Reds fanfic

Alexander the Average

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
 
Redshank Galloglass

Redshank Galloglass

Banned
My updated alt-TL self using the new template. *Edit* it's still the same character I've been using to portray myself, simply a name change.

Username: Red_DevilDog
Real Name: James K. Murphy
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Ethnicity: Gaelic (Irish/Scottish)
Religion: Agnostic
Place of Birth: Chicago Commune, Illinois ASR
Currently Residing: Honolulu, Hawaii ASR
Political Affiliation: Communist Labor Party
Class:N/A
Occupation: Head Chef at Michelin starred Golden Paradise restaurant in downtown Honolulu, Workers' and Farmers' Revolutionary Marine (Ret. Master Sergeant, Assaultman MOS)
Favorite AH work:The Rainforest Wars
Favorite Book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Favorite Film: The Wild Bunch, Dom Pavlova
Favorite TV: Marvel's The Punisher
Favorite Music: Fields Of Athenry
Favorite Game: assorted games, including Call Of The Proletariat 1 and 2, Fallout, Doom, and the War Chronicle* series. Also enjoys 40k tabletop.
Favorite Art: The Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh
Other hobbies: Rugby, Baseball,Football,Shooting tournaments, playing piano, Pencak Silat, Brewing Beer, Singing at Nightclubs, surfing, ATV riding, fixing motorcycles, reading, video gaming
Likes: Cooking, The Restaurant Business, Movies, SanDiegoHeat, The_Scarlet_Highlander, La Bandera, MapleLeaf, Religious_Commie, FBU_CPL_BONDFAN, DeOpressoLiber, Martial Arts, Guns, Military Science fiction, Singing and Music, Motorcycles, weightlifting, traveling, Sports, Philosophy, Scottish and Irish culture, John Steinbeck, telling stories about his time in the Marine Corps, questioning authority, Warhammer 40k, Scarlett Johansson
Dislikes: RommelsFist, AvengeUlster, ScotlandForever, CyberDoctor, fast food, anti-gun fetishers, people who talk shit about the American Military, Ayn Rand, authoritarians, Star Wars.
Favorite quote: "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."- John Steinbeck
Demeanor: combatively hospitable
AH works: The Final Conflict: Thread about a Conventional WW3 between the AFS and the Comintern.


*TTL equivalent of Battlefield
 
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The_Red_Star_Rising

The_Red_Star_Rising

Deleon's Crew said:
My updated alt-TL self using the new template.

Username: Deleon's Crew
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Ethnicity: Celtic (Irish/Scottish)
Religion: Agnostic
Place of Birth: Chicago Commune, Illinois ASR
Currently Residing: Honolulu, Hawaii ASR
Political Affiliation: Liberation Communist Party
Class: N/A
Occupation: Head Chef at Michelin starred Golden Paradise restaurant in downtown Honolulu
Favorite AH work: Rally round the Bonnie Red Flag
Favorite Book: East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Favorite Film: Born on the First of May
Favorite TV: Tie between The Pacific and Generation Kill
Favorite Music: Thrash Metal, various pop genres
Favorite Art: The Starry Night
Other hobbies: Rugby, Baseball,Football,Shooting tournaments, playing piano, Pencak Silat, Brewing Beer, Singing at Nightclubs, surfing, ATV riding, reading
Likes: Cooking, Movies, Katyushka, La Bandera, MapleLeaf, Religious_Commie, FBU_CPL_BONDFAN, Martial Arts, Guns, Military Science fiction, Singing and Music, weightlifting, traveling, Sports, Philosophy, Scottish and Irish culture, John Steinbeck, telling stories about his time in the Marine Corps, questioning authority.
Dislikes: RommelsFist, AvengeUlster, ScotlandForever, CyberDoctor, fast food, anti-gun fetishers, people who talk shit about the American Military, Ayn Rand, authoritarians
Favorite quote: "No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself."- John Steinbeck
Demeanor: studious, relaxed, witty, easy to talk to, boisterous when partying.
AH works: The Final Conflict: Thread about a Conventional WW3 between the AFS and the Comintern.
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You don't like any video or tabletop games? Because you excised the "favorite game" segment. :p
 

Nevermore

@The_Red_Star_Rising

I'm quite excited to learn more about the Waver 'verse and I think it's an interesting take on the superhero genre; having the heroes and villains be living symbols is a clever twist and I think it makes sense given the setting. You've mentioned before that you're looking to see if anyone wants to help out in building onto it so I'd like to ask: what are you looking for at the moment, precisely? It seems right now the dramatis personae and rogues gallery are relatively well-defined at the moment to me so I would assume the next logical step would be actual story arcs, correct?

