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maybe someone should ask america if hes okay, like i dunno give him a gift basket or something, a get well soon card and balloon, but... can someone check up on him?

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Loving the NedPanCan resurgence

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Arthur Kirkland hasn’t been truly happy since all the corners of the globe got mapped.

But he sees uncharted territory in the stars in Alfred F. Jones’ eyes and sometimes that’s enough.

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not charming at all

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On god we(yes WE)are shipping caname 😂🫵👆🤣

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Title: some nights you are the lighthouse, some nights the sea

Fandom: K Project

External: AO3

Ratings/Warnings: T

Summary: Waves crash on the shore, wearing away at the ruins already half-swallowed as a boy rises out of the sea like a righted ship, and though he doesn’t know it yet everything is written in that instant. Munakata has never failed to understand anything in his life, until Suoh Mikoto.

Notes: I swear I will stop writing in present tense soon it just didn’t flow as well when I tried to change it. Somehow Mikorei of all things breaks my writer’s block.

Afficher davantage

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Studying USUK themes // An analysis of 西米目民's motherland

I love usuk, and I've found some fan pmvs that dig so deep into what makes me love this ship and nationverse. Please watch the video it is excellent! English translations by Igilis on youtube

Here's my subjective reading

西米目民's Motherland explores three USUK elements: Freedom, Humanity, and Loneliness.

The video opens with two shots of Ame and Eng, trapped.

On the left they're holding their birds (robin and eagle), but they also are those birds in the birdcage (note the chains and the cell between them.) They cannot reach each other and they cannot escape. While Ame's eagle is flying with some resilience, Eng's robin lies on its side, exhausted. England's eyes are hidden, both are cast in shadow. While flowers (a rose?) reaches them both, it's a small relief in their chains.

On the right, they are literally in prison uniforms in prison. England cannot see and America cannot speak - they can't communicate with each other, they are doomed to feel alone. Their prisoner cards have their nation names, suggesting it is them as nations that are locked up.

It's not just them, though. All nations (ltr: Spain?, Port, Rome, China, Russia, France) are trapped. By drawing all of these figures in shadow, the artist reduces their humanity to mere shapes

That's the mindset Eng grows up in, a harsh and lonely world of survival. He turns to violence instead of understanding because that's all he's known

Ame changes this, literally offering a light to Eng. Look at the "freedom" (grass and skies) and innocence (bunny).

England tries to instill his lessons onto America, who grows frustrated both with Eng's rules of the world and his authority. You can see his unhappiness with two of Eng's other colonies. (Is it intentional that the high collars of Can and Ind look like shackles?)

(side note I do think India's a weird choice for this. Australia or NZ would probably have been better)

He still believes in the goodness of the world (flowers, nature, Davie/innocence), but this crumples with the American revolution as he really starts to buck England

He wants to see England as this safe harbor, a home, but that's just not who England is! He's way too jaded.

America starts to become ruthless too. The thanksgiving turkey acknowledges the state's genocide of indigenous people.

He smokes, both a symbol of leaving childhood behind and a blood splatter similar to England coughing up blood re:rev war

"lost my way back to anywhere". Bro's grown up.

At some point, both America and England lost each other. There's such a rift between them, an ability to connect and understand each other

The brightness of the past, of their little home, only exist in blue memory

America continues to be sick of the political nation game

It's WW2 that changes things (WW2, earlier there was churchill and there's a scene with sakuras for japan pearl harbor)

England, the bird in the cage, sees America coming to rescue him. While America has become kind of scary at this point, he so badly wants to save/take England.

Take? Do you see the apple? Garden of Eden, sin?

This apple represents sinful human relationships. Nation-tans aren't supposed to be able to have that kind of connection or their own agency. America, land of the free, Mr. Manifest destiny, wants badly to change that. He wants England, and he might be powerful enough to break all the rules

Again the wall separating Ame and Eng. Some lines flash on the screen:

Eng: What do you want? Ame: Whatever, you never refused Eng: There's something we can never break Ame: I never believed any f**cking rules Eng: Anyway, don't be silly. I can't even imagine how ridiculous what you are planning is. Ame: You know what i mean. Ame: and expect it

While Eng is super resigned, Ame wants to break free. He's bringing light (lamp) to england

They sit a distance away, unable to reach each other. England scoffs off freedom as ridiculous, but America is focused.

They're wearing their nation badges here, they don't have the privilege of being human

But America actually does it! He goes fuck that we ball.

He initiates a real connection, real communication with England despite all the restrictions of nationhood

Their countries are scribbled out, they break free. They are Arthur Kirkland and Alfred F. Jones, they can go past those limits

We get a bit more garden of eden imagery. The snake is here to tempt, but lol America's already bitten that apple and taken the step to "sin".

There's no going back but England meets America, able to love him at last without any rules

USUK can be properly there for each other, they can love each other and find companionship like humans do.

They're free!

TL;DR: My reading of this video is that nations, by their nature, are lonely trapped spirits. USUK has to break these rules to love each other

Would love to hear other people's readings too, cheers

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shiptalia quarantine post

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i made these aro france pfp edits the other day. If anyone wants to talk w me about aro france i will nibble you /pos. I'm a firm believer in ACE fucking it up and mr france no romance making it messier

Image credits @/transparentalia

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But when the night is over

The river's just a river

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Art dump

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saw a teenaged boy at the cracker barrel wearing the greatest shirt of all time

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ARGHHHHHHHH

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Memories.

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YOUR ART AND YOUR METAAAAQA

killing myself (complimentary) I so badly wanted to talk about caname back in the day but there were so few troopers around. Every post you make is a 10/10 hit this is awesome

have you ever written mapletea/can and Eng meta? would love to read ur thoughts

thank you so much ☺️ i am a #CanameTrooper i also didn't find a lot of caname(and in the way i rly liked it) when i first got into hetalia and it probably made me more obsessive about it

i do like mapletea/canengcan but in my mind it keeps ending up being used to elevate caname somehow Sorry im sorry mapletea fans. there was a time where i got mad when i saw it because it drove my otp heart crazy with rage. mostly because i kept seeing things where they'd focus a lot on cana->eng and ame->eng but didn't do anything with caname and it pissed me off so much it was borderline a notp at one point. im healed now 😇 so i do like it 😇

i don't have much thoughts about it you wouldn't get from people who are more invested in it. it's funny how much eng kinda doesn't care about cana compared to how much he cares about ame. maybe less funny but really sad actually. but do you see what i mean i keep using it for caname like i think cana's envy keeps wrapping back around to be about ame somehow sorry This is my sick and twisted mind

i honestly think cana is even more unreciprocated in mapletea. like cana is less cucked in caname and caname is the cuckoldry ship to me. so i guess mapletea would be The the cuckoldry ship then

cana does care a lot A lot about getting england's attention. maybe in someways or sometimes even more than he cares about getting america's attention(breaks my OTP heart but i can't live in denial)(don't like this post if you don't agree with cana->ame insanity)(though it's probably because it's actually less of a concern how much of america's attention he gets?#DelusionOrTrue) so i do think there's a bit of a rivalry in caname for that. it's less lively than it sounds because i think all sides of ace are dead empty air. and any feelings of rivalry or the neglect that causes it would be because of how england himself has treated them since they were young 😮 so😮what a shit family 😕 satan's triangle...

the dynamic in mapletea is rly up my alley for me to be interested in but caname got me first. and i got petty about it. sorry. i do want to draw it sometimes so Maybe Someday...

cana can't make up his mind about who's attention he wants to cry about not getting. what's his problem? what is his deal?