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Blind Carbon Copy (9/?)

Jul 27, 2011 21:56

Title: Blind Carbon Copy (9/?)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Ratings/Warnings: PG13/Angst+Humor
Summary: Japan's new teleportation machine goes awry, and an America from a world where his Revolution was disastrous comes to visit.
Pairings: US/UK Germany/France on the side.

Also on ff.net

( He'd apologized, over and over, voice thick with guilt and eyes lit with concern. )

canada, america, fanfic, england, blind carbon copy, russia

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let's open up another neverending comment thread zedille July 29 2011, 00:38:16 UTC

I got so excited hen I saw this on my flist, you have no idea!

I really like your reasoning behind alternate!UK, especially the bit about the UK never properly transferred to being a democracy. And the whole thing about Hong Kong and chopsticks (I think I hold chopsticks wrong myself!) is a really clever example of stuff happening on the personification level corresponding to stuff IRL. Nicely done there!

Poor, poor confused America. And the whole thing with Russia and the annexation thing - I didn't think that would actually come up again this chapter. EVIL CLIFFHANGER!

And for the purposes of this fic, is Canada actually invisible (even if someone looks directly at him)? Or is it just that nobody notices him/he tends to hang around in places here people don't look? (Did Japan really not see anyone perched on the bathroom dividers?)

At any rate, a great chapter, like usual :D

that will so happen again, ahaha weird_number July 29 2011, 10:16:09 UTC

Woah, I didn't know you (or really most people on lj, actually) read this! ;D

It took me a while to decide on the China-Russia-HK-England dynamic, but I've planned that out more, so hopefully it'll work. ;P

Ah, Canada is not technically invisible here. :P I was thinking more along the lines of a relatively higher ceiling/ledge where Japan didn't look high enough to see him (perhaps this is my own non-observant bathroom-user dialing in :P). Although I was playing with the idea of giving him the power of invisibility, but then I'd have to give other nations powers too, which is too difficult, lol.

And glad you enjoyed it, thank you! ;D

Re: that will so happen again, ahaha zedille July 30 2011, 00:25:04 UTC

I think you need to publicize this more :D but yes, I do read this!

And looking forward to more of this character dynamic :D subtext and alternate history go well with Hetalia!

Ah, I suppose I just had a really hard time believing Japan (and England)'s unobservant-ness, and it was easier for me to assume that Canada was really invisible. I've seen this sort of thing before, but still. Japan is really, really, really unobservant. *applause* (I'm sure someone's already written Hetalia: the Superheroes AU. Or now that I've said it, they will).

I always enjoy your stuff, thanks for writing this! :)

Re: that will so happen again, ahaha weird_number August 1 2011, 04:42:30 UTC

Haha, I have no idea how to publicize it! :P

Yess, I enjoy alternate history a lot, so this is always fun to write. ;) I think in general I prefer writing the AU world, just because I get lots of freedom to come up with random things.

Haha, yeah, and I suspect Japan isn't normally the unobservant type...oops. :D Ahaha, superheroes AU - I swear I have seen something like that before, but it reminded me too much of the shonen manga I used to read once upon a time...

Yay! ;D (next chapter should be faster since I like writing the AU world more, haha)

Re: that will so happen again, ahaha zedille August 1 2011, 06:23:06 UTC

Post in communities. write more chapters so you can have more posts in communities

And you actually put some plausible history behind your AU Hetalia characters, unlike a lot of the other writers out there who use "AU" as an excuse to Make Characters Do Random Shit Just Because.

And I was poking through the Hetalia section on fanfiction.net and lo and behold, superhero fics do exist. (And I'm pretty sure there're lots of roleplays with that theme).

:D

Re: that will so happen again, ahaha weird_number August 1 2011, 07:54:32 UTC

I should, haha. Maybe I just need to write shorter chapters, but the way I've split the universes into odd/even chapters makes it hard.

Ooh yeah, I see lots of incidences of those. Though at least any alt history AUs are better than...random high school AUs. (Some are funny though, I admit, but they pop up in so many fandoms D:)

That's...hilarious. Did you read any of them/were they any good? :D

I think we have rather a lot of conversations going zedille August 1 2011, 08:30:52 UTC

I didn't notice you did that! And no, I like having long chapters they're very satisfying to read.

