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I Don't know what You're reading but it looks brilliant.

twas this!

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What would you do if your future child got into Hetalia or any other personified nations thing?

eriogoerjgioerg put them in therapy? No idk. I'd probably vaguely support it while vomiting blood with anxiety. Like you support their choices but wonder how they're going to end up? but they're never reading their mother's fic knowing it's mine. Maybe leave them my AO3 password in my will lmao

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I found a song that is so Jack, I'm sure he would send it to Matthew and Alfred. The song is Piss with you from City Piss. A lovely little Aussie band.

ergeorjigerjio legendary song right there. the guitar actually slaps too.

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Hey! Good evening! Just finished diving into your fics and that ghoul boys post. I noticed you include a lot of ghosts and cryptids (is that what the trench thing is??) in your stories. What really grabs me is how you blend them with so much history and research! 🤔👻 Do you actually believe in these things equally truthful, or do you treat them more like fun, fictional elements?

No, but for almost all human history, magic was an inherent way for humanity to view the world. It's real in that most people had some belief in it.

Neolithic arrowheads and barrows were interpreted by the Anglo-Saxons as elfshots and fairy rings.

What was, in all likelihood, human partisan activity after the conquest of Canada expressed itself in our cultural werewolf hysteria of the late 18th century.

What was a playful, puckish lutin who was often helpful in French Canada and featured in my childhood stories became the somewhat evil 'le nain rouge' of Detroit fame as a kind of evil spirit that is chased from the city every spring. I would put money that is an Anglo reaction to the insidious catholic presence, the French origin of the city, and later immigrants. Fear will find a way to express itself.

The trench creature combines Norman-French and French Canadian werewolf lore and what was called 'scofflaws,' which were historically probably groups of deserters who lived in no man's land but took on the same attributes as zombies in the folklore.

For me, I can afford not to have an opinion either way. My family has a lot of the old folk catholicism, a mix of medieval beliefs and other influences, but that comes with ancestor worship. So, my ancestors feature heavily in whatever (admittedly little) belief I have in the supernatural.

What's so nice about that is I don't need to believe the word of a bible or a god who may not have left his heaven since the days of Christ walking the earth. I don't need faith. I'm an archivist and a historian. I know my ancestors walked the earth I can trust their existence. I know they loved me in life. And the ones who came before me and didn't meet me loved their children. It's the one thing every commentary on my culture includes. We love our children. Most humans do. My grandfather meant it when he said I am the daughter of a thousand mothers and a thousand fathers.

I am never alone in this world, for I am the child of everyone who came before me. The adage of it takes a village includes the necropolis. And that's not even getting to the saints and Sky Maman herself. So, I'm all set. If there's anything out there, if there's some sort of evil, then there's at least another part of the beyond looking out for me. Like goddamn, if they had to pass down the blood disorders and the neurosis, then good skin, better hair, and some protection are pretty good compensation.

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Anglos: Oh, I love French, it's such a poetic language Me, in a single conversation: we went the way of the tubercular pig since the swan took a shit, and we got stuck in the carpet flowers, so now we're both fucked. Yeah, I got nailed to the bed after catching a ho and losing about a cauldron of blood. It was a real toad's funeral, shared chirp.

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Thank you @sisidis for the tag! Tagging anyone who wants to.

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I’m sorry if my tone is off or I’m not phrasing this correctly (autism club).

I just wanted to say how much I love your blog and everything you’ve contributed to this fandom. I fixated on Hetalia as my special interest like 8 years ago, but at this point it’s shifted to pretty much just a few hetalia blogs, especially yours.

I find it really comforting to just go through old works (from archived blogs as well) so thanks for leaving your stuff up and sticking around. 💕💕

You're all good on tone, bud. I've got the weapons-grade autism right here with you. Thank you very much! I love it when people tell me things like this :3 My ao3 is the forever repository of everything on all four of my blogs if that's ever easier to use! I hope it brings you comfort for a long time to come. <3

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I’ve got a bit of a weird question for you. I’m not quite getting why the criticism you get says Matt is too French. Canada is very French. What’s up with that? im from the us tho so American but I’m scratching my head.

Canada is fairly regional, and generally, people want to see themselves in their blorbos. So when they come to Hetalia and find their favourite character isn't being inspired by their flavour of Canadian identity, there can be some salt. I think my blog just happens to lean very heavily on my ethnic identities in a very complex and, I will admit, heavy-handed way. Sometimes, the strength of the writing doesn't matter to people participating in fandom to find their flavour of relatable blorbo, and that's okay! One man's yuck is another's yum. The key is to self-curate and just steer clear. I try not to use too many canon tags, especially when deviating from the original material for a reason!

