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Look to the West

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Look to the West	label	Look to the West
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Look to the West	comment	Read it here, here, here, here,here,here and here.Look to the West, written by Thomas "Thande" Anderson, is one of the longest-running and acclaimed alternate timelines on AlternateHistory.com, a site dedicated, unsurprisingly, to Alternate History which also gave us Decades of Darkness.The timeline is written as a series of clippings from sometimes biased or incomplete "local" histories written by the natives of the timeline, with multiple viewpoints mixed together for balance and the whole sprinkled with footnootes from the author (although technically from the team below), quotes real and fictional, and occasional helpful interludes in which a team of crosstime explorers from 20 Minutes into the Future (our future, it would seem) explain their findings.It begins with George II of Great Britain tripping up on his coronation carpet, and from there things stay much as we know them for a couple of decades, then gradually diverge. The world is already noticeably different in 1795, when things start diverging dramatically and very, very bloodily. The timeline is currently in about 1930, but chapters are thematic, not chronological.The timeline makes use of an idea known as "Alternate Timeline Brothers" in which people may be shaped by circumstances in different ways, be mergers of different siblings, have different names and lead different lives, but are fundamentally familiar. Such characters, and other dramatically different things having the same name, are indicated with an asterisk (*), short for "alternate". After a couple of generations, of course, these characters become considerably less common.The prose timeline is augmented with a "raw" record of events, a helpful collection of wiki pages, and frequent maps.The timeline is being published by Sea Lion Press, with four volumes so far: I: Diverge and Conquer, II: Uncharted Territory, III: Equal and Opposite Reactions, and IV: Cometh the Hour.... Thus far, three additional volumes have been posted in rough draft form on Alternatehistory.com and the Sea Lion Press forums, to be published in time; the published versions include bonus maps, images and appendices such as a reference chronology.
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Look to the West / int_13646b1b	type	My Friends... and Zoidberg
Look to the West / int_13646b1b	comment	My Friends... and Zoidberg: “I would like to thank all you gentlemen for your attendance...along with Mr. Churchill.” From Leo Bone at his father's funeral. (Leo had wanted to burn London down again, blaming Churchill for his father's heart attack, but was dissuaded.)
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Look to the West / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
Look to the West / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: Not uncommon as one might expect but the the final stages of the Jacobin Wars aka The War of the Nations is still quite notable because basically every single European nation and the Anglophone North Americans fought against the French Latin Republic.
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Look to the West / int_14d15f8f	type	Fictional United Nations
Look to the West / int_14d15f8f	comment	Fictional United Nations: The Alliance of Sovereign Nations is mentioned in the framing story and occasionally when the history texts connect something to the present day. As a Diversitarian organisation, however, it is at pains to have no power over the sovereign nations at all and its slogan is "Divided we Stand, United we Fall". We finally see it get formed in Volume IX.
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Look to the West / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Look to the West / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Footnotes will occasionally highlight how some of the quoted history books get it wrong, either through lack of knowledge or just plain bias. Most prominently, a common prejudice in the 'present day' of LTTW (excluding some revisionist historians) is that the Japanese are considered subject to Creative Sterility and are intrinsically inferior to neighbouring Asian races, which obviously puts a spin on historical accounts.
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Look to the West / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Look to the West / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: At some point after 1836, it's discovered that Michael Hiedler died in 1830 and the Kleinkreigers carried on without him. The various would-be rulers of Bavaria spent the Popular Wars trying to negotiate with someone who wasn't there.
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Look to the West / int_1c7a10ec	type	Pirates vs. Ninjas
Look to the West / int_1c7a10ec	comment	Pirates vs. Ninjas: Happened during the Crimean War when the Ottoman Empire sends recently subjected pirates from the Barbary against ninjas in Russian service.*
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Look to the West / int_1d1b3c81	type	Team Switzerland
Look to the West / int_1d1b3c81	comment	Team Switzerland: Virginia declares neutrality during the Great American War. France becomes the centre of an armed neutrality bloc (the Marseilles Protocol) in the Pandoric War. Everyone expects them to get drawn in eventually, but the other blocs are fighting on so many fronts, the last thing they want to do is open another one.
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Look to the West / int_1d6fa62a	type	Gas Chamber
Look to the West / int_1d6fa62a	comment	Gas Chamber: The Phlogisticateurs are devices similar to these. The French Revolution uses them to execute their enemies.
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Look to the West / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
Look to the West / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The crosstime exploration team in the present day (of 2019).
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Look to the West / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Look to the West / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Michael Hiedler refuses to kill his nemesis personally on the grounds that slaughtering animals for the pot is women's work.
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Look to the West / int_22396d12	type	Outside/Inside Slur
Look to the West / int_22396d12	comment	Outside/Inside Slur: The split of the Radical party into "Purple" and "Green" factions leads to the term "over-ripe aubergine" for someone who looks green, but is actually purple.
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Look to the West / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Look to the West / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: Once more, we have another British king named Frederick driven from Britain, though this time he is not exiled by his father— but rather flees to avoid dealing with Joshua Churchill.
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Look to the West / int_2a035a26	type	Allohistorical Allusion
Look to the West / int_2a035a26	comment	Allohistorical Allusion: A fair few. To take one early example, there is a Battle of Trafalgar fought between Britain on one side and France and Spain on the other—but it's twenty years earlier than the one we know, and Britain loses. A Mauré (Māori) visitor to Russia-controlled Yapon (Japan) considers how, if their history with Europeans had run differently, the Mauré could now be second-class citizens in their own country, just as the Yapontsi are. What he imagines is basically OTL treatment of Antipodean natives (although more Australian Aborigines than Māori). A lecture about the early history of ENA politics includes the aside "Maybe there’s a version of history out there where America stayed dominated by just two political parties, but I doubt it." A lecture by a Siamese diplomat about his country's history says that King Ekkathat of Ayutthai "shamefully" surrendered to Burma, adding that apologists claim the Burmese could have destroyed the kingdom if the seige had continued, but this seems unlikely to him. IOTL, they did.
