#Queequeg my man

[coolspacequips]

Randomly got a note on an old post I made about Moby Dick, and I'm just lmao like... I really still can't BELIEVE that the beginning of the book was a gay "there was only one bed" meetcute that ends in Queequeg literally telling Ismael that they are married, now, after the intimacies and night long smoke seshes that they shared

#Queequeg my man #it's so funny i get this note bc I've been thinking about picking it up again #it's hard to read even if u like classics and w everything going on I've had it put to the side for a while #ANYWAY lol in the time it took that person to like my gay Queequeg posts I've gone on a whole mind journey #text posts #edited to add the smoking part bc it was quantifiably a Thing They Were Doing to make them married #not just laying together (to which Ismael notes that Queequeg holds him like Ismael is his wife) but bundling together #and spending a whole like winter storm or something passing the pipe and bonding #not wanting to stop sharing body heat #this fanfic level stuff LMAO

[sunshades]

good evening. today i offer you: ishmael and queequeg as The Fish Picture + a 1.76mhz queequeg and alriune cathy because i think about abnos a normal amount.

#project moon #limbus company #ishmael lcb #queequeg lcb #cathy lcb #catherine lcb #queemael #shades art #i just got to the queequegs coffin chapter while cleaning em up MAN #i wanted to show nyall my queequeg before canto 5 <3 #also redhead cathy cuz i wanted to draw her like The Trailer Girlllll and shes already got alriunes hat...

[outism-had-a-purpose]

Forever like this at the one ishcliff fic posted in ao3

#I have this one heathmael post rotting in my drafts and no shit what i said exactly about their dynamic was on this fic #its their guilty yearning man. not for each other but about each other's significant others #their ship isn't really at the forefront of my mind but that certain exploration of ishmael reminding heath of cathy and heathcliff #reminding ish of queequeg is incredibly juicy to chew on #assorted outisms

[history-of-stitchery]

Ok, now I have extracted the rest of the story.

I have forgotten how funny classics can be.

“Are you in there?”

Doesn’t answer

Runs around screaming “oh MY GOD HES DEAD”

The land lady is like “shit not again, we need a sign”

Meanwhile my dude was just meditating.

#whale weekly #🐳 #i like to imagine queequeg does things and says things with the sole intention of making him flip out #like if this man was in my life I would do random shit and just make him think it’s because I’m *exotic*

[insuredgecko]

I forgot how gay moby dick is I was too focused on the whales

#finally catching up on my Ishmael emails #my ishmail if you will #men will spend a night sharing a bed with another man and then wake up and declare that he’s a wife #also the bit about ishmael not wanting queequeg to smoke in bed because he’s not insured is still fucking hilarious #whale weekly #sorry for liveblogging do you still love me

[pocketsizedquasar]

I know I’m a TMA mutual but y’know. Top five Moby dick moments for you?

1. gay wedding 😌😌😌

2. when ahab basically tells starbuck “looking in ur eyes is better than looking at god.” normal non homoerotic things to say to ur first mate.

3. spermaceti orgy. platonically squeezing ur bro’s hands in a bunch of sperm oil. bro come let us squeeze hands all around… bro i squeezed that sperm till i almost melted in it… bro let us squeeze ourselves into each other bro come on bro

4. when tashtego looks at all the drunk dudes being drunk and stupid on the boat and says “that’s a white man, he calls that fun.”

5. when peter coffin tells ishmael the bed he’s about to share with queequeg is the bed peter fucked his wife in. good times.

#it was so hard to pick just five akdkskdksk #ask game #ask meme #ask #quasartalks #spiderjars #mobydick #moby dick #honorable mentions to: -flask being a butterless man #-stubb convincing flask fedallah is Literally the Devil #-ishmael getting high off of chowder #-ishmael asking queequeg to help him write his will just normal husband things #-ishmael breaking down a door bc he was concerned abt his husband #-every single interaction with peleg and bildad #-ahab telling starbuck they can’t stop the ship even tho the barrels are leaking bc ‘i’m all aleak myself and no one stops to plug MY leaks’ #-captain boomer being like bro I got my limb eaten by MD & IM not going on a vengeance quest & ahab basically responding ‘ok boomer’ #and many more

[dolokhoded]

thinking about song of the ocean from dimitris papadimitriou's moby dick musical... girl.....girl.....

