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It's good to hear more about the Sikh polity, the Sikhs are so fascinating as the first religion founded in the post-medieval to really hit big numbers, it's a wonder that there's not more alternate history content made about them.

Found this a bit alarming until I remembered that that's a contingency baked into the French constitution in this TL. Mercier has a very poetic style to her diary, good job on depicting that.

Glad to see the return of Charles and Amy. Regarding the broadcast quote, this is exactly what worries me about Diversitarianism. I can think of no other reason why some American nationalists should be violently opposed to a manifestation of "foreign contamination" as benign as freaking...

I'm ashamed to say I snorted at this before remembering the Karen are a real ethnic group. I'm too online... The sort of "planned obsolescence" of the propaganda sequent is really creative and interesting. I mean, it's insidious obviously, but it's just cool conceptually. Is that based on...

So glad to see this is back! Very excited to learn where the story goes from here. I have to say, I respect your decision to have the pandemic going on in the framing device. It could have been easy and forgiveable to just handwave it and say "It's OTL except without current events" but I think...

Nice to finally see what's going on down under. Can't wait for the next volume! I assume from the letters that one of those ads was referring to marmosets, and in OTL the marmoset (or at least the common marmoset) is classified by the IUCN Red List as "of least concern." So I wonder if ITTL the...

Thande, you probably ought to know that on Amazon LTTW Volume IV is listed as being from the wrong Tom Anderson. This appears to be the case in both the US and UK pages for it.

Damn, the terrible fate of New Guinea's diversity really stings. And even outside the moral implications, that'd be a huge lose to fields of linguistics and anthropology.

Fascinating stuff, but what I found most interesting is "civic steam" as a concept (though, as is pointed out, not very efficient in practice.)

Wow, there's a lot about the history of the Congo region I didn't know about, and have learned from looking up some of the things this update referenced. Quite an unsung civilization!

You know, I find it interesting that the Flippant movement seems to be present in China, like it has taken OTL Japan's role of "culturally distinct from the West but sharing Youth Culture with it nonetheless."

Hmm, I wonder what in a hundred years will tip Germany over the threshold into one last struggle for supremacy?

I've finally gotten caught up with this: Excellent work, Thande, I quite look forward to reading it all in one go when you come out with the eBook. It's nice to see this world "from the ground," so to speak, and I'm having quite a bit of fun guessing whether any given person mentioned is "real"...

Really excited to see the world of LTTW "from the ground" so to speak, with this new format. I liked the bit with the courier especially. California looks like a very promising country, I hope it turns out okay in the end. Also, that Caro Deakins, a sharp young woman on a bicycle in an...

Wow, those Moronite marriage chains sound like a logistical nightmare. Is that based on something from the OTL Tierro del Fuegan people, from some obscure misinterpreted Bible passage, or is it invented whole cloth?