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"E au le inailau a Tamaitai."
To my people my presenting gender is irrelevant; what's important is that I'm a mother, aunt, sister and protector of my family. This is what my hand malu represents.
Happy Asian-Pacific Islander Month. ❤️🇦🇸🇯🇵
#Malu tattoo#Pasifika#Teine Samoa#Fa'atama#Fa'a Samoa#Samoan tattoo#tatau#polynesian#Rip knuckles#not me chanting over and over in my head 'I'm a real nigga' while doing lamaze breathing as the needle went over bones
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in terms of the zero-g girls,what male and female wrestlers would you consider their most notable move/skillset basis? malu for example gives me vibes of samoa joe,umaga and jacob fatu,tak naturally no doubt has many a hardcore and deathmatch type past and present
absolutely, and not just wrestlers but each kinda represents a style of a different promotion that i like
Malu moveset is def Umaga / Yoko, big power moves, samoan drops, also can fly with big splashes. a bit of Bam Bam in there.
Tak's moveset heavily based on Foley / Mox type. she's ECW.
Yuna works a king's road / strong style like kobashi / misawa, or like Meiko Satomura, lots of strikes. she's AJPW / AJW
Stellar is more high speed joshi type, like AZM / Starlight Kid. She's kinda Dragon Gate inspired as a style
CKO is mma style / shooter / catch. like Shayna / Taz / Joe moveset. so she represents UFC / Pancrase / IGF style
Dagmara is power moves, heavy hits, shes like undertaker / vader type, some Nash vibes mixed in there. shes WWF style.
and Blue Corazón and Corazón Sombrío are lucha libre, mexican high flyers, if Blue is like Mysterio then Sombrío is her Psicosis, Super Crazy / Penta / Fenix / Vikingo types. AAA / CMLL style.
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Walking the Wall - Angela Tiatia
"Walking the Wall explores the tensions that operate between mass global culture and minority culture, with particular focus on the norms and rules places upon femininity.
"In the work Walking the Wall, Tiatia uses her body in conflict between the sacred and the uninhibited. By openly revealing her sacred malu (female tattoo), she confronts a Samoan cultural taboo, while simultaneously embracing – to the point of exhaustion – symbols of female sexuality in mass consumer culture (high heels and the bodysuit)."
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Hi hello I would like to hear your Māori thoughts on Lizzie and Chip and any other character you hc as Māori :3
omg hi hi hi ok so i actually. dont have as many thoughts as id like to be ause im working with approx. three days of obsessive research on tatau months ago and its currently four in the morning when im starting this but i will tell you my thoughts on that for them bc ive put a lot of thought into it :D ← also this may be true but i Am a white american midwesterner, and this goes for like Everything but if i fuck smth up lmk 🙏 this is a culture + specific cultural practice i have a lot of admiration and respect for so i hope not to say any wack shit but if i do that was not the intention!! anyway this goes off my hc that theyre twins and that theyrw both transfem as well 👍 ok this is about to be long as hell sorry
since chip and lizzie got picked up on the black rose so early as kids they wouldn't have gotten a ton of time to properly learn about their culture. unless there were other fantasy pacific islanders on the black rose they wouldn't have had much if any connection to their home. i'm pretty sure they're both canonically glad to have been picked up, but missing what they could have had if they hadn't/if their life was better before is probably somewhere in the equation.
after the hole in the sea chip of course immediately set out to find arlin, but since lizzie's backstory is so vague i can do whatever i want MWAHAHA but ok so. once she had the means to, likely on someone else's ship before she had her own ship and crew, lizzie would have decided to make her way back to. fantasy polynesia? i wish we had a map of mana HSJDHS, but she would make her way back to learn what she wasn't able to as a kid. i think this is when she would have gotten her malu + manta ray done after a few months to a year of living there and going to different islands to learn as much as possible. the malu is a samoan tattoo, not māori, and i say this because i don't know if she would have made it back exactly to where they had been picked up, but she would have had to start somewhere. she ended up in a part of the islands that did things a bit differently, where she wasn't directly from there but her determination to come back and willingness to learn was respected. later once they were both out as trans, lizzie would tell chip that 1. she ended up figuring out more specifically where they were from and 2. that she had been meaning to get her moko kauae done and would chip like to come along too?
