AH Cultural Descriptions

[Kylia]

A nonfiction book about the tenure of Canadian Prime Minister of Canada prior to his assassination.

Little Australia, MI

A town inhabited by refugees from Austria who fled there in 2007, after a virus, engineered by China as a weapon of last resort but stolen and released by extremist Pan-Asian Nationalists, destroyed the ecosphere of Australia (and did pretty severe damage to all surrounding islands, which was not intended). Many people in Australia died as the government tried to play down the damage, with malnutrition and associated deaths from diseases due to malnutrition took their toll. Many also fled, and a good number ended up in Michigan, where Little Australia was formed.

The Right Honorable Representative From The Moon

 

[Alias_The_J]

Right Honorable Representative

Using aetheric sails and phlogiston semaphore lamps, The United Kingdom was able to colonize the entire moon by 1890. Because of the low communications lag and limited colonization (due to the low gravity, minimal resources, desert climate and thin atmosphere), the entire moon was given several MPs by the 1960s.

I swear, we get all sorts of freaks coming to these parts.

 

[Kylia]

Using aetheric sails and phlogiston semaphore lamps, The United Kingdom was able to colonize the entire moon by 1890. Because of the low communications lag and limited colonization (due to the low gravity, minimal resources, desert climate and thin atmosphere), the entire moon was given several MPs by the 1960s.

I swear, we get all sorts of freaks coming to these parts.

The slogan of Alfred Hampton's House of Weirdness, a TV show centering on showcasing every weird and bizarre thing (the more gruesome or disturbing the better) on pay cable in the 2010s.

USS Alien Space Bat

 

[Paraiba]

USS Alien Space Bat

A commissioned US Navy ship named for Congressman and veteran's rights advocate Jack Abramov, though Abramov's insistence would lead it to being renamed USS Alien Space Bat as a homage to a board of AlternateHistory.com that the Representative frequented even during his congressional years.

National Democratic Party of Uralic Israel

 

[Kylia]

A commissioned US Navy ship named for Congressman and veteran's rights advocate Jack Abramov, though Abramov's insistence would lead it to being renamed USS Alien Space Bat as a homage to a board of AlternateHistory.com that the Representative frequented even during his congressional years.

National Democratic Party of Uralic Israel

Uralic Israel was a state that formed in the Ural mountains after the total systems collapse of the Russian Socialist Republic (successor to the USSR), serving as a haven for all the jews that had settled to Russia after the fall of Israel in 1948 (though the condition of the Jewish population of the new state of Palestine was actually very good, all said and done, even if they didn't get to run the show anymore)

Uralic Israel was a small, highly militarized nation, and the NDP was one of it's more conservative and militaristic parties.

The Kommon Kongo League of Katanga

 

[ennobee]

A sourcebook for the popular post-apocalyptic Tabletop Roleplaying game That Never Happened, where the central premise is that many things we take for granted in the modern age are assumed to be myths hundreds of years after civilization is destroyed by a nebulous apocalyptic Event. The players are meant to play characters seeking to prove that various 'myths' of the pre-event world were real, like the Inuit, Reindeer and the like.m

that would hav been my idea too you just beat me to it.

 

[Liam Johnson of The Army]

The Kommon Kongo League of Katanga

Name of a Saturical Party in the UK that advocates for nuking Moscow and giving everyone free candy.
“Can i get an Amen to death?”

 

[ennobee]

“Can i get an Amen to death?”

According to popular Wild-West lore, “Can i get an Amen to death?” is the last question the preacher or padre asks to a man convicted to be hanged, just after the sheriff or judge read the accusations and condemned the outlaw to die. The 'Amen to death' is considered a shortform of confession or repentance and just a simple 'Amen' on behalf of the condemned will result in the priest saying something along the line of " Your sins are forgiven, may The Lord have mercy on your soul" and the sheriff or executioner proceding to hang the man.

If however the condemned does not answer quickly enough, or if the crowd of lookers-on is in a rowdy mood, it is common for the croud to shout "Amen, Amen to death!" over and over again until the man is hanging from the gallows.

No one knows when or where the tradition started, how widespread it was or if it even existed at all, but depiction of the 'Amen to Death' are already shown in the first silent western movies.


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Duck Duck Go

 

[Liam Johnson of The Army]

Name of a popular tv show centred around the secretive NGO “Invictus Reliance” and their mission of protecting the world from the supernatural. The name of the tv show is a refference to the event that inspired the founder of the NGO to start it after seeing several giant duck attact his local town.
“ It’s implied their founder is the Abrahamic God”

 

[Plateosaurus]

“ It’s implied their founder is the Abrahamic God”

The full title for Their Founder, a science fiction horror story by Australian-American writer Kenn Ham about a christian mission that goes to another planet to convert aliens, but goes terribly wrong. Many have read its story as being about Ham's struggles with toxic Christianity and the No True Scotman fallacy the plagues all dominions.

The Akron Pet Reptile Killer

 

[The Professor]

The Akron Pet Reptile Killer

A B movie produced by Channel Sci, initially intended to be a mockbuster for the forthcoming Jurassic Park III Revelations before it's cancellation and major rewrite.
It starred Tori Spelling who went on to at least feature in all later Akron Pet franchise films ("in various stages of undress" as reviewed by Roger Ebert) and revitalised her tv career.

