#aph halifax

[rcrp-halifax]

Muse Moment

Stay in bed and have no plans on doing anything else. Reflect on life.

Just wake her up when December ends.

[battle-of-alberta]

How do you see your friends out in the East? (By which I mean the Atlantic provinces, including Newfoundland.)

(I'm aware Char doesn't appear in the Atlantic gang- I haven't settled on a design for the city at this point. Like I say I'm trying to limit the focus and number of characters I introduce mostly to sharpen the scope and also so these kinds of holes in the map aren't as obvious lol)

I took a bit of a sharper current events turn on this one just because I was thinking recently about how the relationship between our provinces has been put under a great deal of strain by the pandemic and has made a mental health crisis that already existed even worse. More on that under the cut.

Anyway I've never set foot in the Atlantic provinces (yet) but when money is less of an object I would love to head out there and maybe do some cycling and sightseeing so hmu when the time comes if there's places I should be checking out :3

(and yes after decades of having more donair joints than you can shake a stick at we finally had king donair open out here and edmontonians are like 'but the lettuce!!')

I'm not taking the position to argue that we should be lifting restrictions on behalf of mental health - on the contrary, I ask why we consider this type of work so essential that we are willing to sacrifice the lives of the workers in these camps time and time again rather than provide them with any meaningful support in order to keep them both mentally and physically safe.

(As an example, most workers were ineligible for vaccines due to their young ages even when their healthcare systems were pushed over the brink if not completely dismantled; this government that is constantly touting O&G workers as essential to the lifeblood of the province still won't save their homes from flooding or help protect their bodies from sickness, and god forbid there's solutions offered for the mental desolation and opioid crisis other than more isolation conditional on sobriety. I have a lot of mostly angry feelings about this, including but not limited to when it comes to the fear mongering surrounding the energy industry transitions.)

All of these problems we export back to the Atlantic when those workers return home or to visit family, and it's selfish and shortsighted of us not to aim for zero cases and instead this province is apparently trying to actively undermine that region's efforts towards it.

[fallenfirebird]

Wingtalia hcs for your OCs?

Ayyyy

Aislynn: Common Loon• her body and wing muscles have gotten too weak over the years to fly for more than five or ten seconds (or have always been, depending on the version of wingtalia) • when she can/was flying, her strengths were more in agility than power; as is the same on the ground• her wingspan looks too big for her, but it’s just because her body is so thin• lives in a little cove by a lake• collects shiny human trinkets and jewels• keeps her wings very neat and pretty. They’re her pride and joy.

Ivy: Belted Kingfisher• knows how to use her wings for swimming, and knows it well• average flyer• wings are soft but the feathers can get a little messy and windblown, even without flying• physical disabilities carry through; born blind in one eye and she probably fell out of the tree as a smol (“I bet I can fly better than you” “liar” “wATCH ME”), thus the limp• The only person Michelle has stopped challenging to races. Ivy already teases enough about a former winning streak she had over the Bostonian birb

Michelle: Black-capped Chikadee• all-around flyer• the smol wingspan is the cutest thing in the history of ever but mention it and she will Fite You• when she flies it looks angry, bitter, and frustrated, for lack of any better words. It’s like she’s trying to beat up the air her flapping is so quick• loves flying contests with all her heart. If nobody’s challenged her recently she will hunt someone down (usually NYC, just to prove she’s twenty times the flyer they are)

• Michelle and Ivy most likely share a hollow

[thisnameisquitequeer]

What a BABE

I'm claiming her for the queers the heteros cant have her

Ringing in the new year with a ref I’ve been meaning to do 5ever. Hope to draw this gal lots, it’s just ironing out the bugs with repetition as with most of my underdrawn kiddos.

Hally is a collab with @quatschmachen​ and @randomoranges​ and started as a throwaway character for a fic but we’ve all grown a wee bit attached.