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Look to the West / int_2a3aa1a5	type	Peace Conference
Look to the West / int_2a3aa1a5	comment	Peace Conference: The Congress of Copenhagen is this timeline's analogue of the Congress of Vienna. And then the Congress of Brussels happens a couple of decades after that. The difference is that this one is marked by more Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, as nationalism has started to take over the European powers' ruling classes, rather than them seeing it as a mutual enemy to all suppress together.
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Look to the West / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
Look to the West / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: Just like the real eighteenth century, virtually every time a monarch drops dead someone decides to dispute it and it starts a War of Succession.
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Look to the West / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Look to the West / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The Meridians use the New Spanish flag against the Portuguese in the course of the Popular Wars. This is not without consequences to their national reputation. They get called out on this behavior, even by their own people, and there are worries that the laws and customs of war won't be applied to them by their enemies in future wars.
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Look to the West / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Look to the West / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: "Racial purging", the term in this timeline for what we would call "ethnic cleansing". Societists tend to do this with "Human (anything)", e.g. "Human Music" meaning an attempt to obliterate all traces of regionally distinctive culture from art forms. Societists are also responsible for the Scientific Weapon, a euphemism so deceptive that they managed to get two Meridian officials to sign off on the first use of death luft without either of them realising what it actually was.
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Look to the West / int_2f435126	type	America Is Still a Colony
Look to the West / int_2f435126	comment	America Is Still a Colony: With King Frederick having been spent much of his time in America, and identifying more with them than the British, the impetus for independence is considerably lessened. In fact, from Frederick onwards the Hanovers generally see being Emperor of North America as a more significant title than King of Britain, with the result that eventually the British declare independence.
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Look to the West / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Look to the West / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Jean de Lisieux is a dark version of this. A Totalitarian Utilitarian, he believes killing is monstrous because it robs the Republic of a warm body that could be used to build houses or warships in conditions that are slavery in all but name. He will occasionally break his rule for people he considers particularly politically dangerous, but always reluctantly.
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Look to the West / int_30bda262	type	Moustache de Plume
Look to the West / int_30bda262	comment	Moustache de Plume: Clara Keppel, founder of scientific romance, was published under the name Cuthbert Lucas.
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Look to the West / int_3149c4b0	type	It Will Never Catch On
Look to the West / int_3149c4b0	comment	It Will Never Catch On: The In-Universe writers of From the Pages of the Discerner are very fond of this, having characters muse that "if only" there was a way of sending Lectel messages through the air, or insisting that Danubia will never have a single language. And, above all, that the Societists aren't going to achieve anything.
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Look to the West / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
Look to the West / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: London during the French invasion of England.
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Look to the West / int_33034873	type	Airstrip One
Look to the West / int_33034873	comment	Airstrip One: The Societists give all the cities and territories under their control bland "ZonexUrby" names in keeping with their philosophy that acknowledging the differences between different regions leads to prejudice, division and war.
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Look to the West / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
Look to the West / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The Kleinkriegers ("Kleinkrieger" being this world's equivalent of "Guerilla").
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Look to the West / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
Look to the West / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Societists are also responsible for the Scientific Weapon, a euphemism so deceptive that they managed to get two Meridian officials to sign off on the first use of death luft without either of them realising what it actually was.
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Look to the West / int_3ed17fe0	type	Wide-Eyed Idealist
Look to the West / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Charles James Fox admires the French Revolution's progressive stance and hopes to reform Britain so it, too, can live up to the ideals of Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Unfortunately, the French have long since drowned these principles in a sea of blood.
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Look to the West / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Look to the West / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: A statistically improbable number of the timeline's heroes have their houses, villages, towns, or cities burned to the ground. Well, three, four at the outside, but this has proven enough to make the "Burned House Hero" a fandom running gag and to see the timeline humorously rechristened "Look To The Burning House Where Your Family Used To Live".
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Look to the West / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
Look to the West / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The French Revolutionary conscript armies were rather like this in our history, but the fact that regiments suspected of disloyalty are sent on suicide missions doesn't help matters.
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Look to the West / int_43da7708	type	Nations as People
Look to the West / int_43da7708	comment	Nations as People: The personification of the ENA is Lady Septentria, who bears a sword in one hand and an olive branch in the other, and has a snake wrapped around her like a sash. The 1862 WorldFest saw the unveiling of a huge statue of her in New York Harbour.
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Look to the West / int_43eeaee8	type	The Republic
Look to the West / int_43eeaee8	comment	The Republic: The Corsican Republic and the United Provinces of South America, the latter also counts as The Federation. The French Latin Republic is a villainous example.
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Look to the West / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
Look to the West / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: Jean de Lisieux. The Societists, or at least those of the Combine, are also like this. (At some point between Sanchez and the horrific end of the Pandoric War, Sanchez's "It is an unforgivable crime to take a human life" has had "without good reason" added to it.)
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Look to the West / int_4a59e6f7	type	One Nation Under Copyright
Look to the West / int_4a59e6f7	comment	One Nation Under Copyright: At one point most of India is owned by a consortium of European trade cooperations, called International Oversight Board for East Indian Trade, while the Russo-Lithuanian Pacific Company dominates the northern Pacific, including Japan.
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Look to the West / int_4bb6dde2	type	Artifact Name
Look to the West / int_4bb6dde2	comment	Artifact Name: In-universe. What we know as South Carolina, as part of the Confederation of Carolina, is more often called South Province to avoid redundancy. This sticks even as the Confederation comes to encompass not just the Carolinas and Georgia, but also Florida and much of the Caribbean, putting South Province firmly in the northern part of the Confederation. It gets even worse after the Great American War, which leaves South Province on Carolina's northern border.
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Look to the West / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Look to the West / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: George II's son Frederick laughes at his father when he trips on the coronation carpet. George's response? Exile Frederick, thus setting up the plot.
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Look to the West / int_547b632	type	Space-Filling Empire
Look to the West / int_547b632	comment	Space-Filling Empire: Lampshaded. A large colonial empire in Africa is actually called the Space-Filling Empire after its two architects, a Mr. Space and a Mr. Filling.
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Look to the West / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
Look to the West / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: Happens to officials who fall out of favor with their rulers; however, the more typical post is somewhere in the Americas or the East Indies. More visible in the leadup to the Popular Wars.
