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The bravest woman on Earth.
International Women’s Day, y’all.
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Writing in the City
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If I was ever a publisher, I’d be a horrible one, because I’d want to publish everything that was ever sent to me.
Oh God no. Now I’m thinking about everything I’ve read from the slush pile being published, and I’m going to have nightmares. You know not what you say, xlosthope.
And for that one shining moment, everyone on tumblr who has ever had any experience with acquisitions flashes back to that one particular piece, that one piece- maybe the first piece they ever got- where they weren’t sure if it was real, a trick question from the intern recruiter or a practical joke on behalf of the author, and these brave souls of acquisitions imagine a world wherein that one piece had passed; a world wherein that one piece got made, seen, experienced by millions across the globe.
And there was chaos.
(Source: fyeahgreenbaypackers)
“that picture of the doctor carrying amy is so sexist”
WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS HE SUPPOSED TO DO?
“OH AMY SORRY YOU’RE UNCONSCIOUS I’LL JUST LEAVE YOU TO LIE ON THE BURNING FLOOR HEY RORY I HAD TO LEAVE YOUR WIFE BACK THERE I DIDN’T WANT TO LOOK MISOGYNISTIC OR ANYTHING WOOPS IS THAT HER HAIR ON FIRE?”
Passing out is so unfeminist, you guys. Only weak women who are tools of the patriarchy lose consciousness. A real feminist would rather die horribly in a fire than be carried out by a mayun. Besides, real women don’t actually pass out, women losing consciousness is just a social construct of the patriarchy to keep strong women characters down. Everyone knows when real women’s brains become deprived of oxygen they just power up. Gosh!
(Source: docters, via riverisagoodgirl)
6 Color Scheme Tools
COLORlovers
The biggest resource community for colour palettes as well as patterns. Plus points that they spell “colour”correctly my British way.Kuler
From Adobe it pretty much works the same way as COLORlovers where you also create your own schemes or edit others accordingly.Colorotate
This site is a little more interactive and fun with the 3D elements. In addition there are few fun mixing/blending options.Color Scheme Designer
The Wheel! A great resource for creating schemes as well options for “light-er” or “dark-er” versions.Pictaculous
There are a few picture-to-colours applications but this is my favourite as, in my opinion, its most accurate. In addition to finding you colours from an image you’ve uploaded, it suggests other similar colour schemes from Colourlovers and Kuler. You can also download swatch files which I find useful.Color Palette Generator (DeGraeve.com)
If you’re lazy or don’t have the image on your computer, this site lets you use URL’s instead.
(Source: theme-hunter, via pupukachoo)
Pavel Medvedev was a member of the squad of soldiers guarding the royal family. He describes what happened:
“In the evening of 16 July, between seven and eight p.m., when the time of my duty had just begun; Commandant Yurovsky, [the head of the execution squad] ordered me to take all the Nagan revolvers from the guards and to bring them to him. I took twelve revolvers from the sentries as well as from some other of the guards and brought them to the commandant’s office.
Yurovsky said to me, ‘We must shoot them all tonight; so notify the guards not to be alarmed if they hear shots.’ I understood, therefore, that Yurovsky had it in his mind to shoot the whole of the Tsar’s family, as well as the doctor and the servants who lived with them, but I did not ask him where or by whom the decision had been made…At about ten o’clock in the evening in accordance with Yurovsky’s order I informed the guards not to be alarmed if they should hear firing.
About midnight Yurovsky woke up the Tsar’s family. I do not know if he told them the reason they had been awakened and where they were to be taken, but I positively affirm that it was Yurovsky who entered the room occupied by the Tsar’s family. In about an hour the whole of the family, the doctor, the maid and the waiters got up, washed and dressed themselves.
Just before Yurovsky went to awaken the family, two members of the Extraordinary Commission [of the Ekaterinburg Soviet] arrived at Ipatiev’s house. Shortly after one o’clock a.m., the Tsar, the Tsaritsa, their four daughters, the maid, the doctor, the cook and the waiters left their rooms. The Tsar carried the heir in his arms. The Emperor and the heir were dressed in gimnasterkas [soldiers’ shirts] and wore caps. The Empress, her daughters and the others followed him. Yurovsky, his assistant and the two above-mentioned members of the Extraordinary Commission accompanied them. I was also present.
During my presence none of the Tsar’s family asked any questions. They did not weep or cry. Having descended the stairs to the The Ipatiev housefirst floor, we went out into the court, and from there to the second door (counting from the gate) we entered the ground floor of the house. When the room (which adjoins the store room with a sealed door) was reached, Yurovsky ordered chairs to be brought, and his assistant brought three chairs. One chair was given to the Emperor, one to the Empress, and the third to the heir.
The Empress sat by the wall by the window, near the black pillar of the arch. Behind her stood three of her daughters (I knew their faces very well, because I had seen them every day when they walked in the garden, but I didn’t know their names). The heir and the Emperor sat side by side almost in the middle of the room. Doctor Botkin stood behind the heir. The maid, a very tall woman, stood at the left of the door leading to the store room; by her side stood one of the Tsar’s daughters (the fourth). Two servants stood against the wall on the left from the entrance of the room.
