someone is ranting on one of my timelines about how various kinds of alt history stories are too complicated to write and it'd be pointless to try and i'm just like observing. i mean this is something they have to process by themselves but part of me really wants to say like.... dream a little bigger darling

there are stories it's inappropriate to tell, there are stories it's harmful to tell, but impossible ? impossible ?

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@pan tolkien invented a history out of whole cloth and there are people whose main hobby is analyzing it, if that's worthwhile then surely the arguably less complicated task of inventing a history where e.g. the ancient greeks developed steam power could be worthwhile to someone too

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