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It honestly really bothers me that in canon hetalia, its made pretty clear that a nation isn't a personification of their government but of their people and that they are often times victims of their peoples governments or don't agree with them.
And then Belarus is written as being obsessed with Russia a la the modern day Belarusian government being a puppet government set up and controlled by Putin/Russia.
She deserves better
As an Estonian in Hetalia I still have a deep hatred for the usage of the name von Bock because of all the circumstances that make it just kinda offensive to give him such a name
Alas
Hetalia just sucks at appropriate naming
Why won't we just refuse the "canon" names
Draw a Circle, That’s Political Propaganda.
I've decided to self-publish some of my media analysis papers on Medium.
In this essay, I will be answering the question– can Hetalia truly be called a work of satire when its narrative pushes Japanese nationalism? The answer, in fact, is it is not, because rather than attacking the perpetrator of historical atrocities, it attacks the victims.
History isn’t a chessboard to play around with and do whatever you please. But Hetalia isn’t history, not really. I thought we pretty much knew as a fandom that it’s satire, a comedy, a weird little show about weird little characters with shitty jokes. Canon is thrown out the window half of the time anyways. Historical Hetalia I definitely understand researching and treating with care, but some of us just like to look at the characters as their own individuals besides the countries they represent. This goes for ships too. Every single Hetalia ship is toxic as hell in way or another, but again, most of us just ship the characters with our own headcanons, aus, and personalities.
I don’t think we should get mad at each other over whether or not something is completely historically accurate or not. In the end it’s just a show that brings together people who bond over the same thing and enjoy it.
Still be respectful in any and all ways
I've seen so many ppl talk about how they get back to Hetalia after years. It's the opposite for me, AND IT'S SO BAD
like, wdym the thing that was my hyperfixaton (not chronically, ofc) for 3 years straight just disappears. wdym I'm getting tired of my Hetalia OCs. wdym mean no ne ne papa anymore
Having Alfred/America be a female nation could have had a powerful backstory.
The United States as a nation was one a lot of the world thought was going to fail. I mean fighting against one of the largest growing empires in history? But winning with the use of the rest of Europe's hate and pettiness to make alliances. Then no one believing it would last long, but also forming a modern democracy that would inspire a bunch of other places? Unheard of. Making it through a second run in with England, a civil war, expansion, and than becoming a world power despite everyone thinking it wouldn't happen? That would be such a cool story to show through the new 'generation' of world superpower being a female nation.
Nyo!America as a character could be so interesting. The way others view her could tell a complicated but ultimately coming of age story. The old nation's scoffing at this upstart, but barely 150 years later being the ones who will fall short to her might. Her complicated relationship with her government and people as they always wanted a strong nation to help them, but getting this woman. Nyo!America learning she doesn't have to prove her worth to them. They just have to get with the program.
Nyo!America who has had to use blackmail, spying, and some underhand tactics to get things done, because no one gave her control unless she had something over them for the longest time. Her being kind and caring, open minded and warm because everyone deserves the acceptance and love she wasn't given. However she is calculating, strategic, and knows something about everyone and could get things done quicker. However few deserve that. She won't take that choice from people.
Nyo!America who is a workaholic because it's so ingrained in her to give a hundred and twenty percent because she has ro give more than the men in order ro be treated the same. Nyo!America who is positive and appears ditzy. Who generally enjoys being able to lie back and allow people to forget how dangerous she can be. It just makes it all the more fun to remind those later.
My 1 am ramble I might turn into more later.
Very unpopular opinion but why are so many Russia stans in this fandom just absolutely batshit (not all, of course)?
It's one thing to like. Completely blorbify and baby him which I find absolutely insufferable in and of itself but holy shit the borderline obsession that some Russia stans have which literally drives them insane when someone says "I think Russia probably did some bad things in his life" or "Russia isn't perfect and has done bad things" BRO WHAT?? Russia fans are so fucking sensitive they'll legit have a break down if you say oh, maybe he's not an uwu innocent baby please for the love of God touch grass if the slightest criticism of Russia makes you feel like that. The amount of fandom racism I've experienced and yet I am way more level headed about it than Russia stans when they're faced with people maybe liking another character more or, GASP, slightly disliking Russia as a character?
I've actually seen some Russia stans go on and excuse real life situations in which Russia was in the wrong and be like "yay go Ivan!" like holy shit please this is an anime character not an excuse to excuse war crimes?? People are dying wake the fuck up.
Heyo, what’s an unpopular opinion you have regarding the Hetalia fandom? One that I have is that it irks me how the fandom preaches for diverse takes on the characters, yet the moment someone says that they see a character as neurodivergent, there’s a 50/50 chance of you getting hounded on for believing that.
That’s so true. I hate when people see someone trying to include representation but attack it for some reason. People do that with trans and intersex characters too, specifically if they’re doing age appropriate things. I’m not big on $mut but it’s not f3tishization to include trans or intersex representation. Those people have s3x lives too.
Also I hate when people project their headcanons onto others. Like some characters don’t have a canon age, which is fine, but that means that some people will disagree. Just because you see it one way doesn’t mean another person does. And if it’s not canon then don’t get mad when someone disagrees. It will be okay just because someone has a different view on a character 😭
Hetalia can be really flexible with the canon too, which can make that sort of thing even more convoluted. But just be respectful y’know?
