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| **TABAE**\\ | **TABAE**\\ |
| **//[[offtopic:Complete Works of Thande#There'll Always Be An England]]//**, a story by [[offtopic:Thande]]\\ | **//[[stories:There'll Always Be An England]]//**, a story by [[offtopic:Thande]]\\ |
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| **HYW**\\ | **HYW**\\ |
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| **[[alternate history:Wank]]**\\ | **[[alternate history:Wank]]**\\ |
| AH where one nation is distinctly preferred, more than would be a.) understandable, b.) realistic and/or c.) tasteful. Typical nationwanks: USA conquers both American continents. Russia conquers Eurasia. Japan creates its Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. The [[alternate history:British Empire]]/[[alternate history:Ottoman Empire]]/Austria-Hungary/Roman Empire/Napoleon's Empire lives until today and becomes yet even stronger. Germany wins WWI or WWII. Etc. There are also non-national forms of Wank, such as "[[alternate history:german techwank|techwank]]", in which the side with the superior technology ([[alternate history: maxs first law|especially in ISOTs from the future]]) //ALWAYS// wins, and we're expected to cheer. For even more outrageous scenarios, [[offtopic:Doctor What]] and [[offtopic: David Bar Elias]] coined the term "nation-bukkake".\\ | AH where one nation is distinctly preferred, more than would be a.) understandable, b.) realistic and/or c.) tasteful. Typical nationwanks: USA conquers both American continents. Russia conquers Eurasia. Japan creates its Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. The [[alternate history:British Empire]]/[[alternate history:Ottoman Empire]]/Austria-Hungary/Roman Empire/Napoleon's Empire lives until today and becomes yet even stronger. Germany wins WWI or WWII. Etc. There are also non-national forms of Wank, such as "[[alternate history:german techwank|techwank]]", in which the side with the superior technology ([[alternate history:max s first law|especially in ISOTs from the future]]) //ALWAYS// wins, and we're expected to cheer. For even more outrageous scenarios, [[offtopic:Doctor What]] and [[offtopic: David Bar Elias]] coined the term "nation-bukkake".\\ |
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| **Allohistorical**\\ | **Allohistorical**\\ |
| **[[pods:Pulling a Meiji]]**\\ | **[[pods:Pulling a Meiji]]**\\ |
| Refers to when a country (usually a non-western Asian or African one) undergoes a process similar to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period|Meiji Period]] of [[alternate history:OTL]], in which it industrializes and modernizes rapidly, to the point where it becomes a (usually) Westernized and European-style power (as was the case with OTL [[offtopic:Japan]]). A rarer subtype is "Pulling a Siam", used to describe a country that modernises to the point it holds its own against the West and avoids being colonised, but can't project power and isn't accepted as an equal by the West as Japan was.\\ | Refers to when a country (usually a non-western Asian or African one) undergoes a process similar to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_period|Meiji Period]] of [[alternate history:OTL]], in which it industrializes and modernizes rapidly, to the point where it becomes a (usually) Westernized and European-style power (as was the case with OTL [[offtopic:Japan]]). A rarer subtype is "Pulling a Siam", used to describe a country that modernises to the point it holds its own against the West and avoids being colonised, but can't project power and isn't accepted as an equal by the West as Japan was.\\ |
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| **Wacky Hijinks** (or "hijinx")\\ | |
| A gallows humour euphemism for "colonial oppression", and more specifically "actual colonial oppression" as opposed to fantasies invented by twelfth-generation immigrants. Example: "The idea that Britain deliberately let Ireland suffer during the potato famine is ludicrous, but there is no denying that English and British people did get up to Wacky Hijinks there over the years". A modern equivalent to describe suspected war crimes is "[state] is doing naughty things to [group of people]"\\ | |
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| **[[shared worlds:Mosaic Earth]]**\\ | **[[shared worlds:Mosaic Earth]]**\\ |
| **Munroification**\\ | **Munroification**\\ |
| "Munrofied" and "Munroification" describe a style of map that is famously used by [[offtopic:B_Munro]]. Used in the sense of "oh, I'll post it when I've fully Munroified the map" or "a Munrofied map of mine..." | "Munrofied" and "Munroification" describe a style of map that is famously used by [[offtopic:B_Munro]]. Used in the sense of "oh, I'll post it when I've fully Munroified the map" or "a Munrofied map of mine..." |
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| | **Wacky Hijinks** (or "hijinx")\\ |
| | A gallows humour euphemism for "colonial oppression", and more specifically "actual colonial oppression" as opposed to fantasies invented by twelfth-generation immigrants. Example: "The idea that Britain deliberately let Ireland suffer during the potato famine is ludicrous, but there is no denying that English and British people did get up to Wacky Hijinks there over the years". A modern equivalent to describe suspected war crimes is "[state] is doing naughty things to [group of people]"\\ |
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| **[[offtopic:Wehraboo]]**\\ | **[[offtopic:Wehraboo]]**\\ |
| Basically, an inexperienced AH fan who is a disproportionate loony fan of [[third reich|Nazi Germany]], and particularly its military (the Wehrmacht). Though it's not a definite rule, there is a predictable overlap between many of these types of AH fans and nazi apologists. Which, unsurprisingly, leads to many Wehraboos [[offtopic:hall of infamy|getting banned]] once they express their true opinions. | Basically, an inexperienced AH fan who is a disproportionate loony fan of [[third reich|nazi Germany]], and particularly its military (the Wehrmacht). Though it's not a definite rule, there is a predictable overlap between many of these types of AH fans and nazi apologists. Which, unsurprisingly, leads to many Wehraboos [[offtopic:hall of infamy|getting banned]] once they express their true opinions. |
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