#tamoko

[afrotumble]

[ratscrap]

tamokooooooooo (and sarevok)

[bodymodificationnation]

Moko kauae by lance_ngata

[dabblingreturns]

I was thinking about the locked tomb today( as usual) and i was thinking about a beautiful peice of fan art I can no longer find of Wake with a Ta Moko tatto.

It gorgeous, I love it. And I will add it to this post when I find it....but I also think it's wrong....

I don't think the ta moko tradition would have survived in Blood of Eden... one or two of the original billionairs might have had Te Moko tattoos on thier faces, but Blood of Eden came from the global elite so that tradition wouldn't have enough traction....also Blood of Eden hid out among other population and super cool face tattoos would have been too much of a give away that they were other.

But I do think that the Ta Moko tradition did survive, ( though changed) in the nine houses. I fact, I think it's one of the first things we see in gideon the ninth....I think the ninth's skull masks were directly inspired by Te moko tattoos....

Here is my batshit theory*: Anastasia was in the second generation after resurection, and was Maori according to Taz muir. She probably didn't have Ta moko tattos....but her parents might have gotten them, pre-resurectio. So little Anastasia could have grown up with an odd love of bones and a very natural love of people who had elaborate face design. The context of those designs would have been lost, but the ink would remain. So when creating her own house, Anastasia might have pulled from the idea of ta moko to create the first skull makeup. This way, she took something beautiful but this no meaning that she loved, and she gave it meaning. And that tradition stayed because the ninth is isolated. And they kepted a peice of pre resurection culture alive

*Disclamer: I am a white American who can never fully understand the culture significance of these traditions....and the only reason I feel comfortable making this speculation is that im talking about a sci fi novel set 1000 years after everyone simultaneously lost thier historical context.

*edit. I originally spelled this "Te moko" because i am very dislexic, but a kind person pointed out that I spelled it wrong. Im sorry for any feeling that my have caused (i do care very much, but sometimes i mess up) I have edited the post to a more correct spelling. Wikipedia spells it "Tā moko" but I don't know how to get the special - on top of the a"

[incorrect-bhaalspawn-quotes]

Sarevok, whispering: Do you wanna know how I really injured my wrist?

Tamoko: Yeah?

Sarevok: I was hula hooping. I attend a class for fitness and fun.

Tamoko: Oh my gods.

Sarevok: I’ve mastered all the moves. The pizza toss, the tornado, the scorpion…the oopsie-doodle.

Tamoko: Why are you telling me this?

Sarevok: Because no one is ever gonna believe you.

Tamoko: You sick son of a bitch.

[justsomepaintingsforyou]

Pare Watene, Gottfried Lindauer | 1878

[toiariki]

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[tethys-the-aquatic-sea-godness]

Tamoko, about Sarevok: I can fix him.

Rieltar: Please don't, it took a lot of work to fuck him up this bad.

[durbmorrison]

Ta Moko on @naryanclaudy I did years ago. I still love the look and fit of this design on his chin! #tattoosbydurb #tamoko #moko #redtreetattoogallery #chintattoo https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-XlBAvSH_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mucking-faori]

Star wars fans don't appropriate māori and pasifika culture challenge (impossible)

[lamortwrites]

SAREVOK TAMOKO DURGE AND GORT PARALLELS!!!!!!!!!! durge and xvim!!!! I can’t

OKAY I HAVE TO PREFACE THIS BY SAYING. I am on team cleric of Xvim Tamoko I have not been active in any bg1 spaces probably since I was a teenager I do not know what the fandom consensus of her deity was but I DO remember that it was never actually confirmed in game (do I think the plan was for her to become Sarevok's Chosen? Maybe. Maybe the original plan after Sarevok's apotheosis was to help Tamoko push someone else off of the throne she wanted. You know, much like a popular durgetash theory ;))

ANYWAY the point is. Tamoko was a cleric of Iyachtu Xvim to me. So imagine being me running around as an amnesiac Bhaalspawn and finding out I USED TO HAVE FEELINGS FOR A BANITE? Already. AlREADY the wheels are turning. Already I am going HMM. THIS FEELS FAMILIAR.

And like...obv this is all up to interpretation and kinda depends on your choices in your own playthroughs but. Gort being so happy for you if you shake off Bhaal's influence? Vs him jumping straight to pragmatism and well guess you have to die for me if you won't be my ally? And then later w the brain, the theory that he knew the stones weren't working and chose to try and take the hit for you even though you don't remember him or any of what you had, maybe even showed up w a new lover? Compared to Tamoko being so willing to die for Sarevok just bc he told her to, even though he'd strayed so far from the man she loved? Did Gort know durge planned to betray him in the end? Would he have been willing to die for them?

And YEAH the durge/Xvim parallels are...SO tasty. Durge being born before Bhaal was even resurrected? Were they supposed to be his ticket back to godhood like how Bane did it? The fact that durge is technically a cambion too... Like, did pre tadpole durge chafe against their leash? WERE they planning on patricide? Was that the real reason for the lobotomy?

There's just. Idk there's something really poetic to me about Sarevok changing so much that he is unmoved by Tamoko's death vs durge having the potential to change so much that they are unmoved by Gortash's...

Also. I would save the man within the beast he wishes to be. You know. Which couple am I talking about here.

[ac-liveblogs]

i will give natlan exactly one (1) forgiveness point if they have mavuika do a version of the ka mate haka

first off, the ceremonial dance would be a great acknowledgment of her maori namesake, and a nod to the fact that she's the archon overseeing a sports tournament (ka mate haka most commonly seen when NZ teams face off in various sports, most famously the All Blacks) + the fact that it is also a battle chant (archon/nation of war)

but! the ka mate is also a celebration of life over death! "I die! I die! I live!" and. y'know. what do the people of natlan that go to fight in the night kingdom do. but triumph over death.

like c'mon. it'd work. and if nilou and ayaka can have their own dances, why not the people of natlan in the most appropriate way possible.

[queer-disability-aotearoa]

an interesting look into kiwi prison culture and the gang tattoo situation. way better than the fucking garbage vice put out about tamoko

[bodymodificationnation]

Moko kauae by lance_ngata

[bharv]

I wanna write a little Sarevok chapter of Even if Love but I am nervy because it’s been actual decades since I played the original games and I can’t remember so much

[incorrect-bhaalspawn-quotes]

Tamoko: Whole lot of people died today, Sarevok. Was it worth it?

Sarevok: Eh, I dunno. You just have to follow your heart. Mine says to stab people.