AH Title and Description Game

[Miss Teri]

Heartaches By The Number

In an America that collapsed following the Civil War, Heartaches by the Number is a comedy from the California Commune in 1992. It centers around the daily life of a worker at the People's Health Division, at its Psychological department. He works for the "Heartache Hotline", for people who are going through romantic troubles and seek help in dealing with it. The film generally deals with a day in his life, mostly dealing with the troubles of people on the hotline, and giving advice. The big twist at the very end is that he is himself asexual and aromantic

The Purple Pheonix

A riff on an unused story from Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix , a mythical "purple Phoenix" is a fixture of Asian mythology for centuries, first appearing in India in 200 BCE, and stories of it coming and bringing good luck to its recipients have been a fixture of East Asian Buddhist folk tales. In 1940 Manchuria, Japanese soldiers hear that the Purple Phoenix has been spotted in the region. They, along with some of Manchurian soldier head out in search of it, hoping for some good luck. However, what they find is more stunning than ever imagined, and will change the course of human events....

The Venusian Chronicles
or
The Second Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World

 

[Kiz]

The Venusian Chronicles

An ASB that narrates a document found in mint condition in the Roman Catacombs. The TL then hops back to Ancient Rome and dictates a history where one god from every paganist religion actually exists (Ester for the Mesopotamia, Tyr for the Germans, Woden for the Anglos, Hermes for the Greeks, etc.) with Venus being the patron of the Romans. This revelation leads to a complete shift from polytheism to henotheism, where Venus becomes the head of Roman spiritualism. It also starts a age of heroes, where hundreds of people from different cultures. Eventually the escapades of most the heroes were compiled into chronicles and these chronicles became the holy texts of the people. The switch to henotheism served as a catalyst for every culture for form larger nations-states and confederation rather than petty kingdoms and city-states, curtailing the expansion of the great empires of OTL like Rome. However, due to many intense conflicts between the new great powers of the age, the gods were greatly weakened and eventually faded, leading to the creation of successor religion that were fully monotheist, however none of them reach the same spread as Christianity and Islam. There are more wars in the successor states of the great empires of the Antiquity to secure the chronicles and gain the legitimacy of the old emperors.

The War to End All Wars (aka What if WWI Lasted Until 1945?)

Sunset Invasion: An Age of Native American Imperialism

The Free Creek State

 

[Hulkster'01]

The Free Creek State

Andrew Jackson loses the 1832 election to Henry Clay who allows the Creek to stay and be their separate state.

I forgot to duck

Can’t we all get along?

Everybody hates Nixon

 

[housemaster]

Andrew Jackson loses the 1832 election to Henry Clay who allows the Creek to stay and be their separate state.
Everybody hates Nixon

After his resignation of the presidency Richard Nixon decides he wants to get back in the public good graces and so he uses the new medium of television to his advantage by starting his own day Time talk show and because controversy creates cash many people watch to see what the disgraced president has to say and so in the process becomes the most hated man in America.
'' It's not cheating if the game is already rigged''
or
A good man with a gun can change the world

 

[ImSadCauseImAlone]

A good man with a gun can change the world

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is repealed, then reinstated many years later by lawmakers who adopt the TL's title as their motto.

The Life and Times of Mr. Flanders
or
Eighty Swing Votes

 

[ThatOneGuy]

Eighty Swing Votes

A TL where 80 Electoral votes got for Kerry instead of Bush in 2004 securing Kerry the Presidency. In the TL Kerry would handle the first half of his term aptly and maintain a 60% approval rating and the backing of Congress through some private dealings that are shady, but technically legal. However towards the beginning of 2007 Kerry revealed that he had prostate cancer and it was exceptionally aggressive, having spread to his bones. He assured the public that he was fine however public trust in the health of their President was shaken. For the rest of his term Kerry would undergo chemotherapy that would leave him increasingly lame duck before his Cabinet and Congress finally decide to evoke the 25th Amendment and take Kerry out of power. Kerry would go graciously, thanking the American people for voting him into office and would retire to a quite life in Massachusetts. The timeline would then turn to chronicaling his personal life with his wife and kids, his eventual recovery and return to the US Senate in 2012. It was given an honorary 'Most Wholesome' Turtledove award.

Can't Touch This

or

Lockdown

 

[Hulkster'01]

Can't Touch This

A TL where every successful presidential assassination failed along with the failed ones. Lincoln beats Booth to death, Garfield boards the train earlier, McKinley slaps the gun out of Czologosz’s hand, and Kennedy keeps the bubble on the limo in Dallas.

