#prussia dies

[chao-mp3]

I just can't stop thinking abaut how KT is canonicaly the person that made Gilbert like music (and the fact that he likes it in the present too, it has been over 700 years)

How can you be so tragic and silly at the same time

#im crying #hetalia knights templar #hetalia teutonic knights #hetalia prussia #teutemp #*dies*

[apersonwholikeslotus]

I like to think Lithuania only seems normal because of the people he hangs out with on a regular basis. Like you have

Poland - the best friend/occasional boyfriend/ex-husband who is the most dramatic person known to man.

Latvia - the little brother who has a drinking problem and likes to sometimes yell at Russia.

Estonia - Who will roll up with Hungary and Finland and go "we're gonna go take down the French government, you want a croissant?" and leave with no explanation whatsoever.

Prussia - the weird neighbors kid who's just loud and rlly annoying

and Belarus - the other neighbors kid but this one is quiet and creepy

#Hungary and Finland are half of this groups ride or dies #aph lithuania #hws lithuania #aph poland #hws poland #aph latvia #hws latvia #aph estonia #hws estonia #aph prussia #hws prussia #aph belarus #hws belarus #hetalia #hetalia hc

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

EXTREMELY, never before seen, rare photo of the four eldest children of Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse and By Rhine and Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland riding in a small carriage 🤍

From left to right: Victoria, Ernst Louis, Irene, and Elisabeth 🤎

Source: Hessian State Archives

#IM SCREAMING 😱🤍🥹😭 #THIS IS SO GOOD AND CRAZY AAAAAH #*dies* #rare #rares #favs #hessian state archives #hessian royal family #princess victoria of hesse #Victoria of hesse #marchioness of milford haven #Princess Victoria of Battenberg #princess elisabeth of hesse #elisabeth feodorovna #irene of hesse #elisabeth of hesse #princess Irene of hesse #princess Irene of prussia #grand duke ernst louis of hesse #Ernst Louis #hesse

[kakashi-fangirl-ita-blog]

Bonjour, fandom italiano di Hetalia

Sto pubblicando su Efpfanfiction una fanfiction a capitoli su Hetalia, ma ho visto che nell'ultimo periodo il fandom è un po' smorto là dentro🥲

Se vi interessa, potreste darle un'occhiata per favore e darmi i vostri pareri? Grazie milleee💖

Link della fanfiction:

#hetalia #hetalia fanart #Hetalia ita #aph france #aph england #aph germany #aph italy #aph romano #aph spain #aph prussia #aph america #aph canada #aph russia #aph china #fruk #gerita #spamano #hetalia fanfiction #hetalia fandom #Se fa schifo non ditemelo per favore lmao fate finta di niente #raga io

[godfistgonnalive]

i cant stop thinking about him

#hes everything #i love him #im so normal about him #AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHH THE DEMONS #HES SO POOKIE BEAR ITS UNBELIEVABLE #HE SOS SILLYYYYYYY AHAHHHHGGGGGGGGGGGGGG #*bleeds out and dies* #aph prussia #hws prussia #hetalia #kesesesesesesese

[llycaons]

my distaste for rpf doesn't actually extend to the beatles because half of them are dead and idrc about the other two. like I definitely judge people for it and think its cringe to be obsessed w them but I generally dont object to rpf abt older historical or most political figures but that's a really case by case basis

#and ppl get extremely creepy about young celebrities on here so Ibjust say dni to cover my bases #like I still think it's weird but im not gonna block someone for writing about like frederick of prussia meeting angela merkel. or somethin #idk what historical rpf writers do #and obviously even if they're dead there are people who it is absolutely disrespectful to fandomize esp young people #esp people who died from violence #but if someone were to write like. idk george bush/margaret thatcher #well I'd probably block them for being a conservative ig but that writing isn't going to ruin anyone's life #so who cares. also idk why I picked bush I hope he suffers in every way possible #you know. it depends. USUALLY it's creepy as shit on here and has literally ended ppls friendships #so I don't support it but depending on the situation it can be funny #cor.txt

