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[twrambling]

.Saint valentine's day 💌.

[aphmexphil]

Babies with their ✨protective bracelets✨

What I find really sweet is that all three have their own bracelets that are worn to protect against the evil eye. It's called 'ojo' or 'mal del ojo' in Spanish and 'usog' or 'buyag' in the Philippines. They're mostly worn by children but I've seen adults occasionally wear them.

Some info on the bracelets, and a disclaimer: these are only one of the varieties as I'm sure that there are other variations, traditions or beliefs associated with these types of protective amulets. Though I'm focusing on these varieties for now.

For MX's his bracelet has a central charm consisting of Ojo de venado, which translates as "Deer's eye" and refers to the seed of mucuna mutisiana. The bracelet can be made of cord or beads but they say that once the seed cracks then that means it has successfully absorbed a curse meant for the wearer.

For CB's the central charm Azabache (Jet) is used instead for protection. It's a gemstone mineraloid that's created from wood under extreme pressure and is the lowest rank of coal. The bracelet itself can be made of gold, beads or cord!

For PH's I had the help of @sweaty-clouds who was incredibly kind to share with me some of the bracelets, and meaning behind them ;v;. PH's bracelet is made of coral beads (though recently plastic as well) with red being the most popular color. They also usually come with a lubigan/habak pouch filled with paper inscribed with tiny prayers inside that's pinned to the shirt, but sadly that's not visible in this doodle.

[netsue101]

Nyo Cuba

[ask-hws-cuba]

// finally we are out of the dark ages where nyo cuba designs erase her stomach , what a cute piece of art

[yaqamole]

A holiday gift for my dear friend @ask-hws-cuba

[ask-hws-cuba]

I need my tats touched up so im On my way over now - @ask-italiaromano

I’ll start making cafecito then ! Lets see if I can convince you to try something new ! There’s this new technique I’ve been experimenting with ! And I’ve even got a shipment of new needles coming in !

[ask-hws-cuba]

Antonio found out we're friends and is threatening me now. Someone retrieve this white man - @ask-italiaromano

Your telling me he’s out of his crypt ?

[ask-hws-cuba]

Glad to see you on the tl again <3

Thank you !! I needed more of a excuse to shit talk hetalia canon

[ask-hws-cuba]

// kinda love how as a fandom hima literally was trying to feed us by giving FINALLY some official heights and we all said NOPE like Canon is my sand box and I am but a toddler throwing sand at the eyes of others

That being said I hope we can get some official ages for other characters too I’d love to know why cuba looks like a middle aged man who hasn’t known peace and why spain looks like a 25- year old who missed out on leg day like my hypothesis is that all the European colonizers look so young because they basically were vampires like mother gothel staying young staying Vibes like Did the colonization ?? Age him ?? was it the advancements in the sugar industry ??? Whatever it is like tell me why this mf looks like he could be a father- and why Spain like - looks like that like- like spain is canonically 25 - and France is like 26- and England is 23

like we know nations sort of age for like different reasons like we have seen characters like Italy and America like rapidly go through puberty- like just different developments but like MAN WHA

We also know like of nations who look young but are like literally like old to the point where they feel the discomfort of their age like Japan for example like he literally has such old man energy like it feels like his legs are about to give out at any moment , and he actually expresses his old age far more then China does which is interesting like hima SIR please give us the official ages - like I know as a fandom most of us are gonna discard it anyway but please give it to us anyway //

[toon-girl-abby]

About Cuba, I guess Fidel Castro influenced in the design, or so told me a Venezuelan friend of mine that Cuba looked similar. Also do note that Hima was originally going to portray Cuba as a child ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe Cuba is an exception to the usual "development = growth" HC, where he looks a lot older than he should be. We do have cases of this in canon the other way around, with China and Japan looking too young for nations that are so old and well-developed

[ask-hws-cuba]

There’s definitely some parts of his character that were influenced by Fidel Castro like for example the fact that he’s obsessed with ice cream has to do with a off hand comment hima was making about Fidel Castro obsession with the dairy industry and how weird it was , etc etc

Though in all honesty I don’t see it much It’s really in uniform and maybe the fact that he’s got a beard only , because like .. well fidel Castro is a a pale white Cuban man and Cubas design is seen wearing dreadlocks and usually dark skinned or at the very least tanned in some depictions .. they are pretty different and I think that’s a good thing like nations are best portrayed as like nations in their own right and not their controversial leaders in my opinion, like I wouldn’t want Russias design to be based on Putin for example

Like for his age it’s definitely a odd choice which is why I find it so interesting I think it gives way for many cool headcanons but I definitely think to portray him as a adult was wise I mean, neighboring countries that are younger in age according to history like America are being shown as adults so honestly I think it was a good choice .