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I remembered hetalia existed (as I do every 3 months) and reread a bunch of your ao3 and goddddd im so obsessed with your writing and dynamics.

ah! Thank you very much. It means a lot to be told you reread my works. :3 Thank you!

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A lightee ask than usual but do you have any food or eating habit thoughts?

Ooohooohh, I did a whole ass seminar on the history of food. Failed it because I almost bled to death but I got to keep all the material! I've got.... a lot of thoughts and feelings about food culture. Too goddamn many, tbh. This got really long so I'll have to do a part two for other characters if wanted but lol enjoy.

Alfred:

 —Actually pretty gourmet little shit when he's got time and effort. He's made food Maria loves so often she has to give up on pretending she didn't enjoy it because fucking hell, he makes good chilaquiles after they've been drinking and fucking. There is, however, a non-zero chance he hasn't eaten a vegetable since the Nixon administration.

 —With that combustion engine metabolism, he's also perpetually hungry, so he eats whatever is around him. His guts do not like this, especially when it's a lot of dairy.

 —He has that kind of lactose intolerance that's tied to his health and stress, so if he's been particularly freaked out lately, he'll remind the world of his nuclear arsenal when he's got to use the toilet after that triple cheeseburger with a side of deep-fried cheese curds.

 —He's a stress eater too. He eats every negative emotion he's ever had especially when he's trying not to binge drink or do drugs.

 —He’s exceptionally food-motivated. They didn’t call one of his first major historical eras ‘the starving time’ without reason. He has preferences, but food is also food, and he’ll genuinely enjoy it in most forms as long as it's not rotten or otherwise godawful. Cowboy coffee and beans for ten days straight, and he will genuinely be the only man on that cow trail not sick of it by the end.

 —This also goes into why he’s so generous with food. He’s big on homemade food. He’ll make a whole big ass batch of like some sort of mac and cheese, and all the neighbours will get a big ol’ bowl of it with an ‘oh just return the Tupperware whenever,’ and it will genuinely be one of the best things they’ve ever eaten in their lives. Europeans recoil in horror, but our portion sizes are almost never single servings. It’s a generosity and hospitality practice except drinks. He really will down like a 2 liter of Slurpee in a single sitting.

 —He doesn’t mind eating alone. Actually prefers it sometimes. He loves eating in his car. American frontier culture, especially mountain men, had an often hyper-individualized, almost mythic culture of spending long periods alone in the woods and not being very sociable; thus a lot of situations where single servings were a thing, eating alone in quiet without something to do can be a real goddamn luxury.

 —He’s a really big protein guy with his metabolism. Sometimes exists on protein shakes but is more often a beef or barbeque or ham or alligator jerky. And a somewhat chunky Alfred is a healthy Alfred. A perfectly cut no flab Alfred is an Alfred who might be severely dehydrated and on several kinds of uppers.

 —He has better tastes than Arthur who didn't really realize food was supposed to taste good until like ten years ago but his combinations can be equally wild and unappetizing as they are batshit tasty.

—He loves spicy food. He's got so many opinions about hot sauces.

—He’s always hungry. If he isn’t hungry or turns down food, its genuinely a bad sign. If he turns down anything or just is just picking at it his food alarm bells should be sounding. He’s either about to declare war or puke all over the table or keel over dead. Peckish or food coma is his default state. Like if he was a smaller guy someone would say he’s got a binge disorder but he’s tall and beefy so he’s pretty okay.

 —Incredibly adventurous eater too. People will assume since there’s that old school culture of Anglo-American who eats the same 7 meals every week and might keel over dead if the meatloaf is slightly different he’ll be a bit hard to please but then he’s absolutely charmed by everything from Korean kimchi to Lithuanian Lašiniai.

 —He loves anyone who feeds him, just got to be a bit careful because he’s got surprisingly delicate stomach for the world superpower.

 —That American obsession with authencity means he’s surprisingly good at remembering people’s food culture or eating norms. He figured out chopsticks in ten seconds and quickly picked up the cues and manners of eating in any given culture. Still struggles with modulating his voice and personality, so he can often come across as rude, but he's so excited to do so. It's almost frustrating how happy he is to try and adapt to people around him and how happy he can be to fit in.

Matt:

 —He's a very good cook when he's putting in effort for other people, but he's not really like Alfred, who he'll make a whole ass meal for one just to relax on a Sunday.

 —He does tend to eat more vegetables than Alfred, but only because his northern vitamin deficiency has him binging them when he can afford them or they're available during the summer.

