revolution

For legal reasons, I need to say 'don't try this'. “Are you sure this is a good idea Taylor?” I didn't look at Sophia. There wasn’t really any point, not when I knew that I wouldn’t see the worry on her face with the mask covering it. Wasn’t any reason to look even if she wasn’t in her full...

Lord of Admirals 2200 Hours, January 20th, 2553, Military Standard Time Terrence allowed himself to finally collapse into the couch at the corner of his cramped quarters, tossing his cap onto the small table beside him. The Fleet Admiral was exhausted. If it was any other moment, he was sure a...

- DISCORD LINK - Making Trouble, Finding Strength… January 31st, 2553 For just under two months, the 27-year long genocidal conflict between humanity's colonies and the theocratic alien empire known as the Covenant has been over. Countless heroes and monsters have fallen in the desperate...

Mech pilot Dani Rue fuses her brain with an artificial intelligence to survive. Escaping from enemy captivity (and with an enemy's digital ghost in her head), she travels across a war-torn America in a chaotic future setting. What's the line between an insatiable red mouth and a being more than...

Letter to Munich November 5 1918 Hugo Zimmerman 05 Deichstraße Hamburg Salutations Felix I hope this letter finds you quickly. As I hope you heard, Hamburg has risen up against the Kaiser. There has been mass mutiny among the soldiers and the high seas fleet. The workers have joined them...

A young troll stands in their respiteblock. It just so happens that today is the day of that young troll's larval awakening, also known as their wriggling day. That young troll is, for whatever reason, a rebel against the ancient rule of Alternia's eternal Empress, Her Imperious Condescension...

Always Forward, Never Backwards! A White Fang Quest Kuo Kuana during the monsoon season is a miserable place to be. Great waves smash into the network of stilt houses, shantytowns and pre-Independence palatial manors that make up the capital of Mengarie, crushing the poorly constructed to...

“This ain't the time for words anymore, or prayers, or hope. This is the time for action.” When tanks rolled through Moscow on our television sets we thought the world was ours, that America was a divine nation among mortal ones. We convinced ourselves we had no equals or threats, so we found...

The Widening Gyre: The Great War and the Remaking of Europe Excerpt from Hannah Arendt's speech on "Solidarity Day", 1949, Strasbourg, European Socialist Federation "Thirty years ago, the young men of this continent were instructed after a full half-decade of fratricidal warfare to march once...

Hi everyone! Decided I might as well start a second quest up, and this one's been in my brain for a while, exited to have y'all! Five years ago The city of New York vanished. Five years ago we were brought to our new home. Five years ago the mayor ceded power to the NYPD for "the duration of...

"But remember from here on in... History has its eyes on you." –George Washington, Hamilton: An American Musical 1775. The year that the tension between the Thirteen Colonies and Great Britain, which had been stretched and taut so tightly it could have been cut with a knife, finally snapped...

This is a timeline I have been tinkering with for some time now. It's a bit unrealistic, it's a bit wild, but I find it genuinely fascinating. A socialist revolution in 1848 - what would happen if such a thing occurred, in the most developed capitalist state in the world? This is the Last of the...

Basically, this question is inspired by a section of the book Was Revolution Inevitable? which is a collection of essays by historians on the Russian Revolution discussing alternate history scenarios, and the essay I was interested in was the one by Orlando Figes, author of A People's Tragedy...

I'm Struggler, this is sort of a mental project I've been cooking in my noggin for years now, but finally put down in. Originally started as a "What if Britain intervened in the US Civil War" but the point of divergence has gone back to 1859. Progress will be slow.

The Year is 1950 in The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland more specifically its magical community is on the path of change as in 10 years one Lord Voldermort will rise into power infamy and plunge magical Britain into a war. Will your organization survive or be another page in...

Ever since the proclamation of the German Empire in January 1871, the fragile balance of power of post-Napoleonic Europe had been permanently upended. Under chancellor Otto von Bismark, Germany pursued a policy of diplomatic triangulation between its neighbouring powers, playing their rivalries...

Hey all! This isn't like an actual TL, or a Nanowrimo project or something, more slightly coherent rambling. This was supposed to be a short summary for a friend of mine about a fantasy setting I've been daydreaming about for a long time now, but instead, it exploded into this gigantic thing. I...

For over ten thousand years the Imperium has dominated mankind ruling the galaxy with an iron fist. Heretics, Xenos, Mutants, and Psykers are purged en masse or enslaved. Though the Emperor lies a living corpse on Terra his preachers make sure to enforce his will brutally, backed up by the...

Prologue: The World (XXI) "In Paris, the city is alive once more. It is the 50th celebration - and 51st anniversary of the event - of Le Jour de la Révolution, or The Day of the Revolution. From now to the Bastille Day, the whole of France will celebrate revolution and a strong commitment to...

The Provisional President of the Westeros Republic, Stanley Goodwills[Pow] Year One Of Revelutionary Republican Callander Mr. President, we have started recording your statement, and you may proceed. To my fellow citizens, I am Stanley Goodwills, the acting president of Westeros...

"Author's" Notes: This is primarily a work of near-future science fiction, vague quasi-Marxist theorycrafting, comedy, queerness, and kink as written by an asexual (so expect very little if any sexual intercourse to be directly depicted). If you like gonzo stories, socialism, or just like the...

Disclaimer: The following is a fictional, alternative historical timeline. The purpose of which is not to romanticize real life (often tragic) events, promote reactionary political ideologies, nor downplay systemic injustices marginalized communities experience every day. We simply wish to...

Image description: Arcee, Anode, Aileron, and Lug sharing an embrace. Lug's head is resting on Arcee's waist, optics tightly shut, while Anode leans on Arcee's shoulder, her helm touching with Arcee's, who Aileron is looking up at. Those latter three are smiling, Arcee's optics nearly shut. The...

15/13/1,201,356 Allsparked Cycle (AC), Rallying Age. Starday, 3:35 Hours Dialgem Local Time, Caminus. I love spaceports, but I feel so terribly alone right now, I thought as I watched the 15-kilometer-long sleek winged rod shaped PPA diplomatic vessel Embracement, light yellow with blue...

"And thus the Tyrant was cast down, like the Tower before him, and the People danced and sang in the Streets, and what they did kindled Great Fear in the Hearts of all the Kings." Mistborn: Smoke and Ash. Revolution in The Final Empire. Ash fell from the sky. Smoke rose to meet it...