Especially because historically a lot of propaganda regarding the islands in the Caribbean , specifically cuba and its ability to run itself, depicts cuba in a very childlike fashion. And it’s not a good thing , it’s meant to be derogatory These are American depictions , but this was also seen with Spain and any other colonizers of impending forces cuba has had to deal with in terms of history but you get the idea

I think depicting cuba as a child , or really many nations like that (least in the modern day , with like maybe the exception of the micro nations where it might make more sense ) is the just not the best best of choices bc It kinda seems a little problematic (unless you know they are being depicted in the past as we’ve seen America , Russia , Japan , etc etc go from being child to adult ..) like ,additionally himas reasoning in general when it comes to ages for the nations are really just everywhere really , it’s just confusing and messy , and just constantly changing

Yo could you imagine a five year old at the world meeting yk? Like it would be funny as hell sure but you’d be like huh like what boss baby shenanigans is this your telling me Germany and America who were born literally yesterday morning gets to be adults but the Caribbean, Latin America doesn’t ? You are telling me LATVIA ??? ICELAND ? don’t either like don’t get me wrong I love the fact that despite looking like in their 20s china and Japan have creeky old bones and old man syndrome , like that’s one of the parts of canon that’s actually really funny but in general man none of this makes sense and it’s wild

[paro-art]

I think he should have more fanarts, but that’s just my opinion 

[reallunargift]

🐻

🐻 my favorite nation from the americas

the myth the man the legend the 2am art

[ask-hws-cuba]

/// I think the funniest thing about creating content and having cuba as a muse is having to explain to people that he can teleport and that’s just something in canon and he’s the only mf who we know who can do shit like that like okay Goku I see you Like that just opens up a whole world of possibilities? The ghost that scares aph america on Halloween that’s him teleporting wearing a sheet to scare him and then go back home ? You piss him off he is now throwing you around playing monkey in the middle with himself and you as the ball , Him getting late to the meeting despite being able to teleport Because he’s too busy making his hair pretty and running on Cuban time the possibilities are endless ? Can the rest of Latin America teleport or is it just him do they all have unique abilities ? Can they flex on Europe ? Who doesn’t have those abilities ? //

[arternestkirkland]

Wait, when does this happen?? 😮 Can you show me the strips?

[ask-hws-cuba]

Dude basically is Like tf do you mean you can’t teleport which I think the funnier way to analyze it is that he can do so because possibilities are endless I mean aph america has super strength , Russia has his inanimate scarf and vibes and who knows what else , characters have done superhuman things before and Well this is the same show /manga that has a random alien invasion that casually happened so idk things don’t gotta make sense but anyway here ya go

[pinkflipphonez]

pensando

[ask-hws-cuba]

/// I think the funniest thing about creating content and having cuba as a muse is having to explain to people that he can teleport and that’s just something in canon and he’s the only mf who we know who can do shit like that like okay Goku I see you Like that just opens up a whole world of possibilities? The ghost that scares aph america on Halloween that’s him teleporting wearing a sheet to scare him and then go back home ? You piss him off he is now throwing you around playing monkey in the middle with himself and you as the ball , Him getting late to the meeting despite being able to teleport Because he’s too busy making his hair pretty and running on Cuban time the possibilities are endless ? Can the rest of Latin America teleport or is it just him do they all have unique abilities ? Can they flex on Europe ? Who doesn’t have those abilities ? //

[yaqamole]

LOL FML

SO

Tumblr deleted my blog! HI this is Lorenzo. Admin of hwsitaliaromano, lorenzodelcielo, and the freshly made askhwsmexico. I’m literally crying so hard right now this is fucking awful.

BUT UHH

Please reblog so people can see this post and I can follow people back. I’m trying not to panic right now

This is me! I am this artist and cosplayer!

[ask-hws-cuba]

do u have a Nyotalia design?

//hey anon !! I do have a nyo design , her name is Carlotta named after the famous Afro Cuban rebel but I’m still working a few things out before I release anything final in terms of my interpretation like tattoos , quirks etc But I hope you stick around for when I eventually hope to have something more concrete

[ask-hws-cuba]

//ÑOO QUE CLASE DE HOMBROTE EH?

Profile update !!!

Someone was kind of in the need of a little update and some sun but here he is the man himself

All art credit goes to @vintagefelineart and while your at it go check out @ask-thicc-russia too ,✨✨✨ do yourself a favor a check their commissions page 🧚‍♀️

Here’s Some dumb memes I made under the cut while you are here

[ask-hws-cuba]

Honestly I’ve stopped caring about physical ages when it comes to the nations because if anything they either stop aging at 20 or they age super slowly except for America and Germany because of how quickly powerful they got economically. And the fact that people really only use physical age to police what other people ship and use the term pedophilla as an all encompassing term for minors when that’s not what the word actually means.

thats valid i mean Like I said i just thought it would be interesting now that we’ve got the heights even though most of them fandom threw it out the window , see the idea of age limit or age cap has never made much sense to me on account that we have figures like grandpa rome who I believe is canonically in his 40s Which like rome is like foxy grandpa with like back issues supremacy but anyway