  —He can be weirdly picky on his own, but no one ever really needs to ask about his favourite food or how he likes anything because he always just goes with the flow around other people. “Just get me whatever you’re getting.” comes out of his mouth often.

 —There's a lot of sour cream/crema and yoghurt/coconut milk involved when he eats Mexican or Indian food for as much as he loves it.

 —Katya was singlehandedly responsible for his ability to maintain a normal weight during the 20th century by adding rye bread and perogies/vyrenki to his diet. He craves mushroom-umami flavours when he misses her, which is most of the time.

 —When he’s normal and eating the Anglo-North American diet, but he isn’t always eating it, he gets some strong sugar cravings, especially when he’s west of Manitoba. He’s as fond of birch syrup as a flavour as he is maple; there’s just less production. But the kind of deprivation he got and his own tendencies to not eat sometimes cause white sugar to just straight-up burns.

 —There's very much something of François to Matt's dietary habits, but less in his personal tastes and more in that he might be more sensitive to flavours. He has that kind of discerning and slightly oversensitive palate, but he’s a shitty perpetually broke frontier settler colony. He knows better/feels too guilty/is too embarrassed of himself to really indulge it.

 —He kept too much of his peasant communalism in his eating habits. Where Anglo-American communities did have a lot of cooperation, communal eating was a special occasion. The norm was based on the individual household. In contrast, French Canadian habitants still technically lived on medieval land plots and owed labour to a lord while also having a culture of seasonal male work, so Matt grew up used to communal ovens and eating most of his meals around others. Later, in Arthur’s jurisdiction, it was usually the same. He got a plate of whatever he was given, and it wasn’t something he had ever had to initiate himself.

 —Partially, he's sometimes exceptionally bad at eating when he has to choose to do it himself. Especially since the Americanization of the food culture took hold in the '80s and '90s. Whereas Alfred is food motivated from going without when he was little, Matt learned how to block out physical sensation until he collapsed because it was rare that someone, including himself, cared about what kind of state he was in. He just doesn’t eat at all when he’s stressed or anxious. And now it's his sole responsibility to do so as there aren’t the same community structures. He has a lot of Alfred’s abundance now, all the brunch and BBQ places anyone could ask for, but it hasn’t meshed with his eating habits. His people gave up so much of their communal eating in exchange for various choices and then wondered why they were so lonely. So he’ll just microwave a potato or a packet of Kraft dinner a day for a week straight and wonder why he feels dead because, technically, he did eat something. It’s seriously a miracle he got as tall as he did.

 —Feed him nothing but hardtack for three years, and he won't complain until he's dropped dead of scurvy. If Arthur puts some sort of godforsaken mixture of plum sauce or gin-infused spag bol in front of him, he’ll compliment it before he disassociates to get at least some of it down.

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I binge-watched Buzzfeed Unsolved and some Watcher episodes while sick, and the very first time I entered it into Tumblr or Twitter, I saw the streaming service scandal. Man I really have a knack for walking in on new fandoms when they're imploding.

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Mice for your askbox!!!!

awwwww babies.

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Idk man “sentient turtle shell” sounds pretty horrifying to me, you might have something there 🤷‍♀️

But in all seriousness, I do hope that you are feeling a lot better!

Thank you! I'm less deceased at least!

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Britain is actually a good sports nation and I'm not sure how to fit this fact with Arthur who looks like he'll pass out from the vapours if he steps into some field that's not meant for cricket... Like even France is known for being a hoe and more feminine... Just saying he's all wrong and right at the same time... How???

Fnrjcjrkrkfk as someone with chronic severe (needs blood transfusions constantly when it's bad) anemia who still enjoys blood sports I can confirm you can look like someone who can swoon from the vapours and as Derry Girls said "You're british— about five of you managed to colonize half the planet, I figured you'd have something up your sleeve." Gotta give the limeys their dues, they'll kick shit at sport and then die of malaria.

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Arthur: This is my son Alfred and Alfred's brother Matthew.

Rando: Why is he just Alfred's brother and not your son too?

Arthur: I don't like him.

They had a rough start but it got better!

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How did you make your character sheet? I'm trying to make one, and it's frustrating trying to make one since I want to add so many times

If you mean the collage aspect, I edit the images in a version of Photoshop that's actually adjusted for archival purposes but you can totally just use whatever photo manip program you prefer and then use a frame to line them up in canva.

For the written part: I looked at different examples of character ask games, get to know your character forms exist all over the internet. Then picked out and added what I as a writer need to keep consistent and easy to reference. If I can summarize it briefly I include it. If not, I don't.

Hope that helps!

