#bildad Moby dick

[yeoldecryptid]

Moby Dick Muppet movie fancasts

Ishmael: Kermit, enough said.

Queenpeg: The human character (tm.) Queenpeg seems like a pretty reasonable dude who would work well acting next to muppets, and having him share a bed with Kermit is reason enough alone for a human character. I don’t have any actor ideas though, so if you have any, go ahead.

Bildad and Peleg: Beaker and Bunsen respectively. They already have the old married couple bickering going on, and Bildad and Beaker both have a slight temper.

Starbuck: Fozzie. I think it would be a lot of fun to see him try to be the voice of reason for Gonzo of all muppets, and based on his behavior in the show, I doubt he’d be very good at it.

The cook: The Swedish Chef. Obviously.

Ahab: Gonzo. He’s crazy enough. Granted, they are two different kinds of crazy, but that will just make things more interesting.

[postmail]

really underrated fact that stubb is seemingly, possibly a nepotism hire (being bildad’s brother-in-law) which, you know, kind of explains some things if it is the case

[saranilssonbooks]

Picture Peleg and Bildad as a pair of winged Disney fairy godmothers with wands though.

[umarthiels]

[...] Ahab was now entirely conscious that, in so doing, he had indirectly laid himself open to the unanswerable charge of usurpation; and with perfect impunity, both moral and legal, his crew if so disposed, and to that end competent, could refuse all further obedience to him, and even violently wrest from him the command. From even the barely hinted imputation of usurpation, and the possible consequences of such a suppressed impression gaining ground, Ahab must of course have been most anxious to protect himself.

LAW TIME!

this is so interesting to me bc it calls back to the fact that ahab doesn't actually own the pequod! he's captaining it and he does own a share in it, but the real owners are peleg and bildad, and on shore he's accountable to them. even though on the sea he is master of the ship, he still answers to the owners, and in derailing the voyage from "hunting whales and making money" to "hunting moby-dick specifically", he is usurping authority! he doesn't (well, in the sense of ownership, which will come up later) actually have the right to do this! and if the crew were to mutiny against him (say, if a certain mate who isn't keen on the quest and prioritizes the commercial interests of the voyage over ahab's goal convinced them), legally they'd be in the right to do it, and arguably it'd be their duty to do it. (nautical law side of tumblr do correct me if i'm wrong) (the idea of whether ahab actually has ultimate authority over the pequod comes up later and it's all very interesting!)

this is extra fun since ahab knows this and is genuinely nervous that the crew might rise up against him. right now starbuck stands alone, and even he gave way to peer pressure in the end! the entire crew is enthusiastic about the quest, but if that wanes and they start to consider it, ahab will be in genuine danger! he can't actually answer to the charge of usurpation, he undeniably did it (within the framework of ownership of the whaling industry ofc) which is something that isn't really obvious in pop culture perceptions of him, he's not just some dictator, he's pragmatic about things!

[el-la-muncho-mancho]

Do you think Peleg and Bildad ever explored each other’s bodies?

[soysaucevictim]

Just partway into Chapter 18 here... and, man, Ishmael, Peleg, and Bildad are not the most culturally sensitive aren't they? /rhetorical

That said Ishmael's lens on Queequeg seems more charitable - at least guy seems to care of his well being and humanity. Religious and cultural differences aside.

Still, I comment on such in mostly amusement and acknowledgement of this work reflecting its age. Still gonna keep reading.

(Also all the mention of Presbyterian Church got me going, "hey, I went through that denomination, growing up." ... well, more like mom roped us into things. Pffft. I still miss the delicious DELICIOUS Korean food that was always there, despite arriving at atheism myself.)

[yeoldecryptid]

“I am not saying that Bildad and Peleg had gay sex, I’m just implying that they were in the kind of relationship with each other where they knew it was a possibility, and were not going to judge it anymore than straight sex.” -what came out of my mouth when I was explaining the ‘beware fornication’ comment from Moby Dick.

[demonrubberduck]

Moby Dick chapter 22 Ishmael racing past all the red flags

🚩 unseen captain that’s tooooootally hinged, you don’t need to see him before you sign on for 3 years, nuh-uh

🚩crazy old guy who sprung fully formed from the beginning of a horror movie trying to warn you off going on this boat, you crazy kids

🚩shipmate passed out so hard your super ripped boyfriend can sit his fine ass on him and this dude still don’t wake up til you hotbox him out

🚩the two old boomers who ask for your work experience and then cut you off while you’re answering and get your name wrong every time, who robble robble off the boat after giving you a swift kick and a ‘thoughts and prayers’

We’re in for a normal and reasonable boat trip, fam.

(PS I know the basic way this story’s going to go, but at the canon point I’m at, the AU I want is Peleg and Bildad weekend-at-Bernie’s-ing Capt Ahab, who is totes dead but they need him alive on paper for tax purposes. Queequeg clocks it immediately, Ishmael suspects nothing for at least 20 more chapters, then gaslights himself through 20 more.)

