#anglo family

[apersonwholikeslotus]

permanently thinking about Arthur teaching his kids to shoot a bow, they're so tiny the bow is too big even if it's smaller than a normal one but "you have to start early if you want their hand eye coordination to be as good as possible!"; and of course he let Alfred or Jack try to draw his longbow when it was still twice as tall as them and he laughed when they weren't able to do it... yet. And of course Eleanor could hit a dozen bullseyes in a row when she could barely read, and he picked her up and told her with a laugh that the French armies were shaking in their boots. And of course after Matthieu came to live with him his first try at trying to bond was "the frog ever teach you to shoot a bow?" and hmmmmmm

#hws england #hws america #hws australia #hws new zealand #hws canada #hetalia #anglo family

[hetagrammy]

hi it’s me again, sorry, may I ask in the regency au how Arthur’s siblings reacted to the kids? Because 1-2 bastard children, understandable, things happen; at least he’s being responsible and taking care of them. But four?

Oh they were pissed when he came home with Ralph and Eleanor. Arthur left home either right before or shortly after Matthew had been sent to live with them. Unlike Alfred, who had been there since he was a baby, Matthew didn’t come to England until he was two and it was a BIG adjustment for him. This is a big reason why he’s slightly more attached to Alasdair as a father figure. So Arthur already has these two children at home, one of whom he really hasn’t met properly. And then he comes back with two more from halfway across the world.

Part of it is about the family’s reputation, because for someone who constantly claims to have the family in mind, Arthur isn’t giving them a good look. The only reason Arthur really does have a chance in society is because he has had such a good naval career and is admired for it. Typical Arthur hypocrisy, but he makes up for it and they can live with that.

The big part is that they could recognize Arthur was fucking up other people’s lives trying to outrun his own pain. Mothers of these children aside, their focus is on the kids themselves. Molly almost lost it on Arthur the first time one of his kids called her “mama,” because the circumstances of their births directly deprived them of that. Matthew’s whole situation is what pissed off Alasdair. Eleanor is the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

Boys are one thing. Bastard or not, they can learn a trade and become respectable in that sense. They can be independent. A girl does not have that luxury. Add on top of that Eleanor is not just a girl, but she’s also biracial. In having her, Arthur has damned her to a life with few prospects. Let’s not get it twisted, they love Eleanor to bits, but they are infuriated at Arthur for the lot he’s given her.

Arthur bringing them home culminated in a huge fight. We’re talking even Alwyn is visibly upset. By the point he got home he’d already started thinking about being a more present father, but they demanded it. Alwyn and Alasdair essentially sat him down and made him actually make plans for things like trusts for the boys and a dowry for Eleanor. Molly didn’t speak to him for a week. Seán kept finding excuses to get out of the house to be away from him.

However, the bright spot in all of this was that for the first time in a while, Arthur was actually home. And the only people excited for him to be there were his kids. Alfred adored Arthur already, and he was dragging a still cautious Matthew along with him. He’d already been at sea with the two younger children, and it was up to him to help Ralph adjust, because it wasn’t easy for him. He had the time to develop enough of a bond with his children that made him realize “Oh God, I actually have to be responsible.” As he realized this and started to take charge independently, things cooled down and a routine was settled into.

Now of course, within the next year he’s running off to fight in the Peninsular Wars. He doesn’t magically become a perfect father by any means. However, he agrees to stop taking such long tours at sea and sticks to European waters. He starts considering settling down, hence why he eventually gets engaged to Emma. He writes to his children more consistently when he is at sea and occasionally sends them things. He also starts whoring around less, and is more careful when he does. It just took him having a Come to Jesus moment with the rest of the family to actually get to that point. There’s still conflict there because he still does have these absences, but it hasn’t come to a head like it did when he first brought home Ralph and Eleanor.

