ALSO TELL ME A STORY, I CAN'T SLEEP

[pyrrhiccomedy]

SO YEAH I GUESS I HAVE TWITTER NOW

I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL USE IT?

BUT

LIKE

W/E

It'll probably just be another thing I forget to check most of the time, but I'll follow you if you follow me, so, like, you can at least use me to artificially inflate your follower count.

twitterrrrrAlso, all this kerfluffle with the cosplay lameness and the

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[nawojka]

Oh I don't like equating hetalia nations = their governments. It's great when elements of national interests enter relationships and interactions, making it all interesting and complicated, that's precisely what makes hetalia fascinating! But the nations should never be forced to actually stand for their governments. Makes me sick when fandom does it, but it does come from the comic itself, what with Russia whipping the Baltics.
Some of my America friends here in UK are having a hard time when random people try to hold them responsible for warmongering ... you feel like screaming 'hello! are you crazy? half of America didn't even vote for Bush!'

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Yeah...I have an awful lot to say about the anti-Russian bias in Hetalia canon and (even more so) in the English fandom. -_- Not helping, guys. Not helping.

I'm an American living in Australia, and I get that treatment a lot. Just trying to buy a goddamned sandwich, and the lady behind the counter starts bitching me out about the Iraq invasion. Um, go fuck yourself? I'm a Quaker and a pacifist and I never voted for Bush. Just give me my fucking cold cuts.

[nawojka]

so true about anti-Russian bias, for the West Russia is always evil and Hidekaz nicely applies this perspective, obviously fandom would only make it worse, every story needs a hero and a villain...

Your description of the sandwich incident made me laugh, because last time my flatmate Terry had to endure outburst of anti-American sentiment we were queuing up to get some chips from a takeaway... people won't even let you enjoy some food in peace, unbelievable

[pyrrhiccomedy]

What makes it especially grating is that when my Australian then-boyfriend-now-husband and I were living in America, nobody was rude to him. Oh no. They would just hit on him. In front of me. Like. Flagrantly hit on, flagrantly in front of me. Women, men, old people, young people, it didn't matter. It was just like "You're ~*~AUSTRALIAN?~*~ Baby you can crawl into my marsupial pouch any time."

And like...goddamn. Why can't I get any of that?! XD I WANT SLEAZY COME-ONS, DAMMIT.

I guess I could always go back to Italy and trade on the blonde thing, but it's not the same.

[narcomanic]

Once again I can say, "Look at all the things Hetalia has taught me!" Well, you, more precisely, but anyway. Hadn't heard of Scholl before but went to google her up and I now give a wholehearted HELL YES to that fic. I love fiction of Germany (or Prussia, for that matter, once read a fantastic fill about the Preußenschlag on the kink meme) meeting the German resistance

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Huh, that's an interesting take on things. You should write it.

[neocloud9]

GO FOR IIIT~

[pyrrhiccomedy]

KAY

[thewaterbandit]

Yes! Write it! One of the really great things about Hetalia is that the countries are more than just individual parts of their history, they're all of it and all of their people too. I always saw Ludwig!Germany as very much a reluctant follower anyway. It kind of surprised me that other people didn't.

p.s I added you on Twitter, I hope that that's okay :)

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Of course, is what this post was for. =D

[animedutchess]

I shall add you on Twitter, then. It's pretty fun sometimes~

Sophie Scholll...I will google her after I type this, but I say go for it! Unfortunately, schools do a lot to propigate the "ZOMG GERMAN NAZIS" mentality, since we never really learn anything more about them other than WWII. It is le shame.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Is there any way to get a little streaming thingy at the bottom of my Firefox window or something, that'll just tell me when people tweet and give me the little box thing to type in? Going to the site all the time seems like a huge overinvestment of effort.

[animedutchess]

I don't think so, but there's a way to have certain people's tweets show up on your phone. Then again, I wouldn't reccomend it; your inbox fills up pretty quickly, even if it's only a couple people...

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Diagnosis: liquid lame.