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everything is suddenly very important when you're procrastinating for your life

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Old foes

Always been a sucker for whales

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laid in bed last night thinking about how herman melville died before humans knew about whale songs, or how they sleep, or about whale falls, or that they can be gay… he would have loved them so much

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Pay me a living wage and give me a couple of red bulls and I'd create a whole moby dick cartoon in a fever

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Nautical needle folk art, 19th century

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In The Strange Case, straight up Jekylling it and by it. Haha.. let's just say my Hyde.

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“my queequeg” :')

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"The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down are copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed; as in my wild wanderings at that period, there was no other secure way of preserving such valuable statistics."

Ishmael; Chapter 102

"At length the desired observation was taken; and with his pencil upon his ivory leg, Ahab soon calculated what his latitude must be at that precise instant."

Ahab; Chapter 118

I love how both Ishmael and Ahab are like "what are limbs but sticky notes I always have access to"

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happy pride to these two whalers i guess

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Velvet lights

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epaulette sharks 

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Found last year's The Counterpane illustration, @postmail . 😉

(I hate making beds, both in depiction and real life.)

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The super bowl or whatever I'm not american

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The thing you have to keep in mind about Moby Dick is that it’s an explicitly anti-racist text written by a white guy in the 1850s. So you end up with stuff like Ishmael spending an entire paragraph complimenting a Polynesian guy on his skull shape.

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The Ishmael thought process.