#ask #hetalia #regency au #hws england #hws america #hws canada #hws australia #hws new zealand #nyo!new zealand #hws scotland #hws wales #hws ireland #nyo!ireland #hws northern ireland #anglo family #british isles siblings #arthur quite literally fucked around and then found out #this is why arthur would give literally anything to eleanor #and he doesn’t place pressure on her to find a husband when she gets older #his daughter will have her birds and a dowry she can spend on herself with brothers to take care of her #and as long as she’s happy that’s enough

[betty-bourgeoisie]

Look I love Arthur and his rat children as much as the next guy, but also, imagine if everytime you had to attend a work meeting your dad and all of your siblings were there. Like no wonder all of his kids are insane, I would also start nuclear wars and fight emus if I had to put up with that

#hws england #aph england #hws anglos #aph anglos #Hetalia #aph #hws #I love my family but I would lose my fucking mind

[tchaikovskaya]

If u will allow me to say something elitist and dismissive and frankly a little mean…

#I don’t get people who don’t understand very very basic concepts of historical linguistics #like not even what PIE is or how anglo saxon became English after the norman conquest etc #just like. the fact that there are several families of languages that have nothing to do with each other #or that latin or greek isnt the language that every other language came from. how did u graduate HS w honors being so clueless #I understand that not everyone has the same interests as me but in terms of like. world history and basic cultural knowledge #that’s like the equivalent of me not knowing the difference between an atom and a molecule lmao. like HUH???

[despazito]

booty shorts that say FEARFUL AVOIDANT

#im not an attachment theory essentialist but i think it does offer good insight #notably it is very rooted in anglo nuclear family systems and doesnt apply that well universally #for instance in very interwoven nonwestern communities where theres not really such a thing as stranger danger children will not react #the same to the stranger experiment as babies socialized in western society so it would be unfair treat the results as equal

[sukimas]

"wealthy British family autism" is a type that once encountered will haunt you for the rest of your days

#does not make wealthy british people any less awful to be around. i promise. #(the hearns- being anglo-irish by descent if not by strict culture- are likely to have this in spades.) #(as for why i think merry's catholic despite this: half the hearn family was very vocally so and the half most distant from him at that) #(it is thematically appropriate.) #(well. she was catholic anyway.)

[murderballadeer]

easy to forget that the concepts of "anglophone" and "francophone" don't mean everywhere what they mean in quebec like i've been in the us or even in the roc and had people describe me as a francophone and i've instinctively gone into the whole thing abt how i was educated in french but i'm actually an anglophone only to have the other person be like well yeah you're fluent in french you're a francophone

#soapbox #it has much more cultural weight in qc so people very rarely describe themselves as both even if they're fluently bilingual #like everyone in my family is fluent in both english and french but we call ourselves anglos bc my dad is american & my mom is from ontario

[jackredfieldwasmyjacob]

also. happy day to her <3

#patiently waiting for her angry tweet about how fed up she is about this #btw for non-anglos who might not know her. she's elena furiase. an actress and cousin of alba flores !!! #she's part of the flores family one of my favourite families ever

[stroebe2]

I don't judge people for not drinking or smoking but these polls got me thinking about how some 12 years old in Belgium would literally be smoking and drinking. that's our cultural heritage

#it's become less of a thing nowadays but i literally grew up with kids like these nicking cigs off their moms packs #i got (very lightly) drunk for the first time with my cousins at a family funeral and i was probably 11 #i think anglos can relate

[britneyshakespeare]

This is just a map of New England (minus Connecticut the fake New England state)

#text post #new england #source: boston 25 news website: believe it or not massachusetts is not the most irish state new study finds #18.9% of mass residents have irish ancestry #really this is not surprising at all. massachusetts is the most population-dense state by far with the most immigrants #and new hampshire? ask anyone where their family lived before they came to new hampshire. it was massachusetts #new hampshire is full of ethnically irish and italian and polish catholics whose families have been here long enough #to assimilate and move to the suburbs and become xenophobic and anti-immigrant. #literally bothers me so much when ppl named molly o'flannigan and patrick sullivan talk shit about dorchester lawrence etc #and other immigrant-dense areas in new england. i'm like baby your grandparents lived there #well or at least that's my experience #new england still does have a shocking amount of wasps whose families have been here since the fuckin mayflower #i dont have a direct link to that in my own family but it's very strange how that is taught to new england children as like #'our' heritage in schools. plymouth plantation and the puritans and all that. you're weirdly made to identify w it #and like as time goes on #just factually that only represents the population of ppl who live and are raised here less and less. #not to mention it does nothing to address DIVERSITY in the area. but i suppose there's like a local mythos #we have to teach a story to children and it has to be a 'we' story and that story has to be pilgrims #bc the story has to start at colonization and not expand after that. thats too complex. happy thanksgiving? #new england white people have a habit of thinking theyre irish catholic anglo-protestant settlers and they built this country #they dont parse out their own identity at all and they certainly don't want to have to consider other ppl's. #wow i didnt mean this to turn into a culture-critical rant im sure most of my followers arent even from here so idk what this means 2 u guy #happy saint patrick's day!

