ALSO TELL ME A STORY, I CAN'T SLEEP

[pyrrhiccomedy]

SO YEAH I GUESS I HAVE TWITTER NOW

I DON'T KNOW IF I'LL USE IT?

BUT

LIKE

W/E

It'll probably just be another thing I forget to check most of the time, but I'll follow you if you follow me, so, like, you can at least use me to artificially inflate your follower count.

twitterrrrrAlso, all this kerfluffle with the cosplay lameness and the

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[nawojka]

Oh I don't like equating hetalia nations = their governments. It's great when elements of national interests enter relationships and interactions, making it all interesting and complicated, that's precisely what makes hetalia fascinating! But the nations should never be forced to actually stand for their governments. Makes me sick when fandom does it, but it does come from the comic itself, what with Russia whipping the Baltics.
Some of my America friends here in UK are having a hard time when random people try to hold them responsible for warmongering ... you feel like screaming 'hello! are you crazy? half of America didn't even vote for Bush!'

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Yeah...I have an awful lot to say about the anti-Russian bias in Hetalia canon and (even more so) in the English fandom. -_- Not helping, guys. Not helping.

I'm an American living in Australia, and I get that treatment a lot. Just trying to buy a goddamned sandwich, and the lady behind the counter starts bitching me out about the Iraq invasion. Um, go fuck yourself? I'm a Quaker and a pacifist and I never voted for Bush. Just give me my fucking cold cuts.

[nawojka]

so true about anti-Russian bias, for the West Russia is always evil and Hidekaz nicely applies this perspective, obviously fandom would only make it worse, every story needs a hero and a villain...

Your description of the sandwich incident made me laugh, because last time my flatmate Terry had to endure outburst of anti-American sentiment we were queuing up to get some chips from a takeaway... people won't even let you enjoy some food in peace, unbelievable

[pyrrhiccomedy]

What makes it especially grating is that when my Australian then-boyfriend-now-husband and I were living in America, nobody was rude to him. Oh no. They would just hit on him. In front of me. Like. Flagrantly hit on, flagrantly in front of me. Women, men, old people, young people, it didn't matter. It was just like "You're ~*~AUSTRALIAN?~*~ Baby you can crawl into my marsupial pouch any time."

And like...goddamn. Why can't I get any of that?! XD I WANT SLEAZY COME-ONS, DAMMIT.

I guess I could always go back to Italy and trade on the blonde thing, but it's not the same.

[x_haphazard_x]

I have noticed that too, that when Americans visit other places people are rude to them all the time about politics. Americans, typically... aren't.

Then again, this may be because they have no idea of what's going on with that country and are just thinking, "Oh my God, his accent is SO HOT."

[pyrrhiccomedy]

Hating America is hip and fashionable. All the cool kids are doing it.

The only nationality I can think of it's fashionable to hate in America is the French, and even that one's pretty dated. And Americans and French people have such a fine and longstanding tradition of bitching at each other that it feels more like our ~funny little way~ than, you know, actual hating. Like that friend you have who's always making veiled comments about your clothes. She's a fucking bitch but you'll still drop by the food court to get a Jamba Juice with her.

(This same sentiment goes both ways, obviously.)

[x_haphazard_x]

I dunno, I have a feeling that part of the reason why bitching-about-the-French was that sort of intense realization a while back of, "Oh God, I'm becoming my mother!" But still. We can't stop ourselves sometimes.