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Titanic 4k

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Bernard Hill as Captain Smith in Titanic 4k

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Welcome to the Blog

Hi gang! BT here :D Apparently, contrary to my initial belief, AO3 does not house incorrect quotes, but tumblr sure does, so here I am. I am going to reuse the quotes that I'd already posted on AO3, but there will be new ones as well.

Here's a brief introduction to all of the characters who will appear.

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Titanic Officers

E. J. Smith: The Captain of the Titanic, who had a relatively spotless record. Owns a sword. He was on the brink of retiring when he went down with the ship in 1912.

Henry Wilde: Chief Officer. He had recently lost his wife when he was called to join the Titanic's crew last minute- hence, a certain sense of distance from the rest of the crew. Also went down with the ship.

William Murdoch: Scottish First Officer, seen as a bit of a prodigy (he was the only one of the crew who passed all of his certification tests first try). He was the one at the helm when the Titanic struck the iceberg. Went down with the ship.

Charles "Lights" Lightoller: Second Officer, who enjoys causing trouble. Once played a prank by making a recently war stricken town think it was being fired upon. Has a yacht. Went down with the ship, but survived.

Herbert Pitman: Third Officer. Had seasickness. He was first off the ship (they thought seeing an officer on the water would convince passengers to get in the lifeboats). Later had to resign because he was color blind.

Joseph Boxhall: Fourth Officer. Well known for being the navigator, but as it turns out, he was wrong about the Titanic's location. Put up flares during the sinking. When he died, he had his ashes spread over the supposed (incorrect) location of the Titanic.

Harold Lowe: Welsh Fifth Officer, who was going on his first transatlantic trip. Was not woken up until half an hour after they hit the iceberg. Well known for quotes such as "get back or I'll shoot you all like dogs."

James Moody: Sixth Officer, only 24 years old. Semi fluent in Spanish. In the middle of writing a novel. Requested leave to go on vacation but was instead sent to the Titanic. Went down with the ship.

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Wireless Operators

Jack Phillips: Titanic's Senior Wireless Operator. Top of the line operator. Turned 25 while on board. Told the Californian to shut up, but it wasn't that big a deal. May or may not have gone into shock as it was sinking. Went down with the ship.

Harold Bride: Titanic's Junior Wireless Operator. Wears a fedora in at least one photo. Had a fiance while on board, but never ended up marrying her. May or may not have killed a stoker while the ship was sinking. Went down with the ship, but survived.

Harold Cottam: Carpathia's singular Wireless Operator. Friend of Bride, and probably Phillips as well. He wasn't the only one to hear their distress signal, but his ship was the quickest to get to them.

Guglielmo Marconi: The inventor of the wireless telegram, and the boss of all three of the above. Suspected of telling Bride and Cottam to not give people information, but it's hard to say for sure.

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Other Crew

Frederick Fleet: He was the guy who spotted the iceberg first. Was an orphan and had a generally rough life. Very skittish during the inquiries. Committed suicide at 77 years old in the '60s.

Reginald Lee: Did not spot the iceberg first. He was the other lookout on watch when the iceberg was spotted. Had a pretty serious drinking problem. Died from hypothermia complications a bit more than a year after the Titanic sank.

Robert Hichens: Was the man at the wheel when the Titanic hit the berg. Did NOT handle the sinking well. Might have tried to kill a guy. Definitely tried to kill himself. Generally not having a good time.

George Rowe: Had 10 (ten) siblings. Was on duty when the Titanic hit the berg but was not alerted, and didn't realize what was happening until he saw a lifeboat on the water at 12:25 AM. Seems like a pretty sweet guy, but who's to say.

Violet Jessop: Was on the Olympic when she hit the Hawke, was on the Titanic when she sank, and was on the Britannic when she sank. Was frequently sick as a child, but going to the sea fixed her. Was a nurse during WW1. When she was on her third shipwreck, she made sure to bring her toothbrush.

Wallace Hartley: Conductor of the band. There's actually a very good song called "Hartley's Farewell" by Arbor Green that's inspired by him (and his band).

Jock Hume: Played violin in the band. In "The Watch That Ends the Night" (my favorite Titanic book), he spends much of his time improvising music and deciding between two violins that he wants to buy, but none of that probably happened in real life.

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Carpathia Crew

Arthur Rostron: Captain of the Carpathia. Very religious man, highly respected by all. Regularly insisted that it wasn't him who got them to the Titanic, it was God.

