#tehutti

[tempelbeast]

This time we have renders of:

Kalama, Vakama and Nuhrii.

Vhisola, Nokama and Kai.

Tehutti, Midak and Whenua.

Makani, Matau and Orkahm.

Ally, Onewa, and Piatra

Mazeka, Nuju and Ehrye. I know Mazeka never was on Mata Nui. The idea is that The Order send him to secretly check on the Metru Nui Matoran on Mata Nui. He was spotted when he got grabbed by Nui-Rama. He kills it, and falls straight into Ko-Koro.

Iruini, Dume and Norik.

Dalu, Jovan and Velika.

Any thoughts?

[turagapohatu]

Tehutti: You have friends and I envy that. Whenua: You're welcome to share my friends. Tehutti: *looks at Matau and Onewa* Tehutti: I don't want those.

[nattarthetimedragon]

The finders of the great disks. Vhisola, Orkahm, Tehutti, Nuhrii, Ehrye, and Ahkmou

[randomwriteronline]

hi sorry i put more bio in your nicle. yeah i dont know how to draw them set accurate so i humanized them. yeah. it will happen again (who's who in alt)

[toaarcan]

One thing I think that’s worth noting is that the “Fake Toa Metru” candidates that Mata Nui allegedly tricked Teridax with, the ones who were the Great Disk Matoran, were actually reasonably viable candidates for being Toa themselves.

Like all destined Matoran, they’re all a little weird. And hey, the best lies are the ones rooted in the truth. I legitimately believe that all of them are destined to be Toa, it just wasn’t their time yet back in 04.

Yes even Ahkmou. No, not as a Shadow Toa.

[maswartz]

Toa Kra

In another universe part of Teridax's plan involved the abduction of the Great Disk Matoran after the return to Metru Nui and their transformation into dark Toa with the use of Shadow Leeches and a stolen Toa Stone. These Toa wear dark armor and resemble a mix of Hordika and Rahkshi. Toa of Inferno- Nuhrii- With his shadow flames Nuhrii burns all he sees. A task made easier with his Kalis Mask of Laser Vision. He uses his Blaze Burner to launch flames as far as he wishes and uses the bayonet on the end for close quarter combat. Toa of Floods- Vhisola- Mistress of the shadow waves Vhisola loves to use her Lebab Mask of Incomprehension to confuse groups of enemies and pick them off with her Coral Crossbow. Toa of Mountains- Ahkmou- Ahkmou commands the shadow stones in battle. He uses his Fazet Mask of Density to phase through enemy blows and increase the density of his Meteor Mace moments before impact. Toa of Quakes- Tehutti- With his Xirak Mask of Fragmentation Tehutti shatters the very ground below his enemies with his Seismic Spear and buries them in shadow earth. Toa of Storms- Orkahm- Slow and methodical Orkham calls on the shadow air to fight. With his Lomos Mask of Slowness he brings even the fastest enemy to a crawl leaving them wide open for his twin Cyclone Cannons. In a pinch he can attach the cannons to his back as jet boosters. Toa of Blizzards- Ehyre- Ehyre's shadow ice chills to the core. His favorite tactic is to freeze foes with his Ice Sickles before shattering them with his Descari Mask of Power Scream. Toa of Shadows- Vultraz- As sadistic and cruel as always Vultraz leads the Toa Kra. Wearing the Kraahkan Mask of Shadows his control of the darkness rivals that of a Makuta. His Darkness Daggers can cut through even light itself.

[deepsearahi]

Quite possibly the least trustworthy bunch Metru Nui has ever seen.

BONUS BUILD: 11/10 of Blackout Squad. Built with Stud.io

[jujucomet]

Inspired by a prev reblog because I think it would be fun. What are your weirdest Bionicle ship?

