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Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it.

Carpathia received Titanic’s distress signal at 12:20am, April 15th, 1912. She was 58 miles away, a distance that absolutely could not be covered in less than four hours.

(Californian’s exact position at the time is…controversial. She was close enough to have helped. By all accounts she was close enough to see Titanic’s distress rockets. It’s uncertain to this day why her crew did not respond, or how many might not have been lost if she had been there. This is not the place for what-ifs. This is about what was done.)

Carpathia’s Captain Rostron had, yes, rolled out of bed instantly when woken by his radio operator, ordered his ship to Titanic’s aid and confirmed the signal before he was fully dressed. The man had never in his life responded to an emergency call. His goal tonight was to make sure nobody who heard that fact would ever believe it.

All of Carpathia’s lifeboats were swung out ready for deployment. Oil was set up to be poured off the side of the ship in case the sea turned choppy; oil would coat and calm the water near Carpathia if that happened, making it safer for lifeboats to draw up alongside her. He ordered lights to be rigged along the side of the ship so survivors could see it better, and had nets and ladders rigged along her sides ready to be dropped when they arrived, in order to let as many survivors as possible climb aboard at once.

I don’t know if his making provisions for there still being survivors in the water was optimism or not. I think he knew they were never going to get there in time for that. I think he did it anyway because, god, you have to hope.

Carpathia had three dining rooms, which were immediately converted into triage and first aid stations. Each had a doctor assigned to it. Hot soup, coffee, and tea were prepared in bulk in each dining room, and blankets and warm clothes were collected to be ready to hand out. By this time, many of the passengers were awake–prepping a ship for disaster relief isn’t quiet–and all of them stepped up to help, many donating their own clothes and blankets.

And then he did something I tend to refer to as diverting all power from life support.

Here’s the thing about steamships: They run on steam. Shocking, I know; but that steam powers everything on the ship, and right now, Carpathia needed power. So Rostron turned off hot water and central heating, which bled valuable steam power, to everywhere but the dining rooms–which, of course, were being used to make hot drinks and receive survivors. He woke up all the engineers, all the stokers and firemen, diverted all that steam back into the engines, and asked his ship to go as fast as she possibly could. And when she’d done that, he asked her to go faster.

I need you to understand that you simply can’t push a ship very far past its top speed. Pushing that much sheer tonnage through the water becomes harder with each extra knot past the speed it was designed for. Pushing a ship past its rated speed is not only reckless–it’s difficult to maneuver–but it puts an incredible amount of strain on the engines. Ships are not designed to exceed their top speed by even one knot. They can’t do it. It can’t be done.

Carpathia’s absolute do-or-die, the-engines-can’t-take-this-forever top speed was fourteen knots. Dodging icebergs, in the dark and the cold, surrounded by mist, she sustained a speed of almost seventeen and a half.

No one would have asked this of them. It wasn’t expected. They were almost sixty miles away, with icebergs in their path. They had a responsibility to respond; they did not have a responsibility to do the impossible and do it well. No one would have faulted them for taking more time to confirm the severity of the issue. No one would have blamed them for a slow and cautious approach. No one but themselves.

They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world.

This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic’s last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could.

In total, 705 people of Titanic’s original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors.

At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less.

I think the least we can do is remember them for it.

so uhhh there was this post by @mortal-sarah that points out the reason that mingjue is so pissed off with huaisang when he gets back to the unclean realms is because he did the ancient chinese equivalent of ditching his designated driver to fuck about with his friends and then rather than, you know, LET HIS BROTHER KNOW WHERE HE IS, he called up meng yao to ask for a ride… 

and then my thoughts on it sort of… escalated… INTO THIS MONSTROSITY.

obviously I’ve messed with the timeline a little to have meng yao be jgy already and part of 3zun, and xingchen is already blind, but I think I captured the vibe of poor jgy having to trek all the way over to yueyang to pick up his absolute gremlin of an honorary little brother and his ridiculous friends, feat. the dreamiest power couple of the cultivation world (only wwx is immune to their dreaminess and that’s because xingchen is his sort-of-uncle and he’s seen him eat food off the floor, so.) and like… some weirdo that got tied up, I guess?

you can find more modern au here. 

it's cool that more people are watching tokyo godfathers thanks to youtube, but that version has outdated subtitling (particularly regarding hana, a trans woman character). i recommend the 2020 gkids release, which has more accurate subtitles and a really good dub as well. i'm sure you can find this version on various movie/anime streaming sites (hi)—you'll know it's the newer release if it starts with the circular gkids logo. merry tokyo godfathers everyone

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So, Microsoft is terrible. Yes yes, the oldest claim in the world.

