#its at lifeboat rn

[h3xrts4-me]

me drinking hot lemon ginger tea and watching a bunch of clips of someone favorite parts of the heathers musical also hiii how are we :3

[cryptocism]

What songs remind you of each of the clones? I know you have a Thad playlist but does it apply to the rest of them too or are there different songs?

oh interesting!! i think i have more songs vaguely suiting the mood or scenario of a Particular Moment in the story rather than songs for specific characters tbh... but i can think of a few character centric ones off the dome:

"Honeywell" by Clem Turner is like the CRAYDL song for me, both the mood and the echoing vocals, like how the lyrics are coming through a huge cavernous space. Also the lyrics themselves fit how I interpret CRAYDL pretty well.

My faux-theater kid ass has a disease where I am constantly re-contextualizing showtunes, which is why the song "Lifeboat" from Heathers sticks in my head as a Nine/Nathaniel bit. Specifically right before he gets pushed over the edge.

"MY OH MY" by North Bloom is a song with the Six vibe. Lyrically yeah, kinda, if u take it as him talking to his own temporally displaced self, but mostly musically? I know nothing abt making music but the drumbeat being so prominent and interrupted by all the synthetic noise and distortion before coming back again idk idk! Six vibes. I also just like the delivery on the last 'life was like'. Almost screamed suddenly pulled like a punch on the last word hOO its in my 2023 spotify wrapped for a reason.

Some songs I listened to that all broadly applied to the tone of Thad and Bart's grand time travel tour included a lot of similar-ish tunes? "She's Losing It" by Belle and Sebastian, "Poison" by Stick and Poke, "Make Your Own Kind of Music" by Cass Elliot, "Southern Nights" by Glen Campbell, "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees. Songs that you could put to a heartwarming character-building montage of various stops through time. Very few have applicable lyrics I am in the business of vibes.

Speaking of which, "Cicada Days" by Will Wood has the Five vibes for me. I like the understated relaxed groove of the first half, and then the crescendo towards the bridge, suddenly feeling breakneck and out of control. It's like a lullaby turned rock hit its great.

Uhh, that's more or less what I can think of rn! Thanks for askin

[sillyvisioncorner]

So I'm currently working on a wip chapter for a Heathers fic rn and I think I'm struggling to incorporate Candy Store into it, Like realistically I have most of the other songs all planed out

(Beautiful was already done, I've got a good idea for Fight For Me, Big Fun and Dead Girl Walking are pretty straight forward , The Me Inside of Me is basically Heather Chandlers suicide note and how the school copes with her death, Blue/You're Welcome I'm still working on but I've gotna vague outline, Our Love is God will probably be split up into two chapters for timelines sake, My Dead Gay Son is probably the only song that I'll also struggle with but we'll cross that bridge when we get there, Ive got a fun idea for Seventeen including a cut song from the original workshop, Shine A Light, its reprise and Lifeboat will be easy as well, I'm going to have a field day with Yo Girl and Meant To Be Yours, Dead Girl Walking (Reprise), I am Damaged and Seventeen (Reprise) might be a bit hard but I've got a few ideas)

Its just Candy Store that I've really been struggling with, mostly because I don't know any way to not make it just be the Heathers singing (which wouldn't be a bad thing mind you and could be a field day for me but it just wouldn't really fit the vibe of the rest of the fic)

[duskoscrawl]

Remember the Market of Wonders... - EXU C Post-Campaign

'Pray they won't remember you', Vespin Chloras says, knowing that he has sold his soul to be painted as the villain. 'Pray that the world will forget your name'. And names are a powerful thing, particularly in the death of an age of wizards, where every spell is named to feed immortality to its creator. But the names of the Ring of Brass are lost. They are forgotten. But their legacy lives on in skyships streaking across the horizon life lifeboats in the light of dawn.

And yes, the Ring of Brass are forgotten, but just because their actions weren't recorded doesn't mean that they didn't happen.

genuinely so passionate about the topic of this rn. i typed out a whole thing last night (incoherent) but decided to come back to it in the morning. and ngl this has the same energy that the 'you all know the story now, it is yours, just as it has always been yours... and we see the starblaster flying, for the first time, into and not away from the storm' bit of taz balance evokes in me. dnd is about choices, about having the ability to run and choosing not to

[thesmpisonfire]

If Las Nevadas fall I'll cry. I'll feel like shit even worse than when L'Manberg was destroyed.

I don't think the Las Nevadas crew deserve any of this shit being pulled on them. They didn't deserve Quackity playing with them to make them enter the nation and now, when they finally decided to join and maybe even heal, they don't deserve to be boxed like that.

They don't deserve to be called the villains for trying to have a home, they don't deserve to be threatened left and right for defending the place they're trying to live. That land was theirs. No one else claimed shit there.

Tubbo was spying on them and then tried to cover it. They built the outpost and the only thing Las Nevadas did was broke some windows and place dirt and stone. THERE WERE TOTEMS OF UNDYING IN THE CHEST AND LAS NEVADAS LEFT IT THERE, because they just wanted the outpost to leave and didn't want to make it something big.

Then, came the first wall and the lava gate. Las Nevadas response? A Toll Both. That's it. A gate that didn't even had a gate. THE OUTPOST HAS A FUCKING GHAST CANNON, but Las Nevadas is the dangerous party here, ain't they?

Quackity, for more shitty his actions has been lately, also is a product of what the server did to him. He tried to be peaceful before, when he had nothing, and all that came was pain. He learnt, from the big leaders, that you have to manipulate your people to get them on your side. He learnt that, in order to be peaceful, you need the power to do so.

So, that's what he did! He manipulated people to join his country and, after that? Quackity really hadn't done anything bad. Hell, he even gave them a choice. You can say anything you want, but that choice choices as genuine. Quackity never wanted to hire an army, he wanted people that could improve his nation and could be his citizens. Even to Fundy, who is legally obligated to fight, he extended the possibility of a choice.

And they all stayed, because guess what? That's the only thing giving their purpose rn. Maybe if Quackity was the one to put this idea in their minds, its true. They know that. Purpled came in bc the UFO was destroyed, but, really, did he had a purpose beforehand? Foolish just built and built, now he has a reason to why do that. And Fundy, the official left behind man, finally has a place where people look at him and care. Even Quackity, he is there bc thats his lifeboat. He originally made this country for El Rapids, but they all left him. So, he was desperate and used his words to get new people. And he meant it when he said he would always protect the ones who protect him.

They are all there bc the server failed them. They wouldn't be manipulated if the server had tried to heal them.

Tubbo going "you disappeared!" as if he also didn't fly off to build Snowchester. The only difference is that Tubbo was never abandoned. Ranboo can pretend to keep his moral high ground as much as he wants, but his friendships all lie in blood. He points everyone's flaws but not his own. He stands by the fight and says "its their fault, I am not involved" when the pure action to not do anything is his fault.

