so, i haven't been on here for a hot minute.
i use write terrible fanfics on here about an anime that had a grip on me during middle school when i was 12. said anime is also deeply problematic and just so happened to be hetalia. i then went onto make a fanfic which not only contained terribly written content but also things that are just deeply racist and offensive (for example: the names i gave my old ASEAN ocs, horrible depictions of colonialism, and just a horrifically terrible understanding of history in general). this was all published on my previous account, one which the email i got deleted and now i cannot access it anymore.
i moved to this account to continue with some more chapters in the mean time, but have since then ended the fic due to falling out of interest with hetalia due realizing just how bad it was. moved to ao3, though i just stopped writing in general, and now i'm here, telling you guys that i'm thinking of unpublishing ASEAN Shenanigans. i would be lying if i said that the entire experience was bad, i met a lot of people who had the same interests as me and even have an irl friend that used to be into hetalia like me. but i was also just awfully rude and disrespectful in the space of fandom, brash and didn't understand the dangers of being open in online spaces.
with all that said, i want to apologize for all the horrible and offensive things i wrote in my fanfic. as someone who is southeast asian, i should've been more aware and took care to research things regarding the ASEAN and their histories more thoroughly with care and respect. being in middle school at that time doesn't give me the excuse of saying i didn't know any better because i should've, especially regarding something as controversial as hetalia.
i wanted this to be longer but with the word limit i'll end it here for now. thank you for taking your time to read this, and i'm sorry for every wrong i have done.
- rosie, formerly sav