#weekly paper

[thedragonspaper]

Edition #2

[sentienttoastah]

Oh I can’t buy a whale model okay I’ll just

Paper moby. Paper dick. Aw yeah.

Alright he’s kinda silly looking but he’s trying his best okay? Look at him next to that toy boat. My boyo.

Made this out of pure spite and boredom using the powers of leftover A4 paper, scissors, tape, two popsicle sticks and listening to “Dream sweet in sea major” for hours on loop occasionally switched with Mili’s “Compass” cause y’know, to fit the whole Moby Mood.

I think we should all make paper whales they’re so much fun.

[pianokantzart]

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[anony-geist]

Melville himself apparently thought of Moby-Dick as a man's book and wrote to one of his female friends, Sara Moorehead, to dissuade her from reading it for fear of offending her feminine sensibilities: "Dont you buy it—dont even read it, when it does come out, because it is by no means the sort of book for you. It is not a piece of fine, feminine, Spitalfield silk—but is of the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ship's cables and hausers.[2]" When Sophia Hawthorne wrote to Melville praising the book, his response was one of astonishment: "I have hunted up the finest Bath I could find, gilt-edged and stamped, whereon to inscribe my humble acknowledgment of your highly flattering letter of the 29th of Dec:—It really amazed me that you should find any satisfaction in that book. It is true that some men have said they were pleased with it but you are the only woman—for as a general thing, women have small taste for the sea.[3]" "Next time," Melville tells Sophia, he shall not send her a "bowl of salt water. . . . The next chalice I shall commend, will be a rural bowl of milk." He then inquires politely about the state of her "domestic affairs."[4] Melville's remarks to these women suggest that he was working under certain gender-determined notions of genre.

Content warning: This book contains the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ship's cables and hausers.

I don't think it's just something period-typical because it implies it now isn't, gender-determined notions of genre are still a thing around the world.

I do feel that in Moorehead's place, I'd have gone WELL NOW I'M GONNA. It's funny to me that in general the boys in my American Literature class would comment things like how it's mostly boring or about how this is about the national identity of a young country, meanwhile girls would pipe in about multiple facets.

Amerilit girlies: I have so much to say about Moby Dick!

Herman: absolutely flabbergasted

[wtfforged]

i was supposed to post these ummm. whenever i did that poll eons ago. but then i didnt because i was ❤️ shy ❤️. so im dumping them all now

[capitainressentiment]

Part 34

[vladdyissues]

[ratatatastic]

"you wanna cherish every single moment until they kick me out of florida for the summer" sweetheart this place is never gonna kick you out im afraid lmao theyll drag you kicking and screaming back here whether you want them to or not

this place has fallen such in love with you people out of town arrived at the canes from 6am, hotels near the parade area are fully booked out and some people are planning to camp for barricade the night before the parade... yeah...

CBS Sports | 6.27.24 (x)

[vaccariia]

Rosawatts flavored doodles are on the menu today

[jesters-in-wonderland]

Inside you there are two dims

Aka hes giving me an artstyle crisis

[dollofdeath]

catching up on whale weekly

[thedragonspaper]

Edition #7

[quick-catton]

thinking about felix getting a paper cut or scrape and oliver reflexively darting his tongue out to lick up the blood when he goes to help him put a band–aid on it, like it's second nature

maybe not even realizing he's done it until he finishes with the band–aid and looks up at felix and felix looks like he's just been flashbanged

the collective oh shit moment they both have for different reasons

[daily-amber]

Day 139: many ambers

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[pinetree-poet]

WEDNESDAY'S WEEKLY POETRY PROMPTS: 8/21/24 ~ YOU'RE SO GOOD

YOU’RE SO GOOD © 2024 - G. Smith (BMI) =================== You’re so good; You’re so kind. You’re so, so close, Not hard to find. You’re so merciful, I’m so blind. You’re so good, You’re so kind.

You’re so loving, You’re so much more, You’re so, so giving, I’m so, so poor. You’re so ready to share, What You have in store, You’re so, loving, You’re so much more.

I stumble and tumble, I wander in shame, Yet You stand at the gate, And You call me by name. You refresh my soul, When I’m weak and I faint; Despite myself, I’m an accidental saint.

You’re so good, May all my days, Be in Your service, Giving You praise. You’re so, so worthy, I’m so, so amazed, You’re so good, In so many ways, You’re so good, Blessing all my days.