The maid carried a pillow.The Tsar’s daughters also brought small pillows with them. One pillow was put on the Empress’s chair; another on the heir’s chair. It seemed as if all of them guessed their fate, but not one of them uttered a single sound. At this moment eleven men entered the room: Yurovsky, his assistant, two members of the Extraordinary Commission, and seven Letts [operatives of the infamous Cheka or Secret Police].. Yurovsky ordered me to leave, saying, ‘Go on to the street, see if there is anybody there, and wait to see whether the shots have been heard.’
I went out to the court, which was enclosed by a fence, but before I got to the street I heard the firing. I returned to the house immediately (only two or three minutes having elapsed) and upon entering the room where the execution had taken place, I saw that all the members of the Tsar’s family were lying on the floor with many wounds in their bodies. The blood was running in streams. The doctor, the maid and two waiters had also been shot. When I entered the heir was still alive and moaned a little. Yurovsky went up and fired two or three more times at him. Then the heir was still.”
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The half-basement room in the Ipatiev House, where the imperial family was killed. Alexis and Alexandra were seated; the other victims — including three family servants and the Romanovs’ physician — stood. Yakov Yurovsky had positioned his victims on the pretense that the Communist authorities in Moscow required a photograph. In the last second of her life Olga attempted, but failed, to make the sign of the Cross. She was killed almost instantly; her sisters and brother took much longer to die, and the maid Demidova received more than thirty bayonet wounds. By the end of the massacre the room was awash with blood.
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On this day: July 16
Ex-Czar of Russia Killed by Order of Ural Soviet
Nicholas Shot on July 16 When it Was Feared That Czechoslovaks Might Seize Him
Wife and Heir in Security
Bolshevist Government Approves Act, Alleging Plot for a Counter-Revolution
Prisoner’s Papers Seized
Former Emperor’s Diary and Letters from Rasputin Soon to be Made Public
London, July 20 — Nicholas Romanoff, ex-Czar of Russia, was shot July 16, according to a Russian announcement by wireless today.
The former Empress and Alexis Romanoff, the young heir, have been sent to a place of security.
The message announces that a counter-revolutionary conspiracy was discovered, with the object of wrestling the ex-Emperor from the authority of the Soviet Council. In view of this fact the approach of Czechoclovak bands, the President of the Ural Regional Council decided to execute the former ruler, and the decision was carried out on July 16.
The central executive body of the Bolshevist Government announces that it has important documents concerning the former Emperor’s affairs, including his own diaries ad letters from the monk Rasputin, who was killed shortly before the revolution. These will be published in the near future, the message declares.
The text of the Russian wireless message reads:
“At the first session of the Central Executive Committee, elected by the fifth Congress of the Councils, a message was made public that had been received by direct wire from the Ural Regional Council concerning the shooting of the ex-Czar Nicholas Romanoff.
“Recently Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Red Urals, was seriously threatened by the approach of Czechoslovak hands and a counter-revolutionary conspiracy was discovered which had as its object the wresting of the ex-Czar from the hands of the council’s authority. In view of this fact, the President of the Ural Regional Council decided to shoot the ex-Czar, and the decision was carried out on July 16.
“The wife and the son of Nicholas Romanoff have been sent to a place of security.
“Documents concerning the conspiracy which was discovered have been forwarded to Moscow by a special messenger. It had been recently decided to bring the ex-Czar before a tribunal to be tried for his crimes against the people, and only later occurrences led to delay in adopting this course.
“The Presidency of the Central Executive Committee, having discussed the circumstances which compelled the Ural Regional Council to take its decision to shoot Nicholas Romanoff, decided as follows:
“The Russian Central Executive Committee, in the person of its President, accepts the decision of the Ural Regional Council as being regular.
“The Central Executive Committee has now at its disposal extremely important documents concerning the affairs of Nicholas Romanoff — his diaries, which he kept almost up to his last days, the diaries of his wife and his children, and his correspondence, among which are the letters of Gregory Rasputin to the Romanoff family. These materials will be examined and published in the near future.”
Executive Foreshadowed
There have been rumors since June 24 that ex-Czar Nicholas of Russia had been assassinated. The first of these stated that he had been killed at Yekaterinburg by Red Guards. This report was denied later, but this denial was closely followed by a Geneva dispatch saying that Nicholas had been executed by the Bolsheviki after a trial at Yekaterinburg. This report seemed to be confirmed by advices to Washington from Stockholm.
The next report was what purported to be an intercepted wireless message from M. Tchicherin, the Bolshevist Foreign Minister, in which it was stated that Nicholas was dead. Still another report was to the effect that he had been bayonetted by a guard while being taken from Yekaterinburg to Perm. Of all these reports there was no direct confirmation.
There seemingly is no question that yesterday’s dispatch is authentic. It comes in the form of a Russian wireless dispatch, and as the wireless plants of Russia are under the control of the Bolsheviki, it appears that it is an official version of the death of the former Emperor.
(via frickyeahanastasia)
(Source: beautifulsouthasianbrides)
