'I'll Be In Germany Next Year' Has Entirely Changed Its Meaning.

[rionaleonhart]

Ladies and gentlemen, the worst pun I have ever made:

(RIONA and housemate RACHAEL are cleaning out the refrigerator, in preparation for moving house.)
Riona: We appear to have some freak grapes in here. They expired on the twenty-second of May, and yet they still look fresh and green.
Rachael: Oh, really? And I bought that pack from SPAR last week, and they had mould growing on them the next day.
Riona: They must have been a pack of Dorian grapes.

I'm sorry, but not nearly as sorry as I should be.


In other news:

- I love Sweden/Finland, but it simultaneously makes me a bit sad. Don't be so afraid of Sweden, Finland! Sweden is a sweetheart! I'll take him off your hands if you don't want him.

(HERE ARE SOME SWEDEN/FINLAND STRIPS (read the panels from right to left): warm now?, have you met my wife?, SWEDEN HOW ARE YOU SO ADORABLE (from the Polish-Swedish wars), NO SERIOUSLY HOW (can't find the translator for this one), watch what you say around someone so determined to attend to your needs (1, 2, from the battle for America).

I love that the Hetalia fandom have agreed on the styles in which to translate characters like Sweden and Poland. Poland's valley-girl speak brings joy to my heart.)

- I, er, appear to have applied for Germany/Italy at 1sentence. Whoops. (I'm not quite sure how I feel about Germany/Italy. I adore their relationship, but it has to remain quite innocent, because after a certain point my mind starts going 'HANG ON, THEY CAN'T DO THAT, ITALY IS MENTALLY ABOUT TEN'. These sentences are entirely rated G.) In writing the sentences, I have discovered that I am completely incapable of adopting Italy's perspective. I seem to get on quite well with Germany's, though, and as I love Germany to bits I think this is a good thing.

- You should all also make claims at 1sentence, incidentally.

- New Torchwood tonight, and, whilst I swore during the last series that I was going to stop watching this dreadful thing, we all knew I was lying. Let's have a little more fun and a little less senseless depression this time, all right, Torchwood? (And a little more Rhys.) Also: dear self, if this mini-series is as terrible as the series that preceded it, please stop watching.

- I hope that Hetalia introduces a Wales before long. The Torchwood crossovers would be many and ridiculous.

- Speaking of ridiculous Hetalia crossovers: I think the Top Gear team would be delighted to have the physical incarnation of England as the Star in a Reasonably-Priced Car. (I haven't been posting about the new series of Top Gear, have I? I am enjoying it very much.)

- And surely someone must have written fanfiction in which the Winchesters encounter America. Surely.

- I want to go home! My academic year finished almost a month ago! PLEASE STOP BEING SO COMPLICATED, UNIVERSITY HOUSING SITUATION; I JUST WANT TO SEE MY FAMILY.

Comments

You think that's bad, try 'lie back and think of England'.

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

SWEDEN/FINLAND YESSSSS. There is even less fic of them than there is of Germany and Italy, which makes me sad, but then I just go and re-read their strips and I feel all warm and fuzzy again.

I think I justify non-G Germany/Italy the same way amy_wolf does; fanfiction does tend to tone down the characters a bit, so fic!Italy in my mind is just a normal ditz. Like in that one fic I linked you, the one with the cathedral tower--he's not stupid, he's just kinda flaky and prefers not to think about the more upsetting aspects of life. And he's a fabulous cook.

A Hetalia!Wales would be ridiculously awesome, and in my headcanon she (Wales is a she, this is trufax) not only knows all about Torchwood but hasn't slept with Jack and never plans to, no matter how fervently he tries. She does feel oddly protective of him, though. Probably she and Ianto get along like gangbusters.

England would probably get into a shouting match with Jeremy. You'd think he would prefer James, but in truth he gets along best with Top Gear Dog, who doesn't ask him annoying questions or have excessively high expectations of him. Jeremy meeting America, now, that would be...something.

Possibly I will write about the Winchesters meeting America eventually! Possibly! I promise nothing other than that I adore the idea very much and apparently quite like doing Hetalia crossovers.

Thank you; I shall. Except not, because it feels oddly incestuous.

[rionaleonhart]

Sweden and Finland are wonderful! Ahahaha, you are a terrible, brilliant person.

Italy does occasionally attempt to chat up women in the canon. I probably need to get over my aversion to the idea of his having sex, yes. (But I've only got, er, four sentences left to write, so I doubt Germany and Italy will be having sex in any of the fifty.)

I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAY ABOUT WALES. Especially her female-ness. I hadn't been thinking of her as a woman, but it just works.

I want to see Jeremy meeting America. I want to see it immediately.

Oh, I really hope you do write it. You would do it wonderfully.

Re: You think that's bad, try 'lie back and think of England'.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I now want fic where Jack tries to seduce Wales, and she keeps shooting him down.

Re: You think that's bad, try 'lie back and think of England'.

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

Riona, you're the one who's written Torchwood characters before. I think you know what you have to do.

Re: You think that's bad, try 'lie back and think of England'.

[rionaleonhart]

I've only attempted Torchwood fanfiction once! In an unfinished crossover! With nine other fandoms! And there's no canonical Wales!

Re: You think that's bad, try 'lie back and think of England'.

[futuresoon.livejournal.com]

Pish-posh! I've read fic using the old Germanic state of Brandenburg; at least Wales is an actual country. And "once, unfinished" is still better than "never, not even attempted". The world needs this of you, Riona.

Re: You think that's bad, try 'lie back and think of England'.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

It does! Only Riona can save us all!