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It feels like there are many patterns that seem to repeat infinitely among America timelines. Events that occur or have their analogues in most timelines concerning the United States. Absences of such an event rarely occurs unless said absence is the divergence. I am also guilty of this...

As the tin says find a way to keep Cunieform in use by at least one language into the present day. It doesnt have to be used by a major language, or even be commonly known. Likewise you do not need to keep any languages in use that are extinct IOTL.

This is a bank for all the poetry that could be written about your timelines! Post if you want to. I will have some based on my pop-culture TL...

Welcome to the Third Edition of the writing contest. All contest entries must take place within an alternate world, a future world, or a fantasy world, and must be written from the point of view of someone within that world. Entries can be in any language. A translation into English is advised...

Welcome to the second edition of the writing contest. All contest entries must take place within an alternate world, a future world or a fantasy world, and must be written from the point of view of someone within that world. Entries can be in any language (a translation into English is...

With a POD anytime during the provenance of the script, though preferably before its decline, have Futhorc survive as the primary writing system for English, with the Latin script remaining in use for Latin alone, til the modern day. Bonus if runic scripts survive as the writing systems for all...

HI ALL. SO THE ROMANS HAD THEIR INFORMAL CURSIVE SCRIPT FOR CENTURIES UNTIL THE FALL OF THE WESTERN EMPIRE, BUT IT NEVER REALLY TRAVELED FURTHER THAN THAT. PROBABLY BECAUSE IT'S SO HARD TO READ FOR SOME PEOPLE, BUT WOULD SEEM TO BE EASIER AND QUICKER TO WRITE. WHAT IF IT CONTINUED TO DEVELOP...

I'm on a mexican radio I'm on a mexican radio I dial it in and tune the station They talk about the u.s. inflation I understand just a little No comprende--it's a riddle I'm on a mexican radio I'm on a mexican radio -- "My patience is runnin' thin. Get out of my office!" So, that's how he...

I'm very interested in the period. I want to research it further and speculate about developments for the sake of a timeline I've been slowly preparing. I intend this thread to be a broader discussion on the OTL direction of Hungarian parliamentary politics in the late 19th century (as a...

I figured it would help if we had a master thread for all alternate terminology/vocabulary discussions. Most of the threads started for asking this kind of advice die pretty soon, only lasting for a couple of posts or a couple of pages at most. So, to prevent cluttering the forums with these...

The thread is your's.

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...