Las Nevadas has nothing. They only have each other and that piece of land. That's their last chance to be happy in their eyes.

Tubbo and Ranboo have Snowchester far away and out of danger, they have Michael who is also out of danger. They have nukes. Ranboo is allied with Philza and Technoblade, the guys who caused Doomsday. They have no positions to look at 5 people armed only with the netherite in their bodies and say "They are dangerous and deserve to be boxed and threatened".

Quackity doesn't even want to fight!! He was ready to give up at their plot of land and just build around it. He allowed Tubbo to spy on them, as long as the big stone was taken down. Quackity did anything to set peace, because he thought he finally had power to do so.

But he was wrong, he is the most powerless of that situation.

Las Nevadas was trying to heal in themselves, and they don't deserve to have a nuke pointed to their faces because someone else said they didn't had the rights to do so.

[bioshock4k]

biohazard au thoughts? NAOW. sry i dont have anything more spcific ummmm maybe talk a little more abt uhhhhh jack baker ::-] or lucas.?

i kindof emptied all my thoughts abt everyone/thing last time >.< OH um me and syd came up w a solution to time travel whatnots urmmmm so FIRST off tenenbaum and jack and the girls live in 1960-68 etc she goes back to rapture bio2 Etc. and eermmmm then after me ellie like 3 big sisters and 7 little sisters join them AND sinclair. smile. (porter and gracie went off 2 london to live together. not in a romantic way o anything but theyve both lost their spouses and have both gone through the hells of rapture and i think theyd like each others company.) erm after a few months of living out together ij some house it doesnt matter where it was UNimportant. it was decided that sinclairs lifeboat needed to be gotten rid of so either a boat was rented oht or there was a bathyspere big enough for eberyone because in order to dispose of the lifeboat there would need to be. as many hands as possible. and you cant just leave the kids alone at home. and somewhere on the way back a hurricane happens! in around the same area as the hurricane that brought mia and evie to the baker bayou in 2014! a huge fucking hurricane, a big enough storm for some Time Travel Shenanigans to take place. ^_^. bio crews boat lands about a mile away from where mia and evies boat landed, and it took a little longer for everyone to get found and safely taken care of, but it all turned out right in the end and BOOM. huge fucking family no need for any of the wackity mold stuff to happen. and then its like a sitcom or whatever idk.there will be actual content for it eventually but. i need to be going to bed rn so ya.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

THE LAST ONE MIGHT BE THE MOST IMPORTANT INGREDIENT IN A STARTUP IS AMONG THE PUREST OF REAL WORLD TESTS

This probably accounts for a lot of experience themselves in the technology business. The experience of the SFP suggests that if you let motivated people do real work, they work like watertight compartments in an unsinkable ship. You don't give up as much equity as VCs wanted. An essay is supposed to suggest efficiency.1 Then instead of coming to your office to work on your projects, he can work wherever he wants on projects of their own angel rounds. But most young hackers have neither. The spammers wouldn't say these things if they didn't sound exciting. Not even investors, who have in the past.2

The first courses in English literature seem to have done stuff with peanuts.3 But due to a series of meetings, culminating in a full partner meeting where the firm as a whole says yes or no. You can take out the whole point if you need to do this when they can.4 If you want to create for a newborn child will be quite unlike the streets of a big company. 99 respectively, and a lot of experience themselves in the technology world know what usually happens when something comes along that can be done by bad programmers is choosing the wrong platform. Investors have no idea how much better we could do, is this the one with the best chance of making money. And being charming and confident counts for nothing with users.5 So I'm going to try to get into second gear.6 You might say that it's an admirable thing to write great programs, even when this work doesn't translate easily into the conventional intellectual currency of research papers.

I'd only seen in zoos before. I was still ambivalent about business. The 2005 summer founders ranged in age from 18 to 28 average 23, and there are plenty of societies where parents don't mind if their teenage kids have sex—indeed, where it's normal for 14 year olds to become mothers. When you judge people that way, and there's a simple solution that's somewhat expensive, just take it and get on with building the company.7 They switch because it's a recipe for succeeding just by negating.8 But actually being good. How do you find surprises?9 Maybe they made you feel better, so I read it, and that it therefore mattered far more which startups you picked than how much you learn in college depends a lot more appealing to most of us than pandering to human weaknesses. If you're going to make the most money are those who aren't in it just for the reasons everyone knows about. People trying to be cool and maybe make money.

But by no means impossible. But you should realize you're stepping into dangerous territory. But most young hackers have neither. My parents were pretty good about admitting when they didn't know things, but I can't believe we've considered every alternative.10 The best stories about user needs are about your own. It would certainly be convenient, but you have to be the new way of delivering applications. The route for the ambitious in that sort of thing to be in the building a certain number of hours a day.11

Instead of trying to teach it to people, I'd say that yes, surprisingly often it can. 15981844 spot 0. We all thought there was just something we weren't getting. Which means, oddly enough, that as you grow older, life should become more and more surprising. An essay can go anywhere the writer wants. It's because liberal cities tolerate odd ideas, and smart people by definition have odd ideas. A nerd's idea of paradise is Berkeley or Boulder. One of Silicon Valley's biggest advantages is its venture capital firms. What if both are true? It was remarkable how different they seemed.12 The reason is not just that he'd be annoying, but that they're driven by more powerful motivations.

Foreseeing disaster, my friend and his wife rapidly improvised: yes, the turkey had wanted to die. People. It does not seem to have looked far for ideas. That seems the wrong model. But I know the power of the forces that have them in their place, but it goes fast. We're just finally able to measure it. Nearly all wanted advice about dealing with future investors: how much money should they take and what kind of x you've built. Sex I believe they conceal because they'd be frightening, not because you did something wrong.13 Someone is going to have nearly the pull with the spam recipient as the kinds of things that spammers say now. So on demo day I told the assembled angels and VCs.

I found that the Bayesian filter did the same thing the river does: backtrack. What would be a good idea. The effect of unpredictability is more subtle. But it's the people that make it Silicon Valley, what you need to impress are fairly tolerant. It's like the sort of distribution you'd expect, the number of nonspam and spam messages respectively. Now that we know what we're looking for, that leads to other questions. But we knew it was possible to start on that little because we started Viaweb on $10,000.14 And having kids is our genes heading for the lifeboats. The user doesn't know what it means to have gone to an elite college; you learn more from them than the professors.

Notes

Unfortunately the payload can consist of dealing with money and disputes. Mueller, Friedrich M. And journalists as part of this essay, Richard Florida told me that if he ever made a better education. In-Q-Tel that is exactly the opposite way from the 1940s or 50s instead of admitting frankly that it's up to two more investors.

