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Decades of Darkness

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Decades of Darkness	comment	Decades Of Darkness is an Alternate History timeline originating on AlternateHistory.com. The creator, Jared, got the idea from a contest to create a historically plausible version of S. M. Stirling's The Draka series: a mega evil slaver doom empire, built on opposition to the very values that the Western world holds dear, takes over the world. "DoD", as it's commonly abbreviated, deviated considerably from this origin, which is just as well for that part of the world's population not living under said Empire.In a dark twist on the values which America was built upon, this empire is in fact the United States. The tale begins as a strategically timed heart attack kills off Thomas Jefferson at the worst moment of the historical New England separatist movement in 1809. The bumbling James Madison, his successor, gets into a war with Great Britain and the New England rebels in 1811 and loses handily. Half the Midwest is lost, and furthermore, in the course of the war Madison alienated New York and New Jersey and caused them to secede and join New England as well. Since the former Northeastern states that make up the new Republic of New England were the heartland of the abolitionist movement in our world's US, their secession from the Union swings the political balance in favor of the Southern states, whose economies were built upon slave labor and which were fiercely defensive of their "peculiar institution". From here on, the timeline somehow manages to become broader in scope until it is global, while at the same time getting more and more detailed.It ends in 1935 as the world seems to be settling into a four-way Cold War (called the Silent War) between the four world-dominating power blocs, the USA (known, owing to its evil, as "Alt USA" or *USA), the German Empire (a mostly monarchist federation under the Habsburgs), the Russian Federation (an enormously complicated Czarist-federal-democratic... thing stretching from Constantinople to Beijing), and the Restored Empire (an Indian Rim-centered, Australian-led alliance) and its main ally, Nippon. Needless to say, much has changed in the intervening time.Decades of Darkness is one of the most influential AH.com timelines, and its style of presentation, a mix of academic/historical documents providing the 'big picture' and narrative segments following the characters involved with and observing the events (from the leaders and generals to the average Joes and Janes), has inspired many others. It is often cited alongside earlier works from soc.history.what-if such as For All Time as among the classics of Alternate History Web Original work. It was concluded on January 20, 2009. A series of vignettes and a novel exploring the future of this world remain in the works.You can read the completed story here at the AH.com forum or here or here.
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Decades of Darkness / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Thomas Jefferson dying from a heart attack in 1809 is what kicks off the story.
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Decades of Darkness / int_15d8e4f5	type	Slave Liberation
Decades of Darkness / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: One slave, who later calls himself Romulus Courtenay, runs away with his wife and daughter. Fortunately, he gets help fleeing to Canada - by a white racist, who just happens to hate big slaveholders.
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Decades of Darkness / int_16178c64	type	Gratuitous Spanish
Decades of Darkness / int_16178c64	comment	Gratuitous Spanish: Quite some examples, since American English contains very many Spanish loan words.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Decades of Darkness / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: An eccentric Yellowstone park ranger (an allohistorical counterpart of John Muir), having both witnessed the extinction of the American bison and read about the discovery of fossil specimens of North America's prehistoric megafauna, decided that the "complete ecology" of Yellowstone should be restored by introducing the closest living relatives to some of those species to the park. While the Spanish ibex and Amur leopard failed to establish themselves, the European bison and the Siberian tiger both thrived in Yellowstone. The latter is hunted each year in an annual "Yellowstone Tiger Hunt", an occasion that an Australian writer compares to a scene out of The Raj.
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Decades of Darkness / int_191535aa	type	Eiffel Tower Effect
Decades of Darkness / int_191535aa	comment	Eiffel Tower Effect: Since urban development patterns were among the many things altered over the years, cities have different landmarks from those known in OTL. For instance, New York, instead of the Statue of Liberty, has the Colossus of New York, a figure resembling an ancient Greek hoplite that was gifted to New England by the Greeks. The New England capital of Hartford and the *US capital of Columbia City (formerly Knoxville, Tennessee) are nearly unrecognizable from their OTL forms by the 20th century due to all the government buildings and monuments that have been built. There is still a Statue of Liberty... only she's overlooking Sydney Harbour instead, reflecting the status of Australia in this world as the land of freedom, liberty, opportunity, and multiculturalism.
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Decades of Darkness / int_19d06ef7	type	A Father to His Men
Decades of Darkness / int_19d06ef7	comment	A Father to His Men: General Helmuth von Moltke, who even gets nicknamed "Vater" (father).
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Decades of Darkness / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Decades of Darkness / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: Julia Gordon's husband, who's gay himself (quite practical).
