Dauntless Ardor

Hello! I'm Victoria and I'm 22 years old with lots of weight to lose. I try to log food and exercise, but I focus more on just life in general here. I post drastically different things ranging from fitness and weight loss to nature to self confidence and love to feminism to finding yourself to fandoms and humor to personal thoughts and progress. My blog is constantly changing. But it's here to keep me motivated to love who I am and who I'm becoming and to keep me on track as I lose weight.

[sami-ee-deactivated20170730]

[aplaceofhisown-deactivated20180]

A powerful but benevolent water spirit lives here.

[snottgal]

I got goosebumps

[naturestrexsures]

Watching this makes me feel home

[pipistrellus]

STILL ON PATROL

I learned something new and horrifying today which is… that… no submarine is ever considered “lost” … there is apparently a tradition in the U.S. Navy that no submarine is ever lost. Those that go to sea and do not return are considered to be “still on patrol.”

?????

There is a monument about this along a canal near here its… the worst thing I have ever seen. it says “STILL ON PATROL” in huge letters and then goes on to specify exactly how many WWII submarine ghosts are STILL OUT THERE, ON PATROL (it is almost 2000 WWII submarine ghosts, ftr). Here is the text from it:

“U.S. Navy Submarines paid heavily for their success in WWII. A total of 374 officers and 3131 men are still on board these 52 U.S. submarines still on patrol.”

THANKS A LOT, U.S. NAVY, FOR HAVING THIS TOTALLY NORMAL AND NOT AT ALL HORRIFYING TRADITION, AND TELLING ALL OF US ABOUT IT. THANKS. THANK YOU

anyway now my mother and I cannot stop saying STILL ON PATROL to each other in ominous tones of voice

[tharook]

There’s definitely something ominous about that—the implication that, one day, they will return from patrol.

[thehoneybeewitch]

Actually, it’s rather sweet. I don’t know if this is common across the board, but my dad’s friend is a radio op for subs launched off the east coast, and he always is excited for Christmas, because they go through the list of SoP subs and hail them, wishing them a merry Christmas and telling them they’re remembered.

Imagine a country whose seamen never die, and whose submarines can’t be destroyed…because no ones sure if they exist or not.

[hardoncaulfield]

No but imagine. It’s Christmas. A black, rotting corridor in a forgotten submarine. The sound of dripping water echoes coldly through the hull. You can’t see very far down the corridor but then, a man appears, he’s running, in a panic, but his footsteps make no noise. The spectral seaman dashes around the corner and slips through a rusty wall. He finds himself at the back of a crowd of his cadaverous crew-mates. They part to let him through. He feels the weight of their hollow gaze as he reaches the coms station. Even after all these years a sickly green light glistens in the dark. The captain’s skeleton lays a sharp hand on his shoulder and nods at him encouragingly, the light sliding over the bones of his skull. The ghost of the seaman steadies himself and slips his fingers into the dials of the radio, possessing it. It wails and screeches. A bombardment of static. And then silence. The deathly crew mates look at each other with worry, with sadness; could this be the year where there is no voice in the dark? No memory of home? The phantasm of the sailor pushes his hand deeper into the workings of the radio, the signal clears, and then a strong voice, distant with the static but warm and kind, echoes from the darkness; “Merry Christmas boys, we’re all thinking of you here at home, have a good one.” A sepulchral tear wafts it’s way down the seaman’s face. The bony captain embraces him. The crew grin through rotten jaws, laughing silently in their joy. They haven’t forgotten us. They haven’t forgotten.

[beautifultoastdream-deactivated]

I am completely on board with this. It’s not horrifying, it’s heartwarming.

Personal story time: whenever I go to Field Museum’s Egypt exhibit, I stop by the plaque at the entrance to the underground rooms. It has an English translation of a prayer to feed the dead, and a list of all the names they know of the mummies on display there. I always recite the prayer and read aloud the list of names. They wanted to live forever, to always have their souls fed and their names spoken. How would they feel about being behind glass, among strangers? Every little thing you can do to give respect for the dead is warranted.

I love the idea of lost subs still being on patrol. Though if you really want something ominous, let me say that the superstitious part of me wonders: why are they still on patrol? If they haven’t been found, do they not consider their mission completed? What is it out there that they are protecting us from?

[amusewithaview]

@boromir-queries-sean

[emilysidhe]

 There’s been something in the water since we first learned to float on it.  Not marine life, although there’s more of that than we’ll ever know.  Not rocks and currents and sand bars and icebergs either, although they’ve all taken more than their share of human life.

But something deeper.  Something Other.  Something not natural.

Sailors have always been superstitious.

Not one of them described it right.

You don’t hear about it so much now that we don’t lose ships anymore, really, not like we did at the height of the sea trade when barely an inch of ocean floor didn’t bear some wreck or other.  And better ships and GPS and weather satellites have all played their part in that.

But we have protection now that we didn’t before.  They don’t interfere with war and battle, even on behalf of what used to be their country, or with rocks and weather and human stupidity.  Those are concerns for the living.

