Okay, I love Hetalia. I do. It's not hard to see if you talk to me, look through my doodles,on my homework, or on my fanfiction account. I love Hetalia.
What I don't love is the fandom. The rude, inconsiderate, loud, obnoxious fandom.
Oh how I hate fandoms in general.
I'm not being leetist or anything, and well, if I am well I don't care. I've been in this fandom for three and a half years, and I've always had the same issues. It's just getting more and more on my nerves as more and more people jump on the hetalia lover bandwagon.
I know it won't change anything but good Gods on high, I need to let this out.
First:
This is the one that is bothering me the most, so this comes first.
These are
NOT just characters from a story. These are real countries, with real people in them. People who, more often than not,
DON'T fall under the stereotypes the characters are modeled after in the Hetalia storyline. These countries have real problems, real heartbreaking situations, and these things should be respected.
They should NOT be played upon for fangirl fantasies.It bothers the hell out of me.
Like right after the Japanese earthquake for example. I go on to fanfiction.net and what do I find? So many fanfictions based around the situation it's not even funny. And the worst ones are when it's not just comfort fics, but its freaking comfort
sex fics.
It's the most inappropriate response to a heartbraking situation I can imagine. I remember I couldn't even fathom what was going through these peoples heads.
It was the same with the Haiti earthquake, where afterwords a million and two Haiti fancharacters popped up.
It's just so inappropriate.
Give it time. In fact, just don't do it.
Respect the people of these countries, and their losses and their pain.
Second:
History. It's what makes a country a country. It's something people take pride in when it comes to their nationality.
It's something someone should respect.
Again, it's something that should not be used to satisfy some sick fangirls sexual pleasure.
" But all of Hetalia is making fun of history, you can't say that!"
Why yes I can. While the line is blurry in the Hetalia universe about what is apropriate and what is not, I find it really insulting when people take heartbreaking situations and turn them into a smut fantasy. Hetalia makes fun of stereotypes during that time period, it does not make two countries go at each other in a tent while millions are dieing around them. It doesn't make light of the death of thousands in some of the worlds biggest disasters.
And really, if you insist upon doing stuff like that, at least make it respectful. What if that was your country? (Wait scratch that for most American fans, that doesn't normally affect them. =_=;;; )
Third:
While this goes for any fandom, I have found it
really, REALLY</b> prominent in the Hetalia fandom as it grows more and more.
If someone doesn't like your pairing, don't freaking whine about it.
Don't whine about how wrong you think it is, don't whine about how other pairings are so much better. Beleive it or not, people have different opinions than you, and like you would in real life, you respect other's opinions. Golden Rule Yo.
And really, if you think about it, you shouldn't be pairing together countries in the first place.
....
That's really it.
I had to get it all out. I'm sorry.
It's not like it's gonna affect anything though. Only people who will agree with me are gonna even comment or read thsi at all.
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Also I'm sick of all the obbessive Russia fans. It's creepy. Stop pulling a Belarus and get some help, because it's not healthy to be obbessing over and mimicing a lot of the habits of the Russia in the fandom.
~ Courtney JoAnne