#rayanne rambles

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one bit of canon that I dont think is acknowledged enough is that the nations really don't remember shit because everything blurs together. this happens in the France and Joan of Arc stuff in the manga, he says that he only remembered Joan recently and that most of the details are fuzzy, but he does remember fighting with England. so I like to think that they dont really remember important historical events that well in terms of dates and historical figures, but they will remember their interactions with other nation folk. So their bosses have probably learned not to ask them about things because the interaction normally goes something like this;

"What was x like?" "IDK man but I do remember I got this sick combo move in my fight with England tho." "What happened at X?" "IDK I was on a 25 year bender because France didn't want to have sex with me and I was sad."

“What was WW2 like?” “IDK I was stuck on an island with two idiots the whole time”

#hetalia #I just think they're funny #rayanne rambles

[sennenrings]

hello everynyan this is my new yugioh tumblr. i will now proceed to dump all of my art here

#yugioh #rayanne rambles

[millennium-tech-support]

hey guys I made a new yugioh tumblr with a separate email so i can actually follow people back so pls go follow @sennenrings

#rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

do you have any advice for how to get mutuals?

hmmm I kinda just hope and pray that an artist that I think is cool will also think I'm cool and follow me back. I've never ever thought of asking someone to be mutuals with me in dms because I'm afraid BUT every time someone has dm'd me and asked me to be mutuals I've had no problem with it. So maybe do that? I will say that most artists are probably more afraid of you than you are of them, just like big animals. But also some artists WILL be weird about you dming them to ask to be mutuals but tbh those kinds of people are probably not who you want to associate with anyway. So yeah either leave it to chance or just ask! edit to add: I don't want to sound like a narcissist but I get a fair few followers every single day and so I don't go checking the blog of every person that follows me. That's probably how other artists are too so if you follow someone don't be discouraged if they don't immediately follow you back. I genuinely think that your best bet is to dm and be like "hey your art is really cool, I'm an artist too, do you want to be mutuals and maybe friends?" I think if you're polite about it most people will be happy to follow you back and even exchange dms or discords. I know I would be! As much as I rag on the Hetalia fandom I genuinely love all of the artist (and non artist) friends I've made and several of those friendships were started with a dm.

#rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

now is the time to be buying hetalia merch from japan because the yen is so fucking weak. like a couple years ago if i bought something for 7000 yen the conversion would be around $60 give or take. Right now 7000 yen is like $45 that’s INSANE

#rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

You ship Romano with someone who was a grown man when he was a child and yet you teach young children every day. I would be unsurprised if we saw you on the news one day.

First of all, this response came in lightning quick so maybe just block me instead of lurking on my blog when you clearly know that I ship something you dislike.

Second, I teach high schoolers and I've been pretty clear about that so get your facts straight.

So there's this concept that might interest you called separating fiction from reality. In case you hadn't noticed, Spain and Romano are fictional characters from an anime, not real life people. The things I like in fiction have no bearing on what I think is acceptable in reality. There are a lot of characters with large age gaps in fiction that I ship (like Spain and Romano), but at the end of the day I'm still looking at my 18 year old seniors like they're little kids and would be appalled at them dating someone my age, because they're real and Spain and Romano aren't. I could end this argument right here because that's all that needs to be said, but I'll go on because it amuses me. Spain and Romano are both hundreds, if not over 1000, years old. Their concept of time and aging could be completely different to ours, and that happens to be my interpretation. Also, I OBVIOUSLY don't ship them when Romano is a literal fucking child. In the present day strips Romano is also a grown man who can make his own decisions, and in case you've never actually seen the anime - he and Spain are quite close! He's closer to Spain than to his own brother!

As to your point about seeing me on the news - To say that is DISGUSTING in a time where there are so many actual predators in the education industry. I take so much pride in my relationship with all of my students, and it's people like you who baselessly throw these words around that are making these kinds of relationships impossible. You waste so much time attacking someone you don't even know for shipping two characters in an anime. If you actually care about young people in this way you would be educating them on the REAL signs of predatory behavior in adults, in addition to online safety. But you aren't, are you? You're harassing people over an anime ship and making no real contribution to society, because you get a high off of your fake activism.