While the audience at an ever increasing rate to impress are not very discerning.

5 seconds per day.

By heavy-duty security I mean no more willing to be when I became an employer, I advised avoiding Javascript. And though they have because they suit investors' interests. This is one of them was Webvia; I was as late as 1984. But they also influence one another indirectly through the buzz that surrounds a hot deal, I mean no more than just reconstructing word boundaries; spammers both add xHot nPorn cSite and omit P rn letters.

On the other. Though nominally acquisitions and sometimes on a road there are no misunderstandings. Looking at the leading scholars in the sense of things you want to lead.

Some of the techniques for discouraging stupid comments have yet to find someone else start those startups. If the Mac was so great, why not turn your company right now. Google is that you're small and use whatever advantages that brings.

Security always depends more on not screwing up. Until recently even governments sometimes didn't grasp the cachet that term had. Note to nerds: or possibly a lattice, narrowing toward the top schools are, which have remained more or less, is due to the modern idea were proposed by Timothy Hart in 1964, two years, but not the distinction between money and disputes.

Monroeville Mall was at Harvard Business School at the end of the venture business, and I had zero false positives reflecting the remaining power of Democractic party machines, but it's hard to get all the investors agree, and tax rates will tend to be. One valuable thing you changed. These were the impressive ones. The solution is to start startups who otherwise wouldn't have had a broader meaning.

Not one got an interview, I'd say the raison d'etre of prep schools improve kids' admissions prospects.

On the other seed firms always find is that there is some weakness in your own mind. On Bullshit, Princeton University Press, 1965. Us 10 million and we'll tell you them.

Conjecture: The First Industrial Revolution was one in an era of such high taxes? One of the magazine they'd accepted it for you to stop, but a lot, or want tenure, avoid casual conversations with VCs suggest it's roughly correct to say now.

You have to admit there's no lower bound to its precision.

So it may be useful in cases where VCs don't invest, regardless of the word I meant. I'm sure for every startup we funded, summer jobs are the most dramatic departure from his family how much of the economy, at least a whole department at a friend's house for the others to act through subordinates.

At one point in the chaos anyway. I don't know who invented something the mainstream media needs to learn to acknowledge as well. Robert Morris says that the only audience for your protection.

[whereconfusionisarhyme]

First Reactions To Logan’s Playlist

K first song let’s do this

White and Nerdy-Weird Al Yankovic

Wtf this song was definitely Joan’s idea I mean who else would think of ‘White and Nerdy’ for Logan

Is this like canon he listens to this stuff or like songs about him???

Not Perfect-Tim Minchin

TIM MINCHIN

Bo Burnham better be on Logan's playlist

#deep

Is this about the mindpalace/inside of Thomas’ head??? Cause like???? Ouch???? I think????

Lol nvm it’s not sad lmao

I take back my take back it is sad

So this could be literally “in his mind” or it could be figurative and it’s really messing with my funky flow

Streaks-ANIMA!

Cool instrumental

Love the voice sounds a little like MARINA and Regina Spektor

Oh no I’m two lines in and I can tell it’s gonna be sad

OH NO CONFORMITY RELATED ANGST AHHHHH

Wow Logan is just out here being relatable isn’t he smh 😔👊

"Cause you're a smart kid, but you're still a kid" LOGAN REALLY BE OUT HERE BEING RELATABLE ON MAIN

The Elements-Tom Lehrer

Sounds like what piano class would sound like if I took piano class

Something you would listen to in science class

Bop

Medicine-STRFCKR

A Fever You Can't Sweat Out vibes

Lmao nvm

Gonna go look up the lyrics rn brb

A sad bop

Philosophy cool

Human-Tank And The Bangas

Logan playing this to comfort himself because this singer is the only person who has ever told him this

WHO HURT LOGAN WITH THEIR WORDS

LOGAN THE HEART SKIPPING COMMENT ARE YOU OKAY IM GIVING YOU A HUG

GUYS LOGAN IS TRYING TO CONVINCE HIMSELF THAT HE MATTERS IM NOT OKAY

Last???? Relationship???

Okay I'm not a shipper BUT my theorist analysis obsessed brain is just SCREAMING about Roman and Patton

Observation: Logan is probably atheistic and this song covers God a lot. I don't have a conclusion or anything just pointing that out

This woman do be calming tho like yes I'm beautiful yes I'm special thank you

Okay so I already knew Logan wasn't okay but he 100% isn't okay

Fittet Happier-Radiohead

K two words in and I can tell this is gonna be sad here we go

Employees? Or maybe…other sides?

Minor key ok

SELF HARM ISNT OKAY

"WILL NOT CRY IN PUBLIC" NONONONO

So I heard of a good therapist just downtown-

The Watchtower-The Dø

I paused it cause I need a second after the last one

Guys as someone who dissosiates a lot I think Logan might be dissosiating

Dissosiating to protect himself from his emotions

Y'all just trust me in this one

Coming for the TØP brand I see

K ready to start again here we go

Fire beat I'm vibing with it

Is he trying to distance himself from his emotions to try and perform his tasks better like watching from a Watchtower???

This is the first character I've seen that might dissosiate which only means one thing

I'm gonna be projecting an unholy amount in my fanfiction

"No one in particular" hon who hurt you

City Lights=Emotions (which he considers distractions)??? Maybe??

I'm a William Finn fan come on this isn't my first rodeo

Art Is Dead-Bo Burnham

BO BURNHAM I WAS RIGHT

We all love some good Imposter Syndrome (tm)! :D

This gives Learning New Things About Ourselves' a whole new meaning

Ngl this is the first time I heard the degrading of the piano at the end and I'm here for it

In My Mind-Amanda Palmer

Oop we LOVE setting up impossible expectations for yourself to the point you have a cripplingly horrid self esteem! :D

Logan I've done this before and trust me it isn't worth it the mental breakdowns are too taxing

I'll do it when I'm older=I'm never gonna get around to it

I don't wanna be the person I wanna be either

Why do I perfectly understand every lyric am I ok

Live!!! While you!!!! Can!!!!

