#ramblingsofchimera

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Hetalia has officially turned 18 years old! It is so bittersweet that I have been in this fandom for the vast majority of that time. I have spent over half of my life being obsessed with these silly country people! In all that time nothing media has fascinated me quite as much as Hetalia!

Here's to you, Hetalia, cheers! 💕✨️

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I genuinely think if you showed someone with no knowledge of Hetalia some of the fan content they would think it was one of the most complex, beautiful and human animes ever. Like there are some beautiful historical fan fictions, doujinshi and fan art out there which really humanises the characters and gets into the reality of being immortal, how hard it is to love with all the responsibilities of being a nation and what it is like to try to identify with your nationality/country and the pride and pain that comes from that. And in reality Hetalia is just Germany screaming at Italy for cooking pasta and England calling America stupid and fat for 7 whole seasons.

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When I go to a museum that allows photos I always take a few of things I find interesting. I thought I would share as I know a lot of my mutuals are fellow Hetalians and thus, are also fans of history. I think my love for history can be directly traced back to getting into Hetalia when I was younger haha.

These images were taken at Eden Camp, where German POWs were kept during and after WW2.

One of these images features a vintage 'Taking an L' joke which I genuinely did not know was a thing 80 years ago.

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I started trying to learn German because of Hetalia (Germany/Prussia arw my favs 😭) but I kinda fell off. Now I am trying again but it's so hard to find resources outside of langauge apps.

Does anyone have any beginner reccomendations, like books or audio books or even Youtube resources? I want to turn this weird Hetalia fixation into somthing slightly useful at least.

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Used a shopping service to buy a load of old Hetalia art books and the like second hand. The objectively horrible old promotional art for the anime is beautiful to me. I think it should be in an art gallery. So glad to have a physical collection of it now 😭

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Hello~

May you lore dump about your ocs? 🥺 I checked out the posts about them and they look to be so cool and interesting! Especially since they're inspired by historical fiction and eldritch horror (two things I totally love!) How did you come up with your ocs? -🪽

Yes! Thank you so much for the ask! I love talking about my OCs!

I suppose I should start with the world building. My story takes place in a world where at the closure of WW2, instead of the nuclear bomb being the break out technological advancement, it was the discovery of eldritch outer realms. This brings the war to a quick close as world powers quickly harness the eldritch energy to make new weapons. My story takes place in the aftermath of this. Some societies knew about the outer realms for years but this was the first time humans themselves had access to such power.

The groups that knew about the outer realms were four sets of immortals, that had found their starts on earth via different methods throughout history. Some come from the stars, some from other dimensions and some split off from humans themselves. There are the werewolves, dragons, unicorns and vampires. They all disagree about how humans should be ‘shepherded’ and led into the new eldritch age, and wage war against one another because of it.

Some important OCs of mine are shown below. I will talk a little about them here, in order:

- Pyran: A member of the elusive Unicorn Nomads. He is unfathomably old, is generally kind but can also be arrogant. Believing he knows what is best for everyone due to his status as an old unicorn. He is the partner of Ziggy.

- Ziggy: A human man around 30. His family was involved in the discovery of the eldritch realms years ago and made a fortune from it, but he is a disappointment to them. He isn’t particularly hard working and found it hard to fit in before meeting Pyran and Elsbeth and embarking on a journey with them.

- Scarlett: A human woman who grew up obsessed with the stories of immortals and the discovery of the eldritch realms. She stumbles across Lutz, a werewolf, during her research and marries him.

- Lutz: A blind werewolf warrior from a small village in the middle of nowhere, increases hard to find for those who have not been told where it is. He uses his werewolf abilities to defend his people even though he is blind. He meets Scarlett when she is down on her luck and quickly falls in love with her. Eventually starting a family. Uses a halberd.

- Martin: A vampire who advocates for the spread of eldritch energy and weapons, he is a cruel man, taking pleasure in human suffering. His greatest enemy is Elsbeth as her sun/fire mastery is a threat to an undead like him.

- Joy: A cheerful dragon military leader from the hidden dragon isles, a place entirely inhabited by dragon women. Despite their past, the dragons have not gone to war in a long time and this shows in Joy’s soft, happy demeanour. People are put off by how kind and nice she is for a commander. Elsbeth used to occupy her position in centuries past where dragons were more ‘enthusiastic’ about war and conquest.

- Elsbeth: Possibly the most promising dragon warrior ever to have lived. She is centuries old and a master of flight and fire. She can have a bad temper and tends to hurt people on purpose to hide how much she cares deep down. She was exiled from the dragon isles long ago for bringing disgrace to dragon-kind. She has a rivalry with Joy at first but they quickly learn to love one another. Ziggy is her best friend but she does not approve of Pyran due to his arrogance and status as a unicorn as dragons have historically been at odds with them.

