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  1. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    Well between The Final Society and There and Back Again there does seem to be a bit of Tit for tat fictional implied insults. So that's where that reference came from! I knew i didn't make it up. But yes I basically combined various authors traits. If theres another fantasy author he may have...
  2. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    The Talking Wolves were less a metaphor for a specific country and more Rexism in general, with the Eagles being the Democratic Bloc in general less than America in particular.
  3. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia
    Threadmarks: Interlude: There and Back Again

    With Permission from the author I wrote a brief interlude about a Fantasy novel in this Timeline James P. Howard's There and Back Again, and the American Fairy Tale. The Concept of slaying a dragon has its roots as far back as Ancient Greece, if not older. When societiest movements started to...
  4. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    I was gonna do a write up involving something that resembles the Hobbit if it was co written by Robert E Howard. But i forgot to ask if it was cool and then forgot it completely.
  5. Pop-culture in TL-191

    Both suprisingly similar to us and completely impossible for us to interpret.
  6. Photos from Featherston's Confederacy/ TL-191

    That could make sense. Although it might be Kinder Gentler Communism TM considering Socialism is the American Variety, and the Republicans probably won because the US supported them
  7. DBWI: There really was one shooter

    Well, Oswald alone definetly fails. He was completely unhinged and insane. He wouldn't get close enough to actually assisnate the president and would probably not get further than assaulting a police officer.
  8. Pop-culture in TL-191

    Well they were all Born in former Confederate States, but by the time they were all Born its been a while since the end of the war so it really depends on what continuation timeline we are talking about. For Instance in After the End they'd grow up in a relatively prosperous country thats been...
  9. Pop-culture of the Kaiserreich

    The concept might be relatively the same, but the changes in Culture might change the minutiae. Zombies are not a horde of easily killed monsters but a handful of Juggernauts.
  10. DBAHC: End Absolute Monarchy In Britain

    Well, as a general Idea if the English don't constantly try to Invade Ireland and get beaten back with massive casualties, be it from scattered tribes capitalizing on bad luck or the legendary First King of all Ireland Uniting said scattered tribes the English Monarchs might be more open to...
  11. DBWI: Gerald Ford doesn't get assassinated

    If Lynne doesn't get him Sarah Jane Moore would. They were both prepared and Moore had a better chance if Fromme hadn't gotten Lucky. If he somehow survived both Assassins ERA passes for sure. The damage Americas first woman President Killer has done is practically irreparable to womens rights.
  12. DBWI: Nixon Makes a Comeback

    I don't see anyone breaking the Vice President Curse. The generally accepted rule is that if you become vice President your only chance of becoming President is if the sitting president dies. So unless Eisenhower's heart attacks kill him Nixon is not getting into the highest office.
  13. WI: Stalin and Hitler didn't have abusive fathers

    As has been said earlier in the thread bad parenting won't necissarily make someone a mass murderer, worst case scenario nothing much changes and they both have some colorful anecdotes about their cartoonishly pleasant childhoods. Maybe in this case Stalin is less anti religious than the rest of...
  14. Pop-culture in TL-191

    Axis and Entente? Unless the American/German alliance wasn't called the Philadelphia-Berlin Axis
  15. How controversial would a TV show about freedom fighters fighting a neocon dictatorship be in post 9/11 America?

    As was said before, if its 2004 or later it has a chance of hitting a niche audience if its vague enough in terms of the leaders being fought. Years later its lauded as "underappreciated" and "ahead of its time" If it's too close to 9/11 or too close to reality its remembered as being a really...
  16. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    I'm not gonna lie part of the reason I keep coming here is for the Alternative writing styles and exercises in Pure worldbuilding. Other than Watchmen and Stephen Kings Carrie I cant think of any piece of fiction that includes extensive in universe newspapers, scientific texts, and meta fiction.
  17. Separated at Birth: America and Drakia

    Welcome to AH.com fiction Broke Telling events via characters and narration Woke Mechanically listing events like a goddamn history textbook.
  18. How would readily available Automatic Rifles change the Course of WWII?

    If both sides of World War II had access to fully automatic rifles at the beginning of the war how would it change combat and the course of the war itself, if at all?
  19. Pop-culture in TL-191

    That could come across as really insensitive if the US ever softens its position on Mormons.
  20. Pop-culture in TL-191

    The Fandom name is Doctor Lexington. Presumably no divided US so you'd have Germans occupied by the Japanese analogue French and the German analogue confederates occupying The US.
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