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Decades of Darkness / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Decades of Darkness / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Canadian general Ambroise Riel. He's nicknamed "the iceman" and his adjutant claims that Riel only smiled once in four years.
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Decades of Darkness / int_1c7555f1	type	The Virus
Decades of Darkness / int_1c7555f1	comment	The Virus: Unfortunately, HIV-outbreak occurred much earlier.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_21718ffc	type	Deep South
Decades of Darkness / int_21718ffc	comment	Deep South: The US is this trope writ large, with the culture and values of the planter elites of Old Dixie guiding the nation in its conquest of the Americas.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_2991089a	type	Oppressive States of America
Decades of Darkness / int_2991089a	comment	Oppressive States of America: The *US, as a consequence of falling under the dominion of the planter aristocrats early in its history. If you're white, or can otherwise pass for white, you can have a decent life. If not...
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Decades of Darkness / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
Decades of Darkness / int_2a035a26	comment	Whether or not Liberia, the land of former slaves from the Americas, counts is very much debatable. Unlike real-world Liberia, where different factions have fought one another in one of Africa's longest and cruelest civil wars, it is peaceful and prosperous, with leading figures declaring that race does not matter in their eyes. Even more remarkable when the citizens come not only from the United States, as in the real Liberia, but also from all over the Caribbean, yet still enjoy enlightened fraternal harmony. Liberia's status is explained in-story as the result of a more favorable location in Southwest Africa, greater immigration and investment into the new nation (especially once the US starts expelling free blacks), and most importantly, the fact that the region being settled was only thinly inhabited prior to the creation of the first colonies. (OTL Liberia's location in West Africa is a disease-filled jungle that was already filled with natives, most of who viewed the African Americans as just another colonizing force.) And even then, Liberia's history isn't entirely rosy — the government commits genocide against the native Herero and Namaqua tribes to make room for "civilized" Liberians, and it experiences a coup d'etat in the last phase of the Great War by a general named Duvalier, a name that should raise eyebrows and red flags for anybody who knows their OTL Haitian history (Haiti, like many countries conquered by the US, sent many refugees to Liberia, so this probably is an Allohistorical Allusion to the OTL Duvaliers). While it doesn't suffer the brutality, strife, and corruption of the real Liberia, this isn't because the seeds for such weren't present — they just never blossomed because it took much less effort to ethnically cleanse the land and create a "model" nation.
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Decades of Darkness / int_2a3aa1a5	type	Peace Conference
Decades of Darkness / int_2a3aa1a5	comment	Peace Conference: The First, Second, and Third Congress of Vienna and the Dublin Conference are the most important.
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Decades of Darkness / int_2e3ab929	type	Assumed Win
Decades of Darkness / int_2e3ab929	comment	Napoleon I manages to win the battle of Waterloo, only to lose against the Prussians under Blücher afterwards, making "Waterloo" in this world a phrase meaning "a victory claimed too early".
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Decades of Darkness / int_312b02ac	type	Lipstick Lesbian
Decades of Darkness / int_312b02ac	comment	Lipstick Lesbian: Julia Gordon. And First Lady Anna Mitchell.
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Decades of Darkness / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Decades of Darkness / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: The reason for the support of Alvar O'Brien by his archenemy Plutarco Bautista against presidential candidate Jefferson Caden, who is an extreme (WASP) racist and warhawk.
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Decades of Darkness / int_34602d5a	type	Hegemonic Empire
Decades of Darkness / int_34602d5a	comment	Hegemonic Empire: Germany and Russia, and Australia and South Africa within the Restored Empire which dominates the Indian Rim.
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Decades of Darkness / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Decades of Darkness / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: Various, like the Velvet Underground in Pennsylvania, Mexican generals like Juarez, and Eunuco Mitchell. Unfortunately (and realistically), none have prevailed.
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Decades of Darkness / int_35fb9016	type	Gratuitous German
Decades of Darkness / int_35fb9016	comment	Gratuitous German: Radio is named "funk"; and since Germany has become one of the superpowers, German (or rather, neudeutsch) phrases tend to crop up.
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Decades of Darkness / int_362461f6	type	Sex Slave
Decades of Darkness / int_362461f6	comment	Sex Slave: One *American is pretty shocked when he finds out that the Latina "dance instructors" are prostitutes in all but name. He founds the anti-slavery "Society for the Ethical Peon Treatment" (SEPT).
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Decades of Darkness / int_36c32773	type	Generican Empire
Decades of Darkness / int_36c32773	comment	Generican Empire: the Restored Empire and Amistad (spanish word for friendship).
