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Rurin. Germany. Multi-fandom, but made myself at home the most with Pokémon, Tales of, Zelda, Xenoblade Chronicles and Genshin Impact. Tumblr returnee, cleaning up the blog is a WIP. Tighnari is my blorbo!!!!

[daeyumi]

chat is he unc

(yes)

[daeyumi]

“Sharla, did you see me? Did you see what I did?”

“Oh, I uh— wasn’t really looking.”

“Aw c’mon, that’s not fair!”

[segamascott]

[otteroflore]

alright everyone is being sassy but nobody has brought up the actual reason why scientists are interested in the titanic in the notes

Per wikipedia:

The Titanic was made of steel, presumably to resist corrosion (i mean. thats why boats are made of steel i assume) but even when iron/steel rusts people did not expect to find like. decomposition. bacteria are EATING the titanic.

and there's wood furniture from the titanic that isn't decaying. hell, there are wood ships at the bottom of the ocean that archaeologists study. so the expectation people have for the titanic is not that the steel would decompose at the bottom of the ocean. Even in 100 years, since there are much more ancient preserved wooden ships iirc.

(im not particularly knowledgeable about ships, i just had heard about the science going on around the titanic so i wanted to clarify that on this post for people)

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[sailor-arashi]

The Titanic is an exceptionally weird whalefall basically.

[claraschaos]

Not a marine biologist but biologist enough to weigh in on this. The reason we have iron eating bacteria but not wood eating bacteria at the bottom of the ocean is simple. Hydrothermal vents release a cocktail of different mineral ores into the ocean. And bacteria and other organisms evolved alongside those so they evolved to digest these, like iron or other metal ores

Wood however does not exist at the bottom of the ocean since it basically never sinks down, even when logs are flushed out into the ocean they basically never end up at the ocean floor. So there's no bacteria that evolved to decompose lignin, which is already complex enough to decompose on the surface. And that's why wooden ships or the furniture on the Titanic stay intact for hundreds of years or longer.

[lobo-cansado-de-ojos-rojos]

Okay, but I remember reading a magazine stating that the titanic would basically be gone by now because of the rust eating the ship.

The sister ship HMHS Britannic is still perfectly preserved because of the way it sank, and partly in due to the coral that has grown around it keeping the structure in tact I believe was the reason.

[theminingdwarf]

Coral acting like a living fossil specifically for sunken ships is the coolest thing I've ever heard

[kyraneko]

So lemme get this straight, the Titanic is a whalefall, the Britannic is a biological mummy, and all the wood ships that sink into the deep ocean are preserved incorrupt because nothing can eat them.

Zombie, mummy, lich, respectively.

[daeyumi]

“Tell me your decision for the future of this world.”

[marypsue]

the self-indulgent fanfiction will continue until morale improves

[bisexualbaker]

The self-indulgent fanficiton will also continue after morale improves, just with better morale.

[anaryllis]

reminders i need to like, tattoo on my brain:

1. if you feel judged and hurt by others, try sleeping

2. if you feel judgmental and resentful of others, try eating (the classics)

3. if you feel uncomfortable, try showering

4. if you feel directionless and afraid, go sit outside for a bit and maybe then you'll calm down. maybe even a walk if youre feelin crazy

5. take it easy, but by god, take it

[anaryllis]

oh and how could i forget. final boss. take your fucking medication

[only-alter-idem]

get yourself a gang who’ll help you bury the body of the creature that came out of your dreams, representing your internalised homophobia, and tried to kill you

[datcravat]

Pyra//Mythra

[daeyumi]

“Do you wish to change it? The future.”

[wall-maria-around-ba-sing-se]

Everyone talkin about how the new xenoblade game may or may not connect to the greater lore, no one is talking about the fact that the land loops back up into the sky

that sick as shit dude they live on a torus or a möbius strip

[daeyumi]

That’s Dunban over there!

[moonllita]

Mòrag in big 2026

[ri-stalk]

Glass, literally. Painfully beautiful

[wieniawskis]

aqua

[gabbyp09]

Oshi no ko S3 OP TEST ME! By CHANMINA

[c4tifangs]

once more, i have lost found my heart.

[buddie-romance]

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