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marzipanandminutiae · 9 months ago

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A Crimson Peak Timeline

(based on the art book, documents shown onscreen in the movie, and the character bios GDT wrote- where the bios don't contradict film canon. I've attempted to combine the two where contradicting elements are unavoidable.

Sometime during the reign of Charles II (1660-1685). Edward Sharpe created Baronet for services to the crown in providing clay for construction projects. Allerdale Hall built in the parish of Above Derwent, Cumberland, England.

1841. Carter Everett Cushing born the second son of six in an impoverished family that traveled the eastern US for his father's masonry business.

1863. Beatrice Alexandra Chetwynde, eldest daughter of a large, wealthy family, marries Baronet James William Sharpe. The marriage is contracted solely for the Chetwyndes' land, which adjoins the Sharpe estate.

April 1, 1865. Lucille Sharpe born.

Sometime between 1865 and ~1873. Carter marries 18-year-old socialite Eleanor Wyndham-Beckford, to the immense disapproval of her family. Though she is disowned and the couple struggles to make ends meet for years, Carter ultimately becomes a successful developer.

February 18, 1867. Thomas Sharpe born.

C. 1867-1872. The Sharpes employ a wet nurse- and later nanny -named Theresa, who would become the only adult to care about the children in their lives. She would ultimately be sacked after Beatrice caught young Lucille snuggling with her for warmth on a winter's night (on the grounds that a noble child should not be close with servants- a "crime" for which Lucille was beaten severely).

1876. 11-year-old Lucille murders her father with poison distilled from mine tailings, after he took Thomas on a hunting trip and left him in the woods to die of exposure.

Late 1876? A mining vein near Allerdale Hall collapses, killing several child mine-workers. I could have sworn I read somewhere that James foolishly dug a mining tunnel under the house shortly before his death, and that's what destabilized it, but I can't find it now.

October 9, 1877. Edith M. Cushing born, after Eleanor had suffered several miscarriages.

1878. Thomas and Lucille begin a secret sexual relationship.

Early August, 1879. Beatrice catches Lucille and Thomas together; Lucille murders her to keep their secret. The siblings try to run away together but are caught and brought back. Thomas is sent to live with an aunt and uncle in Whitehaven (who in turn send him to boarding school), while Lucille is forced into a mental institution.

Probably summer, 1885. Thomas finishes his schooling and rescues Lucille; they return to Allerdale.

1887. The Sharpe siblings travel to London seeking investors for Thomas' venture to reopen the mines. A wealthy, terminally ill gentleman, Major Richard Upton, takes a liking to Thomas and begs Thomas to marry his disabled daughter, Pamela. At Lucille's urging- since they're running out of both options and money -Thomas agrees. The two attempt to poison Pamela to death, but Lucille ends up strangling her instead.

Sometime between October 1887 and October 1888. Eleanor Cushing dies of cholera and appears to Edith as a ghost.

Early-mid 1890s. Carter and the recently widowed Mrs. McMichael have a brief flirtation that both Edith and Eunice oppose. Though it goes nowhere, the rift between the two girls is never healed.

Late October or November 1892. Edith (age 15) becomes infatuated with a 25-year-old poet who is having marital difficulties. After convincing Carter to hire him as a tutor, all unknowing, she confesses her feelings to him. He not only takes his leave of the Cushing family, but of Buffalo itself, quickly moving away with his wife and children.

1893. The Sharpes travel to Edinbrugh, where Thomas again finds no investors but does attract the attention of a 36-year-old widow of means, Margaret McDermott. Once again, he marries her and helps Lucille poison her, though she is ultimately killed via blunt force trauma.

Summer 1893. Edith asks her best friend, Alan McMichael, to kiss her so she can write about kisses more accurately. It means nothing to her, but sparks an unrequited passion in Alan

1896. Lucille falls pregnant by Thomas. He travels with her to Italy, which he loves and she despises. There he meets a wealthy woman named Enola Sciotti, widowed and bereaved of her only child, and decides of his own accord to marry and murder her in their usual fashion. The Sharpes and Enola return to Allerdale.

1897. Lucille is delivered of a son, who may or may not be sickly. Enola tries to care for her and the child, promising she can save him. The baby either dies of natural causes or Lucille smothers him under the conviction that his cries mean something is terribly wrong with him and he can't live- this is one contradiction in the bios vs. the movie that I prefer to leave vague, since it's possible not even Lucille remembers what happened. Either way, she blames Enola and dispatches her by unknown means. Thomas patents his excavating machine.

Late summer(?) 1901. Alan returns from studying medicine in London and sets up an ophthalmology practice in Buffalo. Edith's debut novel, Figures In The Mist, is rejected for publication by Oglivie and Sons. Thomas seeks investment in the mines from Cushing and Co., unsuccessfully. Edith and the Sharpes begin a friendship. Edith sees her mother's ghost for the second time.

September 14, 1901. President William McKinley dies after being shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. I include this because the fact that the movie doesn't is hilarious to me.

October 21, 1901. At the Cushings' dinner party, Carter bribes the Sharpes to leave, instructing Thomas to break Edith's heart or he'll tell her about the marriage to Pamela. A deleted scene reveals that he was on the verge of relenting and investing in the mines when he read the private investigator's report.

October 22, 1901. Lucille murders Carter at his club, then departs to return to England. Thomas and Edith become engaged.

Late October-early November 1901. Thomas and Edith are married and travel to Allerdale.

November-December 1901 (possibly into early 1902?). The rest of the movie's plot.

#crimson peak #long post #meta

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she-karev · 5 months ago

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The Pregnant Resident (Andrew DeLuca x Alex Karev’s Sister Imagine)

Previous Part Here

Age Rating: 12+

Chapters: Four of Four

Fandom: Grey’s Anatomy

Ship: Andrew DeLuca x Amber Karev (Alex Karev’s Sister)

Canon Episode: Season 19 Episode 2

Summary: After his surgery Andrew finds Amber passed out in a gurney in the middle of the hall that makes him worry. Afterwards Amber officially starts maternity leave and says a final word to the interns.

PS: There's some Season 1 Bailey vibes at the end lol.

Words: 1873

August 13th, 2022

Andrew DeLuca exhales deeply taking off his navy-blue constellation pattern scrub cap after finishing an emergency splenectomy on one of the car accident victims. The pit has been cleared and all the major injuries were sent to a private room to recover. He thinks about how stressed and tired Amber must have been after working nonstop in the ER for 18 hours.

He looks at his watch and sees it’s 2 am which means he and Amber need to clock out. The hallway is mostly empty as he makes a left and sees Amber on her side on the gurney, with her eyes closed looking unresponsive. The sight alarms him causing him to run towards her and shake her arm.

“Amber.” She doesn’t wake up making Andrew worry and shake her harder, “Amber!”

Amber groans tired and opens her weary eyes to see her husband exhale in relief at her response, “What? What is it? What are you doing here?”

“I just got off a surgery and I was about to look for my pregnant wife so we can clock out and get a good nights rest.” The tone in his voice makes it clear to Amber he has reached his limit with her working in her condition, “Instead I find my wife passed out in a gurney in the middle of the hall looking dead.”

