So Theres A Lot Of Posts Going Round About The Titanic Wreck And The Missing Submarines; All Of Them

so theres a lot of posts going round about the titanic wreck and the missing submarines; all of them that ive seen have made very good points about how shoddy the submersible seemed to be and how the company decided to wait eight hours before reporting it, and how this is a play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the ultra-wealthy who paid like 250grand a ticket for this thing.

but what i havent seen any posts about is how the titanic wreck is a gravesite and this tourism is disturbing the graves of over 1500 people.

sometimes its kinda hard to remember that those on the titanic were real people; it was over a century ago, the story has been romanticised in so many ways (like the movie), theres conspiracies theories galore that cloud everything with misinformation, but at the end of the day, those who died were real people.

do you want their names? heres a list of them; its a long read. and for fun, heres another site where you can see photos of the children and babies who died aboard.

their bodies are long gone and their lives long forgotten. all we have to remember them and honour them is the wreck itself. its all we have of them and it is their gravesite. its their tombstone.

caitlin doughty/ask a morticians video on the great lakes discusses the topic well, and why we should leave these shipwrecks alone because again, they are the gravesites of all the souls who died aboard those ships. we rarely have bodies to recover so we really are left just with the wreck.

and what really upsets me about titanic tourism is how the majority of those who died that night were not the ultra-wealthy rich folks you might picture when you think of ocean liners.

61% of the first class passengers survived

42% of the second class passengers survived

24% of the third class passengers survived

24% of the crew survived **

the majority of those who died that night were regular folk; not to be cliche, but they were just like us. titanics wreck is not only a gravesite for over 1500 people, its also a majority working class gravesite.

and look at us now. look at what were doing. the ultra-wealthy can pay the equivalent of peanuts to them to disturb a mass gravesite of the exact kind of people they exploit today to hold onto all their wealth. 

its easy to point and laugh at these dumb idiots in their playstation controller submarine, seemingly held together with super glue and duct tape, but its also important to remember that what they were doing was simply disturbing a gravesite for fun. though the company does research, these guys werent down there to conduct research, they were there so they could brag about it to their friends. its like “climbing mount everest” while your sherpa does all the work.

if you cant tell, i have a lot of feelings about this. shipwrecks and ocean liners are one of my special interests and im currently building a (beginner’s) model of the titanic, for fucks sake. but i would never go down to see that wreck because its a fucking gravesite and we should not be disturbing their final resting place.

Forever

(picture does not belong to me)

Forever is a long, long time away, Where rainbows dance and dandelions sway, In a far unfound land of joy unknown, A place I wish to call home.

Forever is the time you look into me, A moment, a glance, but forever seems To pass as untold words dance in your eyes, Will I hear them all before I die?

Forever is the song that played in the room, I danced and twirled and my eyes fell on you, Were you watching me sway, did you enjoy the view? Did you know I was watching you too?

Forever is a blue moon, I'm waiting to see, It's the time I want you to spend with me, It's the number of words I want to hear you say, Forever is how long I'll to wait.

Forever is a memory, blurred on the edge, Back when we were only friends, A time of laughter I'll never regret, Did you know I'd love you back then?

Forever is a confession whispered to the dark, The anxious fears that Cupid missed his mark, Dreams of a life I know not to expect, Yet still hoping for the best.

Forever are fingers pressed close, A silent thrill, a mental boast, A giddy giggle to my nearest friend, a feeling I never want to end.

Forever is trying to take the next step, But too scared to jump off this ledge, Freefalling down to drunk cloud nine, To rooted on the ground, too scared to fly.

Forever is a smile that never quite disappears, A bad joke that chases away my tears, It's doing everything I can do, To spend the rest of my forever with you.

EXCUSE ME??? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK???

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When your first kiss is fearless coded >

You gotta love that Tumblr is on the rise because of Twitter and Reddit going down, and not because Tumblr has actually done anything to really improve its website.

I personally kin with a website that accidentally and coincidentally fails upwards.

The site that wins simply by remaining upright.

We are literally this meme, posted eons ago, in our ancient texts.

i hope oceangate gets sued to hell for violating basic safety principles in pursuit of profit, i hope a teenager doesn’t die a horrible death, and i hope the world pays much more attention to the fact that 500 migrants died that same horrible death last week in a completely preventable sinking that was engineered by bureaucratic racism and cruelty. where were their millions of dollars and manpower hours in rescue efforts?