Hetalia fandom in 2012: Canada is a sweet uwu baby boy who did nothing wrong (◡‿◡🌸)
Hetalia fandom in 2025 apparently: Canada is Sweaty
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Hetalia fandom in 2012: Canada is a sweet uwu baby boy who did nothing wrong (◡‿◡🌸)
Hetalia fandom in 2025 apparently: Canada is Sweaty
canada looks really broken
u ok canada
We are slowly trying to distance ourselves from the US…piece by piece.
Just found out about an apparently controversial English cartoon series, "Horrid Henry," quick question, why is Perfect Peter an uncanny photocopy of Oliver in both personality and appearance lol??
this is frying me so bad
Sorry to further cringe-ify this but...
Naruto spread to the Canadian government??
Hetalia real???
Look I don't wanna bitch but if your Tumblr fic takes longer to scroll past than the Do You Love The Colour Of The Sky post then it would be kinda appreciated if you put the majority of it under a Read More button
Smash or Pass
China/Wáng Yào
Smash
Pass
I don't know anything about Homestuck but this song is spooky as shit and it doesn't have nearly enough views for how good it is. I've been listening to it for 12 years
very defensive of his alien friend
Based off of real events. I HAVE RECEIPTS!!
Source of inspiration/said receipts ⬇️
Yes, my Province’s Lieutenant Governor gifted the King a jar of mustard.
Sask would do this, right? He’d also probably gift them to England in a ridiculous manner, too, right?
Wow, your writing is incredible! The way you handle the romantic moments and the humor it’s all so lively! There's something that really stood out to me though, and I’ve been meaning to ask. It feels like Alfred is always there, even when he’s not. even when he's not in a scene, his presence seems to linger, subtly shaping events, even in moments that don’t seem to be about him at all. Was that intentional?
I'm about two months later for this comment. Apologies, but oh, very much on purpose. But only after a long time of realizing it would happen a lot of the time, even if I didn't mean to.
Alfred is just so overwhelming in so many ways. Americans and American culture are so intense and powerful that it's inescapable. Part of the reason I enjoy writing Jack and Zee in their early lives is that they are an ocean away and know little of Alfred or Americans.
This phenomenon of Alfred haunting the narrative is particularly bad when I'm writing from Matt's pov, but it kind of seeps in no matter what perspective I'm trying to if its related in any way to the US. It's just the most intense for him. It's just how loud and forceful American culture is. American culture stands heavily on a strong foundation. A lot of people overseas will say things akin to "Americans have no culture" or at home, "I have no culture," while just drowning in American media. In opposition, Anglo-Canadians have often been commented upon as building their identity upon not being Americans. An identity often constructed as an Anglo void of "I am not" rather than the French shield of "I am."
And in that void, Americans can still project themselves onto and inside of Anglo-Canadians. Matt has an anchor in French Canadians, especially Quebec, but no shield on earth can keep Alfred out. My Alfred tends to be a New Englander but less in a cultural sense and more in the Lovecraftian sense. Cthulhu-esque. He is so overwhelming. Ten times the population, untold more cultural influence. Something like a Golden Retriever with too many teeth and far too much strength or intelligence and even more power. They are all some kind of eldritch, but Alfred's shows more. It exerts itself on his neighbours and the world. Most can look upon him, hold him, love him, and know him without madness. But live on the edge of that immensity? To not know one's innermost self without the pressure of that which Alfred is? To be so used to that form shaping the world its like gravity vanishing when its presence is gone? Yeah. Alfred is going to haunt the fucken narrative no matter what I do.
But if Alfred's body is more intensely eldritch than normal, his personality is also, in some ways, more intensely human. Isolationism cut him off from many of his own kind of beings. Being hung as a child by his own people for that eldritch nature made him crave the safety of seeing himself in another, in sensing that another sees themselves in him. He's charming and (usually) the gentlest kind of manipulative, the kind who can not only believe his own bullshit but forget its bullshit. He laughs and smiles and exists largely genuinely, that power and confidence born of belief.
He's Matt's brother and the bane of his existence. His nearest neighbour and worst nightmare. He lays damage on Matt and is then the one most likely to drop in to check in on him later. Cthulhu but if Cthulhu was a golden retriever. The void that screams back is also usually rather sweet. The emerging insanity is also the affectionate, indulgent elder brother. If a hurricane could be a hugger.
