Why can I totally see the Italy brothers hurriedly making pasta knives when in danger? Or, better yet, having a whole stash of pasta knives hidden somewhere. You know. Just in case.
Petition to make it fanon that APH Celt bar-crawled all over Europe several times.
And by “bar-crawled,” I of course don’t mean went from bar to bar, but traveled between the houses of the other ancients, just showing up and drinking all their alcohol.
Petition to make this fanon, because: A.) the Celts were everywhere, and B.) this is totally something Celt would do- don’t you dare deny it.
Petition to rename the Bad Friends/Touch Trio (BFT/BTT) the Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Trio (BLT). Prussia’s the bacon; France’s the lettuce; Spain’s the tomato. It’s non-offensive, humorous, and accurate.
I drew this picture at the beginning of the month.
Whoops.
Anyways, this is supposed to be a spoopy warlock APH England for Halloween. I originally posted it to dA shortly after Halloween, so Ists, it was totally relevant. It was also a redraw of a spoopy warlock APH England picture from about a year ago. Here’s a link to that: https://kittyreaper.deviantart.com/art/Have-a-Witch-for-Halloween-641214479
The old picture’s called “Have a Witch for Halloween” and the new picture’s called “Don’t Worry. It’s Just Soda.” Even my titling skills improved.
What I’ve found is that sometimes it’s hard for people to get excited about history. Many feel like history is an impersonal subject and that countries are just lines on a map. And that’s because many people can’t connect with history because history lacks a personal touch—a human touch.
For a government class, I have to do a reading on The History of the Peloponnesian War. I don’t want to read that. It’s not a long reading, but it’s more than two pages, so it gets a big “nope” from me.
And as I was looking through this textbook, I found myself wishing there were Hetalia characters that directly represented Sparta and Athens, so that maybe I would actually enjoy the reading a little bit.
See, Hetalia creates that “human touch” that history usually lacks. Hetalia gives a human face and human emotions and human ambitions to a country that before was simply a geographical location. Hetalia bridges the gap between historical events and what it means to be a person with feelings and desires.
Civil Wars are no longer just battles that tear a country part from inside, they are battles that tear a person apart from inside—battles that manifest in the inward struggle and conflict of a human being (the personification). And we, as other human beings, can relate to that.
It is one thing to read about the American Revolution in a history class. But it’s another thing to watch the Hetalia episode and physically see the pain on England’s face and have it hit you that this is hurting him. Your heart stops then aches when you think about how Russia—no, Ivan Braginsky—was left defeated and alone after the collapse of the Soviet Union. These images cause fans to suffer and feel in ways they probably would never have if they had merely read a historical summary out of a textbook.
Hetalia was never a way to gloss over war or sugar coat history. Hetalia was a way to make you want to rip out your heart for things you didn’t give much thought before, to make you laugh and cry and feel sincere, profound emotions about historical events that barely mattered to you before.
Hetalia has always been, and will always be, a way to make history move you.
I feel like adding something, even though the post is already perfect.
I am lucky. I always loved History, also because my mom teaches it and gave me all the passion about it, about seeing how much there is “behind” only a series of number and events. Not everyone is so lucky. A lot of people didn’t have a person telling them about how much a King suffered or why a war was important or the real – hidden – reasons about some important revolutions, nobody ever show them how much History is about us all. Maybe they are still teens and their History Professors just want them to fill a test, take a good makr and never show their face again. For those people, Hetalia si a goddam miracle, because before they didn’t care about something and probably they would have a big big “black hole” about a lot of stuff that actually still influences their/us lives. Now they want to learn a lot. Maybe with a Numbertalia, I would have been good at math.
Maybe it’s because they like a fictional character. Well, who cares? The reasons sometimes are not so important.
What’s important is finding the Beauty in every thing in the world. Also in a maybe boring book.
This made me tear up, guys. This is so beautiful.
Hetalia has given me the chance to relate to country personifications and just love the way that they interacted with each other.
Let’s not forget the most important aspects of Hetalia
It promotes learning about other cultures
It encourages interconnectedness
It encourages people to look on the brighter side of things.
It promotes world peace.
For something that a lot of people think is all just silly fun and games with gay countries and silly antics, we all know it’s so much more than that.
This post is so beautiful.
You know, Hetalia is a way better show than people give it credit for sometimes. Some people say bad things about it because it’s not accurate or offensive or just another pointless cartoon.
But Hetalia is a whole lot like School House Rock or Bill Nye. It’s a fun way to learn about something and it gets stuck in your head so the next time you hear about The Italian Wars or Prussia or Sealand, you can say “oh I know that!”. You also find yourself wanting to study more about it. You go look for books or look it up online to see if it is accurate and what do you know— America actually DID order 25cm condoms from Russia!