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Decades of Darkness / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Decades of Darkness / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending
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Decades of Darkness / int_43eeaee8	type	The Republic
Decades of Darkness / int_43eeaee8	comment	The Republic: The Republic of New England and the later French republics.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4482e1ef	type	Divided States of America
Decades of Darkness / int_4482e1ef	comment	Divided States of America: New England and *USA, the latter complete with an obviously different flag: seven stripes and an ever-increasing number of stars... or, at least, for now. Some have speculated that Canada might possibly end up as a divided nation: One scenario includes a republic in the west, an independent Quebec in the east, and a rump kingdom in Ontario. What happens to Wisconsin here, however, hasn't been addressed.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Decades of Darkness / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Juarez, the last Mexican General, was respected by the American Captain Fisher who hunted and killed him.
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Decades of Darkness / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Decades of Darkness / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: Due to the US' pariah status discrediting the idea of white racial supremacy outside of its borders, racism is rooted more in this trope than in ideas of "blood and soil". Leaders proudly proclaim that anybody can integrate with the culture of their adopted nation provided they learn the language and embrace its values... but, for the record, their culture is clearly the superior one, and people should embrace it if they want to be considered civilized. Stenio Duvalier, a Liberian officer responsible for the genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes, firmly believed in this; as far as he was concerned, being "fellow Africans" didn't give them the right to reject the authority of the Liberian state, and for Liberia to think otherwise would have made them no different from the US. Edmund Schulthess, Chancellor of Germany during the Great War, thought the same, and it heavily informed his decision to break up France into multiple small countries upon winning the war — he saw French culture as a fundamental enemy of German culture, and needing to be dissolved if Germany was to remain safe.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4921aad7	type	Expanded States of America
Decades of Darkness / int_4921aad7	comment	Expanded States of America: Of the United Americas variant.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4a02a75e	type	The Theocracy
Decades of Darkness / int_4a02a75e	comment	The Theocracy: The Nephi Free State is a theocratic Nephi republic. Non-Nephis are disenfranchised and encouraged to migrate.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4a32f262	type	Reassignment Backfire
Decades of Darkness / int_4a32f262	comment	Reassignment Backfire: Being the American Ambassador in Liberia (see below) improved Edgar Langley's life and helped to liberate many slaves from American slavery.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Decades of Darkness / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: The ending of the North American War.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
Decades of Darkness / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: The Liberians engage in numerous human rights abuses against the natives in their lands, most notably a genocide of the Herero and Namaqua tribes that, in real life, was carried out by the German colonial authorities in that area. Ironically, they justify it in the name of anti-racism and avoiding this trope with regards to the Americans. Stenio Duvalier, a Liberian officer who made his name leading the raids against the tribes, argues that refusing to repress African tribes disloyal to the Liberian state simply because they were Africans would make them no different from the white supremacists running the US.
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Decades of Darkness / int_4fa3a61f	type	The Barnum
Decades of Darkness / int_4fa3a61f	comment	The Barnum: Phineas T. Barnum, who becomes president of New England.
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Decades of Darkness / int_547b632	type	Space-Filling Empire
Decades of Darkness / int_547b632	comment	Space-Filling Empire: The South African-ruled Central Africa is the most obvious example.
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Decades of Darkness / int_556a4e20	type	The Empire
Decades of Darkness / int_556a4e20	comment	Subverted, like The Empire, since the The Empire, that is, the USA, is of course an actual constitutional federation. While the USA is a de jure constitutional federation, it is unfortunately, in all reality, largely controlled by horribly immoral wealthy planters and unscrupulous industrialists; both of these elite groups, btw, were the key to the ultimate preservation of U.S. slavery.
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Decades of Darkness / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
Decades of Darkness / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: The finished timeline is longer than 1800 pages. One troper, with the tenacity of a true sociopath, managed to lovingly craft, edit, and format the entire timeline into a print-worthy book. Single-spaced and with a 12 font, it comes to over 2,400 pages.
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Decades of Darkness / int_55fa41e2	type	NietzscheWannabe
Decades of Darkness / int_55fa41e2	comment	Nietzsche Wannabe: The American philosopher Amber Jarrett. She gets some really juicy lines, too:*
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Decades of Darkness / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Decades of Darkness / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: The transfer to Whydah, an isolated American colony in West Africa, if you belong to the American military, and to Liberia if you belong to the American State Department. Subverted with Antarctica itself. A decorated Jaguar veteran is handpicked for the prestigious mission of planting the American flag in Antarctica, symbolizing how *America now stretches not only from "sea to shining sea," but "pole to pole" as well.
