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Miniature of classic Indonesian culture house decoration
Miniature of one set wayang kulit | batik material
Click for the Shopee purchase link
#art#commercial#ecommerce#entrepreneur#sales#aestheticstore#aesthetic#online shopping#shopping#shopee#wayang#indonesian culture#home decoartion#aestheticstoreidn
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Missing Home (Ngeri Ngeri Sedap) is an Indonesian movie in Netflix which provides a glimpse on Indonesian culture. We can see that older generation were struggling to understand younger generation and adapt to avoid further conflict within family, although it will indirectly affect their well-being (eg. by being left alone without caregivers, bending cultural custom and value, and viewed as ‘less dignified’ in the community). As a viewer, we were left to contemplate, how much do we want to compromise between modernization and cultural values, which I hope we’ll find the answer without losing our identity and jeopardize our well-being.
Overall, although a bit slow paced, I’m happy to watch a movie which explore Indonesian culture and identity, especially from outside of Java island.
#ngeri ngeri sedap#missing home#netflix movie#netflix#indonesian movie#indonesian culture#tika panggabean#arswendy nasution#bene dion
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Jade Winglet (minus Umber and Carnelian 😢) designs and another Winter/Turtle doodle
#GOD tf2 following I am seriously sincerely sorry with all my heart I apologise for being a deadbeat#dragon autism…. it’s as it was spoken in the prophecy…….. it came back to bite my ass#oh btw here are the cultures they’re vaguely based off#moon - Japanese#winter - Mongolian/northeast Chinese#peril - Scottish#Turtle - Polynesian/Maori#Qibli - South Indian/Middle Eastern#Kinkajou - Indonesian#I needed some uhhh inspirations before actually designing them so where better than actual. yknow. cultures#wings of fire#WoF#WoF art#IceWing#seawing#wof au#wings of fire au#wings of fire art#wings of fire fanart#wof fanart#art#artwork#Quotidianish
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