#Thomas Andrews

[malacandrax]

So like what if there’s no Jack.

Partly fuelled by a group watch of titanic, partly ‘nobody has ever drawn this therefore I Must’. I think drawing this made me kind of fonder of the platonic relationship they have in canon, but it was fun! And I Do love a good may/december haha.

[devonsawas]

TITANIC | 1997 ↳ Directed by James Cameron

[dopeasspancake]

The one part of Titanic I will absolutely never recover from is at the very end:

Jack, the person she loved most is the one waiting for her up the stairs at the clock. As you get closer to Jack, the other people Rose was more familiar with and/or cared for her are the ones standing nearest to him, with Jack’s third class friends she met and danced with being toward the bottom of the stairs and Fabrizio is even leaning on the rail with his foot on the first step (hon. mention to Mr. Murdoch who saw Jack and Rose cavorting on deck and smiled and laughed about it).

But you know who the only other character is that’s not only fully on the staircase, but several steps up from everyone else?

Mr. Andrews 🥺

He was the only one of Rose’s first-class peers to show her respect, value her intelligence, and show genuine concern about her making it off Titanic alive.

And it both warms my heart and tears me apart that next to Jack, he was clearly the next closest person she held dear. And I know everyone smiles and greets her as she walks by but Thomas Andrews just looks so fucking proud of her. He’s so proud that she made it out and lived her life.

So I think it’s safe to say that in return, Thomas Andrews was the one who cared for Rose the most, aside from Jack.

When she walks in and people start noticing her, you can see Fabrizio speaking to Mr. Andrews before spotting Rose and gesturing toward her, and UGH they both just look so happy to see her.

So I know the end is up for interpretation on whether it’s a dream or she died. But personally I choose to believe she passed peacefully in her sleep and was finally reunited with the people she cared about most, who had been patiently waiting for the last 84 years for her to rejoin them.

Excuse me while I go cry now 🥹

[melancholyromance]

I'm sorry that I didn't build you a stronger ship, young Rose.

[your-resident-boat-person]

"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do."

I think a lot of you should keep this quote in mind. Nowadays, having the "right" opinion has become more important than one's actions, to the point where people will be harassed for opinions they hold completely privately and do not act on. It's like that one person says, something along the lines of "in leftist spaces, it's infinitely more important to do nothing wrong than something right."

Ultimately, someone with all of the "right" opinions who does nothing good offers nothing to the world at large. Someone who may have "wrong" opinions who actually gets up and makes a difference is infinitely more important to the world at large.

You will not be remembered or celebrated for sticking to your morals and doing nothing.

Every day, each and every one of us is given hundreds if not thousands of opportunities to do little acts of good and kindness. Taking those opportunities will invariably make the world a better place.

[dame-de-pique]

Thomas Andrew - Man from Satawan, 1886

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[kornblume814]

[mattaytchtaylor]

Now a for-real-deal throwback: A Thomas Andrews, Jr. sketch.

I haven't drawn him in years!

[kmerteuil]

[trekkitkat]

Some more reasons why Thomas Andrews my favourite person from history.

As a kid, his friends nicknamed him “Admiral” because of his skill and fondness of boats. 

He loved animals, looked after bees and horses and was very kind and gentle with them. 

At school, he wasn’t so great at academics, but the teachers and students still loved him for his generosity and honesty, “Wherever he went, he carried his own sunshine.” 

Staying at a hotel on a trip with friends, someone broke a bed rail. Thomas look responsibility for it and paid for a new bed. He fixed the broken bed and gifted it to an elderly cleaning lady at the hotel for her invalid husband. He and his friends carrying it to the couples' house and setting it up for them. 

As a teenage apprentice at the Harland and Wolff shipyards, he was known to do things like finish his own work early so he could help an old workman with his tasks, stay late to catch up the work of another apprentice who was sick, encourage others who were struggling.  A foreman noted, “It seemed his delight to make others around him happy.” 

He worked all day in the shipyards, then took night classes in drawing, mechanics and naval architecture. 

As head of the Design Department, he had in depth knowledge of all fifty-three branches of the shipyard, 

He was a natural and good leader. The workers at the shipyard looked up to him because he was good-natured, direct and intelligent and he could bring that out in others too. He saw people and respected them. If someone had an idea or suggestion, he wanted to hear it. 

He climbed an eighty-foot scaffold during a gale to save a man who got stuck. 

He didn’t believe himself above anybody and saw the workers at the shipyard as his friends.  He advocated for better housing, education and shorter working days for labourers. And he hated politicians who tried to fuel class divide and tension. 

During Titanic’s voyage, he wrote or sent telegrams to his wife from Belfast, Southampton, Cherbourg and Queenstown, telling her how the ship was fairing and the details he was working on.  A couple who shared the same dining table with him said he was very proud of the ship, but what he wanted to talk most about was his wife, daughter and family. 

Stewardess May Sloan said, “He made you feel on the ship that all was right. It was good to hear his laugh and have him near you. If anything went wrong, it was always to Mr Andrews one went.” 

And this is just a sample of what this man was like. He was an absolute gem. One of those rare, special people that make the world better just by existing. 

[quicksiluers]

Well, I may have knocked her together, but the idea was Mr. Ismay's. He envisioned a steamer so grand in scale, and so luxurious in its appointments, that its supremacy would never be challenged. And here she is...willed into solid reality.

[unspokenloveaffair]

[hottopicoftheweek]

I guess Tiktok is back? Anyway-

Day 5: My love, Thomas Andrews

The rest of the days

[melancholyromance]

But this ship can’t sink! She's made of iron, sir! I assure you, she can... and she will. It is a mathematical certainty.

[frankidacre]

Posting here one of my favorite pieces <3 I always associate Andrews with the sun/sunflowers.