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btw follow me on insta @gleepglorpp i think i might not post art on tumblr anymore and retire this hetalia ass blog :)

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As I believe the one anon said following is kind of like a bookmark. Honestly I just really love your version of the hetalia characters. They feel so much more grounded and realistic, not to say I don’t enjoy regular hetalia but I think part of what makes it fun is the various ways people can view the characters and world. Your art is a very refreshing take on the personifications and I do think your style is very nice. Even if you aren’t super active or into hetalia anymore I hope youre still making art and having fun

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thanks for the response! as ive thought about it more, that makes total sense -- what people seem to enjoy most is my point of departure from the source material / the interpretive lens, whatever they deem that to be. that's not discouraging in the slightest, actually ... i dont think ill make hetalia content any longer, but that point of departure , at least, its major interests in thematic motifs persist in my new projects. and thanks especially for the last bit; i've really come to terms with making art should be fun and if its not fun then i shouldn't feel obligated by invisible forces to make anything. i think i've revitalized my own creative impulses by reworking my hetalia stories into human ones. hopefully that will translate to an increase in drawing activities

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i think I've been following you since beginning of 2019? anyway i loved (still do!) your art style and the way you designed your characters. i don't want to slander anyone's preferences but i wasn't a big fan of flamboyant, colorful and smoothed out anime boys that i saw everywhere in this fandom or on the internet in general, and the way you drew men especially was grounded and realistic. your art was like a hidden treasure to me i know it seems very shallow but I've never been too interested in history, at least not to an extent that some people can be in the hetalia fandom, i also left the fandom around 2020 so i haven't been here for long - my main focus remained to be your designs. i just genuinely loved that you drew the characters in an expressive and funky style without throwing away all the details that made them seem more human. sorry if this is not coherent but I'm not a native speaker and i don't remember a lot of the details from years ago. I'm glad that you still post from time to time :) i wanted to answer on instagram but there is very little space for a longer answer.

hi! no worries about the insta thing - defo doesnt allow for long messages nor anonymity. i suppose then for you its mostly about aesthetic preference , meaning that your preference is the same as mine. i feel like my art has recently become more observational but i dont want to discard the textural depth of the art that was closer to caricature ... i want to improve technically but maintain the tie between theatrics and realism. i think i really pride myself on characters that are...plausible, so i'm not offended at all that you're not interested in the historical bits -- in fact, its interesting that you're drawn more to the human than the mythic side. i wonder if that part always stood out more? anyhow, thanks for being a longtime fan -- 2019 was ages ago.

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ive found people in the hetalia fandom tend to drift in and out and back in sometimes, even for a bit, so I usually keep following inactive blogs. that and if I ever want to try finding a specific work/post again its a good bookmark. I really enjoyed your work and contributions so there's no real reason to unfollow !

fair! I actually never disengaged with the concepts of hetalia -- I still love talking about it and theorycrafting and worldbuilding, actually. there is so much "content" (urgh, dont like to put it that way) about hetalia that i never expressed because again, i wasnt really sure about interest and i didnt want to feel like a big talking head of a creator. i wouldn't be opposed to doing so now considering that my ideas (personal and fandom) come from the same structures of historicism and mythopoesis. anyhow, thanks for sticking around.

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random question tho i doubt i'll get answers as this blog is more archival than active (I cant even claim to be more active on insta): why do i have a small number of dedicated followers?

i havent worked in hetalia projects in years, and i don't think my art style if particularly distinct (if anything i suspect its...retrograde). i've been tempted to post more text based work as of late tho i can't imagine what the appeal is now that my characters have been repurposed for other, less animate purposes. unless some of you are here for long form thoughts on corporatism and interpersonal microdrama. or some semblance of of ideological and aesthetic coherence that my work offers. or nostalgia? lol. who knows

not a rhetorical question, genuinely curious. feel free to reply or dm.

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Since you've revisited this blog I have to tell you that I only ever learned of the Artsakh Republic through your blog, and consequently was only able to appreciate the terrible crime of its disillusion and ethnic cleansing last year because of you. Hetalia is silly cartoons but sometimes people can learn from it. I understand if you don't respond to this ask publicly, I just wanted you to know of your impact.

ah, well glad to be of service, then. i always intended my blog to take a sort of educational bent, but im not sure if that really got across. it was mostly a place for me to balance that intention with indulging my interests (and fundamentally unserious personality).

i agree that hetalia is really silly and has tons of irreconcilable issues, however i did/do really believe that personifying nation states is an interesting thought experiment and great vehicle for understanding historical forces and intl relations, at least at a basic level. but that's hardly a revolutionary insight. hetalia is of course not a medium we should be using for real-life activism or raising awareness ... that would be...deeply inappropriate.

while ive shifted away from hetalia and repurposed my characters for personal projects, my core interest remains the same: telling culturally resonant stories that explore history, identity, and lived experiences. to that end, i will still be sharing information about armenian culture (among others) , but now through more nuanced personal narratives and relationships. and if people learn something from that, awesome.

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also vardan as my human oc is just weird and scary now so like. if youre here for the og vardo i killed him

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btw follow me on insta @gleepglorpp i think i might not post art on tumblr anymore and retire this hetalia ass blog :)

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shitty fucking superman

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vardan storyline ages triptych

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call hr. call the UN. idgaf

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Soula

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stavros is the worlds first male shawty casuing a 100 kiloton explosion as he escaped from containment vardan is when a group of russian scientists tried to make the perfect tennis coach but the experiment failed and turned an insane corporate oblomovist after adding to much chemical x

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he looks fed and like he's doing well :) does he need a new intern

Subject: Welcome Aboard

Welcome to the firm. I trust you will adapt quickly. You will soon learn that in this role, mistakes are educational but expensive. Try to avoid making them.

Some advice:

Avoid overthinking your emails. Brevity is a virtue. (This does not apply to me.)

Never assume your data is complete. Assume it is flawed, corrupted, or deliberately misleading. Act accordingly.

If you're ever uncertain, prioritize plausible deniability.

A final note: if you have questions, ask. If you hesitate to ask, consider whether that hesitation is founded in reason or fear. Either is acceptable. I’m here to guide, not to judge.

Best Regards,

Vardan Aramyan

Senior Risk Assessor

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low quality image of my revamped vardan divorced from hetalia who is now the accidentally villainous corporate consultant he was always meant to be . happy new year god bless

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i purged some of my old posts sorry