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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-06-10 04:39 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-06-10 04:39 pm
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Don't Just Build A City In The Conference Room.
My second year of university is officially over! None of the topics for which I had been preparing came up in the literature exam, hurrah, but I didn't cry or faint and I did actually manage to write things, which means that it went better than expected. (I was terrified about that exam.)
Entirely because of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
futuresoon, I found myself celebrating with the twenty available episodes of Hetalia: Axis Powers (Axis Powers: Hetalia? Oh, I'm just going to call it Hetalia). They are only five minutes each, and watching them has been one of the most confusing experiences of my life.
I think I may have enjoyed it.
Here are some notes:
- Personifications of countries are adorable. I feel like a slightly awful person for finding it all so cute. World War II is absolutely not supposed to be cute.
- It is educational! Sort of! I didn't know that the prime minister of France proposed a union with England in 1956, and, given the way in which it was portrayed in Hetalia, I'm not likely to forget it. Also, should I ever need to remember historical events in the future, I shall probably find it easier now that I have the option of imagining little anthropomorphic countries acting them out.
- Apparently, England has a flying green rabbit, which I don't quite understand. I have lived here all my life, and my encounters with flying green rabbits have been few. Also, his eyebrows are spectacular.
- Oh, my goodness, the flashback to England giving young America toys in the seventeenth episode is actually really cute. And sad!
- The eighteenth episode: ...did America seriously say 'I choose you, China!'? Is it too early to be considering Pokémon crossovers? (Is it ever too early to be considering Pokémon crossovers?)
- I appear to be 'shipping Germany with Northern Italy. This is not really something I ever expected to think.
- Germany is sort of hot.
(Here, if you are interested in experiencing the bewilderment for yourself, is the first five-minute episode. It is An Experience. (A warning: Hetalia is a very silly series involving anthropomorphised countries. It likes to draw on and absurdly exaggerate national stereotypes. Much of it, although it avoids the particularly unpleasant aspects, is set during World War II. As a result, it has the potential to be really quite offensive, and even if you're not offended you may feel vaguely as if you are doing something wrong by watching it.))
Entirely because of
futuresoon, I found myself celebrating with the twenty available episodes of Hetalia: Axis Powers (Axis Powers: Hetalia? Oh, I'm just going to call it Hetalia). They are only five minutes each, and watching them has been one of the most confusing experiences of my life.I think I may have enjoyed it.
Here are some notes:
- Personifications of countries are adorable. I feel like a slightly awful person for finding it all so cute. World War II is absolutely not supposed to be cute.
- It is educational! Sort of! I didn't know that the prime minister of France proposed a union with England in 1956, and, given the way in which it was portrayed in Hetalia, I'm not likely to forget it. Also, should I ever need to remember historical events in the future, I shall probably find it easier now that I have the option of imagining little anthropomorphic countries acting them out.
- Apparently, England has a flying green rabbit, which I don't quite understand. I have lived here all my life, and my encounters with flying green rabbits have been few. Also, his eyebrows are spectacular.
- Oh, my goodness, the flashback to England giving young America toys in the seventeenth episode is actually really cute. And sad!
- The eighteenth episode: ...did America seriously say 'I choose you, China!'? Is it too early to be considering Pokémon crossovers? (Is it ever too early to be considering Pokémon crossovers?)
- I appear to be 'shipping Germany with Northern Italy. This is not really something I ever expected to think.
- Germany is sort of hot.
(Here, if you are interested in experiencing the bewilderment for yourself, is the first five-minute episode. It is An Experience. (A warning: Hetalia is a very silly series involving anthropomorphised countries. It likes to draw on and absurdly exaggerate national stereotypes. Much of it, although it avoids the particularly unpleasant aspects, is set during World War II. As a result, it has the potential to be really quite offensive, and even if you're not offended you may feel vaguely as if you are doing something wrong by watching it.))
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My brain hurts a little now.
(And of course you wouldn't have seen the flying green rabbit very much! It's the national flying green rabbit! They're not rampant!)
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(Ah, that explains it. I'm going to assume they're the national ridiculously huge eyebrows as well, because not even my eyebrows are that impressive.)
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Er, if my brain actually drips out my ears from the weirdness, you'll come scoop it up and stick it in the freezer until it solidifies, yes?
(Your eyebrows are impressive, but not particularly large. Just dramatic and expressive. You make effective use of your eyebrows, which may be the weirdest compliment I've ever given anyone.)
Oh, and thanks to Kingdom Hearts, I'm becoming a bit convinced that Dexter from Dexter is a Nobody. He's all "I don't have feelings or emotions or the capacity to love," when he obviously does, he tends to wobble between really nasty violence and this sad-puppy quality that gives me the irrational urge to hug him and tell him everything's going to be okay, and he's even got an X in his name!
I blame you for this development.
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(I do try to make effective use of my eyebrows, but I have to wonder where you've seen me doing so.)
I have never watched Dexter, but I approve of any theories involving people being Nobodies, especially if their names contain 'x's. That would make his original's name an anagram of 'deter'.
...it is too late to rearrange letters into a name that does not sound entirely ridiculous.
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Obviously, I'm
going by the pictures I've seen where you've got the Dramatic Eyebrow Thing goingsecretly stalking you with my evil powers of secret stalking.I'd hesitate to recommend the show to you (how tolerant are you of people being chopped to bits on television), but he is now reminding me so much of our conversation about Nobodies and the lack of emotion and ability to care that doesn't match with reality, but is nonetheless, asserted. (Also, he's got a sister, Deb, who he loves massively, and the first episode features him saying "If I were capable of caring about anyone, I'd care about Deb", and aw! Stop being such an adorably sad serial killer!)
Deter, Treed, Reted, Redet, Deert, yeah, they sound goofy.
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Okay, I see, for some reason I thought you were talking about Dexter's Lab and I had all these wierd mental images... Never mind. That was wierd.
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Speaking of, here are some parts of the comic you need to read, because they are adorable. (Do you have much experience with reading manga? If not: you read from right to left.)
Chibitalia. (You'll have seen some of this storyline in the episodes, but not all of it, and certainly not the ridiculously adorable ending.)
And then, the quite possibly even cuter Valentine's series:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Oh, Germany.
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Also, did you see the apparent historic German artwork of Germany and Italy snuggling romantically? They're both women in this version, but still! http://www.viaggio-in-germania.de/italia_overbeck.html
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