Jylland

If I could I would spend my entire life in the mudflats…

[ask-jutland]

Intro

Denmark told me about this app, it’s worth a try, so let me introduce myself-

Hej, I am Diane Køhler Damsgaard, also known as Jutland. As my name says I represent the Danish half island of Jutland..

I have for a long time kept to myself, not speaking to many people, only my citizens and the other Danish personifications. But I have many times been told that connecting with people again helps, and would probably also make me less angry.

On that note I need to say that I’ve been labelled a hothead, and even though I would love to deny it it’s true. I easily let my anger take over me and I have a tendency to lash out, sometimes undeserved. I’m working on controlling it. Even though it won’t help much, I apologise beforehand for any lash outs.

With that out of the way I guess I need to say some things about me and my interests.

I enjoy nature and the ocean, especially the mudflats, I live and breathe for the mudflats…

I usually help out on some of the many farms across Jutland, I know how to work the machines and working makes me calm.

I smoke a pipe—cigarettes are for sissies (don’t smoke kids)

LEGO is from my place, I’m pretty proud of it. I met the man who invented it once, he was a decent guy.

My left eye (viewers right) isn’t real, it’s a fake glass one. Try not to laugh when my eyes look in different directions, please…

I’m about 1200 years now, lost count after 400. But physically I’m in my early thirties.

I’ll write down more things if I remember. Oh, and one more thing-

Rules

Political asks are not allowed. Anything about picking sides in ongoing political conflicts, as well as harsh comments and/or takes on people/events will not be answered.

No racism, homophobia, transphobia or discrimination of any kind.

You’re allowed to ask about Diane’s past and her relations to others.

Shipping her is also allowed (except with Denmark because they have a brother/sister relationship)

Mun is fluent in Danish and English.

Mun’s main blog is @tomatojuice101 so if I follow you it’s through that blog

This is a silly blog, don’t write anything hateful!

That’s all.

[ask-jutland]

Jutland.. it didn't work..

Well, we did try, Denmark ain’t for everyone I suppose..

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Jutland.. do you know how I could get my friend to not be scared of the Danish?

(Mun I think you know what I'm referring to)

Easy, you can leave ‘em in a room with me, Bornholm, Funen, Zealand and Denmark, all of us are as danish as it gets so maybe we’ll be able to show ‘em that we ain’t that scary. I know for a fact that they won’t be able to be scared of Bornholm even if they tried, same with Funen, yer dun find kinder people than ‘em!

[ask-jutland]

Can we know a bit about your past?

Oh, eh... Sure, i'll tell some o' it, but there's a bit i want to keep private, for now at least, i'm sure yer understand.

(Trigger warning: Mention of execution, war and an amputated leg)

I guess it starts with when i was born. Most of us personifications are morphed out of nature, i'm no exception, being made out of seafoam.

I don't remember much from my childhood, I only first began to remember things after i met Denmark and the others, a shame really, but what can yer do.

I ain't gon' say much about it but I had quite the bloodlust in the Viking ages... I regret it nowadays.

The Kalmar union under queen Margaret was surprisingly relaxing, for me anyway. But it took a turn when her majesty died and Erik of Pomerania took over. A lot of things happened, but one of them were that practically all female personifications in the Nordic region were forced into marriages, either with other personifications for nobles, to "tighten the bond"... They even considered marrying Bornholm away, she wasn't more than 10 year old at the time... thank god they didn't

I was nothing less than a mess under the renaissance and the century after.. a civil war, the reformation, gettin' destroyed under the thirty year war and later on gettin' invaded by Sweden and burned as a witch by my own people. Mentally i wasn't doin' well.

The war against Austria and Prussia in 1864 didn't do me justice either. That war was the end to the entire Danish empire, everyone afterwards knew that we weren't the strong nation we once used to be, we were weak and defenseless... I lost my leg to Prussia, he cut it off with a sword and ridiculed me with it... Can't believe it's the same guy i go out to get drinks with...