[saranilssonbooks]

...but all [Bildad's] subsequent ocean life, and the sight of many unclad, lovely island creatures, round the Horn - all that had not moved his native born Quaker one single jot, had not so much as altered one angle of his vest.

-Herman Melville

That's one way to put it, Ishmael my dude.

[twofoursixohjuan]

honourable mentions may include Steelkilt, Bildad and Peleg, or Moby Dick himself

[lifelinebooks]

Rereading moby Dick and summarizing each chapter part 2/?

Chapters 11-25

Ch 11: I won't be graphic but I definitely fucked Queequeg tonight. This man has me whipped

Ch 12: I learn Queequeg's origin story and my ingrained racist prejudices make themselves a Problem

Ch 13: Queequeg saves someone's life and I get an immediate hard-on

Ch 14: I romanticize Nantucket--you should vacation here

Ch 15: you've heard of Everything is Cake, now get ready for Everything is Fish

Ch 16: Queequeg needs privacy for religious reasons so I leave him our shared room and go for a walk, eventually finding a whaling ship for us to sign on with. The old married couple who own it bicker constantly though

Ch 17: I tried to respect my husband's religion but my racist prejudices mean I have to be annoyingly Christian about it

Ch 18: Queequeg is really good with a harpoon 😏 I would marry him twice if I could

Ch 19: this guy claims to be a prophet and what I want to know is how do I get in contact with his shroom dealer

Ch 20: Captains Bildad and Peleg continue to air out their marital disputes in public as we get the ship ready to sail

Ch 21: the shroom guy is after us again and-- QUEEQUEG GET OFF OF THAT MAN'S ASS

Ch 22: Bildad and Peleg should just get a room at this point but they see us off on our voyage instead

Ch 23: I know I'm married but my GOD Bulkington is hot

Ch 24: whaling is the noblest profession in the world and if you disagree I'll fucking kill you

Ch 25: but that's just my opinion

Part 1 |

[talesofpassingtime]

Bildad said no more, but buttoning up his coat, stalked on deck, where we followed him. There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist. Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.

— Herman Melville, Moby Dick 

[saranilssonbooks]

I argue that The Ramadan is a downright romcom.

Hell yeah piece of shit Bildad!!

Another, personal fave: Ahab sneaking up on the mates and introducing himself from the shadows as Old Thunder during a thunder storm. No one can convince me that the man lacked humor.

Before I embark on a second read, here are all of the things which I enjoyed (and occasionally laughed raucously at) in Moby Dick

- “… tell him I've diddled him,” - Stubb

- calling dolphins huzzah porpoises

- queequeg jumping (and essentially crushing himself) under the bed to finish putting his boots on when Ishmael asked for privacy- as well as the confounded response which birthed this line ;

“… by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his boots”

Chapter 4 in general had me in stitches

- All of Ishmael’s endearing melodrama

he speaks with utter conviction at all times, life is either horrifying or magnificently lovely with absolutely zero half measures. He seems so fantastically out of place on this deck full of hardened mariners, and yet he’s hard not listen to, even when you know that he’s wrong.

-busting through the door to see queequeg

- Ishmael being perhaps the most flagrantly gay protagonist of any classic novel I’ve read to date

- queequeg swiftly putting people who mock them in their place

- albatross monologue

- pip.

-doughboy , flask

- the woman in the yellow dress at the try pots in

- Stubb in general, including Ahab’s fierce aversion to him

- Starbuck’s contemplation of a coup d’etat style homicide

- Ahab’s restless stargazing

- Ahab and Starbuck’s conversations, their strained kinship and the self evincing fact of a strong, confiding trust between them

- the mates and their philosophies

- the de facto marriage/ honeymoon between two men essentially right after they meet

- banter aboard

- Bildad. I liked that bible beating miser

[saltavenegar]

Props to Peleg for doing the one thing we can’t, kicking Ishmael’s ass

[dusttt]

Moby dick characters embodied by songs

Ahab- Isle of the dead, Rachmaninoff

Bildad- pennies from heaven, louis prima

Bulkington- here I am again, whitesnake

Dagoo - almost blue, chet baker

Flask - the gambler, kenny rodgers

Fedallah - elephant gun, beirut

Isaiah - youth, daughter

Ishmael - come sail away, styx

Peleg - la petite fille de la mer, vangelis

Pip - liebestraum, franz liszt

Starbuck - maybe you’re right, cat stevens

Stubb - shake ya, hacienda

Tashtego - out of time man, mick harvey

Queequeg - this must be the place (naive melody), talking heads

[emjistarflower]

Man, I feel bad for Queequeg. People were really getting on his case about his religion today.