Amber sighs, “Don’t be dramatic you know I was in the pit and handling the trauma.” Amber gets off the gurney and groans in pain as her feet hit the floor causing her husband to worry and put his hands against her back and belly.

“What is it? Are you okay?”

“It’s my feet, it’s the damn shoes I’m fine. Now let me go I need to check on the interns make sure they didn’t screw up so bad again.” Amber moves to walk away causing Andrew to look up at the ceiling frustrated.

“Amber!” She stops at the sharp tone she never hears from Andrew and turns to face him. She sees the worried look on his face that accompanies the stern voice, “You are not fine. You look tired, you look exhausted I can see it, we all see it. You’ve been on your feet all day and all night. Any one person would feel like hell right after and they wouldn’t have to be pregnant. You know I’m right so don’t try to pass it off as me being dramatic.”

Amber sighs, “…Fine it’s taking a lot for me to put just one foot in front of the other and I am running on ginger ale and beef jerky I sneak inside my coat.”

“Which is why maternity leave was invented.” Andrew points out in seriousness to Amber’s annoyance, “Hey look at me.” Amber looks up at her husband who looks at her tenderly, “I love you and if something happens to you or this child that would be the thing that breaks me.”

Amber’s expression softens at that confession, “…I have spent my whole life working towards a successful career all on my own. I was a freshman in high school working two jobs, saving every dime that I had so I could get out of foster care. There was no graduation just a cap and gown on the first bus to college. And now I am the chief resident at one of the top hospitals in the nation. And when I pass my boards, hospitals will be calling me offering me a peds fellowship spot. If I take a leave I’ll lose my job and a chance at being a good role model for my daughter. I can’t be a disappointment to her like my mom was for me.”

Andrew nods understanding, “I get that and I get why your holding off on this. But if you keep going at it and overexerting yourself your not gonna have a daughter to be a role model for. This isn’t just about your goals, not anymore, right now this is about her. This is about our baby.”

Amber looks more convinced at that and presses her lips together to think.

“He’s right and you know it.” Amber turns to find Alex approaching her looking concerned for her as well.

The blonde chief resident snorts at what’s happening in front of her, “It’s never a good sign when the two of you agree on something when it concerns me.”

“It shocks me too trust me.” Andrew says, amused, as Alex walks up to them.

“Now I wouldn’t normally get in the middle of you two but when I found you passed out here on the gurney half an hour ago I realized it takes two men to settle down a stubborn bull.” Amber raises an eyebrow at the comparison as her brother continues, “Now I talked to Chief Grey, and she agreed that you need to start your maternity leave. Your spot will still be there when you get back and until then Schmitt will be the interim chief resident.”

“You replaced me with Schmitt?” Amber asks offended, “What did I do to make you hate this much?”

Alex grins, “Schmitt has been shown to be as hardworking as you and he juggles the duties of being one of the few senior residents quite well given the circumstances. And he would be too scared to fight against you for the position permanently.”

Amber hums in approval, “And they say I’m the evil genius of the family.” Andrew smiles at that behind her.

“So when does my lovely and beautiful wife start bed rest?”

“Right now.” Alex states causing Amber to groan, “And this is from me and Chief Grey personally so listen closely, you’re going home and you’re gonna stay home. I don’t want to see you back here until you’ve given birth to this child. Understood?”

“Is the alternative you and my husband hogtying me to the hood of my car?”

“Yes.” The men say in unison causing Amber to purse her lips.

“Fine I understand.”

Alex relaxes a bit, “Good. Relax, kick your feet up, let DeLuca dote on you. You more than deserve it.”

Amber grins up at her brother taking care of her, “Thanks. I can see why I keep you two around after all.”

Her husband and brother chuckle at that before Amber waddles away from them and walks down the hall causing her husband to call after her.

“Where are you going?”

“To pee and then get a snack!” Amber turns left.

“You just live ten minutes away!” Alex yells out and looks at DeLuca who shakes his head in defeat with a grin before grabbing a discarded wheelchair and following after Amber wheeling it in front of him.

Later

Amber sits in the wheelchair in her red shirt and black sweatpants relaxing as her husband behind her pushes her away from the resident’s lounge and toward the elevator so they can finally go home. Qadri, Parker and Schmitt follow her saying goodbye before she goes.

“You can never go wrong with Netflix.” Qadri says as she counts the cash money in her hands after winning the bet against Schmitt and Parker, “Or Disney Plus if you feel nostalgic for Lizzie McGuire. Also, it might be a great time to pick out a name for the child to be.”

“You haven’t picked out a name?” Parker asks and immediately regrets it as Amber glares at him, “Which is fine, it’s your baby, your timeline. And just to put it out there Casey works for a girl and a boy in case she reidentifies.”

“I have some good Hebrew names that mean beloved or lovely. I’ll text them to you.”

“You know I think I’m gonna miss all of you the second least while I’m in maternity prison.”

Qadri grins knowing her friend is not one for showing affection, “And who’s the least of all?”

“Dr. DeLuca!” Amber groans at the familiar voice of Yasuda who walks up to her carrying a brown paper bag along with Simone Griffith, Lucas Adams, Benson Kwan and Jules Millin who all smile at her.

Qadri snorts at Amber’s face as she faces the interns, “Spoke too soon.”

Griffith starts, “We wanted to come by and say bye before your on bedrest.”

“Also to apologize for using the ‘Q’ word while on shift.” Kwan says embarrassed, “Even though it’s just a superstition.”

“Kwan it’s not even a day with you as my intern and I already hate you.” Andrew grins at Amber’s blunt statement, “I am in no mood for nice words from people whose names I don’t remember so just give me the bag and we’ll call it a night.”

Mika holds out the brown paper bag with a smile, “It’s little things from the gift shop. Stuffed animals apparently touching them helps relieve anxiety and we thought you could use more than we do right now. Also, it could be good toys for the baby, we got all kinds of animals in case she’s picky.”

Amber looks at gift bag numbly not even taking it due to how tired and grumpy she is. Andrew grins at her before taking the bag from Yasuda.

“Thanks.” Andrew sees the elevator doors opening and enters backwards wheeling Amber in, “Okay my love, are you ready to be pampered like a queen?”

“As long as there’s a bed and I can spread across it like a starfish I’m good.”

Qadri holds out the cash for her to take, “Here I know how much you like cash as a gift so you can get it yourself. It’s from the people you like a little more than the interns.”

Amber takes the cash and mumbles thanks. Qadri nods and steps away with her friends. The interns face the elevator and are about to walk away as it closes until Amber stops it with her foot causing it to open again. Andrew looks on confused as well as the interns who freeze in place as their chief resident faces them with a hard lined mouth and narrow eyes.

“I may be eleventy months pregnant.” Amber starts, “I may be on bed rest. I may have a sharp pain in both of my hips and breasts but do not think you can slack off in my absence. I will know the second you guys make a mistake so huge it reflects poorly on me and my abilities to keep you all in line. And if that happens, I will rain so much hell on you it will make Hurricane Katrina look like a puddle.” The interns look frozen in fear as Amber makes a final statement, “I am Dr. Amber DeLuca, and I will be back.”

The doors close and the last thing Amber sees is the scared interns before facing the elevator doors. Andrew grins behind her squeezing her shoulder affectionately.

