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
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the orange fritillary caterpillars have almost completely devoured this whole passionfruit vine, but it managed to put out one single passion flower!
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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! 😍❤️
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l̷̨̢̟̱̬̰̬͇͈̳͍̻̹̗̈͑̏ͅͅȩ̶̛̣͔̬͖̰͔̖̲͚͓̝̰̋͌͗͗̈͛́̍̉̑̓̏͆̉͛t̷͇̤̱̭̜̟̠̭̜͂̿̂͜ ̸̧̧͓̞̝̥͚͚̣̤͑̊͂̎͌̌̄l̴̳̩͈̯̗̫͔̯̙͖̄̋͋͌͂͐̍̃o̶̢̧͇͍̻̟̦̔̉̀͒͗̽̈́́̔̒̾̚͠ǫ̶̨͔̲̣̱̺̦̺̗̭͊̋s̶̡̢̡̞̯͈͚̙̥̤̠̫̋̓̽e̴̜̰̯̫͉̞̭̓̈́̿̈́͐͛́́̄̒͛̆̆̓̚̚͠ͅ
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what if i put caramelized onions on a grilled cheese. what then
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Hongjoong's pink hair is killing me I love him so much he's so pretty what am I supposed to do
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[ with @nxmelessfighter | from here ]
Sengo watches in silence as Ookurikara lays the flowers down upon the spot.
For once, this is a silence he's sharing-- not one he feels the need to fill with awkward chatter just so it doesn't hang.
As he gazes at the flowers, he finds himself revisiting their time with the Tokugawa in his mind-- they had been through so much, so many years-- so many decades-- and upon returning home it seemed as if hardly any time had passed.
Sometimes he wished the lives of Honda Tadakatsu and Ii Naomasa had been much, much shorter.
Thinking of Nobuyasu, and now looking upon where Gohei's grave once was, he can't help but feel the seething prick of hate for one Tokugawa Ieyasu. Because of him, these two young men needlessly lost their lives. He would have gladly made good on the Muramasa reputation of being enemy to the Tokugawa should the need have arisen.
But... Nobuyasu (nor Gohei) wouldn't have wanted that, and Sengo... doesn't really understand. That boy had grown up to be far kinder and sweeter than Sengo feels he has the capacity to be. He--
He pulls himself out of those thoughts, just in time to blink clear his misty eyes.
"Ookurikara..." he says finally, as he takes a seat, kneeling there where he'd stood.
"Has Tsurumaru ever spoken to you about what happened, after you all had departed?"
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