#hws England

[syatuoi]

confession of a rotten boy

[butt-wizard]

FrUk AU where England gives birth to Canada, original under the cut

[cryptophasia-nabros]

100% on the boys look like their Papa.

I can't draw and this fandom is probably dead but I randomly remember that it is canon that the reason why America and Canada don't have thick eyebrows like other English's colonies is because they inherited their from France so I have to improvise

[lemonerix]

foolishness, love, innocence, admiration

[hetalia-club]

Both raw, next question.

just felt like coloring them <3

[oryspetrushevskaya]

«И хоть английский я пират, кораблям британии не рад.»

[coeur-de-fruk]

Spiders? spider.. Spider! spider.

The giant enemy spider *beatboxes*

[hetalianhistorian]

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[despairgal2312]

Headcanon:

Would nations take notes or not during class?

Germany: Yes. Neat and precise notes organized by topic to make it easier to study.

Italy: No. If you asked for his notes, he’d show you a series of pretty and artist-like drawings of Germany.

Japan: Yes, but only until he notices Italy (who I’ve now decided will be his desk mate) drawing Germany. He gets inspired and starts drawing GerIta and passing his drawings to Hungary.

America: Yes, but it’s just a bunch of notes scribbled around his book, probably surrounded by doodles of himself with a hero cape.

England: Yes, but he only jots down what he finds important, the rest of the time he draws various magical creatures on a sketchbook.

France: No. He’d much rather write stuff on paper planes and send them to Spain and Prussia (who I suppose are desk mates).

Prussia: Yes, surprisingly. Like England, he only writes the important part ‘cause he’s busy writing stuff on France’s paper planes and sending them back.

Spain: No. He’s busy making paper planes and sending them to France, but his paper planes are actually empty and he only makes them to kill time. This often upsets the other two.

Romano: Yes. He’s actually very good at taking notes. If you read them, though, you would find parts where he summarized the point with something like “and then the king fucked up and lost a lot of the land”.

Hungary: No. She waits for Japan to pass her his drawings and then starts writing headcanons behind them.

These are all those which I could clearly see in my head. Sorry if I didn’t put all of the allies.

To make up for it, here’s my idea of how the classroom could look like. (Again, this is not everyone, sorry).

If you have any other opinion or want to add characters, I’d be happy to read it!

[cheesecakehugglesart]

I hate him so much

[vanessalocke]

Britain in the Cold War

These past few days, while searching for material to write my fanfic (FrUK/UKFr), I have spent time reading about British foreign relations in the 20th century. I read from a basic and perhaps unreliable source, English Wikipedia (or rather, quite a few Wikipedia pages). However, from the way it is written, it is clear that the people who wrote the wiki pages I read are British. So, if there are any mistakes, please let me know. Please note that you should not take what I write here as fact. I just write everything based on my memory and bias. You should always fact check everything you read before you use these things for your purposes.

When I read about Britain, I learned that during the Cold War, the country that hated the Reds (as well as the Soviet Union) the most was not America but Britain. Britain was terribly anti-Soviet, and also had a more ferocious arms race than any other country in Europe when fighting the communist wave. The reason Britain maintained close relations with the United States was because the British leaders during the Cold War were extremely anti-communist and needed American weapons to fight the Soviets. They hated the Reds so much that they became paranoid, and at that time, only America could counter the Soviets. From Churchill to Margaret Thatcher, it was the same.

Meanwhile, France actually did not hate the Reds that much. From 1960 onwards (I don’t remember the exact time frame), France began to re-establish contact with the Soviet Union and recognized the People’s Republic of China. The EEC established by France was actually a declaration that Europe was not under the control of the two factions in the Cold War.

NATO actually originated from a separate treaty between Britain and France, the Dunkirk Treaty of 1947. Later, the new treaty gradually added Benelux, gradually expanding it. After this military alliance expanded, Britain worked with the United States to turn this alliance into NATO aka the anti-red stronghold, adding the United States and Canada to this alliance. That is, the information that the United States established NATO that websites often talk about is actually a fake fact, the United States was actually the one who joined later, not the one who presided. The predecessor of NATO was not to fight the reds, but it became an anti-red outpost because of Britain's will. Considering the starting point as well as the time when the alliance was transformed into NATO, the presiding one was Britain. Later, France wanted to separate from the Cold War situation, so France withdrew from the military command for 43 years.

Actually, the anti-red wave in Britain is not a difficult phenomenon to understand. Britain has Adam Smith as the father of capitalism, the industrial revolution as the premise for the means of production and the creation of the working class, the utilitarianism that people are selfish, Britain itself is an empire... that is, capitalism is closely linked to British identity. All the stereotypes that characterize Britain today started from capitalism and the glory that Britain once had was also from capitalism. I always feel strange that when people think of Britain, they think of royalty, court culture, and aristocracy, but in fact, those are things that Britain is heavily influenced by the continent (mainly from France) and are not unique to Britain. What is truly a prominent feature of Britain is utilitarianism and capitalism, which no one really cares about.

The British leaders in NATO once said "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" 🫠 Yes, you guys are right, after WW2 the British were not only anti-Red but also hated the Germans. They were one of the countries that most fiercely opposed the annexation of East and West Germany after the Cold War.