[arr-jim-lad]

i think that so far, Whenua might be my favourite character, or at the very least my favourite toa metru.

i do love pohatu he's my baby boy (PS: oh my god what did they DO to him in that short-lived reboot....) but there's something particularly intriguing about a character who holds so much knowledge & knows his way around a really unsettling place and is really chill about it lmao like ohhh what secrets do you hold 👁️👁️

but the best thing about him is that he has this specific casual type of humour i really love where like... with the way he words it you're not initially sure if it was supposed to be a joke, like if he knows that what he said came across funny, but with the consistency of it you can clearly tell that yes, they are jokes, and yes, whenua is really fucking funny.

and he still has the same type of humour as a turaga as well, the last line in this scene from tales of the masks took me out;

"No. But our power —" "Is nothing. A Toa’s true strength is here," Whenua said, pointing to his head. Then he placed a hand over his heartlight, saying, "And here. Your Toa power can move the dirt… Your mind and heart can move mountains." Whenua began to walk again, Onua beside him. "And is that what you used when we met the Kofu-Jaga?” the Toa asked. "My mind told me they have a sting," Whenua replied. "My heart told me I would not enjoy it."

onua literally asked this old man what gave him the wisdom to run away from fire scorpions and the man basically told him "common sense" lmfao

in the metru nui books and he gets this scene early on in his designated chapter;

"Go ahead," said the guard. "No one has ever made it past that door. You won't stand a —" Whenua threw the levers, one, two, three. The great door opened with a hiss. The Toa of Earth turned toward the guard and said, "What was that? Couldn't hear you over the door opening."

truly a master class in comedy, thank you whenua

not as much a spoken joke by whenua, but this scene with him gave me a sensible chuckle;

Whenua spotted Tehutti's transport cart in a corner, empty. Lying near it was a hammer, the kind used in Ta-Metru forges. The archivist in Whenua was dismayed. Ta-Metru artifacts belonged on one of the sublevels, not in a Rahi section. It was only when he looked again at all the damage that he realized why the hammer was there.

my man cant get his head out of the job and honestly i love that for him bc he loves his job and i love to see a guy who loves his job that he's passionate about uwu

i also loved this moment was when him and nuju went to look for the disc in the archives & nuju decided to disregard Whenua's warnings, which almost caused a monster to escape its containment;

He turned around. Whenua was standing in the doorway, watching him. "Done?" asked the Toa of Earth. "Listen, I know you don't like it here. It's not neat and orderly like Ko-Metru. Archivists don't sit in clean towers studying all day, they are out getting their hands dirty. But we have rules here too - like don't annoy the two-headed Tarakava, if at all possible."

the fact that he just stood by and watched nuju struggling and didn't do or say anything to help is, frankly, hysterical. like hey, he warned him. fuck around and find out ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

lastly, here's just one of my favourite things this guy had said;

"Screams a lot, though"

[legend-as-old-as-time]

All of the Toa Metru are thrill seekers, even if some of them would deny it. (Like Nokama or Whenua.)

You see it in their plans and how they face risks. They're repressed in their daily life because of social expectations, laws, and the vahki's presence curbing any 'disruptive' behavior.

You could say, some of their daily lifes are already dangerous! Why would they seek it now?

Because even if they have to go into it now-, they choose which danger they face and how they do it.

It makes a difference to Whenua if he has to go into the Archives and face the horrible conditions- or if he, with different tools as a toa, now ignores the previous rules in favor of getting the job done (saving the matoran). He unleashes a muaka from its pen to distract a Rahkshi while he rescues Tehutti.

[coldgoldlazarus]

Rebalancing the genders as patch notes:

Toa Mata/Nuva: Tahu, Pohatu, Onua remain male, Gali remains female. Lewa and Kopaka are now female. (As is Wairuha, by extension.)

Takanuva is now transfemme.

(Chronicler's company: Kapura, Hafu, and Taipu remain male, Macku remains female. Kopeke and Tamaru are now female.)

Toa Metru/Hordika: Matau and Nuju remain male, Nokama remains female. Vakama and Onewa are now female. Whenua is now transmasc.

(Diskfinders: Ahkmou, Ehrye, and Nuhrii remain male, Vhisola remains female. Tehutti and Orkahm are now female.)

Toa Inika/Mahri: Jaller, Matoro, and Hewkii remain male, Hahli remains female. Nuparu and Kongu are now female.

(Voya-Nui Resistance: Garan, Piruk, and Kazi remain male, Dalu remains female. Velika and Balta are now female. Velika has been temporarily nerfed, pending further review.)

Piraka: Reidak, Hakann, and Vezok (and by extension Vezon) remain male. Zaktan, Avak, and Thok are now female.

Barraki: Pridak, Kalmah, and Takadox remain male. Mantax, Ehlek, Carapar, and Nocturn are now female.

