#quishmael

[szyszkasosnowa]

Ishmael and Quequeg in Moby Dick (2011)

[mr-culper]

never in my life would I have thought I would ship a canonically married couple, a decent presbyterian and a kind cannibal pagan, who both involved in the whaling from a novel written in a biblical style in 1851

[string-star-lights]

my office has these nice pens i’m planning on stealing

[shranstan]

Moby Dick Modern AU

Captain Ahab isn't actually a captain but instead a professor in the marine biology department. He does, however, answer to "captain" instead of "professor", and will never call the captain of the ship he is currently on the captain.

Ahab is obsessed with the white whale in that he's been trying to put a GPS tracker on it for years but it always fails someway. Moby Dick is such a distinctive whale, and he really really wants to study it, but it just keeps getting away or moving at the last moment so that the suction cup gps doesn't stick...

The Pequod is a research vessel owned by Ahab's university, Starbuck is the actual captain, but is called the first mate by Ahab because.. Ahab is Ahab. So, the others started calling him that, too.

Ishmael is also a marine biologist by trade however because of his controvertial opinion (whales are fish! most species we consider fish aren't that closely related anyways! it's a description of ecological, not genetic, importance! so whales should be considered fish, too!) he has been largely shunned/considered of no importance in the scientific community. He teaches biology at a highschool instead.

Ishmael is also a trans man. That is also canon to Herman's novel but I need to underline it here bc naming yourself basically "Is-male" is such a funny joke.

Ishmael signs himself up for a research cruise under the guise of not being a biologist but a simple sailor - this ruse is discovered incredibly quickly (it only takes one infodump).

Pip is one of those brilliant kids who skip 5 grades. He's 16 and in the final year of writing his bachelor's thesis. Ahab is his supervisor.

Queequeg is the ship's chief engineer, making him 3rd most important person on the ship (after the captain and first mate; source: my childhood bff's father was one) and also making him a lot of money. The university's usual chief engineer was unavailable and Ishmael was hyped to get his hubby on the same expedition as him.

Speaking of, Ishmael and Queequeg met at a motel in Vegas, got high, cuddled all night, and then got married the next day.

Queequeg usually works on all sort of ships, spending a couple months home with Ishmael and then doing engineering for the next couple months away on the sea.

Tashtego is working on his master's in marine biology and unfortunatelly Ahab's his supervisor same as Pip except Ahab loves Pip's ideas but hates Tashtego's

Daggoo is on a scientific exchange from a university from his home country, he's just a researcher (as in, doesn't study or teach)

Fedallah is there even though he's like. Completely unrelated to marine biology. He's like a professional olympic-level archer but Ahab forged his papers to bring him aboard so that he can finally put that tracker on the Moby Dick.

The rest of the crew are a combo of researchers and regular sailor folk who are, y'know, needed for the ship to function as a ship.

Pip falls into the ocean multiple times while trying to take samples but is saved quickly every time. They just force him to essentially wear buoy marker attached to him at all times in case he was submerged and unseen.

[mintyspacecadet]

I finally finished Moby Dick

[citr0nnade]

I wanna say hello to the fandom for the literary classic Moby Dick and pre-emptively apologise for the fact that the Limbus Company iteration of Queeshmael might invade ur spaces and I actually wanna open up diplomatic relations with you guys and ask if you have any requests as to how we should tag our queeshmael so you can block the tag (or just have it aside so it doesn't, you know, impede on the OG queeshmael tag, you get me)

should we tag it LCB Queeshmael? Do we do something else?

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digitally drawn photo of Queequeg and Ishmael from Moby-Dick, kissing. Ishmael is a lean white man with short, wavy blond hair and sideburns. He is wearing gray pants and a gold wedding band. Queequeg is a muscular Māori person with warm brown skin, short, curly hair in a top knot style, and many intricate tattoos over his face and body. He is wearing dark pants and a gold wedding band. Both are shirtless.

