#kiwi slang

[ellenhenryart]

(via "Kiwi Slang Leshgo!" Magnet for Sale by ellenhenry)

[danvillecheese]

just realised i probably sound american bc i use “like” so much in my posts lmao

[kitoclock]

The urge to write:

Theo pulled a u-ie in his ute to park across the road.

Instead of:

Theo did a u-turn in his truck to park across the street.

[c00kietin]

just taught my mum and dad that Nancy Sinatra was Frank Sinatra's daughter- I'm quite proud of myself :>

[alliswyattonthewesternfront]

listening to some kiwi comedians and one of them just said "mouth full of concrete, dick full of diamonds" like it was a common turn of phrase? i will be saying this all the time now of course.

[lohstandfound]

18 38 44 :]

18: If you could collaborate with anyone, who would it be, and what would you write about?

Actually, I think it would be really fun to collaborate with you on something. No idea what it would be, probably something to do with the popular kids. But I have no plot or anything in mind

Maybe my illustrator for recollections. I would love to collaborate with him since that is what we are supposed to be doing.

38: Weirdest story idea you’ve ever had

answered here

44: How much research do you do?

It really depends what I'm writing about. For the first royal pains piece, I had to look up like 3 things, which really isn't a lot.

Perhaps I should put in more research for general america things otherwise I'll be saying the characters are going on a maccas run or they're going to shout someone a drink which are things I have said/written that have confused people outside of New Zealand and Australia.

But for fanfiction, really not a lot of research goes into it. Deities au has me referring to my museum studies notes, or flower meanings for the hanahaki fics I've written.

For my graphic novel series, a decent amount of research has gone into it on my part. Sometimes it's the practical of planning a story, worldbuilding tips, map drawing, and all that. But since a large part of many character's power comes from deities, there has been research on the deities themselves, mythical weapons, religions surrounding those deities such as King Arthur, ancient Greek religion, cursed blades in Norse or Celtic mythology

[datura-tea]

6 and 8 for kiwi?

6. a song lyric to describe their personal style: amakabogera - maymay estrada

lalakad na ala-beauty queen, awra ko will make you scream ganda kong nagniningning, lalo kang mapapatingin 'di ko na kailangan na magpaganda, dating ko pa lang, panalo na 'di ko need ng filters sa camera, naturang ganda'y ibandera (walk like a beauty queen, my aura will make you scream my shining beauty will really make you look i don't need to glam up, my presence is enough i don't need camera filters, i flaunt my natural beauty)

kiwi does not follow trends; trends follow them. they have confidence in spades, and that's even the wildest looks will look good on them. kiwi will wear anything as long as it isn't boring!

8. a song lyric that would make them feel Seen: cut to the feeling - carly rae jepsen

take me to emotion, i wanna go all the way show me devotion and take me all the way i wanna cut through the clouds, break the ceiling i wanna dance on the roof, you and me alone i wanna cut to the feeeling, whoa

the main downside of being kiwi is that their people never treat them seriously, and emotions are always so surface-level. kiwi doesn't want that! they want connection! someone to look past the glitz and glamor and see the person who'd stay up until 4am redoing their stitches because it didn't look right the first time!

[lovebugcody]

this will only be funny to a specific demographic of people that follow me but in my psych stats lecture, we were told about roy's largest root hehehe

[pizzaapeteer]

good yarn 💕

morning lyssy you’re adorable 🤍 and I accept your definition of the word 🤭

[pir8core]

aussies in the notes of the smoko post apologising on my behalf like god forbid i make a joke poking fun at the prevalence of aussie/kiwi slang on the internet atm its not that deep

[crabussy]

JUST LEARNED THAT SQUIZ. IS KIWI SLANG AND NOT A WORD IN THE AVERAGE PERSONS LEXICON

[diazsdimples]

Nau mai haere mai ki Aotearoa!!! We'd love to have ya! Watch out for prickles, hot sand and keas cause they're cheeky little fuckers and will steal the rubber from your tyres. Also if you say "kiwi bird" you will be escorted back to the border, the All Blacks reign supreme are better than the Wallabies (repeat that after me) and remember that Christopher Luxon is a fucking muppet and couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

When are we running away together to live in NZ with @diazsdimples ?

