#Captain Nemo

[nice1cream]

I so relate. Yesterday I was so done with fluid mechanics that I just straight up told myself "Do it for Captain Nemo. He needs your help on the Nautilus"

I have to finish a presentation about nanotechnology by Monday. I need to start fixating. Suddenly, Odysseus is now a nanotechnologist

[cryskir]

Noodling out style + cover ideas :> you can see more about my process on my Patreon!!

[prokopetz]

Okay, so: in early drafts of Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo is a Polish guy bent on revenge against the Russian Empire for the murder of his family in the January Uprising. Verne's editor objected on the grounds that Russia was a French ally at the time of the book's writing, and in the actual, published version of the story, Nemo's national origin and precisely which empire he's pissed off at are left unspecified.

Later, in the 1875 quasi-sequel The Mysterious Island, Nemo is retconned as an Indian noble out for revenge against the British for the murder of his family in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 – basically the same as the original plan, simply substituting a different uprising and a different empire. Verne's editor raised no objections this time around, because fuck the British, right? Though Twenty Thousand Leagues and The Mysterious Island aren't 100% compatible in their respective timelines, this version of Nemo has customarily been back-ported into adaptations of Twenty Thousand Leagues ever since.

Now here's the funny part: perhaps as a jab at his editor, Verne made a specific plot point in Twenty Thousand Leagues of Professor Aronnax repeatedly trying and failing to figure out where the fuck Nemo is from. At one point his attempt to pin down Nemo's accent is frustrated by Nemo's vast multilingualism. At another point, he tries and fails to trick Nemo by quizzing him about latitude and longitude.

(To contextualise that last bit, at the time the book was written, there was no international agreement on which line of longitude should be zero degrees, and many nations had their own prime meridians; Aronnax hoped to identify Nemo's national origin by calculating which meridian he was giving his longitudes relative to. Nemo, however, immediately spots the ploy, and announces that he'll use the Paris meridian in deference to the fact that Aronnax is a Frenchman.)

The upshot is that at no point in the course of any of this Sherlock Holmes bullshit does Aronnax ever bring up the colour of Nemo's skin as a potential clue. In light of the book's publication history, this is almost certainly simply because Verne hadn't decided that Nemo was Indian yet. However, taking into account The Mysterious Island's retcon, it retroactively makes Aronnax the least racist Frenchman ever.

[20kmemesunderthesea]

In honor of Forduary.

[quailfence]

[Image description taken from alt: Image 1: Nemo stands with arms crossed at the front of a small rowboat sitting in the surf on a beach. Behind him, Queequeg sits by the oars, holding a rifle by the barrel with the end resting on the floor of the boat. Behind him, Skutnik stands facing the opposite direction, rifle held at the ready. Nemo says, “I was skeptical when I saw you alerted me hardly two days after your return, but this may be the advantage I’ve been seeking. I am glad my gesture of trust was not in folly.” Image 2: Jack, Mina, and Jonathan stand side by side. Mina has one hand set firmly gripping Jack’s shoulder, and the other grasping Jonathan’s hand. Offscreen, Nemo says, “If you have no more discoveries to share, we must be off at once.” Jonathan looks up and replies, “Just one more, Captain.” Image 3: Jonathan continues, “The man you trusted before, whom you thought betrayed you… My friends learned he guarded your secrets faithfully.” Nemo’s expression turns cold, and he snaps, “That is no business of yours.” Image 4: Irene crosses her arms. “It became our business with all the trouble we had to go through. He was so tight-lipped about what happened to him that we had to steal his diary.” Nemo falters and looks away, expression softening into something vulnerable. He says, “Then…he kept my secrets? In spite of everything?” Image 5: Offscreen, Irene says, “He did.” Nemo stands with his arms crossed, face guarded once more as he replies, “I see.” Image 6: Mina looks up with a bright expression and says, “And if you can extend your trust once more, Captain, we can accompany your hunt for Moran from above water.” Image 7: Arthur glances worriedly towards her and says, “But—But after what happened last time…” Image 8: Nemo raises his brows slightly and says, “Godalming, I rescued your friends once already, and that by chance. There may be stormy seas ahead, but in the event of disaster, you may depend on me.” End description.]

