I Am Never Gonna Fucking Finish These But Look At Them Anyway

it’s THAT time of the year again

poor things can’t escape from this forest since 2020 smh 😔

fic premise meme time! alfred, shortly after the revolution, visiting francis at versailles as a means to thank his monarchs (marie antoinette and louis xvi 👀), but alfred is *incredibly* thrown off by the lavish lifestyle of versailles and francis doesn’t exactly seem like himself (perhaps he feels ashamed of the sheer amount of over-indulgence around him? hmmmm) (anyway, this is just an excuse for someone to write versailles!francis hehe)

oooh Versailles francis would be super interesting to write! he would definitely be put off by it. I also headcanon that nations have a sixth-sense kind of gut feeling and he just knows that this is his ticket to disaster. he doesn’t know why but he just knows. also if you don’t mind me adding - I like to think that despite his discomfort he enjoys it to an extent because, well, it feels like he’s caught up to someone. He remembers the lavish palaces of the Roman empire whose boot he lived under and seeing himself reach this level of opulence feels like he’s finally proved himself as, if not superior, then at least equal to old man Romulus

(btw poor Al, his puritan heart won’t be able to take that trip)

I also can’t help but mention what an amazing job @rebelsandtherest did with a similar premise of America visiting France after the revolution in her fic Amity which I highly recommend

okay im never drawing hetalia again i swear 

I commissioned @ashafox for a picture of Alfred with his hair grown out, because it's always been my personal headcanon that it curls like Matthew's. They presented me with this Absolutely Beautiful piece of art:

(Very much recommend viewing their artwork and a commission of your own.)

fraternal.

also some quotes that plagued my mind while i was making this:

“Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.”

-- Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence "We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world."

-- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

So uh, croissant man 🇫🇷 my love

well at least you didn’t raise a liar mister china

BONUS: 

alice irl

The way you draw the squishy baby faces are so adorable- If you have the time and motivation I'd love to see the babies hang out together! Since Alfred and Matthew are a bit older they are probably really curious about the baby Lud!

I gotchu, Anon! I like to imagine Ludwig took his first steps towards them