Anytime you want 😘😘( but I'm gonna make a plan to do it in 2025/26 1000% after i will submit those stupid term paper and translation)

We gonna have big found family with James and his husband, have big garden all together to plant veggies, fruits and flowers

P.s would u believe me i actually looked like Henry when i was drinking?

[misty-235]

Modern headcannons for the sawyers, if they had internet lol

TW: mentions of war, mentions of dead animals, Lots of sweet sweet cringe mentions of sexuality

Modern headcanons:

Bubba:

He watches those sensory videos of people cutting up bits of soap, along with makeup tutorials, religiously. It makes him really happy.

Definitely has scented candles and fairy lights everywhere.

His pet chicken has her own instagram account, and he treats her like a queen. She’s managed to become somewhat of an e-celebrity.

He’s probably able to talk to a degree, write and use sign-language, having gone to some sort of school, since education for those with learning difficulties has progressed a lot since the 1970s.

A brony, but fortunately of the wholesome variety that just unironically likes a television show about cute talking animals.

Overall, he doesn’t use the internet nearly as much as his chronically online older brothers, and probably shares a computer with Drayton.

Nubbins

Is a furry. There is nothing anyone can do about it, and although Drayton regularly tells him he’s a degenerate, he refers to his hands as paws. He has an extremely mangy fur suit that he made himself, out of real animal pelts, and looks like some sort of rabid dog type thing, although it's virtually unidentifiable.

Made a YouTube tutorial on how to collect the best roadkill, and promptly got roasted for it online. However, he literally doesn’t care, and just giggles whenever anyone sends him a strongly worded email.

He has been the subject of about 5 Kiwi farms threads, and has somehow managed to become a full fledged lolcow. Again, he doesn’t give a damn and is just living his best life. He’s the definition of “cringe but free.”

Definitely posts his photography on deviant art, complete with out of pocket titles like “Headcheese��� and “dead skunk :D.”

For some reason he knows all of the brain rot slang there is to know, and uses it in everyday conversation, much to everybody’s chagrin. Also ends text messages with “Rawr XD.”

Robert/ Chop Top

Total emo, complete with a bizarre haircut and neon green highlights. Of course, this is just a wig; he was injured in Afghanistan, and got his head plate when he got almost blown up by a landmine. Owns a lot of kandi bracelets.

He lurks on 4Chan, and seriously believes he’s well on his way to finding Bigfoot, and pigeons are malicious government spy drones with poisonous droppings. Also occasionally trolls random people.

Instead of loving In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, he listens to Nyan Cat on repeat.

Unfortunately, he’s also a weeb. May or may not own a body pillow, but hides it well whenever Drayton’s around. He owns at least one katana and sometimes just sits in his room making anime sounds and waving it around.

He doesn’t have a Discord kitten, he is a Discord kitten. He’s shameless, and will sell pictures of any part of his body for a few dollars. Bro is broke.

Has watched literally every shock video he can get his grubby hands on. Lemon party, Goatse, blue waffle (by the way, don’t look these up, you might need eye bleach) he’s here for it. Cackles like a maniac whilst watching, too.

Most of his search history consists of the aforementioned shock videos, “how to talk to females IRL” and “feet pics pretty.”

Drayton

“What is a mee-mee?”

Starts random beefs with other chilli competition contestants on Facebook. These get really heated, to the point of death threats.

Has been hacked about a dozen times, because his password is always “password.” He thinks this is really clever. Sometimes his brothers go onto his account post cursed stock images and ruin his credibility.

Has like 50 tabs open on his search engine at any one time. His computer is permanently on the brink of death, but stubbornly hangs on.