Alexander the Average said:
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
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I'd have to vote for 'technodecay romance' if for no other reason than adding in 'decay' to a genre title pleases my inner edgy teen. :p
 
The_Red_Star_Rising

The_Red_Star_Rising

In case you were curious.



Username: Mental Omega
Age: 15
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Nationality: "Pan-baltic Mongrel"
Religion: Romuva
Place of birth: Moscow, USSR


Location: Leningrad, USSR
Political Affiliation: Worker's League Party, USSR
Occupation: Student/Webcomic writer
Class: -
Favorite AH work: Harry Turltedove's Worldwar/Blue Alert
Favorite Book: Homestuck
Favorite Film: Godzilla against Nagzadrah (14)
Favorite TV: The Weaver of Fate: Stay the Night [15]
Favorite Music: Industrial
Favorite Game: Fiefs and Vassals 2 (16)
Favorite Art: Light the night (17)


Other hobbies: Strategy computer games, Webcomics, Web Media, Tabletop wargames, Role playing games, checking internet videos, writing
Likes: Otakitten, other friends, internationalism, trashy fandoms, writing, self deprecation
Dislikes: Nationalists, people who use obfuscating language, smugness, bigots, apologists of all stripes, Jingoism, Fascists
Favorite quote: “Well there’s your problem” ~ Jamie Hyneman (Real Person)
“hopy shit” ~ Dave Strider (Fictional)
Demeanor: Nice but outspoken
AH works on the board: Contributes to Kaiserreich, a central powers victory scenario; and to Blue Alert wikis.


The Eternal Viking Age: Pagan Scandinavia, instead of converting to Christianity, instead uses its lessons to reform its faith into an organized, evangelical religion leading to it converting Russia and Eastern Europe and not the Byzantines or the Catholic Church and the formation of a unified Scandinavia that plays a great power role in European politics and colonialism before eventually being overshadowed by its own converts. Currently being revised for a merger with "Immortal Iran and Mande Rising.”


14) A 2012 Japanese-American movie where Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and Rodan take on the terror of Nagzadrah; a Kaiju best described as an “eight headed cobra with limbs like a tiger's with the tusks of an elephant”, his de facto Archnemesis and a devourer of worlds, and his allies Leoncouer; similar to a Lion and Cairazandras, a huge spotted, crocodilian Kaiju.

15) A Waververse Japanese-American animated TV series that started in 2014

16) Crusader Kings 2 with a better name and less Eurocentric.

17) A picture of John and Roxy holding hands as he finishes up his repairs of the timeline
 
The_Red_Star_Rising

The_Red_Star_Rising

Nevermore said:
@The_Red_Star_Rising

I'm quite excited to learn more about the Waver 'verse and I think it's an interesting take on the superhero genre; having the heroes and villains be living symbols is a clever twist and I think it makes sense given the setting. You've mentioned before that you're looking to see if anyone wants to help out in building onto it so I'd like to ask: what are you looking for at the moment, precisely? It seems right now the dramatis personae and rogues gallery are relatively well-defined at the moment to me so I would assume the next logical step would be actual story arcs, correct?



I'd have to vote for 'technodecay romance' if for no other reason than adding in 'decay' to a genre title pleases my inner edgy teen. :p
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That will be coming soon, you can hit me up on PMs or gmail (preferably gmail) if you want to hash things out with me.
 

