#Moby Dick

[i-weep-for-lost-souls]

this looks like those videos where moms drop their babies into water to see if they can float (or smth I don't know how to describe it)

tashtego’s decent

[through-the-rabbit-hole]

The novice mariner, anxious about his first voyage: man I hope I see a good omen

The joyful huzza porpoise:

[plaguedocboi]

Nature really went off with sperm whales. A 70-ton predator with teeth the size of a banana but it only eats squishy prey that it doesn’t even chew, it just schlorps them down whole like a vacuum cleaner. Big giant fat head full of goop. Tiniest fins in the world. Strong enough to smash a ship to pieces and smart enough to figure out how to do so but its first line of defense is just to shit everywhere. Possibly the most complex language in the animal kingdom and it creates sounds by blowing air through its internal right nostril (it uses the left one to breathe) into its giant fat head. It’s the loudest animal on the planet and might have the capability to create a beam of sound so loud it can shake your organs apart but they don’t seem to use that to hunt or fight. They’re highly flammable. We used them to make candles.

[saranilssonbooks]

A bit of Moby-Dick oceanography context:

Up until the mid 1870s, it was generally accepted that life could not exist below a depth of 550 meters. This is why some of Ishmael's whale theories are so off and why Ahab pictures the sea floor as a vast wasteland of bones and shipwrecks. 🌊

[akaanir-of-starfleet]

#you HAVE to be aware #he doesn't even know for sure that there IS a coronation oil #he just SAYS surely there must be an oil involved #and if there's an oil for kings it's GOTTA be whale (via @dog-of-ulthar)

ishmael mobydick quite possibly the most well, actually character ever written

[blu-et]

fucking brutal section headings from the herman melville wikipedia page

[redacted-metallum]

I need to [remembers I shouldn't make suicide jokes] join a whaling crew

[captmuldoon]

wait a second -

MOBY BARBIE??? IN MY BARBIE MOVIE????

[elainiisms]

*me at the club* so does anyone wanna discuss queer undertones in classic literature?

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a whale of a good time🐋

[s0lace-1n-s0l1tude]

[dzgrizzle]

[call-me-moby-dick]

Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would delete hinge and start hanging out on the docks.

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

Obsessed with stories that preface their own tragedies. They stare you dead in the eye and tell you it will end badly. You watch the characters hurdle towards their doom, unable to do anything but watch. They'll give you hope that this time everyone will make it out, that just this once everything will be okay, only to snatch it away at the last moment. and when you're left grieving the end, you have no one to blame but yourself because they *told* you this was going to happen. there was no other way this could have ended

[plaguedocboi]

I think Moby Dick artists could use how objectively crazy-looking whale eyes are to their advantage

[remarkablecows]