Reblog To Help Alfred Jones Blast Lasers At TERFS

crawls in on my hands and knees indchu is so everything to me. it’s so tragic romance, it has so many themes that touch on colonialism, agency, fate, power etc etc. They’re friends to enemies to friends to enemies and back again and one of the things that drives me really insane was how England used India to grow opium to poison China and deployed Indian soldiers to fight for the British against the Chinese in the Opium wars, but simultaneously, that long history of anti colonialism and pan asian collaboration between Indian and Chinese scholars during the 20th century before independence finally, finally came and the promise of a new world order and the Non aligned movement they could enjoy *together*, before 1962 happened and that hope of what they had before, before the europeans and the modern era, crumbled to dust. i’m so normal about then

homie, you managed to fill my heart with joy, sadness, dread, joy again, and agony and I thank you for it. their history is so unmatched by anything I've ever heard of.

oh to picture their closeness before colonialism, when it was just them two.

OH, to think of how they have lived so near one another longer than any other personification could, and to have it all change in such a short amount of time, that beautiful romance now just a husk of what it once was... and everyone walks by them not having a clue... it's only a pain and sadness only they understand, only they experience... I think I need a break

sorry for randomly barging in LOL but I was wondering if u had any indchu hcs :3 missing them...

oh man oh man HELLO! it's an honor to see you here, I absolutely adore your writing!!!! you're one of the damn reasons why indchu got me by the neck (and I thank you)!! as for hcs for them... aw yeah.... let's GO!!!

hair care.....brushing...stroking...massaging

they definitely worship together. they both are devout to their own religions and beliefs, but simply due to proximity (and knowing each other for eons atp), they practice the traditions of the other without being asked. I don't think they notice it either. it's just (absolutely romantical) second nature to participate in each other's cultures

TECH NERDS. a pair of dorks!!! they are fascinated by both old and new ibms, software, hardware, smartphones, machinery, etc, and will buy anything that comes out to review it together. they exchange devices and gadgets like baseball cards. catch them at CES taking over the conference and plugging their shared tech review youtube channel

despite where their relationship is in current day, they have the spare key to each other's places. sometimes when they're not there, the other will still go over to do literally nothing (they just really like having their scent around... coats and blazers go missing often)

all it takes is that one stare to let them know what they need from each other

and they LOVE ARGUING because they think it's HOT and will argue because they know what it leads to!!! toxic mfs get therapy challenge!!! (IMPOSSIBLE)

they love to gossip together and will do so to people's faces. how do they get away with it? they use ancient and obscure indian and chinese dialects to speak with each other because they know no one will understand a lick of it!! fcking genius!!

they're their own personal tailors. they know their measurements by heart, their favorite colors, their shoe size, the best color for their complexions, etc. india is most def the biggest fashion hunter of the two, so china HAD to learn modern sewing patterns and techniques just to APPEASE him. the audacity!! (india does gift him shiny shiny mulberry silk in return)

their culinary skills....their FOODS. enough said!!!

indchu supremacy always and forever

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my opinion on a native alfred f. jones

To continue the conversation from the last message I received, I do want to address why I choose to depict America as native. To preempt, my perspective should not be taken as speaking for other natives, as we all have our own respective opinions.

It should go without saying but the United States as a governed superpower is a country that has purposefully failed and harmed black and indigenous people both on the mainland and abroad. The history of this country is cruel, brutal, and inhumane, and it should seldom be forgotten.

When it comes to America, the character, I do not see him as being involved in the crimes done unto these communities. I do believe it's because I truly love this character and I cannot imagine him doing these things to his own people-- but I can see why that would be a very infantile opinion to have on my part. Hetalia is inherently a political concept; personifications that represent governed states, therefore making their identities directly align with their national policies.

This is my personal headcanon but I always saw America, like Canada, and other Hetalia characters, as a manifestation of the land their state stands on, rather than being the direct personification of the imperial/colonial entity. This was one of the reasons I began depicting Alfred Jones as native and drew him that way (while keeping the more recognizable elements of his design)-- the main reason why I made him native is because as a native, I cannot see the imperialist nation being indigenous but I can absolutely see the land itself being indigenous: because it is.

However, after hearing other natives speak on this, I recognize that this is very much a cope of mine... In Hetalia, the personifications are very much shown to be involved in pivotal parts of history and it is implied that they get along with their overseers (most of whom were a bunch of racist old fcks). If a native personification existed, they wouldn't be okay with this.

I treat his identity similarly to my own because he has become my favorite character and I am not above inserting my identity troubles into my fictional faves. I am a reconnecting native (Nahuatl, Wixarika) who often feels so without identity that drawing a native AJ heals me. But that does not change that AJ, as a personification of the United States, represents everything that has traumatized native folks.

I do want to let other natives know where I stand in this conversation because I do not want my choices to be perceived as a vanity project to place indigenous faces wherever I please-- it comes from a true love for indigenous identity, my identity, and a great love for Alfred Jones.

From now on, I do think I may just make my own indigenous ocs in the future. it's the best way to ensure I never mix ndn identity with oppressive governmental states.

ivan ivanovich braginsky is absolutely the type to send cheesy and dated blingee gifs to the g8 groupchat altruistically in 2024 like your local russian dedushka on whatsapp

obsession #9998: airbrush designs! I've tried my hand at 'em for the first time and you just know who my first muse had to be 🇺🇲

🇺🇸 what's the straightest thing you've ever done?

🇷🇺 killed a guy

We stand with Palestine forever!

Thank you for enabling me also my nyo America is called Jackie so I’m calling her that here sorry  

Ok so they're undergraduates in college, got randomly assigned roommates, and both earning a degree in aerospace engineering. They did not like each other at all at first, very competitive and both top of their class, but because of the horrific gender ratio they'd stick together anyway (it was also hard not to because they were roommates) and have each other's backs which established a trust despite hating each other on the surface.

And I imagine they didn’t really have coming of age experiences because both spent all their time studying to get into their university in the first place; they haven’t really explored things like sexuality and romance and whatnot. They also are both fucked up in the head, especially Anya, and suck at genuine human connection yeah

Because they have this stupid rivalry they become really enamored with the thought of having an equal and a perfect match and really being understood as a person do eventually they kind of become obsessed with each other. And they don’t want to admit to even being proper friends because neither of them “do friends” (for Jackie it’s a “keeping everyone as an acquaintance so no one can see me as anything less than perfect” thing and for Anya it’s “human connection is a waste of time and I fuck up every single relationship” thing) but if either of them even seemed properly friendly with someone else the other would get so jealous they’d feel actually sick. 

Jackie’s really taken with the thought of Anya being the only one that sees the “real her” and Anya is obsessed with the idea that Jackie will stay with her and see her as the most important priority. and they see each other more than anyone else and study together and witness the other when they're not put together in a way that feels more vulnerable and intimate than anything they've ever experienced. and both of them are way too possessive and want it to be them against the world but they also sometimes want to destroy the other for knowing them like that

So yeah they’re just in this fucked up codependent borderline situationship and they keep having the homoerotic encounters that most people deal with in middle school but they’ve never felt like this before and it’s intoxicating

Anyway this drawing was supposed to reflect having life changing emotionally destructive lesbian sex

shower thought: hot native boy alfred f jones invites his tall asf tundra-acclimated co-worker ivan braginsky to a sweat lodge ceremony and he dies of heat exposure at least three times