All that to say, yes. Alfred haunts the narrative the way gravity and American pop culture and soft power haunt the world.
Nobody:
Alberta: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CORANvT8l9A&pp=ygUdYnJvIGNvdW50cnkgdGhlcmUgaSBydWluZWQgaXQ%3D
I'm doing reading at the moment for American Civil War and Canadian Confederation stuff and I just need to go key smash a little so pardon this but I've got Canada's peace, order, and good government versus America's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness stuck in my head now and it's driving me mad because... Well. Talk about parallels eh.
I was wondering if you consider it a good way to distinguish between Alfred and Matthew's approach to nationhood and their own lives in general, or do you think that was something more imposed on them rather than something they genuinely believe in? More Matt really. I'm sure Alfred believes in the latter wholeheartedly. I'm just not sure I buy Matt being that much more conservative than his brother, if that makes sense.
Ahhh very good question. So, in my opinion and read on Canadian history, the words themselves don't quite do the best job defining them and their approach to nationhood, but the interpretations of events and history and other factors that created the situations those phrases came from do.
There is some belief in Matt that fits the aims of 'peace, order and good government' but less because of any sort of British/Tory style conservatism or conservatism as in his reservedness than out of political compromise and certain demographic realities. There are two themes running through Canadian history. 1.) Keep the Americans out. 2.) Keep the Franucks in. Canadians and Canadian politicians looked at the American Civil War and drew the obvious lesson for themselves. The South ceded based on slavery, and efforts to create a Canada out of a handful of colonies had to include the French Canadians because we were still closer to half the population back then than the fifth we are now. Mechanisms had to be built into the new country from the get-go to help guarantee coherent and lasting unity.
Americans love to insist that Canada and the US are identical and Quebec is just French Texas or some other comparison with only surface accuracy but there are inherent differences between the two countries that Matt has to acknowledge. He doesn't have the advantages Alfred has of a country that can eat its own contradictions constantly and live. If he wants to survive in a condition that won't get him annexed or broken and consumed piecemeal by the United States, he has to put emphasis on law, order and both external and internal diplomacy. America fought and survived a Civil War, and Canada turned itself inside out to prevent one. Our motto is sea to sea latinate shit from the bible, but it should be "A good compromise leaves everyone angry." And 'peace, order and good government' is the result of that compromise between French and Anglo and the pro-British and pro-American and pro-'fuck all of you I just want to bring in the wheat'.
Matt values peace and compromises far more than Alfred. He views the world in shades of grey. Alfred and his idealism and power mean he has always felt the ability to do the right thing and always had faith he is doing the right thing, especially in comparison to his father and the British Empire in general. Matt, however, sees him and Arthur as practically the same.
Tldr: The British and American empires are blackholes. 'Peace, order and good government' is the cost of Matt keeping his center of gravity in a position to pull off the necessary maneuvers to keep himself from being sucked in and destroyed.
Since it's been a decade and a half since I was into anything Hetalia-related, I'm going through comics by character, and I love how eccentric China is. He's like 4-5,000 years old, and you can absolutely tell
So far he has:
Revealed that at the start of every month since at least the year 2012, has taken a selfie of himself standing in the exact same spot in the exact same pose with the exact same expression (???)
Been institutionalized from going overboard on video games... and enjoyed it (China, no)
Heard that minerals are good for you, so has eaten (and coughed up) rocks. (China. No.)
Ordered clothes off the internet and it showed up in tatters and he assumed that's how it's supposed to look and wore it out. Ancient boomer behavior
I'm excited to find out what other shit he does
Thoughts on Poland presenting more femininely
I love it The whole “do what I want and wont give any fucks to anyone and wont take anyone’s shit” is the energy he gives off. Giving a no fucks given to gender norms or this or that is just how I see him.
Also it really pisses off the homophobes in the fandom, especially the Polish ones so...
person: are you a man or a woman?
poland: i am an experience.
poland: also i am a country.
The point of officially naming a pet is not to actually use that name but to have a baseline from which to come up with every conceivable nickname to call them instead.
You bury a seed not because it looks nice in the dirt, but because the limbs that branch out will look nice in the sky
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reputable sources say an apex predator is a good pet for a toddler