#the castaway

[draconicdeityarts]

Thinking about bad endings.

[adventurelandia]

The Castaway (1931)

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

still thinking about The Castaway and subsequent songs 'Pip' and 'The Squall' on Daniel Emond's KTW album. thinking about how he missed probably one of the easiest opportunities he had to actually critique the fucking book😭

if his real intention with this album was "Moby Dick but it actually addresses the in-text racism and more explicitly condemns it", he could have EASILY had the castaway end with Queequeg and Pip pointing out how callous and horrifying it was to have Stubb narrate what happened to Pip as if she didn't cause it, as if Stubb didn't boast about leaving her to die and then follow through with it. Stubb's lyric of "Can you see God's foot on the loom?" could have been followed with "and you'd like to think yourself God, wouldn't you?"

for a song that has a whole section where Queequeg talks about "bigots running wild", it's actually insane that the narrative entirely removes Stubb of blame and makes what happened to Pip an accident, and then gives Stubb a sillygoofy solo song about living life as a musical RIGHT AFTER Pip's ballad about losing her identity and nearly her life.

Pip doesn't even get to speak about what happened to her. In fact, it's removed from the album ENTIRELY and only in the live version are we told that Pip nearly drowned because a squid grabbed her. 🙄

As a tangent, sooooo many adaptations put work into making Stubb sympathetic, or at least less racist, less gleefully sadistic, and for what! so the audience can comfortably relate to the white men in power? so we can focus on blaming Ahab as the single point of tragedy instead of acknowledging that the entire whaling industry is full of horrible fucked up people? that's literally ishmael's whole point in book; that the higher you go in the whaling hierarchy, the whiter and crueler it gets. Hell, in real life, the officers on whaleships were KNOWN for terrorizing their crews bloody; it was even encouraged!! that's one of the unique things about mobydick – that Ahab and Starbuck are less violent by FAR than their real life counterparts.

Stubb is not!!! Starbuck actively has to order Stubb to stop beating a crewmate at one point!!!! Stubb is not anyone's fucking friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't get it. why do people need him to be blameless so bad. he leaves a child to drown EXPLICITLY because his body is worth less than a whale's. how does anyone engage with that section of text and not go "yeah this guy is fucking evil and should be treated as such"???

[valkerymillenia]

Hi! Just wanted to say I have read the castaway again and enjoyed it so much, thank you for the amount of detail and care you put into it, it's one of my favorite fics an you really contributed a lot to this ship.

Actually, it inspired me to create a new story, (there's no Amorra yet because it's really slow but it's gonna be eventually lmao), so, once again, thank you so much! It is so good and I hope to make a good job as you did!

Thank you, I'm glad that after all these years there are still people finding and loving this story.

I write for other fandoms now and I've gotten much better (and more unhinged) at it but I still hope to one day get enough inspiration back to give "Castaway" a proper ending.

I'm so happy that you were inspired and as long as you write with passion in sure your fic will be amazing too.

❤️💙

[tills-poetry-wednesday]

Poetry Wednesday - Episode 9

Derek Walcott - Missing the Sea

(The Castaway, 1965)

[lezkissgifs]

Castaways (2023) dir. Ilyssa Goodman

[myjetpack]

This week’s cartoon for Guardian Books.

[nimbusclan]

I wanted to pay homage to a handful of the blogs that inspire me, so I drew my favorite cats from each!

I didn't realize how many white/gray cats were my favs 'til I started coloring this... I guess I have a type. It was really fun to color this, though - it really expresses how different all of their coats are!

I DID realize that many of my favorites are the nonverbal and/or stoic ones, lmao.

This was so much fun for me! It was a great opportunity to play around with shapes and faces and appearances. I'll definitely do this again in the future!

In order of appearance:

Rivercall, from @castaway-clan

Puddle, from @sporeclan

Cranedance, from @chasing-faith-and-fate

Erminepaw, from @loudclan-clangen

Sharktail, from @rookclan

and Milkfur, from @ranchclan

If you're tagged in this and you don't want to be, shoot me a message and I'll untag you!

[oiulse]

baxter had to go back to cali :(

anywyas i saw this meme and i laughed so loud my chest hurt

[averagepikminenthusiast]

If you think about it, theres a chance this is canon in the pikmin universe..

[draconicdeityarts]

My au Olimar. At least he hasn’t lost his sense of humor???

[gamebunny-advance]

Some skrunkly Oatchis from the official Pikmin comic.

Bonus mamuta bugging out their eyes 'cus i think it's funny but I don't feel like posting it by itself.

[kunimilktea]

Revamped koris wedding dress so i drew them getting married again LOL

heres the old version if anyone else remembers it 👍👍👍

[valkerymillenia]

hi! ive been a silent reader of the castaway for couple of years!

you probably have answered this before, but i was wondering if you are finished with it? because on ao3 its says that there are still some chapters missing but you also havent updated in like four years. so i was just wondering if its finished or not. but regardless thank you for your amazing work <3

Hi!

I actually haven't updated in much longer than that, the original fic is on FF.net, I just cross-posted to AO3 more recently (which is why the original has thousands upon thousands of comments and the AO3 version has none). My writing style has also improved immensely since Castaway.

As for if I'm done with it... The thing is still have more planned for it, I have the whole ending in my head, but I haven't had the motivation or inspiration for LoK fics in a while (still love it but I'm hyper fixating on different fandoms these days, I'll probably circle back eventually).

So while I don't know when I'll go back to it, I would like to finish it some day. I just can't promise when. I'm so sorry.

[venomous-qwille]

[admirerofmeat2398]

Tommy Winkler on Castaway Cay in the Bahamas.