And the animation is surprisingly good for a series that didn't need much in the way of it, too.

[futuresoon]

Basically a summary of what I have been doing for the last while is "watching 25 episodes of Toradora in two days", ha ha. And other things! But 25 episodes of something in two days probably outranks them in term of time consumption.

Toradora is an anime that we watched in anime club like, two years ago or something, I don't even remember. We didn'

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[selenak]

Never mind your parents, I'm shocked there is Hetalia fic about Sophie Scholl. (Also prone to ponder whether fandom's - justified - uproar about the latest SPN fail re: using the Haiti earthquake as background for RPS means I can object to a real life heroine of mine whose sister was alive until only a few years ago being used for cartoon fanfic. Otoh, I presume without said fanfic you would not have heard of Sophie Scholl, so that there is education?)

Anyway. I visited the same university the Scholls did, and there is a memorial to them and all the White Rose students and their professor in the aula where they were arrested after dropping their leaflets, which I passed countless times. The house where she and her brother Hans lived in an apartment also has a memorial marker. At the end of the film Downfall/Der Untergang you get an excerpt from an interview with the real Traudl Junge, the one of Hitler's secretaries who is sort of the central character, and she talks about having been in denial about her own part, telling herself that what Hitler did had nothing to do with her etc., until, back in Munich, she passed the house with Sophie Scholl's name and date of birth and death on it, and it hit her that they were exactly of the same age, and that Sophie died in the year Traudl J. became Hitler's secretary. "And that was when I understood. That having been young is no excuse."

[futuresoon]

Since Hetalia is kind of all about history, yeah, there's a fair amount of fic that has real historical figures in it. And in cases like this, the fandom takes it very seriously; nobody tries to make jokes about real atrocities, and if they do they're immediately ostracized (I've only seen that happen once, in a post about a cosplay incident; hundreds if not thousands of people in the comm immediately expressed shock and rage over the whole thing, and nobody tried to sympathize with the ones responsible). The Sophie Scholl fic was very good, and very well-handled. We're a lot smarter and a lot more aware of the dangers of our fandom than people think we are. And yeah, I hadn't heard of Sophie Scholl before it; I hadn't heard of a lot of things before I got into Hetalia. If there's one thing you can say about the fandom, it's that you certainly learn a lot from it. And the things you learn aren't necessarily happy ones.