#circlique

[catthatfollows]

Он вернулся!!!

Hey hetalia tag, it's been a while! I kept saying I would do it so I finally did: I opened a redbubble shop! So if you want, you can go on there and see what hetalia stuff I have to offer. It's mostly stickers and buttons but a few are available as prints too. I tried to include some characters who don't get a lot of merch (like the ever-elusive Greenland and Mongolia!) to give people with rare faves a chance to finally have something of them.

Please let me know if there's existing art of mine you'd like to see turned into stickers and buttons or whatever! I appreciate your support.

>>> Redbubble Shop <<<

[kirain]

This one might be kind of silly but.....the bg3 companions as fruit?

This was actually really fun!

Adorable chibis by the talented @circlique, who gave me permission to use their art!

[stars-and-birds]

mutuals make urself an avatar oc! i��m a firebender :D

@nobodywhoishere @el-fandom-birb @haystarlight @imhumanguysiswear @verymuchablog42 @chaoticnerdsstuff @rainbowangel110 @bloodied-dagger @circlique @agrebel18 @fell-in-love-with-a-fantasy and anyone else!

[ask-north-korea]

Farewell

OOC;;

I mean this should have been obvious for a while, but let's make it official:

This blog is closed.

I had a great run in the hetalia fandom: over 10 years, give or take. Not all at once, but more or less consistently, until recent years. Running this blog and RPing Sang Kyu (across multiple platforms) has been a big part of that. He's one of my longest running OCs and is still really important to me, but...

Over time, various things have driven me away from this fandom. Maybe it's just growing up--I'm approaching 30 at this point. I also lived in Korea--one of my life goals--got to experience that for two years. Since returning to the US, my interests and goals have turned to other things. I got married, bought a house, got a new job...and over time I found this fandom sucking up energy I didn't have. I don't keep up with current events as I once did; I simply don't have it in me to continue updating this blog anymore.

I am not Korean, if that wasn't clear, so this blog was always run from the experience of a Westerner, doing their best to do the research and portray things in a respectful (although admittedly not always 100% accurate) manner while keeping in the relatively lighthearted spirit of the source material. I hope some Korean fans will pick up the reins and fill in the gaps where I couldn't. Even having lived in Korea for a time, I can't pretend I know everything or have the experiences of people who grew up in the culture.

That being said, please DO feel free to use Sang Kyu for fanfics, fanart! Whatever! (But please don't RP him or claim him as yours...) All I ask is that you credit him to me, @circlique (or @ask-north-korea), and use him in respectful, non-hateful ways. I would love to see any fanart or fanfic that you tag me in. If you have questions about him, I would ask that you direct them to @circlique, since I plan on completely turning off the ask box to this blog after this post.

For the people who supported me over the years, or participated in my refugee fundraisers, thank you. I will always remember my time playing Sang Kyu fondly, and I hope he can continue to be an ambassador and educate even as I am not actively taking that role anymore.

[sulemiozine]

Introducing the contributors of Save the Date!

All of us aboard firmly believe in Sulemio's love and marriage and we can't wait to openly showcase it for everyone. Please make sure to give these talented artists your support!

@amelia-yap | @andygonzart | @arystocrat | blueliom | @brontidepng | @circlique | @sappy-sprout | @diezmil10000 | @stresseddog20 | faithom | @homugabs| @kaban-bang | @kaereth | @kalicocal | @lovewritteninthestrands | @marilliaarts | @senshi-9 | @notelectrictigerart | poptrt | @raccuundraws | radiantraptor | @siqlyprince | @comfiecore | @suntann | @tanukizzy | @eggtempest

[i-na-ri]

Rolha and Yoona post- war is my favorite thing I cannot stop drawing them.

@circlique get on with ur OCS I DONT WANNA WAIITTTTTY

[peony-pearl]

atla oc masterpost! Thanks to everyone who sent me their character to draw; this was such a fun thing to do during my vacation! It helped me go through a lot of improvements and gave me something creative and fulfilling do to ^^

I love learning about atla ocs! I'm still up to doing some oc art if you'd like one; I'm also up for art trades (if you don't draw then I'm more than happy to do a pic for a fic/moodboard/etc)! And if you don't have a design, if you have ideas I'm more than happy to help bring your oc to life! Although I can guarantee I'm going to focus on my own stuff for about a week now lol but my inbox is open!

We've got @sleepyghoststories's Cyrus!

