How I Feel Right Now✨

Two more weeks of gender!

Unpopular opinion: the 2010-12 Hetalia fandom wasn’t that bad. It had its bad sides and controversial fans/events like any other fandom, including the Hetalia fandom today. But it built such a vaste community and a strong sense of belonging that old Hetalia fans still feel today, even people who are no longer into Hetalia but left it on good terms miss it. So many good fanfictions are from that era, so many excellent fanarts were posted at those times, countless AMVs, multilanguages, MMD and cosplay music videos and animations made by fans in their free time from scratch (like the ones from NicoNico). Do you think so many people would have stuck with Hetalia back then if the fanbase was truly so toxic and awful to make it impossible to have a positive enough experience with it? I had my bad experiences with it, too, like most others, but I still miss it. 

Stop demonizing it, please. Because if Hetalia is still relatively well-known today, it’s thanks to the old Hetalia fandom. It’s thanks to all the people who worked on their free time to build such a large community, to all the people who provided (and keep providing) translations for all kinds of Hetalia-related content, to all the people who spread it through beautiful art and videos, to all the people who decided to invest so much love and research in fanfictions so well-written that may even be printed out as physical books. Have respect for all these people, please. Don’t insult it based on just its bad apples, because that means insulting the tons of great people who blessed us with great content new fans still enjoy today, too. 

The fact that I went and looked up Spanish agriculture just for a neat caption says something

HongIce! Underrated ship with some of my favorite side characters

I'm polish, I relate to all of them

eastern/central european things:

an internet friend: omg you should watch this movie, it's on netflix. *narrator voice*: but alas it was not on netflix

ugly ass trains

listening to non-europeans talk about communism/socialism and dying inside because of the worrying amount of misinformation. public healthcare is not communism. stalinism is not marxism. personal property is not private property.

the "who actually started ww1" debate

"[insert country] doesn't exist"

hearing a loud shriek at 2 am

far right governments

grandpa talking about the war again

dumplings

this guy:

and these bad boys:

also alcoholism at the ripe age of 13

those women who sell perfume at the train stations... there's so many of them... how... why perfume...

walking in the capital and seeing bullet holes in the buildings because they've been left untouched for 70 years

the trabant

I LOVE IT

Trans norge with his pan bf <3

Hws mortified brother England moodboard

therapy is not enough, i just really need to die