[hueberryshortcake]

im like webbigail vanderquack if she was boring

#we're at the fair and im sitting on the concrete in the shade reading a book about the geneology of the anglo saxons #while the rest of my family rides a ride #WAIT OMG MY HAT HAS A BOW ON IT.....

[apersonwholikeslotus]

USA: Aren't you going to come out from under the umbrella, aunt Molly?

Ireland: Alfred, pet, i'm Irish. I take one step into the Florida sun and I'll burst into flames like a sinner in church.

#hws america #hws ireland #hetalia #tbh this goes for all the british isles the pacific siblings are vibing on the beach and the five of them are huddled under an umbrella #covered in so much sunscreen they're whiter than usual #hetalia incorrect quotes #anglo family

[hetagrammy]

I wanted to start making some family trees with a little info about the characters' family backgrounds for my Regency AU! I decided to do the biggest family first: the Kirkland-Donnelly Family! Even if she's deceased during the course of the plot, I wanted to include Lady Kirkland with all of her disaster children and grandchildren, hence why she's wearing clothing more appropriate for the 1780s-1790s.

Lady Igraine Kirkland had two marriages. Her first was to a rare Catholic member of the landed gentry, with whom she had her first three children. Although she was fond of her first husband, the marriage was arranged rather than Igraine's choice. After the death of her first husband, she remarried by choice to a viscount and had two more children. This is why Alasdair, Seán, and Molly aren't titled, but Alwyn and Arthur are. These marriages also led to inheritance issues: Igraine's first husband left her his property in his will because of Alasdair's youth. However, when she married her second husband, it became his property under coverture and therefore became Alwyn and Arthur's inheritance.

After the death of her second husband, Igraine acted as the family matriarch and managed the family's affairs, as although Alwyn inherited his father's entailed property, he was too young to manage it on his own. When she died of smallpox at 41, Alwyn was still only 15 and relied heavily on Alasdair and Seán for help. Although of lower rank, the three Donnellys are still highly respected within the family unit, and Alwyn frequently includes Alasdair and Seán in running their estate and finances. Though her brothers are more concerned with marrying her off, Molly is also trusted as a caretaker to Arthur's children and she instructs them much in the way a governess would.

After the death of his mother, Arthur joined the Navy at 14. He was very successful and quickly rose through the ranks, eventually becoming an admiral. While at sea, he sired four "natural" children who he has claimed and cares for. There's more information about where they came from here. Despite this, Arthur is still highly respected for his military career and his noble rank. The only problem now is that he needs to settle down and have legitimate children, because as estate is entailed, it cannot legally pass to Alfred. If Arthur doesn't have children, it will pass to one of his older siblings and their children- hence why Arthur wants Molly to marry someone (preferably Protestant) of his choosing in the event it should pass to any sons of her's.

#hetalia #historical hetalia #regency au #my art #hws britannia #hws scotland #hws northern ireland #hws ireland #nyo!ireland #hws wales #hws england #hws america #hws canada #hws australia #hws new zealand #nyo!new zealand #anglo family #uk bros #british isles siblings #it was surprisingly hard to find info about inheritance in blended families for me #so if there are any mistakes here it is a big my bad #i just like the drama. the spice if you will

[animeandcatholicism]

Radical Ideas

I always laugh when people say that someone is their "brother" or "sister" due to their ethnicity and for lack of a better term "race". It's so dumb because one, just because you share a language and a history does not make you somehow kindred and have inviolable bonds. I have more in common with people from the Midwest and the South than I do from my ancestral lands, the majority being Germany, Ireland and the British Isles in general.

The people who are of Slavic descent in These United States might share a common tongue with their distant relatives but not much else, maybe some religious and cultural practices but besides that. Even Hispanics and Latinos in the US who have family in their mother country, maybe one or two generations removed are different than how they would have been twenty, thirty years ago.

