Tovarich
a sinking dumpling. He/Him.
- Location
- Norwich North, UK
Couldn't the US just buy it all back for cents-on-the-dollar at the secessionists' fire sale when they go bankrupt in about a fortnight?
I only just became aware of this thing because it's starting to generate reports and I don't want to read it seriously. Is it NDCR-bad?
There's a TL going on in AH.com chat where Elizabeth Warren becomes president in 2024 and because she makes some vague statements in support of gun control and hate crime legislation every red state secedes, makes a constitution which does away with secularism, abortion and same-sex marriage (and also has a balanced budget amendment), and wins every battle while the US government is presumably eating paste or something.
God, what a pile of burning trash. It almost makes one long for a NDCR post on what’s happening with Nintendo PlayStation during the Bundy Administration.It was handwaved away with "There's an exception for wartime".
Here's the link in case anyone's curious: https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...-nation-the-second-american-civil-war.450766/
Yeah. I've been making some wikiboxes for Part 3 of NDCR (not because I like the timeline but just because I enjoy making wikiboxes), and when they told me that The Congressman planned to have President Bundy back in August, I audibly groaned at the use of one of the most implausible "edgy" AH clichés.God, what a pile of burning trash. It almost makes one long for a NDCR post on what’s happening with Nintendo PlayStation during the Bundy Administration.
Any timeline or story that delves into the American primary process, to the point of breaking up a single primary election night into multiple chapters, is a special kind of painful for me.
In many respects, I do get the sense many would be happy to tell totally fictional stories about US Presidential Primaries with their OC muscle flexing Iowa, but then again I do also get the sense that they'd also much rather go into excruciating detail about how their Waifu would have won county [x] had they done [y] but why would I then show their actual presidency.If there's a story to tell in the primaries I'm interested in hearing it but those timelines never have anything happen. It's all just Romney wins or Romney loses and that's that.
My new timeline will be doing a bit of globetrotting, but only to explore how a few countries are directly affected in unexpected and surprising ways by butterflies unique to my project. I think the best example of a convincing globetrotter timeline on AH.com right now is No Southern Strategy, largely because the ideas are so compelling, well-thought-out plausible that they make the whole thing interesting, even if the writing is a little dry at times.I don't mind breaking the primaries up into multiple chapters- when it's the point of the TL. But certainly when it's like some fucking wikibox TL that about 40 updates ago succumbed to Globetrotter Syndrome and it comes off as hopelessly dreary when it feels the need to have Iowa and New Hampshire as their own boxes instead of just doing the full Primaries like they would for any other national election.
Speaking of, no better way to kill my interest in a Wiki-TL than if it has Globetrotter Syndrome. Only one or two have pulled off the 'go global' stuff, otherwise I just find it insufferable when the author, ahem, doesn't stay in their lane, by which I mean they don't stick to their premise and specified scope and lose sight of it because they feel like they have to do the politics of a country they hardly know anything about and come out for the fascists.
Now I'm tempted to tell a big chunk of my Buddhist Roman Empire TL using Wikiboxes.I don't mind breaking the primaries up into multiple chapters- when it's the point of the TL. But certainly when it's like some fucking wikibox TL that about 40 updates ago succumbed to Globetrotter Syndrome and it comes off as hopelessly dreary when it feels the need to have Iowa and New Hampshire as their own boxes instead of just doing the full Primaries like they would for any other national election.
This and the Falcon Cannot Hear are why I don't really care for the Second Civil War trope in Alternate History.There's a TL going on in AH.com chat where Elizabeth Warren becomes president in 2024 and because she makes some vague statements in support of gun control and hate crime legislation every red state secedes, makes a constitution which does away with secularism, abortion and same-sex marriage (and also has a balanced budget amendment), and wins every battle while the US government is presumably eating paste or something.
Second Civil War is far more interesting when it's, like, a state/region wide civil conflict, like the Civil Rights movement failing and going Ulster or the Coal Wars becoming a full on labour war. When it's "state secede" it's just a bit bleh.This and the Falcon Cannot Hear are why I don't really care for the Second Civil War trope in Alternate History.
Now I'm tempted to tell a big chunk of my Buddhist Roman Empire TL using Wikiboxes.
Who knew you were Kasumigenx’s little brother this whole time? And please, Buddhist Roman Empire TL’s are cliched and boring. Make a Aztec England timeline instead.Now I'm tempted to tell a big chunk of my Buddhist Roman Empire TL using Wikiboxes.