Keep reading

[feynavaley]

Hetalia Fanfiction Recommendation

Shattered Glass

Halifax, the hub of Canada's war effort, had suffered an explosion.

by Violet_arabian

1,081 words | One-shot | Rating: T | No pairings

The summary already says what it’s about, and it’s a short yet intense depiction of the event that I found quite moving.

If you enjoy the story, please let the author know!

[whatdoesshedotothem]

Friday 29 January 1836

8 35

11 50

No kiss quarter hour washing stockings much cousin - A- came to me several times - had widow Sykes asking her to continue her in Mrs. William Priestley’s - A- said she had nothing to do with it - [considered] her keeping anyone in the club at an end - but gave the woman 5/. - this talking delayed me that I was 1 ½ hour before ready for breakfast at 10 5 at which hour F35° and stormy morning - snowing blowing hailing raining by fits - sat reading till 2 20 except when interrupted by Marian’s coming about 12 for about an hour to ask me about Jane etc Marian would like to go to Filey for 3 weeks in the summer and would like to go to York soon to see Jane and Mrs. Inman - mentioned going from Hull to Hamburg and Greenwood’s thought of going next summer or advised Hornsey in preface to Filey more out of the way of Halifax people and advised not going to see Jane but leaving her quietly under Dr. Belcombe - Marian wanted to know for how long - said I really could not tell that but would try patiently Dr. B-‘s skills a little longer - Began and read the first 124 pages + the xxxii. pages of Introduction of

‘The Philosophy of the Faetus, Liver and Spleen. By George Calvert Holland, M.D. Bachelor of Letters in the university of Paris; formerly senior president of the Hunetarian medical society, and president of the Royal physical society of Edinburgh, Lecturer of Philosophy and joint lecturer on the practise of physic in the Sheffield medical Institution ----- we have but one simple way left us, and that is, leading mankind to particulars, their sense, and their orders; whilst they prevail upon themselves to forsake their notions for a time, and begin their acquaintance with things. -- Nov. org. Part 1 Section 1 Aph. xxvi Truth has been my only aim; and whatever that has applied to lead, my thoughts have impatiently followed - Locke. B. 1. Chapter iv.  London printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. 1831. Sheffield, printed by J. Blackwell. 1 vol. 8vo pp. 229 + Introduction pp. xxxii.

went to my dressing room at two and twenty minutes and washed  much cousin then with A- ½ hour - then wrote her copy of note to Mrs. William Priestley in answer to long rigmarole note just brought by Mary Sykes in spite of the snowing wintry afternoon - then A- came to me and stood some while talking till 4 35 - I had just written the above of today before she came back to me - then  wrote 2 ½ to M- and should have sent my letter tonight but Joseph Mann, about the  [tram?] rails brought this afternoon by Mark Hepworth from Low moor, and he (JM-) staid talking till 6 - dinner at 6 10 - A did her French - coffee she and I near an hour with my father and Marian till 8 35 during which time the letters came - kind letter a ½ nearly full from Lady Stuart Whitehall franked by our MP for Halifax Mr. James Stuart Wortley Lady S- has been very poorly - was worse than ever - hardly legible - Miss Hyriott with her - Lady VC- has been 2 or 3 days with her - enceinte again - the S. de R-‘s at Highcliffe - Lady S- wishes I would take her small house at Whitehall - asks if she has any chance of seeing me - letter also 1 p. from Mr. J. Lister dated Stockwell 28th inst. announcing his father’s death on the 21st inst. after an illness of 5 weeks - excuses him for the mistake about the brookage - much obliged by the offer of doing anything for him (JL- the son) but will not trouble me at present - wrote the last 10 lines of today till 8 ¾ - then looked over the newspaper reading now and then aloud to A- till 9 55 then with my aunt 20 minutes till 10 ¼ pm at which hour F29 ½° - snowy wintry day - a good deal of snow fell between 1 and 2 pm small snow, and hail, and driving rain in the morning and ditto ditto (without rain) in the afternoon - frost and fair the wind gone down.