these tattoos are based so much on community role and the community that they're both mainly in is their ships, not their home or anywhere on land, so i think they'd likely be based on their role as captains. it probably isn't an uncommon practice to at least incorporate that considering how many pirates there are in mana, but it is uncommon for kids to have been taken away so young. lizzie has somewhat more of a foot in the game from visiting sometimes but the main basis is their crews.
i can't find my notes on it but i do have my designs for lizzie's tattoos - theyre on her chest, midriff, and legs respectively
ta da!! this is from a while ago and i apparently didnt design her moko kauae at the time but ill get to it soon. ok if i have more thoughts than that i dont know them right now its six in yhe morning i can talk about it more later
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I'm not dead!
Hi all,
I havent givving new for months i know, but know that i m still there. 2022 been crazy for me i've been enrolled in 2 training i'm changing carrier entierely and well that a lot to work on to think about and all.
I'm recently had a contact on my discord than remember me of the sims + the release of the werewolf pack make me realise i miss the sims and creating for it.
I'm still in training for 2 weeks, after that i think i'm goonna suppress everymod and almost all i have in ùmy game to start new look into pack i'd like to had. update eveything. you know what i'm talking about.
Anyway i'll be creating a new tatu for sure a samoan malu to go with the pe'a as its been request and that s so logical i love to know some of you like and use it so yeah that will be the first.
If there is stuff you would like tattoo or wwe or aew wrestling in general stuff do not hesitate to contact me, i cant assure i will do it. but it give me idea show me you are interested.
So see ya all soon i think in a month i'll be ready to create again, sims 4 studio will have a new update i'm sure after the last pack.
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101 Amazing Samoan Tattoo Designs You Need To See! - Outsons
Samoans or Samoan people are a part of the Polynesian ethnic group, which is linked to natives of the Samoan Islands. A Polynesian tattoo or Samoan tattooing
How The Samoan Tattoo Survived Colonialism
The Samoan tattoo has been able to remain culturally significant even in the modern era representing community, power, respect and honor.
5 main Polynesian tattoo styles: Maori, Marquesan, Samoan, Tahitian and Hawaiian
Samoan malu
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Week 1- Sketch Maps & Pattern
The pattern that I have chosen to explain and examine about is the Samoan Tatau but more specifically the Malu. The Malu is the Samoan tattoo which can only be worn by females. The word Malu originates from the samoan word Mamalu which when translated into English, means to have honor and dignity. It is a pattern that is believed to protect the woman who is bearing the tattoo. In the Samoan culture this pattern represents the role that the females play in the home and serves as a reminder of how important holding knowledge is and passing that same knowledge down to future generations. This pattern relates to me because being a New Zealand born Samoan, I was always encouraged by my late grandmother to continue to learn about our ancestors and the culture that we bear. Understanding the meaning behind the malu pattern has helped me to appreciate my culture more and to know that even though I was not born in Samoa I still have connections and am blessed with the lineage. I also gained the knowledge that I have a responsibility to carry on this knowledge.
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She has the galaxy in her hair,
a universe in her mind. #UrbanNesian
#samoan #samoa #malu #galaxy #space #samoanmalu #suga #teine #pasifika #tatau #samoantattoo #malutatau #malutattoo
#samoan#samoa#urbannesian#polynesian#art#poly#samoan art#pasifika#siapo#tapa#malu#tattoo#tatau#samoan malu#malu tattoo#urban nesian
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✨malu // protect. shelter. house. secure.
“The symbolism depicted on a tatau or malu represents a covenant between a Samoan and his or her way of life. It is "O Mea Sina." It is sacred. The word malu means protect, shelter, security. Malu also means house. The woman is therefore seen in Samoan culture as the protector and shelter of the children, the family, and the village. She is the giver of bloodlines." - Zita Sefo-Martel
[artist: unknown]
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Tatau by Inhouse - Case Study
Tatau in Samoan is referred to as a Traditional Tattoo or Pe’a. The story of Tatau begins with two sisters Tilafaiga and Taema swam to Fiji (Fiti) to learn ancient knowledge of Tatau, given by women, worn by women. On their journey back to Samoa, they saw a clam underwater and so they both emerged, got seasick and felt confused and their story got reversed. As they arrived at Falealupo of Savai’i they told everyone that it was the male that got the Tatau the Pe’a but as for women the Tatau for women the Malu still survives.