I had been panicking about a brewing war for a few years after Hitler came to power, Denmark tried to calm me, that if we remained neutral nothing would happen, but i knew better...

I tried to help the resistance as much as possible under the second world war, i also helped a bit with my neighboring countries, for when yer know what war is like yer dun want anyone to ever experience it... I still remember the day one of the resistance groups got sentenced to death and were executed... I can never forgive myself for it. Never.

Ever since then i've slowly calmed down, i'm going to therapy and it's really helpin', and my relationship with the others has never been better. I'm also starting to make a few friends here and there, it's... it's really nice.

[ask-jutland]

Can I steal you to go get icecream with you?

(You're highkey my fav..)

I’m you’re favorite..? I.. I’m honoured, thank you…

And yes, steal me and we’ll get some ice cream, i’m paying for you since you’re so sweet, no arguing about it.

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Do you have a mochi like denmark has ?

Sure do…

She’s rude and sassy and gets into my coffee cups while trying to drink the coffee and simultaneously drowns… I’ve tried to get ‘er out of my house several times but she gets in somehow every time!!!

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Do you have some pictures of the mudflats?

Why of course, I have an entire album o’ photos, but er- they’re pretty old, give me a second I’ll find a few newer ones-

Right ‘ere!

Ah, ain’t she pretty? I sure think she is.

…Maybe I shouldn’t call ‘er a she.. it’s a place not a person. I dun wanna go ahead and sound like those middle aged white men…

[ask-jutland]

what is the mudflats? could you tell us some stuff about the mudflats? :D

You wanna know ‘bout the mudflats..? …Okay.

*tries to contain obvious excitement*

The mudflats is a big area of soft mud, clay and sand, and the tides that roll in have a much bigger difference than at an ordinary beach. When the tide is high it can go up to several metres above sea level, and the opposite when it’s low. Some of the towns close to the mudflats at my place have had terrible floods ‘cause of it. It’s at my southwest coast that theres mudflats, they stretch all the way through Germany and down to the Netherlands, it’s called the Wadden sea, and if it was up to me I’d never leave the place! It’s also a great place for bird watching since a good variety of birds enjoy the great amount o’ food under the moist sand.

I’ll be real honest with ya ‘ere, sometimes I faceplant into the water and stay there for several hours…

[ask-jutland]

Uuurgh…

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Maybe in another universe I wont need to take medicine for my stupid leg…

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I think… I think I need to cool down before I lash out

[hetalia-alfred-jones]

Do you want to go to Legoland?

- @ask-jutland-funen

HELL YEAH I DO!

[ask-jutland]

Wonderful, you just tell me when you can and we’ll do it.

[the-kingdom-of-denmark]

We should have a smørrebrød contest again to see who can eat it the fastest, I’m winning this time!

- @ask-jutland-funen

Absolutely I'll show you who wins!! Me!!

[ask-jutland]

Not happening, I’m winning!

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Hey!! If u were fighting in the war in 1864 alongside Denmark, how? Did u disquise urself as a man or was it expected of u since u r a countrie's representative?

Hej.

It’s always expected of a personification to fight for its people, but yes, being a woman back then did put some boundaries on it. Luckily for me, back then barely anyone actually knew how I looked, or my gender, still, I did disguise myself. I considered cutting my hair, but I couldn’t get myself to do it, so I made it into one big braid and wrapped it around my head, hiding it with a hat.

Thanks to it I was seen as any other soldier, treated like one too, but Denmark made sure that we were around each other, so we could protect one another.

…Weird times..

[ask-jutland]

When people think they got something on me but I know how to make a Southern Jutlandic cake table and they don’t.

[ask-aph-hws-iceland]

If you and Leon ever want to go to Legoland just tell me, I can get you free tickets.

- @ask-jutland-funen

Oh that... I... I appreciate the offer, Jutland.

I'll... Think on it.

[ask-jutland]

Take your time, offer is always open.

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I’m not a mom, but I’m an aunt to four kids and co-parent one of them, so I’m close to being one-