Horace Dean: First Officer, pretty good at his job. Good friends with Lightoller, and supposedly was the best man at his wedding, but I've yet to find a reliable source about that.

James Bisset: Second Officer, wrote a decent book "Tramps and Ladies" about ships, and a couple other books that no one talks about. Seems like a pretty nice guy.

Harold Cottam: The singular Wireless Operator. See wireless operators section.

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Others

Thomas Andrews: The designer of a ship. Owns bees. Supposedly, as a kid, he once carried his bees into the kitchen so they wouldn't get cold. Was a really good boss, and actually listened to the crews' feedback on his ships. Went down with his ship.

J. Bruce Ismay: Technical owner of the ship. Was on board for the maiden voyage but insisted he was "just a passenger." He faced a ton of backlash for getting on a lifeboat and became a hermit. Gets a lot of (mostly) undue bashing in fiction.

Senator Smith: Ran the US Inquiry following the disaster, probably as a bid to advance his political career- but if that was the case, it failed miserably. He made a fool of himself. The people he interviewed did a pretty good job of making a fool of him, too, especially Lowe and Lightoller.

Sheriff Bayliss: Helped Sen. Smith with the US Inquiry. Generally seen as unrefined and a brute, but mostly because not a lot of people do actual research on him. Has written some stuff. Became good friends with Lowe.

Margaret Brown: Actually my role model. Traveled on the Titanic alone because she wasn't in a relationship with her husband anymore. Called out Hichens in the lifeboat. Helped out a lot of the third class survivors. Was never called "Molly" in her lifetime.

Daisy Minahan: Had at least ten siblings. Was a first class passenger (and in fact, one of the only first class passengers to board at Queenstown). Really didn't like Lowe (who was in charge of her lifeboat) and tried to run a smear campaign against him, but didn't have much support.

David Blair: Honorary member of the crew (original second officer, got taken off last minute). Once, he (and Lightoller) were on the Oceanic when it ran aground, and as the navigator, Blair got the blame. So maybe it's good he wasn't on the Titanic. Maybe if he had, it would've run aground or something tragic like that.

Sylvia Lightoller: Lights's wife, who is mentioned a total of two, maybe three times in his autobiography (and one of those is in the dedication, where Lightoller says she's the one who convinced him to write it). Really wanted to help out Walter Lord while he was writing his book but got turned down.

Ada Murdoch: Low-key really awesome. Murdoch's wife, who, duh, outlived him by quite a bit- so she lived alone when that was unusual for women. She worked as a seamstress and earned roughly the same wages as a junior officer. One of her only regrets was not having children with her husband.

Ellen Whitehouse: Later became Ellen Lowe- our favorite fifth officer's wife. Nicknamed "Nellie." Was a "good fit" for him, and they had a good marriage, which is nice (and seems to be a trend with these officers). My favorite Titanic researcher, Inger Sheil, says that "one gets an overwhelming impression of sheer confidence about her." She certainly was an active participant in her community (and her marriage!).

Helen Reilly Barbour: Andrews's wife, who had to take care of a two year old girl on her own after the Titanic sank. Also nicknamed "Nellie." Loved him to death (which is to say, loved him until she died), which is saying something, since she did eventually remarry and lived to 85 (dying in 1966, so might've known the Beatles).

Julia Schieffelin: Has a really hard-to-spell maiden name, but later became Julia Ismay, which is easier. Spent much of her time discouraging talk of the Titanic (supposedly). I'm pretty sure she had five kids, even though oceanlinersmagazine said she had four. Probably didn't have a great life because of how closely related her husband was to the disaster, but I'm extrapolating.

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Relationship Tags

Whenever there's only two characters featured in one quote, it'll be tagged with "Character A & Character B," in alphabetical order by last name (regardless of whether it's romantic or platonic- that's up to you to decide)

The group tags will be tagged for any combination of the people included. Group tags in use:

the officers (Wilde, Murdoch, Lightoller, Pitman, Boxhall, Lowe, Moody)

the senior officers (Wilde, Murdoch, Lightoller)

the junior officers (Pitman, Boxhall, Lowe, Moody)

the wireless operators (Phillips, Bride, Cottam, Marconi)

the carpathia crew (Rostron, Dean, Bisset, Cottam)

the big three (Captain Smith, Andrews, Ismay)

the families (Sylvia L, Ada M, Whitehouse, Barbour, Shieffelin)

the crewmen (Fleet, Lee, Hichens, Rowe, Jessop, Hartley, Hume)

Let me know if there's a group tag you think I'm missing!

