VampireNaomi

francesca-liszt:

Hey, fandoms: you guys can all stop complaining about updates. Prussian history hasn’t had an update since 1947 and it doesn’t look like it’s ever coming back, so honestly if it’s been a year since your show last updated or something you can consider yourselves lucky.

professorzei:

Jesus these two
Impossible not to ship

wrenchdolt:

Ahh I don’t mind at all! I love the Genoard siblings and it makes me really happy that you’re giving me an excuse to ramble about them! There will be fluff and some sadcanon under the readmore. 

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Why are history textbooks so expensive? *sob sob*

officialhetaliakinkmeme:

Is the kink meme’s Finished Fills List useful? Mods would like your feedback here at the Discussion Post.

(Not sure what this is about? Start here, and welcome to the Hetalia kink meme!)

officialhetaliakinkmeme:

Hi! The Hetalia Kink Meme finally has a Tumblr! This blog will be used to post news about the kink meme, as well as to keep tabs on the request freeze rotation.

I’d greatly appreciate if this post could be reblogged as widely as possible—the more KM users follow this blog, the more useful it is as a resource! (But we’re also on Twitter, if that’s more convenient for you.)

Joy of joys! The Hetalia kink meme has moved to Dreamwidth! That means it’s going to be easier to use as there will be significantly less downtime, easier posting and most importantly, no more missing comments and unnecessary spam screenings.

So, go here and request that fantastic idea you’ve always wanted to see and/or find a good prompt to fill and make someone else’s day!

lynne-monstr replied to your post:

Ooh, another reason to be excited for opening day at dw! I also have an overflowing list of prompt bookmarks. One day… And pah - it totally wouldn’t have been a good thing - you are a precious gem of the kink meme (esp that pruaus fill just saying)

Says the person who keeps writing one amazing Prussia fill after another!

lynne-monstr replied to your post:

The comments marked as spam was the final straw for me. That was beyond ridiculous. I’m horrible at coming up with ideas myself, so the km has been a life saver in that regard!

Same here. It totally ate away my inspiration to post anything, so I’ve been holding back my updates until the meme opens on DW. There’s just no point in using a broken site.

And yes, that’s the best thing about it! I’ve got such a long list of inspiring prompts I want to fill. Without the meme, I would have never written most of my stories. Though that might have been a good thing in a few cases.

lynne-monstr said: I hope we see a similar burst of activity like the anon meme. It would be great to see some fresh blood in the prompts and fills!

Yeah, exactly! I hope new people will be attracted by the fact that the meme will actually be functional now. No more invisible comments or messages being marked as spam. It’s such a good place for testing one’s limits as a writer and finding really interesting stories you might not read otherwise.

I’m so excited about the kink meme moving to DW that I can’t even say it.

sogirra:

vampirenaomi:

sogirra:

vampirenaomi:

sogirra:

gr0sse:

“wow tumblr has taught me more than school ever has!” the tumblr user says as they reblog repeatedly debunked urban legends and miscellaneous information that really has no place in a school curriculum

<a href=”http://www.cracked.com/article_16101_the-5-most-ridiculous-lies-you-were-taught-in-history-class_p2.html/” target=”_blank”>really though?</a>  ;)

I’d never deny that school is much more important than some stupid website, but then again, today’s school system still leaves much to be desired and just because we learn something in school doesn’t mean we shouldn’t scrutinize the facts, just as much as we shouldn’t believe anything some random person on the internet says.

Also, it is indeed right that a big part of tumblr teaches much more valuable lessons when it comes to social awareness than any average school in most parts of the world. And maybe some people find that more important things to learn than what school thinks is important.

People should definitely learn to question the information that is presented to them, whether it’s at school or elsewhere, but that’s exactly what bugs me about Tumblr. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen people buy totally false information just because they saw it on their dash, even though a minute on Google would have told them it was fake. False information spreads so fast on Tumblr, and once some post gets popular, it’s practically impossible to set it straight because Tumblr sucks as a platform for open discussion. It’s especially jarring when so many people on Tumblr have this really smug attitude about how they’re so clever and know how to use different kinds of media, and then they fail to show any media awareness whatsoever.