But it’s also short enough to leave you wanting to learn more, and to capture your attention. Some people have trouble with watching an anime that is 30 minutes long with 100 episodes or so. These are 5 minute bursts and each minute has something new going on, and it may take some time and some rewatching, but you finally GET IT and it’s awesome!
The best part are the characters, because they are made of clever stereotypes and all those seemingly-offensive puns are so well put-together, it can actually create a legit personality. You can find yourself thinking of yourself or your friends. Maybe you have a stiff German friend, or a tough-as-nails girlfriend who you knew since you were a kid, or a grumpy brother who swears a lot. The best shows you can watch are the ones which you can identify with, and even if your friends don’t see your logic if you say “you’re so much like Japan” or “you’d totally be Poland”, you can see it and it makes you happier.
It’s clever, it makes you happy, it helps you to learn, and other people may just see some weirdos shipping countries, but we’re actually a lot smarter than given credit for, especially since happiness can lead to success
We will be releasing a series of videos featuring this particular subject shortly, so stay tuned! 🙂
❤ The accuracy in this post (for me at least) is astoundingly true, and I’m so glad that I discovered Hetalia and watch it for these exact reasons!
Read this please!
This is the beautiful truth behind this cute little series ^^ And I just KNOW that a lot of other Hetalians feel just the same.
God I love every bit of this obscenely long post.
I’m tearing up. (/;-;)/
Hetalia is like a funny study technique
//everything I just ahhhhhhhhhhh this made me so happy
Well then. In Japan, the 6th of July just started.
And with that, Hetalia, a series we all love and adore so much, just turned ten years old.
Well, I am in this fandom for one and half a year now. It’s a very small amount of time compared to other fans and I am just a newbie here ^^
Still, I want to say something.
I love it here.
I love the series, I love the fandom, I love the fanart, I love the art, I love the dedicated voice actors, I love the passion the fans work on their art, fanfictions, headcanons, blogs and all the incredibly beautiful things here!
I love the stories, the people I know thanks to this series, the ships, the headcanons, the characters, OH IN SPECIAL ALL OF OUR LITTLE SWEET CHARACTERS, all our little history nerds, the tolerance, the humor, and, of course, the wonderful person that gave us this diamond of a series.
Thank you, Hidekaz Himaruya. You made a stunningly beautiful series.
Not only did you brought history closer to us in the most hilarious way possible, you made our world a bit better.
You gave us a series that brought us a togetherness and happiness, purer than anything I have ever seen before. You inspired people, you helped people, and you have actually saved lives with this innocent, pure, little webcomic.
There are no words how grateful I am for this series, for this fandom, for everything.
Thank you all, and let’s hope for another beautiful ten years ^^
2 Years. 4 months. And still stuck in this fandom. A now 11 year old fandom.
And I still love it just as much as on the first day. I have made a lot of friends. One enemy, I will admit. But mostly friends.
I still stay to everything I said one year ago. I love this series. I love this fandom. I love the characters. I love the stories. I still love all of it, and I dont know where I would be without it. I… I just dont know how to express all the love I have for this webcomic. I really dont know! And to be honest, I dont know what I would do without it now either ^^°
I still hold my words from last year. It hasnt faded one bit.
One day at work, a coworker jokingly shouts: “If you love [name of home state] so much, then why don’t you go marry it?” You laughed and responded: “Yeah, I wish!” The next morning, you wake up married to a personification of your home state.
Is it possible for someone to quit being a parent?
No.
But what if their kids don’t need them?
You still need us though
as rude as i may be, i’d like for you to stick around
hey I’m germanic too and you better not quit on being a parent
I thought you were Nordic, but okay.
It’s too late to back out now, you better not leave us.
//sigh
I don’t think I can.
You know what I just realized?
Germania is literally Rome’s Eliza.
I mean, think about it. Hamilton had that affair thing and broke Eliza’s heart. Rome practically screwed his way all over Europe, and assuming Rome x Germania, definitely broke Germania’s heart at least once. In the aftermath of Hamilton’s death, Eliza was the one to really tell his story, spending her extra fifty years doing good deeds. On top of that, she established the first private orphanage in NYC, and expresses (in the musical) that this was the achievement she took most pride in. Germania, after Rome’s death, is known to have lived for quite a while. He raised his insane amount of kids (much like how Eliza raised all those orphans), and named one of kids kids after Rome. If that isn’t carrying on Rome’s legacy, I don’t know what is.
Give me a prompt and I’ll write a Hetalia fanfiction thing about it because I’m bored.
A) The ask box is open! Sorry if it doesn’t show up on mobile or something, but just type kittyreaper.tumblr.com/ask into the url and you should be able to get to it just fine
and B) I said this in the tags, but if you didn’t read the tags (no worries; I don’t either most times), the things I do not write are smut, overly graphic violence, and USUK. Otherwise, we’re good.
Discount Deity of Death 