@hermitduck's Tanggol!

@seeksattentionhatesattention's Hyung!

@monochromeswirl's Kinumi!

@zukos-tiny-burnt-ear's Rokei!

@bonny-johnny's Saigo!

@circlique's Kelsang!

and finally is @orangepanic's Yao Li!

[peonycats]

Me making content for SK and looking at morkee, gohe, and circlique's content: i will finish what you have started

GODSPEED BRAVE SOLDIER MAY YOU GO WHERE NO SK STANNIE HAS GONE BEFORE 🫡🫡🫡

[i-am-extremely-mad]

I'm still a little shocked that @circlique didn't like how I responded to things that some fans hate about TLOK (the comment they left under the post): 

"How did I know this was someone just looking for an argument lol. Agree to disagree." 

I wasn't looking for an argument, I just feel that these things are pretty underrated in the fandom, especially the love triangle, the fact that it actually was a love triangle, not a love angle, as it really is in most cases, as well as the fact that Korra and Asami weren't hated each other and fought each other over Mako... 

Anyway, I'm sorry if they took this as a personal attack, maybe I should have expressed myself better, I really liked their posts and arts, especially that post where they defended Korra and how much undeserved hate she gets.

https://www.tumblr.com/i-am-extremely-mad/722041973501984768/what-exactly-issues-do-you-have-with-tlok

“What exactly issues do you have with TLOK?

circlique answered:

Many of the same that other people have, just that Korra as a characters is not one of them, like I said.

But some of the things I didn’t like:

-stupid, unnecessary love triangle

-the Equalists were great and compelling antagonists, but the divide between benders and nonbenders never really got addressed after Amon was defeated.

-Water Tribe Civil War plot was great, and I hate that they abandoned it for the kites. The Avatar and spirits were better left mysterious imo. If they HAD to be included, making both Raava and Vaatu part of the Avatar spirit would have been much better imo because it would have fit the themes of balance and harmony present throughout the rest of the series much better. Light can only exist in darkness, some chaos is good and necessary, etc etc.

-Unalaaq/Vaatu were boring, forgettable villains. Also hated the kaiju fight with laser beams. Didn’t feel like it belonged in the world of Avatar at all.

-season 3 is easily the best season but I still wish there was a bit more buildup to the airbenders coming back. Like, maybe after harmonic convergence kids can be born with airbending instead of people just randomly waking up with it one day.

-season 4 was also pretty good and my only real complaint with it was the mech. Just didn’t feel like it fit in the world. I wouldn’t have minded if it was just limited to the canon and possibly moved by railroad or something.”

i-am-extremely-mad:

Hmm, I see (I sent that anon question). I already answered some of these arguments: https://www.tumblr.com/i-am-extremely-mad/705097614657470464/fandomsandfeminism-im-still-not-really-over

...but I will answer some arguments here:

“-stupid, unnecessary love triangle”  

I've never really had much of a problem with a love triangle. TLOK is, among other things, a teenage drama, love triangles are typical tropes here.

What I actually loved here is that unlike typical love triangles where the female characters fight for the affections of the male character, Korra and Asami never really hated each other, especially Asami. Korra was only jealous for a couple of episodes and even then the worst thing she could think of about Asami was how she is supposedly prissy: "He's all into that prissy, beautiful, elegant, rich girl." But even then, Korra didn't hide that she also saw her as beautiful and elegant.

And the part that's often ignored is that Korra actually stopped trying anything with Mako after she became friends with Asami, which didn't stop Mako from being a total jerk, especially after Korra suspected that Asami's father might be an Equalist, him accusing her that she only did it so he would break up with Asami. And despite all that, when she was proven right, Korra asked him to go comfort Asami.

“-the Equalists were great...”

As I already said in another post (see link) the Equalists were actually non-benders supremacists (I still can't believe that some people consider them communists, but then again when I see supposed "leftists" supporting authoritarian non-democratic regimes in the real world, yeah...), Amon was just a grifter and most of their arguments were bullshit and full of holes.

Especially when you see how successful non-benders actually are in society, Hiroshi Sato (why would the alleged “communists” work closely with the bourgeois?) being the most obvious example, while many benders barely made ends meet, even if they were famous athletes that people heard about on the radio, like Mako and Bolin. It seems that the social problems were not of an ethnic but of a class nature.

“-Water Tribe Civil War plot was great,...”