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Dialogue transcripts:

Panel 1

Nemo:  I was skeptical when I saw you alerted me hardly two days after your return, but this may be the advantage I’ve been seeking.  I am glad my gesture of trust was not in folly.

Panel 2

Nemo (offscreen):  If you have no more discoveries to share, we must be off at once.

Jonathan:  Just one more, Captain.

Panel 3

Jonathan:  The man you trusted before, whom you thought betrayed you… My friends learned he guarded your secrets faithfully.

Nemo:  That is no business of yours.

Panel 4

Irene:  It became our business with all the trouble we had to go through.  He was so tight-lipped about what happened to him that we had to steal his diary.

Nemo:  Then…he kept my secrets? In spite of everything?

Panel 5

Irene (offscreen):  He did.

Nemo:  I see.

Panel 6

Mina:  And if you can extend your trust once more, Captain, we can accompany your hunt for Moran from above water.

Panel 7

Arthur:  But—But after what happened last time…

Panel 8

Nemo:  Godalming, I rescued your friends once already, and that by chance.  There may be stormy seas ahead, but in the event of disaster, you may depend on me.

[thebibi]

No nuance option

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Key Features of a Captain Nemo Interpretation

indian (i cannot stress how important it is that this is number one with an electric bullet for reasons that would take another book to explain)

raw charisma

melancholic solitude

gutwrenching bleeding-heart sympathy for the oppressed

philosophical ambiguity so intricately multilayered that it offsets the murder stuff

the murder stuff

[mobilislnmobile]

A quick comic strip I made some years ago. I've never really tried comics. For a long time I thought it would be too difficult for me ! How silly I was, this way to tell stories is the best one ever. :')

My story Libertatem is not about 20K, but it fills the blanks before and AFTER 20k :) But I wanted to illustrate a scene from the book, just to challenge myself first, with a part of the story which is not mine :)

Since then, my designs changed a little bit, especially Pf Arronax.

[nautilusgays]

Ned Land holding a 'YOU CAN'T FIX HIM' intervention for Christine Daaé and Pierre Aronnax.

text: "You cannot fix that dark-haired organ playing man"

Conseil and Raoul are too nice to do it so Ned has to step in. Poor man is basically talking to two brick walls, but he can out stubborn anyone.

[atomic-chronoscaph]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

[20000fishdescriptions]

fish gang. enjoy

[sinvulkt]

Small Fandoms/Multifandom: Small Fandoms Fest

I just found this multifandom event!! 🎶

Description: Submit prompts for your favorite small fandoms to entice others to create fanfic or fanart! Prompt Submission closes November 21; Prompt Claims open November 23. We're very low pressure; there is no penalty for claiming a prompt and having RL or other fandom obligations get in the way of filling it. Plus, if you submit three fanworks, you get a pretty personalized button!

Dates:

Nov 1 - Nov 21: Prompt Submission Period

Nov 23: Prompts Available for Claiming & Posting Period Opens

Nov 23 - Jan 31: Posting Period

Jan 31: Final Day of Posting Period

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People of the fandoms in the tags, it’s our moment to shine! ✨️

(I actually checked, all those fandom have less than 2k fics on ao3. I was honestly suprised to see EPIC and BG3 were eligible, but hey, numbers don’t lie XD)

[kikaruuni]

 Fate Grand Order material XI [Digital]part 7

[thehauntedrocket]

League Of Extraordinary Gentleman

Art by Eric Canete

[prokopetz]

"You don't see characters in classic literature telling people their pronouns" I mean, if we're gonna get technical, Captain Nemo only has pronouns.

[20kmemesunderthesea]

Out-of-Context "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" Quotes to Put on Shirts:

-> "To be frank, I think that we're seeing things here that God wished to hide from man's eyes."

-> “Terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.”

-> “I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.”

-> “I will not be eaten without protest!”

-> “The human mind enjoys impressive visions of unearthly creatures.”

-> “This precious carnivore, hunted and tracked by fishermen, is becoming extremely rare."