#Nordic Manga
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How to support international stories coming out in English!
I've seen many English speakers ask when they see something not out in their language commenting "Will it ever come out in English?" "[…] Can't wait for for it to be available in English :) I bet it will be a success! 🎉" "I'm having a hard time finding these in English - are they available anywhere?" "I hope your books comes to the US! Looks cool!" "I've heard great things about your book! Is it translated to English? I was having trouble finding it, but I'd be interested in reading it ^_^"
Well, on their website Seven Seas Entertainment has a monthly survey where you can send in stories, this is seemingly the easiest way although you can only usually send in 4* a month/survey (which I won't link directly to as they are monthly and we are already at the end of April and I don't know when May's will show up, so just scroll down to it). So it can take a while, and preferably no repeats, so have a list you can check off those you have already requested. You can also ask people you know to fill it, or borrow their devices, maybe even use the computers at the library, airport, school, etc. You can also send in all the ones you are interested in to Dark Horse Comics for example, but in my experience are the ones replying to this email address on their Instagram account: contestATdarkhorseDOTcom to be much nicer although they don't really reply if they are considering the suggestions or not, nor do they appear to take regular novels which is a bummer.
There's also OniPress which are going to publish Snøkattprinsen, and Arctis who has published Ravneringene, and while claiming to bring the best from all over the world to the US have they mostly taken from their German branch's library (and seem to be mostly taking novels only, but you can try convincing them to broaden their horizons). There's Yen Press, which seems to be going pretty international or at the very least East Asian, as well as Scholastic and Penguin although the latter two might not take much comics/graphic novels compared to the comic and art book exclusive Dark Horse. Apparently these prefer suggestions done by tweeting at them, so this depends on you wanting to use twitter or not. But I'd avoid DC and Marvel as then the stories might have to become part of their established universes which might be difficult for the creators, and honestly unnecessary. There's also Tokyopop that was revived in English recently with Disney and GL&BL stuff, but with their history, do I not know if I want to trust them... Especially since they are proudly showing off the stories which rights they stole from their original underpaid creators...
Whichever you decide to go for, do I personally recommend pasting the urls from the links below or write them as "[story] by [author]" to make them easier for them to find, they are only human after all.
Picture from Alena Pons' Instagram
Want an inclusive story about a magical school that isn't written by a recist TERF? Or perhaps a comedy about monster children attending school and their shenanigans? Or about a non-binary ash elf and their dragon friend? Or about how a prophecy ruins the lives of the chosen ones as they have no choice how to live their lives? Then we have stories for you!
Arkin - Lysets Vokter 🗨️♿
Asynja📖
Born from Death 🗨️♿
El príncipe de la calamidad📖🗨️
Dinokid 🗨️🏳️🌈🖤
Dragens Øye🗨️♿🏳️🌈🤍
Donde los Árboles Cantan 📖
Krypto 🗨️🖤
Gryphoon 🗨️♿
Leyendas de Parva Terra🗨️
Mia Myhr og barna som forsvant 🗨️
MiniMonsters 🗨️♿
Mørkalven 🗨️♿
Mystical📖
Nidur🗨️
Nordlys 🗨️♿🖤
Oppfinneren 🗨️♿🖤
Phenomena 📖♿🤍🏳️🌈
Ragnarok 🗨️♿🤍
Royalty Witches📖🏳️🌈❤️
Strawberry Moon 📖❤️♿
Underbyen 🗨️
Under Regnbuen 🗨️🤍🏳️🌈
Urara🗨️♿
The Urban Legend 🗨️**
Valhalla🗨️♿
Ville Poter 🗨️♿
보지도 못하고 듣지도 못해도 사랑해🗨️❤️♿
외발로 살다🗨️🤍♿
Legend: 🗨️=comic/graphic novel, 📖=novel, 🏳️🌈=lgbtqia+ characters***, ❤️=romance is a central theme, 🤍=some romance but not the focus, 🖤=no romance what so ever, ♿=disabled character(s) in a good light (counts by @cannondisabledcharacters rules), (some may change the more I read or as the story continues).
Art by @cha-c-san
That thing from that country vs just another movie
So since 2012 has Innovasjon Norge where they gave money to fund an animation movie by a little unknown animation company known as Disney over a Norwegian series, that have continued doing that. So Norway's top 3 ways of making money are:
Oil
Tourism
Salmon
So because of the environment, they want to phase out the oil and find ✨𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔬𝔦𝔩™✨. So first they tried increasing the salmon "farming", which led to fleas and birth defects. After the seemingly huge success of Frozen, they funded the side stuff and the sequel. Then they funded a Mission Impossible movie, to have a scene on Preikestolen, the scene was so brief and didn't really add anything to the movie so they had to beg so it wasn't cut. Then in one of the latest James Bond movies they funded it to pretend that a Norwegian mountain is in India. So why do they fund so many American productions? Well, to put it simply, tourism. If they sneak in a little of Norway into these, they hope people will want to go to Norway.
But not everyone watching know that Arendelle is based on Norway, and it goes over to being just another Disney movie doesn't it? The clip of Prekestolen, I haven't heard anyone mention that scene as standing out, honestly, I haven't heard anyone talking about that movie. The James Bond movie, they are told that beautiful mountain is in India, India has many beautiful mountains, but pretending that mountain is in India in-movie will increase tourism there, disappointed when they don't find it. So unless you read interviews or the credits closely, you probably wouldn't know that you were lied to. And if hopefully the pandemic taught them anything, do not rely on tourism too much!