Fans don't realize that the civil war wasn't important at all, it was just a distraction to hide Unalaaq's true intentions, to free Vaatu and start the apocalypse.

And I think it was mentioned somewhere that Vaatu wasn't destroyed but just weak and is now in Raava.    

“-Unalaaq/Vaatu were boring, forgettable villains...”

Not much different from Ozai, really. Also, as I already said in another post, Unalag is basically Ozai in reverse.    

I have no problem with “kaiju” fight. I could even argue that the last two Godzilla movies borrowed a bit from TLOK (LOL).

Also wasn't there also a "kaiju" fight in ATLA at the end of Book 1 when the Ocean Spirit took over Aang's body and attacked the Fire Nation fleet? It's strange how people forget about such things when they criticize TLOK.

“...more buildup to the airbenders coming back...”

I have no problem with the idea that some people got airbender powers. Also if newborn children were born with powers, it would be several years before they would show any signs of airbending powers. Not very practical for the story they wanted to tell.

“my only real complaint with it was the mech...”

Absolutely underestimated or better said, completely ignored parallel in TLOK:

UnaVaatu, misuses mystical and spiritual powers for conquest and destruction.

Kuvira with Mecha-UnaVaatu, misuses science and technology power for conquest and destruction.

Also, a foreshadowing that many have ignored, that Mecha-UnaVaatu will be made:

Book 4, Episode 6: "The Battle of Zaofu"

Varrick: "Funny story, Bolin. I first got the idea for harnessing spirit power when I watched that giant Unalaq-monster attack the city from my jail cell. That giant monster set me free!" [Turns to Bolin with a meaningful look on his face.]

Also, Mechs are actually a typical and common part of the DieselPunk genre, and I actually answered that under another post:  

https://www.tumblr.com/i-am-extremely-mad/706005529101762560/if-anyone-thinks-the-giant-mecha-in-tlok-is-absurd

[thenightlymartini]

First Chapter to “The Twin Diaries”-Revamped Posted

Title: The Twin Diaries

Rating: M, Archive Warning’s Apply (Planned Underaged Drinking, Warnings, Characters, and Other Tags will be updated as the story progresses) Will be a mix of serious Hurt/Comfort Themes and Humor Themes.

CW: brief/vague depiction of a car accident and death, trauma, grief, loss, culture shock, future CWs will apply and be added to AO3 tags as they develop.

Summary:

Human AU

Yong-Soo's life was going great, until a car accident and the deaths of his father and best friend turn that all upside down. He then has to move from Korea to live with his estranged mother and twin brother in the United States, who he didn't know he had. He also has to adjust to going to school at a military academy, adjust to a new culture and way of life, and deal with the grief and trauma of losing family and everything he had come to know as familiar. Yet, he's not alone in this struggle.

Sang-Kyu had a rough, but decent life. He's been in and out of hospitals more times than he cares to count, too many surgeries, an absent father, and an immune system that has caused him to be more reclusive than he would like. He had a boyfriend, a caring, but strict mother, and a life that was starting to turn up, even if he didn't know what he wanted to do with his life after high school. His estranged father's death and readjusting to now having a twin brother in his life was not part of the plan. Now, he has to navigate the maze that is his family situation and build a relationship with his twin. Easier said than done.

Characters: Features Mainly South Korea (Hetalia) and North Korea (Hetalia), but also has planned America (Hetalia) and Russia (Hetalia) as supporting characters. Other characters will be added to the tags of AO3 as they appear in the story.

Original Characters are used and the three OCs of Gojoseon, Jin, and Baekje are owned by @circlique, though the human names for Gojoseon and Jin are ones that I did create.

Pairings: Pre-Established RusNK (Russia x North Korea) and Eventual/Slow Burn of Kimchiburger (America x South Korea)

