part 353 whalers on the moon

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We've been here over a year now! I can hardly believe it! Dreamwidth's been pretty good, I'd say, with almost no downtime to speak of and all that! Anyway... how is your spring going? Or I guess it's almost summer, isn't it? Hopefully it's been well! I've been catching up on work and new movies, all very exciting stuff, I'm sure.

Enjoy part 353!

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Do you think there'd be more rape-fic with him if Germany weren't canonically a virgin?

[(Anonymous)]

With Germany as the rapist? I'm just glad there isn't more, with this fandom. Just... glad there isn't.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's what's stopping people. Russia would still be written as a rapetruck no matter if the canon was explicit that he never had sex or cares about it.

[(Anonymous)]

In Russia's case, in addition to being one of the few characters you might mistake for a 'bad guy', it's probably the getting-way-too-physically-familiar habit that he has. I'm thinking also of France and Italy as other characters who get closely intimate, and France has this problem with getting cast as a rapist, too. Italy... is too busy being a fanon uke to be a rapist. It's probably not the fact that he's a virgin.

Germany isn't presented as a 'bad guy', and he's more on the physically reserved side.
And so the stars aligned to cast Russia as rapetruck, and Germany avoided most of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah. I think it really boils down to personality. Germany is portrayed in a more sympathetic light than Russia.

[(Anonymous)]

Has Germany ever been portrayed in a negative light? Japanese bias...

[(Anonymous)]

Only when he's getting frustrated at Italy? Idek

[(Anonymous)]

Hard to say.

[(Anonymous)]

There's already quite a lot, so, I don't think it's made a difference.