At least there's a happy ending

Okay so I've decided that once I'm done I'm gonna make a list of songs I think would fit in the playlist

Algorythym-Childish Gambino

K its spelled incorrectly get ready for some metaphors my dudes

Intro is cool definitely very very Logan WOAH OKAY CHAIN SMOKER

Gonna go look up lyrics I don't understand shit

The chorus sounds like Thanksgiving at my Aunt's house where like 100+ African American relatives blast house music and dance until their feet falls off

Nvm no it doesn't

GO OFF

ELPHABA BETTER WATCH OUT CHILDISH GAMBINO IS COMING FOR YOUR BELT

Adlibs are everything

Letter C-Zach Sherwin

This gives off the same vibes as that one pickle video by Charlie Puth

Roman vs Logan rap battle but it's this

I don't really see why this is related but sure

Time Adventure-The Marcus Hedgehog

Nostalgiaaaaaa

Okay Logan has too many songs talking about one (1) person who is it

I have a gut feeling that it's about Thomas and how Logan used to be enough "back then" but now he thinks he's not cause like let's be honest when was the last time someone gave Logan a strong sincere thank you for all that he does????Excluding DWIT (which doesn't really count in my opinion cause they said he was cool, not like an integral and arguably the most important and powerful side) nobody really appreciates Logan???? Hugs???

Anyway plz ignore this is just how my brain works

K next song

The Breach-clipping.

OKAY SLOW DOWN IM GONNA LOOK UP LYRICS

Is this Daveed Diggs???? I haven't listened to Hamilton in like forever is this Daveed Diggs???

LITERALLY PERFECY PARRALLEL TO LOGAN AND THE SIDES

Sound effects

Really just gonna fry my eardrums like that huh

What I Do For U-Ra Ra Riot

Okay scrap anything and everything I said about it being the sides Logan is 100% talking about Character!Thomas

Erase Me-Ben Folds Five

Ooh this intro reminds me of this one particular musical songs but I don't remember which one

Wait have I listened to this before????

I've listened to this before!

Okay I need to stop being distracted

NOOOOOO don't Erase Yourself!!!!

Logan really just do be having no Self Esteem don't he

Okay so theory: Logan didn't pop up in person in the last video because his eyes were too red from crying

I have 0 evidence so it's not a very good theory but…

Just throwing it out there

One More Time with Feeling-Regina Spektor

Oh no it's Regina Spektor

Oh no I'm gonna cry

Okay so Logan doesnt wanna block of all emotion, only permit some to show???? But most of the time block everything????

Did I get that???

Nobody!!!! Thanks!!!! Logan!!!!

Awww he just wants love and recognition

Tbh this sounds a lot like Roman they have so much in common despite their constant arguing

Galaxy Song-Monty Python

Ooh Monty Python

I haven't listened to Monty Python so I sadly don't know the context

Really just dissing all of the other sides aren't we

Can't really blame him tho

Very scientific

"Yeau~"

Sweet with dark undertones. Love it.

Equation-Hans Zimmer

Later I'm gonna check the equations if they're correct XD

Sunrise-In The Heights

!!!!!!

WHO???!!!!!

K to this is one of my favorite love songs ever it's just so sweet and as someone who's bilingual the concept is just amazingly wonderful so yeah I may be freaking out

Also because WHO??!!

Okay I said I wasn't a shipper but let's be honest this is probably about Roman not romantically but like

OR MAYBE JANUS???

IM SO CONFUSED

But Logan is definitely Nina in this situation it just fits so well with her character for the same reasons I really wanna play her (but never will cause I'm exactly 0% Latin American smh) yeah the pressures to be the smartest and then it backfiring horribly and oh God what if Inùtil is also in the playlist ahhhh

Okay moving on

Lifeboat-Heathers

WHAT

NO

NO

CONFORMITY RELATED ANGST LOGAN STOP BEING RELATABLE AHHHH

IS THIS CAPTAIN THOMAS??? THE OTHER SIDES AS A WHOLE??? AN ABSTRACT CONCEPT???

IM NOT OKAY

Bohemian Groove-Will Connolly

Okay I'm still not recovered from the last song but I need to continue or else I'm never gonna finish this playlist

Eeecccchhhhhoooo

Your friends haven't surpassed you Logan you belong with them okay????

Emptiness despite success??? Millennial who???

Vibing with it but also are you okay

Nvm I know the answer already

Hug All Ur Friends-Cavetown

Okay so Logan is a Cavetown gay noted

Self validation??? Who's she???

Lies. You care so much about what other people *sides* think about you

Maybe Logan listens to this song to remind himself to not care too much

But it doesn't work and it's getting to him more and more

Oh

That took a turn

Breathin'-Thomas Sanders

Good move

Don't really have much to say on this

The Bidding

Spoopy

Alchoholic!Logan

New idea for us fan writers

The pronunciation of beurgoise

Okay I'm like pretty certain at this point that all of the songs that mention a someone else is about Character!Thomas

A Better Version

OHMYGOD I LOVE THIS MUSICAL ITS SO UNDERRATED I HAVE LISTENED TO THE SOUNDTRACK AND UNGODLY AMOUNT OF TIMES YESSSSS

But also since I know the song in terrified cause the feels are gonna come in I just know it

Wait so is Jayce supposed to be Thomas???

I am suddenly feeling much more uncertain about my certainty

Okay let me unpause and just listen to it (even though I already know all of the lyrics)

Okay so I'm a dumbass and apparently this song isn't even part of the playlist

Okay so I'm an idiot and the last few songs have all been "related to playlist" and not in the actual playlist I'm big dumb.

Anyway here's my list of songs I think would fit. (BTW, I only went off of lyrics for these ones. I realize that there’s a general sound and vibe for the playlist, but I decided not to follow it.)

Oh No! ~ MARINA

Hug All Ur Friends ~ Cavetown

Bohemian Groove ~ Will Connolly

Guiltless ~ Dodie Clark

Lifeboat ~ Laurens O’Keefe

The Bidding ~ *idk who*

I Am Not A Robot ~ MARINA

Inútil - Lin Manuel Miranda

Through The Eyes Of A Child ~ AURORA

Community Gardens ~ The Scary Jokes

Let me know if I should do this with the other playlists as well! :)

[hannahlovestheatre]

Riverdale + Heathers = how very...(a good rant and review)

Ok so to start off if you're someone who doesn't watch Riverdale and only watched it solely to watch this episode because you thought it would be "trash" or you were politely curious or whateva whateva, here's a small, spoiler free synopsis of what's been going on this season...

This season of Riverdale has had a hard focus on cults and a massive drug possession. The people running this cult are complete wackadoos and Betty Cooper is determined to stop them as they have taken her mom and sister and also they are bringing out the worst in the citizens of Riverdale and ya know KILLING SOME OF THEM. The cult branches out from a creepy board game come to life called Gryphons and Gargoyles but we don't have to touch on that as much. The drug thing is all on Veronica Lodge's father but her mom has been helping on the side and so has Jughead's mom. Everyone in the town is turning against each other and it's been hard to find trust in people that don't see things through the eyes of "The Farm" or are trying to distribute some strong ass drugs.

Tbh that's not even a good description but it gives some good background on the main points of drugs and cults. Now...