[whisperonastarchase]

RULES: ANSWER THE QUESTIONS AND TAG 10 PEOPLE

;slkdjfksdlfksjd @still-intrepid​ tagged me months ago and IT APPEARS I NEVER ANSWERED THIS. I’m so sorry! D:

Gender: F

Sign:  Gemini

Height: 5′2″  ( OTL )

Time:  03:00 AM

Birthday: June 4

Favourite Bands: I don’t really have a favorite band. I kind of listen to anything and everything that passes me by (as long as it isn’t too harsh on the ear, like screamo). I like how creative the Decemberists’ lyric vocabulary gets, though?

Song Stuck in my Head: Some weird mix of Hamilton’s “Your Obedient Servant” and Undertale’s “Undertale.” It shouldn’t work as well as it is, but there ya go~

Last Movie I Watched: Whiskey Galore~ also The Last Jedi (finally, I know) and Thor: Ragnarok. :D

Last show I watched: On my own - Steven Universe. With the family - Last Tango in Halifax. 

When did I create this blog: 2013~! In July, specifically. :)

What do I post: Oh geeze, anything I find interesting. Mainly history, science, fandom stuff, fluffy things, knitting (when it crosses my dash), social issues, and anything that makes me happy. :D

What did I last google: The IMDB link for the movie up there, hah. Sorry it’s not anything more fun~

Other Blogs: None~ I’ve contemplated making others for various reasons from time to time (mainly critiquing the recent Doctor Who seasons, because the storytelling in them are overly shoddy, BUT I DIGRESS), but I can barely focus on this one sometimes, hah, and I don’t want to start a progress I can’t keep up

Do I get asks: Rarely~ but apparently Tumblr likes not notifying me of them, too. There’s one that I have to answer that I got who-knows-when. DX

Why did I choose this url: It’s from a song that I like~ :D  Plus it seems like no one else wanted it!

Following: 162

Followers: 118 :D

Average hours of sleep: Pffft. Nowhere near the amount that I need, except when all the lack of sleep catches up to me and I sleep for 14ish hours. That’s totally healthy, riiight?

Lucky number: None at all~

Instrument: I used to play flute and I’ve tried to pick up violin because I love strings, but right now I don’t play any.... :(

What am I wearing: 

Dream Job: Professional traveler/explorer, preferably for hunting down antiques and other interesting things for people. :D  (Er... I mean, legally doing so. None of that “lol, I’ll just take these priceless artefacts out of these tombs because I can and who’s going to stop me” people did in the past.)

Favourite Food: It honestly depends on my mood, but probably fries or tacos (real tacos, not those fast food-style things :P ). Pizza and burgers are up there, too, though~

3 fave fandoms: Hetalia’s the main one I focus on, so that should probably be here (and I’ll lump the less formal side of the history fandom in there, because there’s the serious side of that and then there’s the key-smashing LOOK AT THESE DORKS DOING THIS THING WHY side, which meshes well with a good portion of Hetalia’s fandom, I think, hah).I like the Star Wars fandom because of their memes, but I’m not really involved in it. And either Discworld or Harry Potter to round out the list. :)

lkdjfhsjdolksfs And now tagging. Anyone and anyone who wants to do this, please do! (And if I tag you and you either don’t want to do this, can’t, and/or have done this already, that’s okay! Don’t worry about it and just ignore this! <3 ) But maybe...

@mage-cat​ / @aph-mr-puffin​ / @brightisthedawn​ / @cwnerd12​ / @uncultureddoubloon​ / @originalmeaningofalternative​ / @cwnerd12 / @kapitana-lovelace / @starsailorstories / @kanadka / @allamadelrey

[enter-the-darkside]

Tagged by @kimanda

1) Relationship status?

Forever Single!

Why?

Just lucky, I guess!

2) Pets?

None. If I can’t take care of a plant, I can’t do it for an animal.

3) Last song listened to?

Beat It by Fall Out Boy

4) Favourite TV shows?

I’m in love with South Park and I’m vigilant for new Ducktales episodes.

5) Hobbies?

Reading, drawing, video editing, voice acting, draining the energy from my enemies, writing, and walks!

6) Nicknames?