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Look to the West / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Look to the West / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: An alt-history version of this trope occurs here with the spread of "Linnaean racism". The Jacobins take the taxonomist's distinction between human "strains" much too seriously, and start erecting conquered territory into "Latin Republics" and "Germanic Republics", "regardless", as the Duke of Marlborough complains, "of what all historical and legal precedent say, to speak nothing of simple convenience."
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Look to the West / int_5838c7c4	type	Hunter of His Own Kind
Look to the West / int_5838c7c4	comment	Hunter of His Own Kind: Show Within a Show example. One of the seminal works in the "Automaton fiction" craze of the 1820s-1850s period is The Venator, about a Killer Robot whose role is to hunt down and kill the last of his own rebellious kind, and once this is accomplished, to dismantle himself.
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Look to the West / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Look to the West / int_5a3b8032	comment	At the start of the third volume, the team is transmitting a political dictionary. The batteries run out just when we were going to get a proper definition of societism.
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Look to the West / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Look to the West / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Thande likes coming up with alternate terminology for basically anything invented or discovered after the timeline's Point of Divergence. Some examples represent older terms from OTL that have survived, such as 'alienist' for psychologist.
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Look to the West / int_67d90683	type	Fictional Political Party
Look to the West / int_67d90683	comment	Fictional Political Party: The timeline has its own terminology for the political axis: a metallic spectrum where left-wing is "cobrist" (copper), right-wing is "doradist" (gold), and centre is "argentist" (silver). Accordingly, parties in this timeline are a bit different from ours. In addition to Britain and America having Whigs, Tories and Liberals as IOTL, there are: The Empire of North America has the Patriots (initially just pro-royalist, become doradist as party lines are drawn, but shift during the Great American War), the Constitutionalists (argentist, trying to be both the party of the Western frontiersmen and the party of the Southern rich) who split into the Whigs (pro-slavery) and the Neutral Party (argentist), the American Radical Party (cobrist), and the Supremacists (anti-slavery racists). Post-Restoration France has the Liberty Party or Rouges (cobrist), the Royalist Party or Blancs (doradist), and the Moderate Party or Bleus (argentist). The Rouges split into the Adamantine Party and the Revolution Party or Noirs (neo-Jacobins), while the Blancs and Bleus merge into the National Party or Verts. The United Provinces of South America has the Solidarity (later Colorado) Party (cobrist), the Amarillo (later Unionist) Party (doradist), the Adamantine Party (argentist). A later addition is the Mentian Party (deep-cobrist [what we'd call socialist], combined with German ethnic solidarity). The Kingdom of Great Britain has the Phoenix Party (whose only real policy is keeping Joshua Churchill in power), the Scottish Party (Scot Nats), the Regressives (doradist) and the Radicals (cobrist) who split into the Green Radicals (cobro-argentist) and the Populist Party (cobrist but prone to infighting). 1920s Italy has the Alliance Party (mainstream cobrist), the Union Party (probably doradist) and the Action Party, which is the political wing of the Romulan Order, which is Basically Fascism.
Look to the West / int_67d90683	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_67d90683
Look to the West / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Look to the West / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: ITTL, Antoine Lavoisier is forced to build a primitive gas-chamber and swallows the arsenic compound he is studying when he sees its effects. Possibly also Robespierre, although the situation there is a bit murkier.
Look to the West / int_6d332aea	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_6d332aea	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_6d332aea
Look to the West / int_75f612a3	type	Simple Country Lawyer
Look to the West / int_75f612a3	comment	Simple Country Lawyer: Future ENA President Lewis Faulkner in the 1880s:
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Look to the West / int_75f612a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_75f612a3
Look to the West / int_768ae1c9	type	Les Collaborateurs
Look to the West / int_768ae1c9	comment	Les Collaborateurs: The Hellfire Club, and others who co-operate, in a little historical reversion, with the occupying French forces.
Look to the West / int_768ae1c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_768ae1c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_768ae1c9
Look to the West / int_7913833c	type	Balkanize Me
Look to the West / int_7913833c	comment	Balkanize Me: China, Japan and the Ottoman Empire. Also happened to Spain due to the Congress of Copenhagen, with Portugal taking Galicia, Castile as a Portuguese puppet, and Aragon as part of the Crown of the Three Sicilies. Then seemingly turned back around with the New Spanish reconquest of Spain, reuniting most of the country. India, already divided between a number of powers, gets shattered further by the Great Jihad in the mid-nineteenth century.
Look to the West / int_7913833c	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_7913833c	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_7913833c
Look to the West / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Look to the West / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: The Point of Divergence isn't exactly flashy: at the coronation of George II, a musician plays a wrong note, surprising the king and causing him to trip. His son laughs at this, which pisses George off enough to exile the prince to the American colonies, thereby radically changing the course of both nations and all nations deriving from them.
Look to the West / int_79a60aec	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_79a60aec	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_79a60aec
Look to the West / int_7d32da92	type	Lost in Transmission
Look to the West / int_7d32da92	comment	Lost in Transmission: The 100th chapter, and finale of Part 2, is full of static, represented by "#####". It's also "titled" No Title Entered, and none of the footnotes are present (with the footnote markers all saying [N]). It ends with a note from the Thande Institute that the fate of the researchers is now unknown.
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Look to the West / int_7d32da92	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_7d32da92
Look to the West / int_7d5324cf	type	The Federation
Look to the West / int_7d5324cf	comment	The Federation: The Empire of North America in the Americas and the German Federal Empire and Danubia in Europe. Broadly averted with the UPSA, which (unlike Argentina in our timeline) is much more unitary earlier on due to the need to unite against an external foe. A number of countries get more federalist in the 1840s due to the nobility and established interests using this to push back against more central representation by the people, which is dubbed the 'Federalist Backlash' by historians.
Look to the West / int_7d5324cf	featureApplicability	-1.0
Look to the West / int_7d5324cf	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_7d5324cf
Look to the West / int_817a04a2	type	Amalgamated Individual
Look to the West / int_817a04a2	comment	The somewhat unfeasible career of the anti-Societist crusader Eljiso (whose nom de guerre is taken from combining the male pronouns of Spanish, Lithuainian, and Turkish, and who appears to have been everywhere, if not quite all at once) is based on the Amalgamated Individual of "he" in the Destroying History With Bad Translations videos. Thande calls this "quite possibly the silliest reference I've ever put into LTTW".