A Site for Sore Quotations

(OOC: no actual AH quotations please in response, there's another thread for those. This thread should be for cultural titles, descriptions, and the like)

 

[Kylia]

A Site for Sore Quotations

The name of a website dedicated to collecting quotes about people whining about things - anything - from across time and space. It was started because a boomer told his millennial kid that millennials whined more than any other generation in history. The milennial, a CS major and a History minor, set out to prove his dad wrong. The Website became famous after a prominent twitter account linked and mentioned it a few years after it went live.

The Great British Beheading Contest

 

[Victoria]

The Great British Beheading Contest

A contest held on the British Federation to celebrate the anniversary of the beheading of Charles I and John Cromwell (who was beheaded decades later at the same day, his death marked the end of his family's rule and led to Britain's first democratic government). Those partipating in the contest are given a dulled axe and 10 cloth dummies representing historical British tyrants, the one who beheads all of them fastest wins. Although no one has ever died or been permanently injured during the contest, safety concerns have led to a petition to stop it.

Eleven: The Musical

 

[Kylia]

Eleven: The Musical

A play released in 2012 about the life and times of King Louis XI of France. The play was backed by the recently crowned Louis XXII, who was a great admirer of his half-numeraled forbear (in part because of the half-numeraled aspect). Louis XXII was also one of the first truly conservative monarchs the constitutional monarchy that was France had had since 1826 (Charles X blessedly having died only a few years into his reign), though he had no truck with the racism among many so-called conservatives on the French right at the time.

Oh Let Me Blow You - Away

 

[Alias_The_J]

Oh Let Me Blow You - Away

Song by Pete Burns after leaving the band Dead or Alive. Released in the album Fire by Night in 1986, the song was a surprising hit, topping charts in both the UK and US, as well as pushing his then-girlfriend (future wife/husband) Ophelia Dresden into the spotlight. She sang a reprise of the song was included in the album Starlight By Day, which firmly established powerful female singers as lead vocalists in heavy metal music. Their style is also credited with killing glam and hair metal.

Sonichu

 

[sampleswift]

Song by Pete Burns after leaving the band Dead or Alive. Released in the album Fire by Night in 1986, the song was a surprising hit, topping charts in both the UK and US, as well as pushing his then-girlfriend (future wife/husband) Ophelia Dresden into the spotlight. She sang a reprise of the song was included in the album Starlight By Day, which firmly established powerful female singers as lead vocalists in heavy metal music. Their style is also credited with killing glam and hair metal.

Sonichu

A genetic experiment combining Pikachu and Sonic DNA. This monstrosity appeared in the Sonic/Pokemon crossover, and was part of illegal genetic experimentation by Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.

Galactic Blazing

 

[Alias_The_J]

A story about a galaxy embroiled in civil war where planets are destroyed as easily as tissue paper. The novel was written by Heinlein.
“The Summary of This series is:
The Abrahamic God trolls every other religion”

Need a cultural description.

 

[Kylia]

A genetic experiment combining Pikachu and Sonic DNA. This monstrosity appeared in the Sonic/Pokemon crossover, and was part of illegal genetic experimentation by Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik.

Galactic Blazing

A video game where you play an intergalatic nature preservationist starting controlled 'space fires' on various parts of the galaxy to get rid of the stellar equivalent of undergrowth and brush that could fuel hardcore wildfires. The challenge was to stop the fires from getting out of control.

A Free Necromancer's Rights

 

[The_Persian_Cat]

A video game where you play an intergalatic nature preservationist starting controlled 'space fires' on various parts of the galaxy to get rid of the stellar equivalent of undergrowth and brush that could fuel hardcore wildfires. The challenge was to stop the fires from getting out of control.

A Free Necromancer's Rights

A pamphlet circulated among witches' covens and alchemists' colleges in the American South, advocating secession from the Union. In a context where diabolic magic is used to oppress and brutalise slaves, white witches in the South argued that the Federal government outlawing the use of necromancy to keep people in a state of slavery after their natural death was an infringement upon states' rights. Naturally, these Southern witches were countered by practitioners of Voodoo (as well as by the Union's own witches based in Salem, Massachusetts) when the Civil War finally broke out.

The Devourer of Villages

 

[Alias_The_J]

The Devourer of Villages

The English name for a terrible virulence that struck Europe in the early 18th Century. The Devourer struck slowly, making it's victims slowly waste away as they began to suffer from strange coughs and bruises, causing whole villages, towns and cities to lay down and die. By 1800, Europe was effectively depopulated, and over the next century, the disease made it's way through the Islamic world as well. Strangely, however, three groups seemed partially immune to the disease: the Catholic clergy, the Jews, and the English and French settlers in Carolina, Virginia, New York, New England, Newfoundland and Quebec.

In 2250, a join research team from the Semikhah of Jerusalem and the College of Chillicothe confirmed via genetic evidence that the disease was a variant of the Simian Immunodeficiency Virus and was identical to the disease which destroyed the plantation agricultural societies of the Caribbean and South America in the 17th century. The disease was likely festering in the slave camps before being spread to the plantation owners and, from there, making it's way to Europe.

Harry Potter and the Gigantic Plot Twists That Change Everything