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Decades of Darkness / int_5deb34da	type	Ace Pilot
Decades of Darkness / int_5deb34da	comment	Ace Pilot: James Ingersoll.
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Decades of Darkness / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
Decades of Darkness / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: President Hugh Griffin.
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Decades of Darkness / int_5f52cfcf	type	Intrepid Reporter
Decades of Darkness / int_5f52cfcf	comment	Intrepid Reporter: The Grant family: Ulysses, Jesse, Diane.
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Decades of Darkness / int_60d73edb	type	Drink-Based Characterization
Decades of Darkness / int_60d73edb	comment	Drink-Based Characterization: "Vodka's for Russkies, wine's for Poms, rum's for Jackals, sake's for slant-eyes and beer's for men", one Australian claims.
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Decades of Darkness / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Decades of Darkness / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Done by Edgar Langley, the first American (Deputy) Ambassador in Liberia.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
Decades of Darkness / int_6627695f	comment	While not really implausible, the Kingdom of Australia and its people are too perfect and successful to be a realistic country, in the eyes of some. This may be a case of Author Appeal (as is the case with many other things in the TL; the writer is Australian). Furthermore, real problems in the country have been talked about, including extreme environmental degradation and water shortages from having a population of 52 million people by The '50s (greater than that of OTL's combined Australia, New Zealand, and New Guinea — in the present day, mind you).
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Decades of Darkness / int_67d90683	type	Fictional Political Party
Decades of Darkness / int_67d90683	comment	Fictional Political Party: The major parties of the United States are the Democrats and the Patriots, who are later replaced by the Unionists, and the major parties of the Republic of New England are the Federalists, Radicals, and Republicans.
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Decades of Darkness / int_68b79850	comment	Born into Slavery
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Decades of Darkness / int_68cf9795	type	Ironic Nickname
Decades of Darkness / int_68cf9795	comment	Ironic Nickname: Handsome Pete, also fighting in the Brazilian Civil War, a guy who's described thus: "with a face which wouldn't look out of place on a horse's backside"
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Decades of Darkness / int_698d7dad	type	Lovecraft Country
Decades of Darkness / int_698d7dad	comment	Lovecraft Country: While the Republic of New England itself isn't portrayed as such, its literary scene produces an analogue of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos in the form of L. H. Phillips, who is far more successful in life than his inspiration was. While Phillips doesn't share Lovecraft's virulent racism (the US' monstrous behavior having discredited white supremacy in most of the world by the 1910s), he does have an equally virulent anti-Americanism — one of his most popular novels depicts, in vivid detail, the collapse of the *US. Given New England's then-recent and humiliating loss in the North American War, comparisons can be drawn to German expressionism and Weimar art.
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Decades of Darkness / int_6b4f4350	type	Zeppelins from Another World
Decades of Darkness / int_6b4f4350	comment	Zeppelins from Another World: Used to great success in the North American War. However when they are put to use in the Brazilian Civil War a few years later, where they make easy targets for the new anti-air weapons and fighter planes. This causes them to be replaced by conventional bombers in later wars.
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Decades of Darkness / int_6b510ace	type	Hopeless War
Decades of Darkness / int_6b510ace	comment	Hopeless War: The futile but heroic struggles of Latin Americans against the USA… though not always.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_6c52e07a	type	Night Swim Equals Death
Decades of Darkness / int_6c52e07a	comment	Night Swim Equals Death: *US president Donald Bellamy. He was deep in debt after a big recession, so he made a secret agreement with a fascist leader from New England to have him picked up on the sea, with a submarine. It didn't work out. Publicly, the details remain a mystery, and Bellamy's disappearance becomes the subject of numerous conspiracy theories. Inspired by the OTL disappearance of Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt (the writer is Australian); one fringe theory about his disappearance claims that he was a spy for Red China who was picked up by a Chinese submarine.
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Decades of Darkness / int_6e429667	type	Fantastic Slurs
Decades of Darkness / int_6e429667	comment	Fantastic Slurs: Americans are often referred to as "jackals" by their enemies.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_758cb30a	type	United Europe
Decades of Darkness / int_758cb30a	comment	United Europe: The German-dominated Greater European Economic Union unites most of post-Great War Europe outside the Russian Federation.
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Decades of Darkness / int_75c952bf	type	Our Presidents Are Different
Decades of Darkness / int_75c952bf	comment	Our Presidents Are Different: But of course. James Madison causes the USA to break up. Jefferson Davis also becomes one. Abraham Lincoln and Martin Van Buren become presidents of New England instead, as do Phineas T. Barnum and Daniel Webster. Ulysses S. Grant even is a reporter.
