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his-talia · 5 years

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Important before we start!

Welcome dear friends!

I’m so happy that you’re joining me on this blog. It has long been a dream of mine to make it, and I finally feel like I’ve done enough research to get this project going! Please read this to ensure you can enjoy this blog to it’s fullest. If you need to revisit this post it can be found under https://his-talia.tumblr.com/FAQ post under read more:

1. This blog is an ask blog

You can send in good oldfashioned Tumblr asks and the characters reply in character, almost always accompanied by art! Please keep in mind that asks that are inspiring / easy to provide art for get prioritized, also just saying hi doesn’t make for interesting blog content- not saying you shouldn’t do it- please say hi- but understand that it might not get published.

2. This is not an RP blog

These characters exist within my own personal extended hetalia universe, expanding further than just the Italy boys. This means that things you assume about characters might not be that way- so if you come into my askblog rp-ing with them… it’s hard to answer. In some cases it’ll work but most likely it won’t.

3. This is a history blog

Don’t worry you don’t have to be super informed about history to enjoy it! i hope you can take some new information away from it. However please understand that on this blog history, rather than hetalia canon is leading! again because of this might not be as you expect or assume them to be!

If you’re curious about a certain character, or a certain event the best approach is to ask in an open way! Example:

✔ Hey Venice, what happened exactly during the fourth crusade?

X Hey Venice, why did you kill Byzantium during the fourth crusade?

In my story Byzantium doesn’t die until 1453- if you fill in for me that he died earlier I’m afraid I can’t answer your ask! Try not to assume! Don’t worry if it happens by accident though! I’ll send you a PM or the characters will be amused by you haha.

4. This is not an advice blog

It may be fun to talk to these characters… But they’re idiots. No matter how good they are at mathematics, they’re idiots. They’re a bunch of teenage boys with no idea about the modern world… If you ask Florence for a tip for your depression he’ll probably tell you to stand next to blondehaired people and eat an orange. This is a fun and in character reply. But please don’t follow his advice in real life. (unless oranges make you very happy)

on a related note. I’ve done a lot of research into the ‘history of thought and idea’s’ these characters will represent idea’s that are outdated to say the least. Thus they’ll sometimes come to very strange conclusions. Please know that had they lived in modern times they probably would’ve thought very differently. So bear in mind that their utterances reflect in no way mun’s personal beliefs!

5. Scope of the blog

While the boys are wearing their pretty renaissance clothes in their introduction pictures, the scope of this blog is by no means limited to that! It’s meant to tackle various time periods across Italian history. Other characters and events will appear when they intersect with Italian history. As for the time period, it’s a broad late antique, medieval to 19th century scope. Mun is simply not that well versed in the world wars and doesn’t feel capable to speak on them! To have Feliciano or Romano nowadays reflect back on their past however is a possibility

6. Mun’s credentials

I shouldn’t have to have credentials to run a historical hetalia blog… but I have them. So for whoever cares about this: I have a BA in History of Art, with a specialisation in the middle ages and a minor in religious studies. A BA in philosophy with a specialization in history of science and an MA in Medieval art.

However, that doesn’t make me automatically right on things or an authority! Doing your own research is always important and as an accademic i’ll be the first to tell you not to just accept anything you read because a girl on the internet claimed it was the case. Evenso, I hope you take something from this blog! Even if it’s a strong desire to do research and prove me wrong.

Please note though that this blog is what I do in my leisure, and that sometimes I’ll take some artistic license.

7, Language

Mun can speak: Dutch and English fluent, German French and Latin well enough and can read well/write a little in Italian. However the preferred language of communication for this blog is English!

If you managed to make your way reading all the way to the end of that you deserve a little kiss!

#juliblah

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miru667 · 6 years

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How did you become a Onceling?

Uhhh this got kinda long so im putting it under a readmore!

My first exposure to The Lorax was when my biology teacher read the book to the class in high school. That would’ve been…2006 at the latest. I watched The Lorax 3 weeks after it came out in 2012, cuz i was bored one day but i remembered seeing a trailer on tv for this movie which was based off the book that my bio teacher read to us 6 yrs ago, so i decided to watch the movie on a whim.

I enjoyed the movie and I think I cried at the end but i wasnt crazy about it just yet. I did look up the HBCIB song a couple days later, and then i think i tried googling for pictures of the onceler for reference cuz i wanted to draw him. Almost all fanart was from tumblr, so that’s when i discovered tumblr. Probably the first onceler fanart i saw actually was from this durnk lalonde askblog (nsfw) who has since removed their onceler art lol. And i just kept finding more and more rly good onceler fanart, and i started bookmarking the blogs of my fav onceler artists. I didn’t join tumblr yet.

I eventually found swag onceler’s askblog and he was extremely entertaining and i was absolutely captivated by his rude humour, his popularity, and the moments of genuine care and niceness that would reveal itself underneath the immaturity from time to time. I still hadn’t joined tumblr yet but i was so addicted to this askblog that i sent an ask thru anon anyway. When he answered it [here!] I was over the moon for the entire week.

At the time he also favoured a onceling named Peppermimint and ppl shipped them together as swaggermint. A lot of other fangirls got jealous but that only made me support the ship more, so i got EVEN MORE INVESTED in the askblog kjfdkfjg that’s right folks, my first ship in the fandom? a onceler askblog x self insert. i never shipped classic oncest or normaler.

I’d go into tinychats too to spy on oncelings talking to each other (also Swag would sometimes show up omg) but i was too shy to participate until one day I did and I also doodled the onceler on the whiteboard back when tinychat still had that feature. Ppl noticed and liked my art and Prisma (the tinychat host) encouraged me to get a tumblr so i could share my art with the fandom. I had already been fantasizing about making my own blog, not only to post my art, but so i could more easily follow all the onceler fanart blogs that i had bookmarked, but that encouragement finally convinced me. So after my final exams were over I started my blog on April 20th 2012.

After officially joining tumblr I eventually found an analysis blog called once-ler-fluff, which was deleted but then remade and you can see some of their original posts here: [link] (and OP is [here!]). It was these insightful analysis posts that really made me appreciate the movie a lot more and made me fall in love with the onceler.

THE REST IS HISTORY and if i keep going in the timeline i’ll never stop until we reach the present slfdjgfl but man 2012 summer was truly the happiest time of my life. I quit everything else i had been doing previously that year (which was mostly a ton of FB games, playfish/EA forum moderating, and venting in a secret online journalabt how sad i am over my past relationship breakup) because the onceler fandom was the only thing i wanted to focus on and the only thing i wanted to spend my time and energy on.

Sooo that’s how i became a onceling!

You can check out this post for more important dates/details: http://miru667.tumblr.com/post/45899026044/okay-im-going-to-record-some-historical-dates

#miruask #reference #onceler #anonymous #thanks for making me relive all that that was fun #tl;dr i watched the movie and was a swag onceler fan first then onceler fan 2nd

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