#your fave is pasifika

[your-fave-is-pasifika]

Ballister Boldheart from Nimona is Cook Island - British mix!

[lesbianspeedy]

Hi!

Sorry to bother you. I love your content and I saw you also were posting about Mean Girls (2024). I love that movie. I also love the idea of Reneè as Mia.

I also love Auli’i from the same movie. I think she really brought a new angle to Janis and I thought that was really cool. (Also, Pasifika rep is always important to me).

Bringing them up because I saw your blog has some Regina x Janis posts. You don’t have to answer: do you have a favorite song from the musical (can be movie or Broadway)?

Sorry again to bother and if this is mean/weird. Have a good day/night!

never ever a bother to talk about mean girls or renee dont u worry

i do have a fave song from the musical, though its different for each, for the bway version it's Stop, and im so so sad it didnt make the movie (jaquel wouldve killed it). though erika's rendition of stupid with love is a close second mostly just for the calculust part.

as for movie my favourite song, and scene, is Someone gets hurt! love love love. (apex predator by auli'i and jaquel is my close second. and obviously also world burn)

[elliot-rambles]

guys how much hype would we get if we made a side blog akin to @your-fave-respects-xenogenders except its for pasifika headcannons? we have so many and kinda feel the need to make this poll time! :3 answering the poll, comments and reblogs are more valued than likes on this one, guys!

[bingsoo-jung]

I’m going to be adding on two unconnected topics:

1) reading the dellemortes as asian when they were not cast as such is weird

2) the simplification of dorian’s identity down to solely south asian was brought about by a poor understanding of complicated ethnicities formed in former british colonies

One

While the dellemortes were originally intended to be korean-italian or korean-spanish (in my head this means they were supposed to be korean-argentinian LMAO) they clearly didn’t actually end up casting that way. And that’s fine! I don’t mind that. But people going ‘but they WERE that in the game’ are ridiculous. Like… no clearly they weren’t. They didn’t cast a korean actor, let alone a korean spanish, italian, or latine actor for that role. And to be honest with you, they were trying to find someone who matched a nearly non-existent ethnicity. There are only around 70k people worldwide who match what they were looking for, finding 2 actors and an older actress with the correct accents and ethnicity would’ve been impossibly hard. I don’t blame them fo not going that route.

But it does mean that in a cast of very purposefully cast actors that acting like the guy played by a clearly not asian guy, is playing an asian guy, is just a weird form of modern yellowface. Like no, he’s not korean. Stop being weird and fetishizing koreans. Like yes i would like every piece of media to have koreans, but not every piece of media does, and pretending like your local white fave looks korean is fucking weird. Calm the fuck down. Be normal.

Two

So here’s the thing, dorian’s character, and thus tevinter retroactively, have been made south asian coded because of dorian’s actor. However dorian’s actor isn’t solely south asian. Specifically ramon tikaram is indo-fijian and sarawak malay. For a bit of history, indo-fijians are people of indian descent in fiji, whose ancestors brought to fiji by the british to be indentured servants under horrible conditions. Whereas sarawak malays are ethnically malay people from sarawak. Malaysia was the oldest british colony in asia, in fact the east india company wasn’t named for india, it was named for malaysia, the east indies are the south pacific. Furthermore, tikaram was born in singapore, when britain still had military there, his father was in the military, there is a lot to be said about brown soldiers of the british empire being used to police their other colonies, and that weird and specific reality.

Now, if you know anything about these groups, and how people in the south pacific tend to identity, most of our families identify with the country we’re from. You can look up indo-fijians talking about how they often dislike being put being into solely one category of pasifika OR indian, and in my experience as southeast asian, we also dislike being told we’re just one thing. Identities formed in the context of colonialism, especially by diasporic populations are complex things, and to simplify them down to the easiest component to understand, is very much a view of ethnicity and identity that is reductionist. Just going ‘well they’re this thing because their ancestors were’ is weird and distills ethnicity and culture down to some psuedo-scientific concept with numbers and percentages centered in an understanding of ethnicity that was created when britain set down its colonies and started involuntarily moving people around so they could get all their tea and sugar for cheap.

