pedro talking about not having friends in the paddock (x)

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서로 // Each other

공간 // Space / Area / Place (to do something)

Firstly, I feel so strongly that the NP for Ireland should be a woman. The goddess that represents the land is a woman, Eire is a feminine noun, the name Erin/Eireann is for girls etc. So when Ireland is depicted as a man in the sources I get so sad. They’re erasing a beautiful female NP :((

Secondly, I believe that Ireland would have been a very old NP (like older than Arthur) and she would’ve seethed under colonisation. NI/Ulster (bc most people here see them as the same thing and strongly identify British identity with being an ‘Ulster-man’) would be much younger.

The Ulster Plantation in the 1600s involved English/Scottish settlers coming over and stealing land from the native Irish to farm and colonise. They changed the culture, population, and religion in Ulster significantly. I think it would have been out of this development that the Ulster/NI NP was born. I HC him as a man, likely with a Protestant name like William. He would probably be a young teen in the present as NI has a very stagnant economy and was hit with lots of conflict in the Troubles (the Civil War for NI in the 1960-90s).

Sorry for the dump - Irish history and culture is such a special interest of mine and I daydream a lot about it in the hetalia context..

PS - hii it’s been a minute (cant wait for lions den update!!)

hiiiiii lions den in the works i promise :) its crazy in here. thank you for this info!!!! my irelands wil def be women from now on. i might even go in and change the little mention of ireland in affix the stamp. i love what you're saying about their ages!!! i love the idea of NI being younger so this is perfect.

(not all of them because i didn't want to just take the whole article. but some of the more interesting results)