#moby dick fic

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digital, full-body illustration of Captain Ahab kneeling over Starbuck and kissing him on the face. Starbuck is kneeling to meet him, sinking into the embrace with his head tipped back and mouth open in a rapturous expression. Ahab’s prosthetic leg is positioned between Starbuck’s thighs, and in turn Starbuck has one hand braced on Ahab’s thigh. Ahab cups Starbuck’s face in a hand, and holds the back of his neck with the other, dipping beneath his shirt. Golden halos circle both of their heads, and everywhere the two are touching, there is a warm glow. The background is a warm brown.

Character designs: Ahab is a chubby Arab man with short curly greying dark hair, a pointed beard, dark body hair, and several scars across his face and body. He is shirtless, but wearing dark pants, and has a white pegleg prosthetic below his left knee. Starbuck is a lean white man with short red hair, a short mustache, and many freckles. He wears a white shirt with the buttons undone, exposing his chest, as well as dark pants. Both characters are barefoot. End ID.]

happy friday everyone, I spent the last two weeks feverishly working two jobs while studying for a state insurance exam and the #1 thing that got me through that mess was thinking about these two

so much so, in fact, that I wrote an entire 2k fic about them and blasphemy and the concept of homoeroticism as a divine sacrament 👍 you guys should read it

character designs (and fic concepts), as always, from the delightfully enabling @pocketsizedquasar :33

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Chapters: 1/1

Words: 11,234

Fandom: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Starbuck/Mary Starbuck/Original Female Character(s), Captain Ahab/Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Mary Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Original Male Character(s), (it's a polycule but it's mid-expansion and also during the 1840s so it's a bit messy, but they're working it out) - Relationship

Characters: Starbuck, Mary Starbuck, Starbuck's Son, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Captain Ahab (mentioned)

Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Polyamory, Polyamorous Character, Polyamory Negotiations, Queer Awakening, Bittersweet, Depressed Starbuck (Moby Dick), Hurt/Comfort, Alcohol, cowboy, Brief Sexual Content, Starbuck is a sad wet cat who sucks and I like him so much

Summary: The sea has taken all that Starbuck has ever known: his father, his brothers, his wish for a peaceful future with the woman he loves. Now, he fears, it has taken his only friend as well.

He misses Ahab, so much that it is sending him spiraling away from all his known lovings and comforts. He misses Ahab, so much that he would do anything to feel that even a piece of him is still here. He misses Ahab, and he burns. Oh, how he burns.

Or: The Cowboy Fic :3

special thanks to @pocketsizedquasar for getting me into MD, as usual, but also for putting up with me talking abt this fic for months, as well as beta reading it for me, and for @comfycouchcat who helped me with some LOAD bearing plot and character decisions <3

[greypetrel]

Some illustrations I made last year, following Herman Melville's 100% true, so accurate descriptions of whales he shared in Moby Dick.

And by the way on this matter I also wrote a little thing to be continued...

Tagging @shivunin because she gave me the idea, @salsedinepicta because she actually was the one that convinced me to read Moby Dick and I can't thank you enough 💜🐳, and @melisusthewee because hi Mel there's a right whale!

[tamaotomoe]

how ya doin folks. we'll all be alright. happy fishmael friday :)

[innitmarvellous]

Why didn't anyone tell me that Moby Dick starts off as a M/M fic with the 'OMG there was only one bed' trope?

I mean:

[provincial-charmer]

Hey, so, why didn't anybody tell me that The Price Of Freedom, the prequel book to Pirates Of The Caribbean, is not only more than 600 pages long, but is actually longer than Moby Dick?

[gothyanki]

Sometimes I think about Onekaza’s "The trading companies send their spies all over this mountain, but I say there are places they cannot go" line in Deadfire (when she’s cipher-speaking telepathically to the Watcher and trying to suss out whether she can trust them or not) and I just… that line goes SO hard. I love her in all her messy glory.

[tortoisesshells]

For the November writing prompts - 27. Rook and 22. Hidden for...someone on Mercy Street, just to be fractious.

Well! Hopefully this is better late than never, but I bring you:

unto another brought (Mercy Street, ~500 words, Jed Foster & Mary Phinney pre-relationship with cameo mention of Henry Hopkins, and my first time quoting Edmund Spenser in a fic.)

Sunday night, or Monday morning: Nurse Mary and Doctor Foster spar over a chess board, and even attempt to play a game,

or,

“Spenser, from our Chaplain? Has Holy Scripture been exhausted already?” Mary Phinney, exhausted, lifted her brows but made no audible response; the summer night (so late it may well have been the early hours of a Monday morning, but nights seemed endless before dawn!) lay heavily on Alexandria, like grave-dirt on a coffin. There had been too many of those, of late – and, hesitantly, angrily, she had begun to accept whatever her actions, there would be many more. Jed Foster, though, seemed untroubled by these thoughts, and pushed a pawn forward with little hesitation. “There is something which may be said for variety, in a man’s sermons. Bullen has ensured they’ll see little enough of it in their daily bread. Save the weevils, of course.” “Of course,” she echoed.

read the rest on ao3!

