#merman helville

[neoclassicalder]

I can not wait for the whale weekly readers to get to the part where Ishmael has the chance to measure a beached whale and he considers it such an important scientific opportunity that he tattoos the measurements on his arm to make sure nothing happens to them BUT he is also writing a poem on his arm and he needs space to finish it so he FUCKING ROUNDS ALL OF THE NUMBERS AND NONE OF THEM ARE ACCURATE

#obsessed #stubb is my favorite character in all of fiction btw #rose lalonde is second #Pierre bezukhov from war and peace probably tied for second??? #and marya dmitryevna and Natasha from w&p are up there in the third place slot #this is important info #merman helville #moby dick #whale weekly #classic lit #litposting #mine #txt

[catilinas]

jellycat sperm whale……………………

#WANT #only comes in one size and it’s MASSIVE #i already love treasure and appreciate Wilbur Whale (his name is merman helville) BUT i am. obsessed w this #jellycat #beeps

[wrishwrosh]

Sorry to come out of the blue like this, but you've mentioned that you're a fan of Herman Melville, and my friends are tired of listening to me talk about how much I've loved re-reading this travel journal of his from a 1856 trip he took through Europe and the Middle East. This man picks the weirdest things to get cranky about: the loneliness of Rome, topiaries, people being underground sometimes instead of building up into the sky (proof of the darkness of Man). And my favorite, the time he's angry that people are behaving foolishly near a statue he loves ("How little influence has truth on the world!").

My very favorite lines of the journal would do numbers on tumblr if he was writing today, where he has back pain that keeps him in bed all day and writes: "This day saw nothing, learned nothing, enjoyed nothing, but suffered something." I've been thinking those lines to myself ever since I read them years ago, he's so dramatic. I love him!

THANK you for this extremely delightful recommendation! melville is one of my all-timer awful little nineteenth century men, i relish the chance to get into his weird crank head :)) im on like page 3 but merman helville is starting SO strong with this bitchy review of a hotel in yorkshire where he gets in a little snit about the insincerity of the concept of “table service” at “””a restaurant””

my treasured freak. saw nothing learned nothing enjoyed nothing but suffered something. (also if anyone else wants to join the party this transcript is on the internet archive !!)

#money can be exchanged for goods and services herman. #now i want to look into like the history of restaurants to see if herman was just being a little bitch #or if he genuinely hadnt encountered this style of service before #legitimately could be either #asks #my best friend merman helville

[plaguedocboi]

Your wish to be consumed by sea creatures upon death reminds me of a Melville quote

“ Call me Whalefall.”

*sees myself out*

If only Merman Helville had known about whalefalls… there would’ve been at least a hundred extra pages in that book

#I will be a whalefall someday #except smaller #but still maybe gardens will grow from my bones

[drinkthemlock]

merman helville try not to write homoerotic pining in his novels challenge (gone wrong!)

#herman melville

[lachrymoronical]

#herman melville #whale facts #moby dick

[toebeanz]

Merman Helville torments my very soul as I slough through his shitty whale book one email at a time

[dalmatienne]

my favorite book has got to be moby dick by merman helville. love how he spends the entire book seeking vengeance against that white whal(ing ship).

#moby dick #herman melville #merman helville #art #my art #shout out to ellie making that her twitter display name

[calamitys-child]

Sights I can handle. Textures and sounds, yeah, I've got those down pretty well, except for the times I don't. But why must there be so many smells and temperatures

#Can't sleep too temperature #Not too hot or too cold NECESSARILY but too. Like. Aware of it #Far too temperature #Smells of snow and petrol? Odd combination #Hoping the open window will moderate the temperature issue a la merman helville and his cold head thesis

[autistic-ophelia]

Due to Current Events I regrettably have to change my tag for Moby D*ck lest it be banned so henceforth it shall be referred to in my tags as “Merman Helville’s homoeroticism and dubious whale fact encyclopedia”

#god it would be So Easy for me to be normal about this AND YET #Merman Helville’s homoeroticism and dubious whale fact encyclopedia #orion coming out of their well to annoy mankind #delete later

[asexual-cryptid]

Concept:

Doby Mick by Merman Helville

A Series Of Enfortunate Uvents by Snemony Lickett

Parry Hotter by KRJowling

The Tagic Meehouse Books by Pary Oope Msborne

The Rord of the Lings by RRTJolkien

Herlock Sholmes by Crthur Donan Aoyle

The Tightning Lheif by Rick Riordan

The Brincess Pride by M. Sorgenstern

Moodnight Goon by Bargaret Mise Wrown

#shitpost #books #concept #jokes #literature

[weeklyhumorist]

Herman Melville Workshops Whale Names Before Settling on Moby Dick

Leviathan

Bubbles

Big Ding-Dong Whale

Shamu

Moby Penis

Jedediah Whaleshlong (Note to self: too long)

Ol’ Whitey

Buster

Goofus

Fishy (Maybe?)

Whalepoleon

Evil Killer of the Sea

Merman Helville the Whale

Not Mocha Dick

Huge White N’ Spermy

Bad Pierre (Urgh, hate that guy)

Wet Dad

God?

️ Nathaniel

️ Hawthorne’s

️  Honkin’

️ Gorgeous

️ Mind

️

Best Friend the Whale

Bad Friend the Whale

The Whale (Not specific enough)

Enigmatic Water Boy

Inscrutable Soggy Buddy

ARRRGHJKSLAKAAHOSJFNLKVBkj THIS IS SO FRUSTRATING

Smoby Smick

Goby Glick

Kobe Drick

Moby Dick

Herman Melville Workshops Whale Names Before Settling on Moby Dick was originally published on Weekly Humorist

#books #classics #funny #herman melville #humor #lists #moby dick #sea

[prigorie]

I need all of y'all to read moby dick so I have people to talk to about how fucking insane that book was

#in one of the chapters my dude ishmael/merman helville just... fucking lists things that are white #i read/ listened to this book out of my own volition and i LIKED it

[robertwalton]

you ever just squeeze ya own hands

#merman helville

[robertwalton]

if... victor frankenstein came across the pequod instead of roberts ship. you KNOW ahab would just leave him in the fucking cold. no time to bother with this dying teenager in the snow OR a weird giant man with a sled and lots of dogs when youve got a WHALE to catch

meanwhile, if robert walton had to hunt moby dick, i guarantee you he’d get tired of it and quit in the first year and go back to writing poetry

#merman helville #victorious

[robertwalton]

melville probably made his books and hawthornes books kiss

#merman helville