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Decades of Darkness / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
Decades of Darkness / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: The USA (only at the beginning of the timeline), Spain, China, France, Britain, Italy, Brazil, and some other nations as well. Averted for Germany and Russia.
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Decades of Darkness / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Decades of Darkness / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: That was one significant heart attack.
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Decades of Darkness / int_7a265daa	type	Eagleland
Decades of Darkness / int_7a265daa	comment	Eagleland: The USA incorporates some of the darkest elements of flavour #2.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_7c52ea03	type	The White House
Decades of Darkness / int_7c52ea03	comment	The White House: Burned down by the Halifax Powers (Britain and New England) and rebuilt in Knoxville, renamed Columbia.
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Decades of Darkness / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Decades of Darkness / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: the Russian Empire actually becomes this, while Germany and especially the Restored Empire fit the trope neatly. The Restored Empire is rather more The Alliance than The Federation, see chapter #189 for details. Subverted, like The Empire, since the The Empire, that is, the USA, is of course an actual constitutional federation. While the USA is a de jure constitutional federation, it is unfortunately, in all reality, largely controlled by horribly immoral wealthy planters and unscrupulous industrialists; both of these elite groups, btw, were the key to the ultimate preservation of U.S. slavery.
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Decades of Darkness / int_816a4e80	type	Star Wars (Franchise)
Decades of Darkness / int_816a4e80	comment	There's a huge one to Star Wars. The three subchapters are named "The Start of Wars: A New Hope?", "The Reich Strikes Back" and "The Return of the JD-Is"note referring to the Jäger-Doter Model I panzers respectively. And then we meet two pilot volunteers for the republican side, named Hans (who flies solo in his Jahrhundert Falke / Century Falcon) and Luke, who earns the Badass epithet Cloudstalker. There's even an alleged quote of "I have a very bad feeling about this...".
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Decades of Darkness / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Decades of Darkness / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The Restored Empire is a positive version. Subverted by the Portuguese kingdom. It seemed to be heading into becoming one after losing its closest ally, Imperial Brazil and being forced to sell most of their overseas empire ...only to gain a large colonial empire in West Africa at the beginning of the post-Great war era.
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Decades of Darkness / int_83adb272	type	Crystal Dragon Jesus
Decades of Darkness / int_83adb272	comment	Crystal Dragon Jesus: Hong Xiuquan, the "son of Christ" and leader of the Taiping rebellion.
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Decades of Darkness / int_8976acda	type	Civil War
Decades of Darkness / int_8976acda	comment	Civil War: Starts with a much earlier The American Civil War, then continues with civil wars in Brazil, Canada, etc. The last days of the United Kingdom may also count as one.
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Decades of Darkness / int_8b9c057e	type	Ethnic Menial Labor
Decades of Darkness / int_8b9c057e	comment	Ethnic Menial Labor: It starts with black slaves as in our world, after the Mexican conquest more and more mestizos and indios are added to the pool, and after the North American War even anglos (read: Canadian resistance fighters) get enslaved.
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Decades of Darkness / int_903e9dc9	type	Regent for Life
Decades of Darkness / int_903e9dc9	comment	Regent for Life: John Blackwood becomes the Lord High Steward of England at the end of the timeline.
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Decades of Darkness / int_90c54800	type	Scrapbook Story
Decades of Darkness / int_90c54800	comment	Scrapbook Story
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Decades of Darkness / int_91b31f6b	type	Please Select New City Name
Decades of Darkness / int_91b31f6b	comment	Please Select New City Name: After Washington, D.C. gets burned to the ground again in the War of 1833, the *US moves its capital to Knoxville, Tennessee, out of the reach of British and Yankee assault. Knoxville was named for the Bostonian Henry Knox, which just cannot do for the nation's new capital given the actions of 'treasonous' New England, and so it is rechristened Columbia City. When the Nephites on Vancouver Island gain their own independent state in the wake of the North American War, they rename the capital city of Edwardsville (OTL's Victoria, British Columbia) to Brigham, after the famed Nephite pioneer Brigham Young.
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Decades of Darkness / int_91df9d19	type	Military Coup
Decades of Darkness / int_91df9d19	comment	Military Coup: Happen in Great Britain and Liberia at the end of the Great War because the civilian leadership is unwilling to leave the war.