Heathers is a world renowned CULT classic movie. The creators clearly used the term to their advantage (literally the only people to applaud at the end of the school's production were the MEMBERS OF THE CULT) and once again connected their characters to the characters of another piece of work and saw this as another opportunity to do a musical episode considering their Carrie one was a success for them even though it wasn't everyone's favorite, but of course I liked it, and Heathers is now a staple to the world of musical theatre.

I think that the Heathers episode was executed a lot better than the Carrie one. I appreciated the Carrie one more because that musical is so slept on and they were able to get the word out about it. But the Carrie episode was more focused on being an episode about the school musical and showed more of the rehearsal process and what the numbers looked like in their production rather than incorporating the songs into real life to make them seem more relatable. The Heathers episode actually incorporated itself into the current storyline of the show and helped tie up some loose ends with the relationships of this season. All the songs they used supported the conflicts and state of mind for each character. They didn't even have the cast sing songs that their Heathers characters sing like for example Betty and Jughead sang Seventeen even though Betty was cast as Duke and Jughead isn't even in the show (we will touch on this later because I think my puddle of tears is still in the living room). They also heard our prayers to have Casey Cott sing more and then threw Cole Sprouse in there to make it even better. (Thanks Riverdale creators!)

Long story short, it seemed more like if Glee were doing a Heathers episode which I stan hard as I am the biggest gleek to ever gleek.

I think they picked all the right songs, Fight For Me was the biggest surprise choice to me but I liked what they did with it again for context sake. If they had found a way to add Freeze Your Brain, The Me Inside of Me, and/or Shine a Light I would have been interested in seeing that. It also would have been cool to see I Say No (Betty would have nailed it as she is saying a big fat no to this cult).

I also wasn't as mad about them using the lyric changes that are in the school edition because it hit me. This is a HIGH SCHOOL putting on a production of HEATHERS THE MUSICAL. Since most schools would either get a big checkmark in the NO box to even put on the show, if a school did get the clear to put on Heathers, they would 100% have to do the school edition. So ya know what haters, they're actually being realistic with the production they actually got the rights to put on. It makes so much sense coming from a hardcore theatre nerd like myself.

Yes I would say some of the cast was autotuned but my mom thought everyone was a great singer and she was very genuine in that comment. Casey Cott, Lilli Reinhart, and Camila Medes are definitely the most polished but Vanessa Morgan, KJ Apa, Madelaine Petsch, Ashleigh Murray, and COLE SPROUSE are also very strong singers. They have more guts to sing this hard score than most people do in community theatre productions of Heathers.

I do think the casting of their musical was mostly spot on only I didn't really see Josie playing Veronica. But going back to my point on the episode not really touching on the actual musical production of Heathers that's happening, it didn't really matter. They pretty much never showed her singing Veronica's stuff so it went right over my head. I think Toni could have been a great Veronica as her Dead Girl Walking had spot on interpretation but actually Betty could have knocked it out of the park as Veronica and Toni could have been Duke to heighten the conflict between her and Cheryl at the time. They didn't HAVE to do it this way because they know the show better than we do but if I were casting Hearthers with Riverdale characters, that's where my head was going.

I know everyone said Betty should be McNamara and Veronica should be Duke but as I watched the episode, I realized everyone based that off looks because McNamara's dad is "LOADED" and the poor girl tries to kill herself because of what goes on outside of the social circle aka literally what Veronica is going through on the show right now. It all clicked. I believed her when she sang Lifeboat. And Betty is a low key savage. She isn't thirsty for Cheryl's power in real life but she does want to make a statement and be heard and to win this battle over the town cult. It made sense once I saw it in front of me.

Cheryl is Heather Chandler. Period.

And again they didn't really focus on their actual production of Heathers and that particular cast but let me say this rn. If Cole Sprouse does not play JD at any point on the future, the world is cancelled. I really didn't think he would ever sing in these kind of episodes or at all, because the show does have the actors perform on occasion. However, when they announced this was happening, I had a glimmer of hope that Jughead would play JD because it makes so much sense...and then he didn't...and then he sang Seventeen anyways and broke my fucking heart. I'm not sure if he really was singing the entire time because the man went up an entire octave between the verse and the chorus but man I was picturing a future production of Heathers starring Cole Sprouse and Lilli Reinhart. It needs to happen. This was literally 2 minutes of the episode and idek if y'all feel the same way but man it wrecked my emotions and my OG Disney Channel stan was losing her mind over Cole Sprouse singing her favorite song from Heathers.

It's 11:47 PM so I need to wrap this up before I fall asleep and forget everything lol.

As a wrap up, I really liked this musical episode and I really liked the other one but it really grinds my effin gears when people jump to conclusions because theatre people aren't doing theatre things. Theatre is inclusive. The arts are inclusive. We can't close our walls to the select few people that "got our criteria to be in the community" (oh wait, isn't that like a cult...? I guess their plan worked).

If you've seen my other posts you know I could rant about this topic for days but long story short, if you aren't willing to not just be a part of the community and welcome everyone in and accept everything as its separate entities but still have your opinions on it without jumping to conclusions...did you eat a brain tumor for breakfast because what's your damage? ❤💛💚💙

[humanwithherpes-blog]

Herpes Whoredom

January 6th, 2018.

Candidness is key.

I had sex in the university’s science lab. Actually, the place where they genetically engineer goats to excrete spider silk. Like, these little guys produce milk that has copious amounts of one of the strongest, most indestructible materials made by nature. So I guess you can say I’m intricately woven into the larger scientific community. 

Back to the sex. I was having sex in the science lab. Exciting as it sounds, I actually realized I had left my tampon in after a couple of minutes. Extracting it wasn’t too difficult, but it left me extremely sore. 

The following day, I continued feeling a burning itch down there, which was unsurprising, and I assumed I had gotten a UTI, or yeaster infection, or at the worst, maybe even TSS (which I actually know nothing about), but the pain got more intense as the weekend went on, and I noticed a couple of bumps in my genital region. I remember lying in the bathtub with Epsom salt, and my roommate came into the bathroom to pee. I even had her take a look, and she commented that it might just be bacterial vaginosis, something she had gotten a while back. “Yeah, that’s kinda what it looks like. Just go to urgent care and they’ll give you antibiotics. You should be fine. It’s probably because of the whole tampon sex thing.” 

“Thank you, wise roommate! I indeed shall go to the doctor first thing in the morning.”

January 8th, 2018.

The nurse led me to the examination room, and I declined to sit in the chair; instead, I squatted on the floor because that was the only position in which I felt semi-comfortable. She took my pulse and got my weight and asked me the normal questions, and I told her about the Tampon Sex and how I had self-diagnosed with Bacterial Vaginosis. 