Makuta: Teridax, Mutran, Bitil, Icarax, and Spiriah remain male, Gorast remains female. Antroz, Chirox, Vamprah, and Krika are now female. Miserix is agender.

Glatorian and Hagah will be modified in a future patch.

[ask-jaller]

Update

@mask-of-prime, here:

I was inspired by another post in the Bionicle tag just now and felt like opening up about my inactivity on this blog for the past 5 years:

Content Warning for adverse internet-related experiences and resulting emotional struggle:

As you may know, sometime in 2018, my hyperfixation from Bionicle completely shifted into a hyperfixation on The Lion King.

Shifting main fandoms has allowed me to start fresh from a dirtied reputation in the Bionicle fandom as a young teenager and has allowed me to start fresh and more mature as a young adult. Joining an art-oriented fandom has even saved me from a steady decline in art.

However, what with the focus on digital art and more focus on things related animated works (what with that being a career goal and all), I've been shifting away from designing MOCs, making Bionicle-related fandom ramblings, particularly of comfort characters, and inevitably, RPing as Jaller, Tehutti, Macku, and my Self-MOC Tiridak.

Not only did focusing on a whole other flavor profile of fandom experience with TLK make it hard to switch back to Bionicle, but so did the poor relationships with other Bionicle fandom members I've caused:

I would portray Jaller extremely out-of-character, I had this uncontrollable need to make him this constant whump character, and I would be very insensitive and inexperienced with subject matter that I would choose to bring myself and RP partners into. Looking back at it now, forcing roleplayers to do what I wanted to do and me making the stories we'd write super weird and self-indulgent is a manipulative tactic comparable to grooming.

But yeah, it's these things that would lead to constant frustration with other roleplayers. This frustration and overall cringe subject matter I wrote or did would result in criticisms from fellow fandom members that I took way too hard, and was an early point in internet-related depression that manifested in anxiety and anger issues that I still face to this day.

There were some people who were genuinely rude about my RPing and it would get things nowhere, but even constructive criticisms would hurt just as much for some reason. I would just always be sensitive to displeasing people and seeing them angry, and I would harbor feelings of disgust with both them and myself. I think it might be Rejection-Sensitive Dysphoria, which makes it really hard to control negative feelings after real or even perceived rejection.

Buy yeah, I just remember never wanting to talk to other Bionicle fans again and developing a huge prejudice assuming everyone in the fandom was blunt and rude all the time. Thing is, years went by, people's attitudes changed, and a new generation of fans with a completely different outlook had changed the flavor profile of the fandom as I still continued to check the tag daily.

In that fandom change, I discovered the Bonkle Word Game. The introduction of the Wordle-based Bionicle game called Bonkle caused me to slowly get back into Bionicle by looking up vocabulary on the BS01 Wiki, and has ultimately allowed me to become duel-fandomed, so now I'm fixated on both Bionicle and TLK. Specifically, I became fixated on working on my OC universe called Terra-Magna, which has completely different worldbuilding from the rest of Bionicle, but still technically considered an alternate universe if we're following Spiderverse possibility logic. So I'm mostly on a kick with OCs rather than favorite canon characters, now.

But anyway, I think what all this means is that if people would really like me to go back to RPing as Jaller, I probably can as I feel better about it now, now that I got all of these messy thoughts out. It's just that I think I'm still not very good at roleplaying and I never really did learn much about it to develop a true passion for it. There's also the decline of Bionicle RP over the last decade, possibly due to how much the internet has changed from a not-so-private escape and the prevalence of cringe culture that I'm sure everyone has an internalized form of to some degree nowadays.

[archivyrep]

The relevance of Star Wars to pop culture depictions of archives [Part 3]

Continued from part 2

The entry for Nu on page 87 of Amy Ratcliffe's Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy, which summarizes her role in Star Wars.

What McGrath is saying echoes what is stated elsewhere in the archival literature: that Nu wore "a traditional, conservative robe" and that the archives "even resembled a library, with stacks of glowing records lined up on the shelves," while stating that she exhibited some qualities of stereotypes usually applied to librarians. The same article in Archivaria notes that Obi-Wan did not follow the advice of the archivist, going on a search for the planet, while Nu "with all of her extensive knowledge, was quickly forgotten" in the film. [10] Additional literature noted the similarities between the BIONICLE universe made by Lego, with a Great Archives in Onu-Metru. This series even had a character named Tehutti who is said to have spent all his time within the archives! I was a big fan and user of LEGO for years and never remember this, or how central this archives is to the universe. [11]

Reprinted from my Wading Through the Cultural Stacks WordPress blog. Originally published on Oct. 12, 2022.