[pumpkinsy0]

curly hcs bc hes literally my lil fella and im his #1 fan

•he would lowkey give himself scars that he thinks would look cool on him but those injuries like NEVER scar so he ends up just hurting himself for nothing and hes so mad. when tim cane hime w that big ass scar he stopped for a while, only a while bc then he was back in his bs, not as bad as before but yea

•hes not a big fan of smoking cigarettes OR drinking, he hates the burn, thats y hes more of a weed smoker. that being said tho hes scared hes gonna end up like his mom, being high/drunk all the time cause he knows him smoking weed is a slippery slope

•being 100% honest here, if it wasnt for tim, curly wouldnt give a singular FAWK about the shepard gang, he wouldnt even b IN it. the reason y he got in the shepard gang was bc it was tims idea to put curly in the gang, for safety in numbers type thing and bc hes his fucking brother, duhhhh hes putting curly in it (thats where the gang calling curly basically a nepo baby comes from). and the reason y he tries so hard in the gang is for the sake of tim and tim alone, he doesnt wanna come off as him trying to sabotage everything tims worked so hard for bc hes “lazy”. curly hates most of the guys in the gang

•he cant sleep facing the wall and he cant shower w his back turned to the door, hes on alert for if someone tries sneak attacking him. plus he likes acting dramatic in the shower and leaning on the wall like hes in an action movie and its raining outside!!!

•he takes up all the room w his legs when hes sitting down, theres man spreading and theres whatever the hell he does, hes wayyyy too comfortable and never sits up right

•tims broken his nose (multiple times), curlys broken his arms on different occasions, its only a matter of tim before angela breaks her leg or somethin and curly jokes that in 5 years if nature diesnt run its course and make it happen, HE will

•sometimes even he cant believe he has blue eyes, he stares into the mirror lookin at em,,,,hm,,,

•angela likes apples while curly doesnt BUT angela hates the skin while curly DOES like that bit, so when tims peeling an apple for angela, curlys nearby basically like his apple skin disposer

•one of his baby teeth came out when he was play fighting pony and he bit him then the tooth came out, another one did when tim slammed curly onto the couch but he bounced off of it, hit his head and it came out, rim thought it was an adult one and nearly pissed himself he thought he fucked up curlys teeth😭😭

•hes a kiwi strawberry flavor lover, or just a strawberry flavored drink lover, hes never gonna admit to that tho, he will always say its for angela when he gets caught w the drink despite the fact that angela is more of a fruit punch kinda gyal, tim gets peach

•curly hated elvis from the get go, he was his biggest hater and the day curly found out how he died and the amount of SHITE backed into that man, nobody has ever seen curly as giggly or happy as that day curly wants to relive that moment all the time

•hes one of those guys that can do a REALLY good girl voice, like SUPER good, its from all the years of teasing angela

•made friends w the lunch ladies so they give him extra desserts, and front desk assistant for the principle from all his visits to the office

•hes good w markers, doesnt like crayon cause of all the gaps it leaves, and deep down in his heart would rlly like to learn how to paint, but tim wont allow him to cause he would just get paint everywhere (hes right)

•curly calls angela twin to b ironic and annoy her, i dont say this bc i hc them as twins and im one of those ppl who make siblings call each other “lil bro/sis”, ON THE OTHER SIDE, when he calls tim twin, hes using twin as slang

•curlys relationship w angela is thee only positive female relationship hes had in his entire life and maybe will ever have, im not joking. hes the one who came up w calling angela angel and thats a huge reason y (not the only but yea). u coulldddd say his relationship w his mother is in a way positive but ehhhhhh

•he has like little to no remembrance of the time leading up to them immigrating to america, genuinely doesnt remember it, in his mind one day he just “woke up in america”, his mind blocks out it happening

•he finds rolling up blunts VERY fun that he does it even when theres no weed TO roll up, as long as he has a sheet of paper, hes good

•he sees angela and tim as more than siblings. like ok yes in passing he wont get too deep into it and would say theyre siblings n leave it at that, but deep down he feels way more connected to them than say pony feels w darry and soda. hes always held tim up to this certain light bc of everything hes done especially for curly and w angela he just vibes differently than her, sometimes when hes alone w her he feels like its just them against the world

