#Scandinavia and the world comic

[deuces-ninth-live]

The SATW nordics as different dere types

Denmark: deredere/yottadere/erodere/uzadere

Norway: deredere/jendere

Sweden: jendere

Iceland: deredere

Finland: tsundere/sadodere/gundere/yottadere

Greenland: tsundere/kuudere

Åland: jendere/kiredere

Faroe Islands: kinda a tsundere

[lilmerh]

can you tell me more about us x jp? you mentioned them on the femslash rarepair post and idk them but i’m curious now

Short for "(Sister) US x (Sister) Japan" from the webcomic Scandinavia and the World, a comic where countries have personifications in forms of two siblings (f.ex. Sweden and Sister Sweden). It's been a long time since I read through the whole thing (like two years??) but I remember liking it and I remember liking them as a pair.

They don't get a lot of screen time together, and when they do, they're depicted as friends. I thought they'd be cute together. The kind of girl-best-friend-you're-really-close-to-and-wouldn't-mind-dating kind of crush.

I think they qualify as a rarepair bc I am legtimimately the only person I know/I remember drawing them explicitly romantically. There's probably someone else out there tho lol

Here's some art I drew of them in the past.

I guess that's everything I have available digitally :[ I have lots more drawings of them individually, but only these of them together :[ There's more (and more overtly romantic) art in my sketchbook, but that is for me only.

Sad day for the femslash enjoyers. I should draw more ship art, but I'm focused on other things at the moment, and I struggle drawing people interacting.

[staryenight]

SatW Denmark and Finland

I’ll draw the rest of them soon enough

[grimm-the-tiger]

If you're into SatW still, what are your headcanons on any character? If at all?

I'll do you one better and give you several!

Iceland and Norway are not full brothers. Iceland's mother is Sister Ireland, who booked it as soon as her kids were born, and he was raised by Norway because their father refused to take responsibility.

Iceland is buddy-buddies with the entire bureaucracy of Hell.

The cat demons' meows sound like old laugh tracks.

Wales and New Zealand's kid can switch between human and sheep forms at will.

Sister Japan can kick ass if she really wants to.

No one knows where Sweden came from. As far as anyone's concerned, he appeared out of the blue one day. He's probably related to the other Nordics somehow, but no one knows how. He's like that cousin who pops up out of nowhere at family reunions and keeps changing his story about how he's related to you.

Sweden is absolutely terrified of Scania turning out like Denmark. It's bad enough he already has to deal with Denmark and Christiania, he doesn't need to deal with a third one who also lives in his house.

Iceland didn't kill his children. He just has a really sick sense of humor and likes using their ashes to terrorize the kids he babysits.

Norway, Sister Norway, and Svalbard are triplets. (This one might be canon, idk.) There was a fourth sibling once. No one knows what happened to her.

Christiania is Denmark's kid with Sister Netherlands.

Norway likes to sew. This one's probably also canon.

[clatterbane]

Another one from @satwcomic, which I couldn't help but think of with one of my own last minute pre-Christmas grocery requests today being "moar SMÖR pls!" (So, Mr. C brought in two more 500g blocks. We'll use it all before it goes funny, Besides the roughly 200g we already had.)

What would the holiday season be without plenty of butter?!

And I am now in here trying to bake something with a decent chunk of it.

I was vaguely remembering this as from a few years back. Where "a few years" apparently means from 2011. My sense of time is just that awesome.

BUTTER!

[aph-dennyboy]

unpopular opinion

SATW sufin >>>>>>>> hetalia sufin

[agentmatt6]

Humon also makes the really funny online comic series Scandinavia And The World Comics and features primarily Sweden, Denmark and Norway being gay to some extent, and probably drunk as well as the personifications of other countries.

Last time I checked she did a comic on US’s recently reelected orange and EU’s concern as well as Russia’s interest being piqued

"homosexuality is unnatural! there's only two genders! it's a sin-"

I'm sorry, have you seen NATURE???