[makwandis]

could you explain why you think gil is old prussia please? and maybe how that translates into his personality and stuff not really being entirely culturally germanic? I so deeply want to settle on something but havent arrived at a conclusion. Im curious about your take :) Thank you!!!!

yes totally! so i have...many many reasons

the first reason that really made me go with this idea is that i do not like the idea of giving like. "nation status" or legitimacy to uhhh insanely violent colonizing religious orders that happen to violently acquire land. like... it just doesn't make sense and i think is quite sinister? the teutonic order wasn't a culture, it wasn't an ethnicity, it wasn't a country. it was a military order that managed to dispossess people from their land and only existed on that land for a fairly brief period of time. it was an incredibly diverse order actually, in that their forces were varied and came from across europe. i also think- okay, we give one extremist militant religious group who dispossesses people from their land a nation, what then? do the groups that are similar to that that exist in recent times then get one too? i find that pretty fucky not gonna lie. it just doesnt add up, and if it does add up it means a lot of fucked up things haha. i just ask that people apply that logic to other violent religious groups....

i should note here i do nooooot give a fuck what himaruya says or anything about canon at all. who cares! not me haha

now a lot of people usually go with the idea of gil is born as the teutonic order and he kills old prussia and the teutonic order takes over. like. sure. however it's not historically accurate. the old prussians, while they suffered a genocide, were not all killed off by the teutonic order. they in fact made up a bulk of the teutonic's military force after the prussian rebellions in the late 1200s. this is a very complex aspect of the order and it's relations with prussians and other baltic groups who also fought with the order. this, and the fact that the old prussians themselves lived on. the language did not officially die out until the 1700s due to a series of plagues that ravaged east prussia, and while a lot of people did flee the territory many remained and were just exploited peasantry- while the prussian nobles converted and took up positions within the order. there were speared "barbarian" units of old prussians within the order! this and the order itself due to such a heavy baltic influence in fact was criticized and almost condemned a few times there due to pagan influence rising in their ranks (there were reports that the order began soothsaying, doing animal sacrifices before battle and even cremating their dead- all sins in the eyes of the christians). so, the teutonic order didnt just kill all the old prussians in one day. it was a lengthy assimilation process that was more or less complete loooong after the teutonic order no longer existed in prussia. and even despite the death of the old prussian language, old prussian culture heavily influenced the culture of east prussia- the dialect itself continued to have many words from old prussian.

i'm indigenous, so for me i think this whole killing off of whole nations thing in the process of colonialism to be a pretty problematic way of addressing colonialism in this universe.... my tribe has a similar story to the old prussians, many of our nobility ended up joining with colonial powers while the peasants remained peasants labouring under colonial powers. if someone were to depict this as spain or another spaniard having murdered off my tribe and then becoming mexico or something, i think that would be insaaaanely fucked. it was 500 years give or take a few of german occupation and settlement in prussia before the language officially died out- and its been over 500 years since 1492 and indigenous people are very very much still around. tribes exist without even having their language anymore, or just barely. one thing, i think old prussian culture lived on still and maybe even to this day- just quietly. under colonial occupation, colonized people usually keep their culture very very quiet haha. i'd add another few generations on to the point where the culture is officially said to have died out, but that's just me lol. so, i just don't think its an accurate nor necessary way of depicting that history and totally glosses over the complexities of the region and gives credence to unsavoury ideas regarding the relationship between colonizing powers and colonized people, i think

SO what about gil!