It's just weird that people become so insecure and fall into tribalism when it does not really benefit them or others to be like this. It really does not to try to be in one way in the home and one way in public, accept that you're going to both loose and gain traits from cultural exchange, it's a part of human culture that has been happening since ever. As long as humans have existed, cultural exchange and really change has existed. Trying to conserve something that simply doesn't exist or to propagate it, is extremely dumb.

For example, it's weird to have all African Americans embrace each other as one big "family" not only because they often and conveniently exclude groups like the North Africans like Egyptians and the Copts since they're "just Arabs" but, the collective history of all of these various cultures is so vast and complex that someone from Chad, another from Nigeria and finally someone from Ethiopia don't really have a baseline except, they're all from the African Continent. Their: culture, religion, languages and so much more are so distinct, that they're cousins in a general sense not siblings. Sure, geographic regions like how Europe has geographic regions (the Nords, Francs, Anglos, Slavs of all sorts) but, not this weird cope of a unified identity (I mean if the Island of England has England, Scotland, Wales and the Cornish, plus the fact that no one in England can really decide where the North starts and the South ends there's no way you have larger populations of larger land masses agreeing on a singular unified identity).

I believe this to be both a consequence of diaspora of various minorities and also a certain insecurity when attempting to affirm their own unique cultural identity. For example, I have a friend who's a Filipino and when he was living in Westminster, California (which is where a bunch of Asians of all stripes have settled initially as refugees) now have amalgamated into this weird monoidentity buuut, it's unique only to Westminster, it does not exist in the larger US or even the international community. When I lived in the Twin Cities, I worked at the postal service and again the Twin Cities are a big place for the relocation of refugees and asylum seekers. But, the Hmong stuck with the Hmong, the Ethiopians with the Ethiopians, Tibetans with Tibetans, ect. This was with the first and second generation and probably with the third generation things start to break down and they will integrate with the general population of the area, it's simple ethnographic trends. The only way you prevent this is with groups like the Amish where they simply refuse to integrate or they're just stuck in a relatively isolated area. In a rapidly connecting world people are going to adapt and you can't just set up these arbitrary barriers to make yourself feel special, then you'd be no better than those weird people wanting an ethnostate.

#personal #ramblings #politics #vent #hey listen things are weird culture is weird but #it don't give you the excuse to create a fiction #also the indigenous people argument doesn't really work as a tangent #I mean #borders have always changed #The Cherokee and Crow were fighting over territory with each other as much as they were with the Spanish and Anglos #besides if you go back far enough there's enough families with traces of indigenous blood that was covered up for various reasons #but y'all aren't ready for that conversation yet.

[philosophiae---naturalis]

Merry Christmas, I (digitally) drew a thing. Inspired by the anglo-catholic art nouveau pen and ink art from Martin Travers and others in the early 1900s. Modeled after the reredos at my fiancée's church.

#liturgical art #religious art #anglo catholic #episcopalian #catholic #nativity scene #holy family #black and white illustration

[rotzaprachim]

to go along with that post about the whole issue of Good GUys Come From Cold Places, tropical and warm places are the Other Places, the vacation spots, the places the bad guys hide out in, the go-wild-slut-era-on-the-beach spots.... idk thoughts on the whole conception of hominess and coziness being very tilted in that direction too. where are the conceptions of coziness that are thirty people’s slippers in a pile at the door, or holidays that are steam trays full of food on folding plastic tables at the beach, cozy handycrafting that looks like woven mats and paroles rather than only sweaters and socks and the physical paraphenelia of living in a cold place?  

#idk thoughts n stuff but like climate weather northern european and northern anglo us centrism in like. #base understandings of what it means to have a home and a family #like how hard it is to wrap my mind or these aesthetics of cold and refreshing drinks and foods or lightweight clothing #or big family events where its still warm out #as Cozy? Homey? instead of hashtag wanderlust hashtag getaway concepts #is cramming finals in short shorts and t shirts academia? eating poke and pasteles on outside tables in december holiday vibes? #obviously it /is/ but sometimes there's that whole... mental disconnect between stories as presented and as lived