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hwsasiaweek · 2 months

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would a hun oc or an avar khaganate oc fit? both huns and avars originated in asia (the mongolian plateau) but fled into europe and founded their states there

Sorry for not responding earlier! But yes, they'll be allowed :3

#thank you for asking!#ask #answer

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hwsasiaweek · 3 months

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HWS Asia Week will be hosted from July 8th-17th of 2024!!

Three prompts per day:

1) nations from Asia

2) a general theme

3) a quote

You can choose which prompt or prompts you want to create content for; you can stick with one country (canon or OC) throughout the whole week or switch between multiple; it's all up to you!

Any form of content is accepted, including but not limited to: fanfiction, fanart, AUs,headcanons, aesthetics, etc.

Prompts:

Day 1 (Jul 8): Mongolia || Culture/Traditions || "Look how we bleed from all this wanting"

Day 2 (Jul 9): Taiwan, Indonesia, Uzbekistan|| Food || "A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor"

Day 3 (Jul 10): India + China || History || "Come, Dance with me"

Day 4 (Jul 11): South Korea, Laos, Bahrain || Fantasy || "I ache in a language so old that even the earth no longer remembers"

Day 5 (Jul 12): Persia/Iran || Folklore/Legends/Myths || "Having the same enemy does not make us friends"

Day 6 (Jul 13): Hong Kong || Daily Life || "No one wearing a crown comes in the name of peace"

Day 7 (Jul 14): Malaysia + Indonesia || Flowers/Garden || “War is sweet to those who have never fought”

Day 8 (Jul 15): Macau, Philippines, Japan || Story/Storytelling || "The relief of giving into destruction"

Day 9 (Jul 16): Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Singapore|| Tea/Coffee || "I promise spring is coming / and with it, brand new leaves"

Day 10 (Jul 17): Free Day

Rules:

Rule Post

Follow this account

No NS//FW

Tag your content with #hwsasiaweek2024 and @ this account please!

Ships and content with other non-Asian nations are allowed, but please try to give equal weight to the Asian character in the ship,since this is an event celebrating the Hetalia Asians.

Gore/blood/dark topics allowed; they will be tagged with #tw _

Don't be a clown and make racist content

Use common sense and nuance when touching upon sensitive political subjects.

FAQ

Have Fun!

@hetaliahappenings @heta-on-the-books @hetaliacalendar

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hwsasiaweek · 6 months

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Prompt Requests are officially closed! Prompt Voting is now Open!

The Event will take place on July 8-17th, thank you for your patience with the votes!

I'll stop taking votes on January 10th!

@hetaliahappenings @heta-on-the-books @nsfhetalia @hetaliacalendar

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hwsasiaweek · 6 months

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I will not be taking in any more prompts and will stop voting on Nov 4th!

I'm going to start taking in prompts again! You can send them in through this form or through my asks! I also have a poll in the form to reschedule Asia week. You can skip all the prompt stuff if you're not submitting one and just trying to fill out the poll (none of the questions are required). If you guys can fill this out for me that'd me really helpful, thank you!

@hetaliahappenings @heta-on-the-books @nsfhetalia

#prompt voting will start straight after :3

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hwsasiaweek · 8 months

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I'm going to start taking in prompts again! You can send them in through this form or through my asks! I also have a poll in the form to reschedule Asia week. You can skip all the prompt stuff if you're not submitting one and just trying to fill out the poll (none of the questions are required). If you guys can fill this out for me that'd me really helpful, thank you!

@hetaliahappenings @heta-on-the-books @nsfhetalia

#‘tis almost september!

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hwsasiaweek · 11 months

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I'm going to start taking in prompts again! You can send them in through this form or through my asks! I also have a poll in the form to reschedule Asia week. You can skip all the prompt stuff if you're not submitting one and just trying to fill out the poll (none of the questions are required). If you guys can fill this out for me that'd me really helpful, thank you!

@hetaliahappenings @heta-on-the-books @nsfhetalia

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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Student of China: Deleted Scene

Well, I wanted to submit a final story for @hwsasiaweek , but unfortunately writer’s block got a hold on me and I couldn’t finish it in time. Oh well.

Though I did write a “deleted scene” for Student of China I feel I should have included. It’s not that great, but I hope you readers like it. It takes place after the second scene where Joseon finds China high on opium.

Korea and China are referred to by their human names at first because I don’t think that scene was really a “country” thing so to speak, though idk because the separation in Alt-talia is pretty non-existent often. In the second scene though I felt that while China still is acting as China here, Korea is more acting as a person.

