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  1. Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Inspired by current box office performances... "Course Correction"

  2. Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Well, "Spider-Girl" was inspired by a bit of online fan-casting about a modern Mayday Parker series (with actress Sophia Lillis in the title role)that was making the rounds a few months back, and "How I Met Your Father"...is a real show that actually runs on Disney+, in some markets. Everything...

  3. Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Something I've been puttering around with. "Alternate production/acquisition results":

  4. WI: Charles and Camilla go on to have children after their marriage?

    The record for oldest age confirmed pregnancy via natural conception was actually 59. Almost a freak occurrence, but, hey...black swans are half the fun of alternate histories, right?

  5. WI: Middle Eastern cuisine in timeline without Islam

    ...which will only make it's seizure that much easier, or that much less catastrophic. Or might get built into a metropolis by someone else: Above: The Great Statue of Kuan Yu on the Tigris, Baegdaed. The campus of the famed Tsenkher Tuuz Hospitality Academy visible in the background appears...

  6. WI: Middle Eastern cuisine in timeline without Islam

    Could be, sure! But with enough dice rolls and butterflies, you might get an exotic situation where the Ilkhanate seizes Baghdad intact and peacefully, the Khan marries in to the Byzantine Empire (or, as some scholars later put it, "Abaqa bought Constantinople with Constantinople's money")...

  7. WI: Middle Eastern cuisine in timeline without Islam

    Really outside option: Due to changes in socio-military structure, the Levant and Middle East aren't able to withstand the Mongol Invasions of the 13th century nearly as well, with the OTL Muslim regions largely falling completely under the political control of the Khanates, and ultimately the...

  8. NBC’s “Supertrain” drama from the Spring of 1979 somehow strikes a chord?

    Extra-unlikely, curveball answer: have the tastes of American/western audiences changed just enough to be able to accept animated non-comedies as passably serious adult entertainment (or at least, not strictly little kid fare), and make it as a cartoon with comparably lower production costs...

  9. Alt-History Aftermath Scenarios Implied by Media

    The really (only?) mindscrew-y theory I can imagine...we know that the changes to the timeline went beyond one little boy disappearing or not disappearing in the 60s. Present-day Brantford, at the start of the film, was in economic collapse, the major shoe company had gone under completely...

  10. Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Well, yes. Three, actually. He literally has the receipts for at least two of them.

  11. What are some ways for a country to artificially increase its population?

    Yearly $1 billion prize awarded to one random newborn's parent/s—guaranteed winner, multiple births from the same pregnancy get $400 million each. I'm joking, of course. You could probably get the same result for much less than $1 billion.

  12. Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    Depends on the version, but I'm seeing few if any references to him being an outright enemy of Arthur or his knights.

  13. Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    The Green Knight, obviously.

  14. Fascist, Racist, But Not Queerphobic Organizations/Ideologies?

    ...it'd just be cheating to found my own, right?

  15. What existing fiction might look like in alternate timelines

    Heh. On a related, but regrettably non-graphic note, I've had the outline for an X-Men (cinematic version) fanfic bouncing around in my head for a few years now, which starts cranking down on the Alternate History handle hard at around the late 60s. God knows if I'll ever get around to...

  16. Easternized/ Muslim world Dress and architecture thread

    That's actually a popular belief, but according to historical review, aside from some very circumstantial evidence of peripheral cultural cross-pollenation—and the chest-thumping of certain joseocentrists—it does not seem to have a historical basis, and the shape is considered something of an...

  17. Easternized/ Muslim world Dress and architecture thread

    It's...uh, actually an evolution of the changshan, modified over the decades according to the needs of local climate, and materials. As you might just be able to tell, it's being worn partly open in the front, in typical Colonial fashion. And the hat is actually an Akubra—itself an indirect...

  18. Easternized/ Muslim world Dress and architecture thread

    Well, it's mostly from my guess that any functioning industrial, technological society comparable to our own (or at least, that of boom years of the 20th century) is likely not going to be overly exotic in the nitty-gritty, compared to our own—if it could exist, it likely would have out-competed...

  19. Easternized/ Muslim world Dress and architecture thread

    Above: A customer at a Jihanki Shokudō, Gau Gamshan City, winter of 4643 HJ. The sad fact being, despite all the romance of sturm und Xiēshān, at the end of the day, one has to remember...form follows function, money (and the bottom line) talks, quantity has a quality of it's own, and the...

  20. Photos from Alternate Worlds II (read FAQ first)

    In the original concept, IIRC, Clark's just a highschooler in Smallville when the Soviets invade—presumably, especially depending on what incarnation of him and how close to the shooting he is, he wouldn't remain "just" a highschooler for very long at all.
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