So after a while they just become another movie among many others. But if they support a Norwegian story making it as big as they deserve, it'd be remembered among people as "that Norwegian thing" wouldn't it? This is why I want to support stories not only from my home country but also from others. Among the ✨𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔬𝔦𝔩™✨ they've tried is timber, which Sweden is known for, and like oil, is finite. There's no end in creative people, and they deserve support. Here they get only 10% of what they poored their soul into while the publisher last time I checked get 70%. This the result of a print shop strike where as they only got 5%, where the boss took 90% of that and the actual workers got the remains. I don't blame the print shop workers, they deserved more. But that the publisher snuck in and took the hugest percentage, is just BS as they do the least (here at least, most authors have to advertise in their own free time themselves).
Vegetarian vampires done right, comic by David Ramírez
* This April one asked for at least 1 Manga from Japan exclusively, 2 Manga/Graphic novels/Comics from wherever, At least 1 light novel from Japan exclusively, and 2 any kind of novel from wherever. [edited in April: they want 1 manga from the 90s or older] [edited in by the end of January as they were asking for these specific genres then] For the manga and light novels from Japan: 1 fantasy/isekai manga and 1 light novel 🐉, 1 of each with lgbtqia+ topics, 1 of each with comedy🤣, romance, or drama🎭, 1oe action⚔️, horror👻, or supernaturalψ, 1oe with fanservice, smut, and stuff like that, 1oe from the 90s or older💾, 2oe Chinese (or Taiwanese or any other country they publish stories in Chinese probably), 1oe Korean 🇰🇷 (the two on the bottom of the previous list are Korean, will add some novels here), 1 Hiveworks Comic, 1 International web comic (will add some below the Korean novels), and 1oe international comic/graphic novel and novel.
If you don't read much manga but want to suggest any do I recommend (these have no "fan service") 五色の舟🗨️📖♿🏳️🌈🐉 (Goshiki no Fune , about a found family of Japanese disabled people during WW2 as they try to survive, none of the opposing forces are demonized and just they trying to live their lives), I S―男でも女でもない性🗨️♿🏳️🌈❤️ (IS - Otoko Demo Onna Demo Nai Sei, about different intersex people and their lives), 斉木楠雄のΨ難 (Saiki Kusuo no PSI Nan/The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. 🗨️♿🤍🤣ψ A comedy about a seemingly aroace guy with supernatural powers he takes all too seriously), 放浪息子🗨️🏳️🌈❤️ (Hourou Musuko, about trans children and their lives, not perfect but also sweet, had an English translation that was sadly dropped due to lack of sales), Ballad of a Shinigami 📖🤍♿ψ (one of the first light novels Seven Seas published, but was cancelled as it was in the years light novels and visual novels weren't taken as seriously in the west, hopefully we can uncancel it), もののけ草紙🗨️🤍♿👻 (Mononoke Soushi , well, it has some nudity but not pervy nudity. It's about a young girl Tenome growing up right before WW2 and as an adult during the war, it's a love craftian inspired horror manga with Japanese folklore and she's really badass, and even if you are a coward like me is the art, story, and characters stronger than the horror so you'd probably like it,
＋アニマ🗨️🤍♿🐉(+Anima, a darkly cute series about children gaining animal powers, was officially in English once, but deserves more love again), Luck Stealer 📖⚔️🤍♿ψ by Hajime Kazu (story about an assassin taking lives by stealing their luck by coming near them, really satisfying and badass and understandable why he does it. There's one annoying character shoehorned in by an editor it feels like, but he doesn't appear much fortunately), 心霊探偵八雲📖🤍♿ψ (Shinrei Tantei Yakumo, a mystery series about a guy who can see ghosts, can get really dark), and finally 恋の神様 古味直志短編集🗨️❤️🤍🖤ψ🐉🤣 (Koi no Kamisama, a collection of Komi Naoshi one-shots before he went mainstream with Nisekoi, a collection of weird and kind of psychological one-shots that are a lot of fun within few pages). P.A. (プライベートアクトレス) ❤️💾♿🗨️🎭 about a "private actress", pretending to be people's lover, daughter, themselves, whatever is needed, seeing her act and grow as a person, not perfect and shows it age some places but mostly surprisingly accepting. アノニマス🤍🗨️🎭 (Anonymous, about some Japanese teens from the 20s, raised without names or purpose other than to follow orders, but they meet some other teens they to their surprise befriend and so they decide to live for themselves). 周刊少年Girl 🗨️🤣🤍ψ(Weekly Shounen Girl, an absurd and wacky manga that takes full use of it's medium, it's amazing). スミレ♡16歳!! 🗨️🤣(Sumire♡16 years old!! Weird manga about a puppet attending school and somehow getting friends. Oddly sweet).
These don't quite follow the rules but are 💾: F. Compo (weird trans manga from the 90s, a cis man's desperate attempt at being "accepting", interesting to look back at), クロノクルセイド(Chrono Crusade, has some unnecessary fan service but is still my favourite manga. Is about a nun and a demon hunting demons in USA in the 1920s), ストップ!! ひばりくん! (Stop!! Hibari-kun! I remember some problematic moments, but a impressively progressive trans manga from the 80s!).
