[ SECRET POST #2552 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2552 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[silvereriena]

Are most Hetalia fans even old enough to have lived through/remember the Cold War? I mean I'm sure there might be some, but from what I've seen the fandom tends to be mainly teenagers.

But since shipping is SRS BZNS I'm not surprised that people are using actual historical events to enforce/discredit a ship. "YOU SHIP US/CANADA? FUCK YOU THEY BURNED DOWN OUR WHITE HOUSE IT CAN NEVER BE CANON"

But I can imagine what kind of wank would be stirred up by people shipping China/Japan or Greece/Turkey. Those be dangerous waters.

[(Anonymous)]

Or pretty much any variation of Balkanshipping.

Actually it would be super hilarious to see peoples' reactions to that.

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, most of the people I've seen offended by Rus/America are actually more offended by the fact that a lot of those shippers use the actual wars caused by the Cold War to say "That was totes sexual tension!" and...honestly? I can see where they were coming from.

In fairness, this was what it was like back when I was in the fandom a year or two ago, so that might have changed.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Also, more for personal amusement than anything, the "Oh noes! How dar u ship that!" against US/Can was "It's incest!" [..and yeah, they were sorta right depending on how you looked at things.]

[silvereriena]

Oh, I was under the impression that people were against the ship because of the Cold War itself, not because shippers justified it as sexual tension. That is.... certainly different.

I recall seeing Hetalia fans on deviantart going: "I was in history class today, and my prof said something about France attacking Prussia from behind, lolololol" or something like that and I didn't look any further into the fandom

[(Anonymous)]

Naw, that kind of hate was pretty much reserved for USUK. Sadly, however, that type of reasoning wasn't just used for Rus/US - I've seen it for Vietnam/US [specifically with the Vietnam War] which skeeved the hell out of me.

That kind of reaction ["LOL, I HEARD THIS IN HISTORY AND IT MADE ME THINK...!"] is one of those things that's not too hard to avoid if you're in the sane corners of the fandom, it's just finding those corners can be a little dicey on tumblr from what I've heard/seen.

[ibbity]

From what I've seen most Hetalia fans (in the US at least) are between the ages of 12 and 16. Which is why I don't cosplay Hetalia anymore, since I'm 26 now and feel kinda weird at the con photoshoots when I'm like 7-8 years older than the rest of them. But that's why most of them fail so spectacularly when it comes to knowledge and interpretation of historical events. I figure they'll grow out of it when they hit college and actually have to LEARN history (since they clearly are not learning a darn thing in their current classes.)