#aph cities

[roniebuttercups]

A Draw This In Your Style!

Characters: Calgary/Calvin McCall & Edmonton/Edward Murphy Belong to @acetechne/@battle-of-alberta

This took so long. I had my vaccine recently (June 5th) and drew for 3 days straight while my arm was sore. However it was so worth it!!!

More versions under the cut!

[battle-of-alberta]

I brought some old sketchbooks out of storage so here's an image from 2016 I don't think I ever posted. I remember being unsatisfied at the time but of course today I look through this sketchbook with its Crayola bright colours and think man what an amazing collection this is!

You'll see some familiar faces of course with some changes in their designs and a handful of characters who aren't mine, feel free to guess who they are :)

[ms-lirio]

I posted 2 drawings today, now, I will be dead for the next 1500 years xD

My Salvador (city) oc <33333

[allbeendonebefore]

watching hetalia headcanons slowly start filtering back onto my dash in recent months and i’ve been thinking (again) about my own approaches to things and how i’ve been sort of ignoring nations in favour of cities (and city-states!) because that’s been my interest for most of my studies

(I’m currently thinking more about modern colonial cities in a North American context - which is completely different from my approach to ancient city-states in the Mediterranean so bear in mind i am talking about younger cities that have a vague consciousness of older municipalities around the world but are mostly kind of just absorbed in their own immediate contexts and struggles, which perhaps i can write more about later)

and i think - at least in terms of my own context and background, my own approach to the subject and my motivations for portraying cities, that is, modern ones, I tend to think about ‘how do they reconcile their inhuman aspects’ and ‘what is their relation, if any, to other levels of representatives (i.e. provinces and countries). I seem to be coming to the (tentative) conclusion that municipalities are probably the most concrete (pun), the most down to earth, the most connected and the most ‘human’ appearing relative to the others who represent far more abstract entities.

many municipalities outlive and predate more arbitrary provinces and nations (and likewise, occupying or destroying a city has been vital in the conquest of nations) and are typically concerned with a much smaller area and population - they have more knowledge and more experience with their limits and thus, I suspect, are much better at going about their daily business, interacting with their citizens, and they sort of get more caught up in the day-to-day concerns and aspirations of their people (which is for example why ed uses his position to nurture his more mundane interests in waste management and data collection). I think that sometimes they forget some of their more inhuman aspects until they’re struck with a quite startling reminder, often tragic and often involving an event such as the death of a close human friend or a sudden awareness of how slowly the problems of the world seem to change.

I do like the suggestion that humans have an awareness of national avatars that can sometimes cross into a struggle to cope with their presence, even causing physical or mental distress, and sometimes is just a ‘taken for granted’ ‘oh yeah that guys our country’ attitude. I feel that even if nations love and care for their people that they interact with them less easily than cities do, and they do have bigger picture perspectives which aren’t necessarily wrong but can feel detached? i guess? and I think the way they do things is more to just mimic humans rather than to live real human lives because they have this weird combination of age and youth and immortality and invulnerability that just makes them a little. forgetful about how humans perceive them. and they’ll just say things like ‘ya i just zoned out for 3 days staring at my pet bear’s eyelashes sorry im late’ like its normal.

Cities on the other hand tend to have generally easygoing relationships with humans who are less bothered by their presence - instead of international relations, municipal avatars are more preoccupied with faking birth certificates and trying not to take up unnecessary space in hospitals when they accidentally get injured and mistaken for humans. It’s this convoluted bureaucratic comedy that they’re responsible for perfecting since nations couldn’t be bothered to figure that out for themselves (and of course capital cities are responsible for the mess of paperwork nations leave in their wake by existing lol)

[ask-nyc-boroughs]

Do you guys ever hang out with other cities?

Manhattan: Of course we do, well most of them…some of them are kinda lame or they’re like really fucking annoying. So we obviously know our cities in New York…like Will (Albany), Stephen (Buffalo), Noemi (Rochester), and I don’t really know Emma (Schenectady) all thag well like she’s ok…? Will, he’s usually nagging us to do like stuff for him and it’s so annoying ugh. I don’t even know what I saw in him. As for Stephen, so fucking annoying, like no one cares he’s the second largest city in the state- sometimes I think he’s part of Canada! Noemi, she’s like nice, don’t really have an issue with her. Outside of New York, if you’re not a major city, we, or I at least I won’t really talk to you.