Others have said that Obi-Wan was "put in his place by the lady archivist" (Nu) and summarizes Ketelaar who describes archives as "sites of power". Furthermore, renowned archivist Michelle Caswell in 2020 speech at the Association of Canadian Archivists’ annual conference, made an argument about liberatory memory work, saying that they are not bound to linear time in a "sort of Star Wars out-of-order kind of way". [12] That's just two examples, but there is more in other archival literature. For instance, on pages 22 and 23 of the May 2022 edition of Estudios del Discurso, Nina Hoechtl, a visual artist, curator, teacher and independent researcher at Museo Amparo, noted Attack of the Clones as an example of an archival imaginary, and said that:

The archive is a site that joins various sorts of assumptions about kinds of knowledge –how to store,access, retrieve and re-active them, and what is knowable– that are crucial to the ways people, communities, and societies think about themselves, deal with their pasts, ponder on their presents, and imagine their futures.

Caitlin Patterson of Western Washington University makes one one of the more interesting perspectives about Nu: that she does not "conform to all the standard stereotypes" of archives, describing her as "fierce and imposing," and countering "the image of archivists as shy and retreating", stating that her age "commands more respect than that of the average fictional archivist". She goes onto say that Nu is intelligent and dedicated but not "cloistered or passive", but seems to have a "certain possessiveness of the collections" and states that Nu suggests a "different interpretation of the archivist which...still offers a reasonable explanation of her role". [13]

In conclusion, the cranky archivist I noted at the beginning of this post is dead wrong, and should be a bit ashamed of themselves. Star Wars, and pop culture in general will continue to be relevant to archives, and the profession as a whole, [14] whether we like those depictions or not. As for this blog, I'm going keep posting these articles even if people on /r/archivists, a group of individuals who luckily do not represent the majority of the profession, hate them.

© 2022 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

Notes

[10] Aldred, Tana, Gordon Burr, and Eun Park. (2008). "Crossing a Librarian with a Historian: The Image of Reel Archivists." Archivaria 66: 80, 84, 89.

[11] Schwartz, Joan M. (2006) "'Having New Eyes': Spaces of Archives, Landscapes of Power." Archivaria 61 (September), 19-23.

[12] Buckley, Karen. (2008) "'The Truth is in the Red Files': An Overview of Archives in Popular Culture", Archivaria 66 (1), 101; Caswell, Michelle. (2020). "Feeling Liberatory Memory Work: On the Archival Uses of Joy and Anger", Archivaria 90, 151.

[13] Peterson, Caitlin. “No Dust in Cyberspace?: The Effects of Internet Technology on Perceptions of Archives.” Masters, Western Washington University, 2012. See page 18.

[14] Star Wars appears to be mentioned in archives (and library) literature such as Archive Stories: Facts, Fictions, and the Writing of History, Ljiljana Gavrilović's Culture in Show-Window: Toward a New Museology, Beth M. Sheppard's "Future Shock: The Inevitable Impact of a "New Generation of Patron" on Theological Libraries" (calls Nu a librarian rather than an archivist), a conference paper by Alexandra L. Fitzpatrick and S. Halmhofer entitled "There is Power in the Past: The Politicization of Archaeology and Heritage in the Star Wars Universe", the books Teaching Gender with Libraries and Archives and The Image and Role of the Librarian, S Koevoets' "Into the Labyrinth of Knowledge and Power: The library as a gendered space in the western imaginary", an quoted at the beginning of David Levente Palatinus's article "Subjectivity and the Hauntology of the Digital", to name a few.

[turagapohatu]

Ahkmou: Don't worry, I got a plan.

Nuhrii: Alright.

Ahkmou: Traitorsayswhat?

Tehutti: Excuse me?

Ahkmou: What?

Tehutti:

Ahkmou:

Ahkmou: No wait-

[randomwriteronline]

Metru Nui inhabitants (in collaboration with Vultraz and a pair of rahi-loving onu-matoran) and Bara Magna lads

[117jaller]

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