#russia au

[riotorioprints]

russreal!hum!mo4 and bachisig.

[etoilesombre]

Never have I ever game-- you're known for playing with the source material in ways that don't change canon's outcome, but would you ever do a non-canon Black Sails take? An AU that is entirely different setting from pirates, mod au, fairytale au, space au, cowboy au, etc?

Oh that is a great question. I don't generally do AU, and especially not modern AU, because for me personally it is hard to put them into a high enough stakes environment to explore the elements of the show I'm interested in. HOWEVER. There is one that I started to consider a while ago and have pretty thoroughly fleshed out, and have a serious plan to start once other projects are finished, and that is: Russian Revolution AU! Ok. Stick with me here. [Or don't. I'm going to put this under a cut, it is a lot, and may not make very much sense if you don't already know something about the historical period.]

So, I love the idea of using the Russian revolution as a way to explore some of the same dynamics as the show because it is a period in which there was a lot of righteous idealism, and then it all went very wrong, which naturally brings up questions of ideological commitment vs survival, what are you willing to sacrifice, how do your ideals hold up in the real world, etc. It is also a time when how queerness was treated was very in flux, fitting well with 'we care if its politically convenient to care.'

Basically, we start in the early 1920s right after Lenin dies. Flint is a general, old guard party member, was a commander in the civil war. He is known for doing Really Heinous Flinty Shit during that period. He is sort of revered but also feared, and very ideologically motivated, and so of course he is about to get his ass purged when Stalin starts to consolidate and bring everybody into line.

Silver (10ish years younger) grew up during the upheaval of the 1905, WWI, 1917. He's his survivalist trauma bundle self, and ends up working as a low level NKVD (early Soviet intelligence) guy. He gets sent to keep tabs on/gather evidence against Flint - there is immediately a Frenemies attraction spark there. For Plot Reasons they have to do something together and become Reluctant Allies. I have some of the actual plot worked out but I'm not going to get much into it here, but there is absolutely a parallel conflict in values to the show, and choice that has to be made at the end.

IN THE MEAN TIME interspersed through all of this, in flashbacks: back sometime in the years right after the 1905 revolution, Flint is a promising young military guy who came up from nothing, and has a Hennessey parallel benefactor who sends him to school to be educated. He falls in with Thomas, who is the son of a minor prince, very queer and getting away with it, and is a radical in the Christian anarchist Tolstoy model. Flint gets radicalized through him and his friends, they spend happy years abroad in exile with Thomas writing and Flint being a tactician and doing direct action stuff. They come back in 1917, the civil war starts, Thomas is basically murdered by his family because he sided against them, and he is still set to inherit. SO, that is why Flint goes all Darkness and gets especially nasty during the civil war.

There is a Miranda proxy as well. I believe she disappears and her disappearance is what sets off Plot Events.

It's also set in St. Petersburg, if anybody is wondering. Moscow, with the level I have Flint at, would involve too much interaction with Actual Historical Figures, and while I know a fair amount about this era and am totally committed to research, but still, that gets to be Much.

So, there you have it, Russia AU! My delusional long-term goal is for this to be different enough from canon that it could be published. Thanks for the ask, it's helping me get excited about that project again!

[where-are-the-pixels]

[khloxxy]

🌻🍔 x The Batman (2022)

[ivanscarf]

italy’s pov after he has to sell his organs to the big 5

10 points to anyone who knows what i redrew

[forsoobado137]

🍩donutdaddy Follow

I was researching the American Revolution for my final and came across this gem.

🦄uminamina Follow

I need to see that fucking letter or I will die unfulfilled.

🦍caraismogging Follow

Alfred when Jefferson wont let him send his illiterate letter with doodles of toy soldiers to the British head of state

#nation people #npusa #np archives #holy shit nothing has changed

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🏴timeforhallowseve-deactivated

love how confidently wrong you are op

🥬my_cabbagessss Follow

You write Russia x Stalin fics your opinion is worthless to me

🧊ivanbragnskymybeloved Follow

WHAT THE FUCK

🚀brainblast64 Follow

They even wrote a Russian translation. I love that they made it accessible to Russian people while still having the audacity to write a fucking Russia x Stalin fic without any irony whatsoever.

#nation people #nprussia #ivan braginsky #i need a lobotomy now

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🎨callmepicasso Follow

Okay put a finger down if you were visiting family in Rome and while at a restaurant you saw the NP of Italy walk in and then he sat down at the table behind you and your grandmother who is kind of senile whispered to you about her secret steamy affair with Veneziano and you said "okay nonna" and a few minutes later the NP of Italy turned around and shouted "ALESSIA?!" and the two spent the rest of the night catching up in front of your family.

🎭dwugdimmadome Follow

🎹moonlightdenada Follow

What's up with nation people rizzing up all of our grandmothers?!

🍄champchampi Follow

In my country (France) almost everyone at my school have a story about the NP getting freaky with one of their relatives.

🧅beterheys Follow

OH MY GOD ITS ON MY DASH IM FUCKING CRYING

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[victoria-weee]

Omg… HANDSOME PEPPINOS

WOKSIDSJJDJDJDD THANK YOU SO MUCH XBEIH✨

@bobmirum @tinderboxofsillyideas @ali-flaion @kairokust @sillykimiko @victoria-weee

4u🖤

[universal-casey]

Finally! Ship art! He’s in love :)

[kalashnikovlobotomy]

guy who thinks the world revolves around him and the people who are proving him right. guy whose absence haunts the narrative more than his presence ever did.

[sunflowerpieivan]

Olga and little Ivan. He is very shy

[zakuramochi]

Hetalia World Stars ★ Gangsta (Chapter 5) English Translation!

Relatively short chapter this week...! Based on the speaking style on the last page, the next player seems to be England...!

[rosesandalfazemas]

Which is your dream for the future?

Best AU? Best AU.

Ganstalia past.

[nuwibo]

1950s golden age hollywood where big shot actor Alfred falls for indie film director Ivan

[where-are-the-pixels]

[artistically-hershie]

Crying that Hima hit us with the Turquoise eye colored young Ivan.

Turquoise is my favorite color....

And a old my friend hit me with the idea of

Blue Eye Stare Ivan

[sunflowerchan04]

Lovers on the embankment, Leningrad, circa. 1961-1969, by Vsevolod Tarasevich.