imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
"You see, during this period people believed strongly in organizing around what they called "countries", which were basically collections of people living in a certain area. One of the major countries in the 20th and 21st centuries was called "the United States", and it was a terrible place of corrupt leaders and inequality. It started to collapse in the latter half of the 20th century, then finally fell apart starting with the second BLM protests in 2020. It was completely dissolved by 2030."
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@Felthry as much as i'm more optimistic about politics than i have been in a while, the states falling in a decade seems like a big ask
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@monorail@glaceon.social @Felthry@awoo.space it's a fun thought but yeah, most people in the US identify way more strongly by state than by country
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@aldersprig @monorail @InspectorCaracal "fixit fic"?
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@Felthry@awoo.space @monorail@glaceon.social @InspectorCaracal oh! Fiction, usually fanfiction, designed to fix something the author/writers got wrong (xxx doesn't die, someone didn't do that really stupid thing...) I don't know why I thought like.... hyena-furry John Adams? might do better things
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re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@aldersprig @monorail @InspectorCaracal oh that makes sense. we can think of a few stories that could use that
re: imagining future history re: uspol adjacent
@Felthry@awoo.space @aldersprig @monorail@glaceon.social a fix-it fic is when you really like a story but it had some really terrible plot twists or holes or some badly handled character development and so you write a fanfic where you rewrite the story and fix those parts