The Darkside, Dark, Darkie, wee shite, fucking imp, evil devil, and Scott.

My current alias is Uderne Stroud.

7) Star sign

Virgo

8) Height?

5′5-ish.

10) Time right now?

10:41

11) Last thing I googled

The Halifax Explosion.

12) Favourite music artist?

I don’t have one, but someone new I found is Simon Curtis. Otherwise Thousand Foot Crutch.

13) Last TV show I watched

Adam Ruins Everything.

14) Last movie I watched?

Downsizing.

15) When did you make this blog?

Fuck if I rememeber. 

16) Any other blogs?

Oh shit, let’s see...

I have @sonicrobots, @veteran-hetalia, @darks-humour, @pharmakembru, @darks-art, and @videos-from-the-darkside.

Currently inactive ones are @art-and-languages, @maritimenewsnetwork, and @maggotboyva.

Other accounts I have are @ask-the-maritimes, @ask-dream-faery-salute, and @faeryshenanigans.

17) Do you get asks regularly?

Not here, it’s nice and quiet. I used to get some asks for the dream interpretation blog, but that stopped when tumblr’s Best Stuff First system became a thing.

18) Why did you choose your URL?

It was based off of my favourite meme, Come to the Darkside, we have cookies.

It also fit my wannabe edgy preteen mind when I chose it.

20) Gender?

Fluid. Sometimes it’s Cookies, sometimes shadows. I go with Queer to keep it simple.

lol!

21) Hogwarts house?

No clue. Never did those quizs.

22) Average hours of sleep at night?

Between 5-8 hours.

23) Dream job?

Something physical/active or work from home. Anything that doesn’t involve interacting with a lot of people.

I’m thinking Experimental Archaeologist.

24) Amount of followers on this blog?

100+

Tagging:  @aph-greece, @megaaudino, @themagicmeep, @mathan-at-sea, @crayola-markers, @eyes-unblinded, @positivepsychologistposts, @surfingthesealand

[alyrie]

worldwidecupcake’s Hetalia Aesthetic Challenge

Day 4 - A historical moment (Canada/Matthew Williams)

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(The Halifax Explosion - 6th December 1917)

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[rcrp-halifax]

Galena, Garnet

Galena: what it’s like to be in a relationship with my muse

You quickly learn to love yourself (if you already don’t), you learn to take relax and take risks, and she just makes you feel overall…happier. It’s like her smile and energy are contagious when she wants them to be.

You also learn how to hold your liquor very very quickly.

Garnet: what my muse’s perfect partner would be

Someone who can handle her neverending supply of energy and pranks. It also helps if she feels at ease letting the smile drop every once in a while around them.

[rcrp-ontario-archive]

Does mun have any other blogs like this?

((I do. I run @rcrp-halifax , @lithuaniashenanigans and @icelandshenanigans but the last two haven’t been active in ages. I have a couple other (also inactive) APH blogs but these are my RP ones.

[acetechne]

I'm confused on how many ocs are there. Can I join this? Is there a St John's?

ok [cracks knuckles but unsuccessfully and just does an awkward hand stretch instead] here’s a crash course in What Is This Thing I Do

SHORT ANSWER: there are some ocs but while i basically know everyone in our lil group i dont take an official census of how many or who’s active etc. Re: joining, sure why not? and no there is not yet a St Johns and we’re kind of lacking in the east coast in general I’m afraid. We’re a loose unofficial conglomeration of people who met through a common hetalia project or two and so some of us make ocs - there’s kind of an unspoken rule that if an oc for a place already exists and the person is still active its polite to not do duplicates, but its not a hard/fast rule. It’s no fun to play favourites and start drama you know?

LONG ANSWER which is probably gonna get long so I’ll explain below the cut.