But specifically... I just hate how Windows 10 tries to conflate and confuse web searches with things on one's own computer. The start menu should never do anything related to web-searching, especially if it purports to try to give examples of things that are on my hard drive!

This will make old, computer-illiterate people more malware-vulnerable. You have to maintain a strong distinction between "things that are on this computer (and maybe even included in Windows)" (safe, one hopes, or you already got pwned by it, probably), and "things on the web" (scary, dangerous, not to be trusted at all).

Eroding that barrier in the UI is awful. It just FEELS like a violation every time I start typing into the start bar, and it tries to show me ANYTHING web-related. My computer is NOT just an internet-portal! It has tons of stuff on it, and when I'm interacting with the OS, I ONLY want to see things that are already on here!

If I wanted to see something online, I would go to my browser! All the online stuff should be segregated into the browser!

Specific programs can access the internet; that's fine. But my OS's functions and interface should JUST be about the things that are already on my computer.

BNHA Pool Headcanons

The first summer that the students spent in the dorms, all of them immediately had the idea for a pool party. It took some convincing to get Todoroki, Iida, and Kaminari (for obvious reasons) to go along with the idea, but eventually all of Class 1-A, 1-B, a few friends from the sports festival, and The Big Three to go.

Because U.A. doesn’t have a pool that’s really suited to swim in (and neither of them want to use the sick water slide at the USJ due to bad memories), they have to convince Aizawa to let them do it.

Spoiler: Aizawa says no initially. It takes Yaoyorozu and a long winded speech for him to begrudgingly agree to it. He makes Present Mic go ask Nedzu permission for a fun field trip, and Mic passes this duty onto All Might.

Once everything is in order, the students are allowed one day at the pool with Aizawa, Mic, and All Might all chaperoning. A family vacation can be three dads and 50 kids.

Once they arrive to this pool facility, three students immediately go in for the cannonball: Kirishima, Togata, and Tetsutetsu (who sinks to the bottom of the pool and Kirishima has to go get him).

The goth squad™ (Jirou, Amajiki, Tokoyami, and Shouji) all find a giant umbrella to sit under so they don’t get sunburn. Aizawa ends up joining them since he also wants to avoid the sun.

Amajiki gets dragged out by Togata and Hadou though, so he’s in the water eventually.

Aizawa can’t swim, so All Might and Present Mic are the ones responsible for saving children. (Aizawa gets put on snack duty).

Midoriya makes it his personal mission to make sure everyone is having a good time, and therefore he spends most of the time watching over Iida and Todoroki (who both need to loosen up).

Yaoyorozu makes pool floaties for everyone and gives a special frog float to Asui. She also makes goggles for people and some covers for Iida’s engines.

Uraraka and Ashido spend their time playing pool games, and Hagakure joins in. Eventually the girls get everyone to Marco Polo.

Monoma cheats. Hard. He jumps out of the pool any time the person that’s “it” gets near him. All the rest of the players try to point this out, but he’s back in the pool before he’s caught. Sneaky.

Shinsou also “cheats,” singling out Midoriya each time and making him freeze so he can tag him. Midoriya doesn’t actually mind though.

Everyone is allowed to DJ at least two songs unless their music taste is superb. Jirou, Uraraka, Sato, and Aoyama have the best taste in music. Bakugo, Tsunotori, and Sero have the worst taste in music.

Speaking of Bakugo, guess which Class 1-A member begins the trend of playing chicken? It’s him, and he climbed right on Kirishima’s shoulders and charged at Kaminari, who in turn scrambled onto Sero’s shoulders.

All Might was tasked with breaking this up, as several of the boys joined in, including Todoroki and Midoriya. This was a failed task, as All Might lifts up Uraraka and they become unstoppable.

At the end of the day, they all scramble onto the bus, mostly sunburnt and tired. The one who had the most fun that day was Asui, as she finally got to spend time doing something she loved. Iida was also a top contender, but he will never admit that he had that much fun goofing off with his classmates.

All the students pass out in the dorm common room, and Aizawa just turns the light off and lets them sleep.

2nd century statue of two dogs, perhaps depicting early Italian sighthounds, discovered in Rome in 1774.

can you believe this quote is from shark boy and lava girl? astounding.

Commission for Hexx of their tiefling, Zephyr, with Gale. 💞

(Pricing for commissions, etc. can be found at janearts.tumblr.com/commissions.)

“Kakuzu! Sasori is supporting the commercial diamond industry!”

“NOT ON MY WATCH.”

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After Sasosaku’s first date. Yup.