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2010s Nostalgia || Hetalia Edition

Hetalia Youtube Nostalgia Playlist | 117 songs | 7hr 5min

• Hey Na Na - Katie Herzig • Viva La Vida - Coldplay • Rasputin - Boney M. • Glad You Came - The Wanted • Hot Mess - Cobra Starship • Counting Stars - OneRepublic • Fireflies - Owl City • Bombshell Blonde - The Jagged Edges • Do Better - Say Anything • Welcome To The Show - Britt Nicole • Dance With The Devil - Breaking Benjamin • Survive - Sick Puppies • Life is Beautiful - Sixx:A.M. • Fairytale - Alexander Rybak • Everybody Loves Me - One Republic • Don't Mess With Me - temposhark • Mimimi - SEREBRO • I Like It Loud - Cash Cash • I Just Wanna Run - The Downtown Fiction • I'm ALIVE! - Becca • Lovestruck - Breathe Electric • I Like To Dance - Hot Chelle Rae • Haven't Had Enough - Marianas Trench • Kiss Me Thru The Phone - Soulja Boy, Sammie • Hard out Here - Lily Allen • Runaway Baby - Bruno Mars • I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy • Airplanes - B.o.B., Hayley Williams • Rock Star - Prima J • This Is War - Thirty Seconds To Mars • Hey Brother - Avicii • Cinderella - Tata Young • Centuries - Fall Out Boy • Déjà Vu - 3OH!3 • Sexy, Naughty, Bitchy Me - Lene Alexandra • Miss Jackson - Panic! At The Disco, LOLO • The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At The Disco • Europe's Skies - Alexander Rybak • Bad Apple!! - RichaadEB, Cristina Vee • Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off - Panic! At The Disco • Let's Kill Tonight - Panic! At The Disco • Hurricane - Panic! At The Disco • Casual Affair - Panic! At The Disco • Never Close Our Eyes - Adam Lambert • Playing With Fire - Ovi, Paula Seling • Angel With A Shotgun - The Cab • Nicotine - Panic! At The Disco • Killer - The Ready Set • How to Be a Heartbreaker - MARINA • This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race - Fall Out Boy • Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na) - My Chemical Romance • Troublemaker - Olly Murs, Flo Rida • Good Girls Go Bad - Cobra Starship, Leighton Meester • I Can't Decide - Scissor Sisters • One Woman Army - Porcelain Black • How To Start A War - Simon Curtis • Maps - Maroon 5 • Do Better - Say Anything • STARSTRUKK - 3OH!3 • Remember Everything - Five Finger Death Punch • The Diary of Jane - Breaking Benjamin • Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes • When You're Evil - Aurelio Voltaire • Canadian, Please - Julia Bentley, Gunnarolla • Sarah Smiles - Panic! At The Disco • Take Me to Church - Hozier • Viking Death March - Billy Talent • Headstrong - Trapt • Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind • Don't Believe A Word - Third Eye Blind • Warriors - Imagine Dragons • iNSaNiTY - CircusP • Paralyzer - Finger Eleven • I'm Awesome - Spose • 24 - Jem • Clarity - Zedd, Foxes • Hall of Fame - The Script, will.i.am • The Is Gospel - Panic! At The Disco • Immortals - Fall Out Boy • Rather Be - Clean Bandit, Jess Glynne • Wake Me Up - Avicii • a thousand years - Christina Perri • Just Like Fire - P!nk • Safe & Sound - Taylor Swift, The Civil Wars • Safe And Sound - Capital Cities • Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde • Demons - Imagine Dragons • DNA - Little Mix • Remember The Name - Fort Minor, Styles of Beyond • Victorious - Panic! At The Disco • 右肩の蝶 (Butterfly On Your Right Shoulder) - Kagamine Rin/Len • We Are One (Ole Ole) - Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez, Claudia Leitte • Hero - Skillet • Maraca - Mohombi • The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy • DONTTRUSTME - 3OH!3 • Teenage Dream - Katy Perry • SING - My Chemical Romance • Good Time - Owl City, Carly Rae Jepsen • White Rabbit - Egypt Central • Not Gonna Die - Skillet • The Kill - Thirty Seconds To Mars • We No Speak Americano - Yolanda Be Cool, DCup • Nobody's Listening - Linkin Park • Disco Pogo - Die Atzen • German Sparkle Party - The Something Experience • Dirty Little Secret - The All-American Rejects • I Could Be The One - Avicii, Nicky Romero • Can't Hold Us - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis • Still Into You - Paramore • Primadonna - MARINA • Pompeii - Bastille • 恋愛サーキュレーション (Renai Circulation) - 物語シリーズ • Awake And Alive - Skillet • Monster - Skillet • Poker Face - Lady Gaga • Falling Inside The Black - Skillet