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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.

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behind the scenes training vs. kill floor fight scene

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I need all the luck I can get, folks

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

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I still love TaZ

Travis: So as you make your way through town, the town doesn’t feel … right, it feels tense in that way that -it might just be completely placebo- but in that way that buildings and wood seems to absorb the negative emotions of the people within it, and it kind of bleeds through like a whiskey as it picks up the flavoring of the barrel. And so as you move through town -

Justin, speaking the words we’re all thinking: Hell yeah, that’s evocative as fuck.

Travis: Thank you.

——

Travis: As you head into the graveyard, it’s silent as… the grave.

Griffin: Hm!

Travis: Um, you can see in the middle of-

Justin, again the voice of the people: Less evocative!

(Why did it take me this long to listen to the Dust mini-arc?!)

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Hello I would like to file a formal complaint about one Travis McElroy, how dare he 😳 Source 1 - Oh y’all - This goober   

Also further detail on the costume

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salvation’s more than i can afford: a MotW mix for luce

INTRO: TOM WAITS//CLAP HANDS said roar, roar, the thunder and the roar

1. HOZIER//NFWMB “ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves? ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?”

2. DEAD MAN’S BONES//LOSE YOUR SOUL “you're gonna lose your soul tonight, tonight, oh you're gonna lose control, tonight”

3. ST. VINCENT//THE APOCALYPSE SONG “it's time, you are light i guess you are afraid of what everyone is made of all of your praying amounts to just one breath” 

4. CRYSTAL CASTLES//PLAGUE “never thought i was the enemy i am the plague”

5. THE VEILS//AXOLOTL “another head for the chopping board who needs the devil when you've got the lord? oh my soul, losing control, who built this heart?”

6. THE DEFTONES//CHANGE (IN THE HOUSE OF FLIES) “i watched a change in you it's like you never had wings”

7. FEVER RAY//IF I HAD A HEART “crushed and filled with all i found underneath and inside, just to come around more, give me more, give me more”

8. RUELLE//MONSTERS “and you better stay clever if you wanna survive once you cross the line”

9. HALSEY//CONTROL “i'm bigger than my body i'm colder than this home i'm meaner than my demons i'm bigger than these bones”

10. BLACK LAB//THIS NIGHT “there are things i have done there's a place i have gone there's a beast and i let it run now it's running my way”

11. THE DRESDEN DOLLS//GIRL ANACHRONISM “there i go again pretending to be you make believing that i have a soul beneath the surface”

12. PORTISHEAD//OVER “what have i done oh this uncertainty, is taking me over is taking me over, is taking me over”

13.  FLORENCE+THE MACHINE//RABBIT HEART (RAISE IT UP) here i am a rabbit hearted girl frozen in the headlights it seems i've made the final sacrifice we raise it up, this offering, we raise it up this is a gift, it comes with a price who is the lamb and who is the knife?”

14. PHANTOGRAM//DESTROYER “i tried, i tried to save so many lives i guess my heart got carried away i guess the dark turned off the light”

15. BILLIE EILISH//YOU SHOULD SEE ME IN A CROWN “tell me which one is worse living or dying first sleeping inside a hearse i don't dream”

16. THE DEAD WEATHER//I CUT LIKE A BUFFALO “you know i look like a woman but i cut like a buffalo stand up tall like a tower, then i fall like a domino”

17. THE BONES OR J.R. JONES//HAMMERS AND NAILS “hold your heart, bury the shovel, rumours and spells, rumours and spells, hold your tongue, bury the rope, hammers and nails, hammers and nails”

18. THE CIVIL WARS//BARTON HOLLOW “miles and miles in my bare feet still can't lay me down to sleep if i die before i wake i know the lord my soul won't take”

19. NINE INCH NAILS//ME, I’M NOT “and it's hard to see what i'm capable of and it's hard to believe just what i've become”

20. MARILYN MANSON//MAN THAT YOU FEAR “i am so tangled in my sins that i cannot escape i am so tangled in my sins that i cannot escape”

OUTRO: TOM WAITS//HELL BROKE LUCE what. is. NEXT?

((spotify link))

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Chris Evans on anxiety

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Here’s a long but important comic for you <3

Accepting ourselves the way we are means we allow ourselves the things we need to make life a little easier. You don’t have to fight it, it’s ok have different needs to others. You are worthy of kindness, so be kind to you <3

love from the sad ghost club <3

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one of the more valuable things I’ve learned in life as a survivor of a mentally unstable parent is that it is likely that no one has thought through it as much as you have. 

no, your friend probably has not noticed they cut you off four times in this conversation. 

no, your brother didn’t realize his music was that loud while you were studying. 

no, your bff or S.O. doesn’t remember that you’re on a tight deadline right now.

no, no one else is paying attention to the four power dynamics at play in your friend group right now.  

a habit of abused kids, especially kids with unstable parents, is the tendency to notice every little detail. We magnify small nuances into major things, largely because small nuances quickly became breaking points for parents. Managing moods, reading the room, perceiving danger in the order of words, the shift of body weight….it’s all a natural outgrowth of trying to manage unstable parents from a young age. 

Here’s the thing: most people don’t do that. I’m not saying everyone else is oblivious, I’m saying the over analysis of minor nuances is a habit of abuse. 

