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🎃 Whina [say "FEEna"] | they/ia | takatāpui | aroreretini | unabashed

[classycookiexo]

[bandydear]

Just gonna share some pictures of Māori people here for the members of the fandom calling the Nona cover white washing

Jemaine Clement is Māori

Rima Ti Wiata is Māori

Both bride and groom of the viral wedding haka video are Māori. (Actually, at the time, the groom was criticized for participating in his own wedding haka because people made the assumption that he was white.)

The narrative that all Polynesian or Indigenous people have a monochromatic appearance or “set facial features and skin tone” is just insisting on a lack of diversity for “woke” reasons. Many people from the same island look very different from each other. I understand some folks feel very protective of characters they see themselves in, but there’s also a point of gatekeeping real people with that identity because they don’t fit the box you’ve made.

[canadianwheatpirates]

The argument that it can’t be Harrow because she “looks white” pisses me off so much. I grew up in the south (I’m pākehā) and people literally use shit like this to erase the fact that Southland’s population is 15% Māori, as well as to delegitimise Māori people across the nation (as you’ve pointed out already). This isn’t cherrypicking a small number of Māori people to argue the case, it’s normal for Māori people to look like this.

Saying that someone can’t be Māori because they appear to be white is colonial bullshit that’s actively harming Māori people now. Using those ideas in this fandom is wrong, even if you’re doing it under the guise of “preventing whitewashing”. Māori culture doesn’t use skin tone or blood quantum to determine whether someone is Māori, they have their own genealogy-based system (whakapapa), so imposing other systems over the one Māori people actually use is racist.

This isn’t to say that it’s impossible to whitewash Māori characters – it’s very possible. When there’s a clear canonical description of a Māori character’s features, it’s racist and whitewashing to change those features and lighten their skin tone. It would be possible to whitewash John Gaius, for instance, since he’s described as brown in HtN. However, we don’t have a clear description of Harrow’s features in this way. We have Word of God description of her as Māori and some colour picking from the HtN cover of her hands (and maybe the tiny bit of exposed neck). Descriptions of her face don’t gesture to ethnicity. That isn’t enough to make a solid claim that the cover of Nona The Ninth is whitewashing in comparison to previous parts of the series.

[deathhairball]

Kia ora, Māori person weighing in.

The only requisite to being Māori is whakapapa. If any one of your ancestors is Māori, you’re Māori. That’s it.

The author of these books has said that Harrow and Gideon are both "mixed Māori". This means they're Māori. It does not say anything about their skin colour, and it does not need to.

Plenty of Māori people are paler than the character on the Nona cover, myself included. Saying we're too pale to be Māori or that we don't look it is perpetuating colonial erasure and actively harming Māori people. I have a knot in my stomach from typing this.

This character has not been whitewashed. You cannot tell if someone is Māori by the colour of their skin. The people calling this whitewashing, in doing so, are whitewashing this character.

I was sent the cover image and told people were complaining about whitewashing. The first thing I thought seeing the character was "huh, they look Māori". @canadianwheatpirates said they reminded him of me when I had long hair. If that character stepped out of that image into my life and told me they were Māori, I would believe them. You should believe them.

Go watch this. It says all the things I want to say.

Reply to @diogenes_barrel_ I hope you learnt something from this sir :) Next time listen to people and uplift them rather than make them feel like there not worthy enough for the culture based on their skin colour :))). #nz #aotearoa #maori #fypシ #greenscreenvideo #ColorCustomizer #indigenous

A small excerpt: "There's a lot of young Māori out there who aren't as confident and comfortable in their Māoritanga and your comments could seriously damage the way they see themselves when it comes to being Māori, whether or not they're worthy of being Māori based on their skin colour or their talent or whether or not they can speak te reo." -- @babiiinative on tiktok

[natalieironside]

If we were to rate movies just by how accurate their titles are, Drive would be considered the greatest movie ever made

[makuta-tobi]

Reservoir Dogs on the other hand would be considered one of the worst films ever put to tape

[natalieironside]

Where's my fucking reservoir, Quinton?

[velociraptrix]

Jurassic Park gets a score of 2.86/10, because only 2 of the 7 dinosaur species in the movie are actually from the Jurassic

[archipithecus]

Holes, 10/10

unless you’re a topologist, in which case they’re all indentations

[canadianwheatpirates]

Gravity, 1/10, basically no gravity in the entire film smh

[fandomsandfeminism]

... so, I read a lot of books as a kid. Goosebumps, Hank the Cowdog, the Cricket in Times Square, all kinds of books. And I remember one year getting this box set of books that I *loved* about a litter of kittens who are inexplicably born with wings and go on some little adventures.

So, I look it up to see if it's still in print.

Ursula K Le Guin.

Wizard of Earthsea Le Guin. Left Hand of Darkness Le Guin. "We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable; so did the divine right of kings" LE GUIN wrote *Catwings*

I, my friends, had incredible taste as a child.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Found a copy on ebay. It's even shorter than I remember. Lol 40 whole pages.

With these beautiful illustrations.

[fandomsandfeminism]

"Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else." I cant explain it. But this is so funny to me.

[maelwife]

I’ve been waiting months for the Ashland mini rotary phone to come back in stock so I can do this craft

[maelwife]

[officialqueer]

Hey how does it feel to be the greatest artistic mind of the 21st century?

[sirobvious]

I know that’s kind of the go-to thing to show that a vampire character is “one of the good ones” or whatever but it actually seems a little bit more fucked up for a vampire to steal blood from a blood bank than for a vampire to attack people for blood, at least as long as it’s not the kind of vampire where a bite is instantly lethal like it never stops bleeding. 

People can recover from losing some blood but blood bank blood is constantly in short supply and is reserved for people who imminently need blood transfusion of a specific blood type or else they die.

