A highly amusing alternate history/fantasy story. You think our current government is bad? See what dark arts Thomas Jefferson attempted.
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by Stephen Kotowych It wasn't fully signed yet, of course. Even now, delegates of the Continental Congress who had not been in Philadelphia during the final vote earlier in the week made their way to the city to append their names to the Declaration of Independence and poke a finger in the eye of K
The galaxy has fractured into rival factions and rogue Moffs. In this Pax Historia Star Wars scenario, can a Remnant Commander hold the Outer Rim against the rising New Republic and traitorous allies?
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Alright, here’s the deal, folks. A few months back, me and my creative buddy, we called it quits. A lot of plot jettisoned, but it did free me up to explore the counterfactual world of VIKINGS vs SAMURAI. I mean, picture this: what if our Viking protagonists were at
The Free People's Village (Sim Kern) – Twenty years ago, Al Gore won the election and declared a War on Climate Change instead of the War on Terror. The United States led the charge on a green transition that transformed the country. That is to say, an eco-capitalist transition which did little to ultimately reduce carbon emissions but did plenty to shift the burden onto the poorest while the rich rake in subsidies. Minority neighbourhoods previously bulldozed as ghettos are now targeted as inefficient and wasteful as its residents lack the capital to invest in the latest technology and cash in for it.
One such neighbourhood is the Eighth Ward of Huston, Texas where Maddie crashes at The Lab, her boyfriend's warehouse venue. There she joins a queer punk bang and falls for the trans guitarist, Red. Yet with her boyfriend as everyone's landlord, she treads on eggshells to keep the rug being pulled from under their feet. When the venue slated for demolition, along with much of the neighbourhood, Maddie throws herself into the grassroots campaign group led by the neighbourhood's Black residents who resent The Lab's gentrifying role in the area.
The book really targets Maddie with a bullseye. While she starts to grow beyond her naivety, her ignorance, cowardice and privilege is very much on display as the movement grows. She is caught between the those with a desire for radical direct action that triggers brutal police crack downs, and a tempered campaign movement that becomes throttled by an influx of white cis male activists who drown out the voices of the original black residents.
Maddie as a character could have landed far flatter if she had been given more sympathy or just deployed as a punchbag. But she does seem to serve as a good character to show the slow radicalisation of someone who struggles to truly appreciate her own privilege before she wallows in her own white guilt. She also provides an outsider pov as the infighting consumes the campaign at it's core, and the hopeless nihilism that embeds at its fringes.
While Sim gives little in the way of happy endings here, that in itself gives a strong message that while it can feel hopeless against constant set backs from the capitalist machine of government, every small act of resistance plants a seed for the next. In part through this, it speaks volumes to the importance of solidarity and community.
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Starting another Hearts of Iron 4 playthrough as a united Scandinavia...with America going fascist.
Totally not inspired by recent headlines. 
KA reviews "Forecast" by Aaron Ryan:
"I was eager to read Forecast because of this intriguing premise: what if an everyday person was granted the knowledge about the tragedy in advance, and the power to stop it?... Forecast brings the world of the early 2000s back to life, creating a vivid and compelling “what if” timeline of that dark day of American history. 5 stars."
https://www.limfic.com/2026/01/22/review-forecast-aaron-ryan/
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Meanwhile in an alternative universe:
Mark Carney: We need Alaska. We need it for national security, we need Alaska!
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