#chiring-art

[piilbug]

[❄️] - please don't remove source

DNI IF YOU ARE OR ALLOW: "CGL(RE) / L!TTLESPACE / L!LTOT / K!DHEART / PR*SHIP / K!NK / VENT ACCS / ACCS NOT SAFE FOR CHILDREN"

#cinnamoroll #milk #sanrio #dog #.art #✨ kin tag #agere #chire #sfw agere #noncom agere #🍥 [bug's reposts]

[engportevents]

Get your keyboards ready, your pens, your tablets, your makeup, etc! EngPort week is coming soon!

Yall… It’s almost time!

I know I’m still early, but May 2024 is right around the corner and I got something new in mind! I’ll let you guys know what’s coming in due time.

Meanwhile…

If anyone has Prompt ideas, I’m 100% all ears! (I’ll give you guys until the 1st of may)

Art by @chiring-art as always, with permission.

All further information in the google doc.

#hetalia #aph portugal #engportweek #fanfiction #hws engport #fanart #art #engport #hws england #hws portugal #cosplay #writing prompt #engportevent #engportevent2024 #engportweek2024

[agerefandom]

Do you write/create art for Welcome Home?

Wat does achire and aglre mean??

I am planning to watch it in a couple months and I can maybe write for it then, depending on how much the characters stick with me. I can do art for it when my requests are open for that again though!

You and I already chatted in messages about chire/cglre so I won't go into it again here :) thanks for reaching out!

#asks #anon #misc fandoms

[alerodz]

#Repost @hectorpr Bandera #77 en Cabo Rojo, Ya estamos a ley de una y terminamos el proyecto 78 pueblos y 1 bandera. ¡Esto si Dios nos permite! Gracias a todos los que nos apoyaron con esta actividad, en especial a la gente de @regalacaborrojeno1 por la coordinación, a Chire y familiares por decir que sí al reconocimiento y dedicatoria de la actividad, a @pinturasenco por el ayudarnos con los materiales para la realización del arte, a @omariloy por su declamación, al corrillo de @salsaconestilo_pr por encender la actividad bailando y a todos los que allí llegaron para apoyar este evento. Gracias! 🙏🏽 (at Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-r5R_utUyRuW1clwLf2meD2FGyqI0hsFA9kA0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#repost #77

[trascapades]

🖤#ArtIsAWeapon Spotted at @prizmartfair #Artist: Chire Regans #Artwork: Ulinzi 24" round Mixed Media, 2022 #ChireRegans #PrizmArtFair #MixedMedia #BlackArt #BlackArtists #Doorknockers #BambooEarrings #TraScapades #WillTravelForArt #BlackGirlArtGeeks (at Prizm Art Fair) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4qJOjMUC0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#artisaweapon #artist #artwork #chireregans #prizmartfair #mixedmedia #blackart #blackartists #doorknockers #bambooearrings #trascapades #willtravelforart #blackgirlartgeeks

[peonycats]

If it isn’t too much trouble, can we get some India-pak interactions during 20th century? 👁👁

fun times were had by all

This Pakistan oc belongs to my friend, and she and I share Sri Lanka!

Historical Footnotes (+ Bonus!):

Hesitantly putting the date of this in 1915?

I imagine this took place after the Battle of Loos because of an episode where the British released a few tons of chlorine which backfired on them horribly when the wind blew the gas back into their own trenches

Fundraising was extremely important throughout the war. Money and other donations went towards services for soldiers both at home and abroad. Our Day was a Red Cross fundraising event organized first in 1915, where street collectors sold flags. There were also other events to raise money, such as a mock auction, concerts, magic lantern lectures, and market stalls. 

There’s actually this really cute picture of two sisters selling flags to raise money for the indian soldiers in wwi....

During World War I, pseudo-military uniforms started appearing for women who wanted to wear them while volunteering for war related causes.

By the early 1900s, Indian nationalism was on the up swing, and the Indian National Congress was beginning to make significant gains as a political organization representing Indian interests, expanding from its limited original base of urban elites. However, it lacked the support of Indian Muslims, as they were concerned of becoming a marginalized minority. By 1901, the formation of a Muslim political party on the national level was seen as essential, and in 1906, the Muslim League was formed. 

