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I take a deep breath because I can.
Edited: They have found a debris field near the Titanic.
Mortality is never far from a cancer patient's mind. We all die, cancer or no cancer, fairly or unfairly. The universe is the universe and keeps on going whatever the big, beautiful, horrifying, and deadly universe keeps on doing. It's not my mortality that I've been thinking about the past few days, though it's never far from my mind. It's about five people I didn't know.
People hate death. It gets in the way of the happy endings that we've been spoon-fed over decades. We want to see happy endings, see absolute miracles, so much that we won't agree that there is a line where Happy Ending Land stops and reality begins. The media is complicit and people dwell in denial to the point where it's psychosis.
CNN is my case in point this morning.
If that submarine did not have a catastrophic hull failure on Sunday morning, there are now five bodies on a garage-built unclassed, uninspected, 'experimental' submarine on the floor of the ocean. The iar is gone, the battery power is gone, they are breathing in each other's carbon dioxide, hungry, thirsty, hypothermic,in the absolute dark. Billionaire hatred aside, I cannot think of a more horrible way to die nor anyone I would ever wish it on - the same way I would never wish cancer on anyone. I am walking the measured mile, these folks were locked in and dropped down. The fact that people signed an extensive multi-page waiver to board this thing makes me scream in horror.
One thing nobody wants to talk about on TV is the very real probability that one hour and forty-five minutes into it's dive, the sub experienced catastrophic hull failure and crushed down to something the size of a Weber kettle grill. All the air would have been pushed out of every component, including the humans inside. It would have taken a couple of seconds at that depth, just fifteen minutes from the bottom and the wreck of the Titanic. Apparently losing contact with the sub happened often enough that it was not reported until eight hours later. That is the best case scenario. A better case would be that they find it, bring it up to the surface, and show people the actual real consequences of hubris and stupidity.
Worst case is that they hung on in the dark, in the cold, hearing rescuers above them as they died this morning.
Their friends are saying that they could still be alive. These men were experienced adventurers, they would know how to conserve oxygen. The FFS section of this post begins below with OceanGate's co-founder talking to CNN.
While life support supplies are now believed to be running low, a co-founder of the company that operates the missing Titanic submersible says he believes the crew's expertise will extend the "window available" for rescue. Guillermo Söhnlein made the comments in a statement to CNN. He specified her was speaking on behalf of himself and not the company, OceanGate. He said OceanGate CEO and co-founder Stockton Rush — who is aboard the sub — and the rest of the crew would have "realized days ago that the best thing they can do to ensure their rescue is to extend the limits of those supplies by relaxing as much as possible." Based on the crew members' expertise, the "window available" for rescue is longer than "what most people think," Söhnlein said. Thursday will be a "critical day in this search and rescue mission," he added. "I continue to hold out hope for my friend and the rest of the crew," Söhnlein said. "I would encourage everyone to remain hopeful for getting the crew back safely."
This is fucking nutty. This is denial. Nobody wants to think that corporate hubris killed five people including the co-founder, engineers deal in reality. These people are dead. You can't spin dead. You can't wish away dead. Dead is the hardest, coldest fact of all and one of the hardest to live with, whether it's yours or someone else's.
Side note. On Monday it will have been a month since my mom's death. I knew it was coming either from dementia or COPD. The stroke moved it up. Nobody, including her doctors, saw it coming. There was no high blood pressure, her vascular health was excellent. With directives in place, she was as comfortable as possible. I remind myself that hemipaleigic, with dementia, and COPD would have been the ultimate cruelty. I still get the urge to pick up the phone and call her. I can't. Death is the hardest reality.
Next is a friend of two of the men in the sub.
“I know that the adventurers on board are experienced, very experienced,” said Per Wimmer, an adventurer who was previously signed up for two canceled trips on the Titan. Wimmer is an acquaintance of Hamish Harding and Stockton Rush, two of the five people on the missing vessel. He said Harding, a British businessman and trained jet pilot, and Rush, the CEO and founder of the company leading the voyage, are both very experienced adventurers who would know to conserve oxygen. “They would no doubt know what it means to slow down, take it easy, and use as little oxygen as possible, and therefore extend the potential timeline as much as possible," he added. Wimmer said that the presence of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush on board the vessel is helpful, as he knows “the ins and outs of how this submersible works.”
Again, the Bulletproof Fallacy is at work. "I have never been shot, therefore I am bulletproof."
They've deployed a medical team with a specialty in dive medicine and equipped with hyperbaric oxygen chambers. There is hope, yes, and then there is acceptance that the ocean is as merciless as space. It is hostile to our life form in that if our artificial environment is breached, we can't continue to live.
They've found a debris field. It may or may not be part of the 1912 wreck.
