#Herman Melville

[shear-in-spuh-rey-shuhn]

GERARD DUBOIS Moby Dick

[prokopetz]

Everything Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is absolute bullshit, and everything that Tumblr has told you about Moby-Dick is 100% true. It’s a travelogue fantasy. It’s proto-science fiction. It’s cosmic horror. It’s shockingly original and it’s shamelessly plagiaristic. It’s a misotheistic Christian parable in which the whale is the mask of a cruel, uncaring God and Ahab is Satan himself, not as trickster or as tempter, but as doomed hero. It’s the most gripping thing you’ll ever read. It’s boring as shit. But above all else – and I cannot emphasise this enough – it is filled with Facts About Whales.

[thatrandomblogsays]

Dracula Daily first email:

Vs Whale Weekly Second Email

**edit! It seems some of you would like to follow whale weekly without having to read Moby dick (understandable, Ishmael never shuts the fuck up) I will be making an abridged version a La memes for those friends! Follow #whale weekly memenotes & #moby dick memenotes get it? Like spark notes? to stay updated!

[calvinandhobbes]

The drama’s done. Why then here does any one step forth?—Because one did survive the wreck.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Ch. 1) // Franz Wright, “Empty Stage” // Gregg Araki, “Nowhere” (1997) // Gwendolyn Brooks, Selected Poems // Ana Mendieta, “Silueta Series” (1976) // Hieu Minh Nguyen, "My First” // The Gibsons of Scilly, “The Minnehaha” (1874) // Herman Melville, Moby-Dick (Epilogue) // Euan MacLeod, Figure in Sea above Figure on Hill, 2002 // Ilya Glazunov, Wave, 1987

[destructorkitten]

[tintin-official]

redditor on whether herman melville was gay

[derangedrhythms]

—your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours

Herman Melville, from a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne c. 17th November 1851

[dzgrizzle]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Moby Dick (1956)

[sissiarte]

Some Ishmael and Queequeg sketches of actual scenes that happen in this book and I'm insane about. I kid you not with how gay this book is.

[jadedanddark]

Oh you like whales? Name every whale.

Herman Melville: *deep breath*

[cappychino]

Fav part of chapter one was when Ishmael said “ITS WHALIN’ TIME” and started knocking people’s hats off

[prokopetz]

I get the district impression that a lot of folks did not heretofore fully appreciate what was meant when Moby-Dick is politely described as "discursive".

[pocketsizedquasar]

hello @whaleweekly and whale weekly fans!! welcome to moby dick!!!! i hope y’all enjoyed the first chapter of ishmael going “fuck im depressed im gonna go walk into the ocean”

for the past couple of years i’ve been working on a webcomic adaptation of moby dick. it looks a little something like this:

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moby dick: or, the webcomic is a qtpoc-written (that’s me) adaptation of moby dick, trying to remain faithful to the spirit of the original story while also engaging with melville’s (always very conscious, sometimes excellent, sometimes poor) treatment of race & racism. it’s also very queer (like, of course, the OG book!). i have been working on this project for a couple of years now and it is my pride and joy; i’ve poured a lot of love into her. & id really love for y’all to come along and love this story as much as i do, through the lovely project over at whale weekly or through the comic.

i’ve got a good amount of backlog up, so if you want to read along the webcomic too as whale weekly continues to update, please come check it out! link is in my bio; updates with a new page every friday! (currently on a holiday break). you can find her at mobydick-thecomic.com

and just for fun, here’s some more snippets of what she looks like

thank you for reading! rb’s are always appreciated 💖

[illustration-alcove]

Rockwell Kent’s illustrations for Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick.

[clockheartedcrocodile]

Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville’s Novels [Caleb Crain, American Literature, 1994]