#moby-dick or the webcomic

[ronk]

start reading Moby-Dick, or the webcomic

https://mobydick-thecomic.com/comics/1 

[pocketsizedquasar]

several months ago i made & teased a bit of this comic about queequeg & his tattoos, queerness, & identity. the comic’s still available on my itch io, but i also wanted to show more of it, bc i’m very proud of the whole thing. so here‘s the first 5 pgs!

the rest of it (9 pages total, plus an artists’ statement and a research list) is still on my itch.io for $5, OR, you can now get it on Patreon at my $2/month tier!

wahoo! If you wanna read the rest of this comic (and who doesn’t want more queequeg), pls consider checking me out n supporting me via one of those channels (links in the last image)

[coolnessgraphed]

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digital drawing of Queequeg and Ishmael in the designs of @pocketsizedquasar ‘s web comic. Queequeg is a muscular Maōri person with his skin covered in tattoos. Their hair is in a short, curly topknot, and they wear a white collared shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and a pink tie. Ishmael is a lean white man with short, straight blonde hair, and sideburns. He wears a collared white shirt under a blue vest. Queequeg and Ishmael are pulling each other in by the backs of the necks to press their foreheads together in an affectionate embrace. Ishmael has one hand on Queequeg’s outstretched bicep, and the other cupping their face. They beam lovingly at each other. Golden light reflects off of the both of them, and pink light softly fills the drawing. Overtop the piece is written: “Happy Birthday Moby-Dick: or, the Webcomic”. End ID.]

i’m a day late as usual but!!!! HAPPY 3rd BIRTHDAY TO @pocketsizedquasar ‘s MOBY DICK COMIC!!!!! this comic is an absolute masterpiece and i will never shut up about recommending it ;~; also queequeg and ishmael are so in love, it’s unreal. based on a screenshot from an adaptation i have not seen, but was cute!

[maysonislands]

seaworthy

[nihileafs]

Call me Mungi (Whale Arc)

Call Me Mungi

[hubristicassholefight]

Full contestant list

Hoping to put the bracket together sometime in the next couple of days. Sorry this took a while, I had to deal with RL stuff for job onboarding (also Splatoon Side Order dropped)

Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein)

Feanor (The Silmarillion)

Erin Ruunaser (Aurora webcomic)

Vriska Serket (Homestuck)

Gale of Waterdeep (Baldur's Gate 3)

Light Yagami (Death Note)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Odysseus (The Odyssey)

Starscream (Transformers)

Jurgen Leitner (The Magnus Archives)

Vegeta (Dragon Ball Z)

Icarus (Classical Mythology)

Five Pebbles (Rain World)

Elias Bouchard/Jonah Magnus (The Magnus Archives)

Kim Dokja (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

Laerryn Cormar-Seelie (Critical Role: Exandria Unlimited Calamity)

Essek Thyless (Critical Role)

Macbeth (Macbeth)

10th Doctor (Doctor Who)

Magolor (Kirby Series)

Achilles (The Iliad)

Herbert West (Re-Animator)

Magnus the Red (Warhammer 40k)

Old Lady Odin (The Mechanisms: The Bifrost Incident)

Manfred von Karma (Ace Attorney)

The Entire Allagan Empire (Final Fantasy XIV)

Cave Johnson (Portal)

Ahab (Moby Dick)

Hal 9000 (2001: A Space Odyssey)

John Franklin (The Terror)

The Pale King (Hollow Knight)

Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire)

Lord Shen (Kung Fu Panda)

Walter White (Breaking Bad)

Lucrezia Mongfish (Girl Genius)

Adam (Nier: Automata)

Gordon the Big Engine (Thomas the Tank Engine)

Ford Pines (Gravity Falls)

Ego the Living Planet (MCU)

Gregory House (House MD)

Yoshikage Kira (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure)

Lelouch vi Britannia (Code Geass)

Xehanort (Kingdom Hearts)

Dream/Morpheus (The Sandman)

Emperor Belos (The Owl House)

Maxwell Carter (Don't Starve)

