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A bit controversial, but what works of alternate history, be they books, internet project, video game or on-screen adaption do you think are more popular than they ‘ought to be’ and why? Personally I thought TL-191 is overrated due to excessive parallelism to real life, and I couldn’t get into...

On Thursday, October 6, 2022 at 2001 EST, a mysterious portal opens up in the US National Herb Garden in Washington, D.C. It leads to what would have been the neighborhood of Blue Plains if humanity had never existed, along with 46 other portals arrayed in a partial imaginary circle concentric...

*First, there was Chaos, in all the worlds and peoples and civilizations sparked war. Gods, Titans, the eldest beings of the universes and of course, the odd mortal that clawed their way to power potent enough to challenge the Throne of Heaven.* “Wars were waged in the shadow of said throne...

In the distance future of earth, the solar system has been colonized and much has changed since the early 21st century. Now in the first years of the 3rd millennium, Earth is but one of hundreds of worlds upon which humanity lives and thrives. From the Eden Lands of Earth to the Venusian Forge...

Taylor is frozen stiff as she looks at her father in a dazed state. Her father is currently talking to her, holding her hand and seems to be gazing at her with a worried expression. Though, she is not really looking at her father. No, she is looking at something that is between her and her...

...huh. I thought dying would be more painful than…...oh no, there it is. Oh god it burns--- You were fairly certain that you were dying. Blood pooled everywhere, from your arms and legs and places you couldn’t even see. Every nerve screamed in pain. It was all you could do to keep blue eyes...

In the space between spaces, the point of traversal, a portal opens. Now, this is a fairly common occurrence, given this place's liminal nature, but the next bit is the rather odd part. The portal wasn't from any known dimension. This place, the Void, the Tunnel, the Highway, or any of it's...

The wind lashes against your face as you soar through the air at somewhere around a hundred and fifty kilometers per hour, altitude five hundred meters by the time gravity takes hold and you begin your oblique downward arc towards the ground. You're not terribly concerned. Gazetteer Academy -...

The other live-action musical about large felines coming out this year! How in the world did this get greenlit? How did they get Taylor Swift and Idris Elba into this?

Billions of years ago... The universe as we know it... had not been in existence yet. There was only The One, and it sought to to have more than nothingness. Thus, It made the universe, and to make sure it would not, under any circumstances, become undone, It created Its Children...

I feel like this began as a pitch to make DC Old Man Logan and then cocaine got involved.

Oh look, yet another bizarre remake that nobody really asked for? Still, Mark Hamill as the doll should be entertaining. Also, how bad is your programming that you turn a child's doll murderous?

I said what the what. In case Twitter embeds don't work for anyone: Live-Action 'Avatar: The Last Airbender' Series Coming to Netflix | Hollywood Reporter Key points: Konietzko and DiMartino are "taking the reins" for the series. It will have a "culturally appropriate...

"Every falling pebble can precipitate an avalanche." Your master said that once, and they were pretty smart, so it's stuck with you. Well, six months ago the pebble that was Anakin Skywalker and Padme Amidala fell on the red sands of Geonosis. They fell so hard, they began a war more...

It had been a long hard day. You all had had several large problems occur that required your personal attention and had turned out to be much more complicated than initially thought. But, you had done what was needed of you. Even if it did take a bit longer than it should have. You nearly fall...

This debate is to ascertain two things: 1. Luke The existence of Bigger Luke is an incontrovertible part of Star Wars and the Star Wars canon. Bigger Luke, commonly abbreviated to BL, or more uncommonly BgL, is the slightly larger manifestation of Luke Skywalker that is said to appear in...

In another victory for optimistic otakus: In a more amusing/light-hearted instance of AI-editing imaging/videos, researchers from Fudan University has a working prototype for an AI that "anime-fies" images. Imagine the possibilities! We can now waifu RL people! Just like normal people!

So, I've been going around the internet webs until I stumbled, yet again, on something I wanted to post: a rediscovered talk show from my younger days, then barely explored: I've heard many things from the show, from a few sources, some calling it absurdist, others a modern example of...

So, Google I/O 2018 is still on-going, and all we got are a bunch of cool developments and announcements... until you think about some of the contents further: Google's robot assistant now makes eerily lifelike phone calls for you Google's virtual assistant can now make phone calls on your...

The Age of Ice has ended with the death of Mulcarn, God of Ice, who ruled over the world for decades. Now that the Thaw has begun various Civilizations that survived through the Age of Ice in one way or another are trying to regain their glory while other, newer Civilizations form to adapt to...

Howdy folks! Giant wealthman here with an exciting new announcement. Everyone's favourite post-scarcity society with no real money to speak of is soon to be adapted by Amazon, the firm that works people to collapse for the benefit of Jeff Bezos! Type youSEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21...

Shots fired. The marketing department is probably waking up from a hangover any minute now wondering what the fuck they did last night.

The day is crystal-clear, almost serene in it's beauty as the first rays of the dawn play across the landscape. The carcass of the city is laid to bare in the morning light, streets overcome with plantation as mother earth reclaims her own. The once-clear waters of the harbor are now filled with...

Two studio executives at Netflix were doing ever more increasing amounts of cocaine off the ass of the last remaining white rhino when one came up with an idea. "You know what those kids like these days? Abridged animes" "But it's not like there's money in that; it's all fair use stuff"...

Given the influx of AH users currently in progress, it's only a matter of time before we get a lot more ASOIAF fics going. As such, I feel it's only appropriate to try and combine it with our major fiction generator, Worm!