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Depending on when Sussex 'bites the bullet' and contracts a suitable marriage, is it possible Kent never bothers and Victoria is never born (e.g. if Sussex has found a suitable bride and procreated a legitimate son prior to Princess Charlotte's death)? That obviously has separate implications...

Indeed. Was just being self-deprecating, but thanks for the kind words. I liked your story too.

… I guess I’m a published author now? That’s cool. My entry is the worst one, BTW.

The word NationStates has awoken a deeply buried memory for me.

Speculating on if murdered children would have been sexy if they grew up, truly the core essence of alternate history.

Surely the obvious solution is to amalgamate the characters of Marion and Short Round?

If Jesus was in Auschwitz, wouldn’t the Nazis have stabbed him a bunch of times so they could duplicate the miraculous properties of the Holy Lance?

I have no skin in this fight, being only a recent and intermittent contributor to the vignettes, but I must admit the ''good art comes from tortured people'' idea has always made me pretty uncomfortable.

“WI: Tricia Nixon had superpowers”?

Great article. The extent to which understandings of mental illness can be culturally constructed, often to the detriment of marginalised or disenfranchised groups, is a major fascination of mine. Mental illness and masculinity was the topic of my Honours thesis. One of the figures I...

It's been placed in my to watch list, and will probably be reported on in the film thread. But yeah, I very much got Sliding Doors vibes from the preview snippet. On another note, if you search the movie one of the most prominent results is, uh...

This is an incredibly exciting line-up that I'll be picking up at the earliest opportunity. I've always quite enjoyed the anthologies; LORAG is of course an incredible work of spectacular scope, research, and imagination; the Chasing Shadows thread has been sitting open on my computer waiting...

I, of course, would be keenly interested in a China anthology. Could probably even rouse myself to attempt to contribute.

Didn't some of the English kingdoms in the SE possibly accept a tributary relationship towards the Merovingians? Is there any possibility for some sort of Frankish punitive expedition to arise out of this?

I mean... we got Riothamus doing... something? Though that's obviously Briton rather than 'English'.

It depends on the precise circumstances of the war of independence and the diplomatic alignments and such, but I imagine overthrowing the Habsburgs only to bring in another German would be pretty unappealing? As for other foreign candidates, to get anywhere they'd presumably need to be Catholic...

Are we looking to import a foreign royal, or find some local noble?

This has been an absolutely fascinating topic, with the usual excellent contributions from @SinghSong and @SenatorChickpea. Stretching a bit further into the future here- but how hard hit will this community be by the Depression? Especially if they're already facing sustained hostility from...

I had been going about my life with the assumption that it was the winners of the vignette competitions that got posted to the blog, but Gary swiftly corrected me- apparently the blog is his personal fief, and he will post to it whatever he likes, regardless of its unworthiness.

This will hurt my wallet.