[buckskinblues]

I also hate the “I can just substitute human blood with animal blood” like the whole idea of vampirism sort of hinges on the fact the only thing you can feed off of are humans.

[sirobvious]

YOU get it

[sirobvious]

Once you start having vampires subsist on animals, well, like, so do humans. In fact the average human probably eats more animals per year than most of the animal-blood-drinking vampires I’ve seen depicted.

That’s not a vampire, all you’ve written is an immortal superhuman who subsists on…food, even if it’s a bit undercooked. That’s a fucking elf.

[enchantedbook]

Illustration for the cover of Christina Rossetti’s : “Goblin Market and other Poems” by her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

[neil-gaiman]

YOU'RE STILL ALIVE???

No. This is a haunting. From here on out it gets really scary.

[modmad]

another strong contender for ‘the most Neil Gaiman post by Neil Gaiman’

[urban-trek-thru-middle-earth]

Lord of the Rings + Reductress (Part 6)

[sarahseeandersen]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

oh did I forget to mention that Foxfire aka fairy fire aka chimpanzee fire exists

Foxfire is not a specific type of fungi, but rather refers to bioluminescence emitted by multiple species. Fun fact: it was used to illuminate the barometer and compass needles in one of the world’s first submarines, which incidentally was named Turtle.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

wrong gif wrong gif WRONG FUCKING GIF

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I HAD A TOTAL OF 3 GIFS SAVED IN MY DOWNLOAD FOLDER I JUST CLICKED THE FIRST ONE THAT WAS GREEN & GLOWING & THIS HAPPENED

[deathhairball]

sore eyes from @amaramorningstar 's wall || for a second my limbs were too long and my body was part of my bed frame || y'all have a week to hit my poetry preorder bio link, I have a week to sort my shit x • #māoriartists #takatāpuiartists #irakoreartists #niueanartists #graphicdesigner #indigenouspoets #indigenousartists #blackandwhite #lines #crosshatching #hatching #gridpaper #graphpaper #mathsbook #mathbook #patterns #owmyeyes #queerartists #queerpoets #linework #repetition #abstract #abstractart #diamonds #etc (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGqXStCsOGO/?igshid=mrraze0pjo7s

[deathhairball]

*I moved house in the interim *the new @idlesband album is excellent *you can still preorder my poem book things at the link in my bio [there are three, previews from each a few posts back, proceeds from one are going to Te Whare Pounamu Women's Refuge] . . . #blackandwhite #patterns #shells #circles #scales #abstract #lettering #handwriting #waves #reverb #interim #ink #spiralnotebook #spiralbinding #spiralbound #biro #ballpoint #borders #abstractillustration #māoriartists #takatāpuiartists #irakoreartists #dunedinartists #series #poetry #poetrypreorder #tewharepounamu #womensrefuge #fundraising #transartists (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGE_aP6AXE6/?igshid=12glm8zngrn79

[deathhairball]

art time with spirit pals @emerlyons & @foxfoxxfox today, I love you both more than i can articulate 🖤🖤 this weekend was big and milestoney you can watch some of the reasons why on the @nzyoungwritersfest website, will put a link in the bio thing. huge thanks to everyone who showed up to make stuff with me this morning, I hope yall had a nice time x . . . #nzyoungwritersfest #nzywf #art #collage #suffering #fallinginlove #staples #kink #poetry #kinkypoetry #amiawriternow #apparently dear @zuck WHY do I have to log in to @facebookapp every single time I wanna crosspost shit now that you own both these platforms man cmon I only had to set up @tumblr once (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFowKMhA_st/?igshid=1mglah9vtknll

[deathhairball]

more Zinefest exclusives, Saturday 12-4 at Fringe HQ see you there x . . . #paintings #oilpaintings #abstract #poetry #poempaintings #paintingpoems #lettering #handlettering #handwriting #longhand #cursive #paletteknifepaintings #texturedpaint #texture #texturedpaintings #māoriartists #indigenousartists #tangatawhenuaartists #takatāpuiartist #queerartists #irakoreartists #agenderartists #buymyshit #ifyouwant #zinefest #zinefest2020 #dunedinzinefest #dunedinartists #nzywf #abstractpaintings (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFgNaGVgO0i/?igshid=mzx4e2i858th

[deathhairball]

freehand cuties & punk vest gap-fillers up for grabs at Zinefest this Saturday, Fringe HQ from 12-4pm. Zine making from 11-2pm, bring your creativity and cash for cool shit xx . . . #patches #handmadepatches #embroidery #calico #backstitch #runningstitch #eyes #leaves #kāore #no #māori #tereomāori #māoripatches #kauaewhakamā #tereo #māoriartists #takatāpuiartists #irakoreartists #gay #gaypatches #eyepatches #geddit #moody #handmade #crafty #dunedinart #dunedinartists #zinefest #nzywf #newzealandyoungwritersfestival (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFeGvt3Alk0/?igshid=94g6r81i9413

[deathhairball]

kaua e whakamā: don't be shy, don't be embarrassed. go forth and make mistakes, they're how we learn. another cool kupu for your day is kīwhakarau - give it a go. I love you so much. kaua e whakamā. he waka eke noa. don't be shy. we're all in this together. we got this. . . . . . . . #māoriartist #takatāpuiartist #irakoreartist #indigenousartists #tangatawhenua #kauaewhakamā #try #dontbeshy #shy #embarrassed #keitepai #allgood #yougotthis #māori #tereomāori #tereo #reo #kākahu #tewikiotereomāori #māorilanguageweek #hewakaekenoa #indigenous #lettering #handlettering #digitallettering #threadless #threadlessartistsshops #kiakahatereo #kiakaha #languages (at Dunedin, New Zealand) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFPCPt8At2V/?igshid=cc5oq2rrivh6