#happy 20

[tiger-talks-and-doodles]

Happy 20th Anniversary Month to Hetalia!

It's so exciting experiencing this, and I hope to all of my fellow Hetalians that your years are going well! Hetalia got me interested in history past US history, and it is what motivated me to get a 100s in all of my history classes and a 5 on the APUSH exam. Being in the fandom and having so many friends within it is just so fun! Without any further ado, here's a shitpost I made as a celebration :P

[hyephyep]

For the 20th anniversary, a loose collection of childhood memories. My older brother got Okami for christmas when i was around 8 to 10 years old, and I loved it pretty immediately

my brother spent like an hour trying to beat the konohana shuffle (this was so hard on the wii), and i started making up circle-themed dances to grant him good luck

aiming stars also used to be so much harder, we'd load up like 50 star dots to ensure SOMETHING would land where it was supposed to

there were multiple occasions where i'd spent so long watching my brother play that he tried to kick me out of the living room to get some time to himself

we argued in the leadup to the first orochi fight. i was convinced the game was almost over because what could possibly come after orochi, he was sure there had to be more because he was nowhere near all 13 brush powers.

for the hardest blockhead, we tried to teamwork it: my brother would memorize the top half of the screen, i would memorize the bottom. in retrospect, you have to get the dots in order so this absolutely just made things harder

playing the game myself for the first time, i got so intimidated by the tsuta ruins. i kept grinding demon scrolls to put it off. then i watched my brother replay the game and get through tsuta in 20 minutes, and suddenly it wasn't scary anymore

in elementary school i drew all the brush powers on my art folder

i'd spend hours just soaking in the game. sasa sanctuary courtyard at night. the animal sanctuaries. scrolling through the complete bestiary. putting on ost from the extras menu and dancing around my living room.

i noticed at some point that okami was rated teen and did the equivalent of a garfield "huh, i wonder who that's for." later i concluded that it must be because the insides of the demons are red when you cut them in half, which implies blood. surely that's the only reason!

i discovered what lets plays are because i looked up okami on youtube and found a playthrough. i was completely shocked when someone started talking over the game footage. iirc i even went to my brother to ask him if it was okay to watch.

when i later read naruto for the first time, it was a constant, "i recognize that name from okami, i recognize THAT name from okami, and THAT name, and—" and then when we got to jiraya, "oh i know this type of guy, this is an issun!"

my brother rented an okami walkthrough at one point and i read it cover to cover, not even using it to play along with i just wanted more okami to admire

i loved this game so much

i love this game so much

[alejsunny]

Twenty

[pandadoughdoodles]

Happy New Year everyone, let's all try to make it a good one!!

[eternallyamused]

Happy Birthday, girl! Stay strong and beautiful!

[kboyfriendmaterial]

changbin boyfriend material compilation

happy birthday!

all credits belong to original owners

[drummers-for-days]

cant wait to spend another birthday alone and depressed

[sjjm]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUNGKOOKIE :>