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Day 2: Seperated // @hetaberia-week

I'm so glad late submissions are accepted lol!

For this one how about we talk about the separation of the New World between Portugal and Spain lol.

[I'm also using lyrics from the Siamese Cat Song! It has it's issues for sure but I can twist enough of the lyrics to make it a proper song for the invasion of the Americas jaja!]

1493; Spain and Portugal agreed to split the New World and turn to the Pope to ask how they should do so. (Both highly Catholic countries running to South Italy about how they should split the cookie lol)

Pope Alexander VI (born in Spain) wrote down a line 320 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands (owned by Portugal) and anything on the West was fair game to Spain and anything to the East was fair game for Portugal.

At a first glance this does seem highly unfair but this was the New World! No one knew what it looked like! They had really no idea that Portugal was only getting a crumb of the cookie.

June 7, 1494; Portugal's king King John II finally throws a fit and Spain and Portugal rewrite the boundary 1,185 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands which allowed Portugal to expand Brazil. This is the Treaty of Tordesillas. Pope Julius II did not formally sign off on this until 1506. (An Italian pope from Genoa this time! Also close to Michelangelo and Raphael!)

Of course, it actually doesn't matter much to Portugal that they don't get that much new land. Portugal already had significant territory in Africa and Asia.

Spain is wearing a little number drawn by Tlaxcalans in "Lienzo de Tlaxcala" from 1550 AD. The specific image was Cortez and La Malinche meet Moctezuma II. Hernán Cortés is of course one of the best known Spanish conquistadors.

Portugal is wearing something from Discovery of Brazil painted by Aurélio de Figueiredo! He was a Brazilian artist painting in a very Romantic style however my notes on him are very limited. But I will find them! His outfit is worn by Pedro Álvares Cabral who is largely recognized as the first European who arrived to Brazil. Saying he discovered it makes me laugh.

Paintings under the cut!

datsderbunnyblog

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

catboycommunist

evergreen

batmanisagatewaydrug

looked up Heidi because I'm a journalist

for reasons I can't imagine this publisher of sexless Alaska love stories is averaging under 20 likes each on posts about her books, so if I can be so honest I kind of have my doubts that her books are getting read even with the excessive use of generous lending policies

ariaste

Also her claim that authors are not getting paid per borrow is.... wrong. With ebooks (which is what she's talking about here with Libby) there are two forms of licensing for libraries to lend out ebooks.

The first kind is that they buy a license for a pre-determined amount of check-outs. I'll just make some numbers up for the sake of illustrating what that looks like: Let's say $20 for 20 borrows. When the ebook has been checked out 20 times, the library has to renew the license and pay more money in order to continue lending out the ebook. The author gets a cut of that $20 as their royalties.

The second kind is literally paying per borrow. (Again just making up numbers here) Let's say the library pays 50 cents every time the book is checked out. The author still gets a cut as their royalties. Is it just 10 or 20 cents per borrow? Yes, but that adds up! AND it means that people who otherwise wouldn't have been able to read my book at all are able to read it, which is great! AND it means that the library is thriving and being used, which is also great!

So yes, authors DO get paid from library activity!!!!!!

Do not feel guilty for using the library. I don't know one single author (except this Little Miss Ma'am in the screenshots, apparently) who would resent their readers for using libraries.

leebrontide

AUTHORS LOVE LIBRARIES!

kokodrawings

Yakuza AU

nothingisnothingness

Romerica yuri <3

I have more romano yuri on the way, prumano is next!

azzzryel

Two kings for the price of one ✨

offline-crowbot

My hottest fanfiction take is I think people should stop posting multi-fandom oneshots as a single fic with like 50+ chapters and instead post them as individual fics

hansakala

Inspired from PHM and other space scifi stories I've read; NedPort space AU

kokodrawings

Three Legendary Sannin

catasters

jaredthebc2

Dramatic shot of the main character watching their mentor die in slow motion at the turning point of the story

tooersh

somebody pointed out that maekar wears baelor's pin over his heart during the funeral, and the detail really stayed with me...

attempted a design of maekar's crown of iron points. reimagining it a bit more delicate, like a crown of thorns.

s1lentsadist

peeking is rude

baelor-my-love

Still OBSESSED with this

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

For @hetaberia-week Day 7: Cardverse

With the turning of a new cycle, Afonso is forced to confront the past he would rather forget. Time is running out. Soon enough, he would have to make a choice between the Queen he swore to serve and the brother he once failed to save. And Antonio? Antonio just wishes his brother would live to see the future.

#hetalia #fanfiction #aph spain #hws spain #aph portugal #hws portugal #hetaberia week 2026 #engport and spamano plans for later chapters #I got too into the lore and world building #so the one shot became multichap and now I'm gonna try to include the other days prompts in the chapters

cloudabserk

baby photos

cloudabserk

somebody pointed out that from a photo alone it wouldn’t be super clear to rocky how different a baby human was. so now there’s a youtube interview for rocky to watch

artbyblastweave

Easily the most annoying kind of vampire in the world are the ones where you finally corner the fuckers and when you're going in with the stake they start spouting off sociology 101 bullshit to try and weasel out of it. "Oh, no ethical consumption under capitalism," "oh, the rich are the real vampires if you think about it-" yeah, yeah, you ate like fifty homeless people, asshole. Hold still

dialectrician

Okay but if you aren't a vegetarian your case against vampires is actually pretty weak.

artbyblastweave

I SAID HOLD STILL

crow-caller

as a child there's nothing cooler than a kid who gets subjected to evil experiments and gains special abilities. it's even cooler if these abilities also cause unfathomable suffering to use/against others. children love stories like this.

demi-shoggoth

The children yearn to be Mewtwo

elumish

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

I am not that old, and I didn't have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.