“Do you feel better?”

Amber exhales content, “So much. Now take me home so you can massage my feet and read Stephen King to my belly before I pass out for the next two months.”

“Will do wife.” The elevator doors open and Andrew wheels Amber forward so she can officially start her maternity leave.

#greys anatomy #grey's anatomy edit #grey's anatomy #greysanatomyedit #greysedit #amber karev #andrew deluca #pregnant #pregnancy #headcanon #mine #elizabeth gillies #liz gillies #giacomo gianniotti #season 19 #19x02 #interns #Season 1 Vibes

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camisoledadparis · 7 days ago

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … November 21

Transgender Day Of Remembrance (since 1999) set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice (transphobia). The event is held on November 20, founded by Gwendolyn Ann Smith, to honor Rita Hester, whose murder in 1998 kicked off the "Remembering Our Dead" web project and a San Francisco, California candlelight vigil in 1999. Since then, the event has grown to encompass memorials in hundreds of cities around the world.

1873 – Daniel Gregory Mason, American composer, born (d.1953); Mason came from a long line of notable American musicians, including his father Henry Mason. He studied under John Knowles Paine at Harvard University from 1891 to 1895, continuing his studies with George Chadwick and Goetschius. In 1894 he published his Opus 1, a set of keyboard waltzes, but soon after began writing on music for his primary career. He became a lecturer at Columbia University in 1905, where he would remain until his retirement in 1942, successively being awarded the positions of assistant professor (1910), MacDowell professor (1929) and head of the music department (1929-1940). He was the lover of composer-pianist John Powell.

1883 – Edwin August (d.1964) was an American actor, director and screenwriter of the silent era. He appeared in 152 films between 1909 and 1947. He also directed 52 films between 1912 and 1919. He co-founded Eaco Films in 1914.

Edwin was born Edwin August Phillip von der Butz in St. Louis, Missouri, to August and Sarah Butz. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College.

He began working with Biograph Studios in New York as early as 1908 and moved to Hollywood with that company in 1910. He starred in several films by D. W. Griffith, who was also with the company, and continued to work well into the 1930s as a writer and director.

In 1916, he entered his name as a candidate for President of the United States, and spoke out against censorship in cinema. The candidate wasn't taken very seriously, and perhaps that wasn't the point. He didn't like the road that his industry was going down, and wanted to voice his opinion in the hope of change.

A co-star, Blanche Sweet, would later bluntly state: "He was a homo." He owned a chicken ranch at 648 South Figueroa in Hollywood and was friends with gay silent film star J. Warren Kerrigan and most likely Kerrigan's long time partner James Vincent.

Edwin passed away from cerebral metastatic disease on March 4, 1964 at the Motion Picture County Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles County, California.

1916 – James Pope-Hennessy (d.1974) was a British biographer and travel writer.

James Pope-Hennessy was born in London on 20 November 1916, the younger son of Ladislaus Pope-Hennessy, a soldier from County Cork, Ireland, and his wife, Una, the daughter of Arthur Birch, Lieutenant-Governor of Ceylon. He was the younger of two sons; his elder brother, John Pope-Hennessy, was an English art historian, museum director and writer of note. James came from a close-knit Catholic family and was educated at Downside School and at Balliol College, Oxford, but generally showed a lack of interest in formal education and did not enjoy his time at either Downside or Oxford.

Largely owing to his mother's influence, he decided to become a writer and left Oxford in 1937 without taking a degree. He went to work for the Catholic publishers Sheed and Ward as an editorial assistant. While working at the company's offices, in Paternoster Row in London, he worked on his first book, London Fabric (1939), for which he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize. During this period, he was involved in a circle of notable literary figures including Harold Nicolson, Raymond Mortimer and James Lees-Milne.

He left the publishers in 1938 when his mother found him a job as private secretary to Hubert Young, the Governor of Trinidad. Although his time abroad provided the material for his later West Indian Summer (1943), he disliked both the West Indies and the atmosphere of Government House. The outbreak of the Second World War gave him an excuse to return to Britain, where he enlisted as a private in an anti-aircraft battery under the command of Sir Victor Cazalet. Rising through the ranks, he was transferred to military intelligence, given a commission and spent the latter part of the war as a member of the British army staff at Washington.

Pope-Hennessy enjoyed his time in the United States and made many friends there. After the end of the war he wrote an account of his experiences in America. On his return to London in 1945 he shared a flat with the British intelligence officer Guy Burgess, who later defected to the Soviet Union. He had a brief spell as the literary editor of The Spectator between 1947 and 1949, before he decided to travel to France and write Aspects of Provence, which was published in 1952.

He would eventually establish himself as one of the leading biographers of his time; his first effort in this direction being a two-volume biography of Monckton Milnes that appeared in 1949 under the titles The Years of Promise and The Flight of Youth. This was followed by further biographies of the Earl of Crewe and of Queen Mary, for which he was created Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1960. He also wrote a life of his grandfather, the colonial governor John Pope Hennessy, under the title Verandah (adapted as a documentary for BBC Television under the title "Strange Excellency", 1964), followed by an account of the Atlantic slave traffickers, Sins of the Fathers (1967).

In 1970, he took out Irish citizenship and went to live at Banagher in County Offaly, and during the next few years produced authoritative biographies of both Anthony Trollope and Robert Louis Stevenson. Trollope himself had chosen James' grandfather, John Pope Hennessy, as the basis for the character Phineas Finn in his novel of the same name. Robert Louis Stevenson was published posthumously and without revision in 1974. He became a popular figure in Banagher, evidenced by the fact that he was asked to adjudicate at a local beauty pageant and the horse fair, the oldest in Ireland. On being given a large advance he returned to London in 1974 to begin work on his next subject, Noël Coward.

Despite being a successful professional writer, Pope-Hennessy was careless with money. He suffered a series of financial crises and often relied on the goodwill of friends to get him by. A homosexual, he was a heavy drinker and frequented back-street bars and shady pubs where he mixed with a rough crowd, associations that eventually contributed to his death when he was brutally murdered on 25 January 1974 in his London flat by three young men. He had been sexually acquainted with one of them.

1941 – Oliver Sipple, the man who saved President Gerald Ford's life, was born today.

Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford outside the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco, just seventeen days after Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme had also tried to kill the president. Moore was forty feet away from Ford when she fired a single shot at him. The bullet missed the President because bystander Oliver Sipple grabbed Moore's arm and then pulled her to the ground, using his hand to keep the gun from firing a second time. Sipple said at the time: "I saw [her gun] pointed out there and I grabbed for it. I lunged and grabbed the woman's arm and the gun went off." The single shot which Moore did manage to fire from her .38-caliber revolver ricocheted off the entrance to the hotel and slightly injured a bystander.

Sipple goes for the gun.

Sipple, a decorated Marine and Vietnam War veteran, was immediately commended by the police and the Secret Service for his action at the scene. The news media portrayed Sipple as a hero but would eventually report on his outing by Harvey Milk and other San-Francisco gay activists. Though he was known to be Gay by various fellow members of the gay community, Sipple had not made this public, and his sexual orientation was a secret from his family. He asked the press to keep his sexuality off the record, making it clear that neither his mother nor his employer had knowledge of his orientation; however, his request was not complied with.

