#herman merman

[yunisverse]

Loco Motive is a game about leaving your comfort zone (by committing sosososososososo many crimes)

[operaqueen]

Ethel Merman, during her run in the original Broadway production of Hello Dolly! New York, 1970.

[wrishwrosh]

Sorry to come out of the blue like this, but you've mentioned that you're a fan of Herman Melville, and my friends are tired of listening to me talk about how much I've loved re-reading this travel journal of his from a 1856 trip he took through Europe and the Middle East. This man picks the weirdest things to get cranky about: the loneliness of Rome, topiaries, people being underground sometimes instead of building up into the sky (proof of the darkness of Man). And my favorite, the time he's angry that people are behaving foolishly near a statue he loves ("How little influence has truth on the world!").

My very favorite lines of the journal would do numbers on tumblr if he was writing today, where he has back pain that keeps him in bed all day and writes: "This day saw nothing, learned nothing, enjoyed nothing, but suffered something." I've been thinking those lines to myself ever since I read them years ago, he's so dramatic. I love him!

THANK you for this extremely delightful recommendation! melville is one of my all-timer awful little nineteenth century men, i relish the chance to get into his weird crank head :)) im on like page 3 but merman helville is starting SO strong with this bitchy review of a hotel in yorkshire where he gets in a little snit about the insincerity of the concept of “table service” at “””a restaurant””

my treasured freak. saw nothing learned nothing enjoyed nothing but suffered something. (also if anyone else wants to join the party this transcript is on the internet archive !!)

[stone-cold-groove]

Herman the Merman. Do not tease or feed.

[unnecessaryportmanteaus]

Merman Hellville sounds like a mermaid NPC with a (justified) beef with human ships in a nautical DnD campaign.

one of these days i am going to get herman melville's name right on the first try. i am going to say "herman", and then i'm going to say "melville", and i'm not going to have to stop myself in the middle of "merman hellville" and start over. not today, though. but hopefully soon. maybe tomorrow.

[iilelio]

Somehow got talked into buying a Christmas tree

Can't wait for the kitten to destroy it

[americanperfekt]

at rows of blank-looking counters sat rows of blank looking girls, with blank, white folders in the blank hands, all blankly folding blank paper.

[nervousenby]

Started reading moby dick and one thing I can’t get over is queequeeg’s use of his harpoon for everything and anything. Like in some situations it makes sense, he shaves with his harpoon because hey, it's good quality steel that’s regularly sharpened and it’s probably available more than a razor is when you’re on a boat. Completely reasonable! But THEN IN THE VERY NEXT SCENE they’re at breakfast and queequeg’s having steaks. Not weird on its own, it’s basically the same as having bacon or sausage at breakfast, no big deal—right? Well it is because instead of using utensils or even his hands, HE STABS AT THE STEAKS WITH HIS BIG ASS HARPOON. And like all the other sailor dudes are crammed in next to each other so it’s not just “oh he doesn’t understand cultural norms” it’s “culture and etiquette aside, you should know better. You could ACCIDENTALLY STAB SOMEBODY IN THE HEAD” Not to mention, HE JUST SHAVED WITH IT. YOU’RE GONNA GET HAIR IN YOUR FOOD. At this point I’m not even criticizing queequeg the character, queequeg the character has done no wrong. I’m criticizing the author BECAUSE WHY WAS THIS NECESSARY THE TEXT HAS ALREADY MADE IT CLEAR HE’S A WHALE OUT OF WATER HERE IN THIS NEW ENGLAND FISHING TOWN YOU DONT NEED TO ADD THIS WEIRD DETAIL HERMAN. WHAT THE 𝗙𝗨𝗖𝗞 HERMAN

[9ofspades]

“Merman Helville and the Pillars of Damnation” sounds like a very fun Christian mythology middle grade adventure, ngl

I think Ishmael Mobydick would really flip out if he learned how sperm whales sleep

[lesbienneanarchiste]

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

Chapter 93 "The Castaway", Moby-Dick, Herman Melville

[operaqueen]

Ethel Merman, during her run in the original Broadway production of Hello Dolly! New York, 1970.

[peterlorrefanpage]

I am so glad you think it fits! He's so cool as a merman.

I can see him on that chair, and doing all sorts of pranks...

Can I just say that this name is so good, I wish I came up with it myself?! It just fits so well with him that I’m going to call him that from now on!

Also @peterlorres21stcentury I would absolutely love to see you write Herman into your stories, that would be so much fun! I’m already enjoying myself immensely seeing you speculate about him in the notes!

@peterlorrefanpage I can completely see him flopping onto a floating restaurant’s dock and making an order as if it was the most normal thing in the world. I can also see him as one of those viral videos of sea lions taking over beach chairs you see being shared online - just a huge merman lounging lazily on someone’s beach chair in the sun (after having, presumably, pulled said someone in the water)

[brandyschillace]

On the day in 1851:

Herman Melville published MOBY DICK

One of my favorite books, with what—in my opinion—earns rank as the most gorgeous, haunting, bizarre, and evocative passages ever penned:

“Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.

He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man’s insanity is heaven’s sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.”

[marinerainbow]

//So I'm thinking in the Mermaid!AU every human (and maybe Jessica Rabbitfish) is a merperson in this world and all the toons are sea creatures. Roger is a rabbit fish, Baby Herman's a grumpy puffer, Benny's a stingray or eagle ray, the Toon Patrol are eels. I think only Jessica is the one toon I would say to make a mermaid in this and even then the merpeople are half aquatic so her and Roger being together shouldn't be that weird. Also, genius, you coming up with her lower half as a lionfish that's perfect! Imagine her singing in an underwater cavern and her fins are like fans that add to her "dress." The rest of the toons are tropical reef fish, sharks, octopuses, crabs, lobsters, rays and various anemones and nudibranchs!

Also I think Eddie would be named Edmar and in his past he was a sort of undersea mediator, like a detective who complies and upholds with the laws of merpeople. He has a walrus or maybe sea lion's tail and was having quite a nice time living on an island near the surface before he was called down to the depths again. He hates actually going down there...a deep sea fish killed his brother. His seal wife Delores comes to bring him food and accompany him and try and coax him back into the water but to no avail. Until a rabbit fish comes looking for help. A fish has murdered a merman. Not hunted him...murdered in cold blood. This is very serious. So Edmar has to brave his fears and venture down there to help solve the mystery.

I love all of this! Especially how you included Eddie and Dolores. I'm an absolute sucker for content of those two being the couple ^^

I also like how Benny is a stingray/eagle ray! Kinda like Mr. Ray from finding Nemo. Maybe he let's the little fish ride him ^^ and I definitely want to see Baby Herman puff up in iritation XD

Also Jessica being a mermaid too despite being a toon is actually kinda genius. While making the film, to make sure all the actors would be able to look like they were actually looking at toons and not just air, they made little dummies of the toons. Except for Jessica, who had a human actress stand in her place. So Jessica did have a shot at being a human technically XD and here, she's a mermaid right along side the rest of the merfolk.

[mudgeondungeon]

Herman Merman