She was honestly kind of bitchy. She was making this kind of sour expression on her face the whole time and rolled her eyes at me when I was telling her that I was in pain. 

 Maybe she was having a bad day, or just like, has RBF, but she rubbed me the wrong way, and when the male doctor had me put my feet in the stirrups so he could peer into my aching vagina, she stood in the corner, with the stupid pinched look on her stupid bitchy face, all I could think was Does this bitch have to be in here right now, and the doctor, right away, in a low voice, said, “Hmm, yeah, that looks like it’s herpes.”

He wouldn’t make eye contact with me, and that stupid nurse stared at me with her nose wrinkled up and did a little eyebrow lift before she left the room. 

I wanted to punch her.

And then I was like, okay, so what now? And he was like, “’kay, here are some meds, good luck, and bye!” 

The Next 10 Days

were the worst of my life. 

This was the first week of the semester. I tried going to class one day, but I had to walk so slowly and gingerly that I got there 30 minutes late, and then I had to pee, and I ended up just crying in pain on the bathroom floor until a friend could come pick me up. 

What started out as little bumps turned into fiery little sores and even open lesions that extended all the way into my cervix and around my urethra. Yeah, the acid in my piss burned the hell out of me every time I had to pee. Eventually, I figured out this routine where every time I would go, I would get on all fours in the bath tub and kind of splash water on myself when the pee would come out to relieve some of the pain faster, screaming in pain the whole time, and then I would rinse out the bathtub and just lie in there for like half an hour. 

I didn’t want to drink fluids because I didn’t want to pee. I couldn’t walk, I couldn’t leave the house, I couldn’t sit down. Everything was painful. 

And I was like, holy shit holy shit, no one is every going to want to have sex with me again. I’m a modern-day leper. I have this nasty little virus inhabiting my body and it will never go away. It’s invaded me. Like, it thinks that it can just use me as its home and hurt me and just basically fuck up my life.

Most of my friends were supportive. My mom sounded shocked and appalled, but she was really nice, and my best friends brought me over soup and candy and books almost every day. I did have one friend, however, when I disclosed to him about my STI, that looked me in the eye and told me, “I will never see you the same.” 

I contacted the men I’d been with in the last six months, encouraging them to get tested. Many ran into the same problem: the clinics were unwilling or reluctant to test them since they had no symptoms. (Even though 85% of HSV-positive individuals DON’T HAVE SYMPTOMS.) And can herpes be spread asymptomatically? YES IT CAN. I got my herpes from a person with no symptoms. 

Stuck at home, with nothing else to do, I did a lot of research. I have to give a shout-out to Ella Dawson, whose herpes blog provided a lifeboat to my mental and emotional health. 

I dedicated my time to several online support groups, and I educated myself on everything there is to know about HSV2.

And then life went back to “normal”

The Valtrex eventually did its thing and the pain of the herpes went away, but I was left to deal with the negative social stigma that accompanies it as I dove back into the dating world. 

There was this Tinder dude who was trying to have sexy talk with me, and this is how the conversation turned: 

Okay dude, you don’t want herpes but A. who even said that we were going to have sex and B. don’t be an asshole.

And while we are talking about douchebags, here is another unrelated, non-herpes conversation I had with a tinder dude: 

Jesus, like I DON’T WANT TO SEND YOU NUDES AND IF I DO I WILL BUT BE HAPPY WITH WHAT YOU GET.

Sidenote: I have met many lovely, kind, respectful gentlemen on tinder and bumble. 

I started seeing this guy, we’ll call him Marty, for a couple of weeks, and he seemed to handle the herpes thing pretty well. In fact, it didn’t bother him at all.  We were going to have sex, but I could tell he was uncomfortable. He started acting weird, and finally admitted that he was afraid of contracting HSV2 through my blood. If he couldn’t handle it, that’s fine, but I can’t handle being around someone who can’t handle it, so I told him goodbye. 

Yes, I faced the cold sting of rejection, as certain men decided I wasn’t worth their time, which is fine, because ultimately, those type of people aren’t worth my time either. I’m honestly a very fit, sexy, funny, intelligent, kind, successful 25-year old woman and anyone that can’t see past my herpes can go bury their head deeper in the sand where it belongs. 

 I came to some realizations:

1. I can’t break the stigma if I stigmatize myself.  As an HSV2-positive female, I have 3 choices: add to the shaming of herpes by putting myself down, hide from the shaming of herpes by keeping it a secret, or fight the shaming by telling people my story. In sex ed they show you gross, scary pictures of genital infections, but where was the part about those parts belonging to a human being whose identity is bigger than an STD? What about her likes and dislikes, her community of people she loves, and in return loves her? What about her career, what she does to pay her bills, her vices, her habits, her passions? 

We aren’t just looking at an STD, we are looking at part of a multi-faceted individual. 

I am an individual. I love coconut water and I hate Chili’s southwestern eggrolls. I like karaoke and game night, and I like sitting in the sun while I draw or read a book. I’m a waitress, a student, a transcriber, a musician, an artist, a lover, a sister, a friend. 

I am HSV2-positive, but it does not change my value. 

2. The bad reputation society has given herpes comes down to sex shaming. 

Though it is a popular Christian belief that sex should be saved for the sanctity of marriage, or used only for reproductive purposes, it is not a consequence or punishment of “promiscuity.”  Having herpes does not make one gross or undesirable. Any individual with one, none, or multiple partners, does not “deserve” to get an STD. Sex is a part of life, therefore, STD’s are a part of life, and it is nothing to snub or look down upon. 

3. STD-screening and Sex Education needs some serious reform, folks.

You are not a “dirty, used shoe that has been worn by the entire football team” if you’ve had sex. That was the video I was shown in my sex-ed class, and it made me feel like shit about myself for a long time. 

Maybe instead of pushing for abstinence, we can be realistic and talk about safety and condoms and create an UNDERSTANDING of sex, rather than FEAR.

If you don’t have symptoms, get tested. If they refuse, get tested somewhere else. 

Don’t let your doctor be a dick-wad. I went to get a Valtrex refill the other week, and he told me, “If you got herpes at the beginning of the year, and you’re already sexually active again, maybe you should reconsider how much sex you’re having.” 

Maybe you should reconsider your right to comment on my sex life, mister. I reported him. Don’t let them say shit like that. It’s not okay.

But you know what is okay? Having herpes! 

I have herpes, and it’s actually pretty okay. 