But the Other Things, the Things that shouldn’t be there - They can’t get to us now without a fight.  It’s a fight They haven’t won in a very long time.

As long as we remember them, as long as we call out to them - not very often, just once a year will do - they will keep protecting us from the Things that go bump in the deep.

More than fifty submarines, Still On Patrol.

[geekybones]

@imperatorsapphiosa as future Navy Queen, this is relevant

[imperatorsapphiosa]

Cosmic horror and eternal patrol? Sounds like me alright.

[kerryrenaissance]

It’s for things like this that I dearly want a new anthology show, a la Twilight Zone or Outer Limits.

[porterr-robinson]

[avvocarlo]

video of the year 

[tamascotchi-deactivated20190101]

keep the rave alive da

[bangedbysatan-deactivated201909]

@sturmgewehrr

[pochacco]

[sailorflorana]

I’m crying this is so good, quality content right here

[celebritydachshund]

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[candiikismet]

He did such a good job

[onlyblackgirl]

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willsmith: I love her new cut, I had to show y’all

[lyjerria]

so how do I get a husband this adorable

[deejay]

[bittersweet-tremolo]

[smashcut]

My dog is so fucking cute she’s sleeping in her lil carrier on the train

[smashcut]

Just. look at her

[duskenpath]

Everyone kept asking for their sign via ask so here you go, signs in a mob

Aries - Thinks they are the kingpin. Everyone lets them think they are the kingpin. Insists on driving in the flashy kingpin car. Wears an actual name tag. Constant assassination attempts on their life so sag/libra are always right behind them but it makes sense to let the aries have a good time since it deflects suspicion. Makes all the media appearances, also has the bar fights with Leo

Taurus - Permanently done with everyone’s shit. Handles everything that isn’t being handled and does it efficiently. Insists on combing over any contracts anyone drafts or signs with a magnifying glass. Creates organized hitlists and shitlists so everyone knows what’s up. Also caters the mob meetings since they take up stress cooking to deal with it

Gemini - The one that does a lot of the planning. You’re not actually sure where the loyalty is or if they do this because it’s fun for now. This makes them an asset. They spend a lot of time tinkering with poisons & they speak too many languages to be who they say they are.

Cancer - Probably mob matriarch. Rules through the family lineage and thus commands a lot of inherent respect from the entire clan. Involved in making big decisions for the future due to being a sort of historian. Nobody tolerates anyone disrespecting the cancer

Leo - The actual kingpin. The one you send out for making all the deals/negotiations happen because leo will handle it other ways if it’s not happening the diplomatic way. Hates that politics get in the way of how much shit COULD be getting done if everyone could stop being babies for 5 minutes yet reminds everyone constantly they are the actual power of this organization and says “come at me bro” an awful lot

Virgo - Cleaning crew. Knows one-hundred-and-ten ways to make a body disappear. Everyone lives in fear because you know if something happened to you nobody would ever know because virgo is an expert at their craft. Knows the names of a lot of acids just by heart

Libra - The one you send into fancy events to infiltrate, spy and bring back information. Disturbingly good at robbery & pickpocketing. Plays a suspicious number of strange instruments for someone from a “small town out west”. Probably has an actual version of the mona lisa even though they tell you it’s a copy

Scorpio - Tangentially so close to the kingpin they’re pulling a lot of strings so might as well be dual running the place. The advisor with ulterior motives.The one you don’t actually want to send out because it’ll get too messy.

Sagittarius - The one you send in with the Libra so someone can remind the Libra it’s a mission for a job, not for pleasure. Probably the explosives expert. Brilliant, but you have suspicions there’s an important screw loose. Internationally wanted diamond thief, banned from several countries.

Capricorn - Rules the entire thing from the bottom because of an iron fist on the accounting. Nobody realizes this unless the capricorn decides to pull it out from under them. Could honestly end the cash-flow to several mobs in the area with one phone call

Aquarius - The inventor of the weird gadgets for the mob. Has literally no horses in this race loyalty wise but these people gave them a nice lab & test subjects & that was very nice of them because it aligns with their aims to revolutionize the world.

Pisces - The one that probably signed the contract without reading the fine print and is now stuck in a mob. Tries to be useful by making informational pamphlets. Nobody has the heart to tell them that’s not how the mob really works. Probably ends up in the lab w/ the Aquarius and develops a fascination with how many ways you can mix a colorless odorless poison into alcohol

[duskenpath]

Yo if someone made aesthetics for this link me I NEED 2 SEE

[stimman3000]

[paxamericana]

[ithelpstodream]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[thatdiva]

education = liberation

tell your friends!

[thearcanatweets]

[straightwhiteboystexting]

[prokopetz]

I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that - I deal with them on a daily basis.

[confusedbyinterface]

“Memes have educational value” actually statistical error. Average meme teaches 0 facts. Spiders Georg is an outlier adn should not be counted

[pacificrim-archive]

[zkac-deactivated20200610]

okay this is one of the greatest plot twists of american cinema