At This Point Just Do It It's Not THAT Bad

thinking about how peoples blorbos tend to be men on here (makes sense with the trends in fandom of men being prioritised etc etc) SO please reblog and tag your female blorbo(s). this is NOT the post to be like “[male character] becuz he’s a woman to me” i Will come to your house and bite you. anyway i’ll go first mine are susie and julie from dbd and carly jones from house of wax 🖤

i deleted the ask because i'm a dumdum, but @sneakystorms asked me to talk about denmark! so here it is, my denmark character analysis through history: warning, this is gonna get long and it will be a mix of canon, real history & my own headcanons!

denmark is a SUCH a fascinating character to me, because he has subtle but really important character development over the centuries!! (both in canon and in my crazy little head)

i think earlier on in his life he was for sure on the cocky side, and he had every reason to be! he and his buddies are destroying the british isles, gaining a presence in continental europe, and being all around incredibly powerful forces. as their presence in britain and ireland dwindles, that's still just fine to him, because now you have the kalmar union! where denmark, sweden and norway (with finland & iceland as territories of the last two) were united under denmark's crown! not only are he and his friends together as a powerful kingdom, but within it he is the one with the most power and political control

we see this manifest in him heavily because he begins to identify as the "leader" of the nordics (both then and in modern times, but i'll get to that later)

he is the leader, he makes the decisions, people listen to him. and that's when he gets too cocky, and it's not just cockiness anymore but a refusal to budge on what he thinks is right. which brings the stockholm bloodbath and the multiple battles that brought about sweden's independence and the end of the kalmar union

and denmark is upset. it's fine for a while, but then things get rough: he begins to lose battle after battle and war after war to sweden. here's a comment that i found interesting: even though denmark kept losing, he continued to risk the safety of the kingdom just for petty revenge

and even some of his other motivations are selfish: pride, wanting to protect the slowly crumbling image of a powerful empire

this also brings into the discussion what i think is a fascinating aspect of norway and denmark's relationship at the time. i think of this in a dennor context but it can be platonic if you'd like! but in both instances of denmark & norway that we see in canon during that time, norway is never bitter at him. denmark is having a rough time geopolitically and he's making mistakes over and over again, but their relationship never becomes strained, because norway cares too much

and in return, denmark who has internalized this idea of him as a leader and a protector comes back to this: he needs to get stronger, needs to make sure it doesn't come to this again

it doesn't last forever. in 1814, denmark-norway enter the napoleonic wars on the wrong side, and as war reparations, denmark must now cede norway to sweden. from himaruya's notes on 1814:

this is a clear example of how denmark's cockiness, his selfishness, his want to be the leader, to best sweden, to get revenge raptured his relationship with norway over time. and the word that stands out to me is childish: denmark is always described as a big brother type in modern day, a little silly but mature, a businessman. not one to throw tantrums and cut ties with his best friend, not because he misses him, but because he lost

and what's left of denmark then? an ex-superpower with increasingly dwindling territory and the man he's been in a union with for almost 500 years given away to the man who's only taken for him for 300 years (albeit, denmark instigated a lot of those doomed battles)

this is where denmark and iceland's relationship becomes so fascinating! because i think now is where the shift begins to happen. don't get me wrong - denmark was never a bad person, he's always cared for the people around him, but he's also been selfish and stupid and careless. and now his best friend's brother is under his care, he's lost everything, and the world stage is changing rapidly. what does denmark do?

well, he tries his best.

he's maybe not as tactful or sweet or comfortable with iceland as he is in modern day, but he tries. as he explains later, he believes he raised iceland. he views himself as his guardian!

also, this is just really cute:

this brings us to the denmark we see in modern day, after two centuries of learning how to be a nation instead of an empire. i think a lot of his modern day personality is a reaction to his past which he deeply regrets. he raises iceland, mends his relationship with norway, even mends his relationship with sweden! he's not the selfish cocky ruler that he used to be, and in my opinion, he purposefully overcompensates, making sure that this time he is listening to others, he is taking their feelings into account, he's more selfless:

we also see how he has redefined his "leader" identity! he still identifies with it, but now he uses it to be a good friend to the people he cares about:

and there he is! denmark, ex warrior, ex ruler, ex asshole trying his best, now reformed dad, friend, and boyfriend, still trying his best :)

there's more to get into, like his relationship with iceland and norway in more depth and other historical relationships like him and estonia, him and england, or him and poland, but that's a story for another day!