Richard III (Shakespeare's Richard III)

Ace (Zero Escape)

Fei Wang Reed (Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles)

Dimentio (Super Paper Mario)

Nemesis (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)

Riliane Lucifen d'Autriche (The Evilious Chronicles)

Gojo Satoru (Jujustu Kaiden)

Eustass Kidd (One Piece)

Flowey (Undertale)

Andrew Ryan (Bioshock)

Bedman (Guilty Gear)

Akio Ohtori (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Bill Cipher (Gravity Falls)

The Scarab (Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake)

Sinbad (Magi) Hamlet

[modmad]

The og material for Dante is limbus company, the third game from project moon (first two are Lobotomy Corporation and Library of Ruina). Limbus company takes place a bit after the webcomic / web novel Leviathan (also by Project Moon)

(Technically the og og material for Dante is Dante's inferno. Each character shown from the game is based off of a book ex Sinner 8 Ishmael is from Moby Dick )

Dante canonically goes by they / them and has amnesia (easy for explaining the world for new players and also for their lore). Their actual head is missing and since then has been replaced with a clock.

Theyre in charge of twelve sinners (despite never signing up for the job) and reviving each one of them when they die (and in turn experiencing all the pain their death caused). They can only communicate with the sinners (through some sort of telepathy), everyone else hears a from of clock ticks.

DANTE BABY YOUR JOB SUCKS HAND IN YOUR NOTICE

[unskilledpoint]

Could the EPPRBCU work off tumblr?

okay this is an interesting question.

see the eppprbcu works specifically because of the medium it's on. it's on tumblr meaning we're able to do medium specific shenanigans like askbox anon replies post urls etc. so it would, objectively speaking, be difficult to replicate off tumblr.

however. difficult to replicate doesnt mean it wouldnt work off tumblr. usually media that gets weird with its format could work just as well in at least one other. like homestuck would work fine in the style of emily is away interspliced with gifs and alterniabound/openbound sgements. 17776 wouldnt fare well as a videogame but it WOULD do well as like, a movie of scrolling through the text ending off with the video. as for moby dick honestly, it would do pretty decent as a webcomic or better yet a podcast or someshit.

this is all a lengthy way of saying the EPPRBCU would do wonders as a webcomic in a format reminescant of the unofficial homestuck collection. fake brwoser, things to click for seperate arcs/characters and a tagging system. boom. id argue that if the epprbcu ever finsihes it would be BETTER in this format (though since it shows no sign of stopping, this point means nothing.)

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

I’ve never read moby dick in my entire life but seeing you post about it so much made me want to give it a try! any warnings before I go into it? :D

oh my god gbskxjs okay first of all im honored that my mad posting has had this effect :DD!! you are so powerful for this, genuinely 💙💙

and secondly YEAH ok i can absolutely give some warnings!!!! this answer got long tho so I'm gonna put it under the cut 🐳💙

Firstly: the main thing most people struggle with in Moby Dick (myself included) is how utterly rambley the narrator is.

there WILL be pages upon chapters at a time where he simply Cannot get to the point, which is frustrating!!! something that helped me to keep in mind, though, is that Ishmael is doing that on purpose to avoid having to relive his trauma. It helped me to think of his whale rants as either a friend infodumping, or a desperate plea for the story to stop repeating.

if that doesn't help, you can always look up a summary for a chapter to see if there's any plot you'll miss by skipping it lmao

The Racism. This is a novel written by a white man in the early 1800s. There is some bullshit in this.

Although Melville does try to be conscious abt race and stereotypes, and has a very diverse cast, he still majorly fucks up. He regularly refers to several major characters as "s*vage", uses outdated terminology for Black people, throws out all sorts of shitty descriptors for folks, and rarely lets the characters of color speak for themselves. It's important to be aware of that going in.

This one is a weird dichotomy though, bc like. on one hand. all of that is infuriating. but on the other hand, the love interest of the narrator is literally a Pasifika man who is a gorgeous character that undercuts a ton of stereotypes and is allowed to be a nuanced person with a life that exists outside of the white characters. There's several characters of color who get to be People and have nuanced experiences and vibrant lives!! Pip and Tashtego and arguably Ahab himself are all fascinatingly nuanced folks that are not entirely bound by stereotypes!!