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Meme inspired by me, an aroallo, being absolutely gobsmacked by the concept of Too Hot to Handle
#alloace#aroallo#aroace#aromantic#asexual#lgbtq+#lgbt#lgbtq#lgbtqia#lgbtq community#demisexual#demiromantic#reality tv
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NUMBER ONE?! NUMBER FUCKING O N E?! ON TUMBLR?! T U M B L R ? !
#Jesus Christ man#Kendrick Lamar#Drake#drizzy drake#diss track#like what even. I was shocked when it was at 9th but number 1? number 1 on the lgbt fandom obsessed site where we listen to mcr Radiohead#lemon demon tv girl girl in red k-pop and all of that shit but it’s Kendrick who trends no 1. what FUCKING reality. What reality man…#like that#euphoria#6:16 in la#meet the grahams#not like us#rap#ive also just noticed that my post is one of the headliner ones lmfao (fourth one in)
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Bros haunting meeeeeeeeee
#drew this watching reality tv with my gf. LMFAAAAAOOOOOOOO#I’m gonna do a dating show AU I’m serious I’m so serious I’m being 100% very incredibly serious#ticci Toby#creepypasta#sweetart
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#ally holds so many realities as a chaos entity that they become a multitude of characters#game changer spoilers#dropout game changer spoilers#dropout spoilers#dropout tv spoilers#ally beardsley#sam reich#brennan lee mulligan#game changer#dropout#dropout tv
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Dick and Tim would be REALLY good on reality tv,,, they're both charismatic (please do not forget that Tim makes friends/allies easily just like Dick can), handsome, CLEVER, and know how to play to a persona. i think they'd go on shows for fun and to de-stress. like one too many things piss them off in their daily lives and they could pretty much get a vacation from it just to go on these shows. no one in the family can talk to them and they get to annoy people, crack jokes, and get fun puzzles in the form of a literal puzzle or figuring out social dynamics of the other players.
sometimes they go on shows by themselves but mostly use it as a brotherly bonding activity. if it's a show where they can be a duo they're GOING to do it. and they're going in to play to a storyline, not to win. they don't need the money, they don't need the publicity, they just want to have fun. sometimes if they figure out that everyone on the show sucks and they get competitive, they'll win. but mostly their goal is "how can we make the funniest plot line look the most natural." or something like that. i know a producer LOVES to see them coming. i bet EVERYONE tunes in when they're on a show because they're fucking hilarious even if half of what they say are inside jokes. the rest of the family watches and they KNOW what those shits are pulling, they have betting pools where they guess what the two are gonna do next, they're the FIRST to make memes for both internet and for the family group chats.
one time they convinced Bruce to go (it's been many a years since he really had to play up the Brucie role, cause he's a dad now and the older he gets the more people expect him to mellow out, and even back when he was full Brucie, reality TV wasn't his thing). it was one of those survival based shows where you come is as a team and try to win together. Bruce got lost in the woods after going on a hike. The camera men literally lost him and Tim and Dick were playing it up for the camera. Dick cried and invited the other teams to a funeral. Tim had a speech that was basically "I think he's fine but this is my perfect opportunity to embarrass my dad with stories." The producers were like "we fucking killed Bruce Wayne oh my fucking god" and Bruce shows up at the funeral like "oh what a beautiful service my boys are so great." They won by pure luck and circumstances and they were actively TRYING to lose that game. They were gobsmacked at the end and everyone uses the moment they looked at each other in confusion and shock as reaction gifs
#their fans make edits and it genuinely haunts the rest of family if they get them on their fyp#tho if steph gets an edit of tim she sends it to all of tim's friends#erinwantstowrite#tim drake#dick grayson#bruce wayne#reality tv#i'd write this fic for fun because im weirdly fixated with shows like this#i'd also love to write an au where at least one of them is an actor#on a really dramatic show#i think i need more fics exploring the Wayne side of their lives#for the funsies
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death had the best entrance scene this, castiel had the best entrance scene that, WRONG
crowley immediately kissing a man for fun and profit
#and then the reality tv zoom to cas ‘got him’#absolute perfection#best cold open of the show#nobody is doing it like crowley#he showed up. was gay. served cunt. then died#crowley#crowley spn#spn#supernatural#abandon all hope#castiel#death spn#crowley macleod
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my friend the alien likes maury
#comics that came as a result of me spending an entire day at work wondering how aliens would react to earth reality tv#also squeezing out the last little bit of originality i have before i enter gomens lockdown mode#comic#rogart
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I cannot stop laughing at the how insane Captain looks with DTC.
Their constantly at each others throats too,
(Cap’s resting his head on his palm, the leagues talking about taxes or something — Blly asked DTC what’s their favorite animals are and Zeus said a dinosaur)
Mercury: Zeus, I believe the boy means ‘living’ animals
Zeus: 😐
Hercules: I don’t mind lions, though I had to strangle one once.