Actually, at first, Britain had the same idea as France. That is, after WW2 ended, Britain considered leading Europe with France to counter both America and the Soviet Union (still, every scenario is anti-Soviet). That is, we almost had an EEC/EU in which the leaders were not France - Germany but Britain - France. But the problem here is that at that time, Britain was bankrupt, had given up all of their colonies, Canada had exempted Britain from paying its debts, but Britain was still deeply in debt. In addition, America was eyeing the markets of former British colonies, trying to push Britain out of the Middle East so that America could get in. In the end, Britain could not bear the cost, so it let America take over all of Britain’s market share and heritage. Or it can be said that Britain went home to retire, from now on, all the family matters were handed over to his son (and if Britain did not hand it over, it would be impossible because if he did not, America would strangle the old man =)))))))) ). France saw that Britain siding with America was not good, there was no longer any pride of the former empire (and what the hell is this pride, Britain even owed their colonies and the colonies had to forgive the debt). So France said: "If you don't do it, I will." France turned to shake hands with Germany to establish the EEC.

But talking about this, it leads to another. The establishment of the EEC by France with Germany was a consequence of Britain's previous actions. It was not without reason that France abandoned Britain and went with Germany. The thing is, before the peak of the Entente Cordiale, these two countries had been at peace with each other for nearly 100 years (since 1815, after Napoleon, there had been no more wars) and during that time, the two countries became increasingly closer to each other, colonial disputes were all negotiations, not fighting anymore. But the problem here is that in this relationship, Britain was the dominant party and had greater influence. There was even a time when France had to withdraw from a territory only at Britain's request, because "Fashoda was a diplomatic victory for the British because Paris realised that in the long run it needed friendship with London, especially in the case of a war between France and Germany.". Yep, that's it, Germany was the subject that Britain used as a condition for negotiating with France. "Either you listen to me and I will fight the Germans with you, or you defy me and I will let you fight the Germans yourself."

With Germany's growing power, Britain always had a conciliatory attitude, "forbearance is better than forgiveness". The brutality of WW1 left the British with a fear of war, so in the period between WW1 and WW2, Britain actually always had a policy of concessions to Germany, while France hated Germany so much that France triggered everything that had Germany in it, always demanding to attack Germany. Just imagine the British-French team at that time, one wanted to bomb the neighbor while the other tried every way to stop his friend, making peace with the neighbor. Britain even tried to ease the Versailles Treaty so that Germany would pay less compensation, as well as telling France to let Germany occupy Czechoslovakia "to satisfy their own needs". Many people also said that actually letting Germany attack Poland at the beginning of WW2 was Britain's intention, using Poland as a scapegoat for Germany. As mentioned above, in the Anglo-French relationship at that time, England actually had the upper hand, and most decisions from the Anglo-French team at that time had to have England's consent.

After that, everyone knows what happened 🫠 After WW2 ended, Britain hated Germany so much. France, after WW2 and during the Cold War, felt that they could no longer trust Britain, so they turned to play with Germany. France's reason was that at this time, Germany still had half of their territory, and their army was prevented from redeveloping their military and waging war, so France thought that if they established the EEC with this guy, they would be able to control this guy 🫠 and as mentioned above, because the nature of the EEC was to be independent of both America and the Soviet Union, so when Britain applied to join the EEC, France said: "This is my territory, stop doing business with the Americans and I'll let you in 🤗". Britain was so upset that Britain cried (literally. The British Prime Minister was so upset that he cried after the negotiations to join the EEC). Because England couldn't give up the special relationship with America, if they did, they wouldn't have a source of weapons to fight the Soviets.

TL;DR: Britain hated the Soviet Union more than the US, so Britain's main focus in its relations with the US was to fight the Soviet Union (oh, Britain never expected that the US would never hate the Soviet Union the way Britain hated the Soviet Union. When the Soviet Union was dying, the US sent experts to find ways to help the Soviet Union, while when the Soviet Union died, Britain celebrated). Britain was angry with the Franco-German relationship because Britain had neglected to defend against Germany, which led to Britain having to confront Germany in WW2. Not only that, the war with Germany made Britain bankrupt, in debt, and had to side with America in the Cold War instead of being self-sufficient. Because they couldn't be self-sufficient, Germany later took the position that should have been Britain's in the cooperative relationship with France.

[rosesandalfazemas]

Some creatures turn their love into obsession

[noodlepai]

Iggyyy

[theherdofturtles]

Inspired from one of the last scenes of @historicalclaptrap's Family in Darkness.

"England was not his problem. England should never have been his problem. But when a magical mishap de-ages England into a vulnerable child, India can't turn away. Trapped between his alienated ally and his worst enemy he must break this curse. Before past and present tear them all apart." It's got some of the very best fandom tropes all in one place: de-aging, complicated family dynamics, and former enemies working together. Also a lot of magic. Feral magic. There wasn't a chance I could've passed this one by with these excellent content labels. And if you're someone who enjoys exploring Hetalia characters that aren't part of the 'main G8,' this fic includes India's family, the UK bros, and Norway as some main players.

[biathelstan]

☆postage stamps