ALSO THE ARTIST IS HUMON, FIND THEM AT HUMONCOMICS.COM!! was so sure I had included that but apparently I forgot, so sorry!

and there's so many more species than this that exhibit homosexuality, varying genders, etc. SO! MANY!

it's very much a natural thing. it always has been. unfortunately, while homosexuality is found in many species, homophobia is only found in one

EDIT: added a keep reading cause this is a long post lol

EDIT: everyone in the comments needs to shut up or I will turn comments off, stop arguing, jeez

[bogkeep]

Hello. I have two silly questions to ask you. Does your town really not have a single bookstore? Even sillier question, does it at least have a library?

I've always just assumed countries like Norway had a library in every town, no matter how tiny, so everybody could always read. As I learn more about the world, I do believe that's a bit like assuming everyone in Texas wears cowboy hats and rides horses everywhere.

Have a nice day!

hi!

the tiny industrial town in sweden where i live temporarily for clock school does not have a dedicated bookstore!! it was driving me up a wall when i got there and i just wanted to buy a regular workbook for class!!!! according to my maps they HAD one but it got permanently closed. i found that one of the big supermarkets sells some books and some basic stationery, but i wouldn't call it A Book Store. thankfully there's a bigger town just a 40 minute train ride away, and it has multiple book stores :D and whenever i take a trip to stockholm i visit scifi-bokhandeln, an absolutely decadent comic book + genre fiction store >:) that's a special treat.

there IS a library (and a library bus! i see it some mornings on way to school), i took a peek inside it early on in my stay, but it was very small and the comics section was practically non-existent </3 i haven't bothered getting a local library card (idk if i could without a legitimate swedish id of some sort, either.)

my norwegian hometown (the big one, not the population 50 village in northern norway. that one has nothing much of anything) has lots and lots of book stores and a big wonderful library (with skeletons and medieval church ruins<3)!!! the latter is now on libby as well (they were connected to a different app previously and it was so wonky and bad and they never had any books i wanted??) so i still get use of my library card, even far away in the strange and barbaric lands of sweden. i never knew how good i had it until i moved away.

i ALSO believed every town that can be called a town in scandinavia would have a bookstore, like what kind of place hasn't??? welp. maybe times are changing and it's not so easy to keep physical bookstores anymore.

[a-personiftranslator]

A Comprehensive List of Every Personif Thing I’ve Seen, Ever

-A lot of old books, like Common Sense by Thomas Paine, refer to OTJs with she/her. I love them dearly.

-Just google national personifications.

-Welcome to the Table. US Statespirits.

-Meanwhile in Australia. Australian Statespirits.

-Hetalia.

-Countryhumans.

-Scandinavia and the World.

-Paris Burning and associated universe. Cityspirits. I was majorly influenced by this.

-The Great Cities series by N.K. Jemisin, favorite books of all fucking time. The avatar terminology and style of personification fighting basically made it into my canon wholesale. Cityspirits and boroughspirits.

-Living Maps: An Atlas of Cities Personified. Haven’t got it yet but I really want it.

-The Bible, apparently. Cityspirits.

-@mur-art’s addition: Big Wayward Girl. Statespirits. California.

-This old-ass poem has Paris talking. There were a bunch like it, but I couldn’t find translations. I owe my life to JSTOR, and my fountain pens.

-Centricide. Political personifs.

-Polandball/Countryballs.

-Socialstuck, Fandomstuck, and Socialstuck Cloutchase.

-Purge the Poison by MARINA. Mother Nature dissing humanity for climate change in two minutes.

-I Am California by John Craigie.

-@mur-art’s addition: some Statehumans comics.

-@mur-art’s personif playlist

-@mur-art’s addition: Florida’s state song (I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS THING ALREADY OMG)

-@bread--quest’s addition: Sedona by Houndsmouth

-@milokissa707’s addition: Canadian provinces as roommates

-There are a bunch of things on quora; just search something related.

-Nico’s Proposal describes the Administrator like the personif of the Foundation.

-Fall Witness, Part 2. Autumn Court Fae create an artificial personif of the O4 Council. Vanguard tale <3

-SCP-1761. This thing got me into the SCP Wiki in the first place.

-SCP-5513. I do not have words.

[clonerightsagenda]

HDM 3 & 4!

Episode 3:

me watching Mrs. Coulter ransack a university library while demanding "find me something heretical or illegal" wow haha it's just like being at work

"tired old men talking about tired old things" How much of breaking Jordan's scholastic sanctuary is revenge for the fact that they won't let women like her in? If you can't beat them, tear them down.

