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happy solar eclipse everybody

#heeeee #luffy looks very pleased to be eclipsed #(and honking a fantastic tit) #and who can blame him? #zolu #one piece #gorgeous fan art

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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 respondibility 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.

#read this aloud to my sister once #and could barely make it through #the carpathia #if nothing we do matters the only thing that matters is what we do

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イタサス/サスイタ 

#sasuke vs danzo #using the itachi illusion was so good #tells you everything you need to know about where Sasuke's head is at

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Fiat Lux (2623 words) by nigeltde Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: due South Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Benton Fraser/Ray Kowalski Characters: Diefenbaker, Bob Fraser Additional Tags: Coda, Post-Mountie on the Bounty Summary: An attitude of hope.

for @flownwrong for being a) a charmer and b) an amazing @ds30below mod <3

#nige! #exciting! #to read

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descriptions of Sam's tortured soul

Supernatural Season 6

#all this #and he survives #San fucking winchester

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#bloodied boy #using himself as a battering ram #stealing his dead brother's crow illusion #to drag his image into his bloody revenge #hit more of my buttons #i dare you #uchiha sasuke #naruto #sasuke vs danzo

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The perfect wings

+close ups

#heck yeah #i love the imagery of the wings/arms of the pirate king #this is gorgeous #there's something about it highlighting the differences in their styles #but still complementary? #i dunno #gorgeous fan art #one piece #zosan

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#artist resources #for future reference

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Heart to heart.

Loved the drawing I made of Dean so much so i decided to make a matching one of Sam. I wanted to place them next to each other but it felt like something was missing, so then I had the idea to add the heart into the middel :)

I am don’t say this often about my own art , but I am genuinely extremely proud of these drawing and think I improved quite a lot when it comes to digital art❤️

Ps: thank you all so much for all the love on my previous drawing of dean!!!

#love it as a triptych op #gorgeous fan art #stone number one

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for @wetsammywinchester 👬🐕💗

#ahhhhh #I've always wondered if miracle was dog napped #this is so frigging cute #stone number one #gorgeous fan art #miracle is so cyute

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can someone please tell me to stop thinking of the twitching boob close up Toei did to Zoro?

#I'm sorry but the fact that they zoomed in #for the soul purpose of animating the titty pop #will never not be hilarious to me #why yes #zoro is healed and back in action #you can tell by his tits #one piece #roronoa zoro #*sole

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#ahahaha #love this #Sanji getting a nose bleed over zoro would be mortified #at least let it be about his tits #he has great tits #it would be hard to argue with that #zosan #one piece

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CALLUM KEITH RENNIE as Captain Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery

#um wtf wtf #he's so handsome #??? #ckr einning at life #gorgeous set #thanks for ruining my life #ckr

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My art tag

Ask me a question/say hi/make a request [OPEN]

#oh ho! #rad #love the limited palette and lighting #gorgeous fan art #sam winchester

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Okay but you COULD do a Dracula episode of Leverage and it would be hilarious.

I would do it like this. We'd have some wrong place wrong time protagonist called Jonathan who keeps accidentally witnessing parts of the con in such a way that they appear to him to replicate the events of Dracula. Like, the crew has inhabited some castle but Oh No, the mark's innocent little lawyer man is here, can't let him catch on

Sophie yeets the mirror because our friend Jonathan is about to accidentally see the crew hard at work behind him and she panics. "Oh you don't need this honey" or whatever (something something man's vanity)

He happens to open the window and Parker is just climing the castle like a lizard because that's. What she does

Nate is in an Old Guy disguise for one part of the con, but then Jonathan Not In On It happens to see him out of costume and WTF WTF WHY IS HE GETTING YOUNGER

Letters with fake dates make perfect sense when it's a con

Gets home happens to see the Leverage crew just walking around for the next part of the con, freaks tf out

Quincey Morris is exactly the kind if character Eliot would play

Sophie gets made, decides to have an elaborate Death Scene wherein Elliot and Hardison (as a "definitely licensed doctor") "help" the Mark try to "save" her

Parker plays Hardison's "assistant" but she plays it very VERY Renfield. Jonathan swears he can see her eating bugs (maybe it's a com that she panics and pretends to eat to not give away the game)

Poor Jonathan again sees her up and about post death scene and is like WTF WTF WTF

Eventually they cotton on to what has happened and Elliot (who hasn't been made yet) promises to help Jonathan kill the vampire once and for all

All of their aliases are drawn from Dracula and this is not played as intentional in-universe

Anyway, the whole thrust is that it's a perfectly normal Leverage episode except for one guy who, due to an increasingly unfortunate series of coincidences, believes he is in the novel Dracula. Like Rear Window, only it's Leverage Dracula.

#lolol #perfect #we provide leverage

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01x01 / 15x20

#wow #that hit me like a bulldozer #somethings are foundational #this is dean looking at one of his #stone number one

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Dief Chasing a Doughnut - on AO3

#get it Dief! #due south