#ahab rambles

[ahabthetaco]

Sometimes you just want to fall into a tentcale pit and be stuck there hours, being changed.

(assuming reader has pussy and boobs)

Tentcales playing with your chest, squeezing and groping as some latch on to your nipples, sucking away. Each suck, each grope, each squeeze growing them little by little, getting heavier and heavier with milk..

Tentacles coiling around your arms and legs, squeezing, covering you in its slime, only leading you to be more horny as it's full of aphrodisiac

Just feel as it changes you, let the tendrils slide into your mouth, feeding you, as it slithers in and out, pumping you full of cum...

Let it slide right around your leg, to your leaking, desperate pussy. It teases you, sliding it self on your slit, teasing your clit, like it knows what it's dond but it's going to milk the moment. Letting it self in, fucking you, in and out, over and over.

It squeezes your tits again, getting more milk out, it fucks your face at the same pace, your mind broke from so much pleasure. It's deep in you, pounding your holes, over and over

Over and over

Until you feel the pressure build, build build build as it pushes it thru. Filling you with not just cum, but it's eggs. Pump after pump, clutch after clutch, a small bulge of eggs and cum, letting you breath as it slides out, your mouth and cunt leaking with cum. It comforts you, petting your head for a job well done.

A couple minutes of rest, but the pleasure, the sensation, it's running thru you again, and it knows it, as it goes back to wrapping you again, a tentcale in your mouth, a tentcale in your pussy. Perhaps another few rounds and you'll be satisfied~

Hours pass, you leave the pit, breasts swelled, milk leaking, a womb full of gestating eggs, you need to return home, return home and spread the pit, perhaps your friends would enjoy the fun~

[vatrocvet]

her design is already peak but i wanted to do a personal take with some book details included

[patchworkfox01]

So I was just thinking about this early image of Limbus' chapter select and how Faust's chapter is last which, don't get me wrong, does make sense. She seems to be the most important to the overall story.

BUT. Something did hit me while thinking about it. In Faust's EGO, the room is white

Like. Entirely white. We see in Canto 4 and Leviathan that N. Corp's buildings are ALSO almost entirely white. This got me thinking.

What if Faust's equivalent to a "Deal with the Devil" is a deal she made with N. Corp to gain the knowledge to make Mephistophiles, and Faust's chapter will involve us finding out what her side of the deal was, and perhaps even betraying us. This could perhaps even come with a reveal that Faust, and Limbus as a whole, doesn't have a way to bring Garnet back. Who knows how that may go.

I know this doesn't add much BUT

Both Lobotomy Corp and Library of Ruina [spoilers for those that haven't played] end with important characters betraying us. [Angela and Roland respectfully].

[unma]

okay random thoughts moment. Everyone who sees my posts on this blog already knows I ship SinKro, but I recently thoguht about Ahab x Ishmael and genuinely this idea is slowly taking over me. I wouldn't even have to change their dynamic from the game because there's so much to say about these two through such an exploration. It almost feels weird to say it's a ship when what I'm really doing is trying to explore what happens when these two truly become the same. To see Ahab leading Ish on into becoming her and succeeding, and to see where Ahab becoming the subject of Ishmael's blind obsession leads the two of them. To see the result of Ishmael killing Ahab. To see how their encounter would change without Dante there to reel her in and make her reconsider her path.

[karthedense]

Do we Call Hermann x Ahab AMann or HerHab

[lockandkeyhyena]

the mending book is grian’s white whale

[old-pirate-lady]

Massive vent ahead, I don't even know why I'm putting this on here

I hate myself, so much, it's like, memories come and go like flickers of embers on a flame.. it's like, why the hell am I here? I know it was a process in our brain, I know that I simply am because we needed me, but why did I form the way I did? Why am I *her* why am I here? I wish I was anyone else... I want to be someone else yet I can't seperate from my source because I'm FICTIONKIN and It... everything hurts..

I lead everyone to die. I'm.. I don't know if I'm exactly OK right now but that's okay...

-🐋

[outeremissary]

wait I have another canto v thing to say I can't help it. I really love the way it largely works backwards from the Life Ruining Whale Hunting Disaster through Ishmael's history on the Pequot so that the very last piece of her past you see is her meeting Ahab. You start from the most extreme point and then go through the Pequot like it's all that existed of her life and she could have been a part of the ship and Ahab's crew forever before then and then you only arrive at the very end at the answer to how she fell in with Ahab to begin with, all in the midst of Ahab trying to blame her for all the horrors she survived and to twist the knife in the survivor's guilt she's carried. Because like. That's the answer. It's that Ahab met her at her lowest, Ahab always had her at her lowest, and Ahab always caught everyone at the time when they couldn't get away. The vision of Ahab as something like a savior there. The trust in this kind, confident stranger. It's so good!! It's why despite the wild soliloquys Ahab still feels like a kind of chilling villain- it's unlikely a person is going to fall in with an obsessive sea captain and wind up stranded on the sea, but there are plenty of people out there who can catch you at your lowest and isolate you from what you know. Obviously Ishmael was never to blame. She was preyed on by someone who didn't have a hint of remorse about it.

