#hms shipping

[s1ld3n4f1l]

Genuine Question if anyone could answer for me: Is there a reason no one in the Chonny Jash fandom ships any of the HMS together?

Did he say something about it specifically? Or is this just a general like. opinion the fandom has that no one can ship any of them together? (And if it's the latter: Why? Too close to RPF? Everyone sees them more as siblings? Selfcest is considered weird now? ???)

Please no hate if you answer, I'm just genuinely curious about this. Just haven't seen a fandom that's this adamant about the relationships being interpreted as platonic while there's no (or at least very little) romantic interpretations of the relationships in the fandom.

[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

[ltwilliammowett]

Stowaway Jim - Ship's Cat of HMS Prince Regent, early 20th century

Came on board at Halifax N.S. November 1914 and passed for O.C. He has since been promoted, and is now C. in.C. of the P.R. Cats. He is an old wardog and bears his battle honours " Dogger Banks" and "Jutland" unostentatiously. O.C. = Ordinary Cat

[char-marr]

Thinking about my wife 💐💕

[sillysiluriforme]

the problem with rich people is that they have money for dumb novelty shirts

[vivtanner]

Naufrage - artbook exploring shipwrecks found in different waters around the world. For all the Terror fans: it also contains HMS Terror & Erebus ⚓️

Available until Nov 14th on tannenbaumpress.com 🌊

[illustratus]

The Old Superb by Montague Dawson

[clickety-clacker]

soft and gentle .

[rystiel]

the secret even better version of gravity falls in my head where they all like men

[colfy-wolfy]

walks in and throws this piece of nourishment to the 2 thuzi fans that still exist

also this is like the 3rd time I've drawn thad so I still haven't decided wtf I wanna do with his hair pls forgive me if it looks weird !

suggestive warning under cut (just a shitpost bonus)

[cyellolemon]

Bleach art dump!! The hyperfixation you had from your 11 to 16yo never leaves

[s1ld3n4f1l]

hi mr jash made a statement on shipping. hes ok with it as long as he doesnt get tagged in it/sent it, and it's not weird or whatever

already got an ask about this but publishing this one too so I can make this joke.

*FRANTICALLY WRITING SO I GET TO BE FIRST SHIP FIC ON AO3*

[itslilacokay]

"i should probably be careful posting when ava ships are involved, maybe i should keep ava shipart stuff to myself"

i say as i post victim and agent being extremely fuckihg gay

[ltwilliammowett]

The ship's mascot, a Persian kitten, finds a quiet spot in a special hammock. Aboard HM Indian Sloop Godavari, August 1943

[i-am-countess-olivia]

HMS Terror during the 1836-1837 Frozen Strait Expedition, watercolours by her captain at the time, George Back.

[yoinkschief]

please don't look at me this is the first time I've been self indulgent about Sonic since I was a kid this is making me flustered hrhghhh Amy Rose nothing could ever make me hate you