Recent content by Griffin04

I could see them being marsupials, monotremes, or even surviving multituberculates.

I think the more relevant causal explanation here is not disease, but the Sullivan Expedition during the American Revolutionary War, where in retaliation for the Iroquois siding with the British, George Washington ordered that their settlements be overrun, their people expelled or captured, and...

This is really fascinating, I love alternate ecology and extinct megafauna. One suggestion, the quagga, a relative of the zebra native to South Africa which was driven to extinction OTL in the 19th century, was reported by one naturalist who observed them to be 'unquestionably best calculated...

What if it ended up in a Taiwan situation after the revolution

I believe Couche-tard, Mac's and Circle K are all owned by the same company, but they only use the Couche-Tard branding in Quebec irl.

As it stands, I'm betting on an ironic victory in Upper Canada/loss everywhere else for the United States tipping the balance further in favour of the free states.

This is a tantalizing hint- can't wait to see what it refers to!

Also Russia has like, twice its OTL population.

The Worlda has been updated, btw!

Glad to see this posted! In my head, I had Lower Connecticut's motto as an indirect reference to the failed New Haven Colony, but the other interpretations are certainly valid too, and I like the idea of a motto no one quite knows the meaning of. Also, West Dominica's is taken from a line from...

Or that they don't percieve themselves as imperialistic, but do see their geopolitical rivals that way- how many OTL Americans see their country's actions in those terms, for example?

Neither Australia nor Darwin is white-majority.

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There's been some discussion of this in the Discord- basically, emigre Japanese artists brought the fundamentals of what would become anime to British Hong Kong, where it became a style of animation associated with the production company British Pathé, which later became the generalized name for...

Nice, Argentina has an openly gay vice president!