exhuastedpigeon:

tired-fandom-ndn:

tired-fandom-ndn:

tired-fandom-ndn:

Do other USAmericans not know the names of the Great Lakes?? I grew up in the midwest so like. They’re important here but I never considered that other people might not give a fuck about these terrifying inland seas until I was reading a fic that said “the large Lake Michigan and another called Lake Erie” as if there are people who don’t know about Lake Michigan and Lake Erie.

Is that the case?? Are people outside of the midwest aware of these bodies of water outside of being just big lakes???

Okay so apparently people outside of the area near the lakes aren’t actually taught shit about them, which stresses me out so much actually??? These are NOT normal lakes, they are essentially inland freshwater seas with very strong currents (Superior, Huron, and Michigan are three of the ten largest lakes in the world), tp the point where they can have tsunamis, and are well known for people drowning and ships sinking in them. It’s estimated that anywhere beteen 6,000 and 30,000 ships have sunken in the Great Lakes.

We’re only about halfway through 2022 and there’s already been around 60 drownings this year alone. I really wonder how many of those deaths were tourists who weren’t aware of the very real dangers of these waters and treated them like normal lakes. If you visit them, treat them like you’d treat the ocean and be very careful.

Also, names from largest to smallest:

• Superior (second largest lake in the world 🎉)
• Huron (fourth largest in the world)
• Michigan (usually has the most deaths every year)
• Erie (shallowest of them all but is still ~210 ft deep in places)
• Ontario (smaller than Erie but almost 4x as deep in its deepest spots)

Okay let’s talk about the shipwrecks because there are SO many and in like 5th grade I did a history project on them using mostly Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes by Paul Hancock and Great Lakes Shipwrecks and Survivals by William Ratigan as my sources. There are more books out now (I did this project in like 2002).

One of the best known wrecks is the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot has a 6 minute song about it. The ship sunk in November of 1975 but didn’t find the wreck until May of 1976. They couldn’t even really look because Lake Superior is so fucking intense.

I’m not even joking about Lake Superior. There are TWO additional pages for shipwrecks on Lake Superior on top of the basic Great Lake shipwrecks page.

And we aren’t just talking older shipwrecks with the Great Lakes - sure there are wrecks from the 1800s (and probably earlier tbh), but there was a wreck in 2000 in Lake Huron. True North II was a tour boat that sunk “suddenly in rain and nearly gale-force winds”.

These are just the ships/tourist boats. There are so many small boats that sink too.

The Great Lakes are not to be fucked around with. They’re basically freshwater seas with how big they are, how intense the weather can be, and how much you should respect them.

depsidase:

thesituation:

jadedgf:

doorfus:

why is it a pair of scissors when it is only one object??

the pair is you and the scissors. against the world

theconcealedweapon:

000l:

when u click with someone and they have the audacity to live far away

ebonyxvampire4lyfe:

ya know i wonder how ebony dark'ness dementia raven way is handling gerard way looking like the preppiest motherfucker ever in a custom taylored cheerleader dress

demilypyro:

demilypyro:

break gender roles. boys can play support. be my healslut it’s feminism

don’t worry boys this cool tank girl will keep you safe