Over a million Indians served in WWI; Punjab alone contributed over half a million soldiers. Many Indians promoted joining the fight for a variety of reasons, whether it be material rewards, or the hope that by joining in, India could achieve self governance. Despite their differences, both of the major Indian political parties ended up supporting the British effort in hopes of Indian self rule, even with many Indian Muslims looking up to the Ottoman Empire.

It should be noted that WWI was actually a fairly good period of Muslim-Hindu unity. Mohamad Ali Jinnah, a Muslim barrister, was a member of both the Muslim League and the Congress at the same time, becoming President of the former. In 1916, he conducted the simultaneous meetings of both parties at Lucknow to further their unity towards working for Indian self government. The heads of both parties signed the “Lucknow Pact,” establishing an alliance between the two.

My friend and I imagine that during the time of WWI, Pakistan’s physical age wasn’t old enough to allow her to volunteer for the British Red Cross, so like many of the younger British ™ colonies, she volunteered for other war efforts, partly out of her own volition, and partly from egglad’s desire to show “Imperial Unity” smth smth about all the diff peoples under the union jack coming to pull his own ass out 

BONUS:

cocaine, opium, and heroin were all used medicinally during the war; this one injecting kit was marketed by department stores as a nice gift for your friends on the frontline to make life in the trenches a little bit more bearable.

#hetalia #historical hetalia #hws india #aph india #aph canada #hws pakistan #chiring-art #i am not drawing all those british flags #over my cold dead body #hws sri lanka #hetalia ocs #hws canada #historically inaccurate hair is historically inaccurate #this is my first time drawing canada wowee #his hair tho >:( #hws afghanistan #// injury #aph sri lanka #aph pakistan

[shachaai]

Pls pls engport analysis, even though I’ve already read all your engport tags

I genuinely don’t have anything new here so I’m probably repeating myself a lot, but headcanons away:

For me, engport are friends first and foremost. They built everything else on top of that, and they were physically affectionate from the get-go (as they had some translation difficulties initially).

England fell in love with Portugal first, pretty much at their first meeting when England got lost on the way to the Holy Land. But what started out as a basic baby crush evolved into a serious sexual awakening when Portugal went off exploring(/’discovering’) the world and came back with wild tales, glorious treasures, and a tanned, muscled-up physique that probably led to a younger England having several conniptions in a row and then going off to scream inarticulately into a pillow. Attempting to confess this... Portugal didn’t get it.

Portugal fell for England a century or so later, when England was a little taller older and kicking up a great deal more fuss. Or at least, Portugal realised he liked England in a romantic light around then. Attempting to communicate this to England... England didn’t get it, as Portugal was being exactly as physically affectionate with England as he’d always been, and the two dumbasses didn’t realise that those interactions had been romance-coded for a long time.

A few decades later, Spain and France getting a few more kicks in the nuts later, they managed a mutual confession, and so managed about two centuries of a really soft, sappy love story. With. Y’know. Breaks for Dramatic Politics and Family Issues. England wrote Portugal poetry. Portugal tried - unsuccessfully - to get England to sit for a portrait.

England kind of went a little cuckoo during the Civil War and also parked a gunboat outside of Lisbon that led to an argument between the two of them, but the Restoration period kicked off a great deal of engport filth. So much filth. And then the rest of the 17th and 18th centuries pretty much saw Portugal in and out of England’s marriage bed as England married a string of other people and that was (mostly) fun too.

The power balance between the two of them began to shift sometime around England’s marriage to the Netherlands with England gradually assuming more pre-eminence than Portugal on the global stage, but English/British efforts abroad tended to compliment Portuguese ones rather than challenge them. Portuguese and English territories in India worked together for mutual benefit for some time, as did (in a similar but different way) Hong Kong and Macau.

Of course, everything went to hell in a handbasket during the late Victorian period, and the clash between British and Portuguese foreign policies in Africa during the incident now known as the British Ultimatum. Both their governments wanted the same piece of land, and British dominance forced the Portuguese to back down - leading to a massive loss of face internationally for Portugal, and triggering serious domestic issues with republicanism and other things at home.

The engport relationship dissolved with a screaming row, and a great deal of angsty bitter pining happened on both sides.

Occupied with imperial issues, domestic issues and war, they weren’t to properly talk again until the 1970s. A few cold polite letters exchanged during WW2, when the British remembered England and Portugal were still technically married by treaty and asked for use of one of their islands for an airbase. Just a dash of hate(?)/angstsex with punk!England and authoritarian!Port (possibly including a sexy photoshoot that France desperately wants the pictures of).

