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watching bits and pieces of dracula: a comedy of terrors and can't get over how much they remind me of engspa.........need to draw later

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a lot of people know about the fact that the spanish armada was a disaster but not many people know that all this happened 4 times over because spain could not for the life of him get over his ex who did not want him anymore

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i feel like i want to chat so i would be very happy and appreciative if you sent some oc-related asks, i'll answer in text form く⁠コ⁠:⁠彡 feel free to ask anything character-related, i'll answer as they come

(i will ignore fandom-related stuff sorry. you can ask personal or art/history/literature-related things though)

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I understand you are inspired with iron curtains from real history- do you have a specific era you draw from the most, and do you have any recommendations for readings about that history? I haven’t done as much reading into english-Spanish history especially , so I am very curious!

Thank you and keep up the great work, I love seeing your stuff on my feed!

aww thank you very much!! i'm happy you like it and that it inspires you to take up some reading for yourself :]

since i'm trying to be a bit more comfortable talking about my ocs, i'm trying to specify which events exactly i'm referencing in specific drawings. it's not perfect, as i'm pretty shy and have trouble sharing things :_)

a lot of stuff you see with johnny and aurelio that i do is from the 1500s when the debacle between henry viii and the eventual anglo-spanish war took place (those events are heavily related yes). more recently, i've been drawing johnny in more modern times – for example, the most recent animatic i did, the hate monologue, takes place in the 19th century, although it's not related to any specific event – hs clothing is more modern and he behaves more "maturely" so to say

a lot of stuff i pick up from general reading that you can find in e-libraries like the internet archive, anna's archive or academia dot edu – obviously, i mostly interest myself in whatever's related to england, since that's my favourite topic. some reading is in other languages that i know though, so you might have to use translators for those

some things i personally read, enjoyed and can recommend:

~ "that sweet enemy. britain and france: the history of a love-hate relationship" by robert and isabelle tombs (book)

~ "the boer war" by thomas pakenham (book)

~ "the west end front" by matthew sweet (book)

~ "how to be a tudor" and "how to be a victorian" by ruth goodman (books)

~ "marriage and sexuality in medieval and early modern iberia" published by routledge and edited by eukene lacarra lanz (book)

~ "сакура и дуб" by всеволод овчинников (book)

~ "datos para la historia de las relaciones hispano-inglesas" by josé a. muñoz rojas (article)

~ "a fine romance: anglo-spanish relations in the sixteenth century" by alexander samson (article)

i have read more but i unfortunately can't recommend everything i read for various reasons. i hope you like whatever you decide to read though

thank you for the ask!! plugging in to say that feel free to send asks i feel like answering those hehe

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no heterosexual non-divorced explanation for whatever's going on between these two

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new favourite engspa observation is articles talking about england being tiny in comparison with him in a very funny way

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artfight soon.......artfight starting soon ........

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i do find johnny and ferris to be a bit more sentimental to me than johnny and duncan (test name bear with me he might not even end up as a duncan in the future) because wales has been with england way closer for way longer than anyone else and i think his personality lends itself to being harder to process for england's thorny and rigid self

ferris still gets the i have no mouth and i must scream treatment but he despite everything keeps meeting johnny halfway and somewhat trying to not bother him. not in the "i can fix him" way but rather "let's not escalate this" way. i do think it stumps johnny enough in most cases. johnny doesn't want to feel as the bad guy when he does something bad to a person who does nothing about it, it's way easier with people who are openly hostile to him so he can justify his own hostility. england's usual m/o is that he's not bad either because they deserved what he did, or they started first, or they should've been better, stronger, smarter, and he just did what he had to to keep up with the times and it's them who need to do better and he's definitely not in the wrong here. ferris though is normally undisturbed and non-confrontational. it's hard to justify using a person as a scratching post when that person is doing pretty much nothing neither before nor after. ferris will catch some if the frustration builds and bubbles up, and sometimes he's mad at ferris for specific ferris-related reasons (not that they're justified or good reasons), but otherwise it's easier to find someone else to bother