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Look to the West / int_817a04a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_817a04a2
Look to the West / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Look to the West / int_830b0ac9	comment	Final Battle: The Jacobin Wars get a climactic one. After the republican authorities in Paris surrender and restore the monarchy, the 80,000-strong Grande Armée under Pierre Boulanger remains in the field and blitzes the capital, defended by 55,000 French, British, Irish, and American soldiers. The defenders hold out long enough for the Russo-Curono-Lithuanian expeditionary force to relieve them, while Boulanger himself dies very dramatically.
Look to the West / int_830b0ac9	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_830b0ac9	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_830b0ac9
Look to the West / int_836b1ec2	type	Suddenly Ethnicity
Look to the West / int_836b1ec2	comment	Suddenly Ethnicity: In-universe example: at the height of its popularity the 1830s sequent (comic) The Black Shadow reveals that the Coat, Hat, Mask hero is not called "Black" due to his costume, and turns out to be written by an abolitionist making a point. The Caroline and Virginian "slaveocracy" is not happy.
Look to the West / int_836b1ec2	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_836b1ec2	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_836b1ec2
Look to the West / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Look to the West / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The Great American War is a version of the American Civil War in which both sides are constitutionally incredibly racist. Instead of slaveowners vs emancipators, it's slaveowners vs (in part) people who think black people shouldn't be in America at all.
Look to the West / int_8767b1f3	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_8767b1f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_8767b1f3
Look to the West / int_87c7f99d	type	Sidetracked by the Analogy
Look to the West / int_87c7f99d	comment	Sidetracked by the Analogy: Mentioned by name when Pablo Sanchez, making a point about the stupidity of racism, says "Ask any anatomist: beneath the skin every man is the same". To his annoyance, debate on his statement centers around the ethics of human dissection.
Look to the West / int_87c7f99d	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_87c7f99d	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_87c7f99d
Look to the West / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Look to the West / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: The Popular Wars begin in Portugal's colonial empire, of all places. The 100th chapter ends with the "narrators", a research team from another timeline, being violently arrested by English (no, not British) security forces. Volume VIII ends with a disease strangely similar to Covid-19 appearing in England in the framing story, with rumours that it escaped from a lab being dismissed because the lab in question was a physics lab. In other words, exactly the sort of lab that might be trying to reverse engineer the research team's transporter tech, if they've realised what it is.
Look to the West / int_8e20979	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_8e20979	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_8e20979
Look to the West / int_90c54800	type	Scrapbook Story
Look to the West / int_90c54800	comment	Scrapbook Story: Told through excerpts from history books, as selected by a team of parachronic explorers deciphering how this world works. A fun conceit is that some volumes change this up a bit, reflecting the survey team's location and situation. Besides volumes where the tone and focus of the history books available reflect the country the team are currently based in (sometimes verging on blatant propaganda), Volume VI describes the Pandoric War entirely through in-universe fiction; Volume VII is excerpted from educational Motext broadcasts; and Volume IX consists of transcripts of public lectures.
Look to the West / int_90c54800	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_90c54800	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_90c54800
Look to the West / int_91b31f6b	type	Please Select New City Name
Look to the West / int_91b31f6b	comment	Please Select New City Name: After a rebellion by French-speakers in Quebec, the Empire of North America either anglicises (Montréal -> Mount Royal) or outright renames (Quebec City -> Wolfeston) all its settlements with French-sounding names. Similarly, after adopting Russophile cultural policies to appease those alienated by the earlier Tsars' westward-looking stance, Russia russifies some of its more German-sounding names. After Corea invades China, they restore the ancient Corean names to every village and city they conquer.
Look to the West / int_91b31f6b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_91b31f6b
Look to the West / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Look to the West / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: No-one really knows what happened to Lisieux, though many theories are put forward. Not even the author. Likewise with who shot Joshua Churchill. A third mysterious disappearance is Princess Daniela of Venezuela during the Seige of Fredericksburg.
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Look to the West / int_96a33f11	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_96a33f11
Look to the West / int_96e5792c	type	Moral Guardians
Look to the West / int_96e5792c	comment	Moral Guardians / Executive Meddling: In-universe, some of the "Automaton Craze" books of the 1820s-50s are subject to this, such as The Cogwheel Turns, where the original ending (that humans are themselves an automaton creation of an earlier vanished race, identified with legends of pagan gods) was censored. Furthermore, many history books in this timeline have considerable censorship for ideological reasons, which the crosstime team have to work around.
Look to the West / int_96e5792c	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_96e5792c	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_96e5792c
Look to the West / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
Look to the West / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: Jorge Suárez, the UPSA Foreign Minister, finds it hard to believe that his friend and party leader is running death squads, until a terrified waitress claims that her boss was having a disagreement with the People's Volunteers about whether he'd paid his taxes and then died from banging his head on a door frame. It's strongly implied she was paid to tell the story in a way Suárez would find suspicious, since if he was simply told the man had been killed by the PVs he'd have refused to believe it.
Look to the West / int_97b4c1fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_97b4c1fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_97b4c1fd
Look to the West / int_9ac6b0c1	type	Sociopathic Hero
Look to the West / int_9ac6b0c1	comment	Sociopathic Hero: Michael Hiedler. A man whose burning hatred of just about everybody fuels his dark charisma (just for fun, try saying his name out loud). May, or may not, eat people.
Look to the West / int_9ac6b0c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_9ac6b0c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_9ac6b0c1
Look to the West / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
Look to the West / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: Frederick, upon returning to Britain and reclaiming his rightful throne, finds that he does not fit in there - having been born and raised in Hanover, and then spending most of his adult life up to that point in the American colonies, echoing the situation of his grandfather, George I (though at least he can speak the language). Voltaire aptly describes him as "an Englishman to the Germans, an American to the English, and a German to the Americans".
