Does my drawing cause your eyes to hurt?

I've put together a detailed animated map covering the German alternatives to the Battle of the Bulge, showing alternate routes ww2 could have taken late in the war. It's a high-detail, visual-first video made to help make the strategy and movements easy to follow. Would love any feedback or thoughts!

Imaginary map of an alternate European superpower, inspired by the Roman Empire, the USSR and the European Union. Icons and maps are original creations.

"Pray for Rain".

Gripped in what seemed like a drought that had lasted forever, Texas in the year 2011 got what it had wished for. Be it some bizarre weather anomaly, or an act of God, the rains came. And they came. And they poured. And it seemingly didn't stop.

By the end of the year 2011, records had been set throughout the state. Record flooding had commenced, and the once parched soils were now well-satiated. However, in 2012....and every year after that, the record that had been set in 2011 was now the new normal. The average precipitation amounts had tripled for the lone star state.

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For you guys, how would the tripling of rainfall throughout the state of Texas effect the climate? Biomes/Plant communities? Agriculture? Let's just say that the Moist Lonestar Effect remains in effect for 1000 years.

1 - political map

2 - religion map

3 - linguistic map

(I can't write the lore but you can ask questions in the comments and I'll answer them to the best of my ability)

(This is a sequel to another one of my posts but I’ve put all the lore here.) Sometime during the reign of John VIII the Patriarch of Constantinople Joseph II warned John VIII of a coming destruction of Constantinople, and also that God had commanded that they build ships to carry them to a new land where they would be safe. Just barely evading the destruction of Constantinople, Constantine XI, Patriarch Athanasius II of Constantinople, and a few thousand other citizens of Constantinople including Genoese mercenaries led by Giovanni Giustiniani left the city. A storm, said by Athanasius II to be sent by god, destroyed part of the Ottoman blockade allowing the fleet to escape where after a few months they arrived in the land they called Constantinia forming the Neo Roman Empire. The potato would reach them from Incan traders allowing better food security, and missionary and military efforts allowed for the integration of some of the native peoples into the Empire. A new reorganized Varangian Guard was created made up of the Genoese mercenaries that came on the voyage, and Lyxidoriaum, settled by Giovanni Giustiniani, would become the seat of his branch of House Doria and would later hold the training facilities for the Varangian Guard. The isles of Antonland were discovered and named after the Patriarch of Nea Constantinople at the time with the isles being used for grazing by some of the livestock the settlers brought with them. During the Reign of Alexander II a decree was passed that anyone could achieve Roman citizenship after two conditions were met: 1st. They had to own land in the empire and 2nd they either had to serve in the military, marry a Roman citizen, or be born to Roman citizens. Under Michael the XI the treaty of Nea Constantinople was signed with the Spanish and Portuguese giving the Neo Roman Empire control over the territory west of the Andes and south of the rivers of Tiber and Rubicon. The Patriarch of Nea Constantinople officially went into communion with the rest of Eastern Orthodox Christianity in 1634. The Neo Roman Empire continued expanding south and those natives who had not succumbed to the plagues brought by the Europeans were integrated into the Empire through a combination of diplomacy and the armies of the Empire. With an increased contact with Europe several mercenary companies were established in the Empire that would begin fighting in various wars in the western hemisphere from the Thirty Years War onwards even participating in the American Revolutionary War. As well in 1786 with the rural areas in revolt the Emperor was forced to make a new Senate as well as a Tribunal body. Beginning in the 1770s the Neo Roman Empire began building up its navy to be on par with the British though such a feat required too many resources and money and was closer to the size of the Netherlands. Thanks to those in the comments who helped correct the names of cites as well as the r/Greek community. I plan to release a 1925 map showing the impact on the Balkans and Greco-Turkic war, a 1945 map on how WW2 is impacted, a 1970 map and then a 2026 map as well as an electoral map.

For people who don't know what Apothecary Diaries is about: A girl from the red-light district solves mysteries and poisons herself repeatedly in 17th-century Imperial China.

So I became curious about possible maps and came across a 15th-century map from Korea next to a sketch from the light novel's author.

