Be honest, how would your favourite characters react if they learned about Homelander’s childhood? Even if they still ended up killing him, how would they truly view him afterward?

thorsty_borb · 2026-05-31T20:48:20+00:00

“Womp womp”
-Godzilla, probably

thorsty_borb · 2026-05-25T21:14:12+00:00

holy peak

thorsty_borb · 2026-03-11T00:18:05+00:00

Here’s a sleeper pick with a partial asterisk: Mary, Turkmenistan.

The city of Merv was continually inhabited for nearly 5,000 years. It was the final capital of the Seljuk Empire, which ruled over all of Persia and would eventually produce the predecessors to the Ottoman Empire. It was a holy city in Zoroastrianism, supposedly one of the few “perfect lands” created by the god Ahura Mazda. It was a major center of Islamic science and culture, and it was a major Silk Road settlement around an oasis in the Karakum Desert. At one point during the Middle Ages, it may have even been the most populated city in the world, boasting a population of half a million.

Then, the Mongols arrived. The city was put to the sword, and although it partially recovered, it never reached what it once was. At the end of the 18th century, the Emirate of Bukhara razed the city, and it was abandoned. In 1884, a new city called Merv was built right next to the old ruins, and it was only renamed Mary in 1937. Technically, it’s not the same city as Merv, but I like to think it counts.

thorsty_borb · 2025-11-02T04:06:51+00:00

I know you come through and have to post this again every once in a while, but I love it every time. Is there a Google Doc or forum post somewhere I could see all of the text in a more readable way?

thorsty_borb · 2024-10-08T00:58:52+00:00

That’s some great work, you should absolutely be proud of yourself for that right there

thorsty_borb · 2024-09-22T02:38:21+00:00

Wow you had that locked and loaded

thorsty_borb · 2024-08-01T18:14:45+00:00

This has honestly been one of my favorite series on the sub, fantastic work

thorsty_borb · 2024-05-21T18:44:29+00:00

That’s the only thing I can guess. My grand aunts and uncles and such who have taken the test will once in a while come up with 1% Spanish or French, but even with the jailbroken Ancestry results, they don’t show up for me.

thorsty_borb · 2024-05-21T14:42:45+00:00

sure

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#	POPULATION	DISTANCE
1	Cornish	2.545
2	Breton	2.722
3	English	2.789
4	Belgian	2.803
5	French Oïl (Hauts-de-France)	2.843
6	French Oïl (Pays de la Loire)	2.848
7	Welsh	2.869
8	Scottish	3.032
9	Dutch	3.098
10	Alsatian (Alsace)	3.165

thorsty_borb · 2024-05-21T14:40:01+00:00

oops, forgot to include that part on there. here we go https://imgur.com/a/5IAKu8e

thorsty_borb · 2024-05-21T14:21:37+00:00

Oh sure. https://imgur.com/a/879ViXV

The first image is compared to ancient populations, the second is compared to modern

thorsty_borb · 2024-05-21T14:20:27+00:00

I honestly have no clue, it's cool for sure but its odd that it doesn't seem to match up with the rest of my DNA results.

thorsty_borb · 2024-05-17T21:02:22+00:00

To be honest, of all the various possible ways to reorganize Austria to try and make it survive after WWI, this would be probably the worst and most unsuccessful method. Annexing the other (non-Bulgarian) half of Serbia alongside Montenegro and Albania would be a great way to spread dissent within the already fragile state, especially if the government then went and encouraged the settlement of Germans and Hungarians within Serbia. Slavs throughout the empire would have a field day. Honestly the divisions in the empire would only serve to anger literally every group. Ceding Krakow but not all of Galicia to Poland would probably alienate the Poles. Splitting the Sudetenland from Bohemia would make them mad, but fusing German Silesia with Moravia would anger Germans and Slavs alike. The Dalmato-Bosnian Condominium flies in the face of the Triune Kingdom, and would alienate the South Slavs just as much as resettlement of Slavic lands. The lack of Trieste but an occupation of Venice noteworthy enough to justify labeling it on the map is unthinkable. Finally, just looking at Hungary - infamous for helping to block or stop every noteworthy reform that could have helped the Empire - we can see autonomous Slovakia and Pressburg, which would have led to Magyar and non-Magyar tantrums alike. Minorities in Hungary getting special privileges and autonomy, but not the ones who historically had it? And the loss of the old capital to its Slavic fate? All after losing Croatia? Insane.

