Fancomic + Huge sketch dump

[tafkae.livejournal.com]

Title: Ellis
Author/Artist: meself.
Character(s) or Pairing(s): America and Lithuania
Rating: G
Warnings: none
Summary: America has trouble with foreign names.



According to legend, America's ledger is full of things like this.



Title: Sketch dump
Author/Artist: me again
Character(s) or Pairing(s): mostly America, but also some Canada, England, Russia, and a couple others.
Rating: G
Summary: sketches!
Warnings: LOTS OF THEM. Maybe I should have dumped them sooner.


^ Current events.


America and Canada often hang out and play hockey together.
Canada gets surprisingly intense during these matches, so he wins a lot.


Russia also enjoys this sport, but for different reasons.
(For some reason, it's not as popular in the Baltic states.)


I kind of envision the Cold War as a 40-year-long staring contest.
Of course, they did a lot of other things during that time, too, so the analogy doesn't really work.




Research for a project I'm still working on.






Backstory: A Canadian friend recently told me that Canada is the world's number 1 producer of uranium!
I was very surprised to find that out, but she was more surprised I didn't know already.






For a drawing meme. The request leading to ^ this one was (verbatim)
"LIET LIET LIET LIET LIET LIET LIEEEEEET". Maybe it makes sense in context.

Comments

[vytis]

LIEEEEEEET. :| *uses appropriate icon* You know I love your sketches. 8D

[tafkae.livejournal.com]

Somehow it's your fault for playing with the whale. :D

[vytis]

Tch, who wouldn't want to play with the whale. :|

[elycien-xiii.livejournal.com]

^___^ I love your sketches, even the rough ones are so full of energy. LOL at Russia in his ski mask... and Canada... and LIEEEEEET. xDDDD

[vytis]

Lithuania's nickname is Liet. :3 Since I requested that sketch I can totally answer trufax.

[tafkae.livejournal.com]

XDD

Ah, "Liet" is Poland's nickname for Lithuania. I think it's derived from "Lietuva," which is his real name in Lithuanian.

[drunensis.livejournal.com]

"A Canadian friend recently told me that Canada is the world's number 1 producer of uranium!"


Say what? I didn't know that. I am utterly ashamed. All this time we've been worrying about those other countries whereas our real threat is literally on top of us. Wait a minute...it was the perfect plan.

[lulutiffany.livejournal.com]

Your art! I love it very much! ♥

[qichi.livejournal.com]

Your style is so adorable! And Hockey!Russia is like.. woah.

[notedible.livejournal.com]

Russia is fucking scary.

[magaru]

LIEEEEEEET killed me XDD;;

I like your style :3

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

The hockey arts are saved! oh god Russia!!

[meltedpeep.livejournal.com]

That first comic slays me. This is pretty much exactly what happened to my last name when that branch of the family first came over to the States. (And people still have trouble pronouncing it, way to go silly Irish forefathers.)

Your style is so expressive! I love it. And hockey mask Russia may or may not have made me snort in terror.

By the by, if you're still doing research for this WWI project you allude to, this (http://www.landships.freeservers.com/ww1figures.htm) is an utterly fascinating reference site which I wish I'd found several weeks ago. If you've already heard of it, excuse me. :'D

[tafkae.livejournal.com]

That is beautiful! Thank you so much *3*

[nittle-grasper.livejournal.com]

One day Canada is going to release all that pent-up aggression and use that uranium and TAKE OVER THE WORLD.

....scary Russia is scary o__o;

[t3nsa1.livejournal.com]

Awesome! You know America is starting to realize he is sick... We managed to kill three people in a sale holiday after all... yeah we kinda suck. At least we didn't use a samurai sword. *looks pointedly at Arthur*

[tarouchan.livejournal.com]

These were absolutely wonderful! I especially love the hockey illustrations. XD

"I'b dot sick" Alfred looks like he needs a soft bed and a bowl of chicken soup, poor dear!

[remmyxsiri.livejournal.com]

You are my hero. <3 I love your sketches, they are wonderful~ I think that is one of my favorite Russia pictures ever also.

[arashiyukawa.livejournal.com]

LOL hockey Russia 8DDDD

Uhh, I wonder if my name would be butchered in America, too? XDD

I-I love your sketches. <3<3

[degrees.livejournal.com]

HOCKEY RUSSIA IS LOVE.

I like to imagine that the Cold War was when America and Russia played stupid, malicious pranks on each other.

And prank called each other. XD

[tafkae.livejournal.com]

"Hey, guess what, Russia. I have lasers now. In SPACE. >D"

[degrees.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah~? Well I have lasers in your mother~"

[kawaiihoto.livejournal.com]

lol XD

The name thing happened a lot too, in the immigration department in US many last names were changed due to typos XD
There are also other cases, like the one in which an Irani family imigrated to the US, and didn't speak english, so when asked for their last name they replied "Habibi [I don't understand]" and their last name was forever changed to habibi

[janspace.livejournal.com]

(For some reason, it's not as popular in the Baltic states.)

Here is me, laughing so hard I'm slumped over the keyboard and okay people are totally giving me strange looks but omg can't stop. Russia, you. You are very terrifying. And awesome. But mostly terrifying.

I love your Canada. So cute and mellow and yet! Kickass when it comes to the hockey. His growly face at America is awesome.

America with the coffee. And Liet. And Germanyyyy. Oh, so many pretty pics to comment on. Love them all.

[potatopizza.livejournal.com]

these are very nice. the hocky mask is really fit jason russia. :D

[madhatterarashi.livejournal.com]

Jason!Russia made me laugh so hard I almost fell off the chair. XD

[youkofujima.livejournal.com]

LOL for some reason that last one cracked me up.

And I have to shamefully say that I, too, didn't know that Canada produced so much uranium. OAO

[batfowl.livejournal.com]

Oh K, I have no words to describe how much I love all this hilariously badass art of yours. ♥

[wistwisp.livejournal.com]

I really love all these! They're so awesome! Especially China there, goin' all martial arts!

"For some reason, it's not as popular in the Baltic states."

...Actually... I was researching this for nation_ask, and Latvia claims to have introduced hockey to Russia. Bad idea, bad idea!! XD

[tafkae.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, that just makes it even funnier xD

[lovekills91.livejournal.com]

AHHH, my family ancestors had the same problem as Liet-kun. My last name was originaly "kitonkinsih" in the original random east european country that no one in my family knows anymore because they got super old and died. The dude at Ellis Island was just like..."ah fuc)k it! Your Ketten now!"

ah, I tell good stories! (btw loving the art)