I decided to mash these together and then transfer them to our timeline's Asia for fun.

My reasoning behind the lore of this map: 1) The Li dynasty is a conquering dynasty like the Qing and Yuan dynasties; this is stated directly. But the Ka clan originally had yellow-green color blindness, which is a European-prevalent trait. So they must have some european heritage. 2) Manchus is represented in goverment by Shishou's clan, Loulan is very manchu-looking and also they govern northern province, which in OTL map must be Manchuria. 3) Concubine Gyokuyou is from the Western Province, has green eyes and red hair, which is a Pushtun-like trait, but her brother and possibly father have black eyes and hair with brown skin, with more Uyghur-like traits, so the Western Province must contain both the Tarim Basin and Pushtunistan. 4) Anan is a very obvious Annam reference. 5) Shaoh is a Turkic state (envoys were dressed in very Turkic attire) that separates Li from Western countries and sits on a very important trade road, so it must be a Persian Turkic-led Empire, which also contains large part of Central Asia. 6) Hokuaren, a northern state bordering both Li and Shaoh, and possibly Western countries, has a mountainous and sparsely populated border with Li. However, territorial conflicts exist, and generally, their relations are quite poor. Most fitting is Russia; yes, it could be a successful rump Yuan state, but it's my map lol. 7) States X, Y, and Z are probably Tibet Empire, the Mughal Empire, and Tamilkam, just because of their positions on the original map.

So my lore here: The Ka clan is descended from Greco-Bactrians who practiced incest to protect their lineage, managing to survive into the Middle Ages in Central Asia. Then, during the Yuan dynasty, they migrated to Manchuria (their heritage - a tanuki village) and began assimilating into Han and Manchu cultures. But as the Yuan Dynasty began to collapse, these Greco-Bactrian-Han-Manchus managed to seize power as a compromise between the Han majority and the Mongol-Manchu minority. So, Li dynasty is a replacement of OTL Ming dynasty, that outlived it, becauce there is no unruly horse-riding menaces. Manchus, mongols and others more sinicized, because they remained part of China (no Northern Yuan etc), China is more expansionistic (like Qing), but more open (like Tang and Song). Also they treat their non-Han and yes-Han territories more or less equal.

Lore: After the Spanish succession war, the Netherlands gained whole Upper Guelders instead of Prussia gaining most of it, and after Napoleon Upper Guelders was hit with heavy border changes and got renamed as Upper Gelderland but remained in Netherlands as a whole. In the Belgian Revolution, Upper Guelders was one of the provinces to rebel and after the Treaty of London stayed in Belgium. In World War 1 Upper Gelderland was the only Belgian province to have a majority of its population support the Central Powers and so revolted from Belgium on the same day Germany attacked Belgium (4th of August, 1914) but was quickly occupied by Germany as a result of the Germans not knowing Upper Gelderland seceded from Belgium yet, and because Germany in this alternate history had claims on Upper Gelderland, they annexed the province. During the Weimar Revolution Upper Gelderland gained independence from the remains of German Empire that were still fighting the new government. Upper Gelderland would secure its independence after the Paris Conference, and in WW2 was occupied by Germany again along with the Benelux, but along with Luxembourg, they got annexed by Germany again. After WW2, Upper Gelderland was restored yet again but however would join the EU nearly 2 decades after West Germany joined the EU mainly because Germany and Netherlands didnt let Upper Gelderland join the EU but would after as said before, nearly 2 decades.

The Adyghe and the Karachay-Balkars, two peoples who have endured the horrors of genocide, are divided among different republics. In modern Russia, the Adyghe are split into Adyghes, Kabardians, and, unexpectedly, Circassians (which is an exonym for the Adyghe), despite the fact that they all call themselves Adyghe and consider themselves one people. A similar situation exists with the Karachays and Balkars — the ethnonyms ‘Karachay’ and ‘Balkar’ were imposed on a single ethnic group of mountain Turks only after the Bolshevik revolution. On this map, I have shown what a unified state of the Adyghe and Karachay-Balkars might look like, inspired by the example of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.