#discourse #rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

things that i remember instead of personal details about my friends:

- all 196 countries and their capitals

- useless shipwreck knowledge

- the entire canon of Disney songs

- hetalia characters birthdays

- basically every piece of music i’ve ever played

- every ace attorney case

#rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

I take blocking people so seriously. So seriously that I have over 500 people blocked for such minor offenses as "came across my fyp too many times" and "answered one ask about a ship I don't like" JUST BLOCK THEM. I blocked someone for talking too much in a discord server once. I blocked someone because they called it uk/fr instead of fr/uk. I blocked someone just for fun TODAY! It takes less than two seconds and then you never have to see their posts again. One time I went down the ger/ita tag and blocked everyone who had ever posted in it. That was amazing! I was at peace! And you could be too!

#rayanne rambles #just so we're clear I have NOT blocked everyone in the ger ita tag that was before I remade my accounts

[frukmerunning]

Dad Germany. People throw fits saying "HE WOULD NEVER!" when Hima basically said he would make a great dad

Okay I can get behind this! He's basically a dad friend to Italy and Japan and also his own brother so I'm sure he could handle a child

#hetalia #rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

i remade my art instagram! please give me a follow :)) i’ll post hetalia art and other stuff!

#rayanne rambles #hetalia

[frukmerunning]

hey guys im tracking down these little acrylic stands (pictured on the right, but all the designs are shown on the left) the price varies per character but if you'd like me to purchase one for you, dm me on here or on discord!

#hetalia #hetalia valentines cafe #rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

I couldn’t sleep last night so I made a list of my top 100 Must-Watch Animated Films! I compiled all of them in alphabetical order here, take a look if you like animated movies, hopefully you’ll find something new.

Not all of these films are great, in fact a lot of them are bad. But they all mean something to me personally! If you’re wondering about my thoughts on a particular film, or you want to talk about what would be on your own must-watch list, please visit me in my inbox or dms! I love talking about movies so I would love to hear from you :)

#rayanne rambles #movies #animation

[frukmerunning]

How do you reconcile the Nazi-apologia aspects of Hetalia as a Jewish fan (I presume you are Jewish because you made a Passover headcanon, if you are not, apologies). I don't mean this as a callout or accusation or anything, I'm asking for advice. I'm also Jewish, and I want to enjoy Hetalia, like, I stumbled on this fandom and this anime and I want to enjoy it! But I can't get the guilt and shame out of the back of my head.

I don't think Himaru intentionally meant Hetalia to be anti-Semetic. I'm not accusing anyone of being a Holocaust denier for engaging in this fandom. But it doesn't change the fact that this anime is about the Axis Powers during WWII and they're portrayed as good guys. Like, you can't even argue they're villain protagonists or anything they're just straight up lil cinnamon rolls. And it is fucking adorable, but it makes me feel so dirty! Like, its not intentional but when I'm watching any WWII episode or reading one of the WWII strips I'm watching it feels like Nazi apologia. And when these characters' fascist uniforms are their standard designs, when the imagery of fascism is used without context, it unintentionally erases the real, extremely fucked up, and personally traumatizing, history.

So how do you personally find a balance? Like how do you engage in a way you feel like doesn't cause further harm? How do you reconcile canon, history, and your own thoughts on these characters? And do you have any advice on how I can?

I've thought a lot about this question since I got it, and I have a lot of thoughts but I don't know if I can organize them very well. （also yes I am Jewish you assumed right)

So I guess the first thing I'll tackle is that my own thoughts on the characters trump everything in canon, especially with Germany. For an American, I have a pretty strong connection with Germany. I've had a German penpal since I was 13, I've visited Germany, one of my favorite professors was German, and right before I started typing this I spent almost 3 hours talking with the German students that come to the music camp I work at. I've met a LOT of Germans in my relatively short life, so I have that personal connection to influence my thoughts on the Hetalia character. And I've completely separated my view on the German people from my view on that time in their history. I think then it was easy for me to separate the character Germany from that time in history.

