Here Are Some Things

Title: The Last Continent
Originally posted: Here, for wizzard890 as part of her reverse request post. Also, entirely coincidentally: happy birthday, Wizard! ♥ (And thank you erueru_2d for the translations and for answering all of my random questions. You're such a gem.)
Length: 2400 words.
Characters/Pairings: Antarctica OC; also England, Norway, America, Russia, France, and a slew of brief appearances from others.
Premise: Check it out, you guys! Antarctica!
Time period: 1908-2004.
Smuttiness: 0/10
Funnyness: 4/10
Wrist slashiness: 3/10
Lolhistoryness: 7/10
Violence: 0/10
Would I like it?: It's about an OC (possibly bad) and it has penguins in it (obviously good). It's up to you how you balance those things against each other.

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Some of you may have been wondering why the fic has dried up around this joint all of a sudden. "Whyfor this bullshit?" you may well ask.

The answer is that my husband bought me The Sims, the "life simulator game" in which you make little people, put them into a little town, and guide them through their little lives, hopefully helping them to achieve their hopes and dreams along the way. (There is another school of thought, wherein The Sims is more akin to a diabolical social experiment, designed to test the limits of human misery, but that's a sordid sort of business and it will not be countenanced here.) It's utterly banal and strangely fascinating, and then two weeks of my life disappeared.

But that's not the end of the story. After all, I wouldn't be putting this in my fanworks journal if I was just "playing The Sims."

I've been playing Hetalia Sims.

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Title: Dieu T'Aidera
Originally posted: Here, for tauruschick12.
Length: 1600 words.
Characters/Pairings: France/muddy ditch OTP. Also, Joan of Arc.
Premise: The first time they meet.
Time period: 1429.
Smuttiness: 1/10
Funnyness: 4/10
Wrist slashiness: 3/10
Lolhistoryness: 5/10
Violence: 2/10
Would I like it?: Joan must teach a hopeless, drenched-in-horse-urine France to ~believe in himself~ again. If that sentence made you smile, read on.

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Title: It's Really A Threesome
Originally posted: 1/31/2009, on the kink meme. Link
Length: 2,000 words.
Characters/Pairings: France/US, implied UK/US.
Premise: The Louisiana Purchase. Also, England cockblocks France and America without ever appearing in the story.
Time period: 1803
Smuttiness: 7/10
Funnyness: 4/10
Wrist slashiness: 2/10
Lolhistoryness: 7/10 - if you're confused about anything America and France are talking about in the beginning, check out the XYZ Affair and Jay's Treaty.
Violence: 3/10
Would I like it?: It's revolutionary era America, and France is a bitch.

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