Robultober Day 5: Iconography

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Happy Valentines dayyyyy💞

she wants that cookie so effing bad

OMG THIS IS BEAUTIFUL

At some kind of negotiations, except they share a singular braincell and they fight each other who gets to use it.

[Loads of yapping under the cut.]

This was supposed to be set in 1605-ish, around the outsets of Jülich succession crisis. Let’s pretend a fucking lamp is not there okay??Prussia is still a Polish fief duchy, so kinda irrelevant? Well, nevermind, he got dragged in as it is Anna of Prussia who carried Brandenburg‘s Electors‘ claim to Jülich-Kleve. And along with her husband, the Elector‘s son, she was in favour of more decisive actions regarding Jülich, as far as a pre-emptive strike. Whereas the Elector himself hesitated, supporting a more cautious approach.

At that point Prussia knows what is coming.(okay, maybe Brandenburg‘s Elector marrying the younger sister of his own son‘s wife juuuuust to make sure no other family ever gets a chance to claim Prussia was a bit too— nevermind). He got the point. He knows he has no other option really, and that he and Johann are kind of…stuck in this ever since the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order happened to be a Hohenzollern. And thus he makes what he can out of it, trying out what strings he can pull and when.

After all, he‘s painfully aware that Johann may seem like a schemer with a long-term plan, but in fact? Will hesitate and push for neutrality when a firm decision is most needed. If Brandenburg is good at something, that is masking his indecisiveness with cautiousness. And Prussia wonders how, or rather when he will be able to use this to his advantage…

[this writing stuff is very experimental and very much a WIP and both interpretations and characterisations are subject to change !!! Be warned !!!]

Oh, yeah looks like I have my time to create stuff back? I was just testing that one technique when you draw stuff in grayscale and then colour it. It‘s torture, but damn, I like the result. Shit took 4 days to render. And I just gave up on the bg sorry not sorry.

Meh, It’s always „how do you get along?” and not „how do you even get. there. at the first place.” I was just thinking – 700-ish km between Berlin and Königsberg. Imagine. 2-3 weeks horseback through swamp sand and shit and you’re there except it’s too late and noone cares. Must’ve been hell.

By the way physically they‘re..? 15-16, I would say here? Brandenburg is a bit older, not really much, but he‘s taller lol.

Other versions because YES ITS HARD TO CHOOSE A FILTER RRRAH

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“I find the Bulgarian Fleur - de - Lys tiara beautiful and it's a pity that the Bulgarian royal family no longer has it.” - Submitted by Anonymous

Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan

Forget the detail that Armenia's left eye is not green, plus forget her scars as well 😢

I promise that in the future I will publish a drawing where these details are observed!

Ruscan

Another thing about Lithuania which hetalians tend to ignore is the facts that:

Lithuania and Belarus are historical and genetical siblings (and it was recently proved by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig).

The majority of Lithuanians ABSOLUTELY CANNOT STAND it when you dare to remind them about the point one because:

Quite many of Lithuanians strongly dislike both Belorussians and Belaruthians who are into real history of Belarus. Why? Because 1) there is just too much in common which they cannot divide, 3)there are constant threats from the Belorussian regime and 3)there are too many Belaruthian immigrants. The closest similar relationship is probably between USA and Mexico. Or South Korea and North Korea. It's not like Lithuanians hate Belaruthians, some of them even feel pity and sympathy - but if tell Lithuanians that they want to "marry" Belarus... the reaction will not be good, that's for sure.

From my own experience: I was banned from one of Lithuanian history groups because... they discussed with rage how did those Belaruthians dare to erect a monument for the Great Lithuanian Duke Gediminas - and call him Hedymin!! And I wrote that there is absolutely nothing wrong with that because 1. it was Lithuanian-Belaruthian Duke who for sure spoke both languages because he lived in times when Belarus still called itself Lithuania (Litva), 2. the monument inscription was in Belaruthian language. If you find this unacceptable, then you must hate the fact that Ukrainians call Vytautas "Vytovt" (with typical Ukrainian и) in Ukrainian language, too. And I haven't seen a single Ukrainian who would demand from russians to write Кыйив in russian language (I belive that would be perceived as a mockery of Ukraine. In English, it's a different case). I was banned shortly after this. :D The disaffection of Lithuanians towards Belaruthians sometimes can be actually really absurd and ridiculous.

Thus, my honest reaction as a half-Belaruthian when hetalians post anything about "lietbel soulmates" and similar stuff, knowing that it's gonna ricochet at people who were unfortunate to be born with wrong blood:

Traditional bridal attire from Varna region, Bulgaria