#sunnylolli

Sorry for the terrible quality, Tumblr does not seem to like uploading my photos correctly (not joking, they were all fine in Files, but the moment I uploaded them Tumblr decided to make everything blurry.

I took a nap earlier and had a dream with you in it, sort of.

It was about reading through one of your fanfiction stories that you post sometimes on tumblr, and it was a piece exploring the headcanon that Hetalia Countries when they sleep, they dream a coalescence of their people's lives. Like, hundreds of thousands of people's memories concocted into one big mosaic when they dream.

- And the thing is, I'm unsure whether you actually did write it and I read it and can't find it or if I actually just dreamt about you writing about it 🥹🫶 Profound and scrumptious as always either way (I looked through your blog but couldn't find it, so I think it might have been in my head 🥹 Happy friday, babes)

!!! I have an AU where they live a human lifetime whenever their culture shifts/ undergoes significant change to keep them in touch with their people but not this

You're barely intimidating, but you're a cool kind of intimidating! Like "Ohhhh, they're so cool, oooooo"

🐰 for barely intimidating

- He feels guilty that their mother died. He was there when it happened, but wasn't strong enough to do anything about it.

- I know we all think about Denmark and England as the viking invasion of the British Isles, but Denmark was in and around England much before then;

An anglosaxon myth about a Danish man they named "Hengist", (Oldenglish or anglosaxon word for "Stallion") depicts him being the first to lead germanic invason to the british isles sometime in the 400s in the Kingdom of Kent - And the Anglosaxons being a main majority of germanic immigrants who were the ones to push out Roman-occupation (Alongside The Irish and The Scottish, except it looks like Ireland and Scotland took advantage of the turmoil down in England to make their move and try to advance on Britain of their own accord).

It makes me think that Arthur and Mathias' relationship works almost exactly like the relationship Arthur has with his brothers - Because Denmark was up in England's business from the second he learned how to navigate the sea and Cnut the Great wasn't, according to what I learned about in school, not all that cruel, when compared to England's own monarchs.

- He keeps his mother's longbow and uses it to death. I can see him keeping the engraved pieces when it snaps as well.

- He's handy! Like, he can craft thing very easily! Makes arrows and bows, he can definite sow and essentially if you left him tf alone he'd thrive by himself in the forest

(Sorry if the whole Denmark rant was too long, but seriously, Denmark and England has some HISTORY and it's JUICY)

See I don't even know how to feel about Arthur's mother because I just. who is she? it's the same problem that mama Greece and Germania have where all these various cultures are simplified and grouped together even though that doesn’t make sense, really? and Arthur is the worst by fucking far because like..... is he the Anglo-Saxons who migrated from northern Germany and eradicated the native language/culture? is he the native language/culture and just adopted the Anglo-Saxons? what about the Danelaw? and like you said, the Danes were migrating to the British Isles long before the Viking Age, too, so they're still very closely tied. and then there's the fucking French Normans, bringing their Romance Latin culture back once again into England. point being I have no idea who Britannia would actually be or what her relationship to Arthur is and I have to either assume the nations don't have biological relatives and it's all figurative language or else I'll just make it way overcomplicated.

so you know what. yes. if the nations’ families are all figurative anyway, then Arthur and Mathias (is... that his name?) are absolutely brothers as much as Arthur and the others are. 

yeah that totally makes sense. in that tangent I decided to delete, I was going to mention how like... do I even want the hetalia fandom to try to portray religion? probably not. the problem with writing religion in period pieces is that it’s so so so so so so fucking complicated even to people who are well-read in history and grew up with religion. this is especially true for the Christian religions, because holy shit does Europe have to make theology complicated. 

