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* CreatorBacklash: [[invoked]] A minor example. While Jonathan Edelstein still loves the story, he [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/mal%C3%AA-rising.226788/page-372#post-23083233 believes]] that, looking back on the history of the 2010s, he thinks he "may have {{Mary Sue}}d this universe a bit" when he started writing it in 2012, particularly with regards to how its social, cultural, and political changes often went unchallenged in-story. He said that, had he written it today, it wouldn't have been outright {{dystopia}}n and would've ended in much the same optimistic place that the finished timeline did, but it would've taken a far more difficult and strife-filled path to get there, with more emphasis on the conservative and reactionary opposition to the changes brought. Stylistically, he also would've written more narrative vignettes and fewer history book-style excerpts, on the grounds of ShowDontTell.
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