The promised Korean novels:레지나레나 - 용서받지 못한 그대에게 📖❤️♿(Regina Rena: To the Unforgiven, has a webtoon on... Webtoon and a region locked translation of the novel), 필리아로제 - 가시왕관의 예언🗨️🤍♿(Philia Rosé: The Prophecy of the Crown of Thorns, the WebToon is translated but not the novel), 마땅한 살인📖🤍♿⚔️ (Justified Murder, novel about a doctor forced to kill the father of a patient in self defense when he doesn't want her to tell authorities that he abused the patient. Her cop husband helps her dispose of the body by drawing a lipstick heart on him, the signature of a serial killer only going after the worst, it works a little too well as the killer contacts her and recruits her as the killer is actually a group). International webcomics/WebToons (those i do not know where are from don't have flags, some are already in English): City Vamps 🇪🇸, Heartblood🇫🇮, I Want to Be A Cute Anime Girl, Born From Death 🇮🇩, @XXIII, Angel's Quest 🇪🇸, Watermelon 🇸🇦, Seed 🇹🇷 (I think), Love Advice From the Great Duke of Hell 🇨🇭, The Witch and the Bull 🇹🇼, Project Novos 🇦🇹, The World Where I Belong 🇹🇭(I think), and more. Remember that the ones further up are the ones struggling to come out in English.
** Self published, but has been looking for an official publisher forever according to interviews.
*** a work not marked with this still could have some later, is not clear enough, I haven't read enough yet to know, or I haven't asked the author. But even if one seemingly does not have any does it not mean that the author is phobic or not part of the lgbtqia+ themselves, and as far as I know, no one on this list are phobic as far as I've checked.
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Feel free to reblog with stories from different countries that aren't translated into English. The ones I suggest here are in languages that I understand or have accessed by other means. Also, many thanks to @godteri-takk for encouraging me and @ittibittium for making this post (which is very much have been the reason the series came out look at slide 2) and inspiring me. If you have any questions about the stories I've included here, feel free to ask ^^. If you wonder why I didn't link to Phenomena, Mørkalven, Under Regnbuen, The Urban Legend, and Underbyen on the booksfromnorway website is it that they're simply not there, the publisher haven't added them. I'd also link to Norway Comics more often as the website looks good, but haven't been updated in about 2 years, maybe they started to give up? I don't know. Thank you for your time and hopefully we can give more than a few authors a cool gift before the end of the year.
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Frøya doodle <3
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The Nordics (or Nordic 5) have returned at the latest chapter of Hetalia World Stars. 🇮🇸🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮
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Excuse me, that's my emotional support blorbo, thank you.
Words cannot describe how much I love this idiot boy.
(Template from @hws-lceland)
#hetalia#hetalia fanart#hetalia world stars#hetalia denmark#nekotalia#hetalia dtiy#denmark dtiy#hetalia manga#hetalia nordics
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The Cruel King
03. Attempted Death
Nordic 5 x Male Reader
Fandom -> Hetalia
Masterlist || Previous / Next
-> Warning; Mention of abuse, neglect, attempted suicide and sexual assault
10th of May. 1885 - Berlin, Prussia
A whimper escaped your lips, staring with fearful eyes at Matthias blue ones—whose face was stoic and cold gazed, void of emotion to read.
»Pleasure to see you too min skat.«
Matthias had loosen his grip on your arm, only to let his hands wander to your wrist—grabbing them tightly together—and his other clutching the sides of your face—strong hold, adding pressure to your jaw.
»Why are you here?« it was hard to speak, but you managed.
»To take you back home of course.« the corner of his lips moved up a bit, creating a tiny smile. His hold on your face lessened.
»No.«
»Excuse me dear, but what do you mean with no?«
»Nein. I werd ned mi dir mitgeh Matthias. I werd hier mi Gilbert bleiben. I will me scheden vo dir, will mei freiheit.«
There you have said it, in your native language even. Even with the fear you felt, you felt so proud of yourself to muster up such a defiance against Matthias.
Matthias face morphed into a furious expression. Eyes losing all sense of life, dulling in colour and narrowing down, with his lips, into a snarl. Clenched his jaw, the grip he had around you started to get stronger. Crushing painful even.
The boiling anger in him, which had been on a slow rise since had been informed of your disobedience and informal visits to the Prussian, turned into a spark of fireworks
»How dare you to speak to your husband, your sole King, in such a shameful language. How dare you to demand something without manners of begging and how dare you to go against me in such defiance.«
Matthias spoke with such venom in his voice, feeling the spewing hatred in his husked whisper. Matthias wasn't someone who would shout, he will say it in such calm demeanour so they knew how serious he was.
Because how, in the name of god, dare you to speak up against him like this? In a language he had forbid you to ever speak again.
How dare you, going so shamefully behind his back, betraying his trust and kindness. Tarnishing his reputation and discarding the vows you had given one another.
Disobeying him like a mere foolish child of mortality and lowlife.
You whimpering got louder, his grip on your jaw hadn't lessened only tightens and you felt a small pinch of pain already. A minimal crack, cutting through the air of a silence, was heard.
