Sorry if this seems like spamming, but for the last week I’ve been re-reading the timeline, something which I don’t often do, even with my favourite books, so that speaks to its brilliance.
Another video from the bbc - afro-futurism - quite Malêverse...
This story from the BBC, about vicuña and the native peoples of their habitat being declared their custodians, made me think of the Malêverse
http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20180917-the-rarest-fabric-on-earth
I’m not sure if it was mentioned, but how are endangered species in the Malêverse -...
What is your point in posting like this? I'm all for critique, but the way you do it is just nasty and dissmissive of the work that Jonathon has done.
I think he has successfully outlined his POD as possible, if not necessarily probable, and none of your criticisms seem to exclude that, i.e...
What a delightful surprise to see this being added to - I do wonder about the dates of the Northern Seven Years War - we jump from the 1860s back to the 1600s
T develop yours and previous posters ideas, /u/ next to uvular consonants in Quechua sounds more like /o/, so Hispanised could be Antisú [with influence from Perú]/Antiso/Antisia, Chinchaisú/Chinchaiso/Chinchaisia (Chinchasa?), Contisú/Contiso/Contisia, and Collasú/Collaso/Collasia
I think it could be said that natural human curiosity would lead to someone trying to ride an animal they were in close contact with - children jumping onto domesticated oxen, for example. From there, it doesn't seem too great a leap to trying to ride a donkey, without the need for the horse as...
Very interesting as always.
El Deserto Grande or El Gran Deserto sound more grammatical than Grande Deserto, although Desierto would be Spanish - is the Spanish in this timeline supposed to be closer to Portugues? You may have explained before, but I forget
I'm enjoying this timeline immensely - what an ambitious scope!
I'm also enjoying the guest interlude, but on both things I can't reslly offer any critiques of relevence
The map is wonderful aswell, thought I think Sklavenia might be misspelt
A cultural definition of Europe as the lands of Latin Christendom coalesced in the 8th century, signifying the new cultural condominium created through the confluence of Germanic traditions and Christian-Latin culture, defined partly in contrast with Byzantium and Islam, and limited to northern...