Guys here’s a link list of that old Hetalia Nordics cosplay series that I was reminiscing about a while back ago - a classic from my time… 🚬_(TwT ) original cosplays by FabrorEstersPojkar - we salute our soldiers o7
It’s my favorite cosplay series ever and you can really feel the passion and care put into this project - they got translators so every country spoke their own language throughout and everythin dude, that’s effort! If you do check it out lemme know how you liked it! :)
my personal thought process and analysis under cut
iceland has always been an extremely isolated island, experiencing very little cultural change in its first few hundred years of inhabitance, and even then it was quite small.
in the canon comics portraying young iceland it was shown that he did not even know there were other nations like him out there, adding to how extremely isolating being an immortal on an island with just yourself and your bird friend would be.
visiting iceland for the other nations would be like travelling for weeks to have a babysitting gig. who would want to do that?
iceland only became a developed country in about the 20th century with industrialisation, population booms following the world wars, and the marshall plans economic benefits. there’s a lot of reason to believe he stayed as a young child for a very very long time.
the picture i draw features a very young iceland looking at an arctic tern chick. a migration of arctic terns are seen in the sky leaving without this chick.
arctic birds breed in the northern nations such as iceland and travel as far south as antartica for the summer.
hws iceland looks at the chick who will surely die young as he continues to live as a child for hundreds of years. like the chick, his family dont return for him even when he’s struggling and needs help and instead carry on without him.
the nothingness of the space above him is more representation of isolation as is how far up the migrating arctic terns are, illustrating the distance between him and all other nations.
he stands with his only friend, his puffin, as they watch a chick that both contrasts what he is yet resembles too much of himself and he envies the death that will become on it.
It is done! it's a bit more close-fitting around the wrists than I'd like, but I think that'll stretch out with blocking and also with wear
As ever, I am in love with the colour (Drops Nepal 'Deep Ocean', which I've used for so many things now; as you can tell from the wall behind me, I like one (1) colour), and it feels incredibly cosy. Maybe it'll even finish drying in time to wear in this cold snap, you never know
‘This is a classic bake, I definitely expect all the bakers to do well with it’ prue says like she didn’t just hand the amateur bakers this absolutely unhinged recipe
this is just the ‘draw the rest of the owl’ meme but for baking what the actual fuck prudence