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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.

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THE HIGH PONYTAIL !!!

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since cql gave us Jiang Yanli with a sword, I’ve been obsessing about the name of it. what was her relationship with it? as it was not an extension of herself the way it was for others in her family, did that lack of relation cause problems? did it bother her that zidian was given to her brother instead of her? was it her suggestion? if she had used her sword, would it have changed the events of Nightless City?

I have so many questions and it’s such a small detail shift, but it changes so many things too just by adding it in because it forces the story (at least it should) explain why she does and does not do certain things given the fact she is a cultivator to an extent. cql gave me more Jiang Yanli, so I’m thankful, but it excludes her more just by not explaining why she’s not tracking the same way her brothers are.

if you have head cannons for names, or any of these questions, please send them to me. I’d love to hear them.

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What is the most plausible method of copulation for stegosaurus and other thyreophoran dinosaurs?

copulation, you say? how asinine!

everyone knows stegosaurs reproduced vegetatively.

Step 1. cut a leaf as needed

Step 2. put the cutting on a flowerpot. then water it. i guess

Step 3. enjoy your new crop of baby steglings

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hey ao3 can you like give the extra $38k you made from this month’s funds drive to charity

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Chapter 111: Wangxian - Everyday means everyday (extended)

I noticed when I received my MDZS box set in Traditional Chinese that the ‘Everyday’ sex scene was a bit longer than what I had previously read so… here we are ^^

Overall it’s written in more explicit language and rearranged differently compared to the other existing version. The first half of the fragment below is almost entirely new and features Wei Wuxian riling up Lan Wangji while the rest is interspersed with more details.

If you notice inaccuracies or mistakes, please feel free to point them out!

Warning: Explicit sexual content

I strongly advise reading the beginning of the chapter first to refresh your mind and continue here when you reach the first line below. Else it will probably be a bit disjointed.

Keep reading

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“Lan Zhan, there’s a mistletoe!”

“Mn.”

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#魔道祖師 #mdzs #mdzs fanart #the untamed #wangxian #lan wangji #wei wuxian #lan zhan #wei ying #cql #cql fanart #mo dao zu shi #chen qing ling #wwx #lwj #fanart #마도조사

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Happy Jiang Cheng day~

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#HappyJiangChengDay #江澄1105生日快乐 #HappyJiangWanyinDay #mo dao zu shi #mdzs #mdzs fanart #魔道祖师 #마도조사 #江澄 #fanart #jiang cheng #jiang wanyin #lotus pier #yunmeng jiang #wip #cql #cql fanart #cheng qing ling

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DOOM DADA T.O.P.

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#bigbang #bigbangvip #bigbang top #bigbang fanart #kpop #kpop fanart #choi seunghyun #fanart

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Lan Zhan prepared a holiday-appropriate surprise for his husband’s birthday. <3

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#1031weiyingday #魏无羡1031生日快乐 #1031위무선_생일축하해 #魔道祖师 #wangxian #weiying #wei ying #wei wuxian #weiwuxian #lanzhan #lan zhan #lan wangji #lanwangj #theuntamed #the untamed #cql #chen qing ling #mdzs #mdzsart #mo dao zu shi #modaozushi #HappyWeiYingDay

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Happy birthday to this beautiful and inspiring man. 💕

#happyxiaozhanday #肖战1005生日快乐 #肖战 #肖战daytoy #肖战xiaozhan #ourlightxiaozhan #xiao zhan #Xiaozhan #wangxian #theuntamed #CQL

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#mo dao zu shi #mdzs #cql #Fanart #the untamed #wangxian #wei ying #lan zhan #wei wuxian #lan wangji #cheng qing ling #mdzs fanart #cql fanart

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until whenever <3

#bigbang #kpop #kpop fanart #kpop bigbang #kpopbigbang #fanart

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Happy Birthday to the King 👑

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Okay, I may be shouting into the ether here but hear me out… 

MDZS/CQL PACIFIC RIM AU

Has this been done yet??? Because if it has, I need links. Now. Please. (If you want to write this, please do!) 

But like imagine this. Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng piloting their own Jaeger then one unfortunate encounter, their Jaeger got severely damaged and a kaiju managed to rip Wei Wuxian out of his Conn Pod. Jiang Cheng just barely managed to get their Jaeger back to shore before collapsing whilst they couldn’t find Wei Wuxian’s body in the aftermath and was presumed dead. 

*cue sadness* 

Because of that and all the trauma that came with it, Jiang Cheng vowed to never pilot a Jaeger ever again but ended up heading a Shatterdome anyway. Because, you know, once a Jaeger pilot, always a Jaeger pilot. How can you keep away? 

13 years later, just when government leaders decided to defund the Jaeger Program because they thought building a wall was better (👀), a rogue pilot called Mo Xuanyu showed up in the Shatterdome that was headed by Marshal Lan Xichen and idk, asked to pilot one of the last remaining Mark-3s because they clearly needed it. Or maybe he was recruited by Lan Xichen himself cos they really needed a pilot for the old Mark-3s and he heard from the grapevine that this Mo Xuanyu could do it. Maybe there weren’t pilots skilled enough to navigate such model since they were pretty old. And at this point they didn’t have enough budget to train new recruits from scratch so they really needed experienced pilots. 

And get this, Marshal Lan Xichen’s brother, Lan Wangji, was the head of the Jaeger Restoration Program and was one of the best pilots out there (scores wise) but he was not allowed to pilot a Jaeger because of reasons. (Trauma from childhood??? Seeing their parents, who were drift compatible, die??? So despite the Lan-certified control, he always ended up chasing the rabbit???) Anyway, you know how that sparring session scene went, right? Wei Wuxian decimating his opponents but Lan Wangji who was overseeing it was not impressed and kept making disapproving noises until Wei Wuxian was like, OKAY BUDDY, SINCE YOU SEEM TO DISAPPROVE OF THEM/ME SO MUCH, FIGHT ME. 

And then Lan Wangji was like, hold my ribbon. 

AND THEN THEY SPAR. 

AND THEY TURN OUT TO BE DRIFT COMPATIBLE. 

And they eventually pilot their own Jaeger.

And then they get into each other’s heads and memories. 

And then Lan Wangji finds out the “Mo Xuanyu” is actually Wei Wuxian. 

And then they fall in love. 

But there’s also kaiju fighting. A lot of pining. A lot of miscommunication until they drift and see each other’s True Feelings™. A lot of kissing and sexy times thereafter. 

And of course, Angry Jiang Cheng storming in the Gusu Lan Shatterdome all like, HOW DARE YOU COME BACK FROM THE DEAD AND NOT COME TO YUNMENG JIANG SHATTERDOME YOU ASSHOLE. 

And then they lived happily every after. 

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THE UNTAMED

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