#titan sinking

[mask131]

I am reposting this in its own post, since a reblog usually doesn’t get seen much.

It is about the disappearance of the Titan underneath the sea. The current “Titanic disaster” happening. I originally wrote this because if you are on Tumblr, all you see is “Who cares about a handful of billionaires?” “Just eat the rich!” “Let the billionaires die” “Everybody is making a fuss about some rich people’s endangering themselves for pure tourism”. And I need to add something, something a lot of people if not everybody on Tumblr seems to have completely missed, an info that apparently you can only have if you are in France. Just to explain why, for example, this event impacts France a bit more directly than other countries, and why simplifying the situation to “A bunch of stupid billionaires killed themselves due to being stupid” can be very annoying to hear. And it all lies in the fact that there’s one specific man in Titan. This introduction being done, here is the copy-paste of my original reblog:

The reason France talks so much about it, for example, is because there is one French man inside this machine: Paul-Henri Nargeolet. And the whole thing that is taking everybody’s mind is the fact that Nargeolet is one of the greatest French experts of the Titanic. He is described by everyone as an adventurer and explorer, and he has always been doing jobs related to underwater diving (his first job was to work as a deminer-diver from the 60s to the 80s, getting care of a lot of underwater bombs and explosives. But in the 80s it is when he started getting involved with the Titanic - and became one of THE French names tied to it. His first descent to the Titanic was in 1987 in the submarine Le Nautile, and he kept going down there again and again, decades after decades.

Because as I said, he was an explorer. He studied the Titanic, he explored the sunken ship carcass - and more importantly he brought back a lot of objects from the Titanic. He brought up more than 800 different objects (he was part of the RMS Titanic and oversaw a lot of other exploraton operations of the Titanic). Mind you, him bringing up the 800 objects was in the 90s. In his own word, I think he said that in 1993 (but I’m not sure), he brought all these objects because he wanted that future generations might have something that came from the Titanic. Mind you, his explorations have been quite divisive - in fact, he perfectly resumed it in one of the books he wrote about exploring the Titanic. He had received the visit (when he was still digging up the Titanic objects) of two sisters, survivors of the Titanic sinking. One came to him to say “I do not like what you are doing. Our father died in this ship, and I think what you are doing is wrong.” But the other came to him saying “I appreciate a lot what you do. Before the sinking, our mother had placed her pearl necklace by the little cupboard near her bed. Could you try to fetch it back for us?”. As he explains in his book, it was the best illustration of how polarizing him, his explorations of the Titanic and his fetching of items were.

But the point I am trying to make is that this man’s life was entirely about the Titanic. He was part of many research and studies about the Titanic, he kept writing books about the Titanic, he dived down there and explored the Titanic more than two dozen times, and he is the man responsible for us having today more than 800 items taken out of the carcass on the seafloor. In fact, in the French news this was brought up when we learned he was aboard “But... he has been down there like 25 fives already! Why would he pay to go down there yet again? On top of that he’s 77 today, he should just quit going down there!”. And one of his friends answered on TV that, basically, Nargeolet had described him how seeing the Titanic, exploring it, going down there to be near it, became like a drug - an addiction. He wanted to keep going down there for as long as he could, to keep exploring and searching for the ship’s secrets, before its total destruction.

As I do a quick fact-check to make sure I don’t say anything stupid (and I probably will have because I am not a Nargeolet’s biograph) I discover that there is some British billionaire aboard this machine - and I will say you honestly, I have been stuck near 24h info channels in France (thanks to having to work with sound in the background) and never once did they mention this rich British guy. All we talk about here is Nargeolet and his life - and what nobody says but everybody thinks, is how much of a tragic irony it would be if one of the great French explorers and experts of the Titanic died by wanting to see it one last time. This is why, at least in France, we talk a lot about this. (And to be frank, honestly the French news REALLY do not care about the others - if you listened to them there’s only Nargeolet in this little machine down there and nobody else)

EDIT: I just learned he wasn't even going down there purely to see the Titanic. He was going down there to test the Titan - because he had some hopes that maybe, if a mechanical arm was added to the Titan, he could get some items and objects he couldn't have with his own exploration submarine, the Nautilus.  Though it was quite a slim hope, because apparently he also didn't believe the Titan could work with a mechanical arm - but he still decided to do one descent with it just to see how it worked down there...

[achromatophoric]

Bianca: Why did I just see Enid ugly crying through the halls at top speed?

Wednesday: I confessed to her my feelings, as suggested by both Tanaka and yourself.

Bianca: Girl, you were supposed to confess your stupid crush, not crush her stupid. What happened?

Wednesday: I applied an analogy and equated my desire for her to the sinking of the Titanic.

Bianca: You WHAT?

Wednesday: Like the Titanic, my heart was once thought impervious, only to be brought down by the very thing it was designed to withstand.