Social awareness is definitely one of the plus points of the site and something that isn’t taught properly at school, but I still greatly dislike the idea a lot of people have about school being useless (though maybe that’s because I’m a teacher, haha). People won’t need everything they have to learn at school, but it’s important to learn the basics of everything that school offers if you want to have a wide range of opportunities later in life. I hated Chemistry and Mathematics at school and nearly failed them, which would have left me screwed if I had ended up wanting to pursue a career in which they are necessary.

But one thing schools definitely should do better is explain why something is necessary. A lot of my friends shared my attitude towards Chemistry and Mathematics, and then they were nastily surprised when they realised they needed those if they wanted to become a hairdresser, for example.

It’s true - there are a lot of gullible people on this website, but I feel like sooner or later, there will always be a person who uncoveres the false fact (usually rather rudely so). I guess it always depends on the people you follow. I, for example, know by now which people simply reblog whatever post is popular at the moment and which people research very thoroughly before they reblog anything. I also follow a lot of people who take pleasure in disproving popular lies.

So tumblr can actually be a very good source of knowledge, if you use it right and aren’t too gullible. Especially since it’s a lot of fun and it never feels like you are forced to learn something. Obviously that means that you only learn about the things that actually interest you, so it could never even come close to what school does for you. But it’s not like everyone who takes the information as it is fed to them is any more stupid than anyone who is forced to do the exact same thing at school or risk a bad grade.

I guess what I’m trying to say is simply that we learn at school to take any information that we can’t immediately disprove for granted, so I can’t really blame the people who do it on this website.

I guess my issue is that it feels like a double standard. The people I talk about in my comments are clearly questioning the things they are taught at school and raise good points about why their school system isn’t working for them, and yet they don’t apply that same critical thinking to what they see on Tumblr. That’s the frustrating part to me.

I must confess that I don’t really see many of those posts. Maybe because I don’t follow any such people or never go through any tags. I usually only see posts like this original one - suggesting that only the internet is capable of urban legends and that it could never happen in school. Maybe I’m following too many teachers ;D I guess this is just a big issue to me, because I quit school relatively early to start working, but I was always interested in many things, I kept reading books and educating myself and suddenly I get sceptical when a teacher tells me something that I learned differently and I research and I find out that the teacher is actually wrong. But instead of accepting that, I simply get a bad grade, because I wrote a different answer on the test than is on the teacher’s answer sheet. And they tell me that it doesn’t matter if I’m right or wrong, because all that counts is that I make it through school and to do that, I don’t need to know the truth, I need to know whatever school classified as “the truth” and will get me points in the finals.

So naturally I’m rather sceptical of anything taught to me at school, just as sceptical as I am of all those “trufacts” circulating through the internet. The only difference is that the internet doesn’t force me to believe anything it tells me and doesn’t threaten to ruin my life if I chose not to do so. Sure - school is important and most things you learn there are right and you need them in life and for your career, but there are just as many bad things that can be said about the school system as can be said about the internet. So I don’t support anyone who thinks their tumblr-knowledge makes them clever and superior to people who got good grades at school. But I also don’t think good grades at school determine whether or not a person is actually intelligent and talented.

Wow, any teacher who pulls that kind of stunts should be fired. They’re doing the exact opposite of what their job is. And I certainly agree that success at school doesn’t determine anyone’s intelligence or talent. I guess these posts that I see just remind me too much of some of my students who talk to me as if they know everything there is to know about the world at 15 and tell me that school is a total waste of their time. At least in Finland, it’s pretty rare to learn a profession by doing it as an apprentice. The vast majority of the people have to go to some kind of school to learn a profession, and they will need some basics there, whether they like it or not.

I am 100% sure that I fixed these typos yesterday. Why has my file reverted back to the previous version?

sogirra:

vampirenaomi:

sogirra:

gr0sse:

“wow tumblr has taught me more than school ever has!” the tumblr user says as they reblog repeatedly debunked urban legends and miscellaneous information that really has no place in a school curriculum

<a href=”http://www.cracked.com/article_16101_the-5-most-ridiculous-lies-you-were-taught-in-history-class_p2.html/” target=”_blank”>really though?</a>  ;)

I’d never deny that school is much more important than some stupid website, but then again, today’s school system still leaves much to be desired and just because we learn something in school doesn’t mean we shouldn’t scrutinize the facts, just as much as we shouldn’t believe anything some random person on the internet says.