I forgot to duck

Can’t we all get along?

Death of America’s daughter

 

[Kiz]

Can’t we all get along?

A TL where the Cold War goes hot in 1950 and after the nuclear holocaust, the nations of Non-Aligned Movement take it upon themselves to rebuild civilization. Africa brings all of Southern Europe (Iberia, southern coast of France, Italy along with most of the Adriatic) under their sphere of influence along with the Balkans. The southern Middle Eastern states (Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia) bring the remnants of the northern Middle Eastern states and Iran under their spheres while North America goes to the powers of South America (Mexico was dragged in on the side of NATO to further curb Soviet aggression), leading to the Deep South to become a Brazilian-friendly democracy, Venezuela controlling most of the former Mexican land on the coast as well as most of southern Texas. Australia and New Zealand, although technically not part of the Non-Aligned Movement, were more or less intact due a relative lack of nukes and establishes a friendly democratic state in based around Los Angeles which encompassed Baja California, California, and all bordering states excluding most of Arizona and half of Oregon. The Mormons have established a theocratic republic which borders went as far as ten miles away from the Great Salt Lake. There are few successor states that are built around state capitals that avoid nuking, but otherwise, the States have been left to raiders and small tribal governments. Northern Europe has suffered a similar fate (although Ireland is mostly intact, yet suffering from the fallout that has rolled over from Britain). Some small democracies and socialist republics have formed around the more populated and intact portions of the continent, which are constantly at war with one another as they view the other as the creators of the nuclear holocaust, while the indigenous peoples of Central Asia form their own democratic confederations, absolute monarchies, fascist dictatorships, and socialist republics. South and Far Eastern Asia, one of the only bastions of industrialization, technology and civilization is in a Great War as the new leaders of communism and democracy, China and India respectively, battle in a fight that would decide the future of all of humanity.

(I might actually make this in my spare time!)

Till Death Do Us Part...

The War to End All Wars (aka What if WWI Lasted Until 1945?)

Sunset Invasion: An Age of Native American Imperialism

 

[Hulkster'01]

Till Death Do Us Part...

Cleopatra and Mark Anthony manage to escape Octavian and the Roman army and are in hiding in Japan. Octavian's forces are killed in a tsunami and Cleopatra and Mark Anthony live out their days in Japan as rulers until their deaths.

I forgot to duck

Death of America's daughter

"Adolph who?"

 

[Tal Shiar]

Death of America's daughter

A dark TL written about the last days of Julie Nixon Eisenhower, daughter of the 37th President of the United States Richard M. Nixon. In late 1971 her body was found on the outskirts of Washington DC. Her death caused her father to launch nation-wide campaign to find perpetrators of the crime. During the case, few hundreds of people linked with the white supremacists were arrested and subjected to an inhumane conditions to force them to tell the truth about murder of Julie Nixon. Richard M. Nixon's approval ratings skyrocketed during the election trail of 1972 and he was re-elected in the biggest landslide ever seen by winning all states and 65% of votes nation-wide. Swift police action called later as "the Nixon Treatment" became a model for later dealings with kidnappings and mysterious murders.

Richard M. Nixon served his second full term and passed several legislations that transformed the United States of America into better country. Universal Basic Income, free healthcare, governmental promotion of green energy and electric cars, integration of racial minorities, feminist ERA and detente were enacted during his reign or few years later, during the presidency of Gerald Ford.

Only Nixon could go to space.

The Undiscovered Country.

The Final Frontier.

The Man in Deepest Cave.

 

[Miss Teri]

Only Nixon could go to space.

In a world where Nixon won the 1960 election, NASA manages to get on schedule, and lands on the Moon in 1968. In a phone call, the outgoing President Nixon pledges an American mission to Mars by the year 1985 (which some maintain was a political ploy against Democratic nominee Robert F. Kennedy.) His efforts are rewarded with a trip to the American Moon base in 1978. The title is a phrase that Walter Cronkite used, when describing the trip and the circumstances leading up to it.

Write at least three sentences on one of these titles
The Second Best Secret Agent In The Whole Wide World
or
There Will Always Be Barcelona

 

[FBKampfer]

The Man in Deepest Cave.

An unusual, and highly creative (if potentially ASB) TL of early mankind and their dealing with Neanderthal Man. Told primarily through narrative of action and the setting itself, rather than speach or thought, the TL deals with one's realization that his species had already lost the genetic arms race.



I Was Proud

Once More onto the Beach!

