Arthur Kirkland, cca 1953.
The colonies have grown teeth. The empire weighs less than the coat he wears. He does not speak of loss. He only reads of it.
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Arthur Kirkland, cca 1953.
The colonies have grown teeth. The empire weighs less than the coat he wears. He does not speak of loss. He only reads of it.
--
I miss this garbage can 🥹
trench warfare themed blowjob king?
What in the ever loving fuck is a trench warfare themed blowjob?
God please not this fucking post
ur welcome!! u pulled thru and did it all :)
i was wondering, could you elaborate on your thoughts of the na bros' mixed heritage? im simply curious, is all.
ahhh thank you for asking this
Trying to unpack my thoughts is like trying to find a missing earring in a crowded pool (I've done that this week. It was hell. I won.)
so let's unpack it:
ALFRED F. JONES:
mixed heritage: native american + british settler + everything else
Alfred is the product of violence, rebellion, and relentless expansion. He was "raised" (if you can call it that) by England but he was born of a land already lived in, already named, already known by its original nations. I like to think of him as someone who carries a complicated physical memory: Algonquin and Iroquois bones in his early body, rhythms from the Mississippi in his bloodstream, but shaped, often forcibly, by English law, Protestant rigidity, and Western expansionism. He's got a British accent buried somewhere deep in his psyche that he suppresses. You can quote me on that! He wears cowboy boots over land that was never really his. The tragedy of Alfred is that he was born of the old world and the new, and denied both for the sake of power (I have many thoughts and none of them are coherent)
There's a reason why he’s so loud, so desperate to define himself. Because he knows what he’s taken. And he knows that parts of him he’ll never get back.
MATTHEW WILLIAMS:
mixed heritage: first nations + french settler + british inheritance
Matthew is a quieter, more painful portrait of colonization. If Alfred is rebellion, Matthew is assimilation. He's still braided with First Nations threads... Depending on where you imagine he manifested. He was born into a land of deep winter and deeper memory, where knowledge is passed in snow and silence (dramatic i know) But France raised him with absence and Catholicism, called him "mon petit garcon," and gave him language but not sovereignty. Then England came and claimed him in the name of order. Matthew has always been seen as belonging to someone else. Rarely as his own.
He's the perfect nation to be forgotten because he was taught to erase himself to make others comfortable. But the land remembers. And so does he.
His mixed heritage manifests not just in looks or accent, but in contradiction: he apologizes in English but dreams in French.
His silence is new world. His bones ache with treaties no one honored.
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They are patchwork identities, made of stolen land, broken treaties, revolution, survival...... They're nations that were born too fast and made to grow up too soon, and they carry that weight differently. Alfred carries it with denial and distraction. Matthew carries it with grief and grace.
But they both carry it. And in my view? That's what makes them so rich, and so tragic, as characters.
But then again I'm a sucker for the tragic kind. The ones who don't know if they're inheritance or invasion, only that they feel the ghosts of both.
Welcome back, it's so so sooooo good to see you again. Missed your art and takes, congrats on the degree holy shit!!!
Thank you! Now I'm starting the journey of actually gettign a job and its scarierrrrrrr
I'm halfway through my Network Effect reread so here's some sketches that came from my brain feat. Amena clocking the mutual administrative assistance
I understand 60% of what youre saying and thats 60% of me wanting to bang your art
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you know what, yeah. no, yeah. yeah im hc-ing that. ty.
in the shadow of an empire
Holy peak
It’s my favourite character’s birthday again, here are his… phases…
Went a little silly but needed to one up last year. Nevermind that it’s not the 14th on this side of the world anymore. I love him dearly.
I found something interesting. https://eurosexscene.com/sex-in-france/#sex-in-france-a-cultural-overview take a peek at our horrible British man statistics
Oooo let's see the link. Btw im giving you a live update as I read...
France isn’t cheap for hiring a courtesan. My God ofc I of all people would be given this link, this article.
EROSEXSCENE! Anon, Europe IS the sex scene!
If it glows, it blows. I beg your finest pardon.
These are typically older or street-level sex workers offering quickies in rented chambres nearby. ANON ARE YOU GIVING ME TIPS??
Our british man statistics? you tellin me Arthur rows over the eurotunnel and books a hooker??? interesting developments here in the fandom...
All in all a fascinating read, don't ever lay this upon my person ever again <3
good to see you back, im so happy for you! :D
just a question i usually have when a blog i like goes on hiatus for a while: have ur perceptions of these characters changed a bit in the time since u were gone?
Thank you! It feels surreal that after so many fuck ups from my colleges faculty department, and them not issuing diplomas on time, I am finaly done.
As for the question, I believe I still hold very similar oppinions. But I will add as delicately and mindfuly as I can, that in regards for Alfred and Matt, I think I'll depict them less and less with such light hair and steer toward more mixed herritage. I think I've come to realize they would be better rounded characters, to me, without all eurocentric features and skintones.
But as for how I see them as people, that pillar still stands. Matt for me is still my lil pookie with abandonment issues and whorish tendencies, and Al still is a world class money laundering idiot <3
And even the rest, I still hold on to what I've depicted. Francois and I have beef, he is a drama queen and awful father.
Arthur still eats cement (in my humble oppinion)
thank you for the check in and the question I mulled over it for a while <3
DONT fall for the ugly rat england propaganda!!! your england is perfect just the way he is!! ❤️
BUT WHAT IF THE PROPAGANDA HAS A POINT?? what if im so moldable to outside influences??
one day il post ugly middle age arthur and people will send me death threats youll see
(thank you <3<3<3<3)
Summer Landscape With Khatas by Ivan Velz, early XXth century
Hi! Sorry to bother you, but roughly 2 hours ago someone called Angelthefatal uploaded a post with various nyo-Hetalia art from different artists, one of yours being included. You're technically credited in the post, but they never mention if they had permission to post your art, so I guess I just wanted to ask if they have?
hey hey no bother at all, thank you for checking in <3 honestly? my blog is kind of a chaos lounge. it’s not that serious. as long as i’m credited, i don’t really mind. i know how the internet works, and i’ve made peace with the idea that some of my stuff is gonna end up floating around like an unsupervised victorian ghost.
so yeah no permission was asked, but i’m not mad. we’re good
thank you again for the heads-up! you're very sweet for that and sorry for a veryyy late reply