[kinsbluestars]

Ahjjjhhh

[onefey]

back to reading house of leaves after an (unintentional, adhd moment) extended break. my review of it 400-ish pages in is that it's a book that doesn't Feel that special when you're reading it but it really Sticks With You

[ahabthetaco]

Aliens who recently discovered hucow/cowgirl art and thought "what if we did that irl" Abducting you to be one of the first of many hucows!

Injected with numerous different vials, probed and scanned with so much technology, breasts directly connected to pumps, as you see them swell, milk pouring out. Feeling your ass rip thru the pathetic excuse of a patient gown they gave you, feel your vocabulary gain a new attraction to saying moo and long o. Not to mention all the screens around you with hucow and cowgirl porn, telling you how to be a good cow~ has it been days, weeks, months, you can't tell, you've been mooing away Happyily as they test and "test" the new hucow, your little tail wagging and ears flopping as your tits and ass bounce and bounce from "testing"

But the testing and evaluation are over, and with a kiss farewell and a suitcase full of cow themed clothes, your returned back home! Massive, milky, and so so cow! Hopefully they didn't leave any surprises in you, like you can make more hucows hehehe, that would be silly!

[patchworkfox01]

CANTO V SPOILERS

In love with how Mili always manages to have such will written songs for bosses

[unma]

Underfell Papyrus and Ricardo would be really good friends come to think of it. I ca see it already.

[burningvelvet]

moby dick summarized without going into any of its loftier themes:

act one: adventure story ft. unexpected queer romance between a quiet teacher and a tattooed butch cannibal via the "only one bed" trope. one quoted sentence to summarize: "better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken christian."

act two: national geographic textbook on the history and biology of whales and all associated subjects, incoherent rambling, in-depth studies of background characters we never see before or after, procrastinating the ending. one quoted sentence to summarize: "nor have i been at all sparing of historical whale research, when it has seemed needed."

act three: greek tragedy ft. queerplatonic romance between a doomed madman and his voice of reason henchman who literally offers to ride off into the sunset with him but who he ultimately betrays for a whale. one quoted sentence to summarize: "here’s food for thought, had ahab time to think; but ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels; that’s tingling enough for mortal man! to think’s audacity."

[devilemon]

update 2

here's the gaylist i mean playlist

my friend and I may or may not have made a 50+ long song playlist of Canto V-coded songs that're organized in chronological Canto lore order w/ """"slight"""" emphasis on Ishqueg

I may or may not share it here for y'all :]

[desperateknot]

Queequeg's lack of autonomy: features or bugs?

You know, I wanted this to be a proper analysis, but the stressed, sleep-deprived, busy self can only do a semi-ramble, semi analysis.

So I said how Queequeg's lack of autonomy and individuality is not a bug, but a feature.

Just so we are on the same page, I will prove how Queequeg is very obviously lacking in autonomy:

Queequeg: Must be nice. Queequeg: Knowing what you want. Knowing what you desire.

Canto V's dungeon: Floor 2

No… You devoured the crew whole. You painted over their wills, just like the Whales— no! Just like the Pallid Whale! Molding them and shaping them to fit your wants and needs.

Canto V's dungeon: Floor 3

Queequeg: Too late to think. About what is right and what is wrong. To think for myself. Too late.

Canto V's dungeon: Floor 3

The whole dungeon, she was obeying Ahab's orders, getting dragged around and around. Utterly lacking in agency is her main characteristic in her Pequod time, but there is a case to say it wasn't so during her Middle-arc. After all, she did say:

Queequeg: So I killed. And killed. And killed. Not because of orders. Killed with my own hands. Because I wanted to. Because I wanted respect as Big Sister.

I don't doubt her words. However, tribalistic as the Middle is, I think we can speculate on how much of Queequeg's actions stemmed from her own desire, and how much was her complying to its culture without even knowing it.

Either way, even if you disagree that Middle Queequeg was lacking in agency, it's hard to argue that she wasn't in her Pequod times, so we can assume that is a major trait of hers.

Let's go back to The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen for a sec. I will assume that you are convinced that one of Limbus Queequeg's inspiration is The Little Mermaid. If you are confused with that statement, please read:

The Little Mermaid wants to seek an immortal soul by getting the prince to marry her. I think it is a misconception that she did all (abandoning her family, enduring pain with every of her steps, sacrificing her voice) for love. No, she wants more than that: she wants an immortal soul. There could be a religious reading here, but it is neither relevant to my point nor am I qualify to state it, so I'll leave it. However, one could see how the arrangement of a woman having to win the love of a man and devoting her entire self to him to attain her spiritual fulfillment is very unfair, misogynistic, even. (Unfortunately, I can't explore that theme in Limbus Queequeg's story because sexism apparently doesn't exist in the City and also there are no prominent men in her story either?)

