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

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.”