The national spotlight was on him immediately, and Milk responded. While discussing whether the truth about Sipple's sexuality should be disclosed, Milk told a friend: "It's too good an opportunity. For once we can show that Gays do heroic things, not just all that ca-ca about molesting children and hanging out in bathrooms." Milk contacted the newspaper.

Several days later Herb Caen, a columnist at The San Francisco Chronicle, exposed Sipple as a Gay man and a friend of Milk. Sipple was besieged by reporters, as was his family. His mother, a staunch Baptist in Detroit, refused to speak to him. Although he had been involved with the Gay community for years, even participating in Gay Pride events, Sipple sued the Chronicle for invasion of privacy. President Ford sent Sipple a note of thanks for saving his life. Milk said that Sipple's sexual orientation was the reason he received only a note, rather than an invitation to the White House.

Sipple filed a $15 million invasion of privacy suit against Caen, seven named newspapers, and a number of unnamed publishers, for publishing the disclosures. The Superior Court in San Francisco dismissed the suit, and Sipple continued his legal battle until May 1984, when a state court of appeals held that Sipple had indeed become news, and that his sexual orientation was part of the story.

According to a 2006 article in The Washington Post, Sipple went through a period of estrangement with his parents, but the family later reconciled with his sexual orientation. Sipple's brother, George, told the newspaper, "(Our parents) accepted it. That was all. They didn't like it, but they still accepted. He was welcomed. Only thing was: Don't bring a lot of your friends."

Sipple's mental and physical health sharply declined over the years. He drank heavily, gained weight to 300 lb (140 kg), was fitted with a pacemaker, became paranoid and suicidal. On February 2, 1989, he was found dead in his bed, at the age of forty-seven. Earlier that day, Sipple had visited a friend and said he had been turned away by the Veterans Administration hospital where he went concerning his difficulty in breathing. His $334 per month apartment near San Francisco's Tenderloin District was found with many newspaper clippings of his actions on the fateful September afternoon in 1975. His most prized possession was the framed letter from the White House.

Sipple held no ill will toward Milk, and remained in contact with him. The incident brought him so much attention that, later in life, while drinking, he would regret grabbing Moore's gun. Sipple, who was wounded in the head in Vietnam, was also diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic according to the coroner's report.

Sipple's funeral was attended by 30 people, and he was buried in Golden Gate National Cemetery in San Bruno, California. A letter addressed to the friends of Oliver Sipple was on display for a short period after his death at one of his favorite hangouts, the New Belle Saloon:

"Mrs. Ford and I express our deepest sympathy in this time of sorrow involving your friend's passing..." President Gerald Ford, February, 1989

In a 2001 interview with columnist Deb Price, Ford disputed the claim that Sipple was treated differently because of his sexual orientation, saying: "As far as I was concerned, I had done the right thing and the matter was ended. I didn't learn until sometime later — I can't remember when — he was Gay. I don't know where anyone got the crazy idea I was prejudiced and wanted to exclude Gays."

1990 – A London judge convicted 14 gay men of committing criminal assaults upon themselves because of their participation in S&M. All 14 receive prison sentences.

1998 – John Geddes Lawrence and Tyrone Garner of Texas were ordered to pay fines of $125 each after being arrested for having sex in their home. The couple refused to pay and announced they would challenge the Texas sodomy law - initiating what became known as the historic "Lawrence vs Texas" Supreme Court decision which decriminalized homosexual sex.

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thatswhywelovegermany · 2 years ago

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150 Years Ago: The Bloody Frankfurt Beer Riot

On April 21, 1873, the most severe social unrest in Germany between the revolutions of 1848 and 1918 broke out in the city of Frankfurt am Main. Reason for the riot was an increase of the beer prize by 12.5 % by the local breweries from 4 Kreuzer (1 Batzen) to 4½ Kreuzer. This affected mainly the poorly paid working class, which regarded beer as a staple food. To make things worse, ½ Kreuzer coins did not exist, so people had to pay 5 Kreuzer first and received a ½ Kreuzer coupon, which they could only redeem at the same innkeeper. The prize increase happened on April 1. On April 21 was the last day of the spring trade fair, which was celebrated with a public festival, and workers generally had a day off for this occasion. In the afternoon, a crowd of about 100 people formed a demonstration, walking from the fair ground through the city center, chanting "Mir wolle Batzebier!" ("We want beer for 1 Batzen!"). The crowd grew quickly and became increasingly aggressive. Finally, they invaded breweries and inns, looting, destroying furniture smashing windows, and spilling beer onto the streets. Some breweried tried to defend themselves by pouring boiling beer at the crowd or attacking them with red hot fireplace pokers.

The police was totally overwhelmed, mainly because they hadn't kept step with the rapidly growing population and consisted of only 53 officers for a population of more than 100,000. In desperation, the chief of the police, August von Hergenhahn, alarmed the Prussian garrison that was stationed in Frankfurt since its occupation in 1866. The garrison sent out six companies, which brutally attacked the crowds, shooting at the mostly unarmed and partially drunk rioters. The violence lasted until midnight. At the end, 20 people were killed, among them an elderly woman and a ten-year-old boy. The next day, the city was under a state of siege, soldiers occupied all major public places. Schools, shops, inns, and hotels remained closed. More Prussian infantry was brought in from neighboring cities. Raids were carried out throughout the city, 300 people were arrested. Weeks later, the municipal court sentences 47 people for prison of up to 4½ years. The breweries revoked the increase of the beer prize because life and property should not be threatened because of them.

The Frankfurt Beer Riot was part of a series of similar beer or hunger revolts in other placs in Germany and reflects the discontent of the workers with their situation during the early industrialization. In this way, it was more than merely riots of a drunk mob. However, the theoretical and ideological background of the Paris Commune was totally missing. A debate on whether the masterminds were in the left or right wing of the political spectrum broke out in the media, but there was probably no mastermind at all, and the riot broke out spontaneously, Nevertheless, it led to a wave of red scare in Germany.

#german history #beer #riots #industrialization #working class

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blackbird-brewster · 3 months ago

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Tebecca (Tara/Rebecca) Fanfic Master List (New)

ALL OF MY WORKS ON AO3 || MY WRITING ON TUMBLR

UPDATED: 16 August 2024

FLUFF

Easy (General, WC: 1572)

For the first time in her life, Tara Lewis found herself in a relationship that just felt easy.

Kiss and Not Tell (Teen, WC: 1792)

Rebecca gets invited to a BAU Girls' Night and chaos ensues

Going Home (Explicit, WC: 3254)

Tara and Rebecca share their first holiday together. Memories are made, love is abundant, happiness abounds.

Love They Say (Teen, WC: 2463)

At a long overdue BAU Girl's Night, Tara asks for dating advice from JJ and Emily.

Say It First (Mature, WC: 3019)

Three weeks into her new relationship with Rebecca, Tara is suddenly overwhelmed with what can only be described as love-sickness. But to the esteemed Dr. Tara Lewis, having to admit that she'd somehow let herself fall utterly, irrevocably, in love was far more unnerving than any unsub.