well in the way i see it. he would have had to adapt to german culture. this wouldn't have even happened really during the time of the teutonic order, considering how many old prussians were in their ranks towards the end there especially. i think it definitely would have been a horrific, traumatic process for him, but over time i imagine the order would have relaxed a little with him- if they were practicing pagan practices, why would they be punishing him for it in the end there? i think the way hes treated varies from grandmaster to grandmaster lol. some were willing to work with pagans, others were completely against it. depends greatly. so, i think his prussian culture would be a very large influence on him. i dont think he'd have had reason to leave east prussia/original prussian territories for a long time either. in my universe, i have him as being pretty fucking old (around 2000), and he's an adult actually by the time of the teutonic order (i don't age him down because like, why would he be little? the heyday of the prussians began long before the order arrived in their territory.). so he remembers a lot, and continues to spend a lot of time in his original territory. i think he ends up going down to berlin to join the hohenzollerns in the mid to late 17th century, when brandenburg prussia begins the process of becoming a kingdom and actually like doing stuff lol. so then by 1701, he's in berlin, but he's very east prussian. he's very baltic i think! so it's really only.... 300, 350 years that he has been in berlin? as opposed to a 500 year period of teutonic existence and then if he has lived before (as i think he has), however long he has been alive before then. so, i think he'd remember a lot and his original culture would have a big presence in his life and the way he is

thus, while i think he can adapt to germans and the way they are, balts to my understanding are certainly not germans. east prussians were a mix of those cultures. i am not european, so i could be totally wrong about that, but i think for the sake of an immortal non human dude i can also kinda do what i want a little haha. he adapts to germans but is he ever really a german? does he consider himself that? maybe publicly, so people don't bug him about things (like my point about colonized people keep their true cultures pretty quiet), but i think its really a matter of:

you can take the man out of the baltics but you can't take the baltics out of the man.

hope that explained, i'm open to any questions haha i have MANY THOUGHTS!!! i love researching pre christian baltic culture, its super interesting, and i HIGHLY reccomend the book the northern crusades by eric christiansen, i learnt a lot from it.

also want to say, if you go with the teutonic order is gil's origin story thing, there's no shame. this is just a silly fandom. you don't have to go in depth as exploring it as me, i am just insane. this is how it's fun for me, do what is fun for you. but i think we should also remember, these are real stories, and the way we depict things can reflect our current world a lot. sensitivity is still useful i think. but. its just a dumb fuckin anime we are all taking ideas from and changing as they want. have fun kids lol

#asks #well #there ya go LOL #500000000 words later #hws prussia #hws headcanons #yep #dis is just my most ndn way of seeing things lol

[the-heaminator]

Prussia: How do I tell England that I want them to yell at me like they're Gordon Ramsay and I'm a poor little chef who just ruined a crème brûlée?

#*dies**ressurects**dies again* #hws prussia #hws england #pruk

[messyspacespades]

I forgot I used to be into H*talia, so having a H*talia fic show up in my "recently updated" Ao3 bookmarks was like the psychic equivalent of getting boiling slime full of ghost pepper extract poured right into my eyes.

#holy fuck #i feel like I just died and got resurrected incorrectly #I am. SO GLAD. I'm not into that shit anymore #I don't think the tag Canada/Prussia HELPED THINGS EITHER #here's to hoping that fandom never finds me #I still need to go thru and unfollow all the Hetalia blogs I followed way back then. I still haven't bc my following list is SO GODDAMN LON #not transformers #messy speaks

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

I would have forgiven all of JJ's sins if instead of that letter where he's like "I do not like you, Monsieur 😤" he just bullied V back. High road my ass?? Look where that got him? Living proof that you SHOULD stoop to their level

#doesn't matter if the rumors are real or fake. just say shit #forge letters #''Voltaire lied about his birthday because he just wants attention'' #''Voltaire plagiarizes all his shit'' #''Voltaire fucked the King of Prussia'' #''Émilie cheated on him before she died. isn't that sad and pathetic'' #''He got really sick once and begged a priest for his last rites'' #''sodomite'' #just say shit

[chao-mp3]

I love teutemp sm but Im not sure if they could work if Gabriel was still alive

I mean they can work if Gabriel is alive but Gilbert doesn't know it and then they meet again, because it has the element of missing someone and realizing that you actually needed them

But idk if they could work if Gabriel was still alive and Gilbert knew abaut it and they would just live like nothing happened???