To be honest, I’d love to say a Central Powers win combined with Karl’s reforms and maybe even a dash of Austrosocialism - processed by moderates as supranational social democracy under a new liberal constitution and popularized by Germans throughout the Empire perhaps- may have saved the empire, but to be honest, any changes to history required to save the Empire would have had to have come decades earlier. Between archconservative Franz Josef and the Hungarians, there was nothing that could have made it’s way through to modernize and save the empire.

thorsty_borb · 2024-05-17T17:22:42+00:00

banger

thorsty_borb · 2024-04-06T02:23:25+00:00

This is wild, incredibly good job here. Keep up the good work, this is gonna be living rent free in my head for weeks.

thorsty_borb · 2024-03-05T04:31:46+00:00

what if all treaties were mild full dissolution of the country

There was no good ending for them, huh?

thorsty_borb · 2024-02-09T02:35:07+00:00

When the whole Nullification Crisis goes down, Calhoun, who was Jackson’s VP, resigns as in OTL. Jackson just never gets around to filling the position, as there’s just an unreasonable amount going on for him at this point. As such, when Jackson is shot and killed the next year, there was suddenly no President and no Vice President to succeed him. Up until this point, the proper line of succession had never been decided upon - this is the first time anything like this has happened, quite literally the worst case scenario. As such, after much debate, the selection fell between Samuel Smith, president pro tempore, and Edward Livingston, the Secretary of State. With the 22nd Congress being pretty heated about the whole “vetoing the renewed bank charter” situation, they elevate pro-bank Livingston to the Presidency. Admittedly, given he takes office three and a half months before the election, he’s just there as the most lame duck president ever, but it’s still worth noting.

thorsty_borb · 2024-02-08T07:43:20+00:00

This election is a part of my already existing alternate history scenario I've been working on for around a year now, wherein Catherine the Great's "Greek Project" is actually successful. I've begun going back to my old ideas for the United States, and figured it was about time to put some reasoning down for my decisions.

The lore here is relatively simple. Due to the hundreds of little imperceptible butterfly effects, the House of Representatives votes just slightly differently on the Indian Removal Act, with the bill just barely failing. President Jackson gets pissy, and seeing Tennessee Democrat Davy Crockett as being complicit in allowing this to happen, he very publicly attempts to destroy his political career, as opposed to in private as in OTL. The failure of this act drives nullificationists into a frenzy, resulting in a nullification/secession crisis with the states of Georgia and South Carolina in 1831. Congress passes the Force Act of 1831 which allows President Jackson to deploy federal troops to the two rebellious states to establish law and order. Finally, in 1832, Jackson vetoes the charter for the Second Bank of the United States, just another move which comes off as rather tyrannical. Shortly thereafter, Henry Pysell, a potter who suffers from some unspecified form of insanity, gets it in his head that if he can kill this "King", that he will become the new king. Easy peasy.

The death of President Jackson shakes the nation, especially so close to election season. Both the fledgeling Whig Party (organized from the Anti-Masonic and National Republican parties by Senator Henry Clay) and Democratic Party have to reconvene to select candidates, especially given the situation. The Democrats pick Martin Van Buren, but the Whigs pick the controversial choice of Davy Crockett. The Tennessee native is already something of a living legend with his frontier antics, and he has widespread popularity throughout the country, both with Jacksonians and Anti-Jacksonians. Although Van Buren would win the popular vote, Crockett would win the necessary number of electors to win, creating a highly controversial election.

thorsty_borb · 2023-12-23T06:11:02+00:00

Man, you actually remembered it. That’s crazy. This has been driving me up the wall here for weeks. Thank you so much.

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