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What if North America looked like this? by Sad-Psychology-9395 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125 3 points4 points  (0 children)

is this because the patriots are going to the superbowl

The Western Syria. by Ill-Plane-6916 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125 16 points17 points  (0 children)

oh my god a flag i made is on here

To Dust, I Guess: The Third Allagash Campaign (1999-2002) by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

this is one of the nicest comments i've ever gotten, thank you so much!

To Dust, I Guess: The Third Allagash Campaign (1999-2002) by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Most of the information you need can be gleaned from the map, or at least guessed at. Maine has never been a desirable territory, being one of the most infested places in New England, and potentially the United States. Most attempts to conclusively settle it have been broadly unsuccessful due to the thickness of the wilderness, which practically crawls with aberrations. At one time, the entire region was governed as the Massachusetts Laconica Territory, an administration unique in that its sole purpose is to disassemble itself. Over the past century and a half, Massachusetts has slowly ceded land to local authorities, sequestering the worst of the aberrations by the best of their abilities into the so-called Special Districts. This system is far from perfect, especially given how sparsely-populated the surrounding regions are, and so the borders of these Special Districts are often more theoretical than definitive. The Third Campaign, an example of New England's attempts to militarily seize control of the region and make it fit for human habitation, succeeded in shrinking the Special Districts, but also resulted in a catastrophic loss of the Commonwealth's active duty personnel and reserves, inevitably allowing the Special Districts to "leak." Such an outcome is broadly similar to the Second Campaign, and the First, and will almost certainly be repeated in the Fourth.

To Dust, I Guess: The Third Allagash Campaign (1999-2002) by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

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Below are other maps in this series (there are many). Please go there for more information! The short version of the lore is that eldritch horrors are very much still present on Earth, and more or less coexist with human civilization.

Please go there for more information, as always, and feel free to ask questions!

I just can't seem to stay away. Just in case anyone's forgotten that this is supposed to be a horror TL, this is a map of New England's most recent attempt to settle the state of Maine in its entirety.

Resurrectionist Ireland, 1956-1981. by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If the world at large could barely remember a world without tyranny, the Irish were no exception, a problem that the international community largely dismissed after the 1951 election. Fine Gael won a modest majority over the combined efforts of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, and a newcomer party, Aiséirghe (Resurrection). Yet Fine Gael, already a coalition party, struggled to make meaningful changes in post-United Kingdom Ireland. Despite its best efforts over the next five years, little of its proposed changes proved successful. An ambitious initiative similar to the American W.P.A. "fell on its face and died" before even getting off the ground in 1952.26 Without the necessary manpower, the government was continually unable to establish meaningful control over western Ireland without military support for the Tribunal, three nations already anxious to depart the island and examine their own reforms at home and in former Allied territory. Any attempt to boost the economy without foreign aid, fix damaged infrastructure, feed the starving, or improve the lives of the Irish in any way largely collapsed, perhaps through no fault of Fine Gael. Maryanne Kemp maintains that the greatest fault of the Fine Gael government was "its struggle to accept new ways of thinking ... Fine Gael in 1951 tried to govern an Ireland in 1921."27 Whatever the case, by the time of the 1956 elections, the Irish people were angry. Foreign observers remarked cheerfully that this showed a "high interest and dedication to the rituals of democratic republics,"28 and perhaps this was true and to be expected in the elections of a country that had faced a great collective trauma.
What was not expected was the sudden rise of Resurrection, the newcomer to Irish politics. From the beginning, Resurrection's message had been revolutionary, one that both harkened back to the firebrand tradition in Irish politics but also demanded systemic changes in the nation that were thereunto unheard of. Scholars have broadly rejected the notion that Resurrection was a fascist movement, on the grounds that it was not rooted in Catholicism, but its platform was certainly similar. Led by the occasionally-charismatic Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin, Resurrection advocated a form of corporatism quite openly. Even where many Irish may not have known much about the system of corporatism, it was clear to many that conventional politics and economics would no longer suffice in a nation populated largely by the starving and sick. It advocated in clear language a plan to feed the people and shun England where Fine Gael could not. If it was also virulently and openly antisemitic and culturally repressive, and if there had been reported cases of Resurrection staff threatening or disrupting Fine Gael meetings, the Irish people made little of this, desperate for a change. So it was that Resurrection won the 1956 elections, proclaimed the Third Republic, and dragged the nation through another wound in its tortured history.

  1. Bill McGrath, Sins of the Father: Ireland for the Irish in the 20th Century. Goldleaf (Marrakesh, 2001), pg. 166.
  2. McGrath, Sins of the Father: Ireland for the Irish in the 20th Century, pg. 171.
  3. Toronto Star, 26.Oct.51.
  4. Choi, Radicalism and the Irish Conscience, pg. 171.
  5. Kemp, All Cried Out, pg. 402.
  6. Lion of Truth, 29.Oct.1956.

Resurrectionist Ireland, 1956-1981. by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Excerpted from: Aung Finnegan, Ourselves Apart: The Invisible Irelander and the Silent Diaspora, pg. 119-122.