However comma, there's also an entire character who isn't allowed to exist outside of "evil zoroastrian stereotype" so hgbbjggbngmdhhf. it's a whole thing. Be aware of it.

Animal death — this is a book about whaling gbsjfjjf

Seriously though a significant portion of the book is dedicated to violently killing and then harvesting the corpses of whales. It does get sad! Some whales are killed more brutally than others. There is gore.

Rope violence/strangulation

This is just a safe one to mention. Lots of shit goes wrong with the rigging/harpoon lines in the book. Several characters are seriously injured or killed directly due to this.

Suicidal themes/tragedy

The first chapter literally starts off the book with this gbskfjwjd but it is a present theme throughout, and especially in regards to the final tragedy. A significant portion of the story involves characters thinking that they have no choices left but to die.

In tandem with that, this book is a tragedy. Like a "everybody dies" kind of tragedy. Do not go into this story thinking that you're getting a happy ending out of it LMAO. there's love and joy and good times within the story, but it ultimately ends in tragedy.

This is a long ass post, but hopefully it's thorough enough to give you answers!!! On the more uplifting side: I did have a fantastic time reading this. The characters are all super compelling, the queer rep is incredible for the time, the narrative is truly awesome, and it genuinely left a huge impact on me. It definitely earns its place as a masterpiece of American literature imo.

I will also note that if you would prefer to engage with an adaptation of MobyDick that is not narratively racist to its characters, generally more accessible, and also gorgeous, I will always recommend @pocketsizedquasar 's Moby Dick (Or, The Webcomic)! It is, as of yet, unfinished, but they're currently releasing pages weekly, and it's what got me to read the book in the first place. There's a ton of heart here.

But yea thanks for reading this long ass ramble, and definitely do whatever you need to keep yourself safe! 💙💙💙 happy reading if you choose to!!! :D 🐳

[unethicallypleistocene]

For the ask game: Halloween & hot chocolate?

Ahhh thanks! It's cold and rainy right now, so it felt like the perfect time to answer this! totally didn't get busy and have my executive function go down the drain

halloween - What is something you like that others around you don't like? If you've seen my recent and somewhat out of nowhere Moby-Dick-posting, you can probably guess that I've started reading it. Nobody that I know seems to like it as much as I'm liking it (I've been laughing out loud whilst reading, it's surprisingly HILARIOUS) and they kind of look at me strangely when I bring up how much fun I'm having with it. Sidenote: if anyone is even remotely interested in Big Whale Book, I highly recommend @pocketsizedquasar's webcomic adaptation! I just found it and I've been reading it along with the book, it's beautifully drawn, extremely funny, and perfect for people who also read the first few chapters and went "why isn't everyone absolutely obsessed with Ishmael and Queequeg??" I have to go back and leave comments on every page when I have the time, it's absolutely wonderful and I'm SO glad that it exists.

hot chocolate - What is the sweetest thing someone has said to you recently? I think the closest thing would have to be when my friend sent me a pictograph chart he saw because he knew I was really getting into linguistics! There's just something about someone sending me things related to my special interest that makes me ecstatic. (Thanks again @friendofthefellowshipsnerdblog for tagging me in linguistics stuff!! It makes my autistic heart very happy)

[ossified-hypothesis]

9 people you want to get to know better ^^

tagged by: @wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart (thanks! 🥰)

last song: Take Me to War by The Crane Wives because I was listening to my DnD character's spotify playlist on repeat the other day and got it stuck in my head

(ok so technically I was listening to the radio last night and the last song before I turned it off was the Sinéad O'Connor cover of Nothing Compares 2 U but idk if that counts lol)

currently watching: I've barely watched any TV this summer despite my plans to finally catch up on all the shows I was neglecting during exams (sorry Shadow and Bone S2 and Warrior Nun, I will finish you one day. probably), partly because I've not been feeling like it and partly because I've