He scoffed, slammed you with a force against the mirror—letting it crack in shatters, shards piercing into your skin—and with his calloused strengths—only the Vikings had—he hauled you onto the floor. The shards now digging into your skin, leaving a leak of blood underneath you.
Matthias pinned your wrist above your head. He moved your legs into a birth giving pose. Unbuckling buttons, pulling his pants and underwear down.
With predatory eyes he glanced down at you, licking over his lips. Leaning forward to your neck, his tongue danced alongside your neck all the way down to your collarbone. Kissing and sucking wet your skin—tainted and scarred but also pure as porcelain.
You are too deep into a stupor, to have the will of mind—going into a state of blank stasis—to fight against him.
A forceful kiss on your lips and when you gasped—after he gripped you hard down there—his tongue slipped into your mouth.
»You belong to me and only me min skat.«
Matthias had whispered this single sole sentence, that one specific word, on repeat into your ear. Branding your mind with it, setting a trigger.
And when Matthias had entered you—with brutal force rammed into—your stupor broke, ripping a scream so shrill from your throat.
Fear filled your face as you begun to become a sobbing mess underneath him. In your tear filled vision, all you could see was Matthias wicked grin.
Haunting you forevermore.
Christmas Eve. 1917 - Border of Sweden and Finland
You stumbled through the heavy snow, barely moving inches forward as the snow is thick and knee high.
Disoriented dizzy you felt, having lost all sense of direction—though somehow you seemed to know where to go or so you believed.
The map with the directions of where to find your friends and letter, which Tino had send you last—after a long secret exchange of written letters—had been long gone, swept away from the howling wind.
The falling snow from the sky—reminding you much of the Fairy Tale; Frau Holle—with the up picking hollering wind, starting a new episode of blizzards storm and the sinking sun—dipping the sky and world into a following pitch darkness—hindering your already impaired eyesight.
When Tino had open the door after a series of rapid knocking, he did have expected you but didn't expected you to be like this.
You had fallen to your knees, with praying hands you gazed upon at your friend. Body trembling from the frosty hollowed cold and the slow rising pain—which started to creep back in a winding whiplash.
»I beg–I bete um–premission–um er-erlaubnis zur zuflucht–sanctuary–sanctuary I pray for mei freund–bitte hilf mi–sanct–zuflucht–sanctuary is all I möch«
You spoke in a fumbling mess of words, switching between Schurlisch and Danish, mixing them together even. Lips trembling, blue like ice and bloody red at the same time.
Tino paled at your sight, chest heaving with a rising panic of anxiety. He could barely catch your frozen, lifeless form as your eyes begun to drop—a whispering help echoing over your lips one last time—before your body gave up.
»Berwald! Berwald come quickly I need help, [Name] needs help! BERWALD!«
Weeks passed and your condition of unconsciousness had neither gotten bad nor better. A countries body—might heal differently, faster even, from that of an Human—though it could only endure so much, mental and physical wise
Tino had taken it upon himself to take care of you, after the Doctor looked you over and noted everything down Tino needed to know about your wounds. Wounds so severe, it had made him vomit the first night when he inspected the injuries on you.
Patient : [Name] [Surname] - Schurland
The Patient has ;
Swollen eyes — a possible blindness or loss of vision, glasses might be needed in future.
Server broken bones
— [Dominant hand]completely shattered in bones, bones will heal over time, although not able to move anymore.
— All rips damage, caging the lungs and causing a defect in breathing, possibility of Asthma
- Right leg deformed, noticeable limp when healed — might need crutches
- Spine bend
- Jaw improper healed once and newly dislocated again — might cause difficulty of speech and a delay in it.
Heavy bleeding in one ear, perhaps even both, will cause a deafness.
A possibility of nerves damage.
Compressed Stomach.
Private parts out of use — peeing will cause pain.
Prone to get sick more often, fever waves are to happen.
Concussion — brain damage might be caused.
Further information will be added.
And this was only a list of the physical state, how you would be mentally doing afterwards was another report of its own.
»Tino, it's not your fault. We couldn't have known that it would end like this. That Matthias would act so abusing.« had Berwald once told Tino when he sat down in the kitchen to take a short break of breather.
Berwald had said it in solemn monotony, that Tino couldn't help stop himself to get angry at his husband as well.
»We couldn't know but we should have! We all knew all along how Matthias has treated [Name] over the years and all we did was watch! We're not better than him then.«
»Tino–«
»No! You listen to me! Matthias has broken [Name] and we never had attempted to help, so of course I blame myself, because if we did help and decided back then to just take him away when we vowed to leave, then it wouldn't have ended like this!«
Tino crumbled into himself, sobbing at the immense weight of regret he felt in his heart—the pressure of uncertainty of what is now happening to you in the future.
Anxiety plagued his mind, scratching at his conscience and injecting him with a burden of guilt.
It wouldn't have ended like this, in a gruesome way of pending death and uncertainty, if they just had decided to simply whisk you away—away from the person you are chained to.
1919 - Border of Sweden and Finland
When World War One had ended, Berwald could managed with pesky stubbornness of diplomacy determination and with Lukas help too—to bring Matthias to sign over the rights he had over you to Berwald.
Matthias, at this time back then, didn't seemed too concerned—upset—over his loss of you. Laughing even, his overconfidently boastful loud crackling, grinning with spark of daring excitement in his eyes.