ONCE UPON A TIME i dunno if you guys all would remember this but ONCE UPON A TIME in 2008-9 the (English) Hetalia fandom was young and we were all really excited about this Thing that was pretty limited as far as I’m aware to Livejournal, which is how I found 

The I Am Matthewian Project (2009-2011 ish?)

you may have seen us around youtube or deviantart- basically its a hetalia fan project about Canada and his 13 provinces and territories (created by ctcsherry) and we did voice acting and stuff- I was the VA for Yukon and the most recent VA for Alberta and I did a lot of art for the project that i can no longer look at without cringing because HAHA what is anatomy. The project is currently on hiatus indefinitely and a lot of us have drifted our separate ways so I try to keep tabs on everyone where I can but I’m also Kinda Shy and don’t like prying or tracking people down all the time. Would I change some things about how the project was done or some of the dumb kid things I said or did or whatever? Yes. Do I regret the fun times, the art improvement, and the friends I made? Not on yer life bud.

Anyway the cities started as a roleplay thing and it’s kind of surprising since I’m really not a good roleplayer and I really don’t enjoy rping that my ocs, out of all of them that were made on those old boards, survived the longest. They’re nearly ten years old, man! But yeah, as far as I’m aware Ed and Cal are the only surviving OCs I created back in those early days- you can still see some of the old designs floating around dA but they were never really fleshed out and more just created as a little roleplay game between us that wasn’t really meant to go anywhere (although a couple of us, myself included, did sneak OCs into finished IAMP episodes).

Project Canada (2013-?)

So apparently people actually enjoyed and missed our lil videos so the project got rebooted. New admins, new fans, a couple of veterans from IAMP, that sort of thing. Same province and territory characters, new direction. Or… lack of direction idk xD; I loved being an admin for the project but we never really got off the ground because I think we rushed a little too fast and I ended up leaving my post for a variety of reasons. I’m making a go of it on my own now which is why I don’t speak for everyone who posts in the projectcanada cities tag (but lets be honest 90% of that tag is Me haha, I’m the annoyance that made the tag necessary in the first place)

The projectcanada cities tag is generally people who are or were members of this little group- we’re by no means an exclusive club and not all ocs were created /out/ of the project, I’m sure some people like me saw the opportunity to bring back some old ocs and revitalize them with a new audience and new people to brainstorm with- these might have been roleplay ocs or ocs doodled for fun or ocs that came together out of the fear that - like in the IAMP - we’d create ocs for the fun of it off stereotypes rather than putting a huge whack of thought into it, haha. (I admit though, for our own storytelling purposes quatsch and i got together to make a halifax oc thats not necessarily ‘canonical’ in the sense that we’re two angry albertans who haven’t ever been that far east, so if anyone would like to breathe some life into the design we’re happy to collaborate etc etc)

So yeah we’re not exclusive but we’re not organized either, which is why I’m hesitant to speak for everyone. I’m generally the most active so people generally come to me with questions and I can point them in the right direction, but I don’t really have any intention of making anything ~official~ looking of who’s around and who’s not because that would be a whole other boatload of work that I don’t wanna do and also I’m personally ok with interacting with whoever (so long as you don’t expect me to seriously roleplay because thats Not what I do and I’m no fun). And I mean if you’re interested in the project itself as far as I know there’s still room for more members, but idk when if ever anything is going to happen at this point.

My Personal Feels

Honestly since my ocs transcend both iamp and pc and are probably going to outlast both of them at this rate, it’s kind of weird that i haven’t gone back to tagging them as ‘aph’ rather than pc but eh i like my little spin-off-of-a-spin-off nook in the hetalia fandom. But yeah I’m not going to police the tag, aside from saying things could get Messy with duplicates both using the pc tag. So for example say you got a winnipeg oc that’s not affiliated with our lil group- thats a-ok! cool, if I like them enough i’d be willing to use them in my own stuff if i dont have a pc character for it if you’re ok with it and dont mind them interacting with this “universe”. I’d still probably tag your oc as ‘aph winnipeg’ or something if you dont have a specific tag for them. There’s not really an ‘expiry date’ on ocs or how long their creators have been away, but after about 5 years and a project reboot i tend to feel pretty Weird about using ocs when their ‘parents’ arent around to supervise, you know? but again that’s a personal hang up of mine. Another personal hang up of mine is I really am mostly interested in ocs created by people living in that place or really into researching it or who have good inside jokes because that’s the reason I really love this fandom, but hell it’s not a requirement (sweeps my multitude of alberta ocs under the rug because I haven’t been to most of them lol)

so yeah thats the long and the short of it, feel free to ask any more questions and I’ll do my best to answer. I don’t mean to brag when I say I’m probably the person to ask about these things, I just mean I’m nosy and I haunt this little corner like a plague so I’m more or less in touch with everyone in it. :) haha

