#hfog

[sdwolfpup]

So, @sits-bound offered to do a fanbinding of Heart Full of Gasoline for me after @adulthoodisokay had initially asked for it and I was absolutely not gonna turn that down. The books came last week and they are stunning.

The bookmark ribbons even have thematic charms! (The one for book two is a little heart.) I am so impressed and grateful. I need a good place to display these. They're hefty. 😂 Thank you so much again!

[skia-tumb]

Marjorie my beloved woman full of head-invading ghosts 🥹

[onefenix]

Heart Full of Gasoline by @ajoblotofjunk

One of the best stories I’ve ever read. If you were waiting for the story to be finished you’re in for a hell of a ride. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since I read the ending. I wish I could draw or have Gwen and Nik play out some scenes, but this is the best I can do.

(I guess there are some spoilers in here.)

[dragonzair]

procrastinating rn but i needed to draw this ahahah

[naomignome]

I love @ajoblotofjunk ‘s fic, Heart Full of Gasoline, so much. And I’ve had such a pleasure getting to talk to them. <3 I made a fake magazine cover based off actual F1 magazines and HFOG. I honestly have no idea what I’m going to do when it comes it crosses the finish line. (Every pun intended).

[twelvemonkeyswere]

now that my friend who will remain untagged is reading HFoG it made me revisit some parts of the story and it made me realize

how far they've come???

I love this so much

[altruistic-meme]

Hello! My sister @purple-pan-cake and I are hosting our third annual Hetalia Augusta Mall Meetup!!

When is it?: Saturday, July 7th at 12pm-4pm. (hosts plan to arrive closer to 11:30am in case anyone else gets there early)

Where is it?: The Augusta Mall. Specifically, we will be meeting in near the food court entrance!

Do you have to be in cosplay?: Nope! Every Hetalia fan is welcome! You do not have to cosplay if you don’t want to.

Rules: Of course, as with most things, we do have a few rules that need to be followed. Mostly based on the fact that we will be at a public mall. 1. Please try not to swear, as the mall will have some little children. (of course, we don’t expect you to be completely clean, but please try) 2. By absolutely no means is it acceptable to use crude hand gestures. 3. Please be respectful to other shoppers on the mall. 4. Inside voices please. 5. Please be respectful of others in our group. 6. Just don’t be a jerk, pretty much.  We will ask you to leave if you fail to follow any of these rules.

Mall Security: Yes, we are all aware of the infamous stories about the Augusta mall security. However we aren’t worried. We did this last year with no problems, so as long as everyone is respectful to the other shoppers and the shop owners then we should have no problems.

Hosts: Your hosts for this event will be me and Liz. We hopefully won’t be hard to spot in our cosplays (Queen of Spades!England and Joker!Prussia, respectfully) as we wait for attendees.

Additional Notes: Liz is not particularly accessible via Tumblr, so while I included it here, the best means of reaching out to her is her Instagram (@wilkerson_liz). Tori is reachable through Tumblr and Instagram both. (t: @altruistic-meme / i: @v_nikiforovkatsuki)

If you have any questions or concerns, we are both available and please contact one of us asap, we’d be happy to help!

If you plan on coming late please let us know so we’ll be sure to wait for you to arrive before moving on with the meetup!

That’s all for now! Thank you for reading and I hope to see you there! <3

[sdwolfpup]

I just finished reading HFoG and oh. Oh. My. God. I need to rant (you can totally ignore this if you'd like).

First of all, the scenario you've created fits them so well. Brienne as a mechanic is an amazing idea. She's still doing something stereotipically male (and kicking ass) at best unnoticed and at worst cast aside as no one takes her seriously or they outright mock her. You've kept her under patriarchy's thumb, and also as a powerful, simmering force waiting for someone to turn up that heat!! What an excellent mirror to her situation in the books.

Second: the extremely high risks + high adrenaline + mightily physically demanding + high rewards of F1 is another excellent transposition of their survival/quest situation in the books. I feel like that, as a setting, is what makes it feel very genuine to them as characters. Your characterization is great too! They're slightly different to the books but still familiar (they would probably act like this in this more modern, more subtle flavour of a patriarchal society). I mean. just. Man. MAN.

Also, turning a bit more to Jaime: The way all the events unfold was incredible. We go steady, quite calm but with an undercurrent of stress and anxiety, building, some doubts, triumphs, more building, more triumphs and then BAM. The dreaded doldrums where we pick up the pieces of a horrible shipwreck. Jaime never getting to that P-1 absolutely broke me. I literally held my breath reading those paragraphs, where time stops for the whole circuit after the crash, and the heavy moment of silence before Brienne hears him over the radio... MAN. I thought you were going to give him at least one P-1 before he lost his hand, making it bitersweet already at that point, and when you didn't I was SCHOCKED. You held back on that element and it worked WONDERFULLY towards the end. JB'S P-1 felt so earned, so fought for. Talk about good storytelling. AAAAHHH!!!!!

I ate it up between yesterday night and all of today. I slept at most, like, four hours. I couldn't stop reading. Congratulations, honestly. I usually don't read fics this long (or leave reviews this crazy under anonimity lol) because authors tend to meander (not a bad thing necessarily but it does get tedious at this scale) but this was SO not the case. Every. single. paragraph. mattered. MAN!!!!! (man counter: IIII)

I know you're probably quite done with it (and what a fucking project you did, my god), but if you ever want to write about JB in that universe again I see myself forced to BEG YOU ON MY KNEES to do more of their radio banter in your missing scenes section. I absolutely love it, the subtle flirting, the encouragement, and the oopsies (Jaime forgetting to turn the radio off and accidentally exposing himself as a I LOVE MY CAR MY CAR IS MY GF guy is soooooo funny). Ugh. Swooning. It has started an itch I need to scratch so bad (I feel like im going crazy a bit ngl. Give yourself a big smacking pat in the back.) that I'm just going to start re-reading it for those parts and also to get that thrill that is there between them at the beginning which is also so good! And so yummy!!!!!

Ok im done now i think.

TLDR: xoxo mwah mwah mwah i loved HFoG i worship and kiss the ground you walk on, etc etc etc. im obsessed, great job!!

"ignore this"?! Are you kidding, anon -- I'm gonna print this out and wallpaper my bedroom with it. 😂💕

I have been re-reading this ask off and on all day, wanting to respond appropriately to make sure you know how much I so sincerely appreciate you taking the time to leave this for me, and I just don't know if it's possible. I'm just... man, I'm grateful. (Man count for this post going up!!!) Seriously though: thank you, thank you, thank you. I'm gonna be riding this high all week.

(Also, I fought with myself about allowing Jaime to win the World Driver Championship and then lose his hand, so I'm always glad to hear that that choice worked for others. It was the right thing to do, but wow did that hurt to put him through it, heh. And pacing of long fics is a thing I take very personally, so I am ALSO pleased to know that worked for you, too!)

Anyway. THANK YOU. I'm gonna go back to re-reading this comment, hee.