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  1. Miss Teri

    DBWI: Disney owns Marvel, Warner Bros. owns DC.

    So, Kinney National, owners of DC Comics, bought out shares in the struggling Disney company in the late 70's, eventually forming Disney Communications and the modern Disney-Time Company. Meanwhile, Warner Bros, under the corporate reign of General Electric was able to purchase New World...
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    Vignette: The Stars in the Sky
    Threadmarks: The Stars in the Sky

    Vignette: The Stars in the Sky New York Times review of “The Stars in the Skies” by Fred Hoyle, September 16, 1990 issue. Fred Hoyle may be known to American audiences as the 1980 Nobel Prize winner with William Fowler, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, and Geoffrey and Margaret...
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    DBWI: Reverse the fates of the PRC and the USSR

    Exactly what reads. How to cause the People's Republic of China to reform, and not collapse, and to delay or prevent the economic reforms of the USSR and cause its collapse.
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    Reds! Official Fanfiction Thread (Part Two)
    Threadmarks: Original Post

    This is the second Fanfiction thread for the Reds! Timeline. Due to certain circumstances, the updates for the first one could not be threadmarked, making it hard to find and catalog the pieces written . Thus, it is necessary to create a second thread in order for updates to the author's liking...
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    DBWI: George L. Rockwell Far-Right rather than Far-Left

    So, interestingly, one of America's most infamous Marxists, George Lincoln Rockwell, apparently held (by his own admission) some reactionary views, before he read Marx during his time in the Navy. So, what if he retained this views, and maybe even become as far right as he was far left OTL.
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    AH Vignette- Gorwal

    From "The British Film Institute's 100 Most Influential International Science Fiction Films" (BFI Press, 2008) Gorwal (1954) Gorwal is the first and perhaps defining film of the German Seltsametiere genre popular in Germany in the immediately aftermath of World War II. Modern watchers...
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    TLIAPOT:Just Another Freak In the Freak Kingdom
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    "If Freak Power can do that in Aspen, it can also do it in other places. But if it can't be done here, one of the few places in America where we can work off a proven power base -- then it is hard to imagine it working in any other place with fewer natural advantages" - Hunter S. Thompson, "The...
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    WI: Hunter Thompson elected Sheriff of Aspen, Joe Edwards elected Mayor

    So, as he recounted in The Battle of Aspen, Hunter Thompson ran on the "Freak Power" platform that Joe Edwards ran for Mayor of Aspen with, for Sheriff. They lost to a coalition of Democratic and Republicans dedicated to not giving them the office, but the margin was fairly close. What if they...
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    DBWI: Communist China, Capitalist Japan

    Just what reads. What if, say, Japan wasn't invaded by the USSR at the end of World War II, and the Communists were more successful on the mainland. If the fates of these nations were reversed, what would be the effect on world politics?
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    DBWI: George Lucas doesn't get the rights to "Flash Gordon"

    So, we all know the story. A young filmmaker decides to adapt the serials he had enjoyed as a child, so he bought the rights, and made an adaptation that not only respects the source material, but expands on it. George Lucas' Flash Gordon helped create more optimism during the turbulent 70's...
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    WI: "Halloween" an anthology series

    So, Halloween III is notable in the absence of Michael Myers, making it a tangential part of the series. However, the original intention for the series was to actually make it an anthology series, each film centering around a theme of Halloween. So yeah, what if Season of the Witch was more...
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    The Vatican in a Communist Italy

    Exactly what reads. Had Italy somehow became a communist state after World War II, how would the Rome-based Vatican fare? Would they strike a non-interference deal, like they did with the Fascists? Would the Vatican relocate to friendlier climes?
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    Television in a continued Cold War

    So, sometimes I hear that shows like Seinfeld and the Simpsons were an indication of the ennui in American media following the end of the Cold War in the 90's, which ended with the 9/11 attacks. So, how would a continued Cold War have affected the TV shows of the 90's and beyond?
  14. Miss Teri

    Hillary Orbits Venus

    So, with Hillary Clinton having rapped up the nomination, I decided to think back to one of my favorite AH short stories, "Hillary Orbits Venus." by Pamela Sargent. For those who don't know.... So, for those who haven't read it, does it sound interesting? To those who have read it, what do you...
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    DBWI: Nationalists win Spanish Civil War

    Exactly what reads. What if the fascist/Nationalist forces had succeeded in their coup against the Second Spanish Republic? How might it had affected World War II?
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    DBWI: Dictatorial USSR, Democratic US

    So, today is the 80th anniversary of the defeat of General Butler and his Republican forces during the Second American Civil War, thus ensuring that the United States fell to a military right-wing dictatorship that lasted for over 50 years, before it, and the United States, collapsed in 1991...
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    DBWI: Reagan a Republican

    So, yeah, what would it take to get California Governor and President Ronald Reagan, who was a staunch Democrat through most of his life, to switch sides, and become a Republican? He had very hawkish Foreign policy views, but had a moderate liberal record as President
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    WI: 60's Captain America series, instead of Batman

    This is an idea that was used by neamaltha in "Five Colors for A Dime," and myself in the recent "11/23/63" collaboration TL. Basically, what if the Captain America serials of the 40's were screened at the Playboy Mansion instead of Batman, and the ABC executive decided to create a Captain...
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    Trotsky and Soviet Space program

    Let's assume Trotsky somehow gains power in the USSR, and somehow, saner minds in the Soviet government somehow convince him not to launch a simultaneous World revolution, thus ensuring the survival of the USSR. Would he support a space program on the scale of the OTL Soviet program? Would he...
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    WI:South Africa in a continuing Cold War

    So, I often read that the end of the Cold War allowed for the Western powers to begin to cut off ties with South Africa, which ultimately helped led to the end of Apartheid. However, had the Cold War continued, would the Western powers continued to support the white-minority government, or was...
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