RIP Ishmael, you would've loved Urban Dictionary, Sufjan Stevens, and Heartstopper
RIP Ahab, you would've loved moveable prosthetics, Life360, and anger management classes
RIP Starbuck, you would've loved the DSM-5, HR, and the phrase "shut the fuck up"
RIP Stubb, you would've loved ASMR YouTube channels, brain rot humor, and starting flame wars on Twitter
RIP Flask, you would've loved platform boots, saying "bro it's not that deep", and prepackaged sticks of salted butter
RIP Fedallah, you would've loved the gift of prophecy awarded to people on tumblr, not having a phone, and 2020 COVID lockdown
RIP Queequeg, you would've loved Obergefell vs. Hodges, sweatpants, and having personal beef with the Duolingo owl
RIP Tashtego, you would've loved cotton candy vape, trolling people on the internet, and calling things "white people nonsense"
RIP Daggoo, you would've loved not playing basketball (out of spite), offering "uppies", and work visas
RIP Pip, you would've loved child labor laws, kazoos, and water wings
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ROADTRIP AU
Starbuck: driver, plagued by the intrusive thoughts of ending it all
Ahab: in the passanger's seat, yells at Starbuck for driving like a pussy (without breaking the law)
Ishmael: points to every cow they pass and says "cows!"
Flask, Dagoo and Queequeg: "McDonalds! McDonalds! McDonalds!"
Pip: left behind at the gas station
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the crew of the pequod, lovingly catified. a younger version of ishmael is here too to show how not-fluffy she was in the past.
bonus pallidified versions. i would've redrawn faces or, at the very least, made ahab's peg leg the harpoon leg it becomes later, but i was very tired when i finished these.
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honourable mentions may include Steelkilt, Bildad and Peleg, or Moby Dick himself
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So like with the whole meme of dead NPCs getting associated with food would Queequeg, Starbuck and Pip be sushi
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ok but. the last word of moby dick is “orphan”, and it’s what ishmael calls himself after the shipwreck. he is literally an orphan, he told us earlier he was raised by his stepmother, but he’s all the more an orphan now, alone in the vastness of the sea having lost crew and ship. and it’s the same situation pip was in, the thing that drove him mad, to feel he was an orphan abandoned by everyone and everything in an empty, probably meaningless world... and it brought him closer to ahab, who is another literal orphan! his mother was widowed before he was born and died when he was a few months old! and then there’s starbuck who lost his father to the sea and now both him and ahab have sons they will never see again... the whaling industry makes orphans, the sea makes orphans, the indifferent universe makes orphans, orphans make orphans over and over and
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I figured the last time I watched Moby Dick (2011) and gut sobbed at the end it was due to that year being hard...nope! I am sitting here at 2am, eyes swollen because I did it again. 😭😭😭😭😭
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