Sigh. Images broken (they never did work on my phone for some reason, but are now not working on my computer either), but seem to be working on Rheinsberg.
Anyway, after finishing the Horowski chapter, I hit another part of the story I needed to report because ANGST.
Ivan siblings: Dear Catherine, we have no intention of escaping. We accept our fate. But there's a big fence around our prison, and we're told that on the other side of it is a meadow, where flowers grow in summer. We've never seen flowers in a meadow. We were born in prison, and have never known anything but prison for 30 years. Can we go walking in the meadow sometimes? We promise not to try to escape. We hear great things about flowers from our servants and guards!
Catherine: This sounds like an escape attempt. NO.
Catherine: *finally has grandkids*
Catherine: Okay, potential claimants to the throne. I'm feeling pretty good about the security of my family's succession. You can leave your prison and go live in house arrest in Denmark.
Siblings: *are 30-40 years old*
Siblings: If you had let us go when we were younger, we would have liked that. But our parents are dead, we only have each other, we literally know no other world than this prison, and we've gotten used to it here. Also, we don't speak a word of Danish. Nothing about this leaving plan sounds better than staying. So if you're loosening up...could you maybe let us stay here instead, with permission to walk in the meadow sometimes and see the flowers?
Catherine: Nonsense. Off to Denmark with you.
OMGGGGG. Hopefully they got to see flowers growing in Denmark while under house arrest, but seriously. :(
What? It's still not working for me here (different links), but it went from not working in incognito mode or on my phone in Rheinsberg to working in both places!
Hmm. Okay, it's working in Chrome but not Firefox. What browser are you on?
ETA: Okay, now it's not working in either browser. Omg, I give up. I'm going to find something other than Google Photos to host. Stay tuned...
Son of ETA: Okay, I see what's happening. The Google album archive url changes constantly, so it only works temporarily. I guess the url that doesn't embed for me is the only one that's actually permanent. Argh.
Also, as always thank you for the map! It's kind of one thing to read about them being doomed to this tiny island and another to actually see it on the map. (Even if they didn't end up there in the end... it wasn't because she felt bad about it!) And the screenshots are heartbreaking too :(
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Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-06 06:24 pm (UTC)Anyway, after finishing the Horowski chapter, I hit another part of the story I needed to report because ANGST.
Ivan siblings: Dear Catherine, we have no intention of escaping. We accept our fate. But there's a big fence around our prison, and we're told that on the other side of it is a meadow, where flowers grow in summer. We've never seen flowers in a meadow. We were born in prison, and have never known anything but prison for 30 years. Can we go walking in the meadow sometimes? We promise not to try to escape. We hear great things about flowers from our servants and guards!
Catherine: This sounds like an escape attempt. NO.
Catherine: *finally has grandkids*
Catherine: Okay, potential claimants to the throne. I'm feeling pretty good about the security of my family's succession. You can leave your prison and go live in house arrest in Denmark.
Siblings: *are 30-40 years old*
Siblings: If you had let us go when we were younger, we would have liked that. But our parents are dead, we only have each other, we literally know no other world than this prison, and we've gotten used to it here. Also, we don't speak a word of Danish. Nothing about this leaving plan sounds better than staying. So if you're loosening up...could you maybe let us stay here instead, with permission to walk in the meadow sometimes and see the flowers?
Catherine: Nonsense. Off to Denmark with you.
OMGGGGG. Hopefully they got to see flowers growing in Denmark while under house arrest, but seriously. :(
Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 06:24 am (UTC)CATHERINE! omg! :(
Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 01:58 pm (UTC)Okay, are they working now? It appears I had the same problem with my latest blog post too. :/ Embedded images have been my nemesis lately.
Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 05:04 pm (UTC)I think it was a permissions problem, which hopefully I've now solved. Cahn can confirm when she's awake and has time.
Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 06:02 pm (UTC)Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 06:06 pm (UTC)Hmm. Okay, it's working in Chrome but not Firefox. What browser are you on?
ETA: Okay, now it's not working in either browser. Omg, I give up. I'm going to find something other than Google Photos to host. Stay tuned...
Son of ETA: Okay, I see what's happening. The Google album archive url changes constantly, so it only works temporarily. I guess the url that doesn't embed for me is the only one that's actually permanent. Argh.
Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 09:51 pm (UTC)Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 11:05 pm (UTC)Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-13 11:07 pm (UTC)Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-15 06:08 am (UTC)Re: Ivan VI
Date: 2021-02-20 03:13 pm (UTC)And the place they ended up in was only slightly less bad!
And the screenshots are heartbreaking too :(
Yeah. I'm not much of a visual person, but Ekaterina made specifically the Ivan VI story more visceral to me. :(