The Deltora anime experience for me is just an endless stream of "she would not fucking say that" interspersed with me kicking my feet and twirling my hair and batting my eyelashes and giggling cutely and waving and shyly looking away while blushing whenever Doom comes onscreen. Also at a certain point I start hallucinating anime Barda being kinda cute/funny like I'm on a desert island starting to see my companions as talking hot dogs. I come to my senses pretty quick on that one though.
Ugh god, Doom really was the only character to escape from the anime unscathed. His design is legitimately good like he's so... No, I shall hold my tongue... It is not a matter suited for public ears...
it’s horrific. awful way to die. either you’re trapped with no chance of being found, air running out, everyone around you suffocating, or the hull is broken and you get turned to jelly by the crushing ocean depths. ik they’re billionaires so it’s very contentious for me. generally i prefer no one dies horrifically. like just as a fellow human being on earth. but i dont think the ultra rich ever extend that mindset to others. climate refugees. and just everything. it feels like something a greek god would do to punish them. it has a certain swagful je ne sais quoi if removed from the human suffering which billionaires have to do philosophically to maintain their positions. very haunting. the hubris of it all. old jalopy metal tube steered by a mad catz controller. to go look at the titanic. which is nothing but a rusted out metal wreck full of fish and silt. btw. the grandiosity of it is completely unrecognizable. one has to wonder what compels ppl to even look at it in the first place. like the prestige of seeing some filthy grown over shell? crazy thing to die for. very textually rich… bad way to die as a human being. great way to die as a narrative about human greed and folly i guess. good job. mission accomplished?
#yeah like this isn't a thing to celebrate at all but I think the stance of like.#these people who could afford to blow a quarter of a million dollars desecrating a gravesite in a vessel that would have proven unsafe with#about 2 seconds of googling and/or an ounce of caution are helpless victims here is like.#well. hm. I don't know if that's it either brother.#not funny in the slightest but also not a big unavoidable tragedy either I think. it's all just very grim.
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.
17-year-olds working in fast food with their 33-year-old bestie:
Man Prin was so annoying and ugly in the anime that I actually forgot that she's legitimately so cute in the books lmfao. She has no one to play with... Poor thang.........
"A submarine has gone missing" : Oh jeeze, I hope they find those people.
"A submarine visiting the wreck of the titanic has gone missing" : Well, that's a little ghoulish but I can't blame folks for a morbid curiosity, especially at a monument to white man's hubris.
"An experimental cobbled together submarine visiting the wreck of the titanic has gone missing" : Well at this point y'all were just taking your lives into your own hands and also how is 'slapped together submarine' a legal thing that's real.
"An experimental cobbled together submarine full of the absurdly wealthy visiting the wreck of the titanic has gone missing" : Okay now this just feels a little too on point someone has to be joking with me.
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Not a full design ref... but here is a Dr. Windows turn around because she is awesome!!! The description I wrote for her: "Dr. Vaiva Vincent Windows is a young disabled nanotechnologist who has been employed at Focus Labs for five years. She is an extroverted optimist and the love interest of the protagonist, Dr. Hellmann."
HAPPY GHOST SWAP @playghosttrick!!! Disco crossover, you say... I see... cockatoos. Majestic cockatoos. And a very disco crossover. Nothing like it, baby!
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couples themed photoshoots and old romance films have such a Grip on me they're all so destian and it makes me unwell LIKE
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I love being a hater but I also love being an Enjoyer, so what I like to do is enjoy something so aggressively and deeply that I come to know everything about it, and bc I know everything, I can find (minor and major) things to complain about. as a fun activity. enrichment. but then I do that, and people think I actually hate this thing. they’ll be like, oh, good to know about (flaw), I was gonna check that thing out but now I’ll steer clear. you don’t get it. I’m complaining because I love it so much. hey wait come back. I’ve got some more stuff to nitpick
