windows-vriska:

• bring them to a party. extroverts do not care who they are with or where they are going and don’t care about safety or sleeping or going to work the next day. they live to party. make it happen 4 them.
• they are basically golden retrievers. they do not have deep thoughts or feel sadness they just…

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avali:

critink:

Up in the rice terraces of the Cordillera mountain range of the Philippines live the last few tattooed women of Kalinga. Traditional tattooing is seen as archaic and painful by the younger generations of Kalingas. As an Indigenous group that has successfully fought against colonizing forces, it is losing the practice of traditional tattooing because of the changing perspective of beauty and interpretations of the practice by outside scholars.

Studies on the tradition interpreted the practice to show that men were given tattoos because of brave acts during tribal wars while the women were given tattoos just to decorate their bodies. Men who attempt to get traditional tattoos without acts of bravery are shunned by the community and are now unable to continue the practice without facing criminal charges from the government. Women are unconstrained by the same reasons but are struggling to continue the practice because of the pervasive western interpretations of aesthetics that changed the perceptions of “beauty” in Kalinga. To the women of Kalinga, the batok or the tattoo goes beyond beauty and prestige but it is symbolic of the traditional values of women’s strength and fortitude.

The traditional tattoo is an indigenous body art, an expression of the psychological dimensions of life, health, love and it defines local perceptions of existence. Sadly there is now a decline of the traditional art among indigenous women brought about by the changing perspective of the meaning of the tattoo and its stigmatized practice. It is now considered a vanishing art along with the gatekeepers of the knowledge associated with it.

The Last Tattooed Women of Kalinga by Jake Verzosa. Jake Verzosa is a freelance photographer based in Manila.

Just stunning

radiotook:

Yeah, please do tell what happened to you, Apollo. 

Because we’re not gonna be seeing much sprite of them anymore, I thought it would be interesting to do Apollo’s new look in sprite form. 

greatestgeneration:

Filipino women training for the first “Women Guerrilla” corps in Manila.

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agentsunfish:

videohall:Thanksgiving etiquette

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Another irrelevant variation of the same photo-shoot we already reblog thousand of times.

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