2p! Ukraine Concept Art(?)

Its unfortunate so much HRE fanwork is around him and his ~unrequited love~ with chibitalia, extending it into gerita. Like okay thats fine idgaf you do you but he has a life out of that too 🙄 Like come on hold my hand. Okay fine ill grab it. You gotta dwelve into the "austria as part of empire but not really" stuff. Or the netherlands/belgium/flanders bit with the war(s)..The peasant war. the seven years' war. Brooo even Napoleonic wars. You gotta give him a comedic relief mental illness because of his ridiculous map aswell. His clothes are based on those of philosophers have him debating Thomas Aquinas with Antonio or something. The absolute animosity between him and Francis is so exploitable. A bet he fucking shreds on the hurdy gurdy too. if you even care. And we can go further guys we can take it back to Cherlemagne times and do some ridiculous ninth century jokes. Hurdy gurdy guys

she’s glad dick-tators do not live forever

72 years ago, on the 5th of March, the fucker responcible for the forced collectivisation, holodomor famine, the great purge and the execution of an entire generation of writers, poets, artists, thinkers that were first led to believe into a communist utopia; mass deportations, constant and brutal supression and destruction of national identity — and that to speak only of Ukraine, the list goes on and on, — was found dead in a puddle of his own piss, for he had paranoicly fired the only guard and doctors that still somehow tolerated him at that point. Joseph Stalin I mean.

I drew Ukraine bc the café in Washington in the original photo was serving free borscht (борщ) that day, a Ukrainian dish. And who‘s beside her on the right? Well. I suppose there‘d be LOTS of candidates among the nations. I‘ll leave that up to you to imagine ;)

This has been living in my head for a while now, and I’m finally ready to announce it:

«Ukraine.1917»

– a historical Hetalia brainrot project that focuses on events around Ukraine in 1917-1921, aka the war of independance, or the ukrainian revolution – or that one time when she almost got away with it.

(Here are a few English-speaking vids that can explain what’s going on: https://youtu.be/9Gwuu7TXPwI?si=fmAfCIj-VSbxeoiQ and https://youtu.be/YVuuwQSjzvs?si=SY4JukRo9OW1uoBq )

basically – I am planning a series of mini-comics, drawings, etc. about the events of this period through Hetalia characters – bc hey, why not. We see so little of Ukraine in manga and reinventing her brings me genuine joy. 😔✋🏼.

It might turn out into a chronologically consistent comics, in which case it will be published here and in my tg channel. Or ot may not, lol idk I‘m just having fun

These are just some initial concept-sketches of mainly Ukraine 1917 to 1919, but also Poland and Germany as u can see

Please feel free to ask me anything on this!

some concept art for Ukraine where I tried to apply some of my headcanons to have fun with her appearance (WIP)

ships with ukraine are not beating trophy wife allegations, would it hurt you people so much to give her more of a personality than just being caring, motherly, and nice? like really, so much of ship stuff with her is ukraine being an object of adoration and the one giving affection but not so much receiving it as much. she's always perfect, somehow, often in contrast to her partner. and it's quite a Problem, portraying a woman, especially an eastern european woman, like that.

and to make it sound less vague, i'm referring to canukr (not all of it, and i generally like the ship) and engukr (a rarepair, but still)

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Polak screenshot redraw, but ridiculously exaggerated bc I need to practise drawing emotions😔🔨

«Prussia hatched from a cannon-ball»

– Napoleon Bonaparte, at some point.

I mean this explains why Gilbert has got a pet bird doesn’t it?

so random i know but silly sketching while i can ok?😔

Sasori of the Red Sand as Edward Scissorhands?

Sasori Scissorhands? Edward Akasuna?

Whatever. An unfinished puppet for all the Tim Burton enjoyers over there.

(At this point I realized that I should have done smth for Deidara’s birthday but exuse me? i forgot)

I need more content of Tolys beating the shit out of Ivan.

THE CHILDREN YEARN FOR THE FANART OF UKRAINE

pov: You’re Poland; its 1620s and those "free armed folk" to the East, some of whom occasionally take part in wars on your side, have been more and more rebellious lately. You ride up to check what’s the deal — and as you pass one of the Cossacks, as they call themselves, the guy looks suspiciously similar to Ukraine herself…

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1569. Lithuania had never been fond of Unia Lubelska that would unite the lands of the Grand Duchy with the Polish Republic. Yet Poland suddenly annexed Ruthenian – Ukrainian parts of the Duchy, using this move to pressure Lithuania back to negotiation tables.

Thus the era of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth began.

For mainly Orthodox Christian Ruthenians, it only meant more tension with Catholics and szlachta nobles who realised they now acquired more serfs up for grabs.

There is no wonder then, that Ruthenians quite rapidly "cossack’ed" (покозачились) in such conditions. Many joined either free warrior communities or the rejestrowe wojsko zaporoskie under the polish crown’s service, but still able to do a fair deal of whatever the hell they wanted. Including uprisings against Poland, 1591-3 and 1594-6; allying with the Poles to almost(😭) burn Moscow to the ground in 1618; and occasionally raid Turks and Crimean Tatars.

But more importantly, paving the way for a powerful warrior state, autonomous from the Polish Republic by 1649, – Cossack Hetmanate (aka Hetman’schyna, Ruthenia, or simply Ukraine – all those + more names used at the time) – which famously takes its origins in Ukraine being pissed off.

The initial headcanon was that Ukraine ran away from the Commonwealth sometime after Lublin and pretended to be a guy to live amongst Cossacks and lead her raids and battles. Now, having read up some info on female Cossack leaders, I am thinking that whilst that might have been the case initially, by 1648 everyone knows she’s a woman and just chills about it ig