Note: Lynn & Will used to date a few times. Also the red notes are Lynn.

Manhattan: The other boroughs talk to other cities in the tristate or Pennsylvania like Jersey City, Hartford, or Philly for example. Since I tend to handle some of our international and US domestic business, I do know cities across the country and internationally like Maxime (Montreal, belongs 2 @canadian-streets ), or cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Mexico City, you get the idea. And of course we have cities we don’t talk to like Boston, fucking annoying masshole.

[ask-ger-and-usa-states]

I dare you to draw Texas' reaction

Texas

And meanwhile with the cities

[the-enby-with-the-fox-ears]

@heta-oc-week day 6: Childhood

Characters used: Rome and Naples

“Geez Emi, I thought I told you not to get into fights with the other kids. Especially kids from families that are in the mafia. Your just going to make things harder on Dad....”

Angelo always looks out for his little sister since he’s a good big brother. he might scold her too but he just wants to keep her safe.

(I’ll do two for today since I couldn’t choose a character to do for yesterday’s prompt))

[aph-oklahoma-46]

Sticky Notes

//Didn’t get a prompt this week, so here’s this, based in part off a recent experience with a friend’s baby

Emily stood next to Angel while he held Ahyoka. The baby girl was growing fast. She blinked and stared at Emily, who stared back before making a face. Emily rolled her tongue and crossed her eyes, causing Ahyoka to giggle. Angel just rolled his eyes, but he grinned too.

“Do you still have that note your teacher gave you?” Angel asked, shifting Ahyoka to a more comfortable position. Emily had been given a sticky note instructing her on what to use for her outfit in her dance class.

She held her hand up, holding the note between her thumb and forefinger. “Yeah, I got it.” She held the note up a little longer, looking at it, then at Ahyoka, who had started reaching for it.

Emily waved the note back and forth and Ahyoka followed it with her eyes and outstretched hand. “Bah!” She made a clumsy grabbing motion.

“No no,” Angel clucked, “that’s not for you, silly.”

Emily stuck her hand out and pressed the sticky part of the note to Ahyoka’s forehead so that the paper hung over her eyes. Ahyoka’s eyes widened and she leaned back, attempting to move away from the obstruction.

“Emily!” Angel pulled the note off gently and flicked his sister on the forehead.

“What!? Look, she didn’t mind!” Sure enough, Ahyoka was grinning again, as happy as could be. She grabbed for the note again, and Emily snatched it from Angel.

Emily flipped it upside down, this time, approaching Ahyoka’s face and taping the note so that the flap was upside down, above her eyes. Ahyoka leaned back slightly as the note approached, eyebrows raising and mouth opening to a tiny “O.” This time, she couldn’t see the note, but she saw it come toward her, and she felt something on her head. She blinked and looked around, confused and little disoriented, patting her face.

Emily giggled and Angel tried to repress a chuckle. Emily pulled off the note, which was starting to lose its stickiness, and Ahyoka immediately smiled and giggled along with her father and aunt.

“You make silly faces, Ahyoka,” Emily said, tapping the baby’s nose.

“Well, yeah, Emi, she’s a baby. She doesn’t have object permanence yet.”

“…What does that have to do with funny faces?”

Angel rolled his eyes again. “When you put the note on her where she couldn’t see it, she thought it was gone. But she could still feel something on her face, so she knew something was weird. Google it when we get home. Anyway, let’s go.” He moved Ahyoka so that he could hold her with one hand and wrapped the other around Emily’s head. She licked his hand and they settled for Emily holding Ahyoka’s hand while they walked.

//I realize I skipped like two weeks for drabbles, and I’m super sorry. Midterms are finally passing, though, and once I’m done with my big assignment in English, I should have more time for weekly drabbles. Anywho, enjoy this short little thing!