‧₊˚꒰ 🌍┊ 𝕙𝕖𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕒 - 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕎𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕣𝕡・୨୧ 🌙・︶︶꒷꒦︶꒷︶꒦꒷︶︶꒷꒦︶꒷︶꒦꒷︶ LGBTQ+ Safe Space・ Non Toxic Environment ・Tupper Friendly ・・ Hetalia The World RP is a 16+ roleplay server for those who want to grow and develop their knowledge of the world through the eyes of these characters. ・・ We are a semi-advanced roleplay server with a focus on character building, and cultural exchanges. We are a global community with members from all over the world. Members who have shared stories of their own homelands or to explore the culture and history of one another. ╭─────────➜ ｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ﾟ。🌷 Our Offers! ˎˊ˗ ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐓𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝟐𝐏, 𝐍𝐲𝐨!, 𝟐𝐏!𝐍𝐲𝐨 & 𝐎𝐂𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐑𝐏 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐢𝐨 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐎𝐂 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐂 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐦𝐬! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞, 𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 & 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐀 𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 & 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 & 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐭! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐇𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐬 & 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐥. 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐀 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐭! ୨୧ ‧₊˚ʚ 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞! ╰─────────➜ ｡ﾟﾟ･｡･ﾟﾟ｡ ・・ So if you have been thinking of building on your roleplay game or simply want a more interesting way to explore some historical or cultural nuances, this server may just be for you! ୨୧・︶︶꒷꒦︶꒷︶꒦꒷︶ so please consider joining ・・・ and check us out!

We have quite a few characters free so come and check us out! 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑥 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑘𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑛. We now have a Vanity URL! You can find us on discord @ hetaliarp !!

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Unlike last time Hetalia got a new season, the response has not been particularly positive, and I’m seeing a lot of twisted feelings towards the show and the fandom to a point where it seems long time content creators are stepping away from it. I know anyone still active who follows me either are or were fans of Hetalia, so it should be relevant for all y’all.

As a fan who never fell out of the show, I find the response sad though healthy, and even if I know I ghosted you all on tumblr (sorry) because of time constraints and mental health, I still make the occasional CMVs. Fact is, I do not let go of special interests very easily. It seems a lot of you all started watching the show at 10-14 years old, where I myself was a bit older – 17 – and had grown a bit more. Long story short, my Naruto phase was your Hetalia phase, and no, it’s not pretty. You’re young and stupid and don’t know much critical thinking and make mistakes, and you have to forgive yourself for those mistakes, especially when the content you consume is associated with the real world in a sensitive subject.

But after seeing all these posts explaining all the bad we see from Hetalia, I wanted to make a post explaining what I learned from it – all the good that can come with a show like this if you stay aware of perspective. I am not excusing all the bad that came with it, for WWII is a serious event in history that should never be forgotten nor made fun of, but here goes:

I went from a ‘war-is-cool’ history buff to one who truly delved in and learned the intricacies of history, being fascinated with the ‘hows’ and the ‘whys’ as well as getting an excuse to look at the histories of nations which I’d never otherwise be interested in, and I know a lot of other people in the fandom did the same. This is how history should be known, as that is how we can truly apply it to the real world.

I learned to separate people from their countries. To give an example that’ll hit close to much of tumblr, when I started Hetalia I hated Americans with a passion because of the road “you” had put the world on, and I considered all y’all dumb and bad as a cause of it. Getting that excuse to take an ACTUAL look at how your nation functioned and what communities truly hid behind the borders, I learned instead that your government is corrupt as shit, your society is rigged against you and you have been forced to stand by and watch as chaos happens. It got applied to the world as a whole, where I considered other nations being as dynamic as my own, with people both good and bad, and the actions of the nation is even less of a reflection of the people in the cases of corrupt democracies or dictatorships.

I separated from Colonial world views. I was never actively racist, brought up in a proper home, and already before Hetalia I fiercely protected the rights of Muslims who are often mistreated in my nation and tried to hear them out when possible. But I was a Westerner, and even if the nation I came from had barely participated in invasions, I had learned to consider my culture ‘correct’ and native and African cultures ‘primitive’. While the journey was long, a step wise process of realizing things like there was nothing inherently ethically wrong eating dogs or partially incubated duck eggs, only in how the animals were acquired, that cultural progress is heavily dependent on perspective and that fucking genocide of native peoples still happen in this damn century, Hetalia was the stepping stone which gave me the interest in other nations to expand my world view. I probably ain’t done here – I have a whole life of outside influences to unlearn – but I’m further than most people I know in my near surroundings, and I’ve even managed to move my parents who originally taught me to respect people of all kinds in the first place.