[aphsuggestionquotes]

*are you willing to accept trade in boats*

@halifaxshenanigans

[rcrp-halifax]

asking for a friend. ship headcanons?

((It got a bit long, oops ^.^;; Eheh…sorry anon

Teasing loyalist/patriot banters. But at least they both agree that New York and Toronto are annoying.

Michelle will Fite™ Ivy if she has to go through Bluenose teasing one more time

Michelle refuses to leave Ivy in her house alone, after coming back one day to find her entire floor completely covered in Canadian dimes, with Ivy sitting at the other end of the hall with a smug little smirk and cup of Dunkins coffee. Just to taunt her.

Drinking and sailing rivals buddies

They probably play King of the Hill games together

Ivy has 100% sworn Michelle a life debt and will do anything and everything she asks

Michelle drags Ivy to every home Red Sox and Patriots game. Every. Single. One.

Ivy is secretly a Bruins fan, since she doesn’t have her own team (yET.) However, if asked, she still insists she’s neutral. Léa’s hockey wrath shall not be incurred.

Ivy sometimes gets déjà-vu of the Ontarians, because of Michelle’s ego

Accent mimicking (which normally fails because they’re both already so thick) and teasing. Both ways. All the time.

When they get in a car, Ivy drives. Michelle has tried to negotiate around this (“in Massachusetts I drive, since I know the rules of the road here.”) Ivy gave it a “third times the charm” before ducktaping Michelle into shotgun until she gave up and let Ivy be around the clock chauffeur. “Masshole” might’ve also been a very common nickname used during this process (and still sometimes is).

Ivy getting (forcibly) introduced to Dunkins, and eventually even starts to call it Dunkies hey, it’s catchy. They’re actually not that bad, but she holds Michelle to absolute secrecy of the few-time admittance by using a picture of her holding up Ivy’s old Loyalist uniform. Because willingly coming into contact with one is 110% shameful to Michelle.

Arguing over whether the drink with the ice cream in it is a frappé or a milk shake. Boston, you are the only one who calls it a frappé, stop yourself

Michelle gives A+ massages and has all of Ivy’s spots to touch on memorized to the point she could do it blindfolded and through a cloth wall

[rcrp-halifax]

Ivy aesthetics: Ocean breezes. Climbing trees. Fishtail braids. Loud laughter. Flirty gestures. Cheeky smiles. Paper hearts. Blasting cheesy pop music as loud as you can. Little rainbows in lawn sprinklers. Hole-in-the-wall pubs. Your first crush.

I did the thing

[rcrp-halifax]

PSA

So I just realized I never made a post about this. Oops. Basically, the mun who ran boston-shenanigans decided to delete. What that means? Ivy no longer has a girlfriend. Technically. But I've fallen for both the HaliSton ship (or whatever you call it-), and Ivy the gay mermaid fish, so I don't plan on letting it all die. What I'll be doing to keep it alive is sort of like what Yukmun did with SeaOtter: posting occasional shorts for the ship using my own Boston OC, who's going to be loosely modelled after Michelle (at least, what I gathered of her.) Meanwhile, I'm searching for another APH Boston blog who's single and ships it, so it's not entirely self reliant. But seeing as it's rare for developed province/state RPers, much less cities, you guys can guess how that's turning out. So if you have any leads for me, please let me know about them. I'd appreciate just about anything. The aph Boston and Halifax tags are empty as hell, and it's become my personal mission to change that. Thanks! :D