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ereyies · 2 days

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IM SORRY I HAVEN’T POSTED HERE IN AGES </333 but the frankenstein brainrot still goes hard it’s good to be back 🫡🫡

#art #fanart #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #dr frankenstein #classic lit #classic literature #Fr #frankensteins monster #the monster #mary shelley #The cre #the creature #mary #mary shelly's frankenstein #adam #Adam #adam frankenstein #gothic literature

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pocketsizedquasar · 13 hours

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[ID: A digital drawing of Ishmael sitting on the beach and writing/drawing in a notebook. The top left of the image has handwritten text that reads “Moby Dick: or, the Webcomic // 4 years.” More detailed ID in alt text.]

It’s Moby Dick: or, the Webcomic’s 4th birthday today! So so delighted and excited to have made it this far, and for everything still to come.

Just about a week ago, (about when I thought I would), I finally finished the thumbnails for ch3! It’s gonna be a long one, but I’m so so excited for it. Can’t wait for y’all to meet one of my favorite characters. Can’t wait for the juicy drama. Can’t wait for y’all to see an actual proper whale hunt! And more shenanigans, nautical nonsense, queer delight, and other such miscellaneous happenings.

We’re still shooting for / on track for an initial start date of sometime this summer, and I will absolutely update with a more specific start date as soon as I have a better idea of that, but yeah! Chapter 3 pages are properly underway!

extremely excited for chapter 3, and the rest of this story. thanks so much to everyone for reading 💖💖🐋🐋

#mobydick #moby dick #whale weekly #ishmael #herman melville #melville #classic lit #classic literature #litblr #bookblr #webcomic update #comic update #sort of lol #art #my art #happy birthday to my baby <3 she’s old enough to be in preschool!!!!#so proud of her

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mossy-rainfrog · 1 day

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strolling in fashionably late to the two year anniversary of the greatest musical adaptation of Moby Dick of all time, Caleb Hayashida's 'Moby Dick or the Whale'. I've been thoroughly enamored with this album for over a year now and it only felt right to do a tribute for its birthday :)

now, go do yourself a favor and listen to Sea Fever 💙💙

some notes about the details I added under the cut!

Some notes on this as a tribute!

Firstly, as always, my Ishmael design is stolen from the beloved @pocketsizedquasar :3

Secondly, the primary songs captured by this piece are meant to be 'Interpretation', 'Whiteness of the Whale', and 'Whaleman's Hymn'. Interpretation is primary, since that song refers directly to the painting at Spouter Inn, and Ishmael's attempts to interpret it. (Aside: it's a brilliant song that foreshadows chords repeated during the chase, it confuses and delights the listener much like book Ishmael's ramblings do, and it odes to the album itself being an interpretation of a novel. also it's a bop. I fucking love it.) The whale in the picture is, you guessed it, the whale song. That one I felt was important to center as Hayashida himself intentionally put that song at the center of the album as a focal point for the rest to follow around (and for the narrative to break inside - give it a listen, the end is incredible). It's literally the centerpiece. And finally, the lyrics are from Whaleman's Hymn, the gorgeous ode at the end of the album.

Ishmael is also posed as both moving and stagnant in the center as a reference to the cyclical nature of Hayashida's album. It ends with the same lyrics it begins with ("I must be out to sea"), and so here, Ishmael meant to be caught in the space between both of those songs. Moving and yet unable to move from where he is.

The watery effect was particularly inspired by Drifting, as that song fills me with an immense sense of peace and gives me the feeling of laying down at an aquarium watching the light of the water dance around. It also helps make the mood of the piece a bit more dynamic, as the looming painting, dissonant colors, and heavy shading all feel a bit foreboding, and the water effect both enhances that by giving an unnatural feel, and subdues that by communicating a semblance of peace and muting the colors.

The oil effect and jagged colors of the piece itself are references to the official album cover art! The flaming harpoon's colors are mimicked in the red light at the top of the painting, and the bright teal/white is mimicked in the whale at the bottom. They're also positioned over each other, just like on the album cover.

