#i started moby dick.....

[srapsodia]

on their way to kill the mobiest of dicks 🎣

[he-said-irene]

I finished the main section of The Counterpane!! It’s inspired by the “one warm ember in the heart of an arctic crystal” quote in Moby Dick (and the rest of the book too). The whale tail is appliqué but the modified snail trails at the bottom are pieced.

[elodieunderglass]

Do you have more Moby Dick: Modern Translation chapters anywhere that certain interested parties (me and everyone with taste) could read?

In reference to this translation of Moby Dick into insufferable modern idiom, in which Ishmael is suddenly shown up in a startling light as a person we’ve actually met and knew well but didn’t really like:

I’m sorry, I haven’t written any more of that! After chapter 1’s mad rush of energy, the book tackles more tricky, boring and unfunny content, including passages that are just uncomfortably problematic in any time; and, like, entire chapters about listening to a church sermon.

A line translation (and that is mostly a very faithful line translation! The only thing I regret not doing was perfectly capturing the fart joke!) apparently has a lot of educational value, and helps to reframe the whole novel. That’s worthy work! But i simply wouldn’t want to do a line translation on the next few chapters. My brain is picking daisies instead, already. I would say: “sorry, I’m abridging this for my own mental health. You’re eligible for a free refund.” In which case the educational value is negligible (you can just read the plot summary online. There’s a really big whale in it.)

Anyone else who wants to take a stab at it (FROM HELL’S HEART) would be welcome and I’ll gladly promote your efforts. It’s just. I am going

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- come here let me measure your head

[cctinsleybaxter]

I do like that Moby Dick is such a patchwork quilt of a book; I've seen people say the same of Catch-22 and i disagree i think it's more like pointillism or a magic eye picture, but Melville was just fucking out here. You can really see the seams and scraps of drafts that no longer fit the final story but are there anyway

[mossy-rainfrog]

69 and starbuck :)

[ID: A digital drawing of Starbuck from Moby Dick in The Musket chapter. The image shows the head of a whaling lance resting on a wood floor, and reflected in the shine of the lance is Starbuck with a musket drawn and pointed too the side, looking anguished. The wall behind the lance is carved and painted, portraying the Pequod caught in rough seas with lightning striking. Lyrics are written in teal along the neck of the lance, reading: "it twists the good in me". The image is painted primarily in warm browns, pinks, and oranges.

The next two pictures are closeups, one of Starbuck, and the other of the carving on the wall depicting the Pequod.

Character description: Starbuck is a lean white man with shoulder-length wavy red hair, a mustache, and many freckles. He is wearing an 1800s poet's shirt and cravat and trousers. End ID.]

the fray, the fretful harmonies, it twists the good in me...

69. Mahogany - aeseaes

first order up of the year!!! :D thank you so much, darling!!! 💙💙 i went insanely overboard for this composition lol. please enjoy starbuck at his lowest :) and with a quaker haircut :)

[vickyvicarious]

"No, no; stay on board, on board!—lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick. That hazard shall not be thine. No, no! not with the far away home I see in that eye!”

This entire chapter hurt, but Ahab seeing humanity and home in Starbuck and trying to keep him safe when they reach Moby Dick was especially heartbreaking. It echoes what happened with Pip, though he speaks more candidly to Starbuck. And the man almost reaches him, too, he almost gets Ahab to consider turning back.

Starbuck's struggle with Ahab and his decision to entreat him with humanity rather than violence (thinking again of that chapter where he considered killing him so they could all go home) is a really lovely arc too. I definitely think there's symbolism with Starbuck and Fedellah as representing different parts of/paths for Ahab. The final scene of today's chapter makes that pretty clear.

[ssaraexposs]

Bungo Stray Dogs // SHIN SOUKOKU // Episode 23 (pt.2)

[podcast-hoard]

i absolutely love that clint did research and sent griffin a copy of moby dick for their taz liveshow and griffin decided nah actually it’s funnier if i know nothing about this book

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

album anon here: i'm actually talking about "kill the whale" by daniel emond! i'm worried i've hyped it a bit too much as there are just some scenes with them together but it definitely is true and a very fun choice (among... other choices. but at least there's that)

OH?????? ANON I am dip kissing you. thank you so much anon you have made my entire evening. so excited to find out what the chaotic choices are and hear women 👀👀 any excuse to re-enter hyperfixation hell and become an english major again is a fantastic one

[zlukaka]

After hearing about it for decades, finally got into Warhammer by way of @higgsbison's amazing fan art and my ongoing addiction to Gloryhammer. Conveniently the factions of interest come colour-coded for my convenience: necrons and orks.

All my years of yearning for New Phyrexia praetor-centric content are finally being soothed by the old marriage nemeses skeletons. I must say, New Phyrexians are basically a combo of Necrons and Tyranids both in design and theme. Still visually sexier than either in its own right, buuuut ancient Egyptian skeleton robots are close enough, and Nate Crowley, that sly dog, writes a good metal skeleton book (and a good ork book too).

Jin-Gitaxias will always live rent free in a little edgy corner of my brain, he is my special pointy baby girl. But let's face it, Wizards never really gave him much of a personality (at least not in the supplemental stuff they published on their site). And Orikan is such a petty, vicious feline, I am happy enough.

So if you've been like 'Warhammer is a bunch of big dudes in power armor, not my thing' - let me tell you there's more than space marines out there, there's wacky green dudes, and they've got some real fun short novels about them!

[coquelicoq]

[bolts upright in the shower] i need to reorganize my bookshelves

[thenineofus]

gee, I can't believe this, I'm a parody of myself

[wulfhalls]

15 pages into the age of innocence like: may welland get behind me!!!!!

[kinsbluestars]

I don't think I've ever been so possessed by a book before

[talesofwhimsy]

I'm 100 pages into Moby Dick and they just got on the goddamn boat

This book actually kinda fucks hard it's great?

[pasdetrois]

one of the many devastating components of moby dick's epilogue is its brevity. this tome of a novel that has discussed every fathomable aspect of the vessel and those it hunts, and it ends with a solitary paragraph in which ishmael quietly reveals his survival only after the drama is done. this seaborn(e), self named orphan (who asks us to call him such from the first line!), not yet able to weave the epitaphs that will cut the tapestry loose from the loom..