#we don't talk about the moby dick musical (except my numerous posts where i yelled about how much the musical fucked up)

[pocketsizedquasar]

okay, favorite moby dick adaptation, the ones you'd recommend (besides your webcomic adaptation ofc, i've read them all in two days and it was wonderful! i love it so much, you've probably seen my comments haha!)

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ps. im so close to finishing the actual novel. im super amazed and scared with ahab in the later chapters, he really lives up to his name! im split between heavily identifying with ahab and ishmael lol (that is not a good sign). im also touched by how much love and admiration that exist everytime ishmael talks about his boyfriend. tbh im kinda surprised the "queequeg and his coffin" chapter doesnt include ishmael trying to take care of queequeg. it would have been cute and on-brand for the book.

and poor pip, he was lost and never found. press F to pay respects. will forever be pissed over how everyone treats him terribly

i'm sorry it took me ages to respond to this i'm simply a fool /lh

but uhhh okay so honestly there aren't that many md adaptations that i actually did like LMAO which is part of why i've made my comic

but the two i do genuinely enjoy and appreciate both the opera (which i saw a livestream of in the early days of the pandemic) -- it was a delight to watch although it made some questionable changes from the book

and the very small moby dick play adaptation by david catlin i saw way back in high school. like. look at the queequeg. this is the only moby dick adaptation actually

also the 2011 tv series doesn't have rights EXCEPT for the fact that they cast ethan hawke as starbuck

also handshake on identifying with both ahab and ishmael LMAO and also so i think ishmael DOES take care of queequeg in the coffin chapter, becuase in the chapter when queequeg asks for the coffin to be built: "He called one to him in the grey morning watch, when the day was just breaking, and taking his hand, said that while in Nantucket he had chanced to see certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich war-wood of his native isle; and upon inquiry, he had learned that all whalemen who died in Nantucket..." (emphasis my own) and i'm like. 99% sure that the "one" he's calling for is ishmael. and i'm pretty sure this is just a symptom of ishmael removing himself from the narrative + not being emotionally capable of describing himself in the scene where his lover almost died.

especially because i read the qq in his coffin chapter as ishmael's way of saying goodbye to queequeg/his eulogy for queequeg, because he can't do it during the scene where queequeg actually dies

anyway yeah hashtag pip deserved better

#quasartalks #ask #anggota-pki #mobydick #moby dick #queequeg #ishmael #pip #we don't talk about the moby dick musical (except my numerous posts where i yelled about how much the musical fucked up) #long post