Look to the West / int_9ba53911	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_9ba53911	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_9ba53911
Look to the West / int_9ebd9c33	type	UnPerson
Look to the West / int_9ebd9c33	comment	Un-person: The Societist Combine, inevitably, does this, with all the founders of the Combine except Kapud Alfarus being written out of history during the Alfaran era, and then Alfarus getting the same fate during the purist backlash. There was a rumour that during this period, the Black Guards found an asicom (photo) of Alfarus apparently standing alone, everyone else in the picture having been removed. So they removed him as well, leaving a picture of an empty room.
Look to the West / int_9ebd9c33	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_9ebd9c33	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_9ebd9c33
Look to the West / int_a0c53c0d	type	TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilised
Look to the West / int_a0c53c0d	comment	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilised: The French Revolution starts out being as violent as our history's... and never really calms down, eventually adding in a touch of omnipresent surveillance and racism to really spice things up. In the long term this has the effect of forcing nearly all reformist movements to be more nonviolent by default, just to avoid getting tarred with the same brush as Robespierre and de Lisieux.
Look to the West / int_a0c53c0d	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_a0c53c0d	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_a0c53c0d
Look to the West / int_a2e96d18	type	Just the First Citizen
Look to the West / int_a2e96d18	comment	Just the First Citizen: Rodrigus Alfarus becomes de facto ruler of the Societist Combine, but claims no title beyond "Kapud", his rank in the unfortunately necessary organisation for spreading Societism that would look a lot like an army if Societism wasn't so opposed to that kind of thing.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_a2e96d18
Look to the West / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
Look to the West / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Prime Minister: Joshua Churchill quickly goes from a well-meaning strongman working to rebuild England into a true tyrant.
Look to the West / int_a3c0d670	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_a3c0d670	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_a3c0d670
Look to the West / int_a51933bd	type	Icon of Rebellion
Look to the West / int_a51933bd	comment	Icon of Rebellion: The bloody-red flag with the inverted black fleur-de-lys of the French Revolution, inspired by when the unknown soldier L'Épurateur flew a regime flag upside-down from the top of the Bastille after dipping it in the blood of a fallen reactionary leader. The United Provinces of South America has the Cross of Burgundy with flipped colours, the Torch of Liberty and later the Sun of Cordoba. The purple 'Asterisk of Liberty' in Britain, stemming from combining English and Irish cross flags with the newly invented cheap purple tyrine dye associated with 'every man a king'. Subverted with Le Diamant, who began as a revolutionary leader but whose writings inspired the moderate constitutionalist ideology of Adamantinism, which uses a diamond symbol.
Look to the West / int_a51933bd	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_a51933bd
Look to the West / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Look to the West / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: Well, duh.
Look to the West / int_a86069f	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_a86069f	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_a86069f
Look to the West / int_b10d7e8e	type	Head-in-the-Sand Management
Look to the West / int_b10d7e8e	comment	Head-in-the-Sand Management: Charles Fox.
Look to the West / int_b10d7e8e	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_b10d7e8e	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_b10d7e8e
Look to the West / int_be6c0705	type	Streisand Effect
Look to the West / int_be6c0705	comment	Streisand Effect: In-Universe, when ratiocinic fiction author Slim Havemeyer writes a book about an Impossible Theft from a fictional bank, the bank he worked for twenty years previously sues him for allegedly exposing their security system. Not only does the headlines this causes make the book an international bestseller, the bank itself is nearly ruined when his fans start closing their accounts.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_be6c0705
Look to the West / int_c10d1dcb	type	California Doubling
Look to the West / int_c10d1dcb	comment	California Doubling: In universe: An article describing the Societist film industry notes that one advantage they had was filming in exotic reaches of the Combine, then adds that filmmakers in California are very good at making diverse parts of the country represent everywhere in the world.
Look to the West / int_c10d1dcb	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_c10d1dcb	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c10d1dcb
Look to the West / int_c13c9e38	type	Tomato Surprise
Look to the West / int_c13c9e38	comment	Tomato Surprise: Show Within a Show example—The New Eden, the book which started the Automaton Craze in the literature of this world, ends with the revelation that the 'humans' living in the roboticised landscape are themselves automata. This twist is then played with by other books inspired by it, such as The Cogwheel Turns, which suggests that the world is trapped in a cycle in which the dominant race create automata to do their work, grow lazy and decadent, and then the automata rise up and take their place—and the original edition also suggests humans are themselves the creation of an earlier race...
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Look to the West / int_c13c9e38	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c13c9e38
Look to the West / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
Look to the West / int_c2393191	comment	Show Within a Show: Fiction and art have also taken a different course in this world, and some works are periodically mentioned. Most notable is the "Automaton fiction" craze of the 1830s-50s period, which effectively replaces Frankenstein and the rise of vampire fiction in our timeline. (Vampires in this world are considered as obscure as, say, naga or drow are to the general public in our timeline; golems are much better known than our timeline due to authors using them as a mediaeval stand-in for automata in works set in the past).
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c2393191
Look to the West / int_c3182167	type	Golem
Look to the West / int_c3182167	comment	Golem: Golems are very popular in the fantasy fiction of this world because they can be a Recycled In Space version of Automata set in a mediaeval setting before technology would allow the real thing to be built.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c3182167
Look to the West / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Look to the West / int_c3648b87	comment	And then the Congress of Brussels happens a couple of decades after that. The difference is that this one is marked by more Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, as nationalism has started to take over the European powers' ruling classes, rather than them seeing it as a mutual enemy to all suppress together.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c3648b87
Look to the West / int_c3963bc4	type	No Place for Me There
Look to the West / int_c3963bc4	comment	No Place for Me There: Subverted with the Celatores: Societism teaches that war is always wrong, therefore, should the definitely-not-soldiers who the Combine must use to maintain their order find themselves killing someone (which, in theory, should be a rare thing, since their "opponents" should simply realise the rightness of Societism), they will be sentenced to execution. Said execution will take place on their eightieth birthday, following a stay in a "military prison" that looks suspiciously like a pleasant retirement.