Eventually, they reconciled. Feeling older, creakier, achier, and lonelier, it felt a bit stupid to continue to be mad about a thing that no longer existed. They were both shedding off the coats of Empire; they were both emptying out their nests - or having them emptied, as others left them behind. There was comfort in old friends and old loves and familiar faces and - and there’s more to it, but they’re just two old men still trying to sort out who they are in a world that moves much faster than they do, but at least they have the company of each other whilst they figure it out.

#this is just a word-dump #a bit tongue-in-cheek and I've skipped so many details bc I've said the details before #so it's a brief(?) overview of soft idiots #engport #aph Portugal #Arthur Kirkland #hetalia #chiring-art

[cutesilyo]

Don’t know if you’re still full of energy to answer this ask but what do you think Nation-tans are or what they represent? i personally love how Hima made them so humane they’re able to entertain themselves with little pleasures like owning pets and— and the likes. And they work under their government but, oftentimes have opinions that aren’t politically driven, because propaganda can’t be the quintessence of being a nation-tan, their identity is also be with culture and ppl.

omg chiring-art i admire you so much and i admire every single piece of art you do so i am personally so EXCITED to answering this ask for you. ill try my best to answer this with care.

this ended up pretty long though, sorry! tl;dr: i think nations represent culture more than their government, and they take government jobs because its convenient. i also feel like nations are intrinsically connected to human perception of them and disconnected from linear time

my idea of the nations is an amalgamation of stuff other hetalia fans have said, the few interpretations we can get from canon, and things i’ve read concerning other mythologies and monsters. there is a stark political and legal delineation between the terms “nation” and “state”: a nation being the cultural identity shared by a group of people living in the same borders, while a state is literally just territory with a sovereign government. i certainly think the nations represent, well, their nation — the totality of it, the land and the culture and the history and the people — more than their governments, primarily because himaruya bases their personalities mainly on national stereotypes (which are derived from history and culture) and not on political, governmental action. it’s why hetalia, despite the subject matter, can be as light and comedic as it is: the focus isn’t on history enacted by a wacky cast of characters, but rather on a wacky cast of characters that just so happen to embody history.

on why the nations usually work under their governments, i always felt like it was out of convenience’s sake on the nation’s part. national governments will usually be involved in any major event that requires foreign relations, and national governments have the ability to reach out to every single little city, town, county, province in the nation. the breadth of government to, by necessity, be connected to every kind of sector — women, children, workers, media, education, business, transportation, military, healthcare, trade, law, the poor, science, environment and resources, oil, energy, and a PLETHORA of other things — means that, for a nation, it’s easy to use those connections to be placed in a job that they’re actually personally interested in. and for the government itself, it’s very convenient to a) have their nation in a workplace they have direct control over, and b) nations being fickle and developing different interests over time, and thus trying to go to different jobs or locations, means that the government has an “insider” that can informally, quickly, and honestly report on how this specific workforce or location is doing and if they have any concerns to forward without going through bureaucracy and red tape. so like, america will request to be placed as an engineer for NASA, and he has monthly calls with his assigned federal agent where he can say stuff like “oh yeah, we’re a little low on morale because the boss is going through a rough divorce, we need a referral for a nearby therapist stat. also johnson here wants to follow-up on the radiators he’s been requesting for three years now so a bump on that would be lit” it’s a win/win situation most of the time, but i do feel like there are some nations who don’t trust their governments enough for such an arrangement, or just want to live simple lives outside of their nation duties with no work or need for such connections.

but i digress. i guess the heart of the question is really: what even are nations?

i struggled a lot in how to word this, honestly. nations are, well, the physical representations of the culture, history, territory, and people of a nation — we all know that. but i feel the question needs to be taken to a deeper level so we can search for a more conclusive answer. history tells us that nations fall and unite and form and change and expand and crumble over time, so what determines what the nations in hetalia represent? when does a nation die and get replaced by a new nation-tan, and when does a nation just adapt and represent what they’ve developed into? in the meta-sense, we know its because hima is adapting the nations based on our current, modern understanding of history: we know which nations/kingdoms/empires stand the test of time and which don’t, so we have an idea on which ones are “relevant” enough to be their own separate character and which don’t. whatever force in hetalia that serves as the in-universe explanation for which nation-tans exist must have the same understanding. 