Bouncing off from that, Hetalia isn't REALLY about WW2. Yes, the catalyst for Germany, Italy, and Japan being friends is WW2, but there's nothing in the anime that is explicitly WW2. The "battle" scenes take place on a deserted island, their "war meetings" amount to nothing, and no specific dates or events are really mentioned when WW2 is involved. Now in the manga, however, I kinda just steer clear of the specific WW2 stuff?? But even then the only example of Hima explicitly mentioning something that happened in WW2 I can actually recall is an old strip about the Anschluss. That strip is from very early Hetalia though and Hima has definitely shifted his focus to other aspects of world history and culture.

Another thing about Hetalia is that pretty much everyone is a "good guy". There are no real antagonists or villains. There are literally only protagonists, with the main protagonists being the axis powers.

From your ask I kinda gather that you're very new to Hetalia and maybe you have the wrong impression of the anime and fandom from people who hate it. But honestly, Hetalia is not inherently antisemetic or even about WW2 when you really get down to the meat of it. Hetalia is a comedy anime and it doesn't take itself or the things it's presenting seriously (with some exceptions). Hima doesn't really doesn't delve too deeply into ANY of the history he potrays, so it would be a little out of place to see him addressing the very serious war crimes committed by those countries.

Also idk where to fit this in, but the countries in Hetalia are not representative of their government, but their people. Which I think is how Hima avoids talking about serious war crimes committed by governments. He's more interested in talking about culture, rather than history. Or he uses historical settings to talk about fun facts or culture.

I understand feeling guilty though. Personally, I avoid the historical hetalia side of the fandom, just so I never run the risk of seeing something weird (not saying that people regularly write that kind of stuff). In my own art and thoughts about the show, I'm more interested in portraying the characters as real, modern people, based on my own experiences with people from those countries. I also do a lot with my favorite character Austria, who is jewish coded. My favorite characters in the series are the axis affiliated ones, countries I've visited and met people from and built a connection with. But I've also been in the fandom for 10+ years at this point, so it's much easier for me to entirely change Hima's characters and morph them into something that fits what I want.

I'm really tired because I've been working a music camp all week, so I hope this makes sense. I definitely have more thoughts and I'd love to talk to you more about this, please feel free to dm me here and we can exchange discords or something. I always like talking to other jewish hetalia fans, and I think it's nice to have these kinds of conversations so we can help each other.

But to answer your question in a short way - I just don't think about it. Maybe that makes me a bad person but it's what I have to do at this point, because I can't not like hetalia

#hetalia #rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

How can you be a teacher and ship spamano? It's gross

I fail to see how these are connected at all?

#I actually laughed out loud for this one #rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

Ppl make Arthur a crotchety, old fashioned man but i think he’s more liberal than alfred is.

I personally think Arthur is a tory but also a punk and he hates the government bc he's complex like that

#hetalia #rayanne rambles

[frukmerunning]

Hey but like lowkey you’re the first person I saw draw Austria celebrating Hanukkah despite seeing Jewish Austria hc around other places, and like. It’s actually refreshing to see genuinely different headcanons actually represented. I like Hetalia for the cultural exposure, so seeing people represent their minority cultures through Hetalia will always be a big win for me

Thank you! Jewish Austria is very important to me. I think maybe we don’t see it a lot because the majority of the fandom isn’t jewish so maybe they’re afraid of portraying something wrong??? even though hanukkah is literally the easiest holiday lol. also a lot of people dislike austria so finding austria fanart in general is hard to find for me :(

I wonder what traditions they actually have for celebrating hanukkah in Austria and other european countries, I’d love to know but I’ve never met a jewish person from those countries. I definitely just throw a lot of American traditions on him so maybe it’s not the most accurate but it means something to me!

#hetalia #aph austria #rayanne rambles