What should my next timeline be?

What should be my next timeline?

  • The Kingdom of Hygiene

    Votes: 21 31.3%
  • Don Ricardo

    Votes: 16 23.9%
  • Eagles on the Mississippi

    Votes: 19 28.4%
  • Further South

    Votes: 8 11.9%
  • Other (I'll tell you below)...

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • Oh just shut up, your timelines are super boring anyway...

    Votes: 2 3.0%

  • Total voters
    67
Not sure if this is the right forum, but I have asked about this in Help and didn't get much feedback so...

Hello All - I'm Reydan. You may remember me from my Paris Commune Timeline Spectre of Europe. Or maybe not.

I'm trying to plan out my next timeline. This doesn't mean that Spectre of Europe is wrapping up, just that I want to begin thinking and planning for whatever follows it. I genuinely can't decide on the options, so am handing it over to you potential readers!

I've got some options below but if you want to suggest an alternative with a POD somewhere between 1815-1914 let me know in the comments.

Option One: The Kingdom of Hygiene (Post-1900)
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What if...the Spanish Flu had gotten much worse?

This Timeline would explore what would happen if the death rates for the Spanish Flu of 1919 were much higher, approaching the 55-75% of the Black Death.


Option Two: Don Ricardo (Pre-1900)

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What if...Richard Trevithick's time in Latin America had not been a failure?

Richard Trevithick - the six foot tall Cornish man who could have been the father of railways. In real life he came very close several times to mastering the components that Stephenson would later manage. This Timeline asks if his time in South and Central America could have been more successful, sparking an earlier industrial revolution in the area that would dramatically change the newly independent countries.

Option Three- Eagles on the Mississippi (Pre-1900 with a little handwavium)

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What if...Napoleon had established a state in Louisiana?

The year is 1821. Peace reigns in Europe with the Congress of Vienna system firmly in place. Across the Atlantic, though, tensions are rising. The Napoleonic successor state in Louisiana, swollen by Bonapartist refugees, is under pressure to expand West. But the United States, with a President eager to distract from the growing problems of slavery, has other ideas whilst the Spanish Empire to the south is at war with a serious of successor states that look to the ideas of Napoleon and the Revolution for inspiration. And, of course, there are always those rumors that the Corsican himself did not actually die on St Helena after all...

Option Four - Further South (ASB for geological changes but otherwise historical)

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What if...Antarctica was a habitable continent?

This timeline imagines a habitable Antarctica. It would focus on the "discovery" of the land by the European powers and would almost exclusively focus on events on this new continent as the various colonies and powers clash with the native inhabitants.

Don't like any of these? Suggest something else below!

Thanks for reading.


 
Those are all GREAT ideas, so I am a bit undecided about which one to vote...
The only problem I can see is that Napoleonic Louisiana might raise big concerns about plausibility.

You ask for further ideas, so I will say a TL about a successful independent Egypt under Mehmet Ali and his successors, although I don't know if that's an area of interest for you. Another suggestion could be working with a Dekabrist Russia.
 
All of them sound interesting.
I opted for Don Ricardo because I think you`d make a great writer about 19th century Latin America, and because I love railways.
Further South is an intriguing idea but a real challenge, I think.
 
Those are all GREAT ideas, so I am a bit undecided about which one to vote...
The only problem I can see is that Napoleonic Louisiana might raise big concerns about plausibility.

You ask for further ideas, so I will say a TL about a successful independent Egypt under Mehmet Ali and his successors, although I don't know if that's an area of interest for you. Another suggestion could be working with a Dekabrist Russia.

Thank you for the suggestions. I agree that the Napoleonic one is probably going to be more 'possible' than 'plausible'.

All of them sound interesting.
I opted for Don Ricardo because I think you`d make a great writer about 19th century Latin America, and because I love railways.
Further South is an intriguing idea but a real challenge, I think.

Thank you for the kind words.

Bumping this up in case people haven't seen it.
 
These all seem like pretty great ideas. I'd like to see all of them done!
If I had to rank them in order of most interesting to me to least:

1. Further South
2. Eagles on the Mississippi
3. The Kingdom of Hygiene
4. Don Ricardo
 
I voted for other since I would like to see a semi-ASB timeline about a late Bronze Age matriarchal society / civilization with its core lands in the Ukraine / Crimea that survives the transition into the Iron Age and influences the history and development of civilization in both the Aegean and the Middle East.
 
Those are very interesting ideas. The habitable Antarctica one, AFAIK, has already been written... by it's a very interesting proposal nonetheless. If you want to check it (to give some inspiration).

I myself found the Kingdom of Hygiene the most fascinating one.
 
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