Billy: You strangled a lion?
Hercules: It was a debt of my twelve labors.
Billy: …
Billy: You’re broke? Hercules: …
Hercules: 👺
Achilles: Is that twelve more labors I see?
Solomon: I’d choose ant. Zeus: Ant?
Solomon: Yes.
Zeus: No.
Solomon: Pardon?
Zeus: No. I will not be ridiculed for my choice when you chose an Ant. An ant, Solomon. Why? It’s barely on Earth.
Solomon: It’s respectable; It’s one of the most hard working things on earth, yet it’s the size of a crump.
Zeus: It would get organ failure over a crumb.
*dramatic gasps like their on a reality tv show*
Billy (looking scandalized while Batman drones on about tax breaks): 😧
#Atlas was talking about how he doesn’t see animals often and Zeus went “sucks for you” and talked about his dinosaur#Billy constantly looks like he’s going through the stages of grief every time they talk#He is#Everybody’s an instigator yet there’s only one defuser#And they’re in the fight lol#Billy doesn’t need tv when he’s got the tv streaming 24/7 and no way to turn it off#They all gasp like reality tv housewives#divine twitch chat au#captain marvel dc#shazam#dc captain marvel#captain marvel#billy batson#dc#hcs#hc#I’m like half asleep sorry
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I wish there was more annoying lame nerds in the butch/femme community I can't keep up talk about reality tv shows I need to listen to some dyke tell me about some stupid manga they read 15 times
#lesbian#im so sorry lesbians.... i just truly dont care about reality tv shows.....#butch4femme#femme4butch
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SERENA PAGE & KORDELL BECKHAM
2024 LOVE ISLAND U.S.A. WINNERS
#serena page#kordell beckham#love island usa#love island#reality tv#pocedit#blackloveedit#black tumblr#edit#their dock scene alone made me watch the entire 6th season of LIUSA
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Angela wakes up at 8am and chooses violence.
#angela the icon that you are... moments like this are why i love big brother#i only want to see messy people being messy on MY reality tv 💅🏿#big brother#bb26#angela murray#*
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*breaking into Jason’s apartment*
Dick: Listen I know you said you didn’t take it but I just wanted to double check, are you sure you don’t have my-
*Sees Jason laying his head on y/n’s lap, wearing a purple fuzzy robe, hello kitty makeup band, and golden face mask, all while they’re watching 90 day fiancé and y/n is feeding cookies into his mouth*
Jason(with a mouthful of cookies): If anyone hears about this you’re dead.
*20 minutes later*
Dick: oh he is totally only in this for the money!
Y/n & Jason at the same time: it’s so obvious
#eventually everyone finds out#and they have weekly self care and reality TV nights#Jason’s grumpy that they interrupted his alone time at first but eventually he’s happy#jason todd#jason todd x reader#jason todd imagine#Jason Todd quote#batfam#batfamily#incorrect batboys quotes#incorrect batkids#incorrect batbros#incorrect batfamily quotes
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Horses. I really like that other movie that Hobie's voice actor was in.
IDK why I ended up putting so much effort into the rendering this was just supposed to be a shitpost.
Hobie's pose is heavily referenced from a shot from the movie Nope (2022). The background texture is also from the same frame.
Miguel is cast as the stressed-out, half-Latino, tech guy with an angel name who watches camera feeds all day and bitches about his life to people he just met.
#*stares at you*#ATSV Hobie having the same eye shapes as Daniel Kaluuya is pretty much the only reason this exists#i couldn't bring myself to get rid of the wicks (it felt like sacrilege) so hat hammerspace is working overtime#this looks like Hobie’s the host of a reality tv show where every choice results in getting trampled by horses.#see you spider cowboy#my art#oj haywood#angel torres#nope 2022#nope movie#across the spiderverse#hobie brown#spider punk#hobart brown#hobie spiderverse#daniel kaluuya#miguel o'hara#atsv miguel#atsv#atsv fanart#atsv hobie#spiderman atsv#into the spider verse#spiderverse#across the spider verse#man vs horses#crossover#spider horse#horse#spiderman 2099
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imagine reg and james entering love is blind as a joke but actually falling in love in the pods and being the only couple that actually says yes at the altar
#im sorry guys im very entertained by reality tv#i need to stop thinking of marauders on reality shows#or do i??#jegulus#marauders#regulus black#james potter#james x regulus#starchaser#sunseeker#gay dead wizards#jegulus fanfiction#rab#jfp#regulus arcturus black#james fleamont potter#regulus x james#marauders era#the marauders#hp marauders#marauders harry potter#love is blind#netflix
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Wait this seems familiar
There it is
#i told you from day 1 they would make the best worst reality tv#opla#one piece LA#red leg zeff#one piece sanji
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