#teutemp #hetalia knights templar #hetalia teutonic knights #hetalia #hws knights templar #hetalia prussia #*dies*

[apersonwholikeslotus]

actually throw away everything I've ever said about my Prussia hc; he did not get amnesia. this man willingly (well, as willingly as you can when your other option is death basically) chose to betray his family.

bc I've been listening to Brother by Sam Tinnesz on repeat and have this very specific scene of Tolys and Gilbert getting into a fight and Tolys just keeps bringing up things from their childhood, and things about their mother, and keeps calling Gilbert, Vakaris because that is--or at least was your name and stop trying to pretend otherwise!! you're the one who broke this family, you're the one who killed our mother, you're the one who left Raivis and I!!! and Gilbert just snaps back with the And you think I really had a choice? I was trapped, Tolys, my other option was death! would you rather me dead? Is that what you would prefer?

And Gilbert has done so much shit that cannot be excused with a "I had no other choice" but Tolys also refuses to take into account the "I had no other choice" because it does absolutely alter the view on everything.

It's just touchy between them, and Raivis just ignores it by this point. Tolys can't visit Gilbert's grave without getting the Wrong Kind Of Angsty. Raivis just goes and brings flowers and tells his brother about his day.

#did I mention I still hc Prussia as dying in '47? #also not to be that person but Zoe's party is Requiem is actually Tolys after Gilbert died #aph prussia #hws prussia #aph lithuania #hws lithuania #aph latvia #hws latvia #the real baltic trio #I really need to talk about Latvia's opinion of Prussia more #I just don't have solid hc yet #hetalia #my hc

[clamarcap]

Musica di sua maestà: Anna Amalia di Prussia

Anna Amalia di Prussia (9 novembre 1723 - 1787): Sonata in fa maggiore per oboe (origina­ria­men­te per flauto traverso) e basso continuo H. 264. Birgit Welpmann, oboe; Anneliese Funke, organo. Adagio Allegretto [3:30] Allegro ma non troppo [6:12]

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#Anna Amalia di Prussia #Anneliese Funke #Birgit Welpmann #compositrici #Youtube

[alpaca-clouds]

Let me talk Church and the Revolution

Okay, let me post this preemptively. Because I already know that soon enough those people looking for reasons to hate on Castlevania Nocturne because it is not like the games will also come to cry a river about "they depict the church as evil!!!!"

So, let me quickly talk about the role of the church in the French Revolution. Because there is something you gotta understand about the Church during the French revolution: That there was not THE Church.

Basically within the Catholic church in France there was a fracture over the entire revolution happening. A lot of the higher ranked clergy men stood on the side of the nobles and royals, while a lot of the lower ranked clergymen stood with the revolutionaries. The reason behind that mostly was money.

See, before the revolution the church was allowed to collect taxes themselves, while also being tax exempt. So they did not have to pay taxes on all the stuff they sold and made to the nobility. Which was why the bishops and general higher ups within the church could have the lavish lifestyle of nobility themselves, often of course ignoring their vows.

Meanwhile a lot of lower clergy (and especially certain groups of monks - especially the franciscans) were like: "We are all equal in the eyes of god. Rich folks do not get into heaven. Equality is what god wanted from us" and supported the revolution because of it.

But of course there was also the thing that the show mentioned: Given the show is set in summer it seems (probably just before the Reign of Terror) it would have been not even a year before that a lot of clergy got slaughtered. Why did they get slaughtered?

Well, short explanation: Royalists and also some of the bishops provoked the war with Prussia in an attempt to overthrow the revolutionary forces with the help of the Prussian military. This of course failed and the revolutionaries were out for blood. So nobles fled into the churches for sanctuary. And in retaliation a lot of clergy died for haboring the nobles in question.

And, yeah. There is of course the other aspect: The church at the time for a lot of historcal and religious reasons very much supported slavery. Meanwhile this is already a point where the revolution at large had decided that slavery should be done away with. And that leads to what we see in the show here: Clergy going on about the revolution being against "the natural order".

(Being frank: I LOVE that they brought this into the show. Which is almost like a whole other thing I could write about. The entire idea of the revolution and the "natural order" and how it is all linked to colonialism.)

