Branpru - Blog Posts

god forbid men have political alliances with complicated long-term implications.

What are your favorite things about branpru and lietukr?

briefly speaking — through trial and error I figured I like my ships having historical backing; it just makes stuff much more fun and bloody. Here, this is the case for both — even though the reasons I like one are almost directly opposite to those why I like the other.

I like LietUkr because it’s fucking chill for both; and both actually find comfort and peace in one another, which both Ukraine and Lithuania much deserve after all they’ve been through. Comfort ship🤗

I like BranPru because it’s fucking miserable. How they grapple at eachother’s throats but neither is actually able to let go of another because of the reasons that make both of them sick to their guts from even thinking of it. For what actually brings them closer is a near-obliteration of one and the sheer question of remaining on the political map. The way the power dynamic between them shifts and they way they get attached and get to influence each other so intrinsically neither comes out of it his former self. And neither is able to separate himself from another. It’s not a ship I ship for a healthy stable relationship, neither is capable of that — if it is love, it is amour-propre at best, the enlightment’s violent self-love that stemms out of desire for reckognition from others, desire to be better then them. Brandenburg and Prussia are doomed by the narrative, the narrative existing inside my head but oh well. they also fucking deserve this.

hope that answers

I literally screamed. I can‘t but love your interpretation.

These two hit the point especially hard 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

I may ot may not try to explain my take on it later on in the evening but this is all I can say in so far.

Does Prussia have ptsd from his childhood marriage with brandenburg

Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I'm kinda brain dead today to really get into it but this is a BEAUTIFUL fascinating question and I want to invite @sand-and-swamp-and-wildfire @proosh @edelweissko and anyone else interested in branpru (i know there's more of you in the shadows) to come and reblog this with their take if they want to 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

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

Now, for my own nefarious reasons, I asked my German (Schleswig-Holstein) friend today if there are any stereotypes about modern Brandenburg federal state in Germany, and she sent me this ABSOLUTE GEM

(Since I follow the chain of events that today’s Bundesland Brandenburg is personified by the same guy as personified the former Margraviate, part of the kingdom, etc, etc, these days Gilbert-Prussia would absolutely annoy the shit out of him with this song I CAN FUCKING SEE IT HAPPENING. With the other Bundesländer joining in.)

Basically the stereotype is that the area is very rural and there’s nothing to do and everyone’s moving out and shit and yes stereotypes are bad but in no right does this song have to be so fucking funny🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

PLEASE.

I CAN’T.

Wah, I made almost the same joke the other day!

OH YES MARK BRANDENBURG.

also a meme spoiler to a WIP which is the only reason I haven’t drawn this. YET. Except this was made before I even heard the song and this is just his normal face.

Also, here’s where the screenshots are from and where u can find English translation and stuff. I’M REALLY SORRY.