User blog comment:Ceras SanMarina/Some rants!/@comment-1271618-20100613194314

Ah yes, can't forget that D:-worthy post on the LJ community that said they loved the Axis Powers and cursed their school for making them hate the Axis. L-lolwut. And someone I was talking with early on in my fandom days said something along the same lines and it made me feel more weirded out: "Screw school, I always liked the Axis. Except when they killed the Jews." (...I would HOPE they weren't serious but even so, not a very funny "joke". Plus it's ignoring that there were other casualties of WWII, the Holocaust, and all assorted things and making it seem it wasn't that bad, aaagh). Of course, at that point I didn't know the extent of all the facepalm that would come.

Shipwar-wise: I find it funny that even Spain/Romano is the next to be put through the "die for our ship" ringer from a tiny bit of the community and things that I've heard through the grapevine in the fandom in general. Sure they're not explicitly canon and can be an overdone pairing (and "lol, Spain=pedo" gets old), and I wouldn't expect everyone to be into it. But I never really thought it ever had as much competition as the other popular pairings like US/UK and Germany/Italy. But apparently France is a more "loving" partner for Spain for some people and uhhh...yeah, it hasn't been too pretty. Of course since Romano barely gets paired with anyone else (canon doesn't give too much anyway since he's uptight and only really social to girls, not that we've seen much of that besides Belgium in volume 3), I've yet to see Romano fans scream that Spain's a nasty freak and should die for the sake of their preferred pair. Sure, there's Belgium but uh...the fandom is very fickle about het. Worst-case scenario, it'd be Belgium getting stamped with "Die for our ship".

US/UK vs. France/UK vs. UK/Japan is definitely the biggest shipwar and debate source, but I've also seen Austria/Hungary vs. Prussia/Hungary vs. Austria/Prussia and that's so crazy.

ETA: Just thought of something! It's a good thing Canada's "invisible", even if he may get made to be "too flawless" by some fans or criticized by not being man enough, I don't see many people bashing him for being in the way of a pairing. Poor Canada never had a chance XD