Wow! It’s so nice to have finally found someone who credits their sources unlike another blog…

You know what’s sad? The fact that what I’m doing is thought of as nice when it should already be expected. 

If you’re using someone else’s material to produce your own content, the least you can do is credit them. Your blog wouldn’t exist without these translations, so to not credit them is a pretty shitty thing to do. Don’t take them for granted. 

Even when I first started out and hadn’t found out about the neat way of inserting links with a “[x]”, I still made sure that at least one image had the Hetascanlations logo on it. 

How many asks/ requests do you ignore?

Very few. I may take a while to get to them, but I do copy and paste them into a Word document where I have all my asks organized into categories. 

As stated in my ask guidelines, I don’t answer questions that I’ve already answered and have made it clear that this blog isn’t a place to submit your headcanons (look at the theme and guidelines, please!)

I also don’t answer rants where people voice controversial opinions. It’s not that I don’t value the right to form different opinions, but people also have to realize that at the end of the day, I deal with the repercussions of my askbox blowing up. This isn’t a confession blog! 

I answer questions related to the manga/ theories/ interpretations and rebuttals to them. 

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It’s okay and thank you!

The trick is to screenshot images and then crop them using
whatever photo editor you have. I use MS powerpoint to record and trim the
episodes that I have on my computer and then a MP4 to gif converter.  

Pft. The gifs take 30 seconds to make. There’s no need to give credit. Use them however you please. 

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My notes aren’t a shortcut if that’s what you’re requesting.
Just my Bamboo Thicket notes alone are sixty pages. Perhaps I can organize them
at a later time and make them public, but right now they use codes/ acronyms/point
form that only I would understand. They help me find the locations of relevant
evidence more easily.

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I’m a fourth-year Criminology student 😀

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A shipping series on Lietpol is overdue, a post on
Lithuania, a few characterizations on Ancients, and probably something Nordic
related. I try to balance out everyone’s interests. 

What are your thoughts on discourse? How do you handle it?

It’ll always be difficult. 

Critical thinking is a lost skill when it comes to discourse. Everything is so polarized these days. It’s either you’re 100% this or 100% that. If there is no middle ground and no room for debate, then it’s not intellectualism. You’re not thinking. 

For example, if you defend one aspect of a person and draw parallels to similar contexts, others will then make the leap and accuse you of supporting everything they did when it’s obvious that you’ve never made such a statement nor advocated for it (true story, just happened to me).

My goal is to be open-minded. Arguments need to be supported with facts. A good argument should sway anyone regardless of their political stance on other matters (i.e., You can lean left on one issue and right on another but still maintain a primarily left stance). 

While I may take some time to think my answers through, I do eventually answer asks pertaining to these subjects.

I’m going to take a break from it because I’ve done a lot in the last week and there’s only so much I and everyone else can handle lol.

Thank you, that’s so nice of you to
say!!

I don’t want to speak out of turn because
neither are my countries, but there is a wide range of skin colors in Spain
like you mentioned. There’s the inaccurate stereotype that all people from Spain, Portugal, and Southern Italy are tanned,
which is probably the primary reason for their portrayal in canon.

As for fanon? I don’t know… your
opinion is your opinion. I don’t want to be dragged into dictating how others
should feel. It leads to a slippery slope where right and wrong become
discrete, erasing the room for grey areas and discussion.

It’s an interesting double-standard
when you look at it objectively. If fans get mad at other creators for white-washing
characters like Seychelles, should the same logic apply to characters who are
made to be darker?

Himaruya didn’t create the AU. He
created illustrations in the artbook and fans made something out of it.

People are capable of learning from
their mistakes. Progress is impeded when others can’t recognize that. Even from
just two years ago, I look back and cringe at some of the jokes I made.

What are your thoughts on the human names? Should people use them?

Well, other than the suggestions and nyotalia ones (which are also suggestions), the original official names that Himaruya gave were deleted. Technically, they’re not canon and weren’t even all that accurate. 

This is only my opinion. No one’s forced to agree with it. 

As for their use? 

I don’t have a definitive stance. I think that if you’re doing a canon nation AU, then their names should be more culturally accurate. Human AUs, on the other hand, I’m more lenient with if they’re anglicized. It’s different when they’re representing a country. 

Up to now, I haven’t been the best with the names in fics, but I do realize that there’s a juggling act between the names that fanon recognize and making the name easy for the audience to read vs. tending to cultural accuracy. It’s a tricky endeavor to navigate, but I am leaning more toward the latter.

As someone with a name that’s already been 2/3 anglicized, I personally don’t get offended when people anglicize it further. Maybe it’s because I’ve grown up in such a diverse city that it doesn’t really bother me lol. You get used to people not being able to pronounce your name and making their own variation of it. There’s usually a 50/50 chance whether it irritates the person; I’m not one of them.  

Ex: My middle name in Hebrew is Rachael, but I always get Rachel. Ariella, my first name, becomes Ariana (somehow, people clearly can’t read lmao) or Ariel (close enough).  

My Greek friend, who already shortened his birth name to Takis to make it easier for people to refer to him, is still called things like Travis or Trevor. We both laugh it off. 

I’ve mentioned this before [x], but the anglicization and changing of names isn’t exclusive to English. It’s a practice done in all languages to make it easier for the native audience to recognize. Whether people agree with it will always be a heated matter.

Happy Fanfic Writers Appreciation Day! Your work is amazing and I can’t help but keysmash and scream (sometimes out loud) and I love, Love, LOVE your work!! It always makes me happy to see you do something that makes you happy and see you be brave enough to share it with the world. You inspire me so much to be a better writer and I couldn’t be happier to be able to read your work. Your meta posts abt characters are the groundwork for my own fanfics and im rlly glad you do this for us. TKSM Ella!

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This genuinely inspired me. I’m so glad that my works have been able to move you to create. It’s both a blessing and a privilege that I don’t take lightly. 

I’ve still been struggling a lot in my personal life and can’t thank you enough for your support. I’ve been so busy and muddled lately with responsibilities that I haven’t had a full day to just… write. 

My writer self is very nitpicky and doesn’t like writing sections of chapters at a time; it’s all or nothing. 

Thankfully, I have this blog that still allows me to write shorter content and engage with incredible people like you. Again, thank you so much!

Happy Fanfic Writer’s Appreciation day to @mandelene @feyna-v @skye–walker @lluviadinoche @codevassie @december-dragon @aphchiptease @talentlychallenged6096