#🧅 #non greek speakers you truly don't know what you're missing out on this show is BULLSHIT it's SO GOOD #AND IT'S IN GREEK. AND HAS LIKE. TWO AND A HALF PRODUCTION SHOTS. I STILL LIVE EVERY DAY WITH THE HOPE THAT THEY'LL BRING IT BACK AND I #CAN GO SEE IT it's RIDICULOUS how good it is. if this show was in english y'all would be going INSANE over it #which. it truly should have been. #and not because I don't like my language or whatever. but because greece is very racist #most of the libretto is taken straight put of the book so y'know im not going to come in and tell you moby dick is racist. like hello . #but . like. tashtego is played by a white man. #i haven't seen a picture of dagoo or pip or fedallah ora close enough picture of queequeg to be able to tell if he's white but i wouldn't b #surprised if queequeg was also played by a white man #greece has issues they don't understand anything. however. the music ? the staging ? fuck #this would blow y'alls minds #i truly hope someday it's translated and handled better by people who know what they're doing #with casting i mean #cause greece doesn't understand anything they genuinely don't see the issue with this

[cheriboms]

i do not remember moby dick being this gay

#cherry thoughts #whale weekly #moby dick #is anyone even doing this idk #but oml #ishmael and queequeg have been described as being married/in love THREE TIMES now #and have been the epitome of the 'there was only one bed' trope #also he was literally sticking his hands in another mans pockets to give him half of all he owns girl hello?? #its only chapter 10 ??? youve known each other 1.5 days???? #my gosh these bitches gay. good for them #also yes im behind what of it #the first time i read i was like a child (granted a weird child) and had no idea what was happening #now im reading and like #there is no heterosexual explanation for this #TO ADD i normally am very like 'what was the authors intent here. i dont think the author meant for this to be interpreted this way' #but like. herman do u have something to tell us #we love an interracial/transreligious power couple

[moonmothmama]

i wish a lot of times that a work of fiction- book, film, tv show, what have you- would have been the potential i could see for it. like both in terms of story and in terms of avoiding ignorance and biases like racism sexism homophobia transphobia etc. like if only, you know? i mean, not to have unrealistic expectations of perfection; i know i for example am white and able-bodied and cisgender and within the stories i write i will most likely fuck something up, but man i'm trying. and i have the benefit of the wider conversation that comes with modern shit like internet access uniting people across the whole fucking globe and able to magnify the voices of the oppressed. like another example, imagine moby dick if herman melville had done better. it's obvious he had shitty white guy attitudes but, like from my perception of the novel and the pov character, there's a case to be made that he at least had some good intentions with regards to seeing past racial/cultural stereotypes, and it absolutely is done clumsily at best and the ignorance of the author is still painfully glaringly obvious but idk i can read that book and believe that he was trying, or at least coming from a place of some kind of genuinely positive intention, that he'd have done better if he'd shed his ignorance. ignorance is painful and does so much damage but it's only malice when it's intentional, when you intentionally cling to it*. and if your intentions are not malicious then the door is wide open to change for the better, as long as you can muster the humility to do it. and i'm not trying to make excuses you know? i realize i'm making an assumption that the author meant well and i have no proof of that, nor do i have proof that he didn't pass up opportunities to shed his ignorance. i could be baselessly projecting my own desire to Do Better onto the guy. and also it's been a hot second since i've read the book in full, and i'm viewing it through my own memories and emotions. but god, i'd really like to be able to believe the best about people once in a while, you know what i mean? or at the very least i'd like to imagine a version of a good story that isn't so tainted by the heavy bias and ignorance of it's author. idk man i'm definitely doing some kind of rambling right now but. imagine moby dick as it could have been without the story coming to us through the skewed lens of racist bullshit. i know that's impossible because the stories come from people and people are flawed. but like maybe at least we can just keep trying to get better, to make better stories and to tell old stories in better ways.