I'll admit that Hetalia has a fairly nice cast of characters, true, but so many people it seems are missing the point of Hetalia. They're nations (states, I suppose if you want to get technical). There's all this subtext and history and IRL stuff to explore. Why would you ignore that?!

Nope, superhero fics aren't really my thing either :/ and I don't really go on ff.net anymore anyhow, though I am subscribed to the RSS feed for it... I should unsubscribe though it's getting rather ridiculous.

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going weird_number August 4 2011, 04:16:34 UTC

indeed..how many do we have going now? XD

Yeah, I don't know why that is the case. I've heard of people being really annoyed when the character is written to correspond more to history and less canonical -- >_>

I've quit the site too, haha, other than updating stuff there. It's easier to handle multi-chapter stuff there.

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going zedille August 4 2011, 05:09:08 UTC

six? seven? O.o o.O

Because they view Hetalia as its own thing with its own internal canon, instead of thinking of it as a way of viewing IRL history? I don't know, my logic.

Have you looked at archiving at AO3? Your stuff would fit right in there, and I have to say working there is a delight, it's really customizable and all.

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going weird_number August 6 2011, 05:18:28 UTC

Makes sense, I guess. Just less fun for me, haha.

I've heard of AO3, but never used it, haha. (I just got on the waitlist, so I might post something there eventually :P) Are most of the stuff there better written and/or more historically accurate?

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going zedille August 6 2011, 06:22:19 UTC

I find Hetalia's scope limited, because there's so much more you could do with the idea... plus the details sometimes don't hold up to my scrutiny :D

I'm zedille there, though I don't have much posted either (you know how productive I am, lol). And yeah, generally there's a higher standard over there - everything there was taken seriously, and there's no sugar-high teenagers though I am one of those to be fair posting their random OC country's ramblings, you know how it is. No promises on the history though...

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going weird_number August 12 2011, 04:59:38 UTC

Yeah, the entire comic is very...ad-hoc. :D The author probably never expected it to be so popular, and then suddenly it was and people started holding him to the facts...haha.

Oh, cool! :D (Heh, yeah I browsed the archives a bit and they do look better written and characterized. I'm rather tired of sifting through ff.net's drivel.

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going zedille August 12 2011, 06:49:21 UTC

Can't blame him... it really was a clever idea, and who would have thought he'd needed to stick to the facts so much?

Wait is there a way for me to send you an invite or something (if you still need one)? honestly AO3 feels a bit more pretentious to me xD anything's better than ff.net, really... the only good thing about The Pit is how big it is, so you find some stuff there that you don't find anywhere else.

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going weird_number August 15 2011, 05:57:57 UTC

Yes, it was! I can imagine starting something like that within a circle of friends, thinking it hilarious, watching it get really big and then feeling kinda...awkward. :p

Ah, hm, well if you can, that'd be awesome! I put my email in the system, and I'm waiting for them to get around to sending me an invite. :/ (I don't know how long their delay is) That's true, there's stuff on there that doesn't exist elsewhere. I do wish they had a better way of sorting the stuff on there...maybe tags would be nice.

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going zedille August 15 2011, 08:51:20 UTC

Yet at this point I'm only barely working in Hetalia canon, and the name's connotations are not helping. I wonder if it'd be easier to just stop saying it's Hetalia fanfic?

I don't actually have any invitations myself :/ I requested one, so we'll see whose invitation goes through first xD I did what you did to get my account and I don't remember how long the delay was but I think it was pretty reasonable.

Heh, funny you speak of tags, AO3's tag system is amazing. I wish ff.net had better character tags (more tags, or whatever, for those pesky ensemble fics)

Re: I think we have rather a lot of conversations going weird_number August 17 2011, 09:39:55 UTC

Haha, I have the same feelings. I mean, Hetalia has such a bad name that I occasionally feel bad about writing under its umbrella. D: Too bad there's no other equivalent community/category to share my writings with.

Oh, and I got the invitation, thank you so much! :D (Somehow my invitation came about three hours after yours? Pretty funny :P) My username's the same on there as here...and I'm looking forward to finally being able to properly link all the references in my notes. ;D

Yeah, ff.net's system is really shoddy. I guess they're big enough and don't need to worry about competition.

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