#not really hetalia fan art

[crepegosette]

I'm a bit late but here's my piece for the @hws-anthology!!

Big thanks to the mods for having me in the zine!! Also be sure to check the other works!! A lot of amazing and talented people helped it become a thing! :]

[gear-station-square]

終電

[chao-mp3]

I love them is so unreal and unhealthy.

[luderailing]

mutation

[dappy-dappernette]

Aaaugh ngl sometimes it's hard to find artists to follow because 90% of them draw your NOTP, especially when your current fave is a half of that NOTP, and most of the people drawing him are fans of said ship.

Obviously no shame to them, ship what you want as long as children aren't involved with adults but like- Still.

[jackjellington]

"BE GAY, DO CRIMES!"

"No! No crime."

"... be gay?"

"... yes."

[wonderful-world-of-hetalia]

not sure if it’s just me, but does anyone in the fandom still struggle with the fact that there’s people who will still not reblog art? look, i get it, likes are nice, but likes literally do not do anything! i have to explain this so many times that Tumblr does not have an algorithm!

i literally made this blog to reblog so much art! i still see people struggling to even get (1) reblog, me included! so many people actually give up on art because they work so hard on a piece, and i want to actually be a part of the solution to the problem that is plaguing not just this fandom, but countless other fandoms!

there’s a difference however in telling people that reblogs are preferable, and guilt tripping people into reblogging art. guilt tripping fucking sucks, as someone who had survived countless amounts of emotional abuse within and outside the fandom! telling people how tumblr works however, by reblogging art to show to a broader audience, is the better and much healthier way! remember, likes are basically a bookmark that nobody else can see. reblogging is like saying “hey, look at this pretty cool piece of art i found and I think everyone should see it!”

even if you might say “do this for yourself, don’t let numbers dictate how good your art is!” i still believe that any piece of art deserves to be shown, even if its like someone’s passion project! let all the art be shown!

[kostnyan]

Okay so like I think k I'm coming back for a little bit to reblog Buck-Tick stuff because I'm so normal about them actually, and other things like my silly and actually toxic BLs. Anyone reading An Unsettling Scent or a unfinished Business? I have. That's the shit I'm into. Gonna start reblogging probably pretty soon.

[portuguts]

hello!! i'm barely acquainted with the hetalia community on tumblr since i mainly dwell on hetagram but i'll plaster this here since there seems to be a lil spamano community :3

i'm making a discord server for spamano fans, by a spamano fan, where people can share their art/head canons/etc. everyone's allowed to join <3 i don't really have dni criteria unless you're an antishipper idk :v

you're welcome to extend this invitation to others and reshares are appreciated for visibility even if you don't plan on joining ❤️ here's the invite link: https://discord.com/invite/rG8cWKVJ

[0mega-x]

Hellooo, I'm interested in GerFra, can you please explain why it's your favourite ship? I want to be open to new ships, thanks!

Well... it's kinda been my first ship in Hetalia, even before Gerita or Fruk.

I find Gerfra very attractive for the whole European project thing. They are literally THE power couple. You can find so much stuff on recent news about those two lmao. Plus I do find their chemistry together really good, whether in canon or in most fanon work. Their personalities are literally so funny when put together. I mean, I guess you have seen the pecs scene....

I absolutely eat the shit out of any fanfiction exploring the way their relationship would evolve from WWII to today. It's an enemy to lovers but going way faster than Fruk. From hatred to awkwardness, to friendship and maybe love (not every fanfiction has them as lovers but they're still so good). Add the whole HRE story and fkjdkdbdkeje

Also there's the fact that I'm French, that I've always seen so much stuff about Franco-german relations (whether for commemoratons or at school). Also my dad is a huge ARTE fan and ESPECIALLY Karambolage. So.. those things might have helped ?

Anyway. I really REALLY recommend you go read fanfics about those two, even if it's platonic, it's great. Also, I'd recommend you check out some of @oplusplus 's works on Gerfra if you haven't already Parents!Gerfra is just so uuuughsksjdk (sorry o++ for the tag if you didn't want it..)

[crepegosette]

thing I put much effort on and would've putted more if my hand wasn't hurting

anyway, have 60s-70s Brazil thinking about things that happened

[olympeline]

@endlesscolddreams and @liemurienn dropped some really good replies on my USUK vs. FrUK post and it’s made me think about the differences between both pairings and why they might attract their respective fans the way they do.