This Beautiful World In My Hand

 

[Tal Shiar]

There Will Always Be Barcelona

Current politics TL describing Catalan independence crisis going bloodier than OTL. In this timeline elements from Catalan police, firefighters, some of Catalan-born Spanish soldiers, policemen and others joined demonstrators and tried to block Spnish entrance into Catalan cities. Thing gone bloodier when they began fighting on the barricades resulting in a temporary rejection of Spanish forces from Barcelona. Then, Spanish army declared martial law in Catalonia and launched full-scale invasion on the city of Barcelona using land troops (including tanks) and naval forces to block the city. As the tanks rolled into Barcelona, supported by an armed infantry and naval bombardment of anything that tried to leave harbor, more and more people kept dying at the hands of Spaniards. At the end of the week, two thousands people were dead with many more wounded.

I Was Proud

Story of the Vietnam War veteran who described his efforts to live after returning from North Vietnamese Prisoners of war camp. He criticized the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson and his precedessor John F. Kennedy calling for the end of sending conscipts beyond the borders of the United States. He quickly became famous among anti-war movement and participated in the Richard M. Nixon presidential campaign.

Goldwater, President of the United States. (no US-Soviet war, please)

The Thaw.

Per aspera ad astra.

The Undiscovered Country.

The Final Frontier.

 

[Kiz]

The Undiscovered Country.

Essentially if Black Panther's Wakanda is plopped into OTL's late 70s. It speaks of the rise of Africa as Wakanda helps their blood brothers while the West and the Soviets try to cope with the realization that they were no longer the great powers that they once thought they were.

Sunset Invasion: An Age of Native American Imperialism

"And She Cries for Europe...": Olympus & The Great War

 

[Shiva]

"And She Cries for Europe...": Olympus & The Great War

Set in the 'Death of the House of Osman' TL where the Ottoman Empire collapsed in the 17th century, "And She Cries for Europe": Olympus & The Great War is a section of the TL set in the 19th century in which the Republic of Olympus (named after Mount Olympus and consisting of parts of Thessaly and Macendonia), one of the myriad of states that emerged out of the wreckage of the failed (First) Kingdom of Greece is highlighted. The Great War is the (then) name for a massive conflict between the various European powers over control of Greece and Anatolia, most importantly the city of Constantinople. While declaring neutrality, the Republic of Olympus would fall in 1824 to the forces of Austria and it's allies the Commonwealth and the Russian Empire. Leading a native musician, Gerogios Dragoumis to write the epic lament for the fallen Republic, "And She Cries for Europe".


Strength and Power in a Peignoir

The Fat Revolution

Everyone but Joan Crawford dies in the End

Do You Hear the People Scream, Mr. Adams?

 

[Hulkster'01]

Do You Hear the People Scream, Mr. Adams?

Following the passing of the Alien and Sedition acts, people of the US protest and start a second American revolution. The title comes from the leader of the second American revolution Thomas Jefferson, who shouts it as Adams is about to hung for treason.

I forgot to duck

“Adolph Who?”

“Ms. Simpson is dead sir.”

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

 

[ImSadCauseImAlone]

“Ms. Simpson is dead sir.”

Ashlee Simpson is found dead the morning after being busted for lip-syncing during Saturday Night Live. The TL follows the program's descent into chaos immediately after the event.

The Life and Times of Mr. Allen
or
Forget Your Troubles

 

[Hulkster'01]

Forget your troubles

Frank Wills is bribed into forgetting what he had seen at Watergate and Nixon remains in charge as President. Nixon finally gives in to the protesters and withdraws all American forces out of Vietnam. (he would later send missiles to the North to stop communist take over) His Vice President Gerald Ford, beats Jimmy Carter in the 1976 election and remains president until 1985.


I forgot to duck

“Adolph Who?”

The bigger they are, the harder they fall

Who can it be now?

 

[FBKampfer]

“Adolph Who?”

First produced in the Greater German Reich during the Anglo-American Nazi War, Adolph Who details the travels of a mysterious figure and his fantastic time-traveling bell-shaped vessel, as he protects the earth (usually set in Köln or Berlin) from aliens and monsters, and goose-steps across the universe spreading Nazi ideaology.


Once More onto the Beach!

This Beautiful World in my Hand
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[ImSadCauseImAlone]

Once More onto the Beach!

The history of an unfortunate typo made by William Shakespeare in his play Henry V, and how it made audiences perceive the titular king as a partier who liked to go tanning just after blowing up the French.

The Life and Times of Mr. Pierce
or
Uncle!