Ishmael is sitting on Queequeg's lap, with a hand on his face and the other on his chest. while Queequeg holds him with one hand on his neck and the other on his back. They are kissing each other with lips parted in tender smiles. End ID.]

sooooo this was partially inspired by finding an adaptation of MobyDick that refered to these two as friends rather than a canonically married couple lmfao and I Needed to draw them being gay about it. congrats to the canon homosexuals in mobydick

anyways. this is what friends are for 😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖amen

[charaznablunt]

Happy Whale Weekly day! Now that you've read through chapter two, you can check out the first episode of Higgledy-Piggledy Whale Statements, a podcast companion to your Moby Dick journey! If Ishmael has whetted your appetite for obsessive nerd talk, consider listening to my and my BFF Ben's thoughts on his thoughts. I promise it will be either funny or informative, maybe even both 😄

You can find a link to the blog post here, an Overcast link here, an Apple Podcasts link here, and an RSS feed so you can get the show in any podcatcher right here!

[resident-dumb-fuck]

quishmael propaganda for @the-queer-classic-lit-ship-ever

sorry for the notification but.

i have slides

[szyszkasosnowa]

Ishmael and Queequeg in Moby Dick (2011)

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

y'know I've been spending an unreasonable amount of time going through collecting the lyrics of Kill The Whale (both from my own transcriptions, the live versions, and Daniel's official ones on reddit) with commentary and annotations and I think once I'm done with all of that im going to let myself fully palette cleanse and finally post my FULL glowing review of Hayashida's album because after the epic highs and lows of KTW and the musical reckoning, i need to address an album thats just Entirely good

[umarthiels]

#VOTE QUISHMAEL#samfro changed my life but i think quishmael deserves the W on account of being a) more classic and b) more queer#like genuinely the gayest classic lit bitches in the game canonically married and everything if they don’t win what’s the point

tags from @frodolives so true!! they've both got queerplatonic swag but let the dick guys win one thing!!! i love samfro but quishmael u-hauled it up, got Doomed together, and are the ogs! they INVENTED marriage!

finals

[string-star-lights]

you guys let me forget queequeg is canonically bald

[shranstan]

Ahab the protagonist, Ishmael the narrator.. we need to acknowledge the greatness of Peter Coffin the matchmaker. He really giggled all evening when Ish was getting nervous about meeting "his harpooneer", telling him exaggerated-and-not mysterious tales about Q. "the man whom you design for my bedfellow —a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree." and then saying haha have fun kicking around in the bed where we and my wife had our wedding night ;) wink wink. Every single sentence I have to assume Peter Coffin is grinning wildly and winking at Ish all the while Ish is anticipating and mildly daydreaming about who this harpooneer might turn out to be.. "Thinks I, I'll wait awhile; he must be dropping in before long. I'll have a good look at him then, and perhaps we may become jolly good bedfellows after all—there's no telling." Ish rn: umm 🥺👉👈 m-maybe the harpooneer will be like, super handsome and hot and we'll smooch haha what if amirite fellas. And Peter Coffin is like "oh boy ;) I'm sure you'll be very fond of each other in no time at all"

[unethicallypleistocene]

get to know me better tag game

Tagged by @sweetshire! Thank you, my friend!

three ships: cherik (against my will), samfro (with whom I ALSO oscillate between seeing as romantic or platonic) and quishmael.

first ship: god, probably johnlock from the bbc show. dark times.

last song: Torches by the Oh Hellos

last movie: haven't finished a movie too recently so I'll reference my ongoing Star Trek: The Next Generation watch-through.

currently reading: A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters.

currently eating: vegetable baos!

currently craving: thai tea, with a ton of ice that I can obnoxiously shake around with the straw.

open tags!

[prinsesa-ng-musika]

So I was thinking about Queeshmael and the significance of coffins to their arc:

Ish and Queequeg's first AND last interaction happen thanks to a coffin. their first interaction in the inn, thanks to a Coffin- Peter Coffin, to be exact, since he was the one who suggested that they share a room. Then of course their last interaction is Ishmael holding on to Queequeg's coffin at the end of the book, as if even in his last moments, Queequeg still managed to indirectly save Ishmael's life.

I dunno but it's some really cool book-ends for the two of them and also pretty cool foreshadowing thru the word/name "coffin".