This case study may not be relevant to our design project but it does reflect more on the cultural aspect of learning these tattoos and symbols and what they mean. This Tatau isn’t only the design aesthetic look but reinforcing the importance of our identity and where our bloodline comes from. So it begins with who we are as young Polynesian men and women to understand the importance of listening and learning as we unfold our identity. Indeed, our design project focuses on the disconnection of Maori and Pasifika people with their culture and language but it doesn’t mean that you're not apart from the bloodline of the family who was brought up into it. The tatau allows young Samoans to engage themselves into learning about these Tattoos although they talk about our ancient history but our family storytelling.
The significance of this case study ‘Tatau’ was to help navigate our way through design problems and effective ways we can reach our target audience. Although, there wasn’t much topic mentioned about this, however, this Tatau publication mainly talked about how the publication was crafted and the process it took. As I was reading through the making of this publication I noticed that there was a lot of research into this project not just the aesthetic looks but also what was written inside.
This Tatau Publication reflects on how Samoan tattooing began in the last 3,000 and how practices nowadays have changed in some sort of part of the traditional symbols or design being deflected to fit into society's liking. It has also been set alongside texts that explore how Samoan tattooing has shaped and reshaped over an extended period by regional and international forces with graphic and editorial design by New Zealand based studio Inhouse.
Within this Tatau publication, it has 320 pages (hardback book) which have illustrated photographic and historical images from the 19th-21st century followed by films, diagrams and posters of related artefacts.
The Ancient Tatau artefacts have shaped how images and symbols can be characterised within modern practices. ‘The book explores the themes of transfigurations and cultural transmission within the context of tattooing. In documenting the movement of the practice across geographical and cultural borders it has indicated that revealing of its persistence and reconfiguration through time and its potential to both demarcate and resolve, that the modern graphic appeal and cross-cultural divisiveness of tattoo offers a seductive chronological entry point into the politics of the body. The design of the book acknowledges this in its bold cover and the presentation of images and text.’
- Tatau by Inhouse.
https://bpando.org/2018/09/21/book-design-tatau/
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*New* Wall Art Gallery
*New* Wall Art Gallery
I’ve recently begun creating wall art in addition to my boxes. The larger areas can be a challenge in perseverance, but I’m quickly falling in love with the results. These pieces are primarily wood burned, but I have experimented a time or two with wood veneers to give more texture. I hope to continue experimenting with mixed media in the future, but the pyrography will always be my first love.
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#malofie#Malu#pe&039;a#Polynesian Art#Pyrografika#Pyrografika206#Pyrography#Samoan art#Sogaimiti#tattoo art#Turtle and Ray#wall art#Wood Burned Art#Wood Burning
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Ok.
We all have our own headcanons.
But
But
But
Hear me out: Pacific Islander Percy Jackson.
I grew up around a lot of people who were Pacific Islanders. I loved the culture and the people.
So imagine Percy and his mom were Pacific Islanders. Like the traditional tattoos such as Ta Moko of the Maori or Percy getting Pe’ a which is a tattoo that Samoan men get that starts from the waist and goes down to the knees while Sally has Malu.
Percy getting fucking hyped when Moana comes out.
Percy 👏🏽mothafuckin 👏🏽Jackson 👏🏽doing👏🏽hula👏🏽
I have binged watched so many hula videos and traditional hula of both sexes and that shit is gorgeous.
That’s just my thoughts. What ethnicity do you imagine Percy?
#percy jackson and the heroes of olympus#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#sally jackson#headcanon#pacific islands
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Friendly reminder that even though certain cultures have a place in society for SOME lbgtqia+ minorities, it doesn't mean that they are queer friendly.
For example, in the Samoan culture, we have fa'afafine (literally "pretend-female.") This is often translated as "trans woman" in English but this really isn't true to form. Fa'afafine continue to be addressed by their birth names and birth pronouns (which is cultural, don't go calling us savages). However, their relationships with cismen are conducted in secret and the cismen that become involved with them never come out as gay, bi or queer. Fa'afafine may also be accepted in society at surface level, but also may not receive the malu (female version of the pe'a, the traditional tattoo of Samoa, which is given to people of rank or status) nor marry anyone but cis-women.