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Decades of Darkness / int_96144372	type	Aristocrats Are Evil
Decades of Darkness / int_96144372	comment	Aristocrats Are Evil: Played straight (Empress Maria) and averted (Baron Kelvin).
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Decades of Darkness / int_9646cd74	type	Government in Exile
Decades of Darkness / int_9646cd74	comment	Government in Exile: after the North American War and the following occupation of Venezuela, Australia harboured the Venezuelan government-in-exile.
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Decades of Darkness / int_9c47b23b	type	Dirty Communists
Decades of Darkness / int_9c47b23b	comment	Dirty Communists: In Newfoundland!
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Decades of Darkness / int_a3a8cdc	type	Black Shirt
Decades of Darkness / int_a3a8cdc	comment	Black Shirt: The redshirts of the New England Vitalists. Also, the blackshorts (yes, you read that right) of the English nationalists.
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Decades of Darkness / int_a58802b7	type	Happiness in Slavery
Decades of Darkness / int_a58802b7	comment	Happiness in Slavery: Debatable. Though not much has been discussed in the way of slave rebellions, the belief that slaves and peons would simply 'accept their fate' on the part of some AHers hasn't been proven, and in fact, it's almost inevitable that at least a few major rebellions would occur from time to time.
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Decades of Darkness / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Decades of Darkness / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Amber Jarrett.
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Decades of Darkness / int_a859f080	type	Agent Peacock
Decades of Darkness / int_a859f080	comment	Agent Peacock: A Portuguese guy only known as "Alberto". Not very "bishie", but even described as a peacock (he likes expensive clothes).
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Decades of Darkness / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Decades of Darkness / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Well, that's rather the point.
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Decades of Darkness / int_ade384ea	type	Red Shirt
Decades of Darkness / int_ade384ea	comment	The redshirts of the New England Vitalists.
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Decades of Darkness / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Decades of Darkness / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Everything that the Vitalists did while in charge of New England was technically constitutional. After they're overthrown, the new leaders write a new constitution to close all those loopholes, remarking that, even though the Vitalists technically followed the letter of the law, they had utterly betrayed its spirit.
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Decades of Darkness / int_b4fca546	type	Alternate History Wank
Decades of Darkness / int_b4fca546	comment	Alternate History Wank: Played somewhat straight where the U.S. is concerned. YMMV, but the USA's expansion starts to become a bit on the implausible side towards the end of the story. Russia also has a few issues in this regard.
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Decades of Darkness / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Decades of Darkness / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: In-story. The Latino revolutionary theorist who calls himself "Eunuco Mitchell" (TTL's rough analogue of Che Guevara) used his pseudonym for this trope. It means "the eunuch Mitchell" and refers to the *US president who conquered Colombia and Venezuela.
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Decades of Darkness / int_bb094e0a	type	Cool Ship
Decades of Darkness / int_bb094e0a	comment	Cool Ship: The battleships, with 18-inch cannons — bigger than almost anything in our world, except the Yamato.
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Decades of Darkness / int_bb99411d	type	It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Decades of Darkness / int_bb99411d	comment	It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans: Subverted. It's New York that becomes famous for its Mardi Gras celebrations. As for New Orleans itself? The financial capital of the *USA and the Western hemisphere, with Canal Street becoming the equivalent of Wall Street. In other words, New Orleans became New York, and vice versa.
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Decades of Darkness / int_bfd7cfc	type	Black Shirt
Decades of Darkness / int_bfd7cfc	comment	Vitalism, a political movement that emerges from a defeated, bitter New England in the 1920s, is TTL's name for fascism (the name derived from the idea of 'restoring vitality to a dying nation'), and it comes complete with all manner of academic arguments as to what real vitalism is and just what nations qualified as vitalist (arguments that should be familiar to anybody who's studied OTL's fascism). Fun fact: The New England Vitalists' paramilitary wing wears red shirts.
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Decades of Darkness / int_c2288824	type	A Nazi by Any Other Name
Decades of Darkness / int_c2288824	comment	A Nazi by Any Other Name: Vitalism, a political movement that emerges from a defeated, bitter New England in the 1920s, is TTL's name for fascism (the name derived from the idea of 'restoring vitality to a dying nation'), and it comes complete with all manner of academic arguments as to what real vitalism is and just what nations qualified as vitalist (arguments that should be familiar to anybody who's studied OTL's fascism). Fun fact: The New England Vitalists' paramilitary wing wears red shirts. A good case can be made that the US is starting to approach this by the end of the timeline, with Amber Jarrett's pseudo-Nietzschean philosophy indicating that its white nationalist/supremacist ideology is crystallizing into something even nastier. Another case can be made that the US crossed that line long ago.
