Sorry gang, my engine exploded and I've been navigating getting a new car. Should have it settled by the end of next week and I'll try to put down some more ideas
Oh goddamn that's perfect, I've been putting off making a new map for my deglaciated Antarctic superpower TL! My computer sucks so it won't be good enough to enter the actual challenge but I look forward to what people make.
Having some car problems and almost definitely need a new car so things are a bit more hectic on my end unfortunately. Still, it gave me the idea to include at least a passing mention of Transformers in my regressive fiction post, since although you'd never know it from the OTL modern movies...
Ran into some delays since I'll probably have to buy a new car and am stuck walking/biking to work for a couple of weeks. Hopefully once I get everything sorted I'll be able to type up The Brazen Bull but things are just a little hectic right now 😅
If anyone can't guess that's as close as I can get to mapping Civil War to actual politics. I actually enjoyed the movie quite a bit even if the lack of reference to actual modern political realities disappointed me. Still a good "modern civil wars are terrible" movie though even if it doesn't...
They have diametrically opposed race theories but similar governmental systems so they'd hate each other more deeply than either ever thought possible.
Threadmarks: The Great Divide- (Sub)cultural Marks-ism
Was thinking about the eventual 2016 election today while out running errands and I figured I'd lay out a couple of subcultural symbols (besides the previously mentioned Weathermen logo) for relevant groups that don't quite rank up to being flags on their own. I've got to clean up a lot of...
Here's another fun one based on a TL where Fred Hampton gets assassinated later:
The National Union Party is the personal beast of president Nixon, originally a Republican Party renamed to absorb the Democrats alienated by a surge of leftist radicalism in a bid to hearken back to Lincoln. Then...
I mean in Transmetropolitan the two parties still have names but no one ever uses them, it's always just the Party in Government and the Opposition and elections just switch which of them is which.
Reread the Silent Revolution chapter and it got me thinking. Alfarus was able to defuse the first major split within Combine Societism by embracing the Familista position while retaining the Garderista one as an implied threat and I started pondering how he (or a more competent successor than he...
This was originally going to be my centralized post of random media/cultural ideas that couldn't carry an individual update but the first one I picked turned out to be meatier than I expected so here's this instead— in my defense I was able to fold in a few of my one-off ideas at the margins 😅...
It fits pretty well, aside from the fact George was touring Ireland and Scotland on the lecture circuit at the time he also had a strong rapport with Irish Republicans in New York City despite being ethnically English.
@ParasaurEwan I love Antarctic alternate history stuff, well done! My main TL also has an ice free Antarctica, thought the fact that it's a future history rather than ASB story means that the impact on climate is... more severe...