Ask EngBel

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[vinnie2757]

[quietly rises from my grave, banging my fists on everything, yelling ENGBEL at the top of my lungs]

[askengbel]

You told me to drop you a line when i set everything up, so i'm guessing this is dropping a line. It's called Ask-nyoseborga

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[askengbel]

It used to be on my mind constantly! Even though he's always told me that I don't owe him anything for what he's done - how can I not? I owe him so much, and for a while, it terrified me, that this - this - that what I felt wasn't real, that it was just that debt. But then, I don't know. I guess I looked deep inside myself and separated me from my nation, from my people, and I decided once and for all that yes, I love him. With all my heart, I love him.

I think that he's worried about it still. He never says he is, but I think he is. He's been let down so many time by so many people, through his fault and not, and he's a little out of his depth.

But that's alright, I know he loves me, and he knows I love him, even if he doubts it sometimes. That's all that matters. (I can always get the armbands out if he forgets how to swim.)

- Belgium

[askengbel]

For us, Christmas begins a week or so early - there are just too many people to see! If we aren't going abroad to see other family members, we have to stagger who comes over, otherwise there's too many people! England's house is just too small to have - um - hang on let me count - maybe twenty or more? There's at least twenty people at any given moment, and that's just too many for the little two-bed cottage! Sometimes, we go to America's - it's much bigger, after all, and it's easier to get everybody over. But sometimes there's too many people, you know? There's so many cultures and traditions and religions involved, and it gets so confusing, even after all this time!

Either way, I'm not sure how England's liver manages it every year, because I don't think he's been sober since the eighteenth. (That's his tradition, he says, getting so drunk he can't stand up unaided. I think mine would be not letting him hurt himself, that's a good tradition, right?)

Now that I think about it, I don't think we have any traditions. We're getting too old to get excited about Christmas the way we would if we were human, you know? We still enjoy it, and we have a routine like everyone does; presents, breakfast, getting dressed and cracking open the Bucks Fizz, that kind of thing. Does that count as tradition?

This year, it's been quiet, on our front, at least. We had America and Canada over at the start of the month, and we had a little 'do then, but Christmas day was just us, and Sealand, and the cat. It was nice, and I didn't have to spend all day in the kitchen! (Though, I didn't get any sort of a lie-in, not with Sealand coming in at five-thirty in the morning screaming about his stocking.)

- Belgium

[askengbel]

Happy Holidays, guys!

[askengbel]

I took it to heart the moment he said it. There was this - this - look in his eyes, and I knew; if I never listened to another word he said, that would be the one thing I had to remember.

- Belgium

It's not easy, choosing the best advice she's given me - 2000 years is a long time. But she's been saying it for as long as I've known her, so it must be either the worst or the best, I haven't quite decided.

-England

[askengbel]

He's my best friend, nothing more, nothing less. I talk to him every day, and we make sure to make time for each other whenever we possibly can.

- England

What that means is that he gets phone calls at all hours of the day and night about the stupidest things, up to but not limited to crises of faith about how much I love him. I think Portugal knows more about our sex life than I do, the poor man.

- Belgium

[askengbel]

I saw your last post today, thanks, I needed this, it made my day a little better

aaaaaa i'm glad friend, i hope today/tomorrow/forever is a lot better for you!

[askengbel]

Her name's Sam, she was England's ship cat back when he did all the sailing in the 1600s. We also have a few dogs lurking around when it suits them, and wild birds like coming in through the open window. But I think it's safe to say Sam is our number one. She survived this long, after all, I think she's going to stay for the rest of forever.

- Belgium

[[REF because how do attractive boys with cats]]

[askengbel]

I don't know what his problem is; ever since we signed my Treaty, he's been - well he's not been outright horrible, but he doesn't make much of an effort to be friends with England.

Lux likes him a lot, he comes over for Sunday dinner all the time, but Ned is - he just doesn't want to share his toys, I think. He means well, but I'm not his now.

England tries to be friendly, but I think something happened between them, in 1914, and they won't tell me what, but I've got a few ideas.

