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Hetalia Rarepair Week 2023 Day 5: Historical - America and Lithuania 1992 was a historic year for Olympic basketball for both Lithuania and America!

I've been wanting to try out make some shrinky dink standees recently so this was the perfect excuse :)

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1992?! Historical? Hopefully that counts. Anyway, in 1992 two things happened in the world of Olympic basketball:

Lithuania's story is way more compelling so we will go with America's first. 1992 was the first year that NBA players were sent to the Olympics, rather than more amateur players. This team was called the "Dream Team" and given how stacked they were they did go on to win the gold! By the way, at the previous Olympics in '88, the Americans were beaten by the USSR team which included several Lithuanian players...

As for Lithuania, this would be the first time that Lithuanian basketball players would be able to represent their own nation in Olympic basketball instead of playing under USSR, which was a huge thing! There were economic troubles at the time and it wasn't certain the nation would be able to send a team due to the cost of doing so, but they rallied the nation and other organizations/entities and came up with the funds. They went on to win the bronze, pretty impressive! You can find lots of articles and such about this online, or check out "The Other Dream Team" documentary/movie, etc. I think the NBA even put out a Lithuania-focused mini-doc recently.

But wait, there's more. One of the "entities" that helped fund the Lithuanian team was...the Grateful Dead. Yes, an American band gave them $$$. Yeah, we've reached the even more AmeLiet-ish part of the story. Apparently Jerry Garcia appreciated the Lithuanians' struggle for Freedom and Liberty. Also a New York(I think?) sports artist created a skeleton slam-dunking tie-dyed t-shirt that was like...the Grateful Dead meets Lithuanian flag meets basketball, ha ha. These shirts were sold at the Olympics and beyond to raise funds, and you can still buy them today. The shirts were popular at the Olympics and really helped bring even more attention to the Lithuanian team, especially when they wore them while accepting their medals! Check out some pics online, it is AMAZING.

As for the standees, they are wearing their nations' '92 Olympic uniforms. Their numbers are just their independence holiday dates. They are made with the "ruff n' ready" shrinky dink plastic and Prismacolor colored pencils. They were pretty easy to make and I love them. I hope to make them some basketball-court looking stands, but that will be a bit more complicated. Someday...

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Just a little something I had in my sketchbook for months and finally finished. Needed a break from digital stuff for awhile, so please enjoy this colored pencil experience.

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90s era sleepover, maybe? And Alfred definitely gave him that mug.

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Just a little something for the HKSG shippers :3

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Well, I remembered how much I hate doing digital art, so here we are back in traditional art land for installment three of my sporty hetalia series ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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This is a late entry for Femslash February. I finally got covid and it really knocked me out, so I couldn't finish this until now ^^;

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Got carried away and made another sporty Hetalia shrinky dink standee :D This time I left a border around the outside and painted the back white, so he looks appropriately icy. He’s based on the 2016 World Cup Team Canada, and I gave him #7 based on Canada Day being July 1 (1 is more of a goalie # so he ended up with 7, so we’ll say he’s a defenseman). Oh, and Team Canada won the Cup of course!

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Hetalia Rarepair Week 2023

Day 2: Culture | Comfort - America and Lithuania

What could be more comforting than exchanging warm winter wear items with your love?

I tried to pick items that also have a bit of culture to them: America gave Lithuania a raccoonskin cap, and Lithuania gifted a pair of beaded knit wrist-warmers.

Does this take place during the Lithuania's outsourcing strips or another time? You be the judge!