West and east, west and east, south and north, west and east.

Unite and divide, unite and divide, west and east, unite and divide.

So goes the cycle of Romes.

#NoKings Eagan, MN

And the way they did this was through some pretty ridiculous acts. They made a human chain stretching from Vilnius to Tallinn! Estonians came together multiple times at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds over the course of 1988 to musically protest the Soviets!

While the site is having discourse over grand and absurd protest tactics, lets take a look over at one of the most grandest displays of protest ever, the Baltic Way, part of the larger Singing Revolution.

I remember when I brought a cat tree home for my cat. It wasn't inside for even five minutes before he had claimed it.

It's not that hard to imagine a world where Christians consider Islam a weird heresy rather than a separate religion.

(I also happened to make a map depicting one of those possible worlds shameless plug:)

We must fix the perception that France is the baguette country immediately

What if... Germans became the Western Roman Emperors in the mid-late 5th century?

Guess what day it is, guess what day it is

Time to learn about the bestest most awesome dynasty to ever exist.

Just don't look up how many slaves they owned.

and more. Since I didn't include an alt text in the original post, I might as well add that in, too.

#mapmonday

I keep intending to make a post showing some other maps from this timeline, so here's that. It's more or less a grab-bag of ideas I wanted to throw out there, and decided to throw them all in one world.

Hello, I'm an alternate history map maker. Here's my first map since coming here full time, featuring Buddhist terrorism across Asia (POD ~600 AD)