it’d be tempting to pin this force as fate or god or some other otherworldly being, but nations are fundamentally human constructs, and i’m a lot more interested in how that works. i read a short story before about a conversation between a human and a vampire, and the vampire says something like, “we used to be fine under the sun, but then humanity began believing that it was one of our weaknesses, and since then we've been crumbling under its light. whatever story you tell about us shapes us.” i think the same mechanism applies for which nation-tans exist and the personalities of the nation-tans themselves, and in a broader sense, it also explains why the nations are basically just normal people that don’t die. people write about nations as people all the time; not even just counting personifications like uncle sam and lady britannia, but also poetry and art of nations (represented by normal humans) doing normal people things like crying, working, dancing, etc.

but this mechanism would also have to be one that exists outside of time: 14th century england has to carry with him the conceptions and stereotypes that 21st century modern society associates with england, for example. the nature of being a nation demands that you cannot be governed by time in the same way that humans are, and it explains why nations are immortal, why they have their own rules for aging, why their sense of time is off, why humans go crazy when exposed to them over long periods of time, why animals develop longer lifespans when nations develop bonds with them, and why anachronistic one-off jokes like america trying to use google in the 40s can happen. 

im really not sure how to end this because i feel like i can ramble on forever. but to sum it all up, nations are basically a metaphysical nightmare!

#chiring-art #asks #this was the FIRST thing i saw when i woke up so i am so EXCITED #i feel like i didnt say anything new though lmao #okAY OKAY BUT WHAT IF #what if in the biological sense nations are literally just people but every cell is a cancer cell #and their blood has no antigens or antibodies so their blood type is essentially [REDACTED] #THIS MAKES NO BIOLOGICAL SENSE LMAO BUT THEYRE NATIONS SO #you know i actually dont know how to add tags to answered asks before i post them.......

[hoofae]

Looking at the recent pic, part of my mind is going 'poRTUGAL AWOOGA' and the other part is going 'ok bottom'

Both mindsets are correct you shouldn't worry. 🌚

#only a bottom tilts his hips like that #i mean #ANYWAY #isn't he charming #chiring-art

[piilbug]

Kissme turns 21 today! Everyone please wish him a happy birthday :D

he/him, love/loves

DNI IF YOU ARE OR ALLOW: "CGL(RE) / L!TTLESPACE / L!LTOT / K!DHEART / PR*SHIP / K!NK / VENT ACCS / ACCS NOT SAFE FOR CHILDREN"

#plushblr #beanie babies #agere #chire #beanie baby #🍥 [bug blogs :3c] #🍥 [bug's art] #p: kissme

[engportevents]

Another year, another EngPort week

And we are back and ready for this year’s event!

This is our 3rd year anniversary, so I decided to do a little something special: there will be a Giveaway!

We will place all participants’ names in a hat and draw a name at random. The winner will receive a gift in the mail from this blog and their winning post will be pinned until next year!

The contest starts the 8th of May, the first day of ENGPORTWEEK. Any form of art posted before that date will not partake in the contest, however, we will still share it on the blog. It ends on the 15th, not a day later, and the winner will be called within the next week.

Thank you all so very much for your patience and participation, and hope to see you very soon!

Here’s the information and, yes, all the new prompts are written! Read the rules, if you haven’t, and share it to your fellow EngPort lover friends!

Art by @chiring-art

The prompts:

Day 1 (May 8th) ~ Surprise/Gift (opening day)

Day 2 (May 9th) ~ 1386

Day 3 (May 10th) ~ Rebuild

Day 4 (May 11th) ~ Home

Day 5 (May 12th) ~ How to lose

Day 6 (May 13th) ~ Endlessly

Day 7 (May 14th) ~ You made it possible

Extra day (May 15th) ~ NOT MANDATORY/Free (closing day)

#hetalia #hws england #hws portugal #engport #engportweekevent #porteng #aph england #aph portugal #hetalia world stars #reblog #aph #fanfiction #hetalia fanart #engportweek #arthur kirkland #hwsengland #latest #hetalia axis powers #hws engport #hwsportugal #repost

[sugarcookiebears]

sum cinnamoroll to heal ur soul  🌟 🌠

#agere #sfw agere #sfw chire #cinnamoroll #agere art

[spoopypeep]

#halloween #chire #kidcore #spoopy #halloweencore #halloween art

[baby-pigtails]

#my art #from I think 2006 or so? #2000s #nostalgia #kidcore #nostalgiacore #agere #chire #sfw agere #sfw age regression #birds #crayons #arts & crafts #aminals

[strawbabyandcream]

The swords and stuffies daddy got me from the state fair ~ ♡ sorry it took so long to post!