Here, I can go on about traditional heroines and how they are mostly quite lacking in agency too, but I haven't done researches for that. And more, importantly, this trope was intentionally subverted in The Little Mermaid. Hans Christian Andersen is much smarter than me, because he wrote it.

The Little Mermaid isn't just a damsel waiting for someone to save her. Her two displays of her agency are 1. finding the Sea Witch to get a pair of legs and 2. not killing the prince. She has a goal (attaining an immortal soul) and a principle (her love for the prince?) that she holds steadfast. Unfortunately, the one thing that she has been after, the prince's love, is not something that she can control. She can try to seduce him, sure, but his affection is his own. And, without it, she can't get an immortal soul...

But that isn't true, is it? The Mermaid didn't just die and turn into sea foam, fated to never get her immortal soul. She became a daughter of Air. And, with enough good deeds, can gain her own soul. Fortunately for her, this time, the task of getting her soul depends much, much more on herself.

This writing choice is quite intentionally, I believe. I wanted to read more about it, I really do, but the link they cited on Wikipedia led to an Internet Archive article that has been downed (RIP). Anyways, the gist of it is Andersen took inspiration for The Little Mermaid from Undine, in which a water spirit indeed got her immortal soul by marrying a human knight. Anyways, this is what Andersen allegedly wrote to a friend about it.

I have not, like de la Motte Fouqué in Undine, allowed the mermaid's acquiring of an immortal soul to depend upon an alien creature, upon the love of a human being. I'm sure that's wrong! It would depend rather much on chance, wouldn't it? I won't accept that sort of thing in this world. I have permitted my mermaid to follow a more natural, more divine path.

The point, I think, is that the Mermaid doesn't really need the prince's love to gain an immortal soul. That is something she can obtain herself, what she deserves after so much sacrifices, the rewards for her virtues. After the Mermaid was at the mercy of the prince for half of the story, she was given a chance to do good by herself. The opportunity of attaining an immortal soul returned to her.

I just argued above that Queequeg doesn't have autonomy, maybe even from her time in the Middle, but I lied (again). Queequeg also has two acts of agencies her own 1. running away from the Middle and 2:

Queequeg: Dante. Something I wish. Queequeg: I want… Ishmael to… Queequeg: … find her way.

Canto V's Dungeon: Floor 2, and

Woah, those two acts perfectly match the Mermaid's too, wonder how did that happened.

That was Queequeg's only wish, and that was just a bit after she said she was jealous of the Abnormalities for having wishes too :D

Queequeg also got her immortal soul, but...

This is when I think the story falls flat, if you hyperfocus on her. And you...shouldn't have. She is an NPC, who is dead. Only weird nerds like me would analyse the story in her perspective. This is not really a criticism for Canto V or PM's writings (although I do have a problem with it sometimes). I think they did the best they could to flesh out and gave Queequeg a proper ending with the little screen time she got (unlike that one other dead NPC from another franchise that I used to hyperfocus on).

However, what did The Little Mermaid have to do to get her immortal souls? She has to do 300 years worth of good deeds. Even though we didn't get to see it, we can assume that she struggled and grew even more to attain her goal.

What did Queequeg do to get her immortal soul? Um...uh...

Queequeg didn't really grow in the quest. When reunited with Ishmael, "her broken heart" got "unearthed". She nurtured a wish for herself: for Ishmael to find her own path. But, ultimately, she was still...following Ahab's orders. We still have to fight her twice (and thrice if you count her EGO phase).

Queequeg had character developments during her time on Pequod (mostly with the influence of Ishmael). She learned to look forward and to have hope. That got rolled back.

So, essentially, Queequeg got rewarded for...nothing?

Her story has ended. She couldn't do anything to actually gain her immortal soul, her atonement anymore. She is still quite lacking in autonomy. And I think that is a real shame, a bug, even.

That is one of the reasons why I made that swap Ishqueg AU.

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I know characters lacking in agencies are often seen as bad written, and a lot of times, they are. However, there is a certain charms to characters who have been deliberately written to have next to 0 agency. This actually reminds me of Iwakura Michihiro from Genshin Impact, an actually pretty prominent NPC in Inazuma's lore, whose only 2 acts of agencies in the lore were 1. leaving home to live in the woods (this one is debatable because he was abused and perhaps driven from home would be a more correct term) and 2. naming his sword. Anything else he did were instructions from his bully/mentor/friend/crush/saviour. And also Carter Scherbius, another NPC from Genshin Impact, who was terminally ill and then turned into goop in an effort to save him and later reincarnated for an experiment.

There is something quite heartbreaking and even beautiful about seeing a characters being dragged and beaten by the narrative. It's relatable. Real people, we, don't usually have control of our lives most of the times. We are dragged around and the beaten by forces we can't understand. We are usually helpless against our fate.

And, what kinds of people who would usually feel helpless against the sheer incomprehensibleness and the cruelty of our vast world? Sailors.