*-like joke rowling is doing for example. she could do better but she isn't so fuck her

#like. the portrayal of Queequeg is a hot mess and i know this #and i love the character despite the bullshit because i can see the potential there #i can see what could have been should have been could still be #idk man idk #there's so much racist garbage and offensive nonsense and problematic tropes are the least of it #but the story is good enough that it makes me yearn for what could have been #what could still be if it were reinvented #anyway. #blogging on my blog #writing

[agent217]

Ishmael really said "yea we're married (no homo)"

#whale weekly #and he was wrong there was so much homo #my man's in more denial than i thought would be humanly possible #queequeg could kiss him on the mouth and he'd be like oh yeah that's bro stuff in his culture i can't be rude #it is rather nice i admit #meanwhile queequeg is certain they've been married for years. they have kids

[autonomystic]

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:

I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church. How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood? But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man. And what do I wish that this Queequeg would do to me? Why, unite with me in my particular Presbyterian form of worship. Consequently, I must then unite with him in his; ergo, I must turn idolator.

[postmail]

one of my favorite ever lines from moby dick (thus far):

(Chapter 17) “(Queequeg) looked at me with a sort of condescending concern compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.”

#got an actual chuckle out of me when i read it for the first time #moby dick #txt #ishmael moby dick #queequeg moby dick

[plaguedocboi]

My personal favorite parts of the first few chapters of Moby Dick (which aren’t just quotes from every book mentioning whales) since Whale Weekly is to that point now:

1. Ishmael (completely sober) stumbling into a church during an ongoing sermon, knocks an ashtray all over himself, choking on ash, talks to himself, runs out. What do you even do if you’re attending that church? How do you get back on track after that?

2. Walks into the inn and describes every item and person inside in great detail. I imagine him just staring at everything for three full minutes like he’s zoned out but really he’s holding a lengthy soliloquy in his mind. Everyone probably thinks he’s insane.

3. There’s Only One Bed

4. The bed already belongs to someone, but he is out late (trying to sell a pickled human head on the street) so Ishmael just gets in his bed. The landlord doesn’t bother to mention to his tenant that there is going to be a strange man in his bed. When he gets in bed he is understandably surprised. Both are screaming and running around. The landlord has to get involved. It’s chaos.

5. Spoiler alert; this is their meet-cute. They cuddle. The next day Queequeg is like “btw we’re married now” and Ishmael is fine with that. They share a bed for the foreseeable future.

#whale weekly #the first part of this book is really wild

[gamequoteshowdown]

Thank you everyone for making this happen! Now, without further ado, the match-ups for Round 1!!!

Round 1

"I've been waiting for this!" - Akihiko Sanada, Persona 3 / "You're just a corpse who doesn't know he's dead" - Valter, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones

"Are you going to be our goddess of victory… or our angel of death? Doesn't sound too bad to bet my life on that." - Keiji Shinogi, Your Turn To Die: Death Game by Majority / "Don't fuck with a witch!" - Bayonetta, Bayonetta

"Teammates!? Friends!? To hell with that! Why am I inferior to you!? I was extremely particular about my life, my grades, my public image! So someone would want me around! I am an ace detective! A celebrity! But you… You're just some criminal trash living in an attic!? So how!? How does someone like you have things I don't!? How can such a worthless piece of trash be more special than me!?" - Goro Akechi, Persona 5 / "I was just gunna ask you to sell a gun to this child." - Starlo, Undertale Yellow

"I want you to live." - Charlotte Wiltshire, Hello Charlotte Series / "Your hair… sunset colored. I like it." - Queequeg, Limbus Company

"The hope to end pointless conflict… The hope to tell your daughter how much you care… It is our mission as apothecaries to ensure that everyone lives long enough for their hopes to become reality. Even if it costs us our own lives." - Castti Florenz, Octopath Traveler II / "Game is clear when 2 zombies hold hands!!" - "How to Play" Narrator, Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX

"Thanks to you, I am saddled with unnecessary… feelings" - Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "I am so fucking normal right now" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

“SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN” - Harry du Bois (in the form as a potential mural painting), Disco Elysium / "You pull out your cellphone and access your old Tumblr. You have ten, but you specifically access the Garfield one." - Narrator, Monster Prom

"… Nice meeting you again, you FUCKING WHALE!" - Ishmael, Limbus Company / "My guess is no one's ever loved you before" - Woody, Kingdom Hearts 3

"Take care, [player]. I was lucky to have known you. Though the parting hurts... the rest is in your hands!" - Grovyle, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky / "Far out, man." - Netzach, Limbus Company

