Tag: thanks for stopping by

My Italian friend and I were talking about superstitions the other day. She told me that in Italy, it’s bad luck to accidentally sweep your feet with a push broom, because then you will never be ‘swept of your feet’ by someone else. Is this why Chibitalia gave the push broom to HRE? So HRE will never fall in love with anyone else?

HEY! I’M SUPPOSED TO BE THE ONE BREAKING HEARTS HERE!

Also, from what I just read: If your foot is accidentally brushed over with a broom, then the superstition is that you’ll never get married. Chibitalia only gives Holy Rome the push-broom in the anime though, just so no one forgets (like I did lol).

As @feyna-v mentioned, brooms in Italy are also typically given as a new house gift.

Either way, this is a pretty neat headcanon. Thank you for sharing it!

You haven’t answered my question yet!

Ah! I’m sorry, but some of the questions you guys ask require a lot of research + fact checking in a lot of the older strips. It’s been a while since I’ve read them, and WOW, the inconsistencies are enough to drive anyone crazy. I don’t know how people remember those small details, it’s quite amazing really. I’m better at remembering history facts than I am about canon material, if that says anything. 

The two theories that I can’t answer right away, but am keeping in my inbox for later is 1) Which Italy is the true sovereign, and 2) why Latvia is so short.

 Also, I’m trying not to copy other theorists, so if I decide to do the same theory, I need to have something else to add to it, otherwise it’s just redundant.

As for the Italy question, I’ll go into this in more detail, but as far as I know, Italians identify themselves more according to regions. It was only when they immigrated to North America that they took on a full Italian identity. 

Since we’re apparently going with a Christmas theme on this blog now, can you write us another lovely poem?

Dashing through the snow

Getting banned from the UK

Over Britain’s anger we go

Laughing all the way

Tony’s spaceship rings

Making us nations sparkle bright

What fun it is to shop and eat

until I can’t sit upright

 Yo!

Jingle dudes

Britain’s rude

Christmas every day!

Oh what fun it is to know that I’ll always get my
way

(Britain: HEY!)

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Another thing about Santa or Christmas is that it was actually banned in England in 1644 because the holiday would start riots and lots of houses would get raided since people were a little rowdy while celebrating it. So England would have probably hated the holiday and when traditions of modern Christmas circulated there were many versions of Santa until Coca cola got a hold of him and turned him into the red fat man a magical figure made by coca cola probably didn’t seem to England as real.

Oh wow, that really puts things into perspective. Yes, exactly, it wasn’t just one figure! Thank you so much for sharing this 🙂

If England can see magical creatures, how come he didn’t know about Santa Claus huh, huh?!

I think it’s because the Santa Claus you and I both know is an
invention. Yes, you did have early tales of St. Nicolas, Father Christmas, and
other similar variations in 19th century and early 20th century literature, but
Santa Claus and the whole idea of giving presents wasn’t really a thing until
Coca Cola popularized it. 

Basically, Santa Claus was a combination of different fables +
an added economic rationale to get people to spend more. 

In reference to Hetalia, when people began to believe in Santa
Claus, he materialized. England probably didn’t know about him because he
hadn’t existed for long enough. 

Anyways, I can’t believe I just spent five minutes explaining
this.

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Anon 1: Oh definitely, I agree! The characters have so many contradictions, which is how nuanced and complex people are in real life. Although, AHHH! Thank you, but my stories are incomparable to his. I’m not happy with my writing, and have often considered deleting most of them. I won’t though, because people for some reason are still reading them, even the extremely cringey ones. If anything, I’m only half-satisfied with the last quarter of the Gay-OK cafe and the last two chapters of My Save Year :O 

Anon 2: HAHA. Yeah, I have pretty bad OCD, so if things are left unfinished, I won’t touch them. I’m not even angry at George because of course life gets in the way of things. It’s just upsetting that an AU so beautifully crafted was discarded so effortlessly.