Now I don’t know how tikaram identifies, not in the least, but I do think it says a lot when a bunch of white canadians with no connection to the region, decide to just pick the easiest route of identification for a character they partially based off of an actor, and basically go ‘he’s south asian now!’ Like yes, they don’t need to model the character off of tikaram’s specific heritage, but there is something to be said about creating a fantasy world and actually creating interesting new cultures from combining and exploring how different cultures IRL could interact and produce something new. It also in many ways shows a lack of thought about the ramifications. Because it’s bad enough with the context of tikaram being of indian descent. I would say it’s worse with the context of tikaram being indo-fijian which is a group of people who we know were traded, sold, and passed around by the british. It adds a specific weird extra layer to everything, and it makes all of that history just a bit more… yikes.

… so yeah! I don’t have a way to end this. But yeah

to the people who tagged that asian dellamortes post with “i thought lucanis was asian because of his eyes” firstly me too and before i even read the art book LOL because if i reach then he kind of looks like he has double eyelids but secondly i believe that was copium. if the designers ever come out and say “the dellamortes were always meant to be partially/half asian” then we should kill them because there is nothing that implies any kind of korean or asian coding. i think there is a clear and total failure in character design and writing if you present a character who is white passing and fail to address the fact that their quote unquote culture means something to them and the writing treats them like they’re (only) italian or spanish. like i think if he actually was supposed to be asian he would have mentioned literally any korean dish. while we’re here i kind of would have liked more references to worldbuilding for bellara (and cyrian) who has a hairpin (a cultural thing not seen before in thedas! but from where?) or irelin who has an accent which literally implies she is not from thedas or that she at least speaks another language. same goes for neve and dorian but i also would have had mixed feelings about south asian aesthetics pinned onto thedas’ proxy for the roman empire that is also filled with slavery. like i don’t think it’s gotta be one-to-one with coding especially with a world that is as broad as thedas but it is kind of crazy that a previous head writer said “idk. i guess there are just no asians on the continent. don’t ask me again” and then it was like hmmm actually the pavus family seem to be the only asians on the continent and then suddenly veilguard goes “HEY WE’VE HAD ASIAN PEOPLE THE WHOLE TIME!”

[princessnijireiki]

on the one hand I'm selfishly curious about the other atlanteans' casting (not least of all bc uh... I hate aquaman sorry, I hate that their atlantean royal family is so white supremacist-y), otoh I REALLY want them to get the right fit for this cast which imo is gonna mean pulling from new talent rather than the tiny native hollywood pool, especially because I want tenoch huerta to be the visual standard for marvel's atlantis.

like I don't want a repeat of the blu hunt & blair redford xcu (or tbh the odette annable & meaghan rath in banshee) casting standards, I don't want a centering of white passing lightskinned actors anywhere near BP. I don't wanna see anyone who's been in a twilight movie lol. I want fresh faces & I want fresh blood. I want the same vibes as cree summer disney atlantis, when the visuals were fresh, new, and the characters were all unambiguously brown.

I wanna have fun & I hate to be a hater but that can't happen with the big names y'all know on the american indigenous acting scene, I'm sorry— but I don't wanna see gil or chaske or zahn or wes. I don't wanna see tonantzin or tanaya.

I want the casting director to make an effort and give us what we've somehow still been waiting for and let coogler realize his vision, and I want it not to be something catering to non latino visuals of indigeneity & non indigenous visuals of latinos.