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And as always, remember that this is for fun, and obviously not supposed to be an actual reflection of the real life people who sadly perished in this tragedy.

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1917 (2019)

“Time is the enemy.”

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Cops In Action!

Here's a new OC Interaction! Once again with an OC who belongs to the amazing artist @rolkstone! Thank you for this!

Rudd is not exactly the highest cop in Capital City, that would be his best friend and colleage, the Captain Ronald Smith. While they're friends, Smith is one of those cops who are married to the job.

Smith has made his personal mission to destroy Joel and his mafia. He won't rest until Joel is where he belongs, but that's easy to say than doing it. Since Joel is easily the most powerful Mafia Don in the country! Even other mobsters from other countries do not mess with him and the FBI takes him very carefully. But Smith thinks that they don't know nothing. Rudd is usually the one who has to act as his conscience.

Smith as you can see, doesn't have much friends and it's not like he needs them. But it doesn't help he's very politically incorrect. For starters, he's racist. He can say racist slurs time from time, which unfortunately doesn't help in his image with other cops or with civilians. Even Félix and Alfonso (in the times he got to meet him), do not like Smith that much for this same reason. Rudd always has to remind him that racism is bad and that he should measure his words. But Smith never listens.

Smith also is prone to indulge in police brutality, specially when he deals with Joel or his minions, because according to him: "We can do everything to them as long it ends in a proper arrest!". As you can picture, Joel and his minions play the victim card whenever Smith does that, which causes the citizens to shame Smith. His boss has always to call him out on this. The worst is that Joel and his minions know of his short fuse and usually provoke him just for their amusement. Save Joel, who hates him, his minions do this for fun.

In spite this, Rudd and Smith have a mutual respect for each other and Smith actually appreciates having somebody at his side and viceversa.

And well! That would be everything! Smith belongs to @rolkstone! Thank you for creating him! I would love to draw him more often!

Have a wonderful day or night! Depending when you read this!

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Bernard Hill is the only actor to have the distinction of appearing in two movies that have won 11 Oscars - Titanic (1997) and Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), both of which are special to me and are my absolute favourite movies of all time.

My earliest memory of seeing him is watching Titanic on DVD for the first time when I was 9 years old and immediately feeling at ease whenever I saw this older experienced captain - Bernard Hill’s portrayal of Captain Edward J. Smith really captured how the real life Captain Smith was for the passengers on Titanic: a trustworthy seasoned Captain you could rely on, one who went down with his ship.

I’ve always thought, however, that my favourite moment of his comes from this behind-the-scenes video of Lord of the Rings, where he’s having a laugh throwing fruit into Dominic Monaghan’s mouth as the cast get dressed. I don’t know why I love this clip so much, but it always brings a smile to my face.

Rest in Peace, Theoden King, Captain 💔

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/65040700/chapters/167240293

Intro

I'm a 90s kid. I remember when the movie came out in '97, what a cultural phenomenon it became. I remember hearing Celine Dion croon "My Heart Will Go On" over the radio everyday. I remember watching it on VHS, HBO, or on TV with my folks when I was older. I remember Kate Winslet was the first naked woman I ever saw, and when I hit puberty, she was my first crush. Since then, I've watched this film every year since I rediscovered it after a bad breakup with my first girlfriend. To this day, 15 years later and married with kids, I have a "Titanic Week" in April, where I'll watch the film and historical documentaries. I even have a Titanic themed tattoo. I love this movie. Now, there's been a few "making-of" books based on this movie but—unbelievably—never a full-on novelization. Using the script and the film, deleted scenes and all, for better or worse, this is my attempt. I hope you enjoy.

Rating Mature

Summary

An "unofficial" novelization of James Cameron's Titanic (1997). In 1996, treasure hunter Brock Lovett searches for the rare diamond "The Heart of the Ocean" inside of the wreck of RMS Titanic, the ill-fated ocean liner that sunk during her maiden voyage in 1912. Instead of finding the Heart of the Ocean in a safe salvaged from the wreck, however, Brock uncovers a drawing of a young nude woman wearing that diamond. A 101-year old woman named Rose Calvert claims to be that woman, and to Brock and his crew recalls her past as socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater and her star-crossed love affair with a poor artist named Jack Dawson on the Unsinkable Titanic...

Chapter 1 The Wreck Treasure hunter and explorer Brock Lovett searches for a rare diamond called "The Heart of the Ocean" inside RMS Titanic, the ill-fated ocean liner that sunk on her maiden voyage in 1912...

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A Night To Remember