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weird_number

Rinse, Lather, Repeat (1/?)

May 17, 2011 12:13

Title: Rinse, Lather, Repeat (1/?)
Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama
Rating: T
Warnings: Um, it's violent.
Summary: Humans have given up on living in the real world; instead, they're addicted to a game that simulates reality. Because it's a game, they feel free to do horrific things to each other and engage in irreparable warfare. The nations, ( Read more... )

america, fanfic, england, china, canada, quebec, france, hetalia

Comments 47

ikkjevaksen May 19 2011, 14:20:50 UTC

Oh, this seems both very promising and interesting! I honestly can't wait for the continuation, I really adore your characterisation. I'm not all too familiar with the China/America-relationship, I came for the France/England, but it... it fits, it does. And just the idea is so beautiful, and you write it really well. Ah, I don't even know what to say. I can't wait for there to be more, I really can't.

weird_number May 19 2011, 22:31:16 UTC

Thanks, I'm glad you've enjoyed it! :D Writing America/China feels too much like resolving my identity crisis... I'll put up the next part soon, as soon as I'm done editing, haha.

zedille May 20 2011, 06:22:32 UTC

yes, it's me again xDThis looks really promising! I love the idea - I can easily see it happening - and the idea of everything "resetting" back to how it used to be, but the nations still remembering and bearing the scars, is disturbing (but in a good way.) It's like they get to work through ridiculous amounts of alternate histories - well, their people are the ones making them do it, and they're clearly so horribly blasé about it because they're not taking it seriously enough ( ... )

weird_number May 20 2011, 07:42:47 UTC

Thanks! Haha, I actually originally started this because I wanted to write those ridiculous number of alternate histories (all from playing too much Civ), but that ended up turning into something else altogether because most of my alt histories had depressing endings. :P

Oh dang, I would love to find more fics with those two shipped together. I think I scoured a bunch of communities a while back for Canadian provinces, but came up with very little. :(

Haha, that's a good point about the accent mark -- just fixed it. I totally forgot about it, thanks!

Apparently the chicken/duck blood soup is much more regionalistic than I realized. :P (There are so many peculiar dishes all over the place...I should not be craving anything at midnight, haha.)

That's awesome, thank you. :)

zedille May 20 2011, 08:47:03 UTC

Well, True Art is Angsty, so there you go :D

There's Lizard Pie on fanfiction.net, and I think there's someone else on LJ who writes Ontario/Québec, but beyond that, you get an occasional mention maybe? and not much more. Which I think is funny, really, because Québec is so ideally suited to working with in Hetalia. Anyway.

Oh yeah, Chinese cooking can get interesting pretty quickly. I love pig ears and duck tongue but I hate chicken feet :/ (Is there anything besides sleeping that we actually should be doing at midnight? xD)

zedille May 20 2011, 08:48:49 UTC

WHY CAN'T I REPLY PROPERLY TO A THREAD? sorry. :(

weird_number May 21 2011, 10:21:05 UTC

Haha, it's ok! :D (Maybe my new layout's confusing? :P)

zedille May 22 2011, 07:55:41 UTC

It's because this thread of comments is at the end, so I click the wrong "Reply" link (the one to reply to the whole post, not the one in your comment).

It wouldn't be nearly as galling if I hadn't done it twice. Facepalm.

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fluffcloud May 27 2011, 16:33:13 UTC

Reading the comments, I just realized that three different people mentioned hetalia and identity issues in this entry, including the blog owner, moi and another commentator.

Is that a coincidence or what???

weird_number May 29 2011, 17:24:22 UTC

Haha, that's so true! ;D What can I say -- it seems Hetalia is a nice engine to attempt to sort out identity issues.

Actually, I just wanted to comment more on identity issues in relation to language -- like I normally speak Chinese at home with my parents, but when I'm telling them bad news (or if I'm mad), I tend to use English, because it feels more distant (and they're also less likely to understand xD). I didn't even notice this until recently.

And in your other comment when you mentioned that you were taught to not refer to yourself as 中国人 because your country wanted you to be patriotic -- it's interesting because my experience is really different. I grew up in an extremely liberal part of the US and my entire class was almost all immigrants. There was a lot of celebration of our (non-American) identities and we were very pissed off when a French teacher tried ranting about Americans to us, because we didn't consider ourselves AmericanBut at the end of the day, I think I understand many segments of American culture more (hence ( ... )