- Nimue: Essentially the antithesis to Elsbeth. A very old water dragon who is also an excellent warrior. They can’t live with one another and they can’t live without one another. She is cheerful and confident and can be a little promiscuous.

- Silas and Cassia: Siblings from the oldest and most respected family in the dragon isles. Cassia is the oldest of many immortal sisters and Silas is her new younger brother. Men do not inherit dragon powers or immortality, but sometimes present with the odd horn or two. Cassia babies him, knowing she will not get much time with him compared to her sisters.

And that’s the basics!! My blog is named after this story, ‘Call of Chimera’. It’s far from done and my dream is to one day make a webcomic about it. Generally the story has a very dieselpunk/fantasy vibe and is an amalgam of inspiration from many of the books, games, shows and legends I love.

Thanks so much for the ask, it has really encouraged me to post more about my characters/original art. If anyone ever wants me to elaborate on any of this stuff, just ask, honestly I am more than happy to ramble more!

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Finally nade a Carrd with all my other socials on there:

Feel free to add me on other places. Also my Discord is the same name as on here. I try to be active for gaming and stuff (mostly Elden Ring/ Dark Souls....)

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The pictures of your nendroids in locations are really cute. Also I want to say you're amazing!-🪽

Thank you so much Anon! ✨

I used to see figure phorography a lot in both the Hetalia and other fandoms back in the day, so I wanted to try it for myself!

I'm glad people seem to like it haha

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Welcome to my blog!

My name is Chimera! I love to draw, collect and sew.

My main loves are From Software games (Dark Souls, Elden Ring, Bloodborne...), X-Men and Hetalia (mostly Germany, Prussia and England) 💕

But I love all sorts of nerdy stuff and the history/controversies of fandom culture in general ✨

Right now I am rediscovering my love of the Avatar ans Alien Vs Predator franchises. I like the Yautja A LOT 😭

I also write/draw my own OCs/universe tagged #callofchimera i'm mostly inspired by historical fiction, eldritch horror and high fantasy!

My ask box is always open and I'm here to have fun and make friends! I hope we all have a great time here!

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Hello Chimera!

How are you? Also imagine this, predator and hetalia crossover au. -🪞🪽🪷

Hello anon! I am good, thank you for asking. I hope you are well too!

A Predator Hetalia crossover AU would be so chaotic! My two hyper obsessions coming together in the strangest AU yet! Although, they did make the Achie vs Predator and Joker vs Alien comics so perhaps it wouldn't be so strange 😆

I think the only character who would stand a chance against the Predator is of course Germany. He wouldn't feel out of place at all in a Predator film, he would actually make a great main character. He's very reminiscent of Dutch from the first film haha.

Everyone else... would struggle 🤣

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Oh no. I rewatched Alien vs Predator for the first time since I was a kid and it awakened a long dormant obsession within me.

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Just found out about Eddie Redmayne's preformance of Cabaret at the Tony awards. Ngl that musical is right up my street with the commentary about fascism in 1930's Germany, cast of colourful international characters and fruity/seedy nightclub vibes. But I really don't want to watch it/listen to it cos I know I will be obsessed and the last thing I want to turn into rn is a theater kid.

I tend to avoid media I know I will enjoy a lot and idk why lmao

Why do people do that?

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I wish I wasn't so shy. I started playing Hell Let Loose and it's a multiplayer game where you really need voice chat and I get so worried people are gonna be weird about me being inexperienced or being a woman playing a WW2 shooter that I just sit there in silence whilst I play 😭😭😭

The people I have played with are usually super nice but sometimes I can tell they are a bit annoyed by me 😭

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The kings official portrait looks like a creepy pasta image. Like Tomino's hell or somthing.

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I used to be big into ita bags cos I love customising things and displaying my fandoms for conventions/anime + gaming meet ups and stuff. I went to a convention yesterday snd it had me really nostalgic seeing everyone elses bags so I have decided I am going to go full 2016 mode and make a new Hetalia ita bag 💕

Although, it will be even better than the 2016 era since they are still pumping out cute Hetalia merch even today 😂

I have everything I need on order now so I will update with the process once it arrives and I start making it.

These are my old gaming/anime bags - since dissasembled and given away. I still like some of these fandoms but others I don't care for anymore. Hetalia is a main stay in my life though so I am super excited for this project! ✨

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These are some that are particularly weird to me:

The beach photos stick in my mind as being very random and poorly drawn, I can't recall ever seeing the one of Germany playing the chello before? And then there is this uncanny of model image of England on a page about how to cook fish and chips, what is wrong with my guys hair? 😭

Used a shopping service to buy a load of old Hetalia art books and the like second hand. The objectively horrible old promotional art for the anime is beautiful to me. I think it should be in an art gallery. So glad to have a physical collection of it now 😭