#Melville

[pocketsizedquasar]

what if ahab got to be a little cosmic horror? as a treat? (more art from a few months ago because i’m so good at posting)

(ID: several black and white ink drawings of ahab from moby dick.

the first image is a full body drawing, and shows him hunched over wiping ink that’s spilling out of his mouth from his face while holding a harpoon. his eyes are cast in shadow, but what we can see of his expression is dangerous and angry. his form fades into shadow at the bottom of his coat. from the shadowy coat, both his live leg in a boot and his whalebone prosthetic leg are seen, as well as several squid tentacles protruding. there is a silhouette of the full squid behind him, and it melds with his form — it becomes unclear whether the tentacles are coming from Ahab or from the squid.

the second image has two bust drawings of ahab. most of his face is still in shadow, but he is looking at the viewer with a snarl, and we can still see ink stains spilling from his nose and mouth down his chin and onto his coat. the shadows and his snarl deepen in the second drawing. sideways handwriting on the side of the image reads “God help thee, old man; thy thoughts have created a creature in thee.”

the third image is a drawing of both squid-Ahab and starbuck, both from the waist up. they are embracing, ahab with a firm hand on starbuck’s upper arm, and leaning into each other, almost kissing. ahab is smiling mischievously, and starbuck’s face is in a reverent smile. the black ink is dripping from both their mouths down their chins. tentacles are pulling starbuck closer to ahab. behind ahab is a sketchy halo.

ahab has forgone his coat and is wearing a collared shirt and waistcoat. starbuck is wearing a dark blazer.

the fourth image is a pencil sketch of Ahab in profile, grinning, with tentacles and dripping ink drawn in front of him.)

#mobydick #moby dick #ahab #captain ahab #starhab #starbuck #melville #herman melville #cosmic horror #body horror #squid #art #my art

[priestess-draws]

its 3 am my hand hurts and like maybe 5 people know who this is

#i mean even i kinda dont know #melville #mahou shoujo ikusei keikaku #magical girl raising project #kuji mashiro #mashiro kuji #gee i wonder if she likes cranberry. #mahou shoujo #magical girl #my art

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digital painting of Captain Ahab from Moby Dick standing in a storm and wielding a burning harpoon. He stands near the railing of the ship as a wave breaks over the bulwarks, and scowls fiercely towards the viewer, mouth open as if in mid-speech, akin to a snarl. He holds the harpoon in both hands, and waves the burning barb of it in front of him. The light reflects off of his eyes, his face, and the droplets of water on his skin. Behind him, huge waves surround the ship. The next three images are closeups of the drawing: on his hands, his face, and the harpoon itself.

Character design: Ahab is an older chubby and muscular Persian man with short curly greying dark hair, a pointed beard, a lightning scar across his face, and a scar across his nose and lip. He wears a high-collared red coat over a light colored undershirt. End ID.]

"All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that ye may know to what tune this heart beats; look ye here; thus I blow out the last fear!" - Moby Dick: Chapter 119 ,The Candles

FINALLY finished this tribute to my favorite Ahab moment in the whole entire book. HOT MEN PUT DOWN A MUTINY SINGLEHANDEDLY WITH A BURNING HARPOON!!!! GAH!!!!!!!! special thanks to unsplash for all my color references, to my computer for putting up with this file, and @pocketsizedquasar for the most gorgeous and grand Ahab design of all time. Go read their webcomic.

#moby dick #mobydick #moby dick art #captain ahab #ahab #whale weekly #whale weekly spoilers #melville #herman melville #classic lit #classic literature #described #accessible art #mossy art #GAHHHH I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR MONTHS AND I LOVE HIM SOOOOOOO MUCH. LOOK AT THAT MAN

[heinrichheineee]

Nathaniel Hawthorne writing about Herman Melville. Journal entry date: November 12, 1856

“It is strange how he persists — and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before”

Source: Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, A Documentary Life of Herman Melville: 1819-1891, vol. II

#Nathaniel Hawthorne #Hawthorne #Herman Melville #Melville #american lit #american literature #literature #romanticism #1800s #19th century lit #19th century literature #1800s literature #journal #The Melville Log #jay leyda #leyda

[empirearchives]

Herman Melville on Napoleon’s love for Ossian

Context: Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.

“I am rejoiced to see Hazlitt speak for Ossian. There is nothing more contemptable in that contemptable man (tho' good poet, in his department) Wordsworth, than his contempt for Ossian. And nothing that more raises my idea of Napoleon than his great admiration for him.—The loneliness of the spirit of Ossian harmonized with the loneliness of the greatness of Napoleon.”

Melville wrote this around 1862 in the margins of his copy of Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Comic Writers and Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography - Volume 2, p. 436

#Herman Melville #Melville #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #Hershel Parker #Herman Melville biography #Herman Melville: A Biography #Hazlitt #Lectures on the English Comic Writers #Ossian #romanticism #napoleonic era #napoleonic #american literature #American lit #american renaissance #Wordsworth #the poems of Ossian #celtic mythology #fingal #temora #british literature #Scottish #scottish literature #Scotland

[weil-weil-lautre]

So far tens of millions of Americans can understand Ahab. They have worked under such men. A smaller but not insignificant number have gone through his experiences. The Diesel engine and now atomic energy face the vast majority with the same problem that he faced: the obvious, immense, the fearful mechanical power of an industrial civilization which is now advancing by incredible leaps and bringing at the same time the mechanization and destruction of human personality. Men who are thinking like that, classes of people in a nation who are thinking such thoughts, are being steadily prepared for desperate action. If now there descends upon them a violent catastrophe that ruins them and convinces them that the life they have been living is intolerable and the grave doubts that have previously tormented them are justifiable, then they are going to throw aside all the traditional restraints of civilization. They are going to seek a new theory of society and a program of action and, on the basis of this theory and this program, they are going to act.

