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bout to have a stressful day tmrw (nothing too bad just very nerve-wracking) and im coping with it by thinking that once i get through friday i will get to Saturday and on Saturday there will be a new asknordics comic!
🥺 That is so sweet, oh, my god. Thank you!!!
I hope your work day tomorrow goes as smoothly as possible. 💜
heyy
how did you come up with Sweden and Denmark's blood eagle backstory?
An anon asked about scars, my brain went "vikings, brutal, hurt each other, enemies?? leave scars?? torture?? torture. viking torture?? what's that thing?? blood eagle?? oh, my god, blood eagle. do the blood eagle. vanja, oh my god, blood eagle. do it, do it, do it."
And who am I to deny my brain some delicious angst?
Hi Mun!
I've just gotta know;
How did you come up with freckled Denmark? Hes so adorable! Especially with his freckles.
I wanna smush his freckled face so bad-
Oh, I cannot take credit for that! I didn't draw him with freckles until the 17th comic on this blog. I'm almost certain that I got it from an old Hetalia headcanons blog called @littleaphheadcanons, where people would submit their headcanons for various characters. I believe that I got Swe's dimples from the same blog.
If you've seen some of my drawings where I use actual colours, you'll see that I make his hair colour a little more reddish than the others, which I think fits perfectly with his freckles.
Munday funday! Fave movie and most hated movie?
My favourite movie is Strange Magic (2015)! Now, bear with me, it's not good, but I like it a lot. It's a George Lucas production that wasn't given the attention it deserved, and despite all that it still came out pretty decent and enjoyable. It's a jukebox musical (a musical that uses songs that already exist, as opposed to songs that were written for the musical) featuring Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming, both performing beautifully.
It's about a fairy princess (with beautiful purple butterfly wings) who discovers that her fiancé is cheating on her with another woman, and she breaks off the engagement and becomes a bad-ass warrior who insists she doesn't need a man in her life. She convinces herself that she doesn't need love in her life. In the darker parts of the forest is The Bog King, an insect-like creature who rules over the goblins of the forest, who long ago sought to destroy the concept of love -- or at least to destroy all the flowers that are needed to brew a love potion. I don't think I'm spoiling anything when I say that these two characters end up falling in love with each other, and honestly, I love them both so much and I am so fucking normal about them.
My most hated movie is Whiplash (2014). Not because it's bad! It's an excellent movie, and I was supposed to hate the music teacher in this movie. I was supposed to feel conflicted about the ending, I was supposed to feel conflicted about the balance between pushing a talented young student into self-sabotage in order to make them good at what they want to be good at, and not fucking doing that. And I hated feeling those feelings. It's an excellent movie, and I hated feeling the feelings I had when I watched it, hahaha.
Bonus: I used to hate the movie The Holiday (2006), because I watched it when I was a bitter 18yo who critiqued every trope she came across, but I watched it again a couple of years ago, and oh my god, it's fine. It's completely fine. It even made me laugh out loud. The phone scene was so funny.
Munday! Favorite bands and favorite songs from them?
Oho! Tasty question!
My all-time favourite band is They Might Be Giants. I was a child of the 90s and I watched Tiny Toon Adventures, and there was an episode that was sort of like an MTV episode? They Might Be Giants had two songs on there: Istanbul (Not Constantinople), and Particle Man. Younger folks here might recognise the first song from Umbrella Academy, and rightly so, because it's an excellent song. It's a cover song, originally written and performed by The Four Lads from the 50s. If I had to pick one favourite song by They Might Be Giants, it would be Am I Awake?
I'm also a big fan of Weird Al Yankovic, both his parodies and his original work. There are obviously some songs that haven't aged well in terms of using certain words to refer to people, but he seems to learn from these mistakes. My favourite parody song of his is TMZ, and my favourite original song of his is a tie between Skipper Dan and Close But No Cigar.
I'm gonna make the next answers shorter, but I enjoy Blind Guardian (favourite song is Curse My Name), Judas Priest (Lochness), Ljótu hálfvitarnir (Við stöndum hér enn), Manfred Mann's Earth Band (The Complete History of Sexual Jealousy), Ultravox (All Fall Down), 10cc (Rubber Bullets), Yello (Spinning My Mind), Insomnium (Valediction), Kaizers Orchestra (Begravelsespolka), and uhhhhh... many more!
If you could meet one of the hetalia characters who would you pick?
Oh, god, good question...
Gotta find a character who doesn't suck (affectionate). It would be easy for me to say Nor, because I'm Norwegian and we're probably very similar, but I don't think we are that similar. He'd probably give me one look and then fuck off into the mountains.
Den would be too much for me, Swe would be too quiet, Ice would be too prickly...
Probably some of the kind characters, like Fin?? I like kind people. I like patient people. Don't read into what that says about me.
As for any non-Nordics... I think I'd like to meet Hungary. I would love to see her do her thing and listen to her talk about everything she could think of. I love her.
Been dealing with this for a while in the Hetalia fandom but any advice to help me deal with anxiety interacting with ask blogs? i remembered trying to interact with one with something v silly and wholesome and i thought mun of that blog who was cool with me and then got promptly blocked because i think someone saw me and said "anon sux they did this"
There's a lot of drama around fandoms these days. If someone told Mun, for example, "hey, this anon sucks because they ship this ship" and then Mun blocked you, I don't think they're worth following, to be honest. And if someone told Mun, for example, "hey, this anon sucks because they did (insert ridiculously horrible thing here)" and Mun believed them without proof? Also not worth following.
All in all, it's worth trying to get used to being blocked, even for the pettiest reasons. I struggle with it myself, and I'm always left with a lot of questions as to why I've been blocked, but in the end I have to conclude that this person just doesn't want to be friends with me or see my stuff on their dash. That's fine.
I'm very anxious myself. With BPD on top of it, I get extremely anxious if I'm in a bad spot. But when I'm in a good spot, all I can do is do the things I need/want to do anyway, and then just feel the feelings as they come and let it pass. Cry if I have to. The more practice I get with dealing with my anxiety, the easier it gets in the long run.
If you're worried about blogs blocking you for what you ship, I'd recommend browsing their blog for any stance they might have on shipping. You can also browse their blog to see how they interact with anons. Are they rude? Are they kind? Some people are tempted to be rude towards anons because they don't see anons as real people, just an anonymous face.
If they're kind towards anons, and you're still anxious about interacting with askblogs, I'd ask questions anonymously. If they're nice and your question isn't incredibly offensive, the worst they can do is not answer it.
What is your favorite not Nordic food? Or weirdest food that you like (by your point of view)?
Oh, my god, sushi. I'm a slut for sushi.
The weirdest food I like... Okay, so this is not weird in my family, but I've had such horrified reactions from so many people that I think it counts as weird: boiled eggs with a dollop of butter in it.
Like!!! Put your boiled egg in its cute little egg cup, cut its top off, and lob a dollop of butter into it. Let it melt a bit. Scoop that nasty boy up and slorp it down. Delish!
As for what I think is weird... Squid, probably? I was horrified to find that I love squid, hahaha.
