Hey Ella! Perhaps you can help me answer this question… I have seen fics equate various nation’s body parts to physical locations in their country (and even one inanimate object – America’s glasses being Texas). Is this canon or fanon? Thanks!

It’s canon. Information like that can be found on wiki articles. However, there’s an interesting fiddling with the idea of Cartesian Dualism that I’d like to discuss in depth.

Post coming up tonight!

Biggest pet peeves?

-When rude people fall back on the excuse of “being honest.”
You can be honest without being an asshole.

-When people proudly claim to be a “stone-cold bitch” or
something along those lines. Your ‘edgy’ negativity doesn’t make you ‘cool’ or ‘inspiring’.
It’s not something any decent person would be proud of.

-People who are rude to service sector employees and feel
entitled to talk down to them – Worked
there, done that. It was the most humbling and degrading experiences of my
life.

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No worries. I’ve briefly touched on it but not in its
entirety.

I’ve boiled it down to three main categories:

Involuntary circumstances: 

This occurs when a nation is conquered and is forced to live
with their conqueror/ annexer.

Ex: Chibitalia
and Austria under the HRE household.

Source:
Hetarchive, Chibitalia (Main storyline.)

Wartime Circumstances

When administrations crumble and there’s no other place to
go…

Ex: England hosts
France during the Vichy Regime.

Source: Volume 5, 

Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité and…

Employment
Circumstances

Due to their dire financial circumstances, Lithuania and
Romano move into America’s house and end up working for him.

You could argue that this is in a way, involuntary, but I
would say it’s more along the lines of necessitated.

Source: Hetarchive/ Hetascanlations, World Stars Chapter 58 + Lithuania’s Outsourcing Series 

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Thank you! 😀 (what would they have been called before lol?)

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You’re very welcome. They should be the ones shook for blindly making unsubstantiated assumptions. Hetalia has been rightly judged for its early years;  nonetheless, the series has always worked to subvert racist narratives. 

A number of reasons.

One, people are still reading them, and I don’t have the heart
to rip away the content.

Two, painful as it may be in hindsight, they chart my
progress as a writer.  

Three, it charts the progress of my character. Looking back
at some of the author’s notes, I can tell that I was coming from a really angry
and anxious place. I’ve mellowed out considerably in the last few years.

Four, it holds me accountable. Some of the jokes or characterizations
I made could have been handled with more sensitivity.

As mentioned before, a lot of my characterization posts
include mistakes that I made. I’m not coming from a ‘holier-than-thou’
perspective.

It’s more like “hey,
from one past (??) dumbass to
another, don’t do this.”