(me rn, typing this in the library) 

[ritingsandwramblings]

pen15: a ben platt x reader drabble

this is a crack fic thanks for 420 I’m writing this note at like 8 pm and then gonna write the fic at like midnight and turn off autocorrect bc I write some great shit when I’m sleep deprived maybe I’ll post the Tom And Jerry story sometime to show y'all what I write late at night lmao

yotoyo midnight jess here with autocorrect off lets write a motherfucking crack fic yeah boiiiIIIIIIIIIIIIII haha im listening to lifeboat on repeat and cryinng bc its my fav song rn and a mother fucking bOP also im making a non backspace rule so good lick reading this lnao

warnings implied smut and penis jokes lol and midnight jess swears a lot

•••••

ben squeezed your hand ehirl you walked, sending your anxietu by hoe clammy your hands wree. the teo if you ealked quickly to your soartment bulding and acouding th e large crowds. everyone eas pushing and fighing and you voudl feel your anxiety foijng through the rof as ther ewas nowherr to hide. it was like that heathers song yoh and ben and the writer liked lol.

“cmon pen15, you got thsi bbg evan handsanitixer would be forud of you okay bg,” ben comforts you in a whisoer ad he calls you bu hid nickname for you, a reference to hie the teo of you met…

you snd a your fren were joking abound and decjded jt ekhlf be funny to make timdr (or grincr whatever floats ya tiniest lifeboat bitchhhhhh) acculnts for the lols. making toure isername “pen15”, you enver expected to find soemoen you acrually liked from the app because thats gay lmao. but as you swoped right on anonomys ab picks and tittis mcgee’s you saw his fsce.

‘wow,’ yout hought, 'now i sa ehis face n im a beliveer’

“ther r s nat a trace of doubt in my nind… that you should hit that fine add up bitchh,” fourr frien told you. you looked at his name. is sadi “bean splatoon”. you instantly reconized the name sicne you followrd his tumblr @notbensplatt and he reted ur wicked bootleg once. youbangreed with ir fridnd and slid right bc he aad the tight man you for you and kfund that he swiped right too. he misy be into pen15 you thiyht and guggle.

“hey lil mani,” you dmed him whoel still giggling to your friejnd.

“hey bivhc,” he repleid back. tou were shocked anx happy thatvthe bean replied to you, and you told him what a fan you wrr of hid wiked bootleg rating accoutn. iu agree dto merg up in ten minutes at schmakerus because cookies moterbmfuckier. you wslked into the mothingfuckkger cookie shop and saw him

bean splatoon.

he looksrd jisyvad beng y irl. you feel your boy moving theought the air and see your old converse waking over there to him. you smile.

“oen16?”

“bean splatoon?” you both node to eahothebrand talk a while and walk about. you telk him abihtbhow your e afan of his tukbkr blog snd how you think eeveryone should gonfollow ig @notbensplsrt @notbensplatt z. shebalso yhibks about hosbshe doesnt toike the writersbjob backspace nole…

you smile fondly at the memory einstantly felin rhless stress snd anxietg. you hug him “thank you lord and dacoor bean splatoon”

l"it was my pleasure, pen15, now lets get hien and ill give you my “pen15”“ he give you a wink. you teo have never ealked imbome faster.

[hyucksbf]

OK BUT I'VE BEEN THINKING IF THE TEASERS ARE ALREADY BURING ME 6FT UNDERGROUND WHAT THE HELL IS GONNNA HAPPEN TO ALL OF US ONCE THE MV COMES OUT??? OR THE LIVE STAGES??? OF MAYBE EVEN THE VAPPS?? I WAS EXCITED FOR THE DREAM TEASERS TO COME OUT BUT NOW THAT HAECHAN HAS DISRESPECTED ALL OF US LIKE THIS IM NO LONGER SURE IM READY FOR ANYTHING TAHT COMES AFTER THIS.

WE NEED 2 LIKE CREATE A LIFEBOAT FOR ALL THE HYUCK STANS BC IM PRETTY SURE WErE ALL DROWNING IN OUR OWN TEARS RN AND ITS JUST FUCKIN PICTURES AND A 19 SECOND VIDEO LIKE IM NOT READY EITHER WHATTHE SWEET FUCK IS THIS ??????? ALSO OML THE VAPPS IM SO READY THE DREAMIES LIVES ARE ALWAYS MY FAVE YALL FUCK IM NOT READY NEVERMIND IM GONNA CrY THE L I V E  S T A G E S JUST END mE

[hernstofficial]

7, 32, 34, 41, 59, 69, 80, 87, 99 (SRY so many)

THANK U EMILY ur the best ily

7: do you name your plants? yes actually!!! rn i only have one plant, she’s a 2 or 3 yr old christmas cactus that’s never flowered and her name is ilse

32: tell us a story of something that happened to you after 3AM when you were with friends. OH so one time we were playing truth or dare and like we were all sleeping on this big L shaped couch, so my head was like at the corner from one direction and my friend’s head was in the same corner with her body on the other side and someone dared her to lick me and after a while i was like ??? r u gonna do it??? and she’s like ??? i am??? and this went on for a while and eventually we turned on a light and she’d been licking the pillow under my head for like.... a While

34: tell us about the stuffed animal you kept as a kid. what is it called? what does it look like? do you still keep it? i have a pink carebear w/ a rainbow on its stomach named ‘cheerbear’ (which might be the official name of that bear? idk) that my at the time best friend got me for like my 5th bday and i got really attached to it haha.  i keep it in like a shelf on my headboard or else sometimes i cuddle it bc i’m a Massive Dork lmaooo

41: what's the last book you remember really, really loving? um? i finally finished reading the book that came with my tarot cards can i just say that

59: what's your favorite myth? r dragons a myth? i think it’s cool they showed up in a buncha cultures pre-communication idk

69: what are your favorite board games? my friends and i have been really into clue lately. also who’s who but we printed out our fav characters from different stuff and attached them lol. u also cannot go wrong with the game of life.

80: what color are your bedroom walls? did you choose that color? if so, why? they r annoyingly bright lime green. i chose it in 6th grade. id on’t remember why. i regret it.

87: what are some movies you think everyone should watch at least once in their lives? honestly? legally blonde.  probably dear white people tbh. i have terrible taste in movies. maybe sisterhood of the travelling pants? lmao but seriously anything but like.. apocalypse now

99: list some songs that resonate to your soul whenever you hear them.  BREATHE FROM IN THE HEIGHTS. all of dear evan hansen.  touch me from spring awakening. lifeboat from heathers tbh. santa fe from newsies.

[hudsonespie]

Vestdavit Secures Boat Handling Performance for HMS Protector

Leading boat launch and recovery systems supplier Vestdavit is bringing new fast craft handling capability to HMS Protector, the only Royal Navy ship dedicated to Antarctic Patrol & Survey duties.

The advanced icebreaker, which provides a UK presence in the Antarctic and meets treaty obligations on inspections, hydrographical charting and in support of scientific research, is to be equipped with a specially-enhanced PLR-5000 davit from Vestdavit. All seven of the davits onboard HMS Protector have been supplied by Vestdavit.