»If you want to have him so badly, this dissertation deserter of disappointment worthlessness and of lower intelligence, you can take him for free.« Matthias had said, talking about you as if you had been nothing more than a priced possession of him—a toy he had grown tired of.
So now, hopefully for the rest of the upcoming decades and centuries which are about to come, you officially belonged to Sweden.
1950 - Border of Sweden and Finland
What Matthias had done to you, back in 1885—the breaking point of all the added up things of what has been done to you—and the years after, plus the two world wars—in which you were barely conscious to take notice of it, but your body—jerking and spasming in every way—had taken more damage from it—causing a drop in you.
Apathetic you were during the days and hysterical in the nights. Lethargic even, laying most of the time on your bedroom floor—not trusting your bed in the slightest, fearing of something unknown to happen when you sleep on it.
All you would do is staring into the nothingness of the ceiling above. Blinking and starring, nothing more.
Tino, despite being rather busy at the moment with his own country and duties towards it, took time off to keep you company—sitting down next to you, taking your hand in his—to show you that he is there for you—reading books to you.
Your favourite story you come to love to hear, had been Alice in Wonderland and the Tale of Sleeping beauty.
Berwald just as busy as Tino, did everything possible to bring you back on your feet, even when it would be just a hour of you standing and taking two steps.
It happen during the early hours, when the sun was about to rose from her slumber and enlightened the world with a new start of warm rays of light.
The feeling, slowly it crawled through your body, itched you—bringing a twitching of tingling sensation into your hollowed out form of anatomy.
You couldn't say what sort of feeling it was, only that it started a carving of something longing and unsatisfying to not wish for.
Getting from the floor, you walked downstairs and out of the house—into the open variety of landscape with its suffocating of freedom.
Freedom. You scoffed at the word itself.
What exactly is even freedom? Nothing but a mere lie, illusion of false hope and reality towards the endless cycle of cruelty living. Freedom didn't exist, never had. A fraud it was from the start—leaving more bloodshed behind than any war alone.
If they, the humans, wanted their precious freedom so desperately—they simply should have chosen death willingly.
Freedom doesn't exist—not in the form and sense they believed it to be—but in death it does.
Stopping at the lake, you gazed at its calm surface of tranquility and life giving gift. Suns rays reflecting from it, creating a glimmer of twinkling.
Water granted life but it also takes it from you.
Never had you been a good swimmer. You only knew the basic form. It wasn't a requirement for you to learn, why should you though? When all you did was to live in a bubble of solitude
Embrace life first before you step into death.
Berwald felt a immense pressure of flooding panic breaking through his stoic demeanour. Paled at the wide open front door. His hands shook tremendously, needing to clench them to get ahold of his emotion again or they might spill over.
Getting into his boots and putting his coat on, He sprinted outside without any further thought except the one; to find you quickly as possible.
There was only one option of where you had could go to, if you wanted to do what he fears.
Berwald had always been a man of few words—spoken bluntly, no need to sugarcoat the obvious and with a monotonously as if he presented a lecture—and stoic like a statue he was. He wasn't big on affection too—simple showcase; like holding hands or a short peck to the cheek, yes—otherwise he kept to himself, emotions in a locked state of constant nothing but calmness.
But once he had meet you, all those years ago—during the rough times of barbaric fear spiking conquering against other nations—his once stored feelings—jokey gotten told he was like a frozen pot, Ice prince, when it comes to such things as mere emotional feelings—which in such times could've been crucial to his life, begun to taw ever so slightly with the passing time.
So it crushed him when seeing you in this constant state of pain. Feeling just as guilty as Tino feels, because he too knows—they should have freed you sooner.
Once at the lake, Berwald didn't hesitate to take off boots and coat and dive right into the water. Swimming to the middle, the deepest part, taking a deep long breath and dived under.
Berwald grabbed your arm—floating or more like a sinking, a mix of both, so lifeless through the depths of water—pulling you closer to him and taken ahold around your waist. Swimming upwards till he breached the surface with you.
Back at the lakeshore, Berwald hived you out. Laying you down he begun with the revival measurements.
Don't crack, don't crack—a fleeting thought, reminder to keep himself together—in check—and break under the upcoming weight of emotions.
The pressure inside him rises, bubbling up and clogging his throat with a burning of choking sobs. Panic, like a flood, crashed over him—drowning him with urges of roaring screams. Don't give up, don't up—a mantra to continue with bringing you back to life.
With a gaps you jerked back into life, coughing out the water in your exhausted lungs.
Tired, eyes glazed over with rimming tears and a dizziness, you looked into blue eyes—and for a split second you thought it were Matthias, that you are back in his grasp.
Those blue eyes were a lot softer, still a glaze of ice in them, in colour compared to Matthias—which are more vibrant—and you know who it was, Berwald.
Shaky breaths are the only sounds with surrounds you in the solitude of nature. Berwald had warped you into his coat, holding you into his arms. Leaning his head down, forehead touching yours—he couldn't stop his own ragged breathings.
One, two, three and more tears started to drop, flowing like a river from his eyes as he begun to sob. The anxiety, the fear he felt when he knew you tried to end your life for final, exploded in him—bringing his emotions into a whirlwind of messiness.