[bumblebeeappletree]

Had this thought earlier that I had to share. Ace is still in his assassination days, trying to kill Whitebeard when the WB Pirates pull something up. Someone?

Suddenly he gets a hug with the full force of a rubbery little brother that SHOULD BE ON DAWN ISLAND WHAT THE FUCK LUFFY!!!!

“Shishishishi I got kidnapped! Sorry!” Luffy of course replied with a grin. After hitting his brother on the head and dragging the rubber brain to a secluded area Ace got the story out of Luffy. He did get kidnapped, and through a series of escaping, getting lost, getting kidnapped and repeat, Luffy found himself on the Moby Dick. Luffy, understandably, is surprised to find out he is not in East Blue.

Ace, being the responsible older brother that he is, puts a hold on his attempt on getting Whitebeard’s head, gets his crew together with Luffy and gets out of dodge. He needed to get Luffy back home after all. Especially after coming to the realization that he’s on a time limit if Garp realizes that Luffy’s gone missing and finds Luffy with Ace.

That would be a mess that Ace and Luffy both don’t want, causing Luffy wanting to get home as soon as possible. But it would be nice to adventure with his brother all the while!

[dellafloosh]

If anyone is willing to read – nay, if anyone so much as responds to this post positively – I will figure out how on Earth AO3 works and put out what I have of Moby intergalacDick to the public for whomever to read

Ishmael is now gay(er than he is in the book) and also poly. They’re in space.

Edit: forgot to mention that time in this universe is measured in musical periods. There’s a glass from the Blues era and Ishmael was born in the last quarter of the Soul era.

[mossy-rainfrog]

(Full version in RB) (ID in Alt Text)

‼️that sin which you flung far away now returns to anoint you a saint‼️

anyways designs by @pocketsizedquasar as always (hi 🙈)

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Chapters: 1/1

Words: 9,075

Fandom: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Captain Ahab/Starbuck (Moby Dick)

Characters: Captain Ahab (Moby Dick), Starbuck (Moby Dick)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Everyone Lives/Nobody Dies, (at least mostly - we still lose Fedallah ): ), Established Relationship, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, Porn with Feelings, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Masturbation, Angst, Communication, SO much communication these two CANNOT fuck without discussing their traumas in detail first, Enthusiastic Consent, Praise Kink, Religious Guilt, Traumatized character, Canon Disabled Character, Disabled Character, Author is disabled, deeply traumatized old men in love, if nobody else on the internet is going to write starhab smut then by god I will do it myself

Summary: In the weeks after abandoning the doomed chase for the white whale and setting sail for home, Ahab has been piecing himself back together, leaning on Starbuck's support and their newfound intimacy. Tonight is a good night, and Starbuck wants to try something new.

Or: Seeing Starbuck get railed beyond words would fix me👍

For @pocketsizedquasar :) ty for yelling abt this with me for weeks on end xoxo <3

[kalispitronhibernation]

Kendall post s4: Call me Kendall. Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having 3 billion dollars from the sale of Waystar in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodologically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball... I quietly take to the ship

[coyote-nebula]

A little preview of my piece for @damianwaynezine ! It’s called “Dragonfoot,” it’s fast paced and nicely weird and I spent so long in a research hole that I now bear the knowledge that Kansas has a state amphibian (it’s the barred tiger salamander), that tetrodotoxin is one of the deadliest poisons known to man and it’s found in cute west coast newts, and that people in Texas are spelunking in old mines for a blind cave salamander no one’s seen in seventy years—

(Inhale)

You can find my Damian & Clark adventure along with more stories, art and merch by other talented contributors in the R Stands For Redemption zine! Here on 9/26/22 there's about a week left to get pre-orders in, so:

🦇 Preorder here! 🦇

🦎 My ao3! 🦎

[habemuscarnificem]

podfic / fanfic reading requests, anyone?

ive always wanted to do declamations and voice acting, but never really had an opportunity. figured there are writers on here that might want an audio version of their work

fair warning you'll need to have a little chat with me to correct my horrid mispronouncing of certain words because I'm a peasantly ESL

i sound like deepfried tuberculosis

can be quite expressive and act out dialogue

will gladly do dark topics but probably not full on porn (i would giggle, I'm awfully immature)

may decline if it's not my cuppa but generally not picky

hit me up in dms or askbox, comrades

[bluecatwriter]

My first "Moby Dick" fic!

I finally finished a scene I've been working on for a while! Featuring the ending of Chapter 17, "The Ramadan," from Queequeg's point of view. (Rated Teen.)