"I'll be back once I eliminate that devil called poverty from the world!" - Partitio Yellowil, Octopath Traveler II / "Elder gods from the whole cosmos have awoken to taste your cookies." - Narrator, Cookie Clicker

"Hello! This is the part where I kill you!" - Wheatley, Portal 2 / "Now we come to the question : Do I kill you? Do I tear you apart to my heart's delight? The choices of the beautiful are unbearable. How's a girl to choose?" - Alice Angel, Bendy and the Ink Machine

"I am Ferdinand von Aegir" - Ferdinand von Aegir, Fire Emblem: Three Houses / "Her metabolic processes are of interest only to historians." - Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations

"It ain't a matter of guys or chicks... I'm just scared shitless of being rejected" - Kanji Tatsumi, Persona 4 / "...also Stanley is addicted to drugs and hookers" - Narrator, The Stanley Parable

“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?” - Happy Mask Salesman, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask / "I have no idea what to do with my life, but that's okay! Because I'm still working hard! Even if it's on nothing at all!" - Papyrus, Undertale

"Despite everything, its still you." - Narrator/Chara/Frisk???, Undertale / "In this world, it's kill or be killed." - Flowey, Undertale

“Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves…” - Voices of the Paranoid, Slay the Princess / "In the quiet glade, across old bark. In the ancient glade, it's always dark." - Gabbro, Outer Wilds

"You take away all their sins, and people aren't people anymore!" - Rokurou Rangetsu, Tales of Berseria / "Do you even get how it feels to have nightmares about doing tango with raw chickens? Eh?" - Heathcliff, Limbus Company

"Life is worth living, even if it hurts you, even if you hurt in it." - Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid / "I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle... and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him." - 2B, Nier: Automata

“Oh? Is that how it is? Yeah, okay, I like you too. Neat! Still going to kill you, but now we can both enjoy a mutual romantic subtext to the murder.” - The Razor, Slay the Princess / "Now it’s Reyn Time!" - Reyn, Xenoblade Chronicles

"You lost the coin toss. We both did." - Catherine Chun, SOMA / "I like to drink blood. . . and smoke the weed!" - Dracula, Space Funeral

"Pick a god and pray!" - Frederick, Fire Emblem: Awakening / "Can you believe it? Dragons! In your own homeland! What are you going to do?" - Florentia Candidius, Elder Scrolls Online

""Did you get the Broom Closet Ending?! The Broom Closet Ending was my favourite!" ...I hope your friends find this concerning." - Narrator, The Stanley Parable / "It’s dangerous to go alone, take this!" - Old Man, Legend of Zelda

“Close your eyes for a sec, will you Chigasaki?” “You mean physically? Or to the criminal acts I’m pretty sure you’re about to commit?” “Both.” - Chikage Utsuki & Itaru Chigasaki, A3! Act! Addict! Actors! / "You are all about to perish, do as you please. I'm sorry." - Meta Knight, Kirby Super Star

"Boy" - Kratos, God of War / "Take care of yourself, kid, cause someone really cares about you." - Sans, Undertale

"Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "Dios mío!” (Draw a cross.) “A LIBERAL!" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"That's it. I'm not paying one cent of my taxes!" - Ema Skye, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / ""Trust your partner"... And I do. I can't forgive you, but I trust you." - Neku Sakuraba, The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there." - Ralof, Skyrim / *clap ... clap ... clap ... * "Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing, so at least we have that" - GLaDOS, Portal 2

"hallOO. chikkEN. OKs?" - BOb, Slime Rancher / "Pretty good plan. You could say it was the greatest—" - Charles Calvin, The Henry Stickmin Collection

"Blood comes in four types: A, B, O, and AB. However! No blood test can determine whether a murder was committed… in cold blood!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "You ain't my partner anymore, man. You're my friend! So trus' that, yo!" - Beat (Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito), The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"I always come back." - William Afton, FNaF Pizzeria Simulator / "So -- as you can see, I'm a *pretty okay* detective -- and an absolutely GIANT COMMUNIST." - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"Ears have a nice mouth feel, very chewy!" - Briar, League of Legends / "This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me." - Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)