like I’ll be writing something set in the Middle Ages and, ah fuck, now I have to look up pre-Council of Trent liturgical practices because Arthur isn’t going to be attending a Tridentine Mass in 1170 AD..... the liturgy is in Latin, right? surely the homily isn’t also in Latin? is confession still done in public? doesn’t the king have his own priest and chapel so that his political enemies don’t get to hear his confessions? how much power do bishops have to unilaterally excommunicate kings? if Henry VII is excommunicated and Thomas Becket puts an interdict on England, isn’t the kingdom up for grabs? are priests allowed to fight or not? how strict was the Church about monks participating in battle? swords aren’t okay but blunt weapons are? then what the fuck is up with the knightly orders? is Gilbert a laymen or is he ordained? is he a monk? can he officiate the Eucharist? can he hear Francis’s confessions? when did the Catholic Church actually start cracking down on regional saints? if I want to write Arthur and Francis making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Middle Ages, I gotta figure out like.... is the 12th century Christian population of Jerusalem majority Orthodox, Apostolic, Miaphysite, or Coptic? because it sure as fuck wasn’t Catholic. would Arthur have baptized Alfred as a baby? are these full-immersion baptisms or aspersion? doesn’t the plague have something to do with how baptisms are done? wait, which crimes were tried by kings and which were tried by ecclesiastical courts? if I want to write Arthur’s birth/appearance/what-have-you in 536 AD, aren’t the English like.... not even using the same liturgical calendar as the rest of Europe? when the fuck is Easter? how many ecumenical councils did they have to have to determine Easter? if Ireland is practicing Insular Christianity, is Erin in good standing with the Catholic Church? would Francis and Arthur be able to celebrate Easter or take communion together? what would an Easter vigil in 12th century Jerusalem even look like? was Christmas even popular among Roman Catholics at that point? wait a minute............would Francis be circumcised? 

1. I've been thinking about it daily since reading it, and I'm also just thinking about how lonely Arthur must've been already. I mean, as you said, he's turned the tables, going from being europe's soccer ball to fighting back to build his own empire. And trying to get a successor, not only that, but a literal child just to lose it time and time again?? God, that's a next level kind of pain

2. May I draw it? :,)

(1/2: "Fourth of July" by Sufjan Stevens fits the scenario perfectly)

1. hmmmm, I'm not sure, if only because Alfred's infancy would have been during at earliest during King James I/VI's reign, which means that for the first time, Britain is actually united under a single monarch - sorta. England and Scotland are still separate legally speaking, and English Parliament does NOT want anything to do with unification, but by this time England has dominated Wales and Ireland already and now King James really wants to bring Scotland into the fold. presumably Arthur gets so sick of his siblings that he skips the entire continent and heads over to check if his Virginia colony has had any better luck than the previous ones, just to find baby Alfred.

this doesn't necessarily stop him from getting lonely while in Jamestown, of course. maybe he got used to having his siblings around and realizes he has a considerably more difficult time dealing with loneliness than he used to? being out in the Virginia wilderness is just too similar to being on his own when the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were still fragmented, perpetually warring states and every shadow, every corner hid a new threat. and it's a weird realization for Arthur that he can actually go home if he wants, if he misses his siblings' company that badly - but that would mean leaving behind Alfred, who's too sickly to risk a sea voyage, and Arthur is the one thing preventing Alfred from having the same miserable, terrified, lonely childhood that Arthur had. so he waits. presumably he waits a few years, until the Starving Times are finally comfortably behind them, more or less.

can you fucking imagine his siblings at this point though, when Arthur sales off to the new world and is just gone for years? obviously it's no skin off Erin/Ireland's bones, albeit a little weird not having the vicious little cur bossing everyone around. Morgen/Wales is just completely baffled - did he get shipwrecked or something? should they go looking for him? and Duncan/Scotland still has mixed feelings on the whole personal union as it is, so at least Arthur's absence gives him some space to think but, damn, where the hell is he?

and then he comes back with a squalling infant and is somehow even more insufferable than he was before he left.

2. YYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS you literally never have to ask my permission to draw something. ESPECIALLY you wtf I love your art

2. 1/2: ARGH

And I'm wondering too at the point in time where the tone shifts into realism, where literatture takes on a criticising role and finds flaws and problems about a nation and its government and puts them on blast, how they would write that. How that would tie to the portrait painted of Francis.

Like in the romantic period, Francis would've been painted as a national avatar, a hero, an angel of sorts- But then you have that switch, would he be written as wicked and ugly and scorned?

Like, literatture is a perfect reflection of the public's view and opinion of a nation, wouldn't that be an interesting can of worms?