•hes a full blown atheist in a family full of christians/vodou practitioners/ppl who r not NOT religious but not religious either and still practice here and there (tim and angelaaaaa im looking at uuuuu) he finds it so awkward when ppl pray ESPECIALLY if its for him, he just stands there hoping it ends fast before they start scream praying (so real king)

•he strikes me as the guy who would have a goatee when hes older, AND U KNOW WHAT???? he looks good, he looks good in it, u cant hate him

•his singing isnt that bad actually, which thank GOD bc bad voice or not hes singing his heart out in his car, screammminnggg out the lyrics he has no shame

•he sooooo very desperately wants to make tim happy, he wants to make tim smile but doesnt know how, closest he gets is when him and tim play fight. he can always make angela smile tho!!!

•speaking of smiles he has a very cute smile and angela pinches his cheek when he does it, curly hates it but whats he gonna do to stop it, nothing

•said it once ill say it again, ponys canonically the best shooter in the curtis family, the day curly finds those shotguns in the curtis house (and doesnt blow his head smooth off already) is the day hes begging pony to teach him how to shoot w em, WILL PONY TEACH HIM???? no, even pony knows teaching curly how to do that is dangerous

•xbox vs playstation, hes going for xbox

•hes somewhat of a morning guy bc he stays awake through the night till like 9am, afternoon is where hes all grumpy, mainly bc thats when ppl r hustling and bustling, just everywhere, and he hates that. morning and night always feels quiet to him, IN DIFFERENT WAYS, but still quiet

•the shepards used to live in florida, VERY briefly new york, and massachusetts. he realllyyyyy liked florida, HATED massachusetts, he places oklahoma in like 3rd place out of the places he lived

[mfmango]

COD MW HCS BECAUSE IM HYPERFIXATED

- ghost can go really long without blinking. Will win staring contests no questions asked

- this is canon but once when soap and alejandro cooked tgt, it was alejandro trying to show soap how to cook a Mexican dish and failed horribly and they ended up burning it

- makarov has peak childhood trauma. his mother was NOT nice to him and he hides his emotions well but yuri knows like, some of it but knows not to ask cause makarov gets angry asf

- if makarov ever or has let a woman into his life, if they ever show any motherly traits he will fall fast but end up distancing himself bc he doesn't like feelings. silly old man

- price is afraid of minions.

- gaz once said soap looks like he wears pup gear at pride parades. soap has never recovered since

- gaz is also zesty as FUCK. Not straight in the slightest

- rodolfo/rudy and alejandro talk shit about people in spanish

- valeria is painfully good at cooking and she cooks the best rice ever

- gaz has taught price some MLE (londoner slang basically)

- gaz has 3 nike techs

- ghost is shit at cooking. makes banger tea tho

- price and laswell get into arguments about small things, and usually stupid shit as well (i.e if cats or dogs are better)

- ghost had a comic book collection, a lot of dc comics, mostly batman comics

- soap knows a lot of facts about oddly specific

- rodolfo/rudy is quiet. doesn't speak much, even around alejandro

- alejandro does a lot of the talking when he's watching rodolfo/rudy

- price hates kiwi (the fruit)

- soap once called gaz a batty boy/batty man (a way of calling someone gay in British slang, mostly London slang)

- ghost has picked up small scottish phrases from soap

- makarov is secretly heteroflexible/bi but only likes femininity, at the end of the day he just wants to relieve stress if ykwim

- makarov also found himself reading a lot as a child and read a lot of literature, even reads in his free time

- makarov was always very good at school, but once his father died he began working twice or triple as hard just to impress his mother but miserably failed, and that was the start of him overworking himself

- not a hc but can u tell I rlly like makarov

[verstappenalty]

liam being a hater and using kiwi slang in all his rbr videos I fear I am just going to have to make you guys love him