Another interesting part here is the order the abbot and Mizrak are from. On the Castlevania discord server I already went into a whole thing trying to figure that out, but my last idea was right: They are from the Knights Hospitaller. The order of St. John.

This order arose during the crusades and as the name Knights Hospitaller suggests: Yeah, they mostly created hospitals (though historically those were not only to cure the sick, but also to be a home - "hospitality" - for those on the road). They were based in Jerusalem for a while, but ended up moving to Malta, which was of course for a long while ruled by France. They referenced here that the Abbot came to France from Malta, which is the reason.

But yeah, they actually were about helping people for the most part. But they also made money from it. And when the revolution came, they seized all the assets from the order, which made the order join into the ranks of clergy who stood against the revolution by 1792.

#castlevania #castlevania netflix #castlevania nocturne #french revolution #european history #christianity #knights hospitaller #france #malta

[random-brushstrokes]

Lotte Laserstein - Woman and violinist (1933-35)

Lotte Laserstein, was born in East Prussia 1898, her father died in 1902 and she grew up with her mother and grandmother in present Gdansk and Berlin. In 1927, she completed her education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin and immediately received great appreciation for her portraits depicting young, modern women in the Weimar Republic. When the Nazis took over in 1933, her promising career was interrupted since she at the time was categorized as Jewish due to her grandparents (not her parents) where Jews. An exhibition at the Galerie Moderne in Stockholm in 1937 gave her the opportunity to leave her home country. She later became a Swedish citizen and stayed in Sweden for good, first living in Stockholm and later in Kalmar. In 1987, her artistry was highlighted at two prestigious galleries in London, it was the beginning of an international rediscovery. In 2003, she also received renewed attention in Germany through an exhibition at the Museum Ephraim-Palais in Berlin. "Meine einzige Wirklichkeit" was the theme of the Berlin exhibition, a quote from Lotte Laserstein who saw art as the reality she lived in and for. Then came the rediscovery in Sweden, first a memorial exhibition at Kalmar Museum in 2004, then at the Jewish Museum and later in Bror Hjorth's house in Uppsala. This work depicts, according to Dr Anna-Carola Krausse, Lotte's friend and muse Traute Rose, the male violinist remains anonymous. The work is most probably executed between 1933-1935. (source)

#women painters #lotte laserstein #german art #genre painting #1930s

[max1461]

Here's the deal. If you read the biography of any famous (premodern) mathematician or scientist or whatever on Wikipedia, it's always some shit like "In 1689, when he was 12 years old, he began to be tutored in mathematics by the famous Johann von Deutzudschin. At 16 he became a pupil at the Institüt Polytechnique der Flanders, where he studied cubic polynomials and graduated at age 20 with the title philosoficus doctroninus christoclergius. He tried to find a post in the king's court as an astronomer or a scientific advisor, but he was denied. He then moved to Basel and worked as a clerk and occasionally tutored mathematics. Finally, in 1708, he was offered a post in the court of Prussian duke Holstramm vom Hopp. It is here that he began work on his most important contribution... [...] He continued publishing mathematics for the rest of his life, writing on a variety of... [...] he died in Wölstnogen, Prussia (now Voyamlistok, Russia) of gout in 1760."

And it's like. Ok. That's great but. That 11 years, right, those eleven years when he putzed around Basel... they are existentially horrifying to me. Nothing makes me feel dread like the "11 years putzing around Basel" part of the biography. Everything else was fluid, motive. But that, that shit's stagnant as fuck.

"Oh well maybe he had all his most important ideas in those years!"

Maybe. But do you know how many people spend 11 years putzing around Basel and don't go on to find a post at the court of Duke Hopp and write a seminal work on polynomials of the third degree? Most of them. Most of them putz around Basel and then they keep putzing around for 40-70 years and then they fucking die. And if you're putzing around Basel right now, oh buddy, you don't know which you're gonna be. But you can take a pretty good guess based on the base rates!

Deeply, deeply existentially horrifying.