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ocean man take me by the hand

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there are many benefits to being a marine biologist

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Some more Nemo drawings from the vault 💕 I post a lot more random Nemo doodles on the patreon of you want a peek

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I need to be stopped!!! And I need to find then a ship name (better than nemonax)

(edit : ok so it will become “Submarine Lover”! thanks for the help of @sparksearcher <3)

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Anatoly Itkin’s illustrations for Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

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had a very dear friend over for fried shrimp the other night, which meant another chance to talk someone’s ear off about how much i enjoyed this book and can’t stop thinking about it. i don’t think i swayed them but it was worth a shot!

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I’m COMING OVER U Better NOT Be Romanticizing Your Melancholic Solitude!

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posting on tumblr is like chumming the ocean except instead of pulverized fish meat it’s shitposts about victorian-era literature and instead of hungry waterfowl and sharks you’re luring in a strange assortment of content-starved geeks. anyway captain nemo please DM me immediately 

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⚓️ The Hierophant/Captain Nemo from the Literary Tarot

Jules Verne’s enigmatic hero Prince Dakkar, better known by his chosen alias Captain Nemo, takes the place of the Hierophant - a card occasionally also referred to as the Teacher.  @publishinggoblin, who acted as one of the deck’s tarot consultants and wrote the pairing for this card, interprets it as a card of a connection between mundane humanity and something larger than ourselves: in Captain Nemo’s case, “a mortal connection to the divine depths […] a place as as alien and Supreme as the heavens.”

Upright, the Hierophant indicates following established processes and structures larger than one’s self. As captain, Nemo is the unequivocal ruler of life of board his submarine, the Nautilus; and he himself is guided by the rigid structures of scientific principles in his own inventions. Reversed, the Hierophant is a card of defiantly throwing off the shackles of convention, and independence Captain Nemo reflects in his self-imposed isolation, determined to leave behind the cruelties of imperialism in the world above: “The sea doesn’t belong to tyrants. […] Here alone do I find independence! Here I recognize no superiors! Here I’m free!”

I loved illustrating this card! The underwater lighting, blues, and various scientific-seeming instruments were immensely fun. Captain Nemo stands before a porthole, illustrating his separation from the world above; his crew gather before him to carry out his orders, signifying his position as the Nautilus’ highest authority. I am a little disappointed we didn’t use a draft with the pipe organ he built into his submarine (!) but on the other hand I got to keep the giant squid.

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Chapters: 4/? Fandom: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers | Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas - Jules Verne Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Captain Nemo/Professor Pierre Aronnax, Nemo/Pierre Characters: Captain Nemo, Professor Pierre Aronnax, Ned Land, Conseil Additional Tags: Post-Canon Summary:

This picks up exactly where the novel left off. It is not a short work. It is complicated, like them! There is separation, pining, learning, challenge. This originated on tumblr, there you will find the blog Mare Liberum by pelagicnemo, dedicated to this story, and to all who care about them. And a place for those who want to hang out and meet others of like mind.

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Grimpoteuthis

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Please do not wreck it. Please do not wreck it. Please do not wreck it…

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I have never related to an article headline so much.

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Nautilus Things Cause I’m Weird

And I love the idea of the crew having a lot of inside jokes

“Have you ever seen a crab this big?” “Well have you ever seen a crab THIS big?” *progressively space hands wider and wider apart until the person you’re speaking to says there’s no such thing as a crab That Big and then hit them with a photo of a Japanese Spider Crab*

Keeping score of who can come the closest to hugging Nemo. If you can get close enough to touch him, that’s 5 points. If you can briefly put your arm around his shoulder, that’s 20 points. An actual hug is 50 points but those are rare

Using the Underwater Camera for taking pictures of the other guys being dumb

Mermaid Hunt

 “*mythical sea creature* is real and it’s my boyfriend”

There’s no official marriage ceremony aboard the ship so the crew just makes up different ones for every wedding they conduct. Also at one point they all decided to “officially” marry Nemo as a joke, except they didn’t tell Nemo, so Nemo has 25+ secret husbands that he doesn’t know about

They rename all the constellations after sea creatures

Except the ones that are already named after sea creatures which they name after their pets from back in their old lives

Speaking of pets, they have a mascot. It’s a lobster. Its name is Boris. No one is allowed to cook Boris for dinner

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I realize this is my third one now so feel free to cut me off but...15, Nemo/Aronnax?

Okay so I AM going to write the other two (I have ideas for them, and one is partially written already) but this one just happened to get finished first so it’s the first to get posted!

And for the record I decided to do an AU Where Everything’s Good and They Reconcile And Get Married And Live A Long Happy Life Together because I needed that in my life thank you

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There was so much to do, every day. Charts of the ocean floor to catalog, new species to discover and known ones to learn the behavioral patterns and anatomy of in full detail, anomalies to uncover, lost ships to aid, unknown islands to explore, wrecks to mark down and case, crops to harvest, books to write, poems to read, songs to sing. Pierre woke up each day rested and excited for the next thing, and went to sleep every night by Nemo’s side, tired but content.

“But you must miss your home,” Nemo said to him one day when they were going over the notes they’d made on a new species of South Pacific oyster. “I know I do, at times.” It was a surprising admission, from a man who had so vehemently denied any ties to dry land in the past, as if cutting off the damage was the only way to keep it from festering.

“Not so much,” Pierre replied. “Sometimes, maybe. It was not the same as it had been, though, when I returned after my first voyage aboard the Nautilus. Paris no longer seemed the focal point of my universe. Instead, it seemed ordinary, and busy, and... small. If I had not ventured with you, I don’t think it ever would have seemed that way. But I did, and so it did.”

Nemo nodded quietly.

“The truth is, when I’m with you, I’m home,” Pierre said. “That’s just the whole of it. It isn’t the Nautilus. When you were away in Delhi for that short time, the Nautilus was only a ship to me. A comfortable ship and a wondrous one, but only that. And when we visited Paris, Newfoundland, Perth, and Calcutta together each one of those places felt like a joy to me. I could have settled down in any one of them with you and lived happily.”

“I don’t know that I could. Cities are too busy. Full of people,” Nemo squinted down at his notes. “I like to be in the company of friends. And you,” he said in a softer tone, glancing over at Pierre. “Particularly you.”

Pierre leaned over to kiss his cheek. “Good thing we found each other again, then, isn’t it?” And it had been perhaps a one in a million chance that threw them together not once but twice, but Pierre didn’t care if he tempted fate or not.

He had a home, and work he loved, and a whole ocean to explore, and a husband who was dearer to him than almost anyone.

He could not imagine asking for anything more.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)