Tony's mumbled excuses about how he found Lyra are so on point for 'kid who does not want his mom finding out about his vigilante justice escapades'

Loving the running gag of Boreal going to our world and finding his car ticketed/booted. He doesn't even know what the boot is

Oh wow, we're getting our first look at Will now? As well as backstory on why his family is getting harassed, and we dropped the bomb of John Parry = Grumman already, even though that's a late book 2 reveal. Interesting choice. My guess would be that they want to spend less time in season 2 on stringing that mystery along and more on developing Will and Lyra's dynamic, since they shift into bffsies mode pretty abruptly.

Mrs. Coulter thinking about falling off high places again... I don't recall the implication of this self-destructive impulse in the books (haven't reread the third yet) but this is certainly setting up her death, huh? Whose idea was it, I don't remember....

Also, her calling Benjamin "boy" multiple times even though he's clearly a grown man - does that have the same racist implications in the UK as it does in America? It certainly shocked me. We hadn't really seen a racial undertone in how she's dealt with Boreal, the Master, or the reporter...

Episode 4

Of course they added Lee singing a song lol. If you paid all the money for LMM...

They took away Farder Coram's disability? He's older, sure, but seems perfectly hale and hearty. I'd make a joke about Lyra just thinking someone is tragically disabled due to being 60+ but the books say his health got wrecked after getting hit by a poison arrow. There is that other gyptian with the limb differences, I suppose.

Iorek is pronounced Yorick??? Oh wow I've been doing Eye-or-eck (like neck) for years.

I can't identify the accent Iorek has, but I'd be curious as to what accent the showrunners decided bears should have. I'd assume something Northern European since we're in Fantasy Scandinavia.

Mrs. Coulter has been violent toward her daemon a few times, which I also don't recall from the books, although it comes up with that one guy in the prequels. It emphasizes her internal conflict that they're setting up super hard.

Lee's far more comic relief in the show, and they've padded out the Iorek armor quest quite a bit. Guess they decided they needed to get their money's worth out of having Lin Manuel Miranda around before he dies and gets eaten.

They didn't make Serafina's daemon a goose??? Slander!!!

Lord Boreal homophobia moment... These have been the Bigotry Episodes

So I get why they have Lyra speak up to convince the gyptians in the previous episode and take the initiative re: Lee and Iorek - it makes the MC a more active rather than reactive protagonist, etc. - but I said while liveblogging the books that I appreciated the gyptians clearly have their own plans and aren't just convenient brown people who exist to ferry the protag on her journey, and this undercuts it a little bit. Also being a kid getting helplessly buffeted around by the machinations of adults is part of what Lyra has to deal with.

I'm still reading it as Eye-or-eck in my head as I type this. Sorry. It's too late for me.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

Reminds me of that one Dutch chick on Deviantart who did the Scandinavia and the rest of the world comics. It was sort of a Hetalia knockoff. She was great when it came to the Scandinavian countries and their cultural quirks. She was god awful at understanding all the other nations outside of Scandinavia.

okay americans how’d i do

[66sharkteeth]

So I read a translated webtoon today and it appears to be 13+, and in the newest episode there was swearing. I don't mind swearing mind you, but with what you had to do and the translators can do it without a single care in the world feels unfair.

What's with Google's "Swearing bad" once a year anyway? They act like children take damage from it or something. There was a lot of swearing around me as a kid. It never traumatized me, and as my mother was honest about what the words meant I never swear much but do not mind it either (once on a train, some teens younger than me put swear words in every other sentence, but they used them grammatically wrong, that annoyed me more 🤣). Something that did traumatize me was the fetish fuel in Totally Spies honestly..! And huge age gaps, like romance books in the 90s where a girl was 10-16 and dating a guy 20-30 like it was the most natural thing in the world, wtf.

So yeah... Keep the swearing panels around so you can swap back if they change their minds again..! But I've noticed that the translations are slightly different based on where I am. So in Scandinavia the first racism arc in Lookism is gone and Vasco's mental health issues isn't gone into in much detail, but when on vacation in Spain, both are there..! 😕

So to be clear, I'm allowed to swear lol. CoB is now currently fully censored and approved for the young adult rating. There's still plenty of swearing in the comic. I can say pretty much everything but fuck. Bitch, ass, shit, damn, etc are all allowed, just not in excess.

