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lately ive been bedridden with a terrible case of i dont wanna

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Funny how attachment works, isn't it?

You get attached too much, you're sensitive.. you don't get attached, you're heartless.. you get attached and want some time for yourself, you're selfish.. you get attached and you're with them all the time, you're clingy..

You're being judged every minute.. you're also being judged for the people you're with..

And sometimes, you get attached as if it was meant to be, your only wish is to be happy with them all the time, but you're so helpless that it breaks you everyday.. but still there's no way you're letting them go..

Which of these is the best one to be?

Back to this place with a new sketch!

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READ. THIS. WITHOUT. FAIL.

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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A little older than you, yes

But in normal human lifespan, I'm still very young thank you very much

cats Are *NOT* EVIL

*scoffs*

Yeah right

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*gasp*

Noooo we're not!

Call me a crazy cat lady if you want but I've had, like, more than 30 cats so far in my life and I've never been described as gullible

cats Are *NOT* EVIL

*scoffs*

Yeah right

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*horrified*

Ofcourse they're not!! I have 4 of them cuties!

cats Are *NOT* EVIL

*scoffs*

Yeah right

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"You can’t just sit there and wait for life to come to you. You have to go get it."

- Damon Salvatore in 'The Vampire Diaries'

I'm actually new to this guy because I haven't seen The Vampire Diaries yet😅 did this as a request by my friend..

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you know what would make me really, indescribably happy right now? my own personal library. with a secret code installed on a secret door only i know about. sorry, you can’t come in. i’m having my own adventures without you. bye.

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Throwing pies to intelligent conversations about marginal utility to garlic breads...

I present to you... The digress side of Tumblr

hey bucko

heard you were 5'4

You gonna throw a pie at me?

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I missed you tooooo

Ooh who were your first friends here ?

@thefandomstobit was the first

@ru-1d1d was next

@i-love-books-and-i-cannot-lie came somewhere along the way

Ooh I forgot @doremifasolangelo and @kermuddgen

And then the rest of the idiots followed

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“A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?”

“Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself.”

- Jace Herondale in 'City of Bones'

I could not decide which quote of his to put, so there's two for you! I swear I could write an entire book with the quotes he has said that I love!😍

Sorry about the neck rune though, couldn't show much of it🤷‍♀️

Do tell me how it is!

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@secret-eden you were one of my first friends here as well!!!

Ooh who were your first friends here ?

@thefandomstobit was the first

@ru-1d1d was next

@i-love-books-and-i-cannot-lie came somewhere along the way

Ooh I forgot @doremifasolangelo and @kermuddgen

And then the rest of the idiots followed

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Made my day.. hope it makes yours as well😍

He Hua at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding.

© Happy Panda.

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"At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead. The hard thing is finding the courage to do it."

- Katniss Everdeen in 'Hunger Games 2- Catching Fire'

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I sometimes wish I was as brave as the female characters I've read about😍 Take Katniss for example.. It would be so satisfying to have a bow and arrow and shoot annoying people in the head😏 (which is never gonna happen, don't worry).

Believe me when I tell you, this sketch did NOT turn out as expected😐

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If you use fiction to escape clap your hands

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If you use fiction to escape clap your hands

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If you use fiction to escape from something that you hate

If you use fiction to escape clap your hands

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Shadowhunter Families + insignias

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Wow that's relatable😐

LITTLE WOMEN (2019) written and directed by Greta Gerwig