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Decades of Darkness / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Decades of Darkness / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: While the USA is The Empire in this world, it still makes a point about helping out its (decreasing number of) true friends.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_c64a7400	type	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys
Decades of Darkness / int_c64a7400	comment	Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys: Averted. France doesn't end well in TTL, but fights hard. In particular, the trope itself is inverted because for much of the 19th century, the *USA considers France to be one of her closest friends and allies.
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Decades of Darkness / int_c7575bab	type	ElvesVsDwarves
Decades of Darkness / int_c7575bab	comment	Elves vs. Dwarves: Not literally; two factions among the Canadian republicans bear these nicknames.
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Decades of Darkness / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Decades of Darkness / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Many, given to Call of Cthulhu, Alanis Morissette, a group of popular rock bands, and more. A Funny Moment goes out to a 1908 Hartford Journal of Literature article which lambastes an avant garde play whose subject was the meeting of a worker's union to discuss the removal of certain medical benefits from their contract. The reviewer notes that it is impossible to derive this from the dialogue, in which the entire first act consists of two actors repeating the same two lines over and over: Then there's the opera singer Bianca Reinblume. There's a huge one to Star Wars. The three subchapters are named "The Start of Wars: A New Hope?", "The Reich Strikes Back" and "The Return of the JD-Is"note referring to the Jäger-Doter Model I panzers respectively. And then we meet two pilot volunteers for the republican side, named Hans (who flies solo in his Jahrhundert Falke / Century Falcon) and Luke, who earns the Badass epithet Cloudstalker. There's even an alleged quote of "I have a very bad feeling about this...". The reactionary "blackshorts" recall Spode's Fascist Black Shorts ("There were no shirts left") mocked in the Jeeves and Wooster novels.
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Decades of Darkness / int_c867e57	type	TheRoaringTwenties
Decades of Darkness / int_c867e57	comment	The Roaring '20s: The Golden Years, which occur in the 1910s, are the rough equivalent.
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Decades of Darkness / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Decades of Darkness / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Restored Empire is rather more The Alliance than The Federation, see chapter #189 for details.
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Decades of Darkness / int_ce2969d8	type	Spiritual Antithesis
Decades of Darkness / int_ce2969d8	comment	Spiritual Antithesis: The author's intent was to create "The Draka, but done right", with a much greater focus on historical plausibility, feeling that S. M. Stirling's series was too historically inaccurate and implausible to take its Villain Protagonists seriously. Others have also interpreted it as this to the film C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America, a mockumentary about the values of the Confederacy taking over the US and turning it into an expansionist state that conquers Latin America and maintains slavery well into the 20th century, all while a smaller rival nation to its north (Canada in C.S.A., New England in Do D) opposes everything it stands for but can't do much to actually stop it.
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Decades of Darkness / int_d18027f8	type	America Takes Over the World
Decades of Darkness / int_d18027f8	comment	America Takes Over the World: Not quite the whole world, but they're trying to take over the Americas and they've very nearly finished. Given what the *USA is like, this is not even remotely a good thing.
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Decades of Darkness / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Decades of Darkness / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: Napoleon I manages to win the battle of Waterloo, only to lose against the Prussians under Blücher afterwards, making "Waterloo" in this world a phrase meaning "a victory claimed too early". And most people in DoD think that the secession of New England was inevitable, going as far as stating that *Americans and Yankees are different people. This is also pointed out within the story itself as well.
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Decades of Darkness / int_d4a4771e	comment	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: William Randolph Hearst is a general… and there's other examples, too.
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Decades of Darkness / int_d5c7b415	comment	Elites Are More Glamorous: Many stories are about members of the Jaguars, the American elite troops / jungle fighters.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_d6b5e3fc	comment	Latino Is Brown: Played with and explored as the US presses ever further south in Latin America. Due to the logistical challenges of ruling over so many people, they try to co-opt the white criollo upper classes of the conquered territories as Les Collaborateurs, granting them citizenship and using them to help consolidate their control. Occasionally, some rich mestizos manage to buy their way into citizenship as well, though this grows tougher as time goes on. The effect of this is that, while the US remains a white supremacist state, upper-class Hispanic culture forms a large component of its identity, almost as much as upper-class Southern culture, and in many areas further south, even the white people can look fairly swarthy by non-*American standards. Indios and mestizos who couldn't use money to whiten wind up in the ranks of the peons.
