Austria (and some period drama rambles):

[konstantya]

No, you will not be getting any fucking pasta.

I've recently had a hankering for period dramas, and since I've never actually seen a version of Nicholas Nickleby, I used the power of netflix to get a hold of the 2001 miniseries/tv-film.  (I understand a lot of people have issues with the 2002 film, not only because they had to condense/take out so many things, but because it has such a happy-Hollywood tone to it, and while I hear the '82 miniseries is actually the best/most-accurate adaptation, it's not only a bit harder to come by, but I wasn't quite ready for an 8-hour slog through what isn't so much a movie so much as a theater production that was put to film; the 2001 version seemed like a good compromise.)

James D'Arcy, who plays the titular Nicholas, wears period clothing so well (in the 2003 Napoleonic War-era sausage-fest Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, he rocks a pony-tail and a naval uniform, and he's one of the very few good things about the 2007 version of Mansfield Park, where he plays a delightfully soused Tom Bertram), and he's got that tall, thin, academic quality to him, and then the way his hair is styled--well, something about him just screamed AUSTRIA to me, and I couldn't help but photoshop a pair of derpy glasses on him (and a mole, and an ahoge), just to see.  But really, he's got that vaguely delicate, but not altogether un-masculine, quality to his features--enough so that Prussia would make fun of him for looking like a priss, but not so much that he actually looks like a girl.

And omg, you should see his HAAANDS, nng.