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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    Tasmanians hate it when the residents of Kangaroo Island call it "The South Island"
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    publish knights of the order of lloyd george
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    omg beautiful where is this from
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    I love the way your lists are proper microfics - not just in the sense of being a story but in the sense that you play with form and make reading them a joy. This conceit of having one side of the interview only is just gorgeous.
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    Kimkatya in: The Thread That Wouldn't Die

    What a difference from our presumably amazing reputation abroad these days! Oh wait
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    They sent a boat of children into the sea to take selfies. Israel literally did this. I'm not sure they realised that the exciting thing about Greta Thunberg wasn't that she was on a boat but that she was on boat where you can get shot at and kidnapped by a genocidal government.
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    Things that look like alternate history but aren't

    How this reads: Greta Thunbergs warship must be destroyed before it blockades Tel Aviv Hiw this would read in a sane world: Israel is retaliating by sending a social media influencer to Sweden.
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    Kimkatya in: The Thread That Wouldn't Die

    I've been wondering about this since brexit! Brexit the card game would have two players, leave and remain. Your goal is to get the maximum number of MPs to sign up to the harshest version of remain/leave possible through parliamentary shenanigans.
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    Vignette: Whose Pyramid is this Anyway?

    Oh its absolutely a common trope! I shall look out for it
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    This is good, feels more early 90s than late 80s, but definitely of around that time. I love the idea of Farage getting his start way earlier here
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Love the idea of the legend of white city - that bits really fun
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    London without the Great Fire?

    Counterpoint to this, in many ways Rome was chaotic in a way other Roman cities simply couldn't not be. I think ots totally realistic to imagine London as a Patchwork of visions built on top of one another
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    London without the Great Fire?

    I mean, the absense of slum clearance probably does a lot of the work there and bombing parts of London to bits kinda helps with clearing bad buildings If you're going for post industrial slums I recommend this video on Frying Pan Alley - there were 18 Frying Pan Alleys in the 19th century...
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    London without the Great Fire?

    Unironically, this is a factor. We tend to see AH as like freezing time. When we ask "What if the Western Roman Empire didn't fall in the 5th century" we tend to then ask "What would it look like as a modern state" and not "How would it have fallen later" For example, the 1633 fire destroyed...
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    London without the Great Fire?

    Wild speculation. Samuel Pepys would have buried less cheese
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