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Decades of Darkness / int_e08ada88	comment	Famous-Named Foreigner: Karl Marx's co-author Adenauer(!), banker Escher, professor Disraeli, French president Marceau, German colonist Schweitzer, British writer Clement Churchill, Italian general Verdi, a St Petersburg publishing company owned by "Ulyanov and Trotsky" (Ulyanov was Vladimir Lenin's original surname), German (left) politician Blucher, SF author Grillparzer, let alone the composer Schicklgruber, which is, as some may know, the birth name of Adolf Hitler's father.
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Decades of Darkness / int_e0f75086	comment	Good Republic, Evil Empire: Thoroughly averted. The USA conquers and enslaves most of the Western Hemisphere while still remaining a republic, while the European great powers all remain comparatively nice. Played relatively straight in Brazil, where the monarchy is pro-US and pro-slavery and the republic is pro-German and immediately abolishes slavery, but it becomes a dictatorship. Another straight use of this trope was France, where both French empires and the later French republics (third and fourth) smoothly fit.
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Decades of Darkness / int_e3def52f	comment	Egopolis: In the USA some states (Washington, Jackson, Wilkinson) and many cities are named after presidents and other high-ranking politicians.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_e563bf09	comment	Inverted in one important case. The government of His Majesty the Czar of All the Russias would like to make perfectly clear that it's Constantinople, not Istanbul.
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Decades of Darkness / int_e71975df	comment	Rising Empire: The rise of the three superpowers who dominate the world from the 1930 onwards is a central part of the timeline.
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Decades of Darkness / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: The US makes a point of assimilating those Latinos in the conquered Mexico and Latin America who can either pass for white or are rich enough to buy their citizenship. According to some, this could have the ironic effect of making the ruling upper and middle classes of the US, a nation built upon white supremacy, look rather swarthy and Mediterranean in comparison to their lily-white rivals (though it is highly doubtful that the WASP elites would just stand by and allow this without a fight). Abraham Myers, first Jewish president of the USA, also deserves mention. Some Latinos also manage to rise to the top in Fascist New England, General Rodney Ironfist (Rodrigo Heredia) being a major example. Of course, many of these Latinos are Dominicans, with views similar to those of Cuban exiles in our world's US — viciously anti-American and itching for revenge after the occupation of their homeland.
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Decades of Darkness / int_eb2eb10f	comment	Istanbul (Not Constantinople): Knoxville is Columbia, Equador is in northern Brazil, New England is a much more extensive term, and colonial cities across Africa, Australia, Asia, and the Americas have different names. Inverted in one important case. The government of His Majesty the Czar of All the Russias would like to make perfectly clear that it's Constantinople, not Istanbul.
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Decades of Darkness / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Decades of Darkness / int_eb81c601	comment	Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor… in 1892, to kick out an attempted American filibuster of Hawaii.
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Decades of Darkness / int_ec0bf4a1	comment	Take Over the World: Taking over the Americas becomes a major aim of the USA.*
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Decades of Darkness / int_ec2d62b9	comment	Cult Colony: The Nephites (alt-Mormons) use Vancouver Island, British Columbia as this, in place of Utah. It becomes an independent country, the Nephi Free State, after Canada loses British Columbia and Alaska in the North American War.
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Decades of Darkness / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Decades of Darkness / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Discussed. In our history, the attacking powers in World War II were defeated and all their conquests undone, so there's the general idea that countries aren't allowed to just attack and conquer each other. In Decades of Darkness, the attacking country, Imperial Germany, successfully turned France and Great Britain into lots of tiny little puppet states, and annexed lots of France's territory. The *US, meanwhile, is still extending Manifest Destiny all the way into South America as late as the 1930s. As a result, there's the general idea that countries attacking and conquering each other is just perfectly normal.
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Decades of Darkness / int_f91d1d4f	type	Darkest Hour
Decades of Darkness / int_f91d1d4f	comment	Darkest Hour: The appropriately-named chapter Midnight.
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Decades of Darkness / int_f9f2c33	comment	The description of the plans for Germany's invasion of Britain contains a lot of detail about just how many years of planning and preparation went into them. This is a reference to the real-life Operation Sealion, Hitler's plan to invade the UK, which is a Running Gag on AH.com due to how monumentally stupid and poorly thought-out it was, and how it would have been a total disaster if executed. In real life, Sealion was never even meant to be carried out, with Hitler not wanting to invade Britain and only considering it as a last resort if they continued to refuse a negotiated peace, but that hasn't stopped many alternate history writers from using the half-baked Sealion plans as a springboard for innumerable stories about the Nazis winning World War II.
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