Wednesday: And like the iceberg that was the Titanic’s ruin, Enid’s offensively bright exterior was but the tip of her magnitude.

Wednesday: Even now, I am unable to—perhaps even unworthy of—describing the sheer depths of her resplendent spirit. Her bravery, her heart, her everything.

Wednesday: Formidable as I imagined myself, I admit now that I was destined to be destroyed by her. Inevitably split asunder to sink beneath the waves of her sheer grandeur.

Bianca: Huh. That’s uh—that’s not bad. And that’s what you told her?

Wednesday: Not… in so many words.

Bianca: Addams, what exactly did you say to her?

Wednesday:

Wednesday: I said, in my most meaningful of tones…

Wednesday: *recites* I need you—

– At that same moment, in Yoko’s room. –

Enid: —like the— *wet sniffle* —the Titanic— *choked sob* —needed the iceberg!

Enid: *returns to full-on ugly crying*

Yoko: 🤦‍♀️

[nahrumi]

eren yeager throughout the years

[gleafer]

Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

Happy Inauguration Day.

May the odds forever be in your favor.

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Can't believe this writer is trying to argue the problem with the show is that it isn't treating the main villain like a one-note, simplistic character and this is somehow too confusing because viewers won't know he's the villain despite all the villainous things he does like murder, manipulation, gaslighting, and orchestrating the complete destruction of an entire Elven realm. How media illiterate do you have to be to think exploring a villain's motivation in some way constitutes trying to trick the audience into think he isn't really a villain?

[poeticsapphicism]

gonna tell my kids that they were jack and rose

[cute-little-alien]

[soracities]

Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie, from "On This the 100th Anniversary of the Sinking of the Titanic, We Reconsider the Buoyancy of the Human Heart" [ID'd]

from Alight: Best-Loved Poems from the Women of the World Poetry Slam 2013 poem performed by the author here

[gaytimeswith-scar]

sleepy ranchers 🫶🫶🫶

[sweetbottletops]

“New chapter next week. 2/9 💚” agu_knzm IG

[fivewantscoffee]

Because he time travelled a lot while still working for the Commission, I like to imagine that there are pictures out there of old man Five just... existing... in the background of random old photgraphs.

Anyway. One day while the Hargreeves are watching a documentary, Luther sees a familiar face.

[rms-mauretanic]

This is my favorite piece of “evidence” for the Titanic switch conspiracy. I genuinely lose my mind laughing whenever I look at it.

At first glance, the issue is obvious, right? The ship in the top picture is Titanic, mislabeled as Olympic. Titanic had an enclosed A-deck promenade while Olympic’s was left open. They just switched the names and called it “evidence.”

That’s silly enough as it is, but it gets better. See how the ship in the second picture doesn’t have any funnels?

Titanic wasn’t launched in her final configuration - originally, her A-deck promenade was open, just like her sister’s, and was enclosed later on during the fitting-out process. This is what she looked like right after launch (we know this is Titanic and not Olympic because Olympic was painted light grey for her launch):

Yeah, that’s right. Both of those pictures are of Titanic.

They switched the Titanic with the Titanic.

[chainera]

I feel like this is how their relationship should be like in canon

It’s pretty clear that Titania likes Titan, both considering the recent ep and how she was trying to get Titan to follow his heart back during the moon revolution. But Titan never really made an effort to get to know Titania much and I always felt like he kept her at an arm’s length. So… yeah, I don’t think he is interested in her in any way past acquaintances.

Putting my obvious Titan x Luna bias aside (which is a lot considering they’re my otp) I feel like even as friends Titan had put more effort into getting the Moon to realize the Earth was in the wrong (especially the whole ‘does he treat you like an equal?’ speech in the beginning). With Titania, Titan just repeated Ganymede’s and Europa’s revolution speech and didn’t go any farther than that. Titania may admire/adore Titan, but their relationship is not close at all. If SolarBalls suddenly makes Titan have a crush out of nowhere I would honestly just feel so disappointed.

Anyways, enjoy the doodle and the rant ig 👍

[maverey]

[iholli]

like don't get me wrong it is 100% absolutely sad what's happening with the Titanic submersible and condolences to the families who have to pick up the pieces from this. but if you paid a quarter of a million dollars to get on an untested tube of claustrophobia named Titan made with over the counter camper parts that is literally held together with bolts and prayers and is controlled by a fucking knockoff Xbox controller, all with the intention of further disturbing a hundred year old gravesite with worse visuals than if you just looked at pictures on your phone, you absolutely sent yourself to your death. You asked for that shit. You literally signed your death warrant.

Titanic wants to be left to rest and she is proving that in any way necessary. If they even find that rust bucket it's going to be at the bottom of the ocean in her corpse, left to corrode with the rest of the graves.

[bertholdthoovuh]

Reiner drawing I did for an art trade ❤️