People seem to be under the impression that CoB is gonna be a Weenie Hut Jr version of the comic now and I assure you, it's vastly the same minus a couple of panels that I think were way more impactful w/ the inclusion of "fuck" and a couple of panels where it just looks like I forgot to draw blood (+2 very blatantly censored panels. Can you find them?)

I'm chewing my arm off a little here trying to get it across to everyone that CoB is still gonna have blood and swearing in it. It's not going to be a 4Kids version of the comic. The edits to the violence were also very minor and only like 5 panels out of 150 episodes, none of which were actually impactful moments like Rex losing his arm or Stella being skewered. I just can't say fuck or have bitch and shit 50 times in one episode anymore, that's pretty much it.

[undead-potatoes]

OH WAIT for that "have you met a celebrity" poll I completely forgot I met the artist Humon (who did the Scandinavia and the World comics among others) at a con once, and they complimented me on my troll costume and even took a picture of me

[audiofictionuk]

New Fiction Podcasts - 10th December

Gimble & Ghoul Audio Drama Beatrice Ghoul is a ghost hunting private detective, taking on the paranormal world and it’s many mysteries with the help of her partner in business and fiancé, Ted Gimble. Or at least she was until a recent tragedy struck and in a single night her career, relationship and life crumbled. However with the arrival of an intriguing new case, things may be beginning to awaken in the Gimble & Ghoul offices. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231201-05 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/gimbleandghoulpodcast/feed.xml

Skandinavien Audio Drama Conrad lives a solitary existence in an ancient windmill in a remote part of Scandinavia. He has no memory of being a functional part of society. All he has is his work; the bodies he disposes of. When prominent politician Albert Finzt ends up on Conrad's autopsy slab, he begins to unravel the horrific circumstances behind his forced labour. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231129-03 RSS: https://www.albionbyrd.com/skandinavien?format=rss

Doctor Who Audio Adventures (Fanmade Audio Drama Series) Audio Drama This is a series of audio dramas based on the BBC's hit sci-fi show, Doctor Who. It has a full voice cast, original stories, original sounds, and music all unique to this fanmade adaptation of one of the pillars of sci-fi in media. I hope you will enjoy it. This series is in no way affiliated with the BBC or any other copyright holder. No copyright infringement intended. This production is completely non-profit. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231130-02 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ee480d48/podcast/rss

The Avengers: Audio Drama Audio Drama Spun off from Scyther Audio's "X-Men: The Audio Drama" series, comes The Avengers! Operating under the same premise of using the comic book history and stories as a template while modernizing the tales, listen as Earth's Mightiest Heroes come together and save the world! https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231201-07 RSS: https://avengeraudiodramapodcast.podomatic.com/rss2.xml

Creation Audio Book Creation is a collection of Stories about the Universe. a whole new reality created in an instant. an astronaut lost in space and portals. a sphere encompassing all meaning of time. a feverish travel through the astral planes. a visit to the realms of the angels and of the devils. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231202-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/ee54d460/podcast/rss

Infrangible [WebSerieAudio] Audio Book Infrangible,Il s'agit d'une histoire de science-fiction, d'anticipation : "Des personnes donnent tout pour s'en aller sur Mars, pour échapper au changement climatique."L'histoire se concentre sur un personnage qui se nomme : "Amr_01".Je n'en dirai pas plus, mais j'espère que ça vous plaira. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231126-03 RSS: https://audioblog.arteradio.com/blog/216077/rss

My Weird Ass Neighbor Audio Drama This Podcast Is about the mystery of My Weird Ass Neighbor. I plan to keep each episode about 5 mins long with weekly updates. If there's any questions or any information that I've left out, please go to the My Weird Ass Neighbor sub Reddit. So I can answer any and all questions. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231128-04 RSS: https://media.rss.com/my-weird-ass-neighbor/feed.xml

Adair’s Christmas Gift Audio Drama A boy’s heart is hardening toward his oppressive father when, on Christmas Eve, a forest enchantment lulls him to sleep and shows him a vision that changes everything. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231201-08 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/adairschristmasgift/feed.xml

White Winter: A Christmas Ghost Trilogy Audio Book Five friends meet every year on the eve of Christmas Eve. This year, they bring with them a secret, and three ghost stories they've experienced around the holiday season. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231111-07 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/white-winter-a-christmas-ghost-trilogy

(I don't think this is AI written or voiced, so it gets included, but the art on this is just hilarious.)