Let’s begin with USUK, which nearly from series start has more canon on its side. Or rather it has more “serious” moments. Hetalia is a gag show at heart and its non-jokey parts are few and far between, ship tease included. The first gut punch most fans will encounter is Alfred and Arthur’s battle during the American War for Independence. That will definitely stick with a lot of people if for no other reason than it’s so unexpected. The funny, silly anime about pasta and gag war abruptly pivots to a main character sobbing his heart out in the rain while another looks on, stony faced, with no joke at all. This can’t not leave an impression. Even fans who loathe Alfred never try to pretend his effect on Arthur isn’t huge. Then the series carries on teasing the things left unsaid between them in both serious and silly shapshots. With all this is mind, it’s not hard to see why USUK became the big, swinging dick of Hetalia’s ships. Aside from the borderline canon Gerita, nothing else really has the weight behind it I think.

This definitely makes it what I would call an “easy” ship to get into. That sounds bad because fandoms can be very judgey about pairings they find to be basic. Just like everything else in the arts, there’s a perception among some people that if something is popular then it must be dumber/less deep/worse. Pure elitism basically. And it’s bollocks. Just because something is popular with the masses doesn’t make it worse. It just means it’s popular. Plenty of people hate USUK for the perfecly legitimate reason that it just doesn’t gel with them. But there’s always been a minority undercurrent of “I hate this just because it’s the fandom’s most visible ship!” Seen this happen a million times with other communities over the years.

USUK also has the almost universally beloved tropes of Happy, Gregarious, Extroverted one loves Moody, Gloomy, Introverted one. Who loves him back but can’t say it because tsundere. FrUK on the other hand is more subtle. It has Slowburn, Rivals/Enemies to Lovers as its bread and butter. These tropes are well loved but there’s no big, attention grabbing dramatic moment early on that makes use of and cements the FrUK interpretation of them in the minds of fans. Francis and Arthur share a lot of screentime but it’s all jokey and fun. Even the ship tease is all gags relating to Francis being comically pervy and Arthur being comically stuffy and flustered. Francis gets some heart rending moments later (Joan of Arc, the wish for a mortal life) but Arthur isn’t included. Even though he could have been because of what happened to Joan. It’s left up to the fans to add him. In another universe the Closet Cleaning arc was replaced by a Bitter Hundred Years War arc, and FrUK subsequently took the top spot in the fandom’s ship rankings as a result.

Leaving plain, old personal taste aside, I think all this divided the fandom between shippers who wanted something they could leap into and get early gratification (USUK) vs shippers who wanted to expend a little more energy on interpretation (FrUK). Because there’s plenty of drama to be had with Francis and Arthur thanks to the French/English historical rivalry (see above). But it’s not offered up on a plate in canon like with Arthur and Alfred. A USUK shipper gets drama given to them while a FrUK shipper has to dig deeper and make their own fun. Different strokes.

This kind of thing is very interesting to me. Please feel free to add on your own interpretations if you like ☺️

[chao-mp3]

what is gangstalia even abaut

[maibluemen]

so, for example, i'm an art historian who focuses on italian renaissance/baroque art, but my interest in heta characters is mostly eastern europe, so my Academic Interests don't really intersect much with my Fandom Interests

also feel free to mention what your focus is and your fave heta characters/time period to play around with is in the tags!

[hellonerf]

suicide is discouraged in the workplace

im not even gonna try to be coherent here. this is not an analysis post i am braindead. if i was a better artist makima wouldve been my muse when i was deep into chainsawman. actuallt she kind of was but i pussyed out

OK everyone here can subconsciously understand this connection. dont get too hung up on makima's strong motherhood theme and i just thought about what if ame was motherly and i couldn't kill myself right aftee thinking that as i have no means to it. that was a joke its late and im just me. i decided i wasnt a fan of motherly ame though so all suicidal thoughts erased. i am really chill now

old makima fanart i drew that im trying not to rip my hairs out over thinking about it with ame. also dont worry if this makes tou find my mainblog or main accounts whatever

actually theyre really different in many ways now that im looking at these. ame is so much of a son and makima is so much of a mother its like oppsoite spectrums. but thay makes the commonalities fun actuallt. i keep thinking about the movies and makima hating bad movies. ame is not an art kid by any means does he even care of the beauty of the world? i doubt it. but he likes bad movies and he likes cheap entertainment so who knows... they'd disagree on that. well i think makima's opinion on that was pretty extreme so i think most would disagree with her really