Million Reasons [FANVID]

FANVID: Following Tara/Rebecca through their relationship, break-up, and reconciliation (S16-S17)

SMUT

Good Vibrations Pt. 1 (Explicit, WC: 697) Series: CM Kink Bingo 2024

Tara's job calls her out of town frequently, which puts a damper on her new relationship. Good think Rebecca has a creative solution.

Good Vibrations Pt. 2 (Explicit, WC: 1873) Series: CM Kink Bingo 2024

Tara's in Kansas, Rebecca's in DC. Thank god for technology.

Good Vibrations Pt. 3 (Explicit, WC: 1061) Series: CM Kink Bingo 2024

Just because they're not in the same place doesn't mean Tara's girlfriend can't help get her off.

Water Slide (Explicit, WC: 1438) Series: CM Kink Bingo 2024

Rebecca and Tara have an ongoing competition in the bedroom.

Company (Explicit, WC: 4660) OT3: JJ/Tara/Rebecca | Cut to The Feeling

After an extremely stressful week, all Rebecca wants is to do on Friday night is go home to Tara and relax. But when JJ opens the front door, instead of her girlfriend, Rebecca fears those plans are completely ruined. Little does she know, Tara and JJ are about to make sure she has the best night of her life.

The Rush (Explicit, 9235) OT4: JJ/Emily/Rebecca/Tara | Series: The Age of Pleasure

Five months after closing the Gold Star case, JJ, Tara, and Rebecca give Emily a birthday she'll never forget. [Follow-up to 'Do What I Want (Over What's Right) but can be read as a stand-alone]

MULTI-CHAPTER

Do What I Want (Over What's Right) (Explicit, WC: 74,012) Tara/Rebecca, JJ/Emily, Rebecca/Emily | Series: The Age of Pleasure

After Rebecca and Emily have an extremely unexpected and ill-advised one-night-stand, they have to navigate working together while trying to prevent their secret from getting out. Meanwhile, Tara is still holding out hope she and Rebecca can reconcile their differences and get back together. And JJ is struggling to cope after finding out about the website related to her. [Takes place in S17, but only loosely follows canon timeline.]

Fooled Around (and Fell in Love) - Part 3 (Explicit, WC: 218,573) JJ/Tara/Emily, Tara/Rebecca | Series: Fooled Around (and Fell in Love)

When JJ/Tara/Emily decide to buy a house together, Tara volunteers to renovate it into their perfect dream home. In order to follow through on her promise, Tara enlists the help of a general contractor, Beck Wilson -- but Beck's construction skills aren't the only thing that garners Tara's attention. JJ, Tara, and Emily, must find a way to navigate all of the changes in their lives while keeping their relationship afloat. Will unexpected feelings, secrets, and jealousy threaten the foundation of everything they've worked hard to build? A wholesome, queer rom-com, with a healthy dose of polyamory.

Cut to the Feeling (Explicit, WC: 19,377) Tara/Rebecca, JJ/Tara, JJ/Tara/Rebecca

When JJ finds out Tara has a girlfriend, she's surprised when this announcement causes her to feel an overwhelming sense of jealousy. In her attempt to ask Tara about her relationship status, JJ accidentally admits far more than she ever intended, leaving Tara feeling confused and slightly intrigued at the idea of what she and JJ might have had together -- if not for the fact Tara is happily dating Rebecca.

ADDITIONAL CM FEMSLASH FIC RECS:

Past Friday Fic Recs: [Friday Fic Recs - Tumblr] || [CM Fic Recs - AO3 Collection]

My Fanfic Master Lists: [JJ/Emily] || [Tara/Emily] || [JJ/Tara] || [Tara/Rebecca]

2023 Rec Lists: [JJ/Emily] || [Tara/Emily + Other Femslash]

2022 Rec Lists: [JJ/Emily] || [Tara/Emily] || [Other Femslash]

#criminal minds #criminal minds evolution #tara lewis #rebecca wilson #tebecca #criminal minds fanfiction #cm fanfiction #cm fic recs #my writing #cm reference #master list

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FROM THE SOLD ARCHIVES:

EMILE AUGUSTE HUBLIN

(1830 - C.1891)

Jeune mendiants du Finistère

Oil on canvas

37 1/2 x 25 3/4 inches

Signed and dated 1873

https://rehs.com/Emile_Auguste_Hublin_Jeune_mendiants_du_Finist%C3%A8re.html

#emile hublin #french academic art #academic art #19th century french art #19th century art #genre painting #figurativeart #figure painting #fine art #fineart #work of art #art work #rehsgalleries #workofart #figurative art

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sensitiveuser · 2 months ago

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Portrait of a Communard (1) : Arthur Arnould (1833-1895)

During the Second Empire, Arthur Arnould was a journalist at the Revue nationale, a newspaper opposed to Napoleon III. In 1870, he joined La Marseillaise.

After the proclamation of the Third Republic, he became assistant librarian of the city of Paris.

On March 26, 1871, he was elected to the Council of the Commune, as a representative of the 4th arrondissement. He was first a member of the Commission of External Relations, whose delegate was Pascal Grousset. In April, he joined the Commission of Labor and Exchange, whose delegates were Augustin Avrial, Léo Frankel, Benoît Malon, and Albert Theisz. He then joined the Commission of Subsistence, under the responsibility of Auguste Viard. Finally, we find him at the Commission de l’Enseingement, under the responsibility of Edouard Vaillant.

During the Commune, Arthur Arnould worked for Le Rappel, La Nouvelle République, and L’ Affranchi. On May 1, alongside Auguste Vermorel, he became an editor at the Journal officiel. When the Committee of Public Safety was created, he was one of the nineteen internationalists of the anti-authoritarian minority, alongside Andrieu, Avrial, Babick, Beslay, Chalain, Clémence, Cluseret, Frankel, Girardin, Langevin, Lefrançais, Longuet, Malon, Pindy, Serraillier, Rheiz, Vaillant, Varlin. As a reminder, the Committee of Public Safety, following the proposal of Jules Miot, was established on May 1, 1871, by 45 votes to 22. The five members were Antoine Arnaud, Gabriel Ranvier, Léo Meillet, Félix Pyat, and Charles Gérardin. The anti-authoritarians saw their power confiscated by the Committee of Public Safety; they were ousted from the delegations. On May 15, Arthur Arnoult signed the declaration of the internationalist minority, which publicly denounced the "dictatorship" of the Committee of Public Safety, "The Paris Commune has abdicated its power into the hands of a dictatorship to which it has given the name of Public Safety."

In November 1872, Arthur Arnould was sentenced in absentia to deportation. He therefore took refuge in Switzerland with his wife Jeanne Matthey (Jenny). In Geneva, among the proscribed, he was active in the Socialist Revolutionary Propaganda and Action Section. In 1873, he was sent to Lugano to attend the congress of the International League for Peace and Freedom. A year after the Saint-Imier Congress, he became close to Bakunin.

In 1874, he left for Argentina with Jenny.

In 1876, Bakunin died. Arthur Arnould was one of the people responsible for managing his manuscripts, which he then passed on to James Guillaume. In Geneva, he contributed to the Bulletin de la Fédération jurassienne, La Commune, and Le Travailleur. He published L’État et la Révolution (in 1877), and his Histoire populaire et parlementaire de la Commune de Paris (in 1878). With Gustave Lefrançais, he wrote Souvenirs de deux communards réfugiés à Genève, 1871-1873.

