#jule verne

[feeshies]

too early to make assumptions, but the fact that disney is rewriting captain nemo's backstory in their upcoming series so he steals his submarine from the english instead of building it himself feels gross to me

[prokopetz]

Okay, so: in early drafts of Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo is a Polish guy bent on revenge against the Russian Empire for the murder of his family in the January Uprising. Verne's editor objected on the grounds that Russia was a French ally at the time of the book's writing, and in the actual, published version of the story, Nemo's national origin and precisely which empire he's pissed off at are left unspecified.

Later, in the 1875 quasi-sequel The Mysterious Island, Nemo is retconned as an Indian noble out for revenge against the British for the murder of his family in the Indian Rebellion of 1857 – basically the same as the original plan, simply substituting a different uprising and a different empire. Verne's editor raised no objections this time around, because fuck the British, right? Though Twenty Thousand Leagues and The Mysterious Island aren't 100% compatible in their respective timelines, this version of Nemo has customarily been back-ported into adaptations of Twenty Thousand Leagues ever since.

Now here's the funny part: perhaps as a jab at his editor, Verne made a specific plot point in Twenty Thousand Leagues of Professor Aronnax repeatedly trying and failing to figure out where the fuck Nemo is from. At one point his attempt to pin down Nemo's accent is frustrated by Nemo's vast multilingualism. At another point, he tries and fails to trick Nemo by quizzing him about latitude and longitude.

(To contextualise that last bit, at the time the book was written, there was no international agreement on which line of longitude should be zero degrees, and many nations had their own prime meridians; Aronnax hoped to identify Nemo's national origin by calculating which meridian he was giving his longitudes relative to. Nemo, however, immediately spots the ploy, and announces that he'll use the Paris meridian in deference to the fact that Aronnax is a Frenchman.)

The upshot is that at no point in the course of any of this Sherlock Holmes bullshit does Aronnax ever bring up the colour of Nemo's skin as a potential clue. In light of the book's publication history, this is almost certainly simply because Verne hadn't decided that Nemo was Indian yet. However, taking into account The Mysterious Island's retcon, it retroactively makes Aronnax the least racist Frenchman ever.

[weirdlookindog]

"Un de ces longs bras glissa par l’ouverture"

Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Long Arm Glided

Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870

[vintagegeekculture]

Jules Verne's striking tomb in Amiens shows him breaking out from his own grave and reaching to the sky, a sign of his immortality. Sculptor Albert Roze used Verne's own death mask to make the statue's face.

[20kmemesunderthesea]

In honor of Forduary.

[originalartblog]

More tiny guests!! both requests and some I just thought of! I absolutely had to make Gab and Wells when someone asked for them

Gently handing them to you be nice to them (NO chewing)

(asks and animal choice ↓)

@fandomrouletteburrito, @rachi-roo, thank you! <3

Gab is a sea otter for: sea, floats, has special rock (island), needed friends not to lose himself, breaks open shells

Wells is a puma/cougar because of 'The Island of Doctor Moreau' by HG Wells (it's medical horror so watch out) for the puma-woman hybrid that killed Dr Moreau.

Yosano is a honey badger (please look at this video, warning for swearing) because they're metal as fuck and don't die from poison.

Atsushi. I tried to make him something else but I couldn't think of anything good and he had a whole arc about accepting the tiger. I let him have this one.

Ranpo is cat for Fukuzawa's sake (warning: this might actually make Fukuzawa explode)

Fukuzawa might hold the "lone wolf" title, but he's also the chill guy who has taken in all the other ADA members. He gets capybara'd.

Mori is a chipmunk here because we were talking about how they actually are omnivores and then I found this picture and couldn't stop laughing. Sometimes I'm shallow like that. (I'm open to suggestions for more fitting mammals with a matching Elise if you have one jhsdgfhjh)

and Sigma is a rabbit because he's nervous and jumpy yet fierce and inexplicably just has that vibe 🐇

[tomoleary]

John Berkey (1932-2008) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne book cover (1970) Source

[mobilislnmobile]

A quick comic strip I made some years ago. I've never really tried comics. For a long time I thought it would be too difficult for me ! How silly I was, this way to tell stories is the best one ever. :')

My story Libertatem is not about 20K, but it fills the blanks before and AFTER 20k :) But I wanted to illustrate a scene from the book, just to challenge myself first, with a part of the story which is not mine :)

Since then, my designs changed a little bit, especially Pf Arronax.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔄𝔩𝔭𝔥𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔢 𝔡𝔢 𝔑𝔢𝔲𝔳𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔢

[dinosaurgiantpenny]

Tom Scioli's done it again!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

[diana-andraste]

Kraken holding a sailor, Alphonse de Neuville and Edouard Riou, 1856-1885

Illustration from Jules Verne's Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers

[a-book-of-creatures]

Pittonaccio, the infernal clockmaker who winds up the Sun.

From Maitre Zacharius (Master Zacharius), one of Jules Verne’s forays into Hoffmannesque fantasy.

[weirdlookindog]

"Le poulpe brandissait la victime comme une plume"

Alphonse de Neuville (1835-1885) - Brandishing it's Victim

Illustration from Jules Verne's "Twenty thousand leagues under the sea", 1870

[nevver]

Around the Moon, Émile-Antoine Bayard (Ill.)

[20kmemesunderthesea]

Out-of-Context "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" Quotes to Put on Shirts:

-> "To be frank, I think that we're seeing things here that God wished to hide from man's eyes."

-> “Terrible avenger, a perfect archangel of hatred.”

-> “I declare it is easy to lead a snail's life.”

-> “I will not be eaten without protest!”

-> “The human mind enjoys impressive visions of unearthly creatures.”

-> “This precious carnivore, hunted and tracked by fishermen, is becoming extremely rare."