Also, it is indeed right that a big part of tumblr teaches much more valuable lessons when it comes to social awareness than any average school in most parts of the world. And maybe some people find that more important things to learn than what school thinks is important.

People should definitely learn to question the information that is presented to them, whether it’s at school or elsewhere, but that’s exactly what bugs me about Tumblr. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen people buy totally false information just because they saw it on their dash, even though a minute on Google would have told them it was fake. False information spreads so fast on Tumblr, and once some post gets popular, it’s practically impossible to set it straight because Tumblr sucks as a platform for open discussion. It’s especially jarring when so many people on Tumblr have this really smug attitude about how they’re so clever and know how to use different kinds of media, and then they fail to show any media awareness whatsoever.

Social awareness is definitely one of the plus points of the site and something that isn’t taught properly at school, but I still greatly dislike the idea a lot of people have about school being useless (though maybe that’s because I’m a teacher, haha). People won’t need everything they have to learn at school, but it’s important to learn the basics of everything that school offers if you want to have a wide range of opportunities later in life. I hated Chemistry and Mathematics at school and nearly failed them, which would have left me screwed if I had ended up wanting to pursue a career in which they are necessary.

But one thing schools definitely should do better is explain why something is necessary. A lot of my friends shared my attitude towards Chemistry and Mathematics, and then they were nastily surprised when they realised they needed those if they wanted to become a hairdresser, for example.

It’s true - there are a lot of gullible people on this website, but I feel like sooner or later, there will always be a person who uncoveres the false fact (usually rather rudely so). I guess it always depends on the people you follow. I, for example, know by now which people simply reblog whatever post is popular at the moment and which people research very thoroughly before they reblog anything. I also follow a lot of people who take pleasure in disproving popular lies.

So tumblr can actually be a very good source of knowledge, if you use it right and aren’t too gullible. Especially since it’s a lot of fun and it never feels like you are forced to learn something. Obviously that means that you only learn about the things that actually interest you, so it could never even come close to what school does for you. But it’s not like everyone who takes the information as it is fed to them is any more stupid than anyone who is forced to do the exact same thing at school or risk a bad grade.

I guess what I’m trying to say is simply that we learn at school to take any information that we can’t immediately disprove for granted, so I can’t really blame the people who do it on this website.

I guess my issue is that it feels like a double standard. The people I talk about in my comments are clearly questioning the things they are taught at school and raise good points about why their school system isn’t working for them, and yet they don’t apply that same critical thinking to what they see on Tumblr. That’s the frustrating part to me.

sogirra:

gr0sse:

“wow tumblr has taught me more than school ever has!” the tumblr user says as they reblog repeatedly debunked urban legends and miscellaneous information that really has no place in a school curriculum

<a href=”http://www.cracked.com/article_16101_the-5-most-ridiculous-lies-you-were-taught-in-history-class_p2.html/” target=”_blank”>really though?</a>  ;)

I’d never deny that school is much more important than some stupid website, but then again, today’s school system still leaves much to be desired and just because we learn something in school doesn’t mean we shouldn’t scrutinize the facts, just as much as we shouldn’t believe anything some random person on the internet says.

Also, it is indeed right that a big part of tumblr teaches much more valuable lessons when it comes to social awareness than any average school in most parts of the world. And maybe some people find that more important things to learn than what school thinks is important.

People should definitely learn to question the information that is presented to them, whether it’s at school or elsewhere, but that’s exactly what bugs me about Tumblr. I’ve lost count how many times I’ve seen people buy totally false information just because they saw it on their dash, even though a minute on Google would have told them it was fake. False information spreads so fast on Tumblr, and once some post gets popular, it’s practically impossible to set it straight because Tumblr sucks as a platform for open discussion. It’s especially jarring when so many people on Tumblr have this really smug attitude about how they’re so clever and know how to use different kinds of media, and then they fail to show any media awareness whatsoever.

