Do u think there are little things Alfred remembers and brings up sometimes that Mathew thought he forgot or weren’t important
Oh god yes. Alfred's the epitome of blursed older brother. Does he remember Matt's 'birthday'? Depends on the year. Does he remember he insisted on picking Matt up from the airport for a visit and then was on the other side of the country the day of? Every decade. Does he occasionally forget Matt exists for months on end? Regularly. Does he always remember Ottawa is the seat of government? About 50/50 shot on that. Does he remember Canada has a PM and not a president? Also 50/50. Does he refer to the legislative body of Canada as congress? Probably every time it gets brought up.
There are also things he doesn't remember out of love. Matt knows and has carefully thought about how to disarm and incapacitate Alfred if need be. He's done it. Mostly to stop Alfred from doing something stupid, but once or twice to save his own life. The only counter for strength is knowledge. Alfred doesn't remember or know the reverse. Because such a thing has never even crossed his mind. He's invaded and set Canada on fire, but he's never struck Matt first in their lives. He's a little delusional about how Matt is sometimes. His vision of his baby brother is the most vulnerable version of Matt.
But what does he remember? Does he recall Matt's favourite apple pie recipe, that's from when Alfred was stashed with the Quakers in the early 18th century? Yes. Does he know Matt's boot size? Damn right he does, and he sent them off every three months for every season like clockwork when Matt was at war before him. Does he remember what Matt's order is for some of their classic haunts? Yeah. And when they haven't eaten somewhere, and he's in charge of picking up take out, Alfred always picks something Matt ends up enjoying.
Alfred will never remember big things. He doesn't remember fuck all about Canada, really. He's got his head full of his own country, his own accomplishments and plans and dreams. But he remembers a lot about Matt. The favourite recipes, Matt's shit lungs after WW1, the places Matt goes to hide away from the world when he's moody, where he keeps the spare keys, the migraines he gets when the Chinook pressure gets particularly shitty.
He brings up random little things all the time from when they were younger. The Canadien breed horse Matt rode down to war in 1861 and gave him when he could ride again. The ridiculous amount of hand-me-downs Matt wore of Alfred's when Arthur occasionally kidnapped him because Arthur kept forgetting to buy him things that weren't French. The kind of crabapple trees he'd lift Matt to reach. He keeps special apple trees in New England that have given him the same apples Matt's loved since the 17th century. He thinks about getting rid of them every few years because they're not profitable. But they're Matt's trees they planted when Matt was barely more than a baby when Alfred first met him in 1629.
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A Traitor, Frenemy, and Supportive Friend throughout the years
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we’ll meet again someday. people who’ve been as close as we’ve been always meet again.
😔 so, i’m having brainrot for the concept of 1990s nedcan distancing due to nedpan rekindling: fifty years is a long and meaningful human marriage. but nations exist beyond human lifetimes, bearing centuries upon centuries of feelings and histories. and maybe, that’s where the gulf in experiences between a younger and older nation emerges: the sentiment that ‘i still hold gratitude and affection for you—but he and i were together for 300 years before that. i thought it ended—but i’m feeling that pull once more.’ the painting is a print of van gogh’s ‘almond blossoms’, which was influenced by hokusai’s ‘bullfinch and weeping cherry’ and hiroshige’s ‘plum park in kameido.’
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This is just a quick little sketch I made before I leave for home tomorrow, can’t wait to see my family !!
PS: I won`t post any new drawings for a while, I am gonna spend time with my family and work on uni projects, see you next year!
Guys, shut up about the Hetalia discourse, theres something more important to talk about
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‘I watched empires rise and fall long before the first of your kingdoms crawled out of the dirt!’
- A.D. 1842 - @historical-hetalia-week day five…
fraternal.
also some quotes that plagued my mind while i was making this:
“Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.”
-- Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence "We're no longer young men. We've lost any desire to conquer the world."
-- All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
alright so im thinking about america--
i dont really think of him as a sexual entity
i think he's had sex before, he's used it to gain advantages, but he doesn't have it often-- doesn't need to or want to
he's puritan at heart, and i can't help but feel like he'd still feel a shame around sleeping around a ton-- yes, he's had one night stands, but they've been few and far in between
especially when growing up-- i think he had so much going on w him that he genuinely didn't think about it much.
hes such a romantic (in the artistic sense) that i think he's more intrigued by the idea of relationships-- of the emotions and the trials, of the way people prove they're in love than actually being in it himself.
in this way, i think his isolationism manifests in his personal life-- unused to intimacy (in both sense of the words), he doesn't have any real desire or thought abt being so thoroughly known by someone else.
-> he's not usually scared of the unknown, throwing himself headfirst into physical things, but emotionally? the guy is stunted.
I keep my embarrassing little thoughts in the tags where they belong
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