Dear god. He was glad, so fucking thankfully glad—relieved—to have you back—alive. Berwald didn't wanted to thought about the possibility of what if's—if he couldn't have saved you, bringing you back to life and another new wave of anxiety pooled into his stomach.m
But you are alive and that's what matters.
/ - Stockholm, Sweden
You had attempted three more tries of suicide. All of them successfully prevented from either Berwald, Tino or Lukas. They counted the days till you tried to attempted a fourth one—a ticking bomb.
Aren't you just as cruel? Paining your loved ones, the people who care about you, with suicide—simply because you couldn't........couldn't what?
When Berwald had brought a freshly born baby home and Lukas came with Emily for another visit stay—you had a change of mood and personality.
You instantly felt attached to the baby, which you had named Erland. Taking care of him mostly all by yourself—a parental instinct taking over you.
To Lukas amusement, Emil too had gotten your attention and care treatment—which he had received from you when he once was a child—again. Emil was after all still very precious to you and he would always be your younger brother—by blood vow.
You didn't ventured back into your old, meek and submissive self from the past. You changed, growing up, into a independent strong man
A spark of joy—dimmed to the core, barely burning—life itself had returned in you, burning brightly like the sun or fire.
~~~
You might be Berwalds and Tinos husband, but Lukas had known you longer—a older brother figure to you he had become—so when you had another hysterical fit of revisiting nightmares of memories and the past, it was him who would wake you up and comfort you.
Lukas knows what he has to say to you, how to hold you, to bring you back into the here and now and calming you.
He hushed you, holding you in his arms—rocking you back and forth—while you sobbed, heartbreaking ugly loud, into his shoulder.
»It's all in the past, [Name]. He isn't gonna hurt you, not anymore. It's all okay, all okay,«
Besides how strong you had become now, you're still fragile—easily to shatter, in terms of mind.
»I want—want him gone. He should go. I hate him! Hate hate hate him!«
»I know.«
#male reader#x male reader#anime#manga#fanfiction#oneshot#malereader#hetalia#nordic 5#nordic 5 x male reader
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Today's LGBT+ Character is;
Eli and Nina from Jenter by Cathrine Sandmæl-WLW
Requested by Anon
Status: Alive
#Jenter Eli#Jenter Nina#Jenter#Cathrine Sandmæl#lgbt#character of the day#wlw#manga#graphic novel#fandoms I'm not in#requested#LGBTQueue#((Dude this Anon really hits the goodness with media I can't understand because I don't understand any Nordic languages))#((I so hope that some of the print stuff gets popular enough to get translated))#alive#lgbt couple#wlw couple
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siegfried sons of eve cunt serve
#siegfried like THE siegfried the random. Nordic Mythology man aoike drew him like this and im forever thankful#she just draws a type of pretty man that rly appeals to me i love them all#led zeppelin shoujo yaoi manga tag#kinda
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Me: We do not pick favorites here.
"What about Isagi and the Nordics, then?"
Me:... They are an exception!
#bllk#blue lock anime#blue lock manga#isagi yoichi#hetalia world series#hws nordics#hws finland#hws norway#hws iceland#hws denmark#hws sweden
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@sunorweek2023
Day 2: Keeping secrets from Denmark
(Takes place during DenSuNor's childhood.)
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Eager and Satisfied
“What are you doing?”
Both of the boys jump in surprise, the smaller one turning to give him a dark look before returning to his work.
“Hey, I want to see!”
He tries to peek over their shoulders, only catching a small glimpse of white and blue before he’s shut off once more.
“Come on, why can’t you tell me what it is?”
“Because I'm not making it for you.”
Never has such harsh words sounded so soft, and the small smile appearing on the bigger boy’s face has him sighing in awe.
“Okay, I won’t ask any more then.”
~~~
(crossposted with notes on AO3)
#manga#anime#hetalia#hetalia axis powers#hetalia world stars#aph sweden#aph norway#aph denmark#hws denmark#hws sweden#hws norway#aph nordics#sunor#swenor#sunorweek2023#hetalia fanfiction#miri's fanfiction
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Tsumori Chisato
Tsumori Chisato and Helena Christiansen, Contributions by Didier Grumbach and Kenzo Takada
Rizzoli, New York 2018, 224 pages, Hardcover, 25.4 x 2.79 x 31.24 cm , ISBN: 978-0-8478-6164-4
euro 80,00
email if you want to buy :[email protected]
The first book on the work of Tsumori Chisato, a fashion designer who has gained a cult following for her uncanny ability to create clothes with a manga-bohemian charm.
Tsumori Chisato scaled the commanding heights of Japanese and international fashion in the 1990s with color as the critical virtue. Reacting to the somber minimalism that is even now conjured by any mention of “serious” Japanese fashion in the West, this new world is playful, unabashedly romantic in its femininity, and awash in vivid color.
By turns streetwise and homespun, Tsumori’s latest collections eloquently convey the maturation of a style, one that has grown since her days of apprenticing with Issey Miyake and designing for the highly successful Issey Sport Line. Most recently applauded for a stylistic and thematic repertoire that has drawn upon Nordic, nautical, and 1970s style, her collections occupy an interstice between function and gesture.
