#NO MOBY DICK

[redacted-metallum]

I need to [remembers I shouldn't make suicide jokes] join a whaling crew

#revs thoughts #moby dick #suicide joke

[captmuldoon]

wait a second -

MOBY BARBIE??? IN MY BARBIE MOVIE????

#OBSESSED that they made this prop for barbie's dreamhouse #barbie 2023 #barbie movie #moby dick #love that the white whale is pink asfdjdfjkl #barbie

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a whale of a good time🐋

#knitting #wip #knitblr #pattern is Melville on Ravelry😊 #let me tell you…this sweater is my white whale (even if the whale is blue ofc). I’ve been dreaming and scheming of designing her for years. #and at last! she’s here! and she’s full of silly fun details! #like Morse code along the raglan shaping spelling out SOS. waves on the sleeves spaced out according to the Fibonacci sequence. #and a fucking colorwork whale! she’s got it all. #moby dick #whale weekly

[dzgrizzle]

#Bram Stoker #Dracula #Henry Irving #Herman Melville #Moby Dick #Nathaniel Hawthorne #Mary Shelley #Frankenstein #Lord Byron

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

#whale weekly #moby dick #ghostbusters #late stage capitalism #'murica #smbc

[calvinandhobbes]

#OKAYYYY #moby dick #obsessed w not being on Twitter but all my friends sending me moby dick tweets feels good feels organic :)

[plaguedocboi]

I still think about the time months ago I was advertised a book that was being marketed as a “queer horror retelling of Moby Dick” like. Girl. I don’t think you have any business “retelling” a story if you clearly don’t even know what the original story was about.

#like I’d argue the three main things Moby dick is about is whales horror and gay people #so what did you add to this retelling exactly #less whales?

[areax]

“ugh why is moby-dick so long”

ishmael is telling you a story about how all his friends died and how he was the sole survivor of the disaster, why wouldn't he want to delay getting to that point of the story as long as possible?

the odyssey

the length of the book parallels the long amounts of time that whalers were away from home with long periods of boredom punctuated few and far between by brief bouts of frenzied action

you don't like cetology? whalelore? kys

since when have you ever complained about a dick being long. ungrateful

#moby dick #erika.txt

[lascitasdelashoras]

Merry whales in the log of the ship Susan, kept by Reuben Russell. Nantucket Historical AssociationPublic Domain

#reuben russell #whales #nantucket #moby dick #manuscritos

[extraordinary-heroes]

Artist Showcase: Daniel Warren Johnson (Here There Be Giants)

#daniel warren johnson #godzilla #lord of the rings #balrog #gandalf #mechagodzilla #king ghidorah #mobile suit gundam #gigan #moby dick #getter robo #neon genesis evangelion #manga #comics #illustration #artwork #artist showcase #the iron giant

[bloodybellycomb]

Someone today will read Shakespeare's hamlet and say omg he's just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it's ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don't read classics because they're old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That's what makes stories so powerful--they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

#shakespeare #hamlet #moby dick #the iliad #Achilles #the epic of gilgamesh #writing #literature #classics #yeah #birdy chirps

[lady-inkyrius]

[Source]

God this is a gorgeous way to start a book. I wish more authors and publishers had at least a little bit of fun with their typesetting like this.

#typesetting #moby dick

[louisegluckpdf]

hello fellow dickheads (<- new name for moby dick fans)

#moby dick

[cardinalvalentino]

ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

#mine are definitely the magic mountain; crime and punishment; moby dick and ulysses #rb with yours if you want :) #and yes the use of ''white whale'' was intentional considering i keep not fucking reading moby dick #10.txt

[iphigeniacomplex]

making up a guy to get mad at can actually be really lovely and rewarding like for example i was feeling understimulated so i crafted an alternate world where moby dick was super popular on tumblr and the most popular ship from moby dick was ahab x humanized whaleboy merguy moby dick who was always drawn as like a skinny little white guy with white hair and sharp teeth and sort of unusual eyes like maybe with black scleras or something. and it was literally inescapable and people made like hannigram aus where will was ahab and hannibal was moby dick and people also made human!boatless!modern! aus of ahab x moby dick where they were just like normal guys as well. and the moby dick fandom all thought they were so cool and countercultural because melville's unfinished novella billy budd was also really popular and the billy budd fans were at odds with the moby dick fans because billy budd fans described it as like a heartfelt queer story in comparison to moby dick being toxic and soulless (because ahab was trying to kill moby dick in canon) and moby dick fans described billy budd as basically steven universe but none of this ended up mattering because in four years the meteors came and all life on earth was lost

if you are reading this please donate to $trextalents on cashapp; he is a disabled fx artist active in my city’s horror scene who is in a bad situation and needs financial aid. if you cannot donate, please reblog my pinned post with more information. the world of this post is not real, but logan is.

#it speaks! #i had to kill the world because i was getting too into the like ins and outs of discourse in this world. #nobody ever talked about any element of moby dick which was not ahab x moby dick btw. in this world #moby dick

[prokopetz]

Everything Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is absolute bullshit, and everything that Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is 100% true. It’s a travelogue fantasy. It’s proto-science fiction. It’s cosmic horror. It’s shockingly original and it’s shamelessly plagiaristic. It’s a misotheistic Christian parable in which the whale is the mask of a cruel, uncaring God and Ahab is Satan himself, not as trickster or as tempter, but as doomed hero. It’s the most gripping thing you’ll ever read. It’s boring as shit. But above all else – and I cannot emphasise this enough – it is filled with Facts About Whales.

#media #literature #moby-dick #herman melville #religion mention #christianity mention #swearing