I learned Nazis were people. This is a conversation which often comes up here on tumblr, and the demonization Nazi Germany and its government directly allows actual Nazis and fascists like Richard Spencer a free pass because they look groomed and proper. Until then, I’d simply assumed no one was ‘stupid enough to be a Nazi’ because of the atrocities of WWII and therefore looked at the world naively. Realizing how little true support Nazis had during WWII and similarly anyone could end down that pungent rabbit hole, I became careful of what I excused on social media and allowed myself to doubt seemingly normal people if their behaviour was alarming – such as the police man who is supposed to be a damn ‘hero’ of society.

I learned how to deal with material sensitive to others. A common problem in the fandom has always been the cosplaying and portrayal of Nazis, especially at cons and the like, and in a similar vein – I did blackface once because of Hetalia. The horrible thing about this is that blackface is immensely common in Europe – at least my own country – and blackface frequently happens at schools during ‘international’ events, where whole classrooms are assigned to portray a designated country. A whole of two times – in 6th grade as well as 2nd grade of high school – I was exposed to blackface as my class was given an African nation to portray – Somalia the first time, Kenya the second. No one, adult, teen or child, are aware of the history of race imitation in my country, but by the second time I was supposed to participate in dressing up as an African tribe, I’d understood the issue – thanks to Hetalia. My friend group of white, privileged, European teens discussed what symbolism was appropriate at cons or in videos – could we wear the Iron Cross? The Nazi flag? What if we burned it during the video? These thoughts are not usually a part of the mind of European youth, and I consider that a grave problem which leads to people making fun of ‘triggers’, downplaying racial issues and the like.

It offered me a means to make history personal. The biggest struggle for good history teachers and the reason we are often made to read and write letters from the periods we study is to make it seem real and get a emotional connection to these past, lost peoples. Hetalia offered puppets for me to place into historical contexts to make them truly real – the main driver pushing me away from mere fascination of war, since I suddenly felt the horrors of warfare through the characters that I loved. Things like Elizabeth I’s court, the conquests of Rome, the dissolution of the Kalmar Union, the battlefield of Somme, the invasion of America, damn slavery becomes different when something you already know is a part of it and you can see them in there. Hearing of people of the past should in itself be enough, and for the closest parts of history (WWII and afterwards) it always was for me, but we are human. We cannot understand the size of a billion, and we struggle understanding the lives of those living centuries before us, unless we are offered context.

I’m not blind to the issues of the fandom or the show. I was here for ‘the r*pist, the pervert and the p*dophile’, I know of South Korean and Chinese issues with the show, and I heard the gassing joke in the show’s dub and got nauseous from discomfort and anger. I’ve always been in the fringe of the fandom due to my social disabilities, so I don’t know everything that happened, but I’ve seen many racist OCs and disrespecting of historical sites. It’s not pretty, but I will believe these people, who were likely young, likely learned in time. And I may have been able to learn these things by other means, but not in the same way, and not through personal interest and research that’s helped me become sceptical and analysing of the world around me.

At its core, Hetalia is about watching a normal, nerdy guy learn how to draw, using stereotypic country personifications mainly from the perspective of Japan. It’s natural he chooses Japan, since he’s Japanese, and WWII is unfortunately the automatic historical event for most common people to focus on – but Hetalia doesn’t even solely focus on that, but is an amalgamation of vaguely correct historical situations played out by the characters, and often it is with the intent of comedy rather than the grimness often associated with historical settings which allows a wider audience than merely history nerds.

What I want you all to do is learn from your mistakes and forgive your younger selves for not knowing better. Maybe reflect on what you got from the show, rather than what you lost. A new generation of young Hetalians is likely coming with the new season, and us old timers might be able to help them avoid pitfalls if we stay around to teach them. The best of the show is compassion towards the people of the world combined and love of history, as I believe Hima wanted it – the worst is Nazi apologetics and racial stereotyping. We decide in what direction we take it, and what lessons we bring into the future.

TL;DR: As a lot of media intended for older audiences, Hetalia is a show which has to be watched critically, which makes it dangerous for young people to watch unhinged, but it also opens up for interest in the world beyond the borders you live within. We should be aware of the issues and learn from them, but in and of itself the show has a lot of good to offer in learning compassion for other nations and cultural groups.

It’s cause Africa isn’t fucking spoiled and knows to take health seriously.

This was in the papers here in Denmark recently, and I feel like the rest of the world should know too:

"Greenland wants to buy the USA back"

Yesterday, the Greenlandic Prime Minister, Kim Kielsen offered to buy the United States.

"It was Leif Erikson who discovered the Americas, and his father, Erik the Red, who discovered Greenland and settled here. Therefore, it's only natural for us to get the United States back," says Kim Kielsen.

He hasn't settled on a price yet, but thinks that it should be quite low, considering the United States' colossal national debt.

"And if we're counting Tru mp as a part of the deal, the price will be even lower," he says.