Conceived as the first comprehensive document of Tsumori Chisato’s work, this book opens a door to her inner life and aspirations, giving readers a one-way ticket to destinations that exist only in Tsumori’s mind. Visually stunning, this book is filled with dozens of the designer’s signature illustrations and sketches, playful anecdotes, and essays by fashion critics and curators, perfectly capturing Tsumori’s brilliant balance of fantasy and reality.
24/12/22
orders to: [email protected]
ordini a: [email protected]
twitter: @fashionbooksmi
instagram: fashionbooksmilano, designbooksmilano tumblr: fashionbooksmilano, designbooksmilano
#Tsumori Chisato#fashion designer#manga-bohemian charm#japanese fashion#Nordic#illustrations & sketches#rare books#fashion books#fashionbooksmilano
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The Nordic Tall Whites from Aldebaran have been reported in the underground bases of Antarctica and supposedly interacted with Admiral Byrd who flew into the Inner Earth.
👽👽👽 ❄❄❄
#anime#ufos#aliens#scifi#extraterrestrials#animation#ancient aliens#comic books#fantasy#manga#nordics#antarctica#aldebaran
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This weekend has been wild! Book signings and conventions!
#kattegudenfrøya#katteguden frøya#frøya#norse mythology#nordisk#nordic manga#tegneserie#comic#comicbook#comic book#comic art#original comic
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books i read in march:
16 ways to defend a walled city by K.J. Parker
9/10, great style, great ideas, great ending. this fanatsy books is about a man finding himself in charge of.. well, you guessed it, defending a walled city. very funny yet surprisingly thoughtful at times. subtraction for talking about racism and xenophobia without knowing much about it. i am absolutely fine with writers not just writing about things they don't experience (obviously). but those shorts parts about the alienating experiences of foreignness felt odd and shallowly researched. apart from those short moments a recommended book.
Oni no Hanayome wa Taberaretai 1-5 by Keiko Sakano
8/10 Yes it's a manga series but let's not be snobbish about it. it looks like a book. it's getting read like a book. it's a book. this series is absolutely soft and simple entertainment. it's about a bride being married to a demon. the series delivers what it promises but nothing else. solid romance escapism. i did not regret buying those books.
Nordic Gods by Johan Egerkrans
10/10 I remember reading this books a couple of years ago and picked it up again for research reasons. Great book as an introduction to nordic, Scandinavian folk and mythology. Nordic Gods does not downplay the pragmatic brutality of skandi folk and myths so i am not sure why that was in the little kids section. Also, normally I don't buy books just for their looks but this time I got the german hardcover edition and it looks great.
My lesbian experience with Loneliness by Kabi Nagata
10/10 this book was recommended to me and I definitely can see why. This manga talks about mental health and experiences of isolation, anxiety and growing up. A very sweet but raw and honest piece of media not just lonely and/or lesbians can relate to.
#grimmreads#grimmwriting#book recommendations#book review#books#books and literature#manga#anime and manga#nordic gods#kabi nagata#my lesbian experience with loneliness#john egerkrans#keiko sakano#oni no hanayome wa taberaetai#16 ways to defend a walled city#k. j. parker
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#one piece#manga#hody jones#one piece hody jones#hody jones one piece#one piece manga#chad#chad meme#yes chad#yes chad meme#nordic gamer#nordic gamer meme
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The Cruel King
01. Trigger
Nordic 5 x Male Reader
Fandom -> Hetalia
Masterlist | Next
»Älskling,«
Berwalds voice was gruff as always—deep and rough like old firewood—throughout the years it had become to age like this.
Normally Berwald didn't need to wake you up and if they had to, Tino would be the one who does it—though Tino was currently busy downstairs, trying to tame the Dane and having everything in a civil matter—and if Berwald had reasons to wake you, it would be during the times you would get sick.
»Älskling,« Berwald tried again, shaking your shoulder slightly—trying to get a reaction of stirring from you. No avail, you wouldn't bug. You probably were already awake, just opted to make it seem as if you were still sleeping.
Berwald heaved out a sigh, sitting down on the edge of your—their—bed. Running his calloused hand over your shoulder, arm and back. Hoping if he could easy you a bit, you were more willing to get up.
»Älskling, he isn't gonna hurt you anymore. I promise and if he might try, the others and I will be here to keep you safe.« he had leaned down, sure that he will get some minimal backache from it, whispering the promise into your ear.
It had been only the second day since the Dane—Matthias—had been stayed over in their home—the whole family does during Christmas, which is a absolute first after all these years of not—and it already had started a downhill in your mood.
You turned only slightly towards Berwald, looking at him with bleary puffy red eyes. With a slight intake of motion you gestured to Berwald to lay down next to you, which he—with slight hesitation of not wanting to get too cozy when work had to be done—does as you asked.
For a long time of by passing seconds which turns into minutes—and then perhaps into a hour or two—you starred at Berwald, playing with his fingers, leaving a silence between you two.
»It's only till after Silvester«
»I–I can't–can't go down there, where—where Mat–mat–mat–where he is. I just can't Ber, it's too much–too much to bear.«
You clenched your eyes shut, memories of the past flooding your mind, bringing another wave of trembling havoc.
Berwald fingers wandering towards your cheek, caressing over them.
»I know älskling, I know. But you have to get up at one point or you will make Tino into a worried mother-hen.«
With that being said, Berwald got off the bed and in one swift motion scooped you up in his arms and carry you downstairs into the livingroom.