#hws china #hws korea #other people’s ocs #day 10 #prompt: free day #tw drugs

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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vietcat SORRY FOR BEING LATE ToT but i tried... @hwsasiaweek

#aph vietnam #day 10 #prompt: free day

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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World Baseball Classic fanart!

So I wanted to draw something to commemorate our landslide victories and advancement into the advanced rounds in the WBC, and I came up with this.

Seriously though these were such landslides it started getting kind of predictable lol. One guy scores and the points just kept coming and they just kept coming and they just kept coming… Strongest team in Japanese history indeed.

I guess I could submit this to @hwsasiaweek (Free Day) because Japan is in the focus and it features two other Asians? I’ll let them decide there.

Also while I depict modern China in Alt-talia without the ponytail usually, I decided to let him keep the ponytail because it makes him more recognizable.

Go, Samurai Japan!

#hws china #hws japan #hws philippines #hws korea #hws south korea #aph czechia #hws czech republic #hws australia #day 10 #prompt: free day

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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is turning characters into other animals allowed?

Yup! That’s allowed :)

#ask #answer

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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@hwsasiaweek: Day 6 Indonesia + Philippines

Please accept this late offering, I'm just so glad to get this out at last.

Ever since Himaruya published this, I've been wanting to make a companion series to an old but matchy piece I made.

I intended to combine all three prompts but I'm too tired to let the reflection be the "sun shining despite all this rain" visual moment, but you at least get a peek of their first romantic meeting.

#hws indonesia #hws philippines #indophil #day 6 #nation: philippines + indonesia #prompt: first meeting

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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Even though HWS Asia week is over, I will be taking in late submissions for the next 2 weeks!

#hwsasiaweek

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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Hello! This is my second post for @hwsasiaweek ! …And it’s just a repost! Yaaaaaayyyy!

But yeah, I thought this story was perfect for Day 3: Folklore/Legends/Myths. This one stars Japan, my country!

I was planning to get another third fic out for this event, and I decided that until then I could just repost this old thing I wrote as part of a compilation. Hopefully it still holds up. Hopefully.

Alt-talia: Child of The Soil

Young Kiku loved exploring the mountains outside Asuka.

Here, the gods lived. It was the spirits’ domain, where they allowed the young boy to use as his playground; while he was already centuries old, he still explored it with innocent wonder befitting his eight-year-old appearance, but with a hint of familiarity. After all, this island’s forests were, in a way, his element as well.

They knew who he really was; the young personification of Yamato. Even without telling them, they knew. The spirits and gods themselves rarely, if ever, presented themselves directly to him, but he could feel their presence in the air among the familiar cries of insects, sometimes even their whispers to him.

He made his way to a less wooded, grassy clearing; the longest grasses, the types used by the people of Asuka to thatch roofs, were long enough for the little boy to disappear into.

It was then he noticed what seemed to be a slender, scaly tail poking out of the grasses.

Then, something started... rolling? Yes, rolling, and disappeared into the grass.

“Huh?”

Curious, the young boy trailed the mysterious creature as it made its way through the overgrown grass, trying not to rustle the grass too loudly or lose track of it.

Finally, the creature rolled towards a meadow where the grass was shorter in front of raised ground, and unfurled itself. From behind the grass, he observed it; it was a shaku* long… snake? But not just any snake; one with a strangely broad, almost flat midsection, its thin neck sticking out from one side and its tail out the other.

It was somewhat dopey-looking, yet he felt drawn to the strange creature, though he didn’t know why. It seemed strangely… familiar.

“Hello there?”

Kiku made a few small steps out of the tall grass, and just when he was over it, the snake bunched up like an inchworm, and…

It jumped.

The snake jumped up, several times his height, over the ledge.

His jaw dropped, aghast, stumbling back, almost falling back into the tall grass.

Then, it briefly stopped, looking back at him. It let out a high pitched “Chiii!” before crawling into the tall grass above.

“…Nozuchi?”

That was all he could whisper.

Was that…

That day, among the ringing melodies of Suzumushi crickets, Yamato thought he had met the grass spirit.

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Kiku didn’t know if he had imagined what happened that day.

Since that day, it - maybe goddess, maybe spirit, maybe mundane creature - and how it had looked back at him, as if asking him to find it, remained at the back of his mind. Its name changed over the years, as did what he believed its identity to be. However, eventually, only a few villagers shared his knowledge of the snake anymore.

Until, over a millennia later, a certain children’s book featured a hunt for that same creature, and as unreliable as his distant childhood memories could be, the memory returned to him clear as day.

And today, in his new Third-Generation Nissan Datsun Sunny as kayōkyoku and New Music played on the radio, his spirits moderately high from fresh economic growth, he had returned to that same place where he thought he had that encounter over a millennia before.