Hello everyone! It’s been a tough year for us all, and I wish I had been a bit more active on here. Still, I thank you for supporting me along the way!

For the fourth year in the row, I will be running a fundraising campaign for Liberty in North Korea, an organization that works to help people fleeing the North Korean regime safely make it to freedom. So, I’ve set up a Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) fundraising page, the link to which can be found in my blog description or as a secondary reblog of this post (posts with links won’t show in the tags).

Since Hetalia is back and in the spotlight (and not always in the best way), I want to prove that Hetalians aren’t just here for stereotypes and parody–our involvement in this fandom has changed many of us for the better, enlightening us to people and cultures we may have never otherwise known or cared about. Therefore, in honor of Hetalia’s 2021 return, I’m setting the goal this year at $500, the most ambitious yet since I’ve been running these fundraisers, by January 1st. According to LiNK, $100 is what it costs them to provide shelter and food for a family of four for one night. As a fandom, we can provide care for a family of four for five nights. Think about that…a fandom full a people who love these silly, endearing personifications of the nations of the world, providing safety and shelter to people fleeing famine and authoritarianism.

I know people can be strapped for cash this time of year, so don’t feel bad if you can’t donate! You can still reblog this post to help more people see it! I will also reblog this post with some more information about LiNK if you would like to learn more about what challenges North Korean refugees face and what sort of work LiNK does for them!

Let’s band together and change someone’s life for the better!

I, too, agree☝🏻!!

sometimes the way Germany is treated in fandom depresses me. People do realize he has a personality right? I just constantly see him pushed along the lines of perfect lover househusband, sex god, grumpy strict anti social workaholic dead-inside perfectionist, doitsu, wurst and potato dude, or bashful uke virgin. 

and and to me, he’s just a stupid sweet boy who grew up too fast, and tries always to do his best and he’s really earnest and honest and shy and sincere and naive and patient and forgiving and wow what a baby  

lookit this loser blushing over a shitty romance novel written for lonely housewives, I MEAN C’MON?? I think he deserves a closer look and more credit than he gets. 

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

So here's something totally unrelated to the time traveling part of the post but instead about nation biology.

So CW: Way too detailed thoughts on the inside of Denmark's severed neck and a lot of bl00d

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So dear Sunny and I had a conversation about Denmark's severed head in this drawing.

“He woke up still partially decapitated and had to push his head down onto his neck and keep it like that in between passing out.“ [Sunny]

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Me being me of course immediately began thinking way too biologically and way too much about this situation, which leads me to the following conclusions, quote:

“Yea I'm imagining that the skin and tissue may be able to hold his head in place, but the blood vessels and trachea and esophagus wouldn't be healed shut yet

So blood would gather in his neck and flow down into his stomach and lungs, as well as make his neck swell, and either they shut quick enough or the blood eventually stops flowing because it's all out of his system.

Either way he'll have to wait and lay there until either the blood leaves his lungs again by coughing and/or enough blood regenerated in bis body for it to function“

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I just think we should all talk more about nation biology like this, I know y'all enjoy making those guys suffer so why is everyone holding back lol?

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You can go now please 😭

Yeah, it’s a pretty bad situation, dude.

(Part ½)

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By the gods I am raging (bisexually)

a soldier a goth and a biker walk into a bar

Love how it's like

"pc AND phone" but either way you need the pc app.

It works if you have that tho have fun-

Hetalia Songs on Spotify

Hello, if you’re like me and love the Hetalia Character songs, you’ll be interested in knowing that you can add them to your Spotify! I won’t be good at explaining it but here is a link to a very helpful thread. This has to be done on a computer. 

the google drive included in that thread doesn’t have all of the individual versions of the theme songs (I am partial to Japan’s mawaru chikyuu rondo) so here is a link to those (thanks @raven6229 for helping me download these quickly!) 

after you add the songs to your local files then it’s really easy to add them to a playlist, and as long as you have it downloaded on both your computer and phone, then you’ll be able to listen anywhere! 

edit: here’s a TikTok that explains it also, if you’re better with auditory directions 

So help me I first thought this was Emet-Selch 🫡🥰💀💀