I have a rule: I do not respond to subtext. This includes guilt tripping, silent treatments, passive aggressive behavior, etc. I see it. I notice it. I even sometimes have to analyze it and take a deep breath and CHOOSE not to respond. Because whether it’s really there or just me over-reading things that actually don’t mean anything, the habit of lending credence to the part of me that sees danger in the wrong shift of body weight…that’s toxic for me. And dangerous to my relationships. 

The best thing I ever did for myself and my relationships was insist upon frank communication and a categorical denial of subtext. For some people this is a moral stance. For survivors of mentally unstable parents this is a requirement of recovery. 

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US Helplines:

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Eating Disorders Hotline: [phone]

Rape and Sexual Assault: 1-800-656-4673

Grief Support: 1-650-321-5272

Runaway: 1-800-843-5200, 1-800-843-5678, 1-800-621-4000

Exhale: After Abortion Hotline/Pro-Voice: 1-866-4394253

Child Abuse: 1-800-422-4453

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Samaritans (for any problem): 08457909090 e-mail [email protected]

Childline (for anyone under 18 with any problem): 08001111

Mind infoline (mental health information): 0300 123 3393 e-mail: [email protected]

Mind legal advice (for people who need mental-health related legal advice): 0300 466 6463 [email protected]

b-eat eating disorder support: 0845 634 14 14 (only open Mon-Fri 10.30am-8.30pm and Saturday 1pm-4.30pm) e-mail: [email protected]

b-eat youthline (for under 25’s with eating disorders): 08456347650 (open Mon-Fri 4.30pm - 8.30pm, Saturday 1pm-4.30pm)

Cruse Bereavement Care: 08444779400 e-mail: [email protected]

Frank (information and advice on drugs): 0800776600

Drinkline: 0800 9178282

Rape Crisis England & Wales: 0808 802 9999 1(open 2 - 2.30pm 7 - 9.30pm) e-mail [email protected]

Rape Crisis Scotland: 08088 01 03 02 every day, 6pm to midnight

India Self Harm Hotline: [phone]

India Suicide Helpline: 022-27546669

Kids Help Phone (Canada): 1-800-668-6868

FREE 24/7 suicide hotlines:

Argentina: 54-0223-493-0430

Australia: 13-11-14

Austria: 01-713-3374

Barbados: 429-9999

Belgium: 106

Botswana: 391-1270

Brazil: 21-233-9191

China: 852-2382-0000

(Hong Kong: 2389-2222)

Costa Rica: 606-253-5439

Croatia: 01-4833-888

Cyprus: 357-77-77-72-67

Czech Republic: 222-580-697, 476-701-908

Denmark: 70-201-201

Egypt: 762-1602

Estonia: 6-558-088

Finland: 040-5032199

France: 01-45-39-4000

Germany: 0800-181-0721

Greece: 1018

Guatemala: 502-234-1239

Holland: 0900-0767

Honduras: 504-237-3623

Hungary: 06-80-820-111

Iceland: 44-0-8457-90-90-90

Israel: 09-8892333

Italy: 06-705-4444

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Latvia: 6722-2922, 2772-2292

Malaysia: 03-756-8144

(Singapore: 1-800-221-4444)

Mexico: 525-510-2550

Netherlands: 0900-0767

New Zealand: 4-473-9739

New Guinea: 675-326-0011

Nicaragua: 505-268-6171

Norway: 47-815-33-300

Philippines: 02-896-9191

Poland: 52-70-000

Portugal: 239-72-10-10

Russia: 8-20-222-82-10

Spain: 91-459-00-50

South Africa: 0861-322-322

South Korea: 2-715-8600

Sweden: 031-711-2400

Switzerland: 143

Taiwan: 0800-788-995

Thailand: 02-249-9977

Trinidad and Tobago: 868-645-2800

Ukraine: 0487-327715

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Dare to dreeeeeam

When you finally find the energy to do stuff

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hey gurl @starmaammke 

this reblog is for youuuuuu

imagine that sweater and how cozy it is

let the warmth and coze of the sweater envelop you

let mr. roth’s cool & collected demeanor soothe you

everything is gonna be just fine

Tim Roth (2007-2008) Levi’s jeans and glasses, Roth’s own.

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Steve Rogers + text posts

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hey im a brown trans person and uhhh

in the wake of another white cis gay movie id just like to remind yall to watch and support the following lgbt+ movies! these all feature at least one leading cast member of colour, so please please show your support if you’re able to!

 moonlight (about the life of a black gay man in miami, following his journey and transformation over time) {2016}

rocky horror picture show reboot (with Laverne Cox, so much more enjoyable when featuring a trans woman of colour instead of a white cis dude) {2016}

paris is burning (about drag balls in 80s NY, specifically focusing on black and latinx drag performers and intersectional lgbt+ folks) {1990}

to wong foo, thanks for everything, julie newmar (about three nyc drag queens whose car breaks down in a small town, good women supporting women messages) {1995}

feel free to add more and/or reblog!

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THAT S W E A T E R 

“Acting has saved his life. Now he feels like a director like his friend Quentin Tarantino.”

Tim Roth for ICON panorama #41 photographed by Christophe Meimoon