i could imagine ame going "Chainsawman. Doesn't spit." and smoking for the first time to look cool like in movies only to pathetically cough. thats their common trait... artifice... humans... but in a way that loops back to being Really Human i guess. holds a kind of arrogance and hubris that is so associated with humanity. it cant be anything else. ame should kill himself i think he should get moments of clarity and awareness and want to kill himself rqlly bad

both concepts of control. awesome. SUICIDE IS NOT ENDORSED IN THE WRKPLACE. ame goes to protestant church once or twice and sleeps because hes useless. makima is baptised and goes to local catholic churches not the cathedrals she supports the local christians.FUCK i just remembered the country mouse city mouse thing. ame is a liar and hates everything and loves everything and never feels content. i like to imagine him as a country mouse so fucking bad i want him to chill out one day and go to those middle of nowheres i know exist in america(can i shove cana in here and get away with it). why are they in the city if they are country mice? because..... you know..... you understand..... another w for eternal unhappiness (refer to title of this post)(suicide is discouraged in the workplace)

they are evil bosses i am the employee and when i ask for a break they gaze at me with a vacant stare and smile and i know in my heart they are viewing me like i am beneath them. i get scared and run away but truth is they didnt hear my request. they do not register individual people

if they met they would know immediately and viceversa. because everyone knows subconsciously because lying is futile and everything melts away. ame:i know a toxic boymom when i see one... okay im kidding makima is a toxic boymom if u push the chainsawman in ur head 🙂 ame as a kind of control devil works inmy head. i really believe ame was a polite child but demanding in many ways. sincerely wanting.

ame:gun devil i'll give you one year of the lifespans of the american people. in exchange i want you to kill makima—that is... the control devil (i never got around to drawing this)(ame and gun devil can you imagine)

or:gun devil i'll give you one year of the lifespans of the american people. in exchange i want you to kill alfred f jones—that is... the united states of america (paradox)

throughout all this i wanted to cite the best makima artist in the world ever but i'd feel bad if they wouldn't want to be associated with evil hetalia america blog. also i want to be normal and not cringe at being cringe just becayse i think makima was a thunderstrike of genius that i shouldn't taint. ame is a more flexible character to me for obvious reasons. this is how i'd shove ame into makima's role. but u couldn't put makima as ame. only one way. im okay with that. concept idea consensus words fear control blablabla u get the point i hate using words dont care sleepy now

[kacakacafall]

I finally finished them! Nyo America in 1920s-1950s fashion! More specifically, in suits, so those are the looks that I think she would have when being in workplaces.

I rarely draw full-body images, turns out the thing that would persuade me to draw more of them is historical costumes Lol, and the biggest thing that makes me want to draw this set is actually Nyo America's hair. Her curly hair just resembles soooooo much with those hairstyles between the 1920s and 1950s, which also goes along with historical costumes during those times so well.

and a bonus one:

another version of 1940s Nyo America, I originally thought the costumes would suit her very well, turns out that she looks either like a school girl wearing school uniform, or a teenager who tried to put on her mother's clothes Lol, which makes sense, since fashion during those time periods are generally designed for older women, so she is still a bit too young(at least physically) to wear them.

individual drawing and related rants below:

1920s style is very distinctive, it didn't suit her body type, but the young and energetic vibe definitely goes along well with her. I actually don't think Emily was a flapper during the 1920s, she resembled the independent part of a flapper, but I think she was too workaholic to spend much time having fun Lol 1920s America is such an interesting topic to explore, in terms of Hetalia fan art/fanfiction.

1930s, all I remember before is the great depression and Hollywood glamour stuff, but no one told me that women's suits were soooo handsome and dashing during that time period?? I feel like she walked from an old movie when drawing the clothes. It somewhat felt gloomy and serious, which I feel implied the atmosphere of the 1930s, since the great depression was there.

When I looked for references and general information about 1940s fashion, it is said that during that time period, clothes designs were added with a military uniform style touch, and I definitely felt that when drawing this. It feels like an interesting hybrid of 1930s and 1950s styles, not as distinctive and striking as those two, but still has its own elements and beautiful styles.

The 1950s, it is said that it was a time period when American design started to stand on its own, which may explain why I felt that she is so in her element in this look, even if she looks 10 years older than her actual physical age Lol, She looks very mature when wearing like this, but not in a forced way, which really resemble the American 1950s history, since she was becoming a user power at that time.

Overall, I really enjoyed drawing those, it is always super interesting to explore what would Hetalia characters wear during different time periods(with various hairstyles). I may never draw the exact canon design of Nyo America, but I really like the design of her relatively short and curly hair, which really resembles the fashion trends from the 1920s to the 1950s.