There is also no place in Samoan society for lesbians or trans men.
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Can I request headcanons for Mina and tsuyu (separate) with a s/o who’s Samoan plz?
Sure thing! Also, my requests are currently open if anyone is interested!
I really hope I didn’t do to bad with this X’3 I tried looking up some information on the culture and stuff before writing!
Mina and Tsuyu with a Samoan S/O
Mina Ashido
- You two met your first year of college when Mina came to the support department to upgrade her suit
- She found out you had started school late since your family had just moved to Japan a few months prior, which didn’t give you the chance to try and get into the hero course
- She was intrigued when you said you wanted to try and accepted into it the next year
- First this led to an odd friendship
- Mostly Mina dragging you around to different locations, until it clicked in her mind that the reason you look at everything so confused was because you still couldn’t fluently speak Japanese
- Thus she took it upon herself to teach you!
- In return you teach her Samoan, and after you found out she enjoyed dancing, you offer to teach her siva
- The two of you start dating close to the end of your first year, while your planning your actions to get into the hero course
- Mina tries her best to train you on what she knows, which means you wear some loose athletic clothing
- Which also means she gets to see your malu/pe’a tattoos
- She’ll ask you a thousand different types of questions after seeing them
- Next time she comes to your house you show her your traditional Samoan clothing that you brought over with you
- Has you model for her and honestly SHE’S LIVING FOR IT!
Tsuyu Asui
- You meet after summer vacation, as you had been introduced as a new student in the hero course who had just transferred to Japan
- When she hears you explain that you’re Samoan she takes it upon herself to do a little research to make you feel welcomed
- It actually surprises you when you’re trying to study up on your Japanese and Tsuyu randomly appears beside you
- She apologizes for scaring you, but starts asking you questions about where you’re from and what you enjoy doing
- It was the start of a beautiful friendship, which just as quickly developed into a romantic relationship
- She helps you study Japanese, and you teach her a few Samoan words.
- One day when you two are talking, you bring up that you used to enjoy rugby, though your dad used to enjoy kilikiti more
- Tsu requests that you teach her how to play rugby, something the guys actually end up hearing about
- They request you teach them as well, which you agreed upon
- When you’re outside ready to show them how to play, they’re taken back one they see your malu/pe’a markings
- After you teach them how to play they ask you questions about the markings, what else could you teach them from your culture
- Thus you ended up teaching some of the guys and girls the sasa
- You teach Tsu how to make some traditional Samoan cuisine, and in return she teaches you how to make some pretty simple Japanese dishes that she prepares for her siblings
#my hero academia#boku no hero academia#tsuyu x reader#tsuyu asui x reader#asui tsuyu x reader#ashido mina x reader#mina ashido x reader#minda x reader#ashido x reader#tsuyu asui#asui tsuyu#mina ashido#ashido mina#x reader#hc#x reader hc#x reader headcanons
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They don’t deserve our tattoos!
In our culture, our tattoos are what represent us as Samoans. These tattoos are made for our people and our people only. Back then, the soga’imiki which is a tattoo meant only for the chiefs, is now for any person of any race. It is clearly shown that our culture is slowly fading away with these things being changed throughout time. The other thing is the Malu tattoo which is made only for the Taupous of a village, and like the soga’imiki, this tattoo is now being tatted on by any female. Back then, there is a saying that the men always use, “Ka muamua lou guku, ga ka ai la’ia o lou kigo.” This means is in order to earn the tattoo and the respect that comes with it, you must know how to speak the language with respect and know your role as a Matai for your family and village. These tattoos are taken very seriously for it means a lot when you earn it, what I see today is that this traditional tat is being used for more of fashion and less of culture wise. Things should return to how it was back then, where everything was the way of the Samoans. To see our culture not being taken seriously anymore, makes you feel a type way that you don’t like where our culture is headed. Our people should return to how it was back then with our culture, we have these races wearing our tats and I don’t see anyone standing up for it and putting a stop to it.
@english128-3rdperiod
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