A small crowd had gathered there, mainly families, mothers and fathers holding lunches and cages, children with butterfly nets bragging about how they would be the first to catch the coveted snake. Some people looked at him in puzzlement, his lack of any children, girlfriend, or even friends making him very conspicuous among the gathering.

The place had changed quite a lot, but in some ways, it was still as it had always been. However, while it, of course, was of more significance to him than any other random mountain, forest, or village would be, he had far moved past these mountains, or Asuka, a long time ago, ultimately just one past home out of many. And it wasn’t even his first at that, though his earliest memories were almost entirely lost to the ether. Childhood to nations was, unlike for humans, not necessarily worth any more, nor any more notable than any other era they had been alive. And to him, Nara, his other childhood home two more moves later, was a much more important factor in who he was now than Asuka; even today, Nara remained a major city, and its name had come to encompass the entire prefecture. Yet here he was, back after all these years.

The group dispersed, and Kiku set off on his own as well.

He didn’t remember much about the place, and even if he did, physically every tree back then was no longer here; so he searched without direction, making sure as to minimize the sound of his steps as they met the ground.

Looking at his watch to see it was noon and feeling he could use a bite at the moment, he sat down on a tree stump in a small clearing for lunch.

It was then he saw a thin, familiar scaly tail poking out of the brush. One that seemed to suddenly widen.

Immediately, a small head popped out of the grass, biting its tail. And rolled.

He immediately put down his rice ball, almost choking on it, and immediately ran.

But there was no rustling, even if Kiku was too intent on following its apparent path to notice.

Soon, he found himself almost crashing into the face of a ledge, just higher than his height.

He looked around, up at the ledge, and sighed frustratedly.

It seemed the Tsuchinoko had evaded Japan again.

In a small clearing in a forest in Nara prefecture, a faint “Chiii!” mixed in with the ringing melodies of Suzumushi crickets.

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Shaku: An old Japanese unit of measure. Coincidentally, it’s roughly about a foot.

“Child of the soil” is a literal translation of “tsuchinoko”.

So yeah, if any of you are familiar with the Pokémon Dunsparce, this is what it’s based on! I wanted to share our little snek with the world.

The tsuchinoko is a Japanese cryptid that people often report sightings of but no one has truly found. I looked into it, and apparently there have been records of tsuchinoko-like creatures since as early as the Jomon period. In the Kojiki, they are said to be field/grass kami. So I decided that Japan should encounter it a bit before the Kojiki was written, in the Asuka period.

Apparently, they only became widely known to the rest of Japan in the 70s, after a book about tsuchinoko hunting was published, and it truly became a nationwide fascination when a manga about tsuchinoko was published. So it seems to have been this regional thing that became part of the wider folklore. But it truly has been with Japan since the very beginning.

Hope you enjoyed!

#hws japan #day 3 #prompt: folklore/legends/myths

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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HWS Asia Week Day 10

Prompts:

Free Day!

Please use the #hwsasiaweek tag and tag me for submissions!

#night reblog

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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HWS Asia Week Day 10

Prompts:

Free Day!

Please use the #hwsasiaweek tag and tag me for submissions!

#afternoon reblog

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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HWS Asia Week Day 10

Prompts:

Free Day!

Please use the #hwsasiaweek tag and tag me for submissions!

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hwsasiaweek · 1 year

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Alt-talia: Student of China

Hello! This is for @hwsasiaweek ! Also for @historical-hetalia-week .

I guess this could be tangentially related to Day 6 “The sun shines for us all”, but I guess it applies more to Day 5: OCs, because the central character here is an OC. Though this fic focuses on the relationship between this OC and China, so maybe one could file this under Day 3: China, Vietnam too. But it covers too many prompts so I ultimately decided to submit under Day 10: Free day! For HHW, this is also Day 7: Free Day.

First of all, I’d like to introduce my OC; Joseon, AKA Father Korea, as I like to call him. He basically represents Korea before the split, specifically from Goryeo to Joseon. I thought he’d represent Silla too, but after doing a bit more research I thought it would be best if Father Korea started as Goryeo. His human name is still being debated though, because it’s an artifact from when he was still Silla. My idea is that basically, North and South Korea, Hyun and Yong-Soo respectively, were raised by him as Egg Realms, realms in waiting.

Also, Alt-talia is still nationverse, but a bit AU. Characterizations are very different. This particularly stands out with China here.

CW: Drugs, mention of death at the end

#tw drugs #cw imperialism #alttalia #hws korea #hws china #day 10 #prompt: free day

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