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Thank YOU for having me up on the Norwegian mountain ✨💜

So many many thanks to @lumierew , @cat-with-a-tie , and @kleinzarohe for getting this amazing package to me up on the Norwegian mountain for my birthday last week! 💖 I don't think you know how much I appreciate it, you guys are incredible 🥺✨

#hetalia #hetalia fan merch #good stuff

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Holy shit this is exactly what I’d imagined!! They look so miserable I love it 😭😭😭

"Can you just imagine Norway and Sweden here, forced to take a picture together during their union in the 1800s??"

Or, something like that, is about what @cat-with-a-tie said just before requesting this exact scenario ✨

#hetalia #historical hetalia #aph norway #aph sweden #hws norway #hws sweden #sunor #my favourite ex husbands #five hours was nothing def would do it again #also what was that about struggling with backgrounds again?? #you’ve got to be kidding me mate this is IMMACULATE #im working on the asks I swear #any day now 😔😔

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#hetalia #aph #aph norway #aph nordics #hws nordics #hws sweden #hws norway #aph sweden #sunor #I LIVE #apparently I’m never getting tired of this joke #truly one of the divorces ever #aph england #hws england

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WTF THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS WHAT DID I EVER DO TO DESERVE THIS.

@heta-hyjinks thank you so much this is amazing you’re amazing, exactly how I saw the scene in my minds eye wtf 😭😭😭

I’m so glad you enjoyed working on my silly lines!!!

Finally finished these gifts for @cat-with-a-tie. They drew the line art, I did the colouring. :)

Original

#the lighting is stunning #wdym kinda iffy I see only perfection #btw a personal hell yeah for denmark wth freckles #although I don’t usually draw him with them but that’s just cuz I think it doesn’t go well wth my art style if I’ve got an art style at all #literally bawling look at my pretty babies #aph #hetalia #aph dennor #aph nordics

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🎉A P R I L F O O L S🎉

It's Loki

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DenNor, traced from that scene in Princess Mononoke bc it’s a crime this hasn’t been done before.

You’re beautiful.

(first meeting, circa 800 AD)

Norway about six centuries later: ‘Damn really should’ve just killed him then and there huh.’

#dan’s hair is a nightmare and i’m not even bothering with historical accuracy anymore #i am once again asking anyone with a smidge of artistic talent to please colour the line art for me #warning: personal hc ahead #to an onlooker it may seem like dan was the one who fell in love with nor at first sight #but really it was the other way round #dan was just saying what he meant with no ulterior motive #like he saw something pretty and just went ‘oooh pretty’ #nor on the other hand #oh he was down BAD #watch out nor that man’s gonna fuck your nine ways to thursday and not in the sexy sense of the word #hetalia #aph #aph norway #aph denmark #dennor #hws norway #hws denmark #aph nordics #hws nordics

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another quiet day in the kalmar family

#I want this as a tapestry on my wall #hetalia #nyotalia #nyo norway #fem norway #aph sweden #hws sweden #aph denmark #hws denmark #swenor #sunor

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Iceland is in his edgy era

#aph iceland #hetalia #aph #love this artstyle!

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Angsty nation reveal AU is cool and all but what about the nation reveal AU where you stroll into your local R〇MA 1000 and the cashier is your literal nation just casually doing some soul crushing PR stunt.

#PLEASE GUYS IM DYING TO SEE MORE STUFF LIKE THIS #waiting for someone who can actually draw (or write) to fill the void in my soul #aph #hetalia #aph norway #hws nordics #aph nordics #hws norway #am i gonna get sued by r〇ma

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heaven help the fool who falls in love.

[Ophelia, Friedrich Heyser, ca. 1900]

#hetalia #aph denmark #hws denmark #aph #hws

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𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘺𝘢𝘳𝘥 // 𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘳

#hetalia #aph #hws #aph norway #hws norway

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The Viking Trio have one (1) brain cell between the three of them and it belongs to Finland.

(doodled this during Christmas holidays and somehow forgot to finish it until now…)

#this was somehow a million times funnier in japanese i am so sorry #also i have no idea how to swear in danish #aph #hetalia #aph nordics #aph norway #aph denmark #aph sweden #aph finland #hws nordics #hws denmark #hws sweden #hws finland #hws norway #viking trio

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Pesta

(personification of the Black Death in Norway)

My non-existent drawing skills don’t do it justice at all, but please please please go check out evig eies kun det tapte by slire.

It’s been a couple years since I first read it and I still feel the urge to revisit it every once in a while, I swear it’s got to be one of my favourite fics of all time. Fantastic prose and characterisation, not to mention a deliciously gruesome depiction of the Black Death — if that’s your thing, I guess. It definitely is mine by the looks of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#aph #hetalia #aph norway #aph nordics #hws nordics #hws norway #the wiki article on pesta is worth a read #unfortunately it’s only available in Norwegian #google translate would probably work just fine tho!

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‘Why can’t the three of us just be together?’

RIP Kalmar Union (1397–1523)

The meme is from a Taiwanese tv show and is quite popular in the Chinese speaking fandom.

My post-christmas limbo brain is utterly incapable of conveying the nuances of the original so pls let’s just pretend this is as funny as it was in my head, suffice it to say the source material involves cheating, melodrama that would put the best telenovelas to shame and a wildly inappropriate proposal to a threesome.

Also the next line is supposed to be ‘why must we torment each other like this’ which honestly, Denmark, big mood.