Look to the West / int_c3963bc4	featureApplicability	-0.3
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Look to the West / int_c4842ab1	type	Appropriated Appellation
Look to the West / int_c4842ab1	comment	A female resistance leader in Spanish California (with a public identity as an airheaded socialite) adopts the Appropriated Appellation of "La Zorra".
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c4842ab1
Look to the West / int_c515d358	type	America Saves the Day
Look to the West / int_c515d358	comment	America Saves the Day: For Britain, anyway, since it's still more-or-less part of the British Empire. In an interesting variation, Spain is saved by Mexico and its other monarchical former American colonies. Also inverted. Without being preoccupied by the war against the South American UPSA, the Royal Navy could have defeated the invading fleets of Revolutionary France and prevented the devastation of south-west England.
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Look to the West / int_c515d358	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c515d358
Look to the West / int_c5cc0783	type	Internal Retcon
Look to the West / int_c5cc0783	comment	Internal Retcon: The ASN did this in the mid-twentieth century to suppress evidence that elements of Societism had not only been used by Diversitarian nations but been successful. This led to the Streisand Effect and so the modern ASN is more subtle in its censorship, glossing over such things rather than denying them. The Societist Combine had the Biblioteka Mundial, in charge of rewriting history and later managing all news across the Combine. The Silent Revolution led to the official narrative changing so often that almost no reliable information on it survives.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c5cc0783
Look to the West / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Look to the West / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The crosstime exploration team, Jacques Tisserant, Heinrich Kautzmann, and Pascal Schmidt are all semi-cameos for other AH.com members. King Henry IX is close to Charles James Fox and other Radicals in Parliament. Naturally, his political enemies nickname him "King Radical". The chapter in which John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, meets his mysterious fate is titled "John Dies at the End". A chapter about Chinese expansion is titled "China Will Grow Larger". Moritz Benyovsky is recorded in a destroyed Japanese tapestry as "The Bringer of Chaos, the Destroyer of Worlds, the Oncoming Storm". The manoeuvre with which the Duke of Mornington defeats the French becomes known as Mornington's Crescent. Two successive Ottoman sultans who disapproved of Grand Vizier Dalmat "were mysteriously found to have accidentally brutally slit their throats while shaving". The interlude describing Automaton fiction is called "Do Automatons Dream of Steampunk Sheep?" When it was suggested that Joshua Churchill could take the throne, he responded "Do you have any idea how much power I would have to give up to become king?" The entry about John Byron's adventures in Switzerland is called "John Byron, GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER!" During the French Revolution, the Marquis de Ségur observes that "What the shopkeeper or the farmer or the peasant wants more than anything is not liberty or rights or even riches, but simply the knowledge that tomorrow will be much like today", with a footnote even pointing out that he's channeling Lord Vetinari. The entry about the conference Emperor Frederick II of the ENA held with the five knights of the realm considered for the role of Lord Deputy notes that it was the basis for a great historical play, later adapted into a film, but now chiefly remembered through a farcical parody under the title Five Knights at Freddy's. A female resistance leader in Spanish California (with a public identity as an airheaded socialite) adopts the Appropriated Appellation of "La Zorra". The interlogue that opens Volume IV, in which Dr Wotstyn explains his current situation and why he is now chucking entire books through the Portal, is called "Silence in the Library". Since Wostyn's superiors apparently disagree with his policy of establishing the historical background first, and demand more works about the present day, the next section is called "Spoilers". The Crystal Dome at the London WorldFest, esentially this timeline's counterpart to the Crystal Palace, is a bit of a maze inside, and apparently there was a rumour that the guard would only show visitors the exit if they solved complex tests of his own devising. In a film based on the life of Liam Wesley, Duke of Mornington, the Bad Duke is informed "The President has been kidnapped by Nindzhyas. Are you a Bad enough Duke to rescue the President?" The Prime Minister of France in the build up to the Pandoric War is Leo Bone's grandson Napoleon Leclerc. When Parliament is in uproar, he calls for attention by declaring "It is I! Leclerc!" An Italian military attaché presents his Danubian host with a crunchy hazelnut chocolate (developed to make the most of what little chocolate is arriving in Europe while the American powers go to war). The Danubian's reaction (“Why, Mr Military Attaché, you are spoiling me!”) refers to the "Ambassador's Reception" Ferrero Rocher ad. The Simese/Feng China front of the Pandoric War is basically The Vietnam War, even taking place in Annam. When the Feng soldiers have a victory, they start singing a song from an opera originally sung by a group of warrior women; this timeline's Chinese version of "Ride of the Valkyries". An in-universe work possibly exaggerating the French-English of Mount Royal (Montreal) has someone using the phrase "What is it that it is?". The author of The Children’s Complete Cyclopaedia is Arthur Yew, a reference to the TTL author of The Children's Encyclopedia, Arthur Mee. Henri Éclatier, a former school bully and by the Pandoric War a cowardly, womanizing and cynical officer in the French army. His name translates literally as "Henry Lightninger", or less literally as "Harry Flashman". After the restoration of Frederick II, the British Radical Party starts splitting into “Green” and “Purple” factions. An apparent reference to the Drazi civil war in Babylon 5. The history of TTL cinema ends with a description of a film in which the heroine, Annie, and her friend Carolina "Car" Roosevelt pursue kidnappers who have taken Annie's boyfriend, an upper-class New Yorker. Although officially titled Annie's Quest, it is better known by Annie's most famous line: "Car, Where's My Dude?" The dictatorial regime in Italy in the 1920s takes its name from the founder of Rome: the Romulan Empire. The chapter outlining the Empire is titled "Beneath the Raptor's Wings". The somewhat unfeasible career of the anti-Societist crusader Eljiso (whose nom de guerre is taken from combining the male pronouns of Spanish, Lithuainian, and Turkish, and who appears to have been everywhere, if not quite all at once) is based on the Amalgamated Individual of "he" in the Destroying History With Bad Translations videos. Thande calls this "quite possibly the silliest reference I've ever put into LTTW".
Look to the West / int_c75df49a	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_c75df49a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Look to the West / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Look to the West / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: The Concert of Germany, an alliance of German states against the Habsburg Empire. Subverted with the power blocs of the Pandoric War, which claim to be this in propaganda but are in reality hasty alliances of convenience constructed arbitrarily once war had broken out.