The painting itself is also supposed to be reminiscent of The Chase, in all its chaotic glory. Hayashida has an INSANE stroke of genius with that song where, at a certain point, two different time signatures overlap to show the whale opposing the crew/Ahab. The blend is so smooth that it's easy to miss if you aren't looking for it, and yet so brilliant that it makes you anxious for the buildup and final clash. The saturated opposing colors are supposed to be something of a nod to that, as well as the nature of the painting being a sinking ship and a white whale lol

So, yeah those are my notes! :D thank you for reading and definitely give this masterpiece a listen!! 💙💙

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delusionalrobot · 7 months

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from the introduction to emily wilsons translation of the iliad

#the iliad #emily wilson #ancient classics #classic lit #read this over breakfast and couldnt stop thinking abt it while i was at work yesterday #achilles

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carcinogenical · 6 months

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1984 project progress (for class)

#cinoart #1984 #classic lit #I HAVE A MILLION DEADLINES APPROACHING WISH ME LUCK #amd im burnt out af #animation

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fairydrowning · 1 year

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"You know, love doesn't mean "l never want you to change." But I don't think it means "I don't care if you change" either. So I suppose it might mean, "I believe that you'll always be the person I adore." A declaration of faith, perhaps."

– Sayaka Saeki, やがて君になる (Bloom into You), Via "freckled-lili" on Tumblr

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wedarkacademia · 1 year

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toaster-trash · 1 month

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Being into gothic horror is wild, because you’ll look up the reviews/public opinion on a book and all the posts will be like “ugh, this was insufferable. The main character was the most melodramatic whiny narcissist cunt who’s perspective I’ve ever had the displeasure of following. When the main character wasn’t whining, it was just pages and pages of the most useless boring shit describing stupid landscapes over and over again. Boring and insufferable to read.”

And then you’ll get the book and read it and it’ll be like “Hi, I’m gothic protagonist. My entire family got brutally murdered by an unknown person and I also got horrifically abused as a child and struggle with severe mental illness, and now there’s unholy paranormal forces at work all against me, but at least I have the love of my life and my closest friends who I’d kill and die for and they’d do the same for me. Even though I’m cripplingly psychologically unwell and severely burdened with the mass of terrible things in my past, I’m going to figure out and track down the thing that killed my family and seek to destroy it, whilst poetically mirroring my suffering with the most beautiful and profound descriptions of the nature around me that you’ve ever read, contrasting the horror of nature with the beauty and goodness of it and giving you an existential crisis. This book is going to make you so ridiculously attached to these characters and change your whole perception of the life you lead.”

#gothic horror #gothic lit #classic literature #gothic literature #classic lit #goth lit #frankenstein #dracula #dracula daily #frankenstein weekly

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macrolit · 4 months

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from ml.books

#reading #tbr #challenge #bingo #literature #read #classic lit #reading bingo #2024 #enjoy!

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susiephone · 9 months

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emma woodhouse is the funniest jane austen heroine solely because she spends 95% of her precious free time shipping her friends and trying to set them up and being convinced she is the world's greatest matchmaker and talking about how great it will be once her bestie has her perfect true love and then when she's asked if she's considering getting married anytime soon she's like pfffft GOD no why the FUCK would i do that

#emma woodhouse #emma #jane austen #booklr #classic literature #classic lit

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artemisyates · 6 months

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Some Mina and Jonathan Harker for the end of spooky season. ♥

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castles-in-the-eyre · 1 year

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#polls #classic lit #hamratio #enjoltaire #natsby #my polls

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thetiredprometheus · 5 days

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Different ways to interpret Frankenstein

#classic literature #classic lit #frankenstein or the modern prometheus #victor frankenstein #frankensteins creature #frankenstein #Memes #Funny #classic literature memes

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carcinogenical · 2 months

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my work for 1984 group project. the theme of my section was surveillance

#cinoart #1984 #animation #george orwell #classic lit

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benvoolioo · 2 years

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Hi Professor,

I was wondering if I could possibly be granted an extension on the assignment due Friday. Unfortunately I’m a bit behind as I recently witnessed the deaths of the entire Danish royal family and the Norwegian invasion of Denmark. This has made it somewhat difficult for me to focus on my work.

Regards,

Horatio

#he's really going through it #like to give horatio an extension #reblog to tell him you can't grant an extension without any supporting documentation because he has had this assignment for 3 weeks #hamlet #horatio #shakespeare #willy shakes #classic lit

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wedarkacademia · 1 year

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(via violentwavesofemotion)

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