Family Christmas Dinner - For The Sixth Day Of @winterhell-hetaliaevent !

HETALIA FANDOM HOW WE FEELIN?

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Matthew: I think JFK did all that stuff for attention and also so he could have an airport named after him

Alfred: Nah man you got it wrong, he was named after the airport

November 5th with no context:

Ladies, ladies, not all at once [blocking pornbots left and right]

Ngl I think I’m tentatively now in the “Yao had short hair for most of the 20th century” club 🤔. It’s true this certainly isn’t wholly a novel thought, given the irl politics of Chinese men’s haircuts in line with the end of the Qing dynasty and shift to China becoming a republic. But in the past, I kind of swung between headcanoning that he soon grew it out again by the 30s (if only because he’s kept long hair for thousands of years before and it feels like such a integral part of his character) and that he didn’t until much, much later (90s and onwards?). And I think I kind of like the latter option now, if only to reflect how much of the 20th century involved China cycling through all kinds of different ideologies and crises very tumultuously— just this constant stage of remaking and at times trying very hard to cut ties with the past and his old life and its perceived weaknesses (the whole thing about destroying the “Four Olds” during the cultural revolution even led to the vandalism of Confucius’ tomb amongst other historical sites).

And precisely because keeping long hair was one manifestation of his old self and traditions, I think I like the idea of him finally coming back to it only after much soul searching, and a sort of rebalancing of himself between the old and the new. I don’t think he ever feels absolute equilibrium and the weight of the tumult and tragedies of the past century are still being felt and negotiated, but I think I can see him being comfortable with growing his hair out again by the late 90s or early 2000s. For a nation as old as he is, it’s part and parcel of existence to live many lives and to find yourself changed—but there are always some core threads of his being that he eventually returns to.

Sketches that I actually like enough to share here

Arthurs a cold hearted humanities major he doesnt get it

MER🇮🇩DE🇮🇩KA🇮🇩💥‼️‼️🦅🦅

I made a bunch of in-universe memes for some reason and they’re completely incomprehensible. can you imagine how fucking awful mainstream and social media would be in the hetalia universe though?