He also wrote novels under the pseudonym A.Matthey.

In the 1880s, when he returned to France, we can say that the character changed, and not in a good way, for a former communard and anarchist ! In 1881, he joined the Republican Socialist Alliance, a reformist socialist party of which Clemenceau was a member... A few years later, he had to deal with Jenny's death... The worst thing about his evolution was that he would have accepted to be decorated with the Order of Isabella the Catholic ! Then he joined an esoteric sect, the Theosophical Society.

Nevertheless, I would not say that he had completely erased his past as a communard and anarchist, since he still wrote an article about Bakunin in the Nouvelle Revue in 1891.

He died in 1895.

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In the 19th century, there were 9 marriages between the House of Wittelsbach and the House of Habsburg:

1816, 29 October. Emperor Franz I of Austria (1768-1835) married Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria (1792-1873). They had no children.

1824, 4 November. Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802-1878) married Princess Sophie of Bavaria (1805-1872). They had five children, four who survived infancy.

1842, 30 March. Francesco V, Duke of Modena and Archduke of Austria (1819-1875) married Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (1823-1914). They had one daughter who did not survive infancy.

1844, 16 April. Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, future Prince Regent, (1821-1912) married Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria-Tuscany (1825-1864). They had four children.

1844, 1 May. Archduke Albrecht of Austria, Duke of Teschen (1817-1895) married Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825-1864). They had three children, two who survived infancy.

1854, 24 April. Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria (1830-1916) married Duchess Elisabeth in Bavaria (1837-1898). They had four children, three who survived infancy.

1866, 20 February. Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, future King Ludwig III, (1845-1921) married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (1849-1919). They had thirteen children, eleven who survived infancy.

1873, 20 April. Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846-1930) married Archduchess Gisela of Austria (1856-1932). They had four children.

1893, 15 November. Archduke Joseph August of Austria (1872-1962) married Princess Auguste of Bavaria (1877-1964). They had six children, four who survived infancy.

#zoom in for better quality!#this was so ridiculously hard to make that it actually took me A YEAR to put it together #because I did it and re-did it several times until it looked sort of decent #I still don't like much how it came out but well. it be like that sometimes #house of habsburg #house of wittelsbach #family tree

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opera-ghosts · 1 year ago

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Today is the 150. Birthday of the famous Moravian dramatic tenor tenor Leo Slezak (August 18. 1873 - June 1. 1946). Here we see this original castlist from his second performance at The Metropolitan Opera 1909 in Verdis Otello.

This was his first role there and a great success.

The antique postcard is from 1906. Take a look on his biography.

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handeaux · 1 year ago

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Remembering The Long-Forgotten Clermont County Gold Rush Of 1868

Byron Williams, who published the exhaustive 1913 history of Clermont and Brown counties in Ohio, spares not a single word in his two-volume epic for the gold rush of 1868. Perhaps this is understandable.

Compared to the renowned California Gold Rush of 1849, the Clermont County gold rush of 1868 was hardly noticeable outside a handful of incurable optimists. Oh, there was gold in the creeks east of Cincinnati, it is true. There’s still gold there and it is easily found. The problem is, it takes a lot more time, money and effort to get that gold out than it is commercially worth – even at the lofty prices gold has claimed since it was deregulated in 1975. The economic futility of Ohio gold was summarized as early as 1873 in the report of Ohio State Geologist Edward Orton:

“From what has already been said, it will be seen that Clermont County has no monopoly of the gold-bearing formation of Ohio. This formation should be named the ‘Drift gold field,’ rather than the ‘Clermont County gold field.’ All of the counties of southwestern Ohio certainly share in its treasures, and without doubt one locality is as good as another, where gravels are found that have been washed from the bowlder clay. The best results thus far known to have been obtained in gold-mining in Ohio are reported for Warren county, where in one day gold to the value of six dollars was obtained – by an outlay of ten dollars; a half-dozen days’ work being also thrown in.”

Nevertheless, there are some folks for whom the gold fever never subsides, and Clermont County has been subjected to hard-working miners and unscrupulous fraudsters in approximately equal measures ever since. According to the Spring 1985 newsletter of the Ohio Geological Survey:

“Gold was first discovered in Clermont County on the farm of Robert Wood, near Elk Lick, on the banks of the East Fork of the Little Miami River. This site is now located on the north shore of William H. Harsha Lake at East Fork State Park.”

It is almost certain that any discovery of gold will attract equal numbers of hard-working miners and shady flim-flam men. Several stock companies were set up to finance gold-digging operations in Clermont County, but few paid dividends. The newspapers were full of breathless proclamations of easy riches. “Professor” J.W. Glass announced in the Ohio Statesman [21 September 1868]:

“I believe that were we supplied with an abundance of water for hydraulic purposes, our hills would pay equally well as those of California.”

Glass estimated that hand-panning would yield no more than fifty to seventy-five cents worth of gold in a day, while hydraulic mining could generate anywhere from twelve to fifteen dollars a day. A correspondent signing himself M. Jamieson informed the Cincinnati Gazette [31 August 1868]:

“Old California miners have prospected over a good portion of this field, and report gold in almost any ravine where they tried their luck. Those miners seem sanguine, and say they found no better diggings in California.”

Alas, such wishful appraisals never, shall we say, “panned out.” The Cincinnati Post [22 Januray 1897] echoed State Geologist Orton while taking an honest look at the situation:

“Every year or so some newspaper correspondent in Clermont County, Ohio, or some contiguous county sends a report of the discovery of gold and of mining enterprises for its recovery. These reports of gold in these counties are true. It has not been found to be minable, because it costs about $5 – in money and labor – to get out $1 in gold.”

That judgement didn’t prevent the Post from printing, just eight years later, a small feature on Clermont miner John Allen, who had dug a 200-foot tunnel into a hillside along Cabin Run Creek in an area known as Bear Hollow. Allen called his mine Paradise Gulch and worked it without ever striking the mother lode into the 1920s. His mine shaft is now collapsed.

Allen failed to find the source of the gold flakes extracted from nearby creeks because he misunderstood the local geology. Unlike California, where seams of gold up in the hills erode into flakes of placer gold in the streams, Ohio has only placer gold. The mother lode for Ohio’s gold is somewhere up in Canada and all the gold found here was dragged south by the glaciers that once blanketed our state.

Gold fever revived in the 1930s when the regulated value of the precious metal was boosted to $35 an ounce and so many men were out of work due to the Great Depression. A farmer named Robert Titus found a few gold flakes in a creek that ran through his farm and set up a company to exploit the find. Titus built a gasoline powered sluice that could sift a cubic yard of gravel and sand in less than an hour. According to the Ohio Geological Survey:

“Considerable excitement was created by this venture and Titus was reportedly offered financial backing and outright purchase of his 40-acre farm for $1,500 per acre. No commercial quantities of gold were ever produced from this deposit and most of the metal recovered was sold for souvenirs.”

Today, Clermont County prospectors are almost exclusively hobbyists. The Cincinnati Mineral Society has led occasional field trips to a tributary of Stonelick Creek since the 1960s, as has the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Science.