Bookmark1995

Banned
Let me redo my character profile:

Username: UpNorth
Age: 16
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Straight
Ethnicity: Canadian
Religion: Jewish
Place of Birth: Ottawa
Currently Residing: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Political Affiliation: Independent (People cannot simply be labeled)
Class:
Occupation: School Newspaper Editor
Favorite AH Work: Guns of the South
Favorite Book: Factory of Tears *
Favorite Film: African Thunder **
Favorite TV: The Recap For the Week ***
Favorite Music: 50s rock n' roll, rap, anything by Robert Zimmerman ****
Favorite Game: Tetromino *****
Favorite Art: Diego Rivera murals
Other hobbies: History, Debate Team, Writing fanfics, Reading, Sleeping, Learning Languages
Likes: Walking, Chinese Food, White Chocolate, Club Soda, George Orwell, MapleLeaf, Jewish Youth Collective, Canadian Historical Society.
Dislikes: Communal Sports, Historical Revisionism, Political Extremism, Military Hard-heads, Canada First, Nazi apologists, People who label me "pacifist".
Favorite Quote: If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year, he would be worse than the Tsar himself". - Mikhail Bakunin.
Demeanor: Non-debate team: Silly, facetious, and a bit absent-minded. On the debate team: Merciless and relentless.
AH Works on the Board:

Sunny Havana: A deconstruction of "The UASR annexing Cuba" wanks. The story imagines Cuba being taken over by the UASR after 1978, but explores the social upheaval that would result from UASR-imposed reforms, as well as terrorism by far-right Yumas.

A part time writer for Loyal Citizens, a TL that explores an America than remained capitalist in the 20th century.

* An ITTL World War II memoir I am planning on writing about.
** Tropic Thunder, only the characters are filming a war based out of the Horn of Africa
*** The fictional "Last Week Tonight"
**** Bob Dylan
***** TTL Tetris
 

Time slip

Alexander the Average said:
His contributions to Fraco-British animation will be greatly appreciated, and I do have plans for an alt-Spirited Away.
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While I find the idea of Miyazaki ending up in the AFS sphere in during the post-war era interesting, having him remain in Japan for the reason Libertad suggested allows for a greater likelihood of him making an adaption of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books, since the reason Le Guin turned him down when he contacted her about making a movie was that she assumed an animated version of Earthsea would be like a Disney film. With a different animation history ITTL's America, she might be more likely to say yes.

There might be differences to the Earthsea series itself as well. One thing Le Guin did like about the pretty thoroughly terrible Scifi channel miniseries was the inclusion of female students at the school for wizards at Roke, where in the books it was male only, and her dissatisfaction with how magic was largely the province of men early in the series influenced later books. ITTL the series would be written after two Cultural Revolutions, so it seems possible that the school might have male and female students from the first book.

The_Red_Star_Rising said:
While every bit the formidable and nearly invincible warrior of legend with tremendous physical prowess and combat skill who cannot be injured while he has the scabbard of Excalibur and is healed of any injuries he gets when he's away from the scabbard by simply being near it; he's also a person with deep seated insecurities born of the tremendous pressures of being a prophecized savior thrusted upon a child. His confidence in himself virtually destroyed by the parade of disaster that marked the end of his reign, where his friend Lancelot stole away Guinevere from him; where Morgan le Fay poisoned his closest friend and mentor Merlin and took from Arthur his guidance before stealing his scabbard and throwing it to the lake forcing Arthur to have to feel pain once again for the first time in years just as a massive Saxon invasion headed by his bastard son Mordred came to destroy his Kingdom.
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This makes me wonder how a character like Merlin would be portrayed here.
 
The_Red_Star_Rising

The_Red_Star_Rising

Time slip said:
While I find the idea of Miyazaki ending up in the AFS sphere in during the post-war era interesting, having him remain in Japan for the reason Libertad suggested allows for a greater likelihood of him making an adaption of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea books, since the reason Le Guin turned him down when he contacted her about making a movie was that she assumed an animated version of Earthsea would be like a Disney film. With a different animation history ITTL's America, she might be more likely to say yes.

There might be differences to the Earthsea series itself as well. One thing Le Guin did like about the pretty thoroughly terrible Scifi channel miniseries was the inclusion of female students at the school for wizards at Roke, where in the books it was male only, and her dissatisfaction with how magic was largely the province of men early in the series influenced later books. ITTL the series would be written after two Cultural Revolutions, so it seems possible that the school might have male and female students from the first book.

This makes me wonder how a character like Merlin would be portrayed here.
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Merlin is half incubus so he'd be rather more lecherous in his portrayal than many a Brit would expect to begin with.
 

