#rusliet

[gremlins-hotel]

commission for @aphtoris <3

[patsukii]

"The red means I love you"

[council-of-beetroot]

pls make a longer post omg

Tolys and his struggles with body Image and Appearance

Alright anon you and a few others wanted me to elaborate so I will!

So in a previous post I said this

"I genuinely think Tolys has issues body / appearance wise and it's probably because of Ivan"

So you know how in quite a few strips Tolys is weirdly overly embarrassed by things Feliks does like how he dresses or when he suggests Tolys try a certain hairstyle?

It's odd to me because Tolys has been friends with Feliks for a very long time, he should hypothetically be used to Feliks' interests and unusual hobbies. Tolys is seemingly used to everything else weird that Feliks does so why does this bother him so much?

Now let's take a look at this panel from 2007 where we have the stripping panel

To which Tolys responds with this before it moves on to the next person.

Now we're circling back to Ivan. This leads me to believe Ivan used appearance as a quite effective humiliation tactic. Additionally it gives Ivan a ton of control.

Now why is this a good tactic? Well for one it gets to Liet, not only is he easily embarrassed it makes him overthink. To him, it's one thing to get beaten to the point of unconsciousness and it's another to be forced into a maid dress. It's over the top and deliberate, it ends up with Tolys "thinking how did I get myself into this situation it's ridiculous, I am a warrior, why is this getting to me?"

And Ivan knows this

He knows that he can make it so Tolys is so in his own head questioning things that his mindset quickly becomes just Tolys and Ivan.

Now here's where it comes back to Tolys having residual issues with his appearance/ or femininity.

It's simple Ivan knows this: Refer to him as your ex, your wife, call him your toy, call him cute and pretty and compliment his long hair. Eliminate the space between you and him, rub his shoulders, come up to him from behind. Show him off to others and tell him how adorable it is to see him blushing from the attention. Strip him of his privacy, his self autonomy, and safety. Control him so it's only you he can turn to whether you give him comfort or pain.

Now if you've ever experienced that you know in particular how much it can mess with your head when things like compliments are used to hurt you or when someone is cruel one moment and nice the next. And it's even more of a mindfuck when they confide in you let, their guard down, and perhaps you do too.

Hence why I am lead to believe Tolys still is struggling with this. Any comment of his appearance makes the alarms in his head go off. A compliment on a date makes start searching for the nearest escape route. Feliks' comfortability with his feminine aspects and wanting Tolys to join in reminds him of Ivan dressing him up in bows and dresses and telling him he's pretty. Feminine things were used to humiliate him. Appearance was used to humiliate him. It's genuinely triggering for him even though with Feliks, he's just being him and wants to include Liet. For Tolys, it reminds him of being dolled up and paraded as Ivan's cute secretary. Even a genuine compliment brings him back to a time where he couldn't say no and he felt powerless, because it was weaponized against him.

Hopefully I worded this right and let me know if i should add any warnings in the tags

Totally unrelated but in searching for images I found a bunch of HWS lithuania tiktoks and if I didn't refuse to ever download tiktok I'd go watch them.

(I do want to say people often use this especially back in the day wondering why he's portrayed as so weak especially when he's shown to have defeated Prussia. Here's the thing that's important to know, enduring abuse doesn't make anyone weak, anyone can get trapped in abusive relationships even if they think they can't.

Tolys has been under Ivan for a long time this gives Ivan the advantage here to create the perfect atmosphere to isolate, control, and facilitate abuse.)

Also if you wonder why doesn't liet do anything or fight back in panels like this let me explain, you can't survive if you are constantly choosing every battle. Tolys has a lot to lose and he can't afford to lose it all by not being careful.

Yeah it bugs me when people complain that lithuania is protrayed as "weak" he's not.

[mahatka]

OT3

[proosh]

During the Cold War Ivan maintains something of an “employee of the week” system for his vassals/satellites/hostages both to boost morale and also to act as a deterrent to bad behaviour but more often than not it just looks like something like this w Tolys and Gil respectively

[doomspiral]

Everyone getting this email and glaring at me rn, love u plz enjoy.

[leafyleaf657]

Ivan: No one else will ever love you the way I love you. Tolys: OH THANK FUCKING GOD.

[postagescanlation]

Google Drive Link [ENG] // Google Drive Link [JPN] Title // 「いくめん②」 "Ikumen②" Artist & Circle // あられ売りの悲劇/博士 Fandom // Hetalia Pairings & Characters // Russia x Lithuania, slight Lithuania x Poland Genre // slice of life, romance? Rating // SFW Summary // Suddenly, Russia has turned into a child. Not only does Lithuania stress over finding a way to return him to normal, but he also learns what it's like to take care of someone so young.

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I promise I'm back and alive ^^; Anyway, this is one of, if not my all-time fav rusliet doujin of the ones I've seen! Unfortunately, it's a sequel to a comic that was posted on pixiv long ago, and the artist's pixiv account is now gone. If anyone finds the first part, please let me know >.< this story is so nice and wholesome, especially for rusliet!

Also, ikumen (いくめん) is a japanese word I've left untranslated, as it means a man who likes to take care of children.

[samrut]

I had a dream last night that I can’t describe to anyone in real life without sounding insane, so I thought I’d just drop this in your ask box.

In my dream, I discovered that hws Russia himself has been writing explicit RusLiet fanfics and posting them on AO3. Naturally, I had to immediately whip at my phone and read one. I opened the top fanfic on his page, and… let’s just say his writing had a LOT of room for improvement. The word “orbs” was used to describe Lithuania’s eyes on multiple occasions, and he called himself an “alpha male” twice. I wanted to crawl out of my skin while reading some of his word choices.

Unfortunately, I was only able to read one story that he had posted. But out of over 20 fanfics, only ONE was not about RusLiet. It was titled “Poland Whump”, and every single one of its 150+ chapters was a one-shot where Poland suffered in some way.

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[hetasef]

ya ever think that ivan and tolys had a moment like this where tolys was in pain (cuz of ivan) and ivan had to craddle him regretting what he did

[gremlins-hotel]

the french dispatch-flavored rusliet comm for @aphtoris!

thank you once again for being my first commissioner in three years. this was really fun to work on! and thank you for your patience as i figured out tolys.

[patsukii]

Wip

[prussiacide]

ivan vibes fr

[bone-evidence]

Tolys steals a quiet moment for himself under the snowy nighttime sky. He is joined in that quiet by Gilbert, who is willing to give him a few cigarettes and sit with him as the walls start to crumble in his heart. Misery loves company, as they say.

[council-of-beetroot]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Hetalia: Axis Powers Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lithuania/Russia (Hetalia), Past America/Lithuania (Hetalia) Characters: Lithuania (Hetalia), Russia (Hetalia) Additional Tags: Master/Servant, Maids, Humiliation, One Shot, Abuse Summary:

If Tolys had no problem being America's maid, he should have no problem being Ivan's

Or alternatively, the obligatory maid fic

[doomspiral]

Hey guess what

As always heed the warnings at the end of the chapter and in the tags or taste my blade!