- Belgium

[askengbel]

We've just been on holiday, actually! We like travelling during the summer, seeing the family and friends, you know? Meetings aren't quite the same as going and spending time with them, so we make our holidays visits to everyone!

- Belgium

[askengbel]

Why do you draw Belgium so fat? Nothing wrong with big beautiful ladies, but other times you draw her with a different body type and it's really inconsistent. Plus in canon she's not a larger lady.

okay i left this for a month but i've got enough free time now to actually answer it and i'm sorry friend but "in canon" doesn't mean anything to me

in canon she has never visibly interacted with england but i do not see you complaining about that

in canon she is taller than romano and potentially taller than england but i do not see her height being taken issue with

in canon england does not have piercings

in canon nothing on this blog is relevant

do you see my point about canon

this entire blog is a headcanon. if i headcanon bel as fat, i will do my damnedest to draw her fat and if you don't like it then you dont' have to follow it. ignore the url, blacklist it and my personal. you won't see my art. there is no reason to tell me things that people have been telling me for the last 4 months

if you look at the dates of my answers - hell, my artwork in general - i've been drawing over the last 18 months, and i've been improving. i've been learning. i am growing more comfortable with my style and with drawing bel as a bigger girl. but that is the point. i am learning. i am still learning about drawing - at a slow, hobby pace. because that is what art is to me. a hobby. it is not my main goal in life, to be a master drawer (term used in full irony) because i am, first and foremost, a writer. drawing bel as a bigger girl is hard for me but i am trying

sometimes i will make mistakes in judgement and draw her thinner than she should because because of a historical period, or an au that would require her to be thinner than i imagine her, and i am sorry that i am inconsistent.

but i'm learning, and that's all i can continue to do.

im sorry if i sound harsh but you - or people like you - will not stop badgering me about it despite my hiatus and it is Bothersome

[vinnie2757]

Super important ooc announcement

I’m sorry guys I won’t be able to update for a while. By a while I mean i don’t know if I’m going to be able to update again because my laptop is fried.

The hard drive is fricked up and regardless of what i do next, be it replacing it or getting a new laptop, it means I have no Photoshop so that means I’m not going to be able to draw or colour if I do it by hand

So ye don’t expect updates until I can get this sorted I’m sorry guys

[askengbel]

I don't think he has the faintest idea what it actually is, but he eats it, so who am I to complain?

Generally, at any party, I have to make a double batch of whatever it is the boys have decided they want to eat, else they'll eat it all before the party's even begun! It could be anything from those little ring shaped biscuits to a three-tier sponge cake or chocolate raisins, but I'll be damned if I let them complain that there's no food because they ate it all!

As for waffles at Christmas, well, that's practically tradition at England's house now! Sealand comes to stay with us, and he tells me it isn't Christmas unless he has a freshly-made waffle with vanilla hot chocolate for breakfast. Such a stubborn boy, but so sweet!

- Belgium

[askengbel]

Not that much would change, I don't think, except I'd be taller for once!

- Belgium

[askengbel]

which English city was named after one of Belgium's gods? i'm bit curious

((answering OOC bc lazy lol))

Colchester! Nothing definitive exists to prove or disprove it, but Camulus is cited as one of the possible origins for the name. Also Camelot but that's another matter entirely lmao

He was equated with Mars in the Roman pantheon, and kind of migrated around the Channel area thanks to all the trading between the British, French and Belgian Celtic tribes, but he was a pretty important guy back then

((reminder that wiki is not a source))

[askengbel]

I've thought about it since the moment I met her, I'll admit. We've faked marriage a dozen times, when we've needed something that our status as nations couldn't bypass - when we've been civilians, for instance, needing access to battlefields or to cover up some other suspicion from neighbours or what have you.

But I didn't ask her to marry me for real, for real, until quite recently. I was a bit of a fool in that regard, I should have asked her centuries ago, but it didn't seem right until past the millennium.

Honestly, I'm still surprised she said yes.

- England