We have characters like Moldova who are like canonically like 10 and have stayed that way for while , we have characters like aph america who literally were a child for like most of their life and then boom teenager and how that affects their psyche cause like aph america is like a man child ; we have characters like Russia who are also childish by many accounts. Then you have countries that physically might be young but their bodies and energy is old like Japan who I mentioned any day now is gonna have their legs go out and blood pressure increase to high cause of all the salt they eat , we’ve got characters like Italy who we literally see in canon go through signs of puberty even if it’s just a joke like their voice changing like i don’t know Like i think it might be nice to have the official ages even if a lot of them don’t make sense just to get Like more insight On how their bodies work and aging like so far all we know is that tiny tiny bit of the manga and so the other day I was discussing in a friend server about the whole idea of really old Nations and their bone structure and evolution Which also went along with a conversation about heights with the whole thing of like over time certain countries average height have become taller or shorter for like different reasons, following certain historical events In which height in humans has to do generally with net nutrition and genetic potential along with various other factors and I was thinking about the concept of their heights fluctuating like certainly if they could grow economically and then they get a economic depression it effects their health like why couldn’t there be other factors that have to do with their height Like if the height for the average citizen for example assuming that’s what they are using for all these canon heights (they sort of aren’t entirely accurate I can say that much but okay ) would that also improve their height And see like again these are just some silly head canons and questions so but it’s fun to speculate like hima in terms of canon hasn’t exactly paid much attention to like the human ages/ physical ages or even really any of those little details in canon like what seems to matter more is like their ages as countries seeming we see that being mentioned a lot more like for example China, like it hasn’t exactly been of much importance in canon like many of the canon ages that were not even made a reference directly in the. Manga Atleast from what I remember if it was I do not think it was frequent, it’s either from himas blogpost or some secular content , like being the same issues as their human names their physical ages are barely ever brought up? Like do they not have thoughts on their own existence?? Like where do they come from like are they born to have bones ? How are we considering their ages both like physically and nationally ? Like have a feeling I won’t get my questions answered with in this like life time but if we do get it I’m excited for all the headcanons and I’m actually looking forward to seeing fan artists drawing more characters like who knows maybe if we get like official ages chart it will inspire people and we see new fandom contents like even if we get crumbs from hima I’m very curious to see how we’ll go about it as a fandom .. but as for your second part

TW pedofilia mention

I wouldn’t say the ages are only used for that , but being in this fandom for this long like i cant say Im really all that surprised Like i know for a fact that’s probably gonna give some people more leverage to make accusations like that - which is pretty crazy considering a false accusations like that can literally ruin someone’s life

Like I’ve seen people get called out for shipping Seychelles with Like Cuba and calling it pedofilia even though Seychelles has no canon human age but for the most part has been portrayed as a grown women - the fandom kinda Just did their fandom thing and like said she was a teenager Which the treatment of her character is a whole bag of worms for another fish to feed on but anyway or stuff like or people shipping Iceland And Estonia and it’s something like

And see I’m not one to get into that whole Like anti shipper , anti anti - pro shipper internet jargon discourse because discourse can be exhausting and sometimes well a waste of time but like I think people need to remember and be conscious of the fact that there’s another human being on the end of the screen, it’s very easy to loose sight of that and make hasty decisions on both ends of the that whole discourse, like fandom for a lot of people is just like hobby ,and some use it as a escape and so I genuinely do not think policing does any good for anyone either side , it’s mentally troubling like the people involved and also seems like a exhausting think to keep up by the people doing it like ultimately it seems to be doing more harm then any good. Because you don’t know why someone is creating or engaging in certain types of content whether it’s considered problematic or not like I’d say you have a higher chance of hurting someone then actually being right Like Whether you are a minor or a adult whatever the case may be , does not absolve you from having any agency as a person to be able to control your behavior and engage in safe internet practices such as blocking and black listing tags or accounts associated with content you do not like and then moving literally right along because you are the one who gets to cultivate your internet experience. And if things are tagged then anything from there on like then there should be no need for the “policing”

Like for a lot of people the word pedo has literally lost it’s like weight for a lot of internet spaces , like it’s a pretty serious accusation which I see people throwing around so often which is scary because then you have people on the internet accusing others of pedofilia when it’s really that they wanna see some dumb anime boy kiss or something which Literally does nothing to actually help the issue of pedofiles who use fandom to hide their ass Like making sure actual pedos And groomers feel uncomfortable in this fandom - considering they actually do pose a threat because there’s a large part of the western fandom at least who are still very young and many of which aren’t exactly engaging in internet safe practices Is probably the issue people should be focusing on and better use of time then worrying about who ships what with who

To sum it up yeah that’s kinda dumb like between the racism and like the whole ship wars that some people actually took seriously lord and ship discourse like nothing surprises me about this pile of ugly rocks fandom anymore