CLR James, Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

#clr james #james #herman melville #melville #moby-dick #literature #american literature #quote #archivist

[unteriors]

Fontenot Street, Melville, Louisiana.

#Melville #Louisiana

[the-moby-dick]

─ ; “Heeyy Mister Melville! Since you're here, Have you heard about the members dating each other? Like Ranpo from the Armed Detective Agency and Poe! Then there's Steinbeck and Lovecraft. And the newest couple, Hawthorne and Miss Margaret! They're such a cute couple, aren't they~?”

( @guilds-best-sniper )

I have heard about these things, yes. I'm happy for them.

#ooc: my guy feels so single #bsd roleplay #bsd #roleplay #melville #melville bsd #herman melville #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs

[mrsq8geek]

The Talos Principle 2 + cheesy pick up lines ❤️

bonus below the cut:

Mayor ruins environment! Read all about it!

#the talos principle #the talos principle 2 #featuring #byron #yaqut #alcatraz #rand #thecla #helga #lynerks #herman #al again #doge #melville #chancey #neith #taking requests #give me pick up lines! #and the characters #is it just me or #do these keep getting thirstier with each one #welp #nothin doin

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

24 heures de la vie d'un clown (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1946)

#24 heures de la vie d'un clown #Jean-Pierre Melville #Melville #quote #short film #night #morning #sleep #black and white #1946 #24 Hours in the Life of a Clown #Jean Pierre Melville #Clown #Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'un clown

[pocketsizedquasar]

whale weekly folks are at the squeeze of the hand chapter happy gay whaler sex saturday to all who celebrate. happy have an orgy on deck day

#hope y’all are having a good one #whale weekly #mobydick #moby dick #squeeze of the hand #ishmael #chapters of all time. truly #quasartalks #herman melville #melville #happy gay whaler sex day

[thefisherqueen]

“It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude,” So much alliteration. Yet it still is beautiful prose

#whale weekly #moby dick #melville #chapter 51

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A traditionally drawn and watercolor painted portrait of Captain Ahab from Moby Dick based on Le Génie du Mal by Guillaume Geefs. Ahab is an older chubby and muscular Persian man with short curly greying dark hair, a pointed beard, a lightning scar across his face and body, and several other scars. His left leg is amputated below the knee. Ahab wears nothing, but has a deep red cloth draped across his lap. He holds a harpoon iron in one hand across his lap, and his other hand rests on top of his head. He looks down pensively, with a troubled expression. The background is colored in light blues and browns. End ID.]

ungodly, godlike Ahab

I miss drawing traditionally, this was so refreshing ;-; the statue this is based on is the really hot Lucifer one with the crown btw: le génie du mal, definitely look it up :) anyways I love drawing Ahab in religious imagery and going completely batshit insane about it

design from the stellar @pocketsizedquasar as always :3

#moby dick #mobydick #moby dick art #captain ahab #ahab #whale weekly #melville #herman melville #classic lit #classic literature #described #accessible art #mossy art #canon disabled character #I AM SO NORMAL ABOUT HIM. HE DESERVES RELIGIOUS IMAGERY. MAN THINKS HIMSELF A GOD AND HES RIGHT!!!!!

[detournementsmineurs]

“Les Enfants Terribles” de Jean-Pierre Melville (1950) - adapté du roman éponyme de Jean Cocteau (1929) - avec Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermit, Jacques Bernard, Renée Cosima, Adeline Aucoc, Maurice Revel et la voix-off de Jean Cocteau, mars 2024.

#films #spirit #fairies #Melville #Cocteau #Stephane #Dermit #Bernard #Cosima #Aucoc #Revel

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Chapters: 1/1

Words: 11,234

Fandom: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Starbuck/Mary Starbuck/Original Female Character(s), Captain Ahab/Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Mary Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Original Male Character(s), (it's a polycule but it's mid-expansion and also during the 1840s so it's a bit messy, but they're working it out) - Relationship

Characters: Starbuck, Mary Starbuck, Starbuck's Son, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Captain Ahab (mentioned)

Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Polyamory, Polyamorous Character, Polyamory Negotiations, Queer Awakening, Bittersweet, Depressed Starbuck (Moby Dick), Hurt/Comfort, Alcohol, cowboy, Brief Sexual Content, Starbuck is a sad wet cat who sucks and I like him so much

Summary: The sea has taken all that Starbuck has ever known: his father, his brothers, his wish for a peaceful future with the woman he loves. Now, he fears, it has taken his only friend as well.

He misses Ahab, so much that it is sending him spiraling away from all his known lovings and comforts. He misses Ahab, so much that he would do anything to feel that even a piece of him is still here. He misses Ahab, and he burns. Oh, how he burns.

Or: The Cowboy Fic :3

special thanks to @pocketsizedquasar for getting me into MD, as usual, but also for putting up with me talking abt this fic for months, as well as beta reading it for me, and for @comfycouchcat who helped me with some LOAD bearing plot and character decisions <3

#moby dick #mobydick #starhab #the great nantucket polycule #starbuck #melville #herman melville #moby dick fic #mobydick fic #classic lit #litblr #my writing #mossy writes #HAPPY THANKSIGIVNG I FUCKING GUESS LOL I AM MAKING IT A TREND FOR THIS QUAKER TO BE IN SITUATIONS ON AMERICAN HOLIDAYS #mossy speaks

[nakanosorami]

前描いて放置してたクラムベリーにボコられるメルヴィルです by obb_osk

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#mahou shoujo ikusei keikaku #magical girl raising project #melville #restart #fanart #posts #q