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Por fin comparto mi parte del art trade con @jet-set-go-go 💚 Un SpUK todo bonito con un Toño más bronceado y un Arthur más ondulado de lo que acostumbro 💚 Yo recibí un PruPru hermoso grrrr veanlo en su perfil
Your pruk sketch and all of your prussia art has made itself a home in my heart 💖
Thank you so much! ❤️
I really love this ship AAAA
(but I couldn't find old art of them made by myself besides that ask from 2023, sorry anon :7; but If you remember how the art was you can describe it to me to refresh my memory and I'll search it better).
Talking about headcanons, I haven't gone into it too much, but I think Arthur and Gilbert became closer than ever in the 4th century.
The two countries were so close that Frederick II and his sister were considered to marry Princess Amelia of Great Britain and her brother, respectively. These marriages did not happen because an Austrian figure feared this alliance and caused discord between the two nations.
Despite this, the two remained somewhat close, and they were allies in the War of Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
I will never get over what I like to call "The Curious Case of Hetalia's Scotland." Not only because I find it funny, but because to me, this is something that demonstrates the pure power of fandom and fanon.
Because for the longest time, we didn't really have Scotland in the series. Like, we knew he was technically a canon character, seeing as he was mentioned by England a time or two before, but we had no design or skits of him at the time. Not to mention those comments were only made in the comics, which many fans didn't read, seeing as many of us only stuck to the anime for the longest time (which is me, I am many fans. I am still trying to find the courage to read the manga aside from little panels I find online).
And so, what did the Hetalia fandom do? Well, the fandom did what the fandom does best... Taking matters into their own hands and creating their own design for the character/country.
I'm not gonna put an actual picture of the fanon design here because I don't want to repost anyone's art without their permission, but if you look up "hetalia scotland" on google, and then click on "images", you'll get the picture of what I'm thinking of. A tall guy with pale skin, bright green eyes, fiery red hair, and wearing a cobalt-blue suit with two white sashes across the front. A man who literally just looks like a human personification of the Scottish flag.
Now, I have no idea who came up with the fanon design for Scotland. I've looked, and I genuinely cannot find out who the first person was who drew him. But regardless, this is the design that the fandom largely latched onto. So much so to the point where you had people making fanart, fanfics, and even cosplays of this character. People even collectively decided on his personality, interests, what his relationships with other the characters were like, etc. (This can all be found on the fan character wiki). It even got to a point where I, as well as many others, genuinely started to believe that this was the canon design/version of the character for the longest time. Primarily because we just didn't know any better.
In short, the fanon version of aph Scotland spread far and wide throughout the fandom, and everyone seemed to just largely accept him, even to the point of believing he was canon.
And then one day, Himaruya drops this sketch.
He posted this and said that the characters here were Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. However, he didn't say who was who, so we were left to guess which character was which at the time. We were getting closer to a canon Scotland but were still unsure which one he was. And even then, you had people who still clung to the fanon version.
And the later, Himaruya formally introduced Scotland in the comics and even released this piece of official, beautiful art.
Fully illustrated designs of all of the UK brothers. England, Northern Ireland, Wales... And Scotland.
This was it. We, as the fandom, finally had our canonical version of Scotland, as well as the rest of the UK brothers. But let's be real here, when it came to fanon-created characters, the fans largely latched onto Scotland.
And what did a large chunk of the fandom do?
That's right. I dunno about everyone else in the fandom, but in the fan spaces I was in, you had a large chunk of people who took one look at the canon design and thought to themselves, "Yeaaah no. We like our version better."
And I just... This is still so funny and wild to me.
Imagine waiting years to get a character design, and when the design finally comes out, you have since become so married to a fanon design, that when you look at the canon design, you go, "No thanks."
It seems like people have become much more accepting of the canonical design of aph Scotland over time (and I'm happy for that), but even so, the sheer reach and influence that the fanon design of Scotland had is nothing short of amazing to me.
Anyway, there you go, that's my ramble for the day.
I was researching the American Revolution for my final and came across this gem.
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I need to see that fucking letter or I will die unfulfilled.
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Alfred when Jefferson wont let him send his illiterate letter with doodles of toy soldiers to the British head of state
#nation people #npusa #np archives #holy shit nothing has changed
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Who is the oldest Kirkland brother?
Scotland
Mr. Scotland
Alasdair
Voting ended onSep 10, 2024
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love how confidently wrong you are op
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You write Russia x Stalin fics your opinion is worthless to me
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WHAT THE FUCK
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They even wrote a Russian translation. I love that they made it accessible to Russian people while still having the audacity to write a fucking Russia x Stalin fic without any irony whatsoever.
#nation people #nprussia #ivan braginsky #i need a lobotomy now
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Okay put a finger down if you were visiting family in Rome and while at a restaurant you saw the NP of Italy walk in and then he sat down at the table behind you and your grandmother who is kind of senile whispered to you about her secret steamy affair with Veneziano and you said "okay nonna" and a few minutes later the NP of Italy turned around and shouted "ALESSIA?!" and the two spent the rest of the night catching up in front of your family.
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What's up with nation people rizzing up all of our grandmothers?!
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In my country (France) almost everyone at my school have a story about the NP getting freaky with one of their relatives.
This has the same energy as a writer desperately trying to make their insanely cool but devastatingly off the wall plot point work with the rest of the story
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