Storytime with the Springs Audio Book I've been writing stories for my children for years and now I want to share them with you. Each episode tells a part of a much larger story that all together makes up the epic tale called The Iris Chronicles. It's where a young girl from a remote fishing town discovers her magical heritage and her destiny to save the world. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231117-06 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/storytime-with-the-springs/

The Grotto Audio Book Struck by a recent loss, Matt turns to spelunking for solace. As Matt battles grief, he questions if the caves are playing tricks or if something else lurks within. The Grotto is a liminal horror podcast that explores the thin line between grief, pain, mourning, and loss. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231201-09 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/656324aea21bff0011ecae4f

The Cara Files Audio Book Cara's discovery of a set of broken rings leads to an unexpected and romantic attachment with Mei Xing. However, their love is complicated by the fact that they live in different worlds, with countless universes between them. Despite this, Cara is determined to be with Mei Xing and embarks on a journey to find her. But she is not prepared for what she is about to encounter. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231016-10 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/file1/

Superstellar (A Sci-Fi Radio Show Storytelling Experience) Audio Drama Superstellar is a radio show and series of novels written by H.W. Phillips, which centers about an expansive, fantasy-like world set in the far future. This is more than an audio book. This is a full blown audio experience. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231203-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e9cb6ff8/podcast/rss

Where It All Started Novel Audio Book "A good old fashioned love story between a workaholic submissive, who has her whole life planned ahead of her, and a Dominant who would take every day as it comes, if she weren't so terrified that everyone will one day leave her." This is the audio version of Where It All Started, a novel written by J. Allison Baird and illustrated by S. M. Shifflett which is being released online for free, one chapter a week in both text and audio format. At the end of which a limited physical print run is planned for those who enjoyed the novel and wish to support it. Or just want it as a very pretty book they can hold in their hands. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231203-02 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/where-it-all-started

Read, Play, Game Audio RPG A podcast where friends READ a new ttrpg, PLAY through the system, and then talk about the GAME. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20231128-05 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/read-play-game

[calandrinon]

The Nordic Council

[comicsart3]

Moonbeam has appeared frequently in another of my blogs, Women In Charge, in fm bondage interpretations of covers to the Swedish language comic Solvpilen, or Silver Arrow. The character is a somewhat stereotypical female Native American who is sister and sidekick to the Silver Arrow of the title, wise and brave chief of the Kiowa. Although very sexualised, and frequently illustrated in damsel in distress scenarios, Moonbeam is nonetheless skilled in unarmed combat and not infrequently comes to Silver Arrow’s rescue also. Dressed in a tight, flowing, slit buckskin dress, Moonbeam often graced the cover of Solvpilen, frequently depicted throwing sundry outlaws, Indians and renegade cavalry troopers over her shoulder. She is therefore very much of her late 1970s/1980s time - a strong but not too strong female character, feisty and able to look after herself, but fundamentally subservient to the main man. Moonbeam is therefore not the best example of a strong female comic book character, but her kick-ass abilities do earn her a place in this blog.

The above cover is somewhat atypical in that Moonbeam is shown in customary jiu-jitsu mode, but her garb is less sexy and more realistic. There is also the slightly surreal addition of the warrior maiden’s pet mountain lion cub, Tinka, who accompanies Moonbeam everywhere and never seems to grow up.

The title began as Zilverpijl, a Flemish language creation of the Belgian artist Frank Sels in 1970, which rapidly gained popularity in the whole of Scandinavia (including Finland), and was also translated into German. The series ran until 1986 but never broke into the English language comic book world which is a shame, as its stories were well plotted, contained much factual information about Native American life, and the cover art in particular, was very dynamic.

The cover featured is to Solvpilen #1 (January 1972)