Time slip

The_Red_Star_Rising said:
Merlin is half incubus so he'd be rather more lecherous in his portrayal than many a Brit would expect to begin with.
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Does he still play the same sort of role in Arthur's conception that he does in Geoffrey of Monmouth's version of the legend? If so, this among other things (like if he plays a significant role in Arthur's crowning) could pretty easily lead to scenes where Arthur fondly reminisces about the Merlin he remembers and other characters respond by pointing out the man's personal failings, which in turn might play into Arthur's own insecurities.
 
The_Red_Star_Rising

The_Red_Star_Rising

Time slip said:
Does he still play the same sort of role in Arthur's conception that he does in Geoffrey of Monmouth's version of the legend? If so, this among other things (like if he plays a significant role in Arthur's crowning) could pretty easily lead to scenes where Arthur fondly reminisces about the Merlin he remembers and other characters respond by pointing out the man's personal failings, which in turn might play into Arthur's own insecurities.
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He's still a major person in King Arthur's life, his closest friend, his chief adviser, and the person who helped get him on the throne yes.
 

Bookmark1995

Banned
Canada First

Canada First is a far-right political group that virulently speaks out against socialism and for integration of Canada into the FBU. Founded in 1979 by far-right nationalist Gordon Dieter in reaction to Canada's entry into Comintern, it was notorious for deadly attacks that were carried out during the . Its terrorist wing was shut down by 1984, however the group it regained a small following on Internet political forums. It is estimated there are 1,000 members located in Canada and parts of the FBU. It's current leader is Ernest Zundel.

History

Canada First was the brainchild of Gordon Dieter (b. 1944) He was born Gunter Dieter in Stuttgart, to Wilhelm Dieter German factory foreman and Margot Dieter, a schoolteacher. When Eastern Germany came under occupation by Comintern forces, Dieter's father, an ardent Nazi, was forced to flee to the FBU occupation zone. After sitting in a refugee camp for two years, The Dieters moved to Canada. To integrate into their new home, Dieter changed his own name to William and Gunter's name to Gordon, and settled in Montreal.

Due to his father's Nazi roots, Dieter quickly came under the influence of far-right Canadian figures, such as John Ross Taylor, and Adrien Arcund, joining the former's National Unity Party [1] in 1963. Dieter's charisma and charm made him a valuable recruiter.

(picture of Gordon Dieter and John Ross Taylor shaking hands)

As political change mounted across Canada, his attitude became even more crazed. In 1971, he was jailed for 2 years assaulting a Indian-British diplomat.

(Police Photo of Gordon Dieter)

Upon his release from prison in 1973, he published his first book, The Struggle for our Pure Identity, a diatribe against socialism, Jews, and even French Canadians, who he despised for their socialist sympathies, declaring "put them on a boat back to Canada, those frog-bastards deserve fuckin' typhus and anthrax. Save Canada for the true Canadians". [2]

Birth of Canada First

Canada's entry into Comintern set Dieter's already wild outlook a flame. At his trial in 1983, he claimed "that our loyal FBU friends abandoned us to the socialist-Jew clique". In 1979, Dieter brought the leaders of at least a dozen Canadian far-right groups to form Canada First. Dieter remains the only figure to create a big-tent far-right group. His associates were Don Andrews (born 1942) and Wolfgang Droege (1942-1983), the latter another German refugee born of Nazi sympathizers.

First Attacks

On March 5, 1980 , Canada First member Bob Dressner mortally wounded Jules Leger [3], Canada's last Governor General, in an attack in Ottawa. He was targeted for assassination by Dieter who blamed "The French coward for the death of our heritage". Dressner was eventually convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Section 9 agents did obtain from Dressner evidence of Canada First leadership, but it was denied as it was gained under torture.

On December 15 that same year, Canadian diplomat and Ambassador to the Soviet Union Geoffrey Pearson was stabbed by Bob Fisher just outside the Soviet embassy. It was around this time that Canadian authorities began to suspect a terror cell was emerging.