Another thing I also want to add - Please though, Trump, come to Denmark anyways, I want the buy of the British Baby-Balloon to matter

Dear Trump: Greenland cannot be bought because it isn’t owned by Denmark

I had an urge to react to this whole absurd thing, as a Dane, even if this account is technically inactive and only used for browsing nowadays.

Denmark doesn’t own Greenland. The indigenous people of Greenland as well as the remaining Danish colonists living there own Greenland. 

Greenland and the Faroe Islands have autonomic governance as a part of what we in Denmark call ‘Rigsfællesskabet’ (The Kingdom’s Commonwealth, similar to The Commonwealth of formerly British colonies, but with some continued influence from the main seat of Denmark). 

There have been a few petitions to whether both Faroes and Greenland should be free of Danish influence, but both have declined due to unstable economy - especially the indigenous population still suffer harshly from alcoholism due to the years of abuse and mistreatment they faced, and we Danes actively work to build up their community again so Greenland can once be free and solely belong to the Inuits and whichever Danes decide to remain. 

We are taking responsibility of the atrocities we put them through. Alternatively, we could have simply thrown them out and ignored how we ruined their culture, or we could have claimed Greenland belonged to us cause we have ‘owned it’ since the Viking age. Rather, we try to create jobs, industry, etc. so Greenland can become self-sustained in the standards of the current world, then release them once it can be seen our original damage and abuse has been undone.

Just the mere thought of what the American government, especially the current one, could do to another indigenous group, on top of the environmental damage they’d bring with the oil drilling and mining Denmark refused to do to protect the sensitive ecosystems of the Arctic, makes my toes curl. I’m already ashamed of what Denmark did in and of itself to these people - never would I forgive my government, should they simply go on to allow another nation with an even worse record to continue it.

Dear Trump: Greenland cannot be bought because it isn’t owned by Denmark

I had an urge to react to this whole absurd thing, as a Dane, even if this account is technically inactive and only used for browsing nowadays.

Denmark doesn’t own Greenland. The indigenous people of Greenland as well as the remaining Danish colonists living there own Greenland. 

Greenland and the Faroe Islands have autonomic governance as a part of what we in Denmark call ‘Rigsfællesskabet’ (The Kingdom’s Commonwealth, similar to The Commonwealth of formerly British colonies, but with some continued influence from the main seat of Denmark). 

There have been a few petitions to whether both Faroes and Greenland should be free of Danish influence, but both have declined due to unstable economy - especially the indigenous population still suffer harshly from alcoholism due to the years of abuse and mistreatment they faced, and we Danes actively work to build up their community again so Greenland can once be free and solely belong to the Inuits and whichever Danes decide to remain. 

We are taking responsibility of the atrocities we put them through. Alternatively, we could have simply thrown them out and ignored how we ruined their culture, or we could have claimed Greenland belonged to us cause we have ‘owned it’ since the Viking age. Rather, we try to create jobs, industry, etc. so Greenland can become self-sustained in the standards of the current world, then release them once it can be seen our original damage and abuse has been undone.

Just the mere thought of what the American government, especially the current one, could do to another indigenous group, on top of the environmental damage they’d bring with the oil drilling and mining Denmark refused to do to protect the sensitive ecosystems of the Arctic, makes my toes curl. I’m already ashamed of what Denmark did in and of itself to these people - never would I forgive my government, should they simply go on to allow another nation with an even worse record to continue it.

(Liechtenstein’s national day is the 15th of August, and he is secretly very proud to have bought her new shoes. 

His sister is one of the very few things he is willing to spend money on.)

(One thing is someone celebrating your country... another is someone celebrating your person.)

Last year wasn’t the best, and I’m preparing for the worst already. 

It’s things like people choosing dangerous leaders that reminds me why I keep to myself

Askbox is open

Cleaning my askbox

((Just wanted to tell you what I’ll be doing -

After starting my studies and so on I haven’t been able to uphold activity - neither was I beforehand due to various things. But I ran into a huge problem because of that, which is that I have over a 100 very old asks from over a year ago that I didn’t have much flare for making, since 100 posts is an overwhelming amount of posts.

I stood by the choice of closing or fixing this, and since I love this blog I decided to instead clean out the askbox, open it and see how many followers are active for me to get questions. I have a belief that I’ll be able to update a bit more frequently.

Take care of yourselves, and hopefully you’ll be having time off as myself~))

Besides, they make money for the country when it’s actually a job.

And it makes the industry more easy to monitor.

You can actually help the people within when they have rights rather than break the rules....

Password: hetalia

How come everyone thinks I’m so angry?

This is all too similar with the pink-haired one I met ages ago.

But he didn’t seem to know me very well, and taken from even your mention of Austrians, I know for a fact you don’t, either.

February 18th conference

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