Recent content by angakkuq

@Thande There are two [16]s in the text, but only one in the actual footnotes.

@Thande Part 305 has two [7] in the text but only one matching footnote. 312 has two [4] in the text but only one matching footnote. Part 314 has footnote 16 only at the end of the post; there's none in the text. Same with footnote 11 in 315.

Can't be a March 4 Riot, no FBI.

Would it be Distrito Real or Distrito Capital rather than Distrito Federal?

Good grief, at what point do you just say "heck with it" and call it the United Kingdom of South America?

Sorry, but a minor quibble: it's "without further ado." The word "adieu" has nothing to do with it.

I like this already. Treasure Planet as part of the Disney Animated Canon? Would a Kingdom Hearts world be in the cards?

Ooh, nice. So basically Elvis doing Johnny Cash's American albums.

Don't ancoms also insist they want to abolish the stare?

You mean "in TTL," right?

No thicc Baja or Florida?

"As we’ve discussed elsewhere, to attempt to treat ‘Africa’ as a single entity when covering any period of history is a fool’s errand, yet one also runs into headaches if one tries to treat it as a series of separate regions, as history will inevitably spill over from one to another." Arguably...

Yup.

The thing with Andre Gardes actually happened. He was an unemployed nuclear physicist who apparently convinced himself he was the rightful heir and "Seigneur" of the small formerly feudal state of Sark. So in 1990 he attempted a one-man invasion but was stopped by the locals. He tried again a...

Mention of "falling blades"--it's been a while since I read the early chapters, but was the guillotine a thing ITTL? "aspiring to this feet" Gonna assume you meant "feat."