Still, the lure of gold fires the imagination. Michael Hansen of the Ohio Geological Survey recalled the heady days of gold speculation in the 1980s:

“In early 1980, when gold prices skyrocketed to more than $800 per ounce, the survey received up to 600 letters each week after newspaper articles across the state identified the Survey as the organization responsible for such matters in Ohio.”

#clermont county gold #ohio gold

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Pt. 1 of my (very belated) chaotic corset making process

so way back when in August 2023, I finally got the motivation to make a corset for historical costume purposes, which I’ve been wanting to do for several years now. Most(and not just more) specifically, I wanted a corset that would have been considered fashionable in ~1875-80, especially in 1879, had an elegant silhouette, and was historically accurate.

There’s this one person on Etsy- ateliersylph- and they’ve got a ton of patterns taken from extant antique corsets they own, as well as some other fun sewing things like corset hooks, so I scrawled through their antique pattern offerings to find something that got as close to my specifications as possible. Unfortunately, there isn’t a corset that they dated to specifically the years I was looking for, but Ref P looked close to what I wanted: it had the curvy silhouette, wasn’t too curvy for my liking but still wasn’t too small proportionally for my hips, extended to ~just below the hip, spoon front-opening busk, was versatile enough to be used for more than just one decade in the Victorian era, and didn't support to only under the nipple. The spoon busk meant that it had to have been made in/after 1873, as that was when that style of busk was invented, and it fell out of fashion by the Edwardian era, so it should probably have been made between 1873- around 1900, and more likely closer to 1873 than 1900. It also didn’t have garters tabs attached to it, which became a thing closer to the Edwardian era. Thus, this was the closest pattern they had for what I was looking for, even without them having a date for Ref P’s original corset. I chose the pdf file option instead of a paper pattern to save money.

I also decided to go with a white-greige-light blue color scheme, so I got some white lace and bias binding and coutil, greige lace and cotton sateen(because silk would be even more expensive), and blue silk thread and ribbons for the back lacing, flossing, and decoration. I won’t lie, Bernadette banner’s adventures in ✨the joys of corset making✨ /s definitely inspired my choice of velvet ribbon threaded through lace as trim. Between the 3 commercially available options for boning nowadays, I (1) didn’t want to use plastic so synthetic whalebone was off the table, and (2) getting a smooth edge on the cut ends of steel boning was much simpler and cheaper than spiral steel boning, which needs caps and a cap-setting tool. However, Like A Fool, I didn’t remember that maybe, just MAYBE, I should have waited until I was able to print out the properly-sized pattern and measure to see what size bones I needed(because there are two different widths used, Apparently) before just purchasing a size that I thought was right, but. ://// so that was fun and not something I realized until I had gotten to the point of actually sewing the bone channels on all the panels, but I’ll come back to that later in another post. I also decided that because I couldn’t see the spoon busks in comparison to my body irl, it would be safer to buy a straight busk and just bend it for the curve, and that I was also going to use small-ass floral metal stamps on the busk loops because busks with decorative patterns on the loops were all sold out online to my knowledge :| this all happened over the course of a week where I was looking up materials online and debating whether spending all that money was worth it, until I said fuck it, I’m gonna make it, and bought everything, which took until ~late August/early September to all arrive. So, to pass the time, I searched up all the YouTube tutorials I had watched before of historical costubers making their own corsets for tips and watched them all again, and also went through ateliersylph’s blog posts for instructions and other resources, most of which are in French so get a google translator if u can’t read it like me lol. I finally got the pattern printed out after like, a week or 2, so after that, I was cutting and pasting it together irl, making mockups, etc. until everything else arrived. :D

#sewing #corset #fashion #historical costuming

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bmwiid · 11 months ago

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The 2024 Resolution Post:

I normally have a huge amount of resolutions - I normally have 12.

My plan is normally along the lines of "the more I have the more likely I am to keep at least one"

and last year I actually kept a couple for at least 6 months.

I kept a daily diary for 3 months, and carried on a couple of times a week until about August.

I lost weight for about 4 months and then I gained it all back (all of it - I was 14 stone on 1/1/23 and I'm 13.13 on 31/12/23) and was quite lucky not to put more on.

I kept a TIGHT budget and was doing really fucking well until Soph moved in, which ate all my savings and put me on the back foot for a while. It's evening out now and 2024 she should be able to pay rent, which will help me SO much.

I stuck with my skincare plan for a couple of months but in all honesty, my skin just broke out a lot MORE and since I've gone back to the ol' water and occasionally using head&shoulders (the zinc is good for your skin, and it's working for me so far) I've had less breakouts.

I didn't use the keyboard once. It's a cute idea but not something I was actually willing to put time into when it came down to it.

I gave up fizzy drinks for like 2 hours. I crashed quick and gave up so fast I think I was the first person in 2023 to break a resolution.

I didn't leave the house at least once a week, and I didn't take better care of myself - physically or mentally.

HOWEVER, the big win for me in 2023 was sewing. I bought a new sewing machine and I've never sewn so many wearable things before. My crowing achievement has been the three pairs of jeans I've made and wear almost exclusively. It's the first time I've made things that I am so proud of and wear a lot.

So - for 2024 my resolutions are:

Get back on budget. My mental health is linked to money and bills in a huge way and when the money goes down, so does my mood. It is important that I maintain a decent cushion of cash (£300+) for emergencies.

Lose weight / Get fit - I'm putting these two together as it's linked for me. There are a couple of 'steps' to this one and it's a biggie, so the side quests are:

No eating at my desk

Use the gym membership

Figure out what is an excuse vs a reason. (am I sore or am I lazy?)

I do have a couple of sewing goals but those are more like fun projects I want to try and not like "GOALS" but I'd really like to make a 1873 bustle dress with the corset and fun stuff, as well as more 'everyday cosplay' that makes me feel fancy but in a daily wear item.

#new years resolution #new years resolutions #new year #2024 resolutions #looking back #2023 in review

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Whitechapel series 3 press pack

Whitechapel – Real life cases highlighted by Buchan in the series

Story 1

Ratcliffe Highway Murders The Ratcliffe Highway murders were two vicious attacks that resulted in multiple fatalities, and occurred over twelve days in the year 1811, in homes half a mile apart near Wapping in London.

The first attack took place on 7th December 1811 at a home behind a linen draper’s shop on Ratcliffe Highway (now called The Highway). The victims were Timothy Marr (a 24 year old linen draper and hosier), his wife Celia, their 3-month-old son Timothy and James Gowen, their shop boy. Margaret Jewell, a servant of the Marrs, had been sent to purchase oysters, and subsequently escaped. The murder caused the government to offer a reward of 500 guineas for the apprehension of the perpetrator.

Twelve days later on the 19th December, the second attack happened at The Kings Arms in New Gravel Lane (now Garnet street). The victims were John Williamson, 56 year old publican who had been at the Kings Arms for 15 years, his 60 year old wife Elizabeth and Bridget Anna Harrington in her late 50's, a servant. Williamson's 14-year-old granddaughter, Catherine (Kitty) Stillwell, slept through the incident and was thus not discovered. John Turner, a lodger and journeyman, discovered the murders and escaped out of an upper window, using a knotted sheet to climb down to the street below.