~~~
Tino, while cooking todays lunch, cast every so often—when he could leave the stove and the dish preparing alone for every two minutes— a worried glance into the livingroom towards you.
You, who sats apathetic on the Sofa—watching with no interest some show on the tv and listen to Peters—who plays with his Legos—happily chatter. Emil, who sat next to you, occasionally shows you something in the book he reads.
It was good that it was just them in the house for now. Because if Matthias would be here—which he is not as Berwald took him out to get more firewood—the entire mood would drop into a 360° degree angle of downhill.
Still Tino felt like as if it had been a bad idea to celebrate Christmas, after all these decades of years and centuries—after their separations of independence—together as a family.
Too soon it was perhaps as the mental scars of abuse, neglect and tyranny you had endured hadn't healed.
»Tino, relax. If you run like a worried mother-hen you will make yourself stressed out.« said Lukas, sipping his fifth cup of coffee.
»I know I know, just, have you seen [Name]? I'm worried it will end into another decaying episode of lasting Depression. It took us years to have him as of now, happy, lively.«
»Tino, I know. I was there too. Still, getting yourself worked up, will cause him just as much stress as yourself.«
Tino sighed in defeat, nodding at Lukas and returning his attention fully back to the cooking. Lukas was right, worrying would just make it worse, he needs to stay calm—having a level headed mind.
Lukas downed the rest of his coffee, standing up from the chair and going towards the counters—about to prepare his next and last cup for the next few hours.
»We all know how Matthias was back then and we also know that he has changed to someone better. It just, [Name] has stayed too long, too loyal with him during his wrath time that it will take more than just a few hundred years to grant him a forgiveness.«
Tino hummed, giving no reply to what Lukas had said as he was right. Though his mind wanders back to the rough times in the past and when [Name] came to them and asked for sanctuary.
~~~
Lunch had been uneventful, embossed with unnerving silence and still apathetic behaviour—you barely touched the food, only having about three bite before pushing the plate away and toying with the napkin—from your side and excitedly loud chatter from Matthias.
It had been afterwards that you started, in a way they didn't thought would happen again, react again.
Matthias had said something in Danish to you, something innocently mundane with a cheeky smile of his—thought he could bring you to talk, wanting to hear your voice—your cheerful chatter—after so long again.
In a flash you turned around to him. Body going rigid into a lock. Wide eyed you starred at him—at Matthias—and then as if you were in a sort of trance, on autopilot, you bowed down and replying in old danish back to him.
They all, especially Matthias, were perplexed at your action. Watching how you took Emil by his hands and taking him upstairs—coming back down seconds after, walking into the livingroom and taking a whole box of Peters toy with you to whichever room you had taken Emil.
Lukas pursed his lips, crossing his arms and tilting his head a bit as he glanced with narrowed eyes at Matthias. Scoffing just slightly under his breath. He had a hunch to what just happen—why you begun to act like this—so out of character and at the same time it wasn't—and it wasn't even Matthias fault, but it was—not with what he had said today, but with his actions he had done in the past.
»Huh, I've never seen my Skat act like this.« mused Matthias out, genuinely confused. He shrugged it off albeit, grin returning to his lips and saying something along the lines of; c'mon Peter let's go and build some snowmans
Whilst Lukas begun to walk upstairs, it was now Berwalds turn to glare with a narrowing gaze at the Dane.
»Ber, don't.« whispered Tino to his Husband, placing a hand on his arm. Starting now a fight, wouldn't be a great idea.
~~~
»What you're doing there [Nickname]?« Lukas leaned against the doorframe, having found you and Emil rather quickly.
»Keeping watch over our little Emil like the good Servant I am. The great King is not supposed to be distributed during the time of after lunch.« as you told Lukas, you had switched from old danish to norwegian and into your own native tongue—Schurlisch—in a spawn of seconds.
Lukas was rather glad that they all had decided to learn each other's language.
You started to whisper reassuring words to Emil. Giving him a comforting smile—of the kind he remembers when Emil had been little and when Matthias had one after another, too many, drunken nights which were more than often filled with manic, anger and bloodshed—taking another Wooden toy and showed it to him.
Unfortunately his guess had been right. Matthias causal use of „Skat“ had triggered your mind back into the old past. You had lost your grip on reality—thinking you are Matthias spouse, but also Servant and assistant, again.
A sad sight to witness, though who could and would blame you? It wasn't your fault that you were scarred, brand-marked even, by the past and actions of someone you once loved.
Lukas debated with himself, weighing out the pros and cons, if he was about to play along or trying to pull you out of this reality stupor.
»You want me to join in?«
»Are you finish with your today's duties?«
»Indeed I am, Vennen«
«Then suit yourself, mei freunor«
For now, just for today, Lukas mused in thoughts as he sits down across from you and Emil, he would play along.
#male reader#x male reader#anime#manga#fanfiction#malereader#oneshot#hetalia#nordic 5#norway#sweden#finland#iceland#nordic 5 x male reader#hetalia x male reader
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do you think maloki freyr worries about heim in shinsekai no kamigami
#fish.txt#maloki#hi i am so tired but i just like the silly manga vers of the norse gods#i still need to watch ror and read magnus chase and the other book rick riordan wrote about the nordic gods#anyways i hope heimdallr is in the latter i know ror has a heimdallr with a cool design
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