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Onion Honey
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Mountain music fresh from the Grand River Valley

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It's so nice to find other Carpathia/legendary-Carpathia-Tumblr-post fans 💜
September 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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144. Onion Honey - Hell or High Water

I was wondering if anyone had written a shanty about the Carpathia's heroic efforts, thinking I'd have to do it myself if no-one had yet

INCREDIBLY glad to say I've been beaten to the punch by a year. A musical retelling of the tumblr post done extremely well!
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September 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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(3/3, fin)
It matters that they fought for those people. It matters that they cared, and it matters that they tried. It matters that they didn't stop. If it didn't matter, you wouldn't have read this far. QUEER prismatic-bell Follow "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do good now! Walk justly now! No one is expected to complete the work, but neither may any one desist from it." - Rabbi Tarfon, Ethics of the Fathers Carpathia embodied this saying. They failed to save all. They succeeded in saving some. This is all anyone could ask.
September 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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They damn near broke the laws of physics, galloping north headlong into the dark in the desperate hope that if they could shave an hour, half an hour, five minutes off their arrival time, maybe for one more person those five minutes would make the difference. I say: three people had died by the time they were lifted from the lifeboats. For all we know, in another hour it might have been more. I say they made all the difference in the world. This ship and her crew received a message from a location they could not hope to reach in under four hours. Just barely over three hours later, they arrived at Titanic's last known coordinates. Half an hour after that, at 4am, they would finally find the first of the lifeboats. it would take until 8:30 in the morning for the last survivor to be brought onboard. Passengers from Carpathia universally gave up their berths, staterooms, and clothing to the survivors, assisting the crew at every turn and sitting with the sobbing rescuees to offer whatever comfort they could. In total, 705 people of Titanic's original 2208 were brought onto Carpathia alive. No other ship would find survivors. At 12:20am April 15th, 1912, there was a miracle on the North Atlantic. And it happened because a group of humans, some of them strangers, many of them only passengers on a small and unimpressive steam liner, looked at each other and decided: I cannot live with myself if I do anything less. I think the least we can do is remember them for it. mylordshesacactus Follow I can't begin to describe how happy and flattered and a little teary I am that this just broke 100k. I may be the actual only human being on Tumblr with a post this popular that I not only don't regret making, but am actually HAPPY whenever I notice a surge in its circulation. I never intended this to gain any traction at all (you'll notice there's no sources or anything-this was a personal ramble, prompted in good humor by a friend after I jokingly said that I wished someone would give me an excuse to cry about Carpathia on Tumblr so I could get it out of my system.) I literally expected to get, like, maybe 20 likes and a reblog, from friends, indulging me in my nonsense. It just....means a lot to me that it's touched so many people. I see a lot of tags to the effect of "HOW DARE YOU HURT ME LIKE THIS AND MAKE ME CRY ABOUT A BOAT" that are often really funny, but overwhelmingly the tags on this post are from people saving it for a rainy day, or remarking in a sort of quiet awe that they never even really thought about her role in the story-and God knows I never did, I learned it by complete accident much as most of the people who've found this post. And so many of you guys are taking strength and reassurance from the reminder not only that people are capable of amazing things together, but simply that kindness matters and that a simple, tiny act of compassion is never wasted. I'm just really glad to have been able to do that for some folks. If I can just add one personal note. I need to emphasize something I only touched on in the original post. I need to emphasize that Carpathia failed. A lot of the tags and comments have a tinge of...despair, or guilt, or wistfulness about things like this happening so rarely. Or inadequacy, or just being overwhelmed or unhappy about not being in a position to step up in a comparable way. And I want to gently bring up the fact that this is still the sinking of the Titanic. They did not get there in time. They did not save the ship. It can be argued that they may not even have saved a single life; we have no way of knowing. This was still a horrific maritime disaster mired in arrogance and incompetence and a lack of care.
September 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM