Hello! This is @JCC the Alt Historian here. I have decided to make a thread about photos and videos from an alternate world (or technically from different types of worlds) where the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks never happen.
Without 9/11 ever happening, society in both the United...
Greetings, I have decided with the blessing of @TastySpam I have created a thread for photographs (pop culture included) for TastySpam’s wonderful TL, “Dixieland: The Country of Tomorrow, Everyday (Yet Another Confederate TL)”.
To christen this new thread I shall post the first photograph...
Welcome to the new thread !
If you have any civil aviation or air forces related roundels, markings and other emblems from timelines and alternate worlds you'd like to share with others in the Maps and Graphics Forum, this is the thread for you. The older two threads have run their course and...
The original Photos from Alternate Worlds, started by Tetsu in 2005, was one of the first major threads on AH.com to deal with "media from alternate worlds" as its premise. After more than 12 years (!), that thread reached the end of its life with nearly 500 pages of content and has been closed...
So, yes. I am making a contest to have the user base here create a design to use for an updated Battleship Orion for prolonged Solar System missions and combat operations against the Gdarje, as per the discussion thread, which I recommend reading every post there.
Now, here are the rules:
It...
This month, the topic of the contest's round is:
Shape Up and Ship Out
The Challenge:
Create a shipping company from an alternate timeline. (You can give it a Christmassy vibe, given the coming festive season.)
The Requirements:
Company logo
Company infobox
A list of countries serviced by the...
This month, the topic of the contest's round is:
Travel Fever
The Challenge:
Create a publishing business/house from an alternate timeline that focuses
on publishing travel guides, and other assorted tourism and travel non-fiction.
The Requirements:
Logo
Company infobox
A list of...
Opening note
VT45 left the site last year. The "alternate company of the month" contest he started just a few months before his departure went on hiatus during its third round.
In March 2015, I sent him a private message via an art site we frequent, asking whether I could revive the contest...
This is the discussion thread for the revival of VT's "ATL Company of the Month" artwork contest.
The original discussion thread for the contest (from 2013) can be found here.
VT's introduction to the contest from the original discussion thread:
What the man said: Let's get on with it...
This is a sequel to my recent thread about the most original fictional settings. So, this time, we have the opposite :
Which setting did you consider so dull, run-of-the-mill and undetailed (underdeveloped), that you immediately stopped being interested in it ?
The thread is yours.
alternate history
creativity
fantasy
fantasy worldbuilding
fictional society
fictional universe
science fiction
science fiction worldbuilding
settings in fiction
worldbuilding
Inspired by this thread, which we had not so long ago.
Simply put : Try to create the most original, hilarious or insane premise for a "-punk" setting. On your marks, get set, go !
Here are a few examples :
The third quote comes from a poster's idea in the comments section of this...