Look to the West / int_c8c968c3	featureApplicability	-0.3
Look to the West / int_c8c968c3	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_c8c968c3
Look to the West / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Look to the West / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: This is how James Charles Fox decides to go: blowing up the building he's in and taking a bunch of French invaders with him.
Look to the West / int_caf89e54	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_caf89e54
Look to the West / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Look to the West / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The Populist uprising in Germany. Theoretically all the groups involved are inspired by Pascal Schmidt and are working to make a united republican Germany. In practice the rebels in Brandenburg refuse to merge with Schmidt's "Volksrepublik Deutschland" which incenses Schmidt— he views them as a bigger threat to Germany than the petty monarchies they seek to overthrow, because all he fought for would be in vain if it just replaces petty feuding monarchies with petty feuding republics and no united Germany.
Look to the West / int_cbdd9a55	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_cbdd9a55
Look to the West / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
Look to the West / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: "Cugnots" are steam-driven wagons used by the French revolutionaries as troop transports and mobile gun platforms. Every other nation eventually gets in on the action after seeing how useful they are.
Look to the West / int_cd809603	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_cd809603	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_cd809603
Look to the West / int_cdaa029f	type	Nuclear Weapons Taboo
Look to the West / int_cdaa029f	comment	Nuclear Weapons Taboo: Zig-zagged. There is no taboo against using nukes, with dozens of (tactical) nuclear weapons used in anger in the modern era. There is, however, an even larger taboo against using them against civilian targets (and, related to this, against putting them on ballistic missiles rather than bombers). In fact, there's something of a taboo about using missiles at all, since one of their earliest uses (with deathluft/alkahest warheads) was by the Societists, and the ENA (mistakenly) thought they were threatening civilian targets.
Look to the West / int_cdaa029f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_cdaa029f
Look to the West / int_cf7bd78d	type	Steampunk
Look to the West / int_cf7bd78d	comment	Steampunk: Steam technology has received a boost relative to out timeline, with highly awesome (although sometimes impractical) results.
Look to the West / int_cf7bd78d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_cf7bd78d
Look to the West / int_d4a4771e	type	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman
Look to the West / int_d4a4771e	comment	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman: Many examples (for instance General Mozart), although Thande's at pains to point out it's more "Person Who was Born in Richard Nixon's Place the Used Car Salesman".
Look to the West / int_d4a4771e	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_d4a4771e	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_d4a4771e
Look to the West / int_d9e9ad7e	type	The Cavalry
Look to the West / int_d9e9ad7e	comment	The Cavalry: Heinz Kautzman's Russo-Lithuanian-Danish-Courlandish force in the Battle of Paris.
Look to the West / int_d9e9ad7e	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_d9e9ad7e	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_d9e9ad7e
Look to the West / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Look to the West / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: Volume IV opens with the lyrics to John Lennon's Imagine contrasting with images of horrific destruction, reflecting the fact that the song pretty much describes the goals of Societism— but Societists also believe that Utopia Justifies the Means.
Look to the West / int_dbfd6b8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_dbfd6b8
Look to the West / int_dcaa8b35	type	Locked Room Mystery
Look to the West / int_dcaa8b35	comment	Locked Room Mystery: Jean de Lisieux's eventual, unexplained fate.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_dcaa8b35
Look to the West / int_dd48b81d	type	Totalitarian Utilitarian
Look to the West / int_dd48b81d	comment	Totalitarian Utilitarian: Jean-Baptiste Robespierre, Jean de Lisieux, and implied with Pablo Sanchez.
Look to the West / int_dd48b81d	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_dd48b81d	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_dd48b81d
Look to the West / int_e061cb06	type	Rightful King Returns
Look to the West / int_e061cb06	comment	Rightful King Returns: Frederick the First of Great Britain returning from his American exile. The New Spanish repeat it during the Popular Wars, which in the future of the timeline will be written about, appropriately enough, by *Tolkien. The return of King Louis XVII to Paris, with backing from all the other nations who want to take down France. And the return of the New Spanish Bourbons to Spain itself.
Look to the West / int_e061cb06	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e061cb06
Look to the West / int_e0f75086	type	Good Republic, Evil Empire
Look to the West / int_e0f75086	comment	Good Republic, Evil Empire: Inverted, it's republicanism that is in the early 19th century tarred with the brush of evil (of course, this was somewhat true in the 1810s even in our own world). Partly due to Author Appeal.
Look to the West / int_e0f75086	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e0f75086
Look to the West / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
Look to the West / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: Emperor Ferdinand IV of the Holy Roman Empire, and he is fully aware of it.
Look to the West / int_e26f04b4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e26f04b4
Look to the West / int_e34541d	type	One World Order
Look to the West / int_e34541d	comment	One World Order: The goal of Societism, one of the most influential ideologies of the timeline.
Look to the West / int_e34541d	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_e34541d	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e34541d
Look to the West / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
Look to the West / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Ranajit Chatterjee, a Bengali officer and Edgar Tibbetts.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e3d06d0c
Look to the West / int_e4ce314	type	The Triads and the Tongs
Look to the West / int_e4ce314	comment	The Triads and the Tongs: The Sanhedui or Heaven and Earth Society, which became the Triads in our timeline, in LTTW realises its original purpose; the Society takes advantage of a Qing dynasty civil war to attempt a Ming restoration.
Look to the West / int_e4ce314	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e4ce314
Look to the West / int_e663d3ef	type	Only a Flesh Wound
Look to the West / int_e663d3ef	comment	Only a Flesh Wound: When George II leads his troops into the Battle of Dettingen (as he did in OTL) he gets a bullet in the shoulder (unlike OTL), but fights the battle to the end. Averted in that the infected wound kills him some weeks after, leading to the War of British Succession.
Look to the West / int_e663d3ef	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e663d3ef
Look to the West / int_e71975df	type	Rising Empire
Look to the West / int_e71975df	comment	Rising Empire: Much of the timeline is about the foundation and rise of the Empire of North America and the United Provinces of South America who ends taking over most of the British and Portuguese empire, respectively.