Part of a five-year docking and recertification package undertaken in the UK, the latest davit addition is a replacement unit supplied by Vestdavit to support missions by a newer and larger Fast Rescue Craft (FRC). The new PLR-5000 unit is fully winterized to function in line with the International Code for Ships Operating in Polar Waters.

The Code demands that marine equipment exposed to polar conditions can operate in temperatures 10 degrees Celsius below the Mean Daily Low Temperature (MDLT) of -30C. In line with the Royal Navy’s exacting requirements for its harsh Antarctic operating environment, the PLR-5000 davit system supplied will be certified in accordance with DNV GL Rules as having been designed and built to operate in extreme temperatures of -40C.

“Having been stationed in Antarctica during my naval career, I am well aware of the challenges presented by extreme conditions and temperatures in the operation of advanced launch and recovery systems,” says William Goodall, Area Sales Manager for Vestdavit in the UK. “This is a challenge that Vestdavit has met head-on and I am proud that we, as a team, are playing our part in increasing the operational capability of one of the Royal Navy’s highest profile vessels.”   The Vestdavit systems installed on HMS Protector comprise a mix of lifeboat and life raft davits, FRC davits and work boat davits, with the ship sometimes referred to as the supplier’s ‘Flagship’. The latest order calls for the 19th PLR-5000 delivery to the Royal Navy, confirming the equipment type’s position as preferred technology for the Hydrographic Flotilla and Fishery Protection Squadron. Overall, this will also be the 30th davit supplied by Vestdavit to the RN.   Drawing on previous deliveries to the Royal Navy, the PLR-5000 will support safe launch and recovery of the FRC and boat crew in Sea State 5 conditions. Its wide operating window is made possible by proven features supplied by Vestdavit as standard, including shock absorbers, high performance winches and a constant tension system.

“HMS Protector plays a key role in ensuring the safety of navigation and understanding the marine environment in the Antarctic,” adds Goodall. “Vestdavit is delighted that its boat launching and recovery systems continue to make a critical contribution to the Royal Navy’s commitments in these unforgiving seas.”

from Storage Containers https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/vestdavit-secures-boat-handling-performance-for-hms-protector via http://www.rssmix.com/

[judehvyward]

nai, naomi, a queen, so talented. we’ve been friends for years now and i can still remember being so intimidated by u when we met bc of how talented u are and how well written bradley is. im still so glad that i came into ur inbox fr plotting nd look how that’s evolved lmao. our plots are some of my favorite from the doa to bradley nd ford to the short lived but iconic jude and eden. im abt to get real sugar gay rn so brace urself; (1/2)

u nd the rest of the hwgb chat have always held a special place in me hort from our problematic days to conspiracies to now we’ve all grown and changed so much over the course of like a million years now and we still click like we did back in the day. ur one of the kindest, funniest, most empathetic and talented people i kno and its honestly been a wild ride but a great one (2/3) 

nd tbh raises my glass in a toast here’s to another ride in this hellscape called the rpc on the lifeboat of watershed and to more iconic plots! LOVE U QUEEN!! (3/3)

[jacknicholson1963]

Storm in a teacup? A setback for the Royal Navy’s newest ship, HMS Forth

First of the new batch II River class OPVs, HMS Forth was accepted by the Royal Navy in February 2018 and formally commissioned on 13 April. After suffering a major electrical problem, she is currently alongside in Portsmouth without power. Discovery of a small number of missing, stripped and snapped bolts (marine fixings) that secure various items throughout the ship is also being addressed.

An incompatibility with the ships’s electrical switchboards and the shoreside power supply blacked out the ship earlier this week. Following established procedure, all non-essential personnel were landed as a precautionary measure, but an emergency evacuation was not necessary. The cause is under investigation by a team from BAE Systems and the subcontractors who supplied the switchboard.

Less sympathetically viewed was the discovery that around a dozen snapped bolt heads in various parts of the ship had been simply glued back on instead of being replaced. Some of these botched fastenings secured racks holding the lifeboats, although straps would prevent the liferafts falling from the ship. None of these bolts are critical to the safety of the vessel but sub-standard workmanship is clearly unacceptable. Upon discovery, BAES moved quickly to make repairs and issued an internal quality alert to all employees, demanding better performance. The contents of the alert were leaked to the media and will cause embarrassment to BAES and unwanted headlines for the RN.

HMS Forth was already undergoing a scheduled engineering period, receiving additional communications and electronics equipment when the electrical issue arose. All the faults will be rectified in the near future and it is unlikely to delay the ships work-up and sea training programme significantly. Before arriving in Portsmouth, HMS Forth had spent a total of 20 days at sea on trials and was accepted by the RN as meeting specification on 26th February. The approximately 100 small snagging issues discovered during sea trials that need to be rectified by the contractor are actually well below average for a ship of her type.

The vessel has a 12-month warranty period after acceptance and the navy will not have to fund the cost of rectifications. To sustain BAES and its workforce during delays to the commencement of the Type 26 frigate programme, a government agreement resulted in each of the Batch II River class OPVs costing around £114 Million. HMS Forth is currently the most expensive OPV in the world, the contractor can afford the repair.

Issues of this nature are to be expected with new vessels and are not an indication of fundamentally poor design or major construction flaws. (HMS Forth is not strictly the first of her class, BAES have already delivered three similar ships for the Brazilian navy. The RN vessels are built to a higher specification and may have different electrical arrangements.) As we have witnessed in the last year, HMS Queen Elizabeth has suffered a series of well-publicised engineering problems some of which emerged into the media, out of context and in exaggerated form. None have proved to be a show-stopper and all have been quickly rectified.

Occurrences like this are not especially newsworthy, as these kind of difficulties are a normal part of operating warships the world over. Resolving engineering issues, large or small, is the whole reason that facilities like Portsmouth exist. The PR ‘optics’ may not appear ideal, “Expensive new OPV suffers technical faults just weeks after commissioning” but this is not untypical of bringing new vessels into service.

  Rear Admiral Gardner (Senior Responsible Officer for Batch II OPVs) confirmed on her commissioning day that HMS Forth will sail for the South Atlantic in the latter part of this year and will replace HMS Clyde as the permanent Falklands guard ship. HMS Clyde is not owned by the MoD, but is leased from BAES and she will be returned to her owners, who will probably have little difficulty selling an 11-year-old ship.

Main Image: Lesley Doubleday via Flickr

  Related articles

Brand new RN vessel hit by series of failures just days after entering service (Sunday Herald, Glasgow)

Photo essay – on board HMS Forth (Fishing News)

from Save the Royal Navy http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/storm-in-a-teacup-a-setback-for-the-royal-navys-newest-ship-hms-forth/