Titanic story

[tarotgal]

Finished the Titanic story. Spent about an hour and a half curled up on the couch crying after reading another website on Harold Cottam with quotes from him and Jack I'd never heard before that just killed me. Literally couldn't stop crying afterwards for a long while. Even in the car on the way to dinner I kept crying. Goddamnit I love these men. My story doesn't even remotely come close to explaining how much I respect and admire and adore them. *sigh* And I know they weren't as perfect as it seems in the fic... the people who survive always paint good pictures of themselves... but that's why I wrote it from Bride's perspective, not from an impartial one. Sure there were a few things they should have done differently... and I've read enough of the hearings the Harolds went through afterwards. But as far as I'm concerned, they made the best of a bad situation and saved a lot of lives in the process and I love 'em for it :-)
I'm going to post it in a few... the heading is a page and a half long, with LOTS of disclaimers and references. After getting burned with historical fiction online before, I'm not taking ANY chances this time! LOL
And it's not a sneezefic. It's really, really not. At least, not your typical one. I'm not really looking for feedback on it... but I wrote it and it might be horrible, but I want to share it. Cuz the men are damn adorable and incredible. I swear, Harold Bride is my new hero. To go through all that... younger than I am now... wow. It's incredible.
Tis funny as I really started to write a different story (an interview with him, where he lands the Titanic job) but after researching, this story came out instead, which I'm glad about since I think he just got selected and transferred with no interview. Still, it would have been a cute story. And this story is anything BUT cute. Well... maybe a little... he's such an adorable guy.

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[tarotgal]

Well, I did paint a really pretty, yummy picture of Jack. And he did ignore an iceberg warning or two and felt kinda responsible for the whole situation. But at the same time SO many problems came together to cause the tragedy that I don't blame him entirely. And since I wrote from Harold's perspective, I didn't have to be totally acurate and mention that part. Lots of people blame poor Jack, though. I think that's a lot of blame to put on a guy who was doing exactly what he was hired to do and doing it honorably. But even with that aside... I like Harold more. *snuggles the cutie* Anyway, I was worried about it, since, again, it was painting him as a huge hero... when he was as human as the next man and helped contribute to the problem a little. Thing is, he also helped correct it and died doing that. There were people on Titanic who made a Hell of a lot more mistakes and weren't able to correct it. ANyway... glad it's not too bad. Sorry you're having trouble getting through it! I'm not huge on RPfics either. But Harold's such a cutie, I couldn't resist. :-)