#a captain and their ship

[altn0g]

best friends

[ooohladymaria]

‼️THIS IS NOT A SHIP‼️

The kiss of Judas (WIP)

This game singlehandedly freed me from a six-months-long art block

Thank u mouthwashing very cool

[yooo-lets-go]

Ghostshipping

[mydearbasil]

The pirate captain and the shark lady 💕

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire

[graye]

Rumors say this is what tipped Anakin to the Dark side.

[livelovecaliforniadreams]

[clownowo]

not pictured: Acht flashback to growing up hearing DJ Octavio say vaguely gay shit about the captain of the Squidbeak Splatoon

[aap-himejoshi]

if i was a crewman and my ships captain, science officer and medical officer did this shit on a regular basis i would genuinely defect.

[bimboredfield]

Born to be coworkers forced to go through trauma together

[burningvelvet]

historical costume appreciation: captain flint's dark coat in season one of black sails

[cryptocism]

"escape plan: Fly Outta There" is so chill and cool and normal in theory

[maxyartwork]

valcarol (canon)

[worfs-glorious-hair]

Ninejack walked so that Fifteen x Rogue could run

[nortism]

[captain-mozzarella]

I feel like Anakin would forget to tell Rex about Ashoka