Look to the West / int_e71975df	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West / int_e8e56799	type	Blue-and-Orange Morality
Look to the West / int_e8e56799	comment	Blue and Orange Ideology: A central point of the whole project, according to Word of God, is to show how "Communism vs. Capitalism" and economics in general needn't necessarily been the defining ideological issue to risk nuclear war over. In LTTW, the major ideological divide is centered on culture. So it's not just an alternate history, but an alternate historiography.
Look to the West / int_e8e56799	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e8e56799
Look to the West / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Look to the West / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Bartolomé Jaimes tells Carlos Priestley that he once knew the Societist leader Raúl Caraíbas, but now doesn't know if the man is alive or dead. After Priestley is gone, Caraíbas comes down the stairs and congratulates Jaimes for his deception. Jaimes insists he didn't lie: "I once knew Raúl Caraíbas" isn't saying you don't still know Raúl Caraíbas, and Jaimes didn't know for absolute certain that Caraíbas hadn't slipped in the bath and killed himself until he came downstairs.
Look to the West / int_e9e35e8f	featureApplicability	1.0
Look to the West / int_e9e35e8f	featureConfidence	1.0
Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_e9e35e8f
Look to the West / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Look to the West / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Averted with many monarchies of course, like OTL, in which many of the monarchs draw from only a handful of names. Also averted with the list of American presidents, in which Lewis Burwell is succeeded by Lewis Faulkner - as they are both of the same generation and named for the earlier president Lewis Studebaker, despite leading rival parties.
Look to the West / int_ee7a60e9	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_ee7a60e9
Look to the West / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Look to the West / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Fox redeems himself somewhat spectacularly.
Look to the West / int_f1492605	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Look to the West / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The Franco-Italian front of the Popular Wars is notorious in the cultural imagination for being a bitter, brutal struggle where many lives were spent for little gain: it becomes known as the Nightmare War.
Look to the West / int_f1d6144a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Look to the West / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: Often used for chapter titles, such as a chapter about a Portuguese revival being titled "The Unsinkable Lusitania". Also sometimes used in the text, for example Dashwood being given the nickname "Sooty Sweep" apparently purely so his alliance with Native Americans becomes "Sooty Sweep and Sioux".
Look to the West / int_f2877d9e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_f2877d9e
Look to the West / int_f522d94b	type	Kneel Before Frodo
Look to the West / int_f522d94b	comment	Kneel Before Frodo: King Charles X of France does this at the end of the Popular Wars to his rebellious army as a dramatic gesture that subdues their rage—he also gives all the veterans the right to vote.
Look to the West / int_f522d94b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West / int_f52ae5d8	type	Enemy Civil War
Look to the West / int_f52ae5d8	comment	Enemy Civil War: *Revolutionary France is plagued by constant power struggles, while Spain had the bad luck to have a bitter succession crisis just when the French were invading, and Prussia and Saxony fight each other while South Germany burns.
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_f52ae5d8
Look to the West / int_f57e9a70	type	Frank's 2000 Inch TV
Look to the West / int_f57e9a70	comment	Frank's 2000 Inch TV: The French engineer Isembard Brunel (the father of the more famous Isembard Kingdom Brunel from OTL) builds a gigantic semaphore shutterbox on the side of a building in Paris that's capable of displaying 324-pixel images.
Look to the West / int_f57e9a70	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_f57e9a70
Look to the West / int_f65c014c	type	Conveniently Interrupted Document
Look to the West / int_f65c014c	comment	Conveniently Interrupted Document: Used a few times, especially in Part #100, which at the end is revealed to be the result of the data being corrupted by the radio having been shot mid-transmission. At the start of the third volume, the team is transmitting a political dictionary. The batteries run out just when we were going to get a proper definition of societism.
Look to the West / int_f65c014c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Look to the West / int_f65c014c
Look to the West / int_fc451ba4	type	Follow the Leader
Look to the West / int_fc451ba4	comment	Follow the Leader: In-universe: all the satirical magazines of the 19th century seem to be modelled on the Kingdom of Great Britain's The Ringleader: Notre amis, Monsieur Loyalnote French for "Our friend, the Ringleader"; The Leprechaun, or, The Irish Ringleader; Weinig Petrus, or, The American Ringleader. (IOTL Punch! originally had the subtitle The London Charivari, after a French magazine.)
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Look to the West / int_fcdf597b	type	Titled After the Song
Look to the West / int_fcdf597b	comment	Titled After the Song: Not intentional, according to Word of God (unless it was subconscious) but Stairway to Heaven does have the title in an apposite context (considering the number of heroes whose houses are burned down):
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Misadventure to a Tripolar World / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Look to the West
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Look to the West	hasFeature	Airstrip One / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Alternative Calendar / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	America Is Still a Colony / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Butterfly of Doom / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Conveniently Interrupted Document / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Cultural Posturing / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Deadly Gas / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Different World, Different Movies / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Divided States of America / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Doomed Hometown / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Doublethink / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Encyclopedia Exposita / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Fantastic Ship Prefix / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Fictional Flag / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Fictional Political Party / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Final Battle / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Frank's 2000 Inch TV / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Gas Chamber / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Good Republic, Evil Empire / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Icon of Rebellion / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	In Spite of a Nail / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Individuality Is Illegal / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Inept Aptitude Test / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Ironic Nursery Tune / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Jidaigeki / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Just the First Citizen / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Kangaroos Represent Australia / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Lost in Transmission / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Moustache de Plume / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	National Animal Stereotypes / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	One World Order / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Only in Florida / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Outside/Inside Slur / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Quantum Mechanics Can Do Anything / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Red and Black Totalitarianism / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Reign of Terror / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Richard Nixon, the Used Car Salesman / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Russian Bear / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Secret Weapon / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Setting Update / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Sidetracked by the Analogy / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Sliding Scale of Alternate History Plausibility / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Staged Populist Uprising / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Streisand Effect / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Suddenly Ethnicity / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	The Alliance / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	The Alternet / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	The Cavalry / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	The MÃ¼nchausen / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Who's on First? / int_745711f9
Look to the West	hasFeature	Would Not Shoot a Civilian / int_745711f9

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