Social awareness is definitely one of the plus points of the site and something that isn’t taught properly at school, but I still greatly dislike the idea a lot of people have about school being useless (though maybe that’s because I’m a teacher, haha). People won’t need everything they have to learn at school, but it’s important to learn the basics of everything that school offers if you want to have a wide range of opportunities later in life. I hated Chemistry and Mathematics at school and nearly failed them, which would have left me screwed if I had ended up wanting to pursue a career in which they are necessary.

But one thing schools definitely should do better is explain why something is necessary. A lot of my friends shared my attitude towards Chemistry and Mathematics, and then they were nastily surprised when they realised they needed those if they wanted to become a hairdresser, for example.

gr0sse:

“wow tumblr has taught me more than school ever has!” the tumblr user says as they reblog repeatedly debunked urban legends and miscellaneous information that really has no place in a school curriculum

We should do a Prumano exchange in which artists have to write fic and writers have to draw.

readingwench:

jessiphia:

Also, fun fact: being nice to someone you hate does NOT make you two faced

it makes you a mature adult who knows when to pick their battles and when to just let it go and tolerate someone for their shitty personality. 

if you think otherwise grow up

SO MANY PEOPLE TO SHOW THIS TO IT ACTUALLY HURTS ME

iraya:

Ive never asked for donations here but i m getting very desperate. i need to raise 20k for my brother’s tuiton fee (around 480-500$). Since i lost my job i can’t give him cash and enroll. and he’s already graduating and its disappointing if he has to stop a year before he graduates! ; o ;)

PLEASE HELP!

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lituaniae:

absolutely despising how someone interprets your favorite character

understanding that they can interpret your favorite character any way they want but you still just

Title: Life Under the Sun
Author: sogirra
Fandom: Hetalia
Character(s) or Pairing(s): Prussia/Romano
Rating: PG-13
Includes: language
Summary: Gilbert doesn’t like the Italian countryside. He doesn’t like his new employer. He doesn’t even like his life. But maybe all of that can change.

First chapter / Latest chapter

I decided to make a proper post with a header and all for this fic that I’m translating. It’s one of the absolute best Prumano fics I’ve ever read (and I’ve read a lot!), and words can’t describe how beautiful it is. If you can, please read the original in German here because my translation can’t do justice to his masterpiece.

My life is so hard. I want to see all the cartoon porn on my dash but none of the live action, but there’s no way to accomplish this.

So, apparently it’s not enough that the computer I ordered in goddamn March couldn’t be delivered until this week, but they also sent it to the wrong address even though I told them several times that I wouldn’t be there for the summer.

abessinier:

I have seen many things being said about the German people…

About our angry way of speaking, of people confusing Germans with Bavarians, of clichés and the everpresent ghost of nationalsocialism.

But never, I repeat, never have I, as a German, seen any image that represents this nation’s mentality as perfect as this:

I’ve been writing this fic for a little over nine months, and I’ve finally made it to the plot point that I’ve been desperate to do since the beginning. It’s like my baby is finally being born.

lynne-monstr said: I would give advice but I’m in the same boat (except everything is Prussia). Though at this point I think I could recognize your style even with different pairings. Hm, that prob wasn’t helpful sorry

I guess that could be taken as a challenge. I’ll just have to find a pairing and kink that nobody would ever suspect me of writing.

And for the record, I always guess it’s you on the meme because your Prussia is the best Prussia.

I know I only have myself to blame since I’m a two-trick pony and only write Prumano and Germany and Prussia being bros, but it would be nice to write a kink meme fill without anyone guessing it’s me.

churrocigar:

yeah nvm he totes has the hots for both of them

sailortentacle said: That reminds me…is there anything I don’t tag that would be helpful for me to do?

No, you’re one of the few people who never posts anything that bugs me, tagged or not. But thanks for asking! Let me know if there’s any stuff of mine that you want tagged. I’m not a very consistent tagger. I try to tag all the Hetalia things since you asked, but I probably forget a lot.