Officially closing my askblogs. Thank you so much for all your wonderful support after all this time! But my fandoms have changed and it's unsure if I'm going to eventually return to Hetalia or continue my work.
Yes I acknowledge that some posts may have aged badly in my opinion but regardless they'll still be up for archival purposes. My time here on Tumblr has been wonderful! And I hope we'll meet each other again!
For anybody interested my new account is @lukaedelweiss and I mainly post about Twisted Wonderland, which has been my fandom since 2021. I decided to switch to keep the clutter of my 6-7 askblogs away 😓 If you're interested, drop a follow! I rarely post because I only want quality work to be shown but I will eventually be active again, in some way.
Once again, thank you so much for the wonderful time in the Hetalia Ask Blog community! Our server is still up, feel free to drop by and say hi!
I've said I don't mind requests for older content that I've not yet covered. This will absolutely remain true as I understand that it's useful to have everything you want to find in one place.
Having said that, requests that ask for entire series do take a lot of time and effort, and while I want to keep doing those, I want to ask you guys for two things:
Please check out Alchemivich's archive first. They have this masterlist up that may already include what you're looking for. They were active until somewhere before Lilia's platinum jacket birthday
You can absolutely ask for supplementary assets on anything that's in their archive if you feel like you're missing something!
You can check for audio rips on this blog: Link
If you do ask for whole series, try to specify what level of detail would be enough for you. It would help me shave off time if I know what poses of expressions you need.
If you don't specify these I will probably not do as many pose/expression combination out there like I sometimes do for new content.
I will also be moving all base game requested assets to a different drive somewhere in the future, to make more space for new content when I have the time~
Thank you!!!
The World On A Plate: A Hetalia Fanzine aims to celebrate food from cultures around the world, and what better fandom for this than Hetalia? With 110 pages, this zine showcases the wonderful talents artists and writers coming together to create a beautiful recipe book in honour of World Food Day. If you decide to try any of these recipes, please do tag us! We would love to see it!
READ THE FULL ZINE HERE
Food is culture, food is history, food is human right. On this World Food Day please consider donating to these initiatives providing food aid around the world. No one deserves to go hungry.
Donate to Gaza soup kitchen
Donate to the Sameer Project
Donate to Lebanese Food Bank
This is based on the so called Preußenfahrt where nobles would partake because it was 'trendy' to go crusading and they could get some fame and maybe even knighthood through the Teutonic order. There were summer and winter expeditions that had different goals: in summer they'd build bases and fortresses and in winter they'd raid villages.
Thanks to my professor at uni who compared this entire thing to a tourism campaign.
Also, I had misspellings when I posted it on instagram and tiktok and then I wanted to edit this one picture in the app and tiktok's random music assignment made it even better.
"Jinu shouldve been a butch lesbian and rujinu shouldve been toxic yuri" i yell as they drag me away in chains
click read more if u want to read my insane rambling about why
NOW… I’d like to clarify the following-
I love the Saja Boys and I think the film is better because of their inclusion. They make for some fun antagonists and do a good job of challenging the girls!
Non-diagetically, I can appreciate that KPOP Demon Hunters as a film is a love letter to Kpop, and making the girls’ rivals be a boy band is a fantastic way to explore both sides of Kpop - girl groups and boy bands (and mixed gender groups are too minor in the grand scheme of things to even really be in the discussion.)
As an enjoyer of Zoeystery and someone whose first otp and introduction to shipping culture was color-coded Powerpuff Girls x Rowdyruff Boys, I am certainly no stranger to the basic hetero allegations. Sometimes you just have to admit that you like a lab made straight ship and leave at that smh,
I am also aware that the creators stated that the film had many more progressive elements that were shot down by their more conservative producers! and that lesbian rujinu prbly wouldve been too woke and powerful for the masses
no i don’t hate people who ship straight rujinu ur literally fine this is just me yapping
WITH ALL OF THAT SAID… I still think Jinu should’ve been a woman, and maybe even Saja Boys should’ve been a girl group. If the Saja Boys were a girl group, it would make sense why the media and fans were pitting them and Huntr/x against each other so much, as opposed to be a boy band vs a girl group. But I care less about that, and I would even accept Saja Boys being a mixed gender group SO LONG as Jinu was a woman.
How exactly I began my “Jinu woman truther” arc started with me and a friend discussing the themes of KPOP demon hunters and specifically, the fact that (according to my sister, so don’t quote me) apparently one of the people behind the film stated that “Free” could be interpreted to be about queerness, given that whole song is about Rumi coming to accept a side of herself that she hated and tried to get rid of. This led to a wider discussion about how, out of the three main girls, my friend and I both agreed that Rumi was the one with the queer subtext in the canonical film. It would’ve been so interesting if her struggles with hiding her demon heritage were paralleled with Rumi being in the closet, fearing that the girls would see her and their relationships differently knowing this fact about her! I think it’s already widely pointed out how the fact that Rumi doesn’t want to change in the same room as the other girls or go to the bathhouse together could be interpreted as Rumi being trans, but I think could also interpreted as Rumi being wlw and being scared her intentions will be misconstrued in those contexts! (insert “why not both” gif here)
Now, imagine a scene where Huntr/x and Saja Boys first encounter each other, where Rumi is seemingly indifferent to the boys vs Mira and Zoey drooling over them, until female Jinu shows up and she’s completely taken in momentarily. Mira and Zoey are hostile to Jinu compared to the other members of Saja Boys, but Rumi inexplicably keeps feeling drawn to Jinu even though she’s supposed to hate the rival group leader. Hell, this works even better with an all female Saja Boys (girls?) group as well, with Mira and Zoey being hostile to their rivals, but Rumi still feeling this strange attraction and sympathy to Jinu from the start!
All of this yapping aside, I just wanted to say that personally, I think that the film would’ve been elevated so much by explicitly exploring queer themes in Rumi’s storyline, rather than leaving it as just subtext (ignoring the fact the creators were likely under pressure to rein in the progressive elements of the movie). It would’ve added so many layers to Rumi and the isolation she feels from the other girls and it would’ve made Jinu way more interesting, not just a love interest, but as a villain who uses the shared pain between them to (reluctantly) manipulate Rumi, not just her demon heritage, but her sexuality and the feelings they have for each other LIKE DID YOU NOT HEAR THE LINE “I’m the only one who’ll love your sins”????? INTENSELY HOMOSEXUAL
final note if we got A BROODING EDGY MANIPULATIVE BUTCH LESBIAN LOVE INTEREST/VILLAIN IN NEED OF THE MAIN CHARACTER’S REDEMPTION I WOULD LITERALLY FORGIVE KPOP DEMON HUNTERS FOR ALL THE COMPLAINTS I HAVE ABOOUT IT YES I REALIZE THAT HAS ITS OWN ISSUES BUT IDC WHERE ARE MY WLW VILLAINS!!!!!
also how do you look at this concept art and not see that Jinu was clearly destined to be a butch lesbian is beyond me