#aph #hetalia #aph norway #aph denmark #aph nordics #aph sweden #hws denmark #hws nordics #hws norway #hws sweden #viking trio #sunor #densu #dennor #wdym I forgot to draw Sweden’s glasses that was 100% intentional #it’s the 14th century ok glssss weren’t even invented yet #(except they were and i just forgor to draw them)

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Nordic country names in kanji （ 国名漢字表記）

A list of the kanji most commonly used as ‘names’ for the five Nordic countries, their most common pronunciations (both on’yomi and kun’yomi), and their most prevalent meanings.

Denmark—「丁」（tei）

ataru; hinoto

Most common kanji transliteration (full name): 丁抹

n. a young man; a man in his prime

n. a physical labourer

n. the fourth of the ten Heavenly Stems; lit. ‘younger brother of fire’ (hinoto).

Finland—「芬」（fun）

kaoru; koubashii; kaori

Most common kanji transliteration (full name): 芬蘭*

*Literally translates to something like ‘fragrant orchid’. How adorable is that!

adj. fragrant

v. to emit fragrance

n. a good name; an honourable reputation

adj. plentiful

adj. flourishing, chaotic, jumbled.

Iceland—「氷」（hyou）

hi; koori; kooru

Most common kanji transliteration (full name): 氷州 (lit. ice-state, ice-land)

n. ice

v. to freeze; to congeal

adj. cold, pure, or clear as ice

adj. frozen

adj. an adjective describing pale skin; fair.

Norway—「諾」（daku）

ubena-u (as a verb stem)

Most common kanji transliteration (full name): 諾威

v. to concede

v. to respond (to a demand/wish)

v. to obey

interj., (dated) in conversation, a word denoting agreement and/or compliance; ‘aye’, ‘yes’, ‘alright’.

Sweden—「典」（ten）

fumi; nori

Most common kanji transliteration (full name): 瑞典

n. a book; a document

n. an unchanging law, paradigm, or standard

n. a reliable principle; a habitus

adj. refined, graceful.

Sources:

https://mojinavi.com/kanji

https://www.weblio.jp/

https://kotobank.jp/

https://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/kanji/

https://kanji.jitenon.jp/

BE WARNED: These kanji were NOT chosen to represent these countries because of their semantic content. They were chosen for their pronunciation. Kanji country names are (with very few exceptions; see the entry on Iceland) purely phonetic transcriptions except the characters happen to also have semantic meaning, because kanji. More on that under the cut.

That being said, I am a hetalia fan in the year of our lord 2022 and where would I be without some completely baseless extrapolation masquerading as legitimate research?

The semantic content of these kanji really struck me as oddly fitting for both the actual nations and their hetalia personifications, but again, like I said – baseless extrapolating. Leave me alone in my blissful delusion.

On a brighter note, Isn’t the amount of connotations that can be encompassed by a single kanji character simply wonderful?

Although in the past century katakana has become the widespread standard for writing foreign country names, kanji characters are still used in certain (often relatively formal) situations, and the association between nation names and certain kanji remain strong to this day. In particular, compounds such as 「日英（nichi-ei）同盟」 (the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, with 日 for Japan and 英 for Britain) or 「普仏（fu-futsu）戦争」　(the Franco-Prussian War, with 普 for Prussia and 仏 for France) are pretty much always written in kanji and read with kun’yomi pronunciation*, unless the countries in question are relatively obscure enough that the average Japanese person would not be expected to recognise their names in kanji.

Another context in which kanji abbreviations are used more frequently than the corresponding katakana transcriptions is, you guessed it, the Japanese hetalia fandom. This is done partly in order to save space, but mostly it’s to avoid accidentally traumatising poor innocent people on the look out for nation-related stuff that is not anthropomorphic porn.

Kanji names, like katakana ones, are usually transliterations; however, in some cases the translation might be literal (e.g. Iceland is written as 氷州, lit. ‘ice state’). Since a lot of kanji share similar pronunciations, the choice of a particular character for a nation’s name reflects not only phonetic features but also, to a limited extent, how that nation is perceived by the Japanese people.

As a show of diplomatic courtesy, kanji with ‘bad’ connotations are generally avoided. There are even historical records of foreign delegates getting offended by the transliteration of their nation’s name and demanding a different set of characters. The Japanese wikipedia page contains more information on kanji transliteration in general as well as a full list of nation names in kanji.

*For comparison, the katakana transcriptions for Britain, Prussian, and France read respectively igirisu, puroisen, and furansu. Britain is a slightly more complicated case, but oh well we’re not getting into that here.

#hetalia #aph #aph nordics #hws nordics #aph denmark #hws denmark #aph finland #hws finland #aph iceland #hws iceland #aph norway #hws norway #aph sweden #hws sweden #excuse my shit handwriting

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The Proposal (1905)

Quite possibly the most romantic thing to ever happen in their union.

this is so stupid i’m so sorry

#i just really like the idea of a reverse proposal (??) #like sweden slipping the ring off norways finger and norway tearing up in response?? #it’s supposed to be funny i swear #also​ hear me out #you know how in denmark the wedding ring is usually worn on the right hand #while in sweden it’s worn on the left #hc that norway has marks on both hands from the rings he wore #one for each union #this is canon and no one can convince me otherwise #won’t be drawing it tho cuz i can’t draw hands for shit #hetalia #aph #aph norway #aph nordics #aph sweden #hws sweden #hws nordics #hws norway #sunor

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