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Emma (2020), cin. Christopher Blauvelt Lady Macbeth (2016), cin. Ari Wegner Jane Eyre (2011), cin. Adriano Goldman Mary, Queen of Scots (2018), cin. John Mathieson Belle (2013), cin. Ben Smithard The Favourite (2018), cin. Robbie Ryan The Duchess (2008), cin. Gyula Pados

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I find the fact that the closest mountain point on earth to the moon, the highest mountain and the tallest mountain are 3 different mountains to be a tiny bit disturbing

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how i love being a woman ♥︎

"Goddess of Beltane, Sacred Mother, Queen of May, Wild Lady of the Woods, Guardian of Love and Life, welcome to our circle. We women, powerful and sacred, declare upon this Hallowed Night, our heavenly bodies belong solely to us. We shall choose whom to love, and with whom to share trust. We shall walk upon this earth with grace and respect. We'll always take pride in our great intellect. We'll honor our emotions so our spirits may soar! And should any man belittle us, we'll show him the door! Our spirits are unbreakable, our imaginations free! Walk with us, Goddess, so blessed are we!" — by the young women of Avonlea

happy international women’s day

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Not trying to be depressing but yeah.. it's a feeling today.

Got denied an adhd diagnosis because of too little signs in my childhood, which is basically because I thrive on structure, being told what to do, a good support system, a parent who knows how to handle me (and didn't keep me sequestered), and liked school/learning. Now as an adult I am having massive trouble. I can manage working, but not to my true potential. Probably would have had a breakdown/burn out years ago if I wasn't living with my mother.

Had some bad sleeps this week, my headphones gave up during work.. so spend almost two hours out in the world unprotected on a friday in this town, which is always chaos.. then my car wouldn't start (because I apparently left the inside light on on wednesday night) and almost had a breakdown and cried because I would have to call the mechanic, and had to go to a cat and give him meds. Feeling better now, now that it turned out that it was most likely the light and so the battery and not the starter. I love knowing what is happening and being able to focus and try things myself (or with dad in this case as he is gonna jumpstart me tomorrow).

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It’s October! You know what that means... 🎃 (via kxvo)

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I deeply appreciate the fact that Discworld translators add their own terrible, terrible puns.

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Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

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Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

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Summer season #Summer #Local #Haren #Balloon #HotAirBalloon #Sky #Evening https://www.instagram.com/p/ChVQ3KtNcj4MEFzwnwsHNeD1v_k1k0L6ecz6XY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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From day to night the sky turned to paint #Nature #Sky #Local #Haren #Groningen https://www.instagram.com/p/ChNld-etdKOGqn4B3xN7d30DzeGPW2jr8QFMjU0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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'Come play with us' Banna refusing to sit still so he gets a blurry face #Cats #CatsOfInstagram #Twins #TwinThing #Thai #WeAreSiameseIfYouPlease #DG #Home https://www.instagram.com/p/CfWinVDtJUyBAsWFIJqAp1Mn2QAC_feqplNi3Y0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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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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How do movie people even know if a movie is good or not I finish watching a movie and my brain is just like "well that certainly was a movie" and that's it

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so sorry for the helmet shame ur experiencing, usamericans are fed a bunch of bike safety videos as children about how if you Do Not Ride With A Helmet you will Fly Off Your Bike and your brain will be jello on the sidewalk

https://youtu.be/9OSVeMVJDIk?t=65 this is Ride Smart It's Time To Start, the one I was shown repeatedly in school. link should skip to relevant content

why are they using a racing bike wtf none of this makes sense YES YOU SHOULD WEAR A HELMET ON A RACING BIKE THOSE ARE FOR RACING WHERE IS THE CITY BIKE

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Sky does pretty colours #Nature #Local #Haren #Groningen #Home #Sky #Colours https://www.instagram.com/p/CcTcuEuMskhpDpgTmd7wouV1nP6LDcbicUJje40/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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When your hair goes 'Yes!' but the weather goes 'No!' Also, still brunette from october... "Holds 28 washes" doesn't seem to go for my hair. #Outside #Selfie #Working #Local #Town #Rain https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb8LACrNaXFbQjm7b37Dk95IGj56xA51Lwgwr80/?utm_medium=tumblr