#Outsider Whale

[fishyfishyfishtimes]

Why is it always a shark that’s a villain in a fish movie. There’s so many cool and dangerous aquatic animals to choose from. Why can’t the villain be like a malicious billfish for once? Or a gang of mean mean orcas? I say this as a person who loves both of those animals by the way it’s just getting very really tiring, the shark slander

[neptunee123]

I made a Dishonored book nook bc I my hyperfixation got the best of me

These shrines were my inspo

[isbergillustration]

Been doing my every other year-ly replay of the Dishonored games, and they are so beautiful, and I particularly love the shots we get of the Dreadful Wale in The Death of the Outsider, so I tried to recreate that.

[puppetmaster13u]

Because it is Mermay:

Originally did this art for one of @radiance1 prompts/story ideas, which also gives an idea of colors so.

[titanium--zen]

Based of a pic i found about sleeping sperm-whales, so i was inspired to do this.

[temporary-gentleman]

Loosely based on the animated short The Tales from Dunwall, part 1

[adozentothedawn]

So today I learnt this goddamn fucker just hangs out at the end of Kill Cascade. In the room where you jumpscare yourself with killing Jessamine.

This in my opinion is confirmation for my headcanon that the Dunwall Trials are shit the Outsider makes Corvo do when he's sleeping at night.

I did try to get my own screenshot but unfortunately it's impossible to get into the room without triggering the end of the trial, so I had to snatch the one from the wiki.

[vechter]

every once in a while i remember that the outsiders called their jet the pequod and lose my mind. herman melville didn't write moby dick for me to ignore the delicious allusions.

this old Peleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material and device, unmatched by anything [...]

the original parts have been replaced and rewritten because the team has a history separate from that of this particular iteration. dick chooses to call them the outsiders... it's both homage and symptom-of-devotion to bruce but most importantly, dick reasons that he's tired of watching people die and get hurt; he wants to be the hunter instead of waiting for the threat to come to him... he wants to be the predator, just like the pequod has been hunting whales all these years.

But to all these her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed.

here's this ship that has sustained years of damage... just like the heart of the outsiders. roy asks dick to join a team he creates for the sole purpose of saving dick from the grief of donna's death and hey, if he can give some rookies a shot at learning how to fight? well, roy harper is in the business of saving. doesn't matter how big the shipwreck, he won't let anyone drown. also, the shift and rex of it all... a part of you that has become his own person... only for the harsh realities of the world to cause suicide-by-absorption. old and new... all of intersecting in something grotesque (shift's grief and heartbreak becomes a part of rex's).

Her ancient decks were worn and wrinkled, like the pilgrim-worshipped flag-stone in Canterbury Cathedral where Becket bled.

where becket bled... where donna died. and to drive it all home, roy has indigo join. she wants to make amends, she doesn't remember how she was directly involved in donna's death. and it blows up in their faces but for a brief period, shift gets to experience genuine happiness with indigo.

“They didn’t tell much of anything about him; only I’ve heard that he’s a good whale-hunter, and a good captain to his crew.” “That’s true, that’s true—yes, both true enough. But you must jump when he gives an order. Step and growl; growl and go—that’s the word with Captain Ahab. But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights...”

it's captained by ahab, who's single-minded in his pursuit of moby dick. the ship itself is synonymous with failure... it's covered and furnished with whale teeth and bones; it's an omen of doom. no matter how far dick goes, donna's ghost will stay. he tries to lead the outsiders with no emotionality and it gets people hurt; they emerge with small victories but the bigger picture is always falling short... so much so that they end up having to fake their deaths midway through the comic.

Upon each side of the Pequod’s quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank. His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud...

ahab outfits his ship with holes and machinations for his peg leg... roy outfits the team with contingencies and plans so that he and dick never have to deal with something like teammates dying on their watch again. there's so much more to lose your mind over, especially with queepeg's coffin becoming a symbol of life for ishmael when the pequod eventually sinks... i love a good allegory <3

[wormpit]

this might be a corn plate post but i just noticed ahab's harpoon is backwards clock and im normal

stubb, pip, starbuck, queequeg....and ishmael would have been the fifth high level employee to sacrifice....

[tohruies]

what if… karasu were a false killer whale… and i were a bottlenose dolphin… and we were in love………

[shitpostingkats]

What's your favorite DnDads Players vs. DM hostility. I'll go first mine's when the dm straight up wrote one of his pcs out of existence and made up a whole new guy that took his place and then called up the brother of the the player whose character got evaporated to play as a new member in the party.

[neptunee123]

Billie in the flooded district

Why is the quality so bad😭

[jjdogasaur]

Monstober day 11 with hopefully the last time I'm late on a monstober

[kiwiitin]

It was about time for me to finish my yearly Outsider art (going on year 13, baby) 2/3 of my babygirl collection.

[scarletspider2the2ndpower]

Chasm: Curse of Kaine (Vol. 1/2024), #3.

Writer: Steve Foxe; Penciler and Inker: Andrea Broccardo; Colorist: Brian Reber; Letterer: Joe Caramagna

[temporary-gentleman]

Whales Too Have a God