#Life on Moby Dick

[thunderxfeather]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: One Piece Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Portgas D. Ace & Thatch Characters: Portgas D. Ace, Thatch (One Piece), Fushichou Marco | Phoenix Marco, Whitebeard Pirates Series: Part 7 of The Life on Moby Dick

Summary:

Ace hunted something unexpected that makes Thatch question what counts as prey for Ace.

[asukiess]

the whiteness of the whale (collab with @bittersweetresilience)

[bruhstation]

thank you for the enthusiasm for the human tugs on the last post! have more of them, and a bit of insight into the things they enjoy :]

[autumn--eliot]

I saw sperm whales today!!!!!

[itsawritblr]

Me editing.

[saranilssonbooks]

Watching those peaceful, almost dream-like deep sea documentaries are like sweet, sweet meditation to me. Imagining the narrator being Ishmael lends it a further layer of distinct charm.

[aira-tries-to-study]

beach day and moby dick

i've always wanted to read moby dick near the sea for the vibes or smth so i intentionally put off starting the book until i had my next trip to the beach. loved it! but i wanted to savor the book so i didn't speedrun it, and it is a really long book.

[wulfhalls]

they put my tiny baby boy to sleep today. they took him away from me he was my whole wide world and more without him I'd have killed myself thrice over in the last 8 years he was my everything he was so good and loving and sometimes so endearingly stupid and headstrong and lazy he loved his little boxies and scratches behind his ears and he let me hold his paw but hated when I did it to his tiny feeties he is the very best boy there ever was and idk how to exist in a world without him in it he used to follow me from room to room like a dumb idiot tiny dog and even when I was so depressed I didn't think I'd get out of bed he was always there always making me feel not alone and now he's gone. those are the last pictures I took of my idiot baby boy in his boxy. I just wanted someone to know that I love him more than the whole wide world and I'll never not miss him and that i love him and love him and love and everywhere I look is a place he isn't anymore and it makes me wanna end it all. I love you so much forever

[mymedley]

€500,000 worth of Ambergris found in the intestines of a beached sperm whale of the Canary islands

"In one of his many digressions in Moby-Dick, the novelist Herman Melville dedicates an entire chapter to ambergris, which he describes as 'soft, waxy, and so highly fragrant and spicy, that it is largely used in perfumery … Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale! Yet so it is!'"

[crowleysgirl56]

Having just spent 5 months reading this monstrosity of a book I am now convinced the demon that possessed Melville was in fact Crowley.

Aziraphale, so appalled with Crowley’s antics opens up a bookshop in protest in order to get people to love literature again.

My own personal headcanon is Moby Dick is the only book that Aziraphale is willing to sell.

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

"For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half–known life."

— Herman Melville, Moby–Dick; or, The Whale, 1851

[twofoursixohjuan]

Ahab, as a conversation starter: Hast seen the White Whale?

the Bachelor in real life: hey man how's it going?

[mobydyke]

once you open your heart to moby dick it will seem to appear in all parts of your life. this is misleading. it has always been there, you just haven't been looking.

[classics-cocks-and-concoctions]

As a reader I find captain ahab wholly more relatable than Ishmael

Yeah yeah suicidal tendencies and info dumping, all that

but I used to play with my toys by naming the mother ones after my own mom and then subsequently killing them off in a brutal and drawn out manner

[saranilssonbooks]

Me back in the day, reading Moby-Dick for the first time: Sh*t, another Ahab monologue incoming, better pause to go fetch a bunch of handkerchieves.

Me now a day, rereading Moby-Dick for the [redacted] time: That Ahab monologue incoming today, better load up with a bunch of handkerchieves.

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

I forgot to promo this but for any and all folks on tumblr who were watching my descent into madness regarding the published moby dick fanfiction "Ahab's Wife" by Sena J. Naslund, I have compiled a book report of every single bullet point that infuriated and baffled me

Highlights include:

Lactation?

Load Bearing Sooty Loins

Not the Essex, but the Sussex. Which is the Essex. But no it's not.

The worst interpretation of Ahab i have genuinely ever seen

More racism than a book published in 1851, yes it's that bad

Sometimes girls marry their fellow cannibalism survivors?🤔 to cope?🤔

The Dick Pocket.

And much more :)

definitely note the content warnings at the top of the document, but I hope my suffering through this novel continues to bring horrified amusement to any who witness it. godbless