Link

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Tumblr user just-rogi reblogged circlique, presumably adding the following tags from the following images: Image 1: [hashtag] ok I know this is a hypothetical and not [hashtag] and it depends on the vampire mythology [hashtag] but i actually get really into this in my comic [hashtag] and maybe I'm biased bc I started writing it when I was out of work due to a sudden onset of a disability out of my control and felt really [hashtag] guilty about taking up resources from people who 'actually needed' it [hashtag] so take what I say with a grain of salt but [caps] No No No [end caps] [hashtag] vampires in mythos where they are humans infected with a disease against their will [caps] are [end caps] disabled [hashtag] and they [caps] need [end caps] blood to live and survive [hashtag] sure they might not need it in the same way as someone who is undergoing surgery or in a car crash or in need of a transfusion [hashtag] but the fact remains that if they don't get blood they WILL die same as any other person on a blood donation waiting list Image 2: [hashtag] it just so happens that [caps] they [end caps] are a class with a stigma against them who aren't able to get treatment from the hospital due to the stigma [hashtag] around their illness but they [caps] still need blood [end caps] [hashtag] and they [caps] deserve [end caps] access to [caps] clean [end caps] blood in a dignified non traumatic way [hashtag] in the same vein (lol get it) people who donate blood do so consensually under the assumption that their blood will go to saving the lives [hashtag] of people in need of it but they don't get to choose (unless it's a direct donation to someone) if that blood goes to a kid with cancer [hashtag] or a person who just killed a family for four in a DUI and needs blood after the crash [hashtag] you don't get to pick who your blood helps after you donate it [hashtag] people on the street also [caps] cannot [end caps] consensually give their blood if a vampire fucking attacks them holy shit that is insanely traumatic for Image 3: [hashtag] both the victim and frankly the vampire as well and if that person or vampire has any comunicable diseases (hiv leukemia or vampirism) [hashtag] both parties are at risk because the blood isn't clean [hashtag] a vampire also can't [caps] tell [end caps] if a person is healthy enough to donate blood just by guessing or how much blood is safe to take or if the person [hashtag] has an underlying condition preventing them from donating blood!! you know who can do that? [caps] Blood banks!! [end caps] [hashtag] an ideal system would have vampires be able to go in and get sterile blood on a regular schedule fully funded by the government [hashtag] however in a modern vampire setting it's much more interesting to look at how the current American healthcare system treats disabled people [hashtag] and makes them jump through hoops to prove that they need treatment [hashtag] as well as the horrors of navigating living with a stigmatized and moralized illness Image 4: [hashtag] the horror isn't vampires stealing from blood banks it is that the healthcare system is set up in such a way that it's [hashtag] most vulnerable people are forced to steal from blood banks or assault people on the streets to get the resources to treat their illness [hashtag] or die.. because that's what it's all about.. vampires will die without blood [hashtag] idk ik they aren't real but I've thought about this a lot and the real horror is what is in front of us every day End ID.

Honestly, I love the idea of a vampire who only drinks blood taken from blood banks and hospitals, because it so beautifully encompasses someone who's more concerned with the vibes of something than the actual impact of it.

Drinking from someone on the street, barring some other condition they may have, isn't likely to kill them unless you gorge yourself. Taking blood packs? There's always a shortage of blood, and having even less of it runs the very real risk of getting someone killed in a way that is wholly out of your control once you've sipped on that blood. Someone you can't assure the innocence or guilt of, if you're the type of person who cares about that.

Despite that, in popular stuff, I often see discussions of drinking from a blood bank being somehow better or preferable, and yeah. No. The only thing it does is make you feel better while doing more harm, because of that degree of removal. You're effectively drinking blood from someone on the cusp of hypovolemic shock, but since it's not straight from the tap, some people seem to think it's better.

[stars-and-birds]

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

ok i know it’s not new years yet for everyone but!! this has been a really good year for me and i wanna thank everyone esp my moots <3 (apologies if i accidentally tagged you/forgot to tag you!)

i don’t talk to a lot of you but always feel free to shoot me a dm btw !!

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[sulemiozine]

Give a warm welcome to @circlique. Their charming art will no doubt bring a smile to your face!

[i-na-ri]

I drew @circlique ‘s OC Juno!!! I read the ficlet and went on a binge of all of their OC art and I fell in love w her character design. Go check them out on all platforms!!!

[ID; a water tribe gurl with brown- blue eyes standing in a lunged fighting pose, holding two medium length silver daggers with golden handles. She has a long, brown colored braid with loose pieces framing her face. She is wearing a navy blue and gray blue jacket, a skirt with similar colors and with three panels, lined with a lighter gray/blue trimming. She wears puffy gray sleeves and pants, with dark gray and blue boots. Around her arms are beige colored bandages, and around her hands are blue gloves. Surrounding her face and hands is a soft yellowish glow.]

[nashdoesstuff]

i hope not.

Is tumblr going to be this annoying with the live action Netflix ATLA if that ever comes out?

[peony-pearl]

Next up for the ocs is @circlique 's Kelsang!