[wistfulrat]

Hi! First of all, thank you so much for your post about the maori cultural influences in Taika's work, it was really interesting! The only work about maori culture that I was familiar with is a film called Whale Rider that I watched for a university class years ago. Is it considered like a staple in New Zealand or was it one of those films that are more popular abroad? (Also sorry for my English)

oh Whale Rider is one of my all time faves forever (also im pacific islander but not māori. it’s just their media has a large impact on the rest of us in poly/micro/melanesia so im not speaking as a native/local to nz but as a fellow pasifika)

it’s def a staple in the pacific, and not just for how much critical acclaim the film received, but bc the production was sooo Māori (even tho Niki Caro the director isnt, she was born and raised in NZ, committed to telling the story with respect). it was a big deal to make an adaptation of Witi Ihimaera’s novel bc he’s one of the pioneers of Māori literature. the fact that the producers were very intent on shooting in the real settings of the book, casting iconic Māori actors, and then finding a Māori lead like Keisha Castle-Hughes who would end up being, at the time, the youngest ever to be nominated for the best actress oscar (and def the first pacific island woman to be nominated). so yea idk it was huuuge and remains a staple bc it’s an excellent film but also was a massive cultural moment for Māori art and pacific island stories as a whole.

[imaginariumrpc]

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Hello, bonjour and pusu’l, lovelies! My name’s Arcana, I’m twenty years old, a Canadian, a Solar Cancererian, a Lunar Sagittarian and a Rising Libra, according to the Western Zodiac, and a Dragon according to the Chinese Zodiac, Genderfluid, Multigender, Transgender, Non-Binary, Intersex, Queer, Autigender, Pearlian, Two Spirit, Androgynos, Draoidhe,  DemiOmniBiromantic/DemiOmniBisexual, Autistic and otherwise neurodivergent, ENFP, Ravenpuff, Thunderbird, Otherkin, Therian, an Animist, a Pagan and I’m intrigued in the occult and witchcraft and I am additionally a white passing mixed triracial multi-indigenous person of color or more specifically, of Mi’kmaw, Wyandot, Wolastoqiyik, Métis and Sephardi Jewish heritage! I like cuddling and playing with cats and dogs and animals, eating pizza, taking pictures, music, reading, writing, gushing about friends and helping others. So with that said, I’m here to present you guys my new rpc / rph / aesthetic / inspiration / resource / personal / edit blog ! It’s for my own use but it can also be for your use ( provided you don’t take any of my original content off of this blog without my express permission ), the rpc and anyone else who wishes to use it, too! It features musings, codes, psd’s, psa’s, memes and a LOT more sprinkled with the occasional original content from me.

WHAT I DO:

a discord server affliated with this blog.

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memes.

musings.

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base icon batches ( uncommon, but will open on occasion. )

psd recommendations.

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masterlists.

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psa’s.

unpopular opinions.

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animals.

mythology.

weddings.

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resources for portraying muses who practice witchcraft.

resources for portraying muses who are sex workers.

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shitposts.

mun stuff.

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occasionally post some of my fanfiction / drabble works.

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possibly post specific music edits when i figure out how to do so.

more to be added when i think of something.

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callout posts.

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So, with that said, PLEASE like and/or reblog this if you’re interested in using it or at the very least spread the word! I really want to try and help people and have fun with you guys, but I can’t do that if this doesn’t get any notes. You can find out more information by reading my F.A.QHERE! Thank you so much for reading, I hope you all have a wonderful morning/day/evening/night! Yours truly, with all of my love, Arcana.

[your-fave-is-pasifika]

Raine Whispers from The Owl House is Niuean!

[your-fave-is-pasifika]

Gus Porter from The Owl House is I-Kiribati!

[your-fave-is-pasifika]

Johnny Cade from The Outsiders is Maori - iwi Ngapuhi!

[your-fave-is-pasifika]

Hello, kia ora, and welcome!

hello everybody! I am mod Eli, and this is your fave is pasifika! the goal of this blog is to bring more representation to the pasific community through headcannon!

Basics! We are a mixed origin endogenic system, but the only alter who will post on this blog is Eli. Our collective pronouns are he/they/xe (pronoun page on our main blog) We are Maori and Pakeha mix, with our kaupapa originating from iwi Ngapuhi and Ngati Kuri! :3

Pfp, stats and more! :D Character in pfp: Johnny Cade - The Outsiders (1983) Flag in pfp (if applicable): Maori flag Character in banner: Raine Whispers - The Owl House Flag in banner (if applicable): Flag of Niue

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