A principal suspect in the murders, John Williams (also known as Murphy), was a lodger at the nearby Pear Tree public house in Old Wapping. He was a 27-year-old Scottish or Irish seaman. He had nursed a grievance against Marr from when they were shipmates, but the subsequent murders at the Kings Arms remain unexplained. Williams was arrested, but committed suicide by hanging himself in prison; he was buried with a stake through his heart at the junction of Commercial Road and Cannon Street Road.

Charles Manson, 1969, Sharon Tate On the night of August 8, Manson directed Charles Watson to take Susan Atkins, Linda Kasabian, and Patricia Krenwinkel to "that house where Melcher used to live" and "totally destroy everyone in [it], as gruesome as you can." He told the women to do as Watson would instruct them. The current occupants of the house, all of whom were strangers to the Manson followers, were movie actress Sharon Tate, wife of famed director Roman Polanski and eight and a half months pregnant; her friend and former lover, hairstylist Jay Sebring; Polanski's friend and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and Frykowski’s lover Abigail Folger, heiress to the Folger coffee fortune. Tate's husband, Polanski, was in London working on a film project; Tate had been visiting with him and had returned to the United States only three weeks earlier.

Richard Farley Richard Farley is an American convicted mass murderer. A former employee of Electromagnetic Systems Labs (ESL) in Sunnyvale, California, he stalked co-worker Laura Black for four years beginning in 1984. Black obtained a temporary restraining order against him on February 2, 1988, with a court date set for February 17, 1988 to make the order permanent. On February 16, 1988, Farley shot and killed seven people at ESL and wounded four others, including Black. He was convicted of seven counts of first degree murder, and is currently sitting on death row at San Quentin.

Story 2

The Thames Torso mystersties of 1887-1889 The Whitehall Mystery is an unsolved murder from London in 1888. The dismembered remains of a woman were found at three different sites in central London, including the future site of Scotland Yard. Newspapers suggested a tie to Jack the Ripper's killings of prostitutes that were occurring simultaneously, but the Metropolitan Police said there was no connection.

Mary Ann Cotton Born Mary Ann Robson in October 1832 in Low Moorsley, County Durham, she died 24 March 1873. She was an English woman convicted of murdering her husband and children and is believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning.

Mary Wilson Killed four lovers with phosphorus and claimed they took it in‘sexual stimulation pills’s

Mary Wilson (c. 1893 - 1963) also known as the Merry widow of Windy Nook, was a serial killer and the last woman to be sentenced to death in Durham, in 1958. However the sentence was not carried out as it was commuted to a prison sentence.

An exhumation of the bodies of her last two husbands revealed high levels of phosphorus. Her defense claimed the substance was contained in their medication. Wilson was convicted of murdering two of her four husbands with beetle poison in 1956 and 1957. The remains of her earlier two husbands were exhumed at a later date and pointed to the same cause of death.

Dr Crippen Dr. Crippen, was an American homeopathic physician hanged in Pentonville Prison, London, on 23 November 1910, for the murder of his wife, Cora Henrietta Crippen. A theory, which was first propounded by Edward Marshall Hall, was that Crippen was using hyoscine on his wife as a depressant or an aphrodisiac but accidentally gave her an overdose and then panicked when she died.

The Lonely heart Killers Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, who met after Beck placed a lonely-hearts ad, became known as "The Lonely Hearts Killers" after their arrest and trial for serial murder in 1949. Between 1947 and 1949 they are believed to have killed as many as twenty women.

The Black Eyed Borgia and her Playboy lover Mary Frances Creighton and Everett Appelgate, both convicted and executed for the murder of Ada Creighton (Appelgate’s wife) from arsenic poisoning.

H.H.Holmes (May 16, 1861[1] – May 7, 1896), better known under the alias of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers in the modern sense of the term. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World's Fair, Holmes opened a hotel which he had designed and built for himself specifically with murder in mind, and which was the location of many of his murders. While he confessed to 27 murders, of which nine were confirmed, his actual body count could be as high as 250. He took an unknown number of his victims from the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was less than 2 miles away from his "World's Fair" hotel.

Marquis de Sade An episode in Marseille, in 1772, involved the non-lethal poisoning of prostitutes with the supposed aphrodisiac Spanish fly and sodomy with his manservant Latour. That year the two men were sentenced to death in absentia for sodomy and said poisoning.

Thomas Huskey, 1999 Knoxville, Tennessee Accused killer of 4 women in Tennessee. Nicknamed the "Zoo Man", Huskey worked at the Knoxville Zoo and allegedly took his victims here. He talked of ‘Kyle’, a separate, darker personality that was responsible for a series of murders.

Arthur Ford, 1954 Arthur Ford became infatuated with a woman called Betty Grant who worked in his office on Euston Road. He bought a coconut nice for both Betty and a friend that he had laced with cantharidin; both died after eating it.

Story 3

Bogeyman A bogeyman is an amorphous imaginary being used by adults to frighten children into compliant behaviour. The monster has no specific appearance, and conceptions about it can vary drastically from household to household within the same community; in many cases, he has no set appearance in the mind of an adult or child, but is simply a non-specific embodiment of terror. Parents may tell their children that if they misbehave, the bogeyman will get them. Bogeymen may target a specific mischief — for instance, a bogeyman that punishes children who suck their thumbs — or general misbehavior, depending on what purpose needs serving. In some cases, the bogeyman is a nickname for the devil.

Zodiac Killer Masked serial killer in California in 1960s/1970s who said that ‘hunting humans was the most exciting of all sports’

The Phantom US, 1940s. Killed on full moons, wore a white mask and attacked eight by the light of the moon. Of whom the sheriff said “no one sees him, no one hears him in time.”

Robert Williams The case of the man who killed a girl in Hyde Park in 1928. The man claimed that the film ‘London After Midnight’ sent him insane, and that he saw Lon Chaney in the park, forcing him to murder the girl with a razor.

Scared to death In 1840, Sir Robert Warboys had heard of a tale of a parlour maid who had seen the spectral presence and had been driven insane. He wanted to disprove the haunting, and armed with a shotgun, went to spend the night in the attic room. The house was woken at midnight when a shot rang out. They found Warboys dead from fright.

Then in 1878, Lord Lyttleton stayed the night. He loaded his gun with silver sixpennies said to ward off evil. For him it worked and he survived to tell the tale.

Couple on a spree together – Caril Ann Fugate and Charles Starkweather. Nebraska, 1957. Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate. They killed 11 in all. Including her parents and two year old sister. She was only 14 at the time. Nobody knows how many she killed. She said she was held hostage by Starkweather. He said she was a willing participant. He was executed in 1959. She was paroled in 1976. And to this day she has never spoken of the murders, so no one knows how involved she really was.

Tsuyama Massacre The Tsuyama massacre was a spree killing that occurred on 21 May 1938 in the rural village of Kaio close to Tsuyama city in Okayama, Japan. Mutsuo Toi, a 21-year-old man, killed 30 people, including his grandmother, with a shotgun, Japanese sword, and axe, and seriously injured three others before killing himself with the shotgun.

#whitechapel #whitechapel itv #text

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