#not really hetalia fan art

[sunnylolli]

All the talk about punk dad Artur again is the perfect escape from how awful starting uni has been

[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.

[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.

[scotfraweek]

It’s here guys! The long awaited list for ScotFra Week! Thank you to those of you who voted on the poll/form

I hope you guys like the list I created. I had to really think this through and really decide how I wanted to organize the Themes/Prompts in a way that would not only make sense but that would be interesting and bring out your creative and imaginative ideas to the event.

Now without any further ado, here they are

🌹Day 1 - October 20

Soulmates / Reincarnation

“Maybe we make it in another universe/life”

“Have we met before?”

High School Sweethearts

Differences Attract

❤️Day 2 - October 21

Humanverse VS Fantasy

“We can build something new, for us.”

“Have you ever wondered, of what could’ve been?”

Long-Distance Relationship

🌹Day 3 - October 22

A/B/O or Pirates/Merfolk

“I was here first!”

“Is this what you want?”

Unplanned Pregnancy

Jealousy

❤️Day 4 - October 23

✨F R E E D A Y✨

Anniversary

🌹Day 5 - October 24

Horror / Supernatural (In honor of Halloween)

“Why is there so much blood?!”

“So everything you said was a lie?”

There was only one bed

Serial Killer/ Haunted House

❤️Day 6 - October 25

Artist/Fan or Detectives

“There was a slight miscommunication”

“You’ve never done this before, have you?”

Love = Weakness

Rivalry

🌹 Last Day - October 26

Angst/Hurt or Post Apocalypse

“Do you remember when…?”

“I trusted you!”

Character Death/Still Alive

The End of the World

🌹 Of course if you guys would like, you can mix and match. If a prompt from a different day fits your idea for one of the Themes, you are more than welcome to use it. You also can use more than one prompt if you wish as well!

❤️ Art, fics/one-shots and moodboards are all welcomed. Anything that you can use to express your imagination and creativity

✨How to submit your works✨

Just tag the account @scotfraweek as well as the #/ScotFraWeek2024 with your submission/post

✨R U L E S✨

Yes, there are rules guys… please follow them

I will not tolerate any bashing of other Hetalia Characters even if it is for the sake of your idea. Please be respectful of the other characters, I don’t want any fan-wars bc someone’s blorbo was bashed

Try to keep politics and actual life events to a minimum, no need for there to also be any actual hate/fighting during the event amongst participants.

I will say this only once, please to not use other artist’s/writer’s work to enter the event. All work must be solely yours. If someone calls you out for plagiarism, I will NOT be defending you, you’re on your own for that

Please, please, PLEASE, and I can NOT stress this enough, but absolutely no AI can be used for your submissions. Once again, all works must be unique and original. If your work requires AI, then it is NOT original. I will not reblog your work if i get the slightest hint of AI work, and believe me, I can tell

Please keep comments on other participants work friendly. Respect the other participant’s submissions for the event. If you do not like someone’s work for whatever reason — Block the user. I will not stand for any hate/bullying in other people’s post because their work did not meet your expectations. This also goes for spectators who will not be submitting work of their own.

Finally, have fun! This event is about showing love and creativity for the french bastard and his ginger himbo hubby. Bring out your creativity and your best suit!

Late submissions will still be accepted up to 3 days after the event is over!

‼️If you feel like another participant’s work is breaking the rules or is offensive towards you or anyone else, be sure to let me know so proper actions will be taken

📫The account’s inbox will be open for any questions or even ideas that you have in regards of the event!

💔I genuinely do apologize, I had truly intended to have this out a few days ago, but … things happen. I hope you are not too mad or upset with me

🤍 Can’t wait to see all your guy’s works next month, see you then!

@hetaliacalendar if you wouldn’t mind reblogging for a little signal boost pls 😭

[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

[hetalian-veteran]

The Curious Case of Hetalia's Scotland

I will never get over what I like to call "The Curious Case of Hetalia's Scotland." Not only because I find it funny, but because to me, this is something that demonstrates the pure power of fandom and fanon.

Because for the longest time, we didn't really have Scotland in the series. Like, we knew he was technically a canon character, seeing as he was mentioned by England a time or two before, but we had no design or skits of him at the time. Not to mention those comments were only made in the comics, which many fans didn't read, seeing as many of us only stuck to the anime for the longest time (which is me, I am many fans. I am still trying to find the courage to read the manga aside from little panels I find online).

And so, what did the Hetalia fandom do? Well, the fandom did what the fandom does best... Taking matters into their own hands and creating their own design for the character/country.

I'm not gonna put an actual picture of the fanon design here because I don't want to repost anyone's art without their permission, but if you look up "hetalia scotland" on google, and then click on "images", you'll get the picture of what I'm thinking of. A tall guy with pale skin, bright green eyes, fiery red hair, and wearing a cobalt-blue suit with two white sashes across the front. A man who literally just looks like a human personification of the Scottish flag.

Now, I have no idea who came up with the fanon design for Scotland. I've looked, and I genuinely cannot find out who the first person was who drew him. But regardless, this is the design that the fandom largely latched onto. So much so to the point where you had people making fanart, fanfics, and even cosplays of this character. People even collectively decided on his personality, interests, what his relationships with other the characters were like, etc. (This can all be found on the fan character wiki). It even got to a point where I, as well as many others, genuinely started to believe that this was the canon design/version of the character for the longest time. Primarily because we just didn't know any better.

In short, the fanon version of aph Scotland spread far and wide throughout the fandom, and everyone seemed to just largely accept him, even to the point of believing he was canon.

And then one day, Himaruya drops this sketch.

He posted this and said that the characters here were Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. However, he didn't say who was who, so we were left to guess which character was which at the time. We were getting closer to a canon Scotland but were still unsure which one he was. And even then, you had people who still clung to the fanon version.

And the later, Himaruya formally introduced Scotland in the comics and even released this piece of official, beautiful art.

Fully illustrated designs of all of the UK brothers. England, Northern Ireland, Wales... And Scotland.

This was it. We, as the fandom, finally had our canonical version of Scotland, as well as the rest of the UK brothers. But let's be real here, when it came to fanon-created characters, the fans largely latched onto Scotland.

And what did a large chunk of the fandom do?

That's right. I dunno about everyone else in the fandom, but in the fan spaces I was in, you had a large chunk of people who took one look at the canon design and thought to themselves, "Yeaaah no. We like our version better."

And I just... This is still so funny and wild to me.

Imagine waiting years to get a character design, and when the design finally comes out, you have since become so married to a fanon design, that when you look at the canon design, you go, "No thanks."

It seems like people have become much more accepting of the canonical design of aph Scotland over time (and I'm happy for that), but even so, the sheer reach and influence that the fanon design of Scotland had is nothing short of amazing to me.

Anyway, there you go, that's my ramble for the day.

[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

[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..)

[chao-mp3]

what is gangstalia even abaut

[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 ☺️

[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!