The Ambassador Bridge Bombing

One of Dieter's main sources of contempt was the Ambassador Bridge. It's connection of Michigan and Ontario made it "the invader's highway," as Dieter put it in his diary. In April 19, 1981, Canada First agents detonated a bomb on the Canadian side of the bridge, hoping to bring about structural collapse. The explosive power heavily damaged the bridge, killed 63 people, and injured 98 motorists, who were injured by the blast and the traffic accidents that followed. The bridge was shut down for 9 months for repairs. Many structural engineers agree that had their been more dynamite, the bridge would have collapsed and killed hundreds. The 4/19 attack remains the deadliest act of terror on Canadian soil to this day.

The attack resulted in the passage of the Anti-Reaction Bill, which granted to government broad powers to investigate far-right terrorism.

Yom Kippur Massacre

On October 8, 1981, Albert Wiesz, a gunman for Canada First, attacked the Shaar Hashomayim Congregation with a hand gun, killing four members, and wounding six. As police arrived, Wiesz committed suicide by shooting himself in the head, screaming "Juden Schwein!"


Capture and Fall

On March 8, 1982, Canada First leaders were arrested after a Section 9 mole had infiltrated the organization, which was stationed in a remote village in rural Manitoba. On January 8, 1983, Gordon Dieter and Don Andrews were sentenced to life in prison on charges of conspiracy, murder, and hate crime, while Wolfgang Droege hung himself in his cell just three days before the sentences were carried out. 70 other members of Canada First were eventually convicted, receiving several sentences. Canada First imploded soon after the trial, with its offices closing in June 1983.

Revival

Around 1996, Ernst Zundel, a Canadian holocaust denier, revived the name "Canada First" on Hurricane, the infamous far-right chat room. Despite the illegality of the organization due to hate crime laws, and Zundel's two year sentence for Holocaust denial, Canada First remains a small but persistent online presence.

Since 2010, many of these sites have been hacked by Unknown [4], who have sought to expose members who try to be anonymous.


[1] It was a real-life Canadian fascist party OTL

[2] If you noticed the hypocrisy of a German immigrant calling French Canadians non-Canadian, than don't pat yourself on the back. I'm underscoring how hypocritically psychotic these people are both OTL and ITTL.

[3] The real-life Jules Lager died in OTL November of that same year.

[4] ITTL anonymous
 
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The_Red_Star_Rising

The_Red_Star_Rising

Bookmark1995 said:
Canada First

Canada First is a far-right political group that virulently speaks out against socialism and for integration of Canada into the FBU. Founded in 1979 by far-right nationalist Gordon Dieter in reaction to Canada's entry into the FBU, it was notorious for deadly attacks that were carried out during the . Its terrorist wing was shut down by 1984, however the group it regained a small following on Internet political forums. It is estimated there are 1,000 members located in Canada and parts of the FBU. It's current leader is Ernest Zundel.
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I think you made a bit of an error there.
 
Redshank Galloglass

Redshank Galloglass

Banned
AH Thread:What does Yule mean in a Communist society?


Deleon's Crew said:
MapleLeaf, as much as I'm inclined to agree with you about UpNorth, you should give the kid a break. He isn't a bad guy, by any means. In fact, I would say he is damn smart to question authority, which is something too many people on both sides of the Cold War don't understand. Well, maybe "A Good Boy" understands, since he's apparently a magical all seeing eye that can tell that the UASR is secretly capitalist. I only half joke.

What did you do in the Army? In the Marine Corps, I was an Assaultman. 0351, combat arms MOS. Basically, I was an 0311 (rifleman) that carried a SMAW bunker buster. Technically, I was assigned to a weapons platoon, but I was attached to rifle platoons so much I was basically a regular shock trooper.

Hahaha, I remember blowing the fuck out of Ridgeback* bunkers during the 2011 invasion. We sure kicked their fucking asses to kingdom come, thats for sure.

Sigh I know UpNorth is probably gonna blow a gasket when he reads that last line. It's no biggie though, case it's all in jest.

Well, not really. I gotta admit, it was pretty damn nice to kick the living fuck out of Neo-Victorian Benedick Wells and the Ridgeback Imperial Army. Christ knows they deserved it, after all.

Sorry, got on a tangent. Yeah, I agree, Yule should be a time of doing what you want to do with the comrades you love. For me, it involves getting so hammered I don't remember the last two weeks of December.
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*Slang for Rhodesian. I'm assuming we can keep this right?
 
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