#but mobi :(((

[anthonycrowley]

he’s the moment

[redacted-metallum]

I need to [remembers I shouldn't make suicide jokes] join a whaling crew

[captmuldoon]

wait a second -

MOBY BARBIE??? IN MY BARBIE MOVIE????

[hotcinnamonsunset]

a whale of a good time🐋

[cardinalvalentino]

ok im really curious do you guys have books you consider your "white whale"? as in books you keep telling yourself oh yeah i really want to read that, but you keep not reading it?

[ashipwreckcoast]

i could, in theory, buy a tofu press

[dzgrizzle]

[my-name-is-not-kimmy]

[calvinandhobbes]

[plaguedocboi]

I still think about the time months ago I was advertised a book that was being marketed as a “queer horror retelling of Moby Dick” like. Girl. I don’t think you have any business “retelling” a story if you clearly don’t even know what the original story was about.

[anthonycrowley]

the blog killing axolotl is one of my favorite things that has ever happened on this website because talking about it afterwards sounds like an inside joke or perhaps a prank. like always be on the lookout for the blog killing axolotl. he can kill your blog. it happened to me once trust me.

[areax]

“ugh why is moby-dick so long”

ishmael is telling you a story about how all his friends died and how he was the sole survivor of the disaster, why wouldn't he want to delay getting to that point of the story as long as possible?

the odyssey

the length of the book parallels the long amounts of time that whalers were away from home with long periods of boredom punctuated few and far between by brief bouts of frenzied action

you don't like cetology? whalelore? kys

since when have you ever complained about a dick being long. ungrateful

[iphigeniacomplex]

making up a guy to get mad at can actually be really lovely and rewarding like for example i was feeling understimulated so i crafted an alternate world where moby dick was super popular on tumblr and the most popular ship from moby dick was ahab x humanized whaleboy merguy moby dick who was always drawn as like a skinny little white guy with white hair and sharp teeth and sort of unusual eyes like maybe with black scleras or something. and it was literally inescapable and people made like hannigram aus where will was ahab and hannibal was moby dick and people also made human!boatless!modern! aus of ahab x moby dick where they were just like normal guys as well. and the moby dick fandom all thought they were so cool and countercultural because melville's unfinished novella billy budd was also really popular and the billy budd fans were at odds with the moby dick fans because billy budd fans described it as like a heartfelt queer story in comparison to moby dick being toxic and soulless (because ahab was trying to kill moby dick in canon) and moby dick fans described billy budd as basically steven universe but none of this ended up mattering because in four years the meteors came and all life on earth was lost

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[dardargnan]

[lascitasdelashoras]

Merry whales in the log of the ship Susan, kept by Reuben Russell. Nantucket Historical AssociationPublic Domain

[extraordinary-heroes]

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