100 pages yay!Also New Year soon.
Some ideas of war movies i have,basically TTL version of actual OTL movies.Barebones summary,will probably extrapolate later.
Die Brucke:An 1959 East German production*,about a group of kids who joined the Volkssturm in the last days of war trying to hold an American-Soviet advance against the titular bridge.Praised for it's portrayal of futility of war,and contrasts the teens against the battle hardened veterans and the collapsing Third Reich.
Indigenes(international title
Days of Glory):A 2006 primarily French production,focuses on the plight of Central African colonial soldiers enlisted by Free France.As they fought from West Africa,to Spain and finally to France herself,they deal with not only the Axis forces but the racism of their white commanders who consider them good only as cannon fodders.Groundbreaking as it was one of the few films that focused on soldiers from France's African colonies and British Dominions.
*East German works would be more introspective while West German ones would be more jingoistic.
Also some self-insert-y AH.com user.I'm not really good on this but i'll try to make other profiles too
.The Touhou-trash foil for Mental Omega,it seems?
Username:CucumbersWithAnxiety
Age:16
Gender:Male
Sexuality:Biromantic asexual
Ethnicity:Indonesian(from exile parents)
Religion: Deist
Place of Birth: Gorky,USSR
Currently Residing: Gorky,USSR
Political Affiliation:Association of Indonesians Abroad[1],Proletarian Front-Central Asia
Class:-
Occupation:Student
Favorite AH work:
The History of the Comintern-Axis War of 1942-1954[2],
The Bartimaeus Sequence,The Final Conflict
Favorite Book:
Silent Sinner in Blue,National Geographic magazines and publications,Tintin
Favorite Film:
Come and See
Favorite TV:National Geographic documentaries
Favorite Music:Rock,Touhou soundtracks and fan-arranges
Favorite Game(s):Touhou Project,Men of War,Red Orchestra[3],Age of Empires,A Very British Civil War
Favorite Art:
The Sealing Club Goes on Trip
Other hobbies:Miniature wargaming,scale models,shitposting(Touhou especially),collecting military surplus items,reenactment,history,electrical engineering and linguistics
Likes:Religious_Commie,pictures of cats and bear cubs,street food,memes
Dislikes: Dutch and Japanese Empire apologists,people who blames youngsters,conservatives in general,both tankies and anarkiddies
Favorite quote:"Move and I'll shoot!Wait,i messed up.Shoot,and i'll move.In a flash " - Marisa Kirisame,Imperishable Night (fictional)
"Capital could imprison a man,made a man work non-stop from 5 in the morning to 8 in the evening for someone else's wealth"- Tan Malaka (real-life)
Demeanor:Slightly aloof,although opens up on presence of well known friends
AH works on the board:Not yet
[1]Based on OTL after the 1965 coup,IOTL they were relatively small,and split furthermore by the Sino-Soviet split or largely based on Western Europe(Netherlands in particular),sometimes unrecognized by their adoptive countries.By the end of the Cold War most grew old and forgotten,a few returned home. ITTL i imagine there would be less killing(but i dunno) so more might be able to flee,and since the Cold War is still on high gear the exiles established themselves in Comintern countries(Vietnam and RoC would have the largest population,followed by UASR,USSR and some LatAm/East Europe countries)
[2]TTL's A-A/NW.
[3]War Chronicles is apparently FBU i guess,so this is the Comintern's more "realistic" counterpart.
Brainstorming some ideas for what TTL's version of a Cyberpunkesque aesthetic (basically the sort of irreverent cynical and grimdark tone typical of 2000AD and Warhammer 40K) will be called:
Late Imperial Gothic
Pessimistic Futurism
Technodecay Romance
I'd go with Pessimistic Futurism cause it's straight to the point,although Technodecay Romance has a more poetic ring to it.
Anyway,i expect Steampunk to be popular in the UASR with syndicalist undertones,maybe?
Also,how would Steam come to be in UASR?