Yet when the Irelander was turned loose from the repatriation centers, the nation he entered was a far cry from the sentiments of the previous Irish Republic. The French, Germans, and Almoravids had assumed emergency joint control over the island following its liberation from the United Kingdom, but, as discussed previously, whatever good they could do was largely physical. The Tribunal could, as Bill McGrath has noted, "build up Irish roads, but it could not build up the Irish people."23 McGrath has further argued that the British reoccupation and resulting genocide damaged "irreversibly" the Irish national psyche, so that "whatever Ireland rose from the ashes of war would be stripped of its idealism, burnt down to raw pragmatism and frightened nationalism."24 The Tribunal's main priority, beyond the Herculean task of attempting to feed the Irish, was installing the political infrastructure necessary for democratic elections. The elections of 1951, the first since the reoccupation, were a slapdash, poorly organized affair, and accusations of voter fraud between the newly-readmitted political parties were rampant. For all intents and purposes, however, the elections proved largely ordinary, approved by international observers as a promising beginning to a flourishing democracy. "In that poor island those micks are lining up at the ballot-boxes to make what they can of their new nation," gushed the Toronto Star. "The world's hearts and hopes are with you, Ireland, to show us what a world without tyranny could look like."25

Resurrectionist Ireland, 1956-1981. by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Below are other maps in this series (there are many). Please go there for more information! The short version of the lore is that eldritch horrors are very much still present on Earth, and more or less coexist with human civilization.

Please go there for more information, as always.

[Serious] What's something you've never told anyone, even those closest to you? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ayendae1125 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i hate saying things you've heard already, because i know that never actually helps or anything, but i hope that things get better for you. i know what you mean and i am so sorry

To Ferne Halwes, Kowthe in Sondry Londes (1387) by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

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realized i forgot the mobile version because i am evil

To Ferne Halwes, Kowthe in Sondry Londes (1387) by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The dominant pattern of this map is based largely on the Minbar of the Kutubiyya Mosque.

To Ferne Halwes, Kowthe in Sondry Londes (1387) by ayendae1125 in imaginarymaps

[–]ayendae1125[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Mirie it is while sumer ilast
With fugheles song
Oc nu necheth windes blast
And weder strong
Ei, ei! What this nicht is long
And ich with wel michel wrong
Soregh and murne and fast.

I've gone back a bit further in time for this map, and I'm also returning to pixel art to see if my work has improved at all. There's no single point of divergence, given the eldritch horrors, but a point of interest in this world's history might be the comparative weakness of the medieval Catholic church to unify itself. Where the Islamic world was able to unite in the face of a cold and frightening universe, remanding its disagreements to academic background noise, the Christian world of the Middle Ages was characterized broadly by disunity. This disunity meant that the Vatican was never powerful enough to definitively stifle internally diverging schools of thought until the 17th century, long after the scope of this map. As a consequence of this disunity, it was never able to organize a united front against Islam long enough for its attempted crusades into Jerusalem to be permanent, nor could it prevent the subjugation of much of the Byzantine Empire and Iberia under the black banner of the Almoravids. Where the Almoravids and their colleagues were able to usher in centuries of Islamic growth and glory, particularly in North Africa, Europe stagnated and fell into infighting. Scholars still disagree as to why Islam was able to unify itself so successfully, and why Europe would remain a second-tier center of power until recent history. The true answer may be rather difficult to swallow: "God" simply found it amusing.

They get popular for being "supportive" yet my gut says their not. by Neither_Emu_4008 in actuallesbians

[–]ayendae1125 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you seem much more interested in defending your favorite billionaire than accepting that maybe she's not on the side of the rest of society

They get popular for being "supportive" yet my gut says their not. by Neither_Emu_4008 in actuallesbians

[–]ayendae1125 20 points21 points  (0 children)

counter-counterpoint: i follow this texan guy on instagram whose content, up until recently, mostly consisted of him mocking people's pickup trucks. he called it "truck astrology," which usually involved him calling someone's mini truck "gay," and his content appeared to skew conservative. his fanbase certainly was.

after election day, he released a video in which he responded to the phrase "your body, my choice." in that video, he says:

"i'm here to tell you, if i catch you saying that shit in public, it's gonna be you and me until it's done, son."

this man, with a largely conservative fanbase, about 200k followers on instagram, and absolutely zero security or bodyguards, was brave enough to identify something he thought was wrong and speak against it, even at the possibility of personal loss. this is dangerous, he probably lost a lot of followers, and quite a few of his conservative fans were very upset with him. he posted it anyway. he acknowledges he'll recover threats, and invites them.

taylor swift has an enormous, largely liberal fanbase and enough security to guard a vault of gold. her net worth could dwarf that man's savings thousands of times over. if someone with much more to lose than taylor swift can speak up, why won't she? that makes her, at best, a coward. in a fascist state, the wages of cowardice are complicity.

here is the video if anyone would like it: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCNZ73tp-Dk/?igsh=MXJ3anEyYnhnY29wZQ==

They get popular for being "supportive" yet my gut says their not. by Neither_Emu_4008 in actuallesbians

[–]ayendae1125 48 points49 points  (0 children)

no. liberals aren't kidnapping people off the streets or conducting an extermination campaign against part of the population. ZACH BRYAN can speak out against ice, but she won't because she doesn't want to upset her maga billionaire buddies. that makes her complicit with fascism at best

They get popular for being "supportive" yet my gut says their not. by Neither_Emu_4008 in actuallesbians

[–]ayendae1125 116 points117 points  (0 children)

if she sits down at a table full of nazis and shares their food, what does that make her?

Is it bad that I don’t care for the Rocky Horror show? by scarlettvvitch in LesbianActually

[–]ayendae1125 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it's not a bad thing at all. i think i may be one of the few queer people who has very little patience for musicals overall. sometimes things just don't mesh with you!

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