#age dreamers #agedre #age regression #agere #agere blog #agere post #clgre #sfw agere #mine #kidcore #swords #legend of zelda #sword art online #sfw chire #chireg #state fair

[shachaai]

I need to know,,, one last thing. How do you think Engport would be around each other in the current times (not talking about c*vid since thats a mess everywhere); but you know, i read somewhere and just loved this line where a uk ambassador said "british tourists and holidaymakers have had a long standing love affair with portugal and the portuguese" lol. But propanganda and jokes aside, do you think they are able to put the whole 19th-20th century insanity past them and appreciate their good times once again? honestly I'm just pining for your lovely analysis / scenarios so pleaseee tell us more about them 👉👈. Taking a break my ass, i live for your blogs.

Taking a break can take whatever form you want it to.

I think, existing as Nations, all Nations have really got to take the ‘Forgive Thy Enemy’ approach sooner or later - sometimes very much later - or they’re going to spend an immortal life incredibly lonely. Nations canonically cannot spend too long around any mortal being without affecting the mortal’s lifespan - and in human cases, their sanity -, so all their long-lasting relationships can only really be with each other.

So I believe Nations always forgive each other their sins eventually - or at the very least, mutually agree to Not Discuss certain events in their histories. It would be incredibly hypocritical of them not to, as sins committed against them are often ones they themselves have committed against others, and a lot of their major dramas are international incidents where no-one is 100% blameless. (Obviously, there are always exceptions; I’m speaking in generalities here.)

That said, I don’t think England and Portugal really had the ‘Forgive Thy Enemy’ issue in the first place, as I don’t think they ever considered each other enemies. The Ultimatum wasn’t the end of a friendly rivalry with each other, but they certainly weren’t working towards each other’s downfalls? It’s sifting through levels of shittiness, but there is a difference between actively trying to cause someone harm because it will benefit you, and acting to benefit yourself even though it may or may not cause someone harm. The former is the act of an aggressor (and an enemy), whereas the latter is something all Nations have done at at least one point in history. All sovereign Nations must prioritise self-love over love towards another Nation, or they’re not going to last long as an independent power. And you can’t blame - for too long - a wolf for being a wolf.

Things just sucked for Portugal at the end of the 19th century because, prior to that, English/British interests usually aligned with Portuguese ones, rather than setting them at odds. (I mean, there’s a rather sweet tidbit of history I - vaguely, don’t make me hunt down the details because it was a long time ago - recall reading about how Victorian British steamers transported Portuguese mail at the same rates as British mail throughout the British Empire - a privilege afforded to no other nation.)

...I feel like I’ve wandered away on a little tangent a bit, but uh - yeah? England and Portugal have forgiven each other. Necessity prompted it even without the emotional drive for them to reconnect when time took the sting out of anger and betrayal. The Imperial Scramble for Africa is hardly an ongoing crisis that still puts the British and Portuguese at odds. British holidaymakers boost the Portuguese economy; there’s a transient and permanent Portuguese population in London of seasonal workers and Portuguese people who settled there to stay. The English are quite fond of Portuguese fruit and booze (especially in our fancy fruit Christmas/wedding cakes), and the Portuguese seem to like what we do with media, literature and chocolate.

Just plop these nerds in front of the telly after a day at the beach so they can watch terrible dramas and scoff a great deal of food that is terribly unhealthy, washing it all down with sweet wine. There’s no time for reminiscing over past sorrows when Port’s sniffling dramatically at the latest nonsensical instalment of a telenovela and England has just slid sideways in a heap on his lap because maybe the plot(? What plot? There’s a lot of yelling and dramatic close-ups and that’s it) will make more sense if he’s a) smashed and b) sideways.

#you know it's some kind of love if someone watches a telenovela with you #it's a good excuse to be a little half-drunk puddle on Port's lap anyway #engport #Arthur Kirkland #aph Portugal #hetalia #chiring-art