"It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming... On days like this, kids like you... Should be burning in hell." - Sans, Undertale / "In the dark times, should the stars also go out?" - Steban, the Student Communist, Disco Elysium

“We are a path in the woods. We have no beginning, and we have no end, but something cold and unnatural sits watching us from just beyond our edge.” - The Wild, Slay the Princess / "Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled Trainers should try to win with the Pokémon they love best." - Karen (Elite Four), Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver

#not polls #round 1 #tumblr tournament

[shranstan]

Moby Dick Modern AU

Captain Ahab isn't actually a captain but instead a professor in the marine biology department. He does, however, answer to "captain" instead of "professor", and will never call the captain of the ship he is currently on the captain.

Ahab is obsessed with the white whale in that he's been trying to put a GPS tracker on it for years but it always fails someway. Moby Dick is such a distinctive whale, and he really really wants to study it, but it just keeps getting away or moving at the last moment so that the suction cup gps doesn't stick...

The Pequod is a research vessel owned by Ahab's university, Starbuck is the actual captain, but is called the first mate by Ahab because.. Ahab is Ahab. So, the others started calling him that, too.

Ishmael is also a marine biologist by trade however because of his controvertial opinion (whales are fish! most species we consider fish aren't that closely related anyways! it's a description of ecological, not genetic, importance! so whales should be considered fish, too!) he has been largely shunned/considered of no importance in the scientific community. He teaches biology at a highschool instead.

Ishmael is also a trans man. That is also canon to Herman's novel but I need to underline it here bc naming yourself basically "Is-male" is such a funny joke.

Ishmael signs himself up for a research cruise under the guise of not being a biologist but a simple sailor - this ruse is discovered incredibly quickly (it only takes one infodump).

Pip is one of those brilliant kids who skip 5 grades. He's 16 and in the final year of writing his bachelor's thesis. Ahab is his supervisor.

Queequeg is the ship's chief engineer, making him 3rd most important person on the ship (after the captain and first mate; source: my childhood bff's father was one) and also making him a lot of money. The university's usual chief engineer was unavailable and Ishmael was hyped to get his hubby on the same expedition as him.

Speaking of, Ishmael and Queequeg met at a motel in Vegas, got high, cuddled all night, and then got married the next day.

Queequeg usually works on all sort of ships, spending a couple months home with Ishmael and then doing engineering for the next couple months away on the sea.

Tashtego is working on his master's in marine biology and unfortunatelly Ahab's his supervisor same as Pip except Ahab loves Pip's ideas but hates Tashtego's

Daggoo is on a scientific exchange from a university from his home country, he's just a researcher (as in, doesn't study or teach)

Fedallah is there even though he's like. Completely unrelated to marine biology. He's like a professional olympic-level archer but Ahab forged his papers to bring him aboard so that he can finally put that tracker on the Moby Dick.

The rest of the crew are a combo of researchers and regular sailor folk who are, y'know, needed for the ship to function as a ship.

Pip falls into the ocean multiple times while trying to take samples but is saved quickly every time. They just force him to essentially wear buoy marker attached to him at all times in case he was submerged and unseen.

#moby dick #captain ahab #ishmael #queequeg #what is their shipname. #quishmael #? #queemael #??? #idfk #feel free to add to this

[mossy-green-aka-ferrythem]

Man ngl reaching out and seeing more other Limbus fans can get really fucking weird sometimes.

Sometimes you have people who may become too invested in a ship to actually read the text (I mean it's alright to indulge in a good ship every now and then, but like, that's not the point of the narrative lmao. Except for Ishmael and Queequeg who are like, so yuri, and Heathcliff and Catherine, who are just. Like. Read Wuthering Heights.)

Also, I'm not one to shy away from erotic artwork, but god damn someone must have really poisoned the water supply because enjoyable work, if any, is hard to find, while there is a lot of work which are made by artists with portfolios that are generally quite distasteful in my book. Typically my experience with it is like, "Aw yeahhh- aw fuck you ruined it that's fucking nasty! You can't make a pornographic perversion of that narrative aspect, bitch!"

Man I an way too upfront about this shit lmao. These thoughts are valuable and worth sharing, despite it all, at least I believe it to be so.

#project moon #projmoon #lcb #limbus #limbus company