Why do people think Prussia’s stupid?

Beats me, but he’s far from it [x].

Okay so Italy’s curl represents the sexual something of Italians but is there anything else that it could mean?

Germany inquires about its
relevance to Roman artifacts [x].

Japan…also confuses it for a
fern sprout lmao [x].

…Oh that’s complicated.

When I first started out, it was only fanfiction. My CGPA in my first year of Uni was a 9.2. Only writing fanfiction in my second year, my CGPA rose significantly to a 9.6 (I had a 9.8 GPA total in my second year). In that case, writing constantly did, in fact, raise my grades. My vocabulary, critical thinking skills, and ability to articulate my thoughts better was definitely a result of getting solid writing practice on the side.

On the other hand, in my third year (April 2018), my GPA dropped to a 9.4. I attribute that to the daily content grinder that I put myself in with this blog. Fanfiction was something I only did on the weekend, but this blog is something I work on every day for up to 3-5 hours. Balancing fanfiction, the blog, school, and work became a lot for me to handle.

My advice would be to find a better balance. I had a habit of putting this hobby first because I desperately wanted to improve my writing as fast as possible—this meant writing something every day. Writing as a hobby does improve your grades, but it won’t if you sacrifice time you should be devoting to your studies. I hope this helps!

Yes, I’m going into my last year in September! I’m exploring many options now. If my student placement works out well, hopefully I can secure a paid contract position that will eventually lead to a full-time position as a research analyst. That would be ideal.

I’ve also considered applying for a masters or entering teacher’s college.

In a dream world, I become a professional author somewhere down the line.

I’ve been good this summer, averaging on 6-8 hours. Then again, I’m part-time and am only taking two courses as opposed to five.

When I’m full-time, that figure usually falls to 3-5 hours of sleep. Readings and assignments always get done in the morning, when I’m most awake. Posts are written in between classes. In the evening, I work-out, compose the posts, post them, and then do more readings. Sleep and repeat. It’s exhausting, but as long as you have an end goal in mind, it’s worth it.

Best of luck with your blog and college!

I’m rewatching Bleach for the fourth time LOL.

Can you give me a quick snapshot of Austria’s character please?

This strip from Volume 6 should help [x].

Pescatore means fisherman so I wonder what Hima wanted to say. Pesca (peach)? Pesce (fish)? Was the translation wrong? (I know you didn’t translate it) Anyway, even if the images you put weren’t part part of the song originally they seem spot on! And also make the post more visually appealing (this goes for the other songs you posted as well)

Pescatore is a pasta
with seafood ingredients.

Thank you so much! I just
can’t help but notice how some songs are cut-and- paste from material in the manga (obviously—they’re character songs). The references are either super obscure or obvious. While “Let’s Look Behind
the Rainbow” is supposed to be generic in that the listener is experiencing the
song as a tourist, I found that there were a lot of parallels to early
chapters of World Stars, where Italy acts as Germany’s tour guide [x] [x] [x].

There may be a double
meaning to the song too…

The sea has been used as
a metaphor for time before [x].

I interpreted the lyrics of the listener
losing something in the sea [of time] as a reference to the unconfirmed
assumption that Germany lost his early childhood memories as Holy Rome.

Sure thing, and thank you very much for your kind words! I’ll save a more in-depth post for Austria’s old and new characterization for later…

Just a small note here: If you’re writing a story on any aph character, my mischaracterization guides aren’t where you’re going to get all the details. They’re quick snapshots!

The mods of Hetarchive have belaboured over creating incredibly extensive and thorough wiki pages with sources for you to refer to…use them!

weirdest interaction in the fandom you’ve had? Worst interaction in the fandom you’ve had?

I’ll just do the weirdest interaction I’ve had. ~~I’ll save the real tea for another time…~~

Basically, this person messaged me and was like:

Person: Yeah, I read two of your 100k fanfictions and didn’t like them at all which made me not like you but I’m messaging you now to apologize for me not liking you. Can we become friends?”

Me: *Has no idea how to react*

Me: SURE! ThAT’s OkAY! If I read my old stories, I wouldn’t like me too!”

I can’t remember if this is fanon but is it because of France’s influence that America and Canada don’t have bushy brows?

Not fanon, canon. It affected Seychelles too [x].

Does it bother you that Russia and Germany are always made out to be the villains?

Yes and no. A good villain is a good villain to me so long as you characterize and develop them well. In fact, a difficult and rare trope to pull off but something that I’ve always loved is when an author is able to portray America as the villain despite his claim of being a hero. Now that’s interesting!

The series is based on stereotypes, bad and
good, although we could do without some. At the very least, this subject is
touched on in Volume 5.