I can see why you would think that lol, but no.
This blog is a good place for me to routinely practice my
writing. The analyses help improve my summarizing skills, which especially
becomes helpful in essays and research projects where I have to code, extract themes,
and organize large pieces of information into relevant categories.
Wow wow wow. Thank you! This is both incredibly flattering
and nerve-wracking! Thank you for reminding me of this, because it makes me
feel even more accountable for how I run this blog.
I’ve always credited and sourced before, though haha. The inserted links would have made it easier for people to find the sources :p I’ve just
moved to putting in more formal citations!
I’m not going to lie,
my patience is running thin. It’s one thing if people had a problem with
something I legitimately argued or if I had poor, vague clarification (fair
enough, just substantiate your argument by linking my posts + using quotes),
but that hasn’t been the case yet.
Anyways, recently, the discourse has been heavy because I had wanted to get a few subjects out of the way before I started school. I had been avoiding them for months. There are a couple more I would like to do, but right now I don’t have time and would honestly rather just focus on analyzing content like I’ve always done.
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.
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.
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.
I’m a fourth-year Criminology student 😀
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.
There is no real way to
read Hetalia. It’s all over the place 😛 What I did was divide it into
sections. I read the volumes, then the non-linear strips, then world stars,
then Bamboo Thicket, and so on and so forth.
It’s a lot of material,
so good luck!
Welcome! Sorry, friend. I
don’t play cards and don’t understand how they work, so I’ve never been into
that AU. There are some trope websites that explain the AU better than I can.
As for advice…uh…
– Don’t expect historical accuracy, otherwise you’re
setting yourself up for disappointment.
– Hetalia walks a fine line of offensive humour,
so it’s not meant for everyone. It’s a satire based on stereotypes that aren’t always
accurate, so you need a certain type of humour for it.
– Instead of being harassed and engaging with
someone you don’t agree with, just block them. It’s better for both parties.
Tumblr has an extension where you blacklist certain tags.
– Fiction does not give anyone in the fandom an
excuse to be culturally insensitive. Unlike other fandoms, Hetalia has real-world
implications with real people and real nations.
– Find your niche! Join Rp groups, discords, or other similar
communities. The fandom is a lot more welcoming and tamer than it used to be. On
the other hand, our feedback culture is generally poor and it can be discouraging
at times.
Well, think of it this way. The series is based
on stereotypes, right?
Let’s use
African nations whose populations have an overwhelming majority of Blacks (obviously, this doesn’t include every
African nation).
Since there’s a much higher percentage of them than there
is any other ethnic/ racial group, it would make sense to have these nations be
depicted as darker in skin tone. Skin tones vary and so do ethnic groups, yes,
but Hetalia is very much oriented around stereotypes, which includes the majority
and/or perceived majority.
I can tell that
wasn’t your intention 🙂
I really appreciate
that you recognize the difference between the dub and canon. I’ve done a few posts
with sources on the subject if you’d like to check them out [x] [x].
I’m blushing.
Sort of?
I’m in the top percentile for my grades (third and fourth year are mainly essays in social sciences undergraduate studies), but I’m also the type of student who never looks up from their laptop and doesn’t raise their hand. The only time the profs hear from me is if I have a rebuttal for the grade I received.
There’s one prof who I’m close with. He was the one where I incorporated Hetalia memes into the final paper and still managed to pull off an A+ in the class. That reminds me. I’m going to have to start making better relationships if I’m to hope for the possibility of reference letters…
It’s a complicated trajectory. My first introduction was in middle school where two cliques of girls were fighting over USUK and FrUk.
It’s gotten to the point where I don’t even know if these fics are satire or not.
I don’t tend to do headcanons
here because I worry that people will confuse them as canon. One of these days
I’ll create a personal blog for something like that. Thank you for your
interest!
I took some quizzes and
it switches from Ravenclaw to Slytherin.
I’ve considered that,
yes! I’ve always wanted to write out my main theory that Holy Rome never died.
Please note that it’s
not canon!
Both.
I drink my coffee black
and my tea (chai green or chai black) plain as well.
I confuse a lot of people lmao. You’d never guess it.
But I am a mixed child. My dad’s primarily Polish and Hungarian, but there are traces of Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian, and Romanian heritage, and my mom’s Guyanese-Indian.
Fictional “global buddies” that are oversexualized and romanticized.
THEY ALL HAVE SPARKLES WHAT DO YOU MEAN.
It’s not a weird ask, no worries.
I hate that I have to use this disclaimer, but this is coming from someone who is half-Jewish.
This is something I’ve emphasized many times before: historical situation and accuracy does not equate to promoting a horrid ideology.
Just the mere depiction of Nazis doesn’t inherently mean that you’re glorifying what they stand for. You’re being historically accurate. If that was the case, then all Hollywood movies depicting Nazis would be ousted and boycotted.
From what I can see, you’re taking great lengths to cover the topic with conscious sensitivity and accuracy, so I wish you all the best in your future work (uh…this was sent in a long time ago, so I don’t know if you uploaded it yet ^^)
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