On the 10th of April 1912, The Titanic set sail from Southhampton in England for her maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. Four days later, just before midnight on the 14th, Titanic struck an iceberg, which caused it to take severe damage and sink during the night, leading to the death of the majority of her passengers.
At the time, Titanic was one of the most advanced ships in the world. It was as a steam-powered ocean liner, a type of ship specifically built to repeatedly make the dangerous crossing between Europe and America. Because air travel was not available at the time, this service was vital, and Titanic was built at a time where different shipping lines were constantly trying to outcompete each other in building the fastest and most luxurious ships. The Titanic was equipped with restaurants, cafes and even a Turkish bath (a sort of spa / sauna hybrid), though due to the strict segregation of first, second, and third class passengers, only a minority were allowed access to these accomodations.
The White Star Line, who built and operated the Titanic, was convinced the ship wouldn’t sink, and did not adequately prepare for it, only carrying enough lifeboats to carry a portion of the ship’s passengers. While this claim seems absurd today — modern ship are far, far safer than the Titanic, but no one would ever claim they couldn’t sink — it was a popular sentiment at the time. Because of the Titanic’s novel and highly advanced watertight compartments, it was thought that even if she suffered catastrophic damage, she would bob around on the surface like a cork, rather than sink to the bottom, so there would be no hurry to evacuate the passengers
Later, the story of the titanic would go on to become something of a pop culture legend, the greatest example being the 1997 movie by James Cameron (it’s really good actually). A bunch of conspiracy theories about the ship’s fate has also popped up over the course of the last century, some gaining significant traction despite the lack of evidence.
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Is it normal to already have breast soreness after only a couple weeks?
sadness
holy fuck I hate this life. Why the fuck. Everything about this hurts so badly. My body. My voice. Everyone around me.
suicide
how the fuck have i not attempted yet like literally
why would I stick around for a life of misery i hate every moment of
Looks like next year I’m closing the long distance gap. 2026 is going to be the year of making things happen.
After two years of waiting for a lot of things to start moving forward again, I’d say it’s about time to have things to look forward to. Even electrolysis sounds exciting again, never thought I’d be saying that smh
Everything feels so stagnant when I’m not working towards my transition. Like I’m just waiting to unbox my real self into existence, then I’ll start living my life, and then I’ll be worthy of being treated like a girl irl.
negativity about family
(cis) people just assuming my family will come around and be fine and I’ll have a good relationship with them in the future. Like fr a huge part of my problem is being seen as my agab and you think the people who were there for that will forget?? The people who saw me as a boy for the longest will eventually view me as my true gender? I don’t even want people to see my pre transition pics but people who took them its going to be fine. Who called me my deadname for decades. Like even at this stage I feel like there’s a difference in how long people have known me before in how they treat/feel about me.
I’m not being doomer btw, I just find it frustrating that the cis (mostly) think I’ll have a fine relationship at some point and it just won’t be like that.
I feel like its because they don’t want to admit how they really see us tbh
I had been getting bored of Warsails. I had an idea for a character last night before bed that I really like. My main character is a tall woman. But a cis woman. She’s had kids.
I’ve made a new character who is a trans woman. She is an Aserai called Farah Banu Fasus. I used the character to editor to make her have a very feminine face compared the masculine defaults, then clean shaven, long hair, eye makeup, etc. She looks pretty and clocky. I gave a high pitched voice that does sound like a voice trained voice. She is going to wear dresses and head scarfs in her civilian outfit. She is not going to become a lord/lady. She is going to be a mercenary pirate with a single ship that is funded by legitimate businesses she owns and gang alleyways. My crew is going to be Corsairs and Aserai naval archers.
Plus I can do the pokemon thing of being in a Lesbian relationship now.
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mental health
Asked my therapist if there’s a way for me to pursue a gender dysphoria diagnosis (I just needed some affirmation). “Oh, that’s been in your file for almost two years now.”
beating Spec Ops: The Line on FUBAR 
sex and sadness
why does everything about this make me so sad. Masturbating makes me feel sad. My fantasies have been sad for a while now. Touching it makes me sad. Fantasizing about a partner makes me sad and anxious. Feel super terrible about the idea of anyone seeing me, obviously that makes it super hard to get, like idk in the mood or anything. It also makes me worry about finding someone, I know its important for most people and its kinda the thing that makes me feel the most broken. I try not to worry about it because that’s a future issue but its still a thing. I just hate being sad and dissociating and broken feeling every time and I still feel horny kinda a lot and should do maintenance, idk.Oh vibrator in my bag
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?I am really enjoying WarSails no game has really scratched the Assassins Creed Black Flag like this. I wish I could sail outside of combat though, like in ports or just on the world map.
The only problem is that something needs to be tweaked to make large naval battles more common. I’ve only had two really memorable, touch and go ones. Every other battle the outcome has pretty much been predetermined by ships and numbers, it’s just how skillfully it’s pulled off. Factions need to have dedicated Sea-Lords and Land-Lords based on their holdings and size. So that in a war they’re not just sailing in a straight line to their target but patrolling in big fleets etc.
Still there’s some really neat things you can pull off that I’m surprised by. One time I was on the aft of the ship and in heavy waves. the enemy galley was raised up so that for a brief moment I was able to jump the short distance and suddenly be on their ship with falx in hand cutting their sailors down by surprise.
I’m recovered from my gastro it was really short lived but it has ripped through my family with alarming speed.
I went to get some shopping. I decided to wear an elf hat and elf ears. It was funny to see the triple takes I got. “Hey that lady has elf ears!” followed by “Oh hey that lady is a t-slur”
Also long elf ears give me gender euphoria and I worked out why, they make my chin and nose look more in proportion with my face. All the ladies in my family have big noses, it’s not just a being trans thing, my chin is though. Also they peak out of my straight black hair and look really cute.
it really seems that much of non-western global regular people cuisine is “dip or scoop tasty stew with crispy bread” and i’m like “omg that’s my favorite thing to do”
