Thank you 😀 Haha yes, it’s stuck! He’s all proud that I’m bragging about him and was a good sport about the duck hunting meme.

Him: Most guys want to send dick pics. Meanwhile, I send duck pics.

Me: *deep sigh*

Don’t feel bad, dude. I don’t really care what you’re here for, just that you’re here and are enjoying yourself 🙂

He knows about the blog and you guys. He gets so confused lol. My phone goes off a lot because of notifications and new asks :p

I’ll slowly introduce him to Hetalia. It’s not something I want to rush.

Him, even more confused: What does “this universe Mat” mean?

Me: Oh, you know. Like there’s this character named Mathieu in the webcomic I read….

Him: What comic again?

Me: Oh you know, haha, the political one.

Him: *automatically loses interest.*

He’s not big on politics lmao. I have to fight him to watch my daily news shows on his PS4. We can watch three hours straight of Azerrz but nooooo. God forbid I want to watch the all dreaded news.

You’re not going to like this answer but it’s a messy process. I find it unrealistic to expect that the major you decide at 18 is something you have to stick with. It’s totally normal to switch majors; I know someone who’s switched their major three times. Some deciding factors would be the types of jobs you want to work in and finding subjects that interest you.

Electives are a great opportunity to expose yourself to potential interests. If you take mandatory courses in first year that are initially electives, it’s easier to switch majors! My backup was initially psych, so I took the two mandatory first year courses as electives.

Mood.

Thank you. It’s my pleasure ❤ I’m always happy when people can take something from my posts.

I’m an indecisive person with diverse interests. Criminology is multi-disciplinary, including disciplines like sociology, feminism, biology, psychology, etc. It’s also diverse in the sense that you can do a lot with the degree afterwards.

LOL. Mathew’s blond with green/blue eyes. He doesn’t play hockey but he drives a truck, goes hunting, smokes a lot, wears plaid and timberland boots, lives in the country, and has a Quebecois accent.

Nothing’s official yet but it does look like we’re heading in that direction. I wouldn’t have told you guys otherwise 🙂

So, how’s the dating going ;;😉

It’s really funny. He’s an extraverted outdoors person, and
I’m an introverted indoors person. We have similar indoor
interests but like…we have so many whacky/ endearing moments where we clash
too.

*sitting in his truck, holding hands, having a nice moment*

Him (casually): Do you want to see the dead duck I hunted
this morning?

Me: What?! NO!

Him: But it’s pretty!

Me:

Thanks guys ❤

My sinuses and immune system are just weak and annoying. I always catch a 24 hour bug when I go to another person’s house for the first time haha.

Anon: Thank you ❤ Sending my cringy but well-intentioned vibes your way as well!

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@justanotheraccountpassingby Thank you so much 😀 Uh idk dude. I just read and write a lot. The more you write, the better you get. It’s as simple as that.

Reading helps more with your comprehension and analytical skills. You tend to find more connections if you read a source multiple times. Your analytical skills also improve the more you summarize and paraphrase material for school essays and the like.

As for critical thinking (at least for what I do in this blog), that would involve learning how to become an active vs a passive reader. When I read stuff, I always jot down notes, write memos to myself, and mark out short blurbs outlining key concepts/ themes. It makes it easier to break things down later when you have to analyze it. The same would apply to any other media/ source of information tbh.

Hope that helped!

This is not an ask but I love what you do here. You’re teaching fans about hetalia and about what really is. Always giving a very well through explanation about the characters and the way Hima has developed the manga over the years, always explaining his mistakes and “mistakes” that were meant to be on purpose but people took it as bad. I really appreciate the maturity you use to explain this complex terms and how you stay calm to rude anons. I would like to thank you as an old fan.

Thank you so much for your kind compliments 🙂

I love how you differentiated between mistakes and “mistakes.” Pretty counter-productive when people are coming to this series expecting historical accuracy when it’s based on a model of stereotypes (obviously not to be confused with cultural sensitivity ^^).

Happiest moment you experienced in the fandom?

Oh, I’m so lame lol ^^

A year back when I uploaded a RusAme one-shot to tumblr for
the first time, I was shocked to find that three people had already liked the
post within the first five minutes. To give context, three follows/ favourites
a week was standard on ff.net.

Given that it was 9000 words, it would have been impossible
for them to have finished reading it. It’s the fact that they liked it just because they wanted
to support me which was incredibly moving and uplifting.

Ones I always go back to:

FMA brotherhood, Bleach, and Soul Eater.

I would also say Code Geass but I can’t bring myself to go through that trauma again.

One time in grade 12, my friend and I got lost on a mountain
during a field trip. We were so far off the trail that we had to be rescued by
a park ranger with a zipline. By the time we made it back to the tour bus,
everyone started clapping really loudly to commend us for how fucking stupid we
were.

I’ll never forget receiving a call from my geography
teacher.

Me: Hello?

Him: Ariella?! Are you with Jasmine?

Me: Yeah, why?

Him: THE WHOLE TOUR BUS HAS BEEN WAITING FOR AN HOUR.

Me: Oh…

Him: Where
are you?!

Me: I don’t know? We just found a waterfall with a set of swings nearby. I guess we lost track of time…

Park ranger in the background: Yeah, they’re really far away…

Him: *incoherent Greek swearing*

*cut to our punishment of him holding our wrists for the whole
time we visited the aquarium*

Four years later and
he still mocks me about this on Facebook.

I was thinking about how hard it can be to juggle all the regular responsibility of life and how you go out of your way to create content based on a subject you enjoy almost daily for others who enjoy the subject and how I could never do something like that with out burning out and beginning to despise that subject. What I’m trying to say is you’re and awesome person and I have a high amount of respect for you.

Thank you <333

It’s very difficult with school and work. I have burned out several times, but I’ve found a way around it, even though I’m still sleep-deprived ¾ of the time haha. I change things up by writing different series on the blog.

I’m also looking forward to graduation.

As I’m sure most of you know already, when you’re a student, you’re working more than full-time. It’s your day and night job. You don’t get to shut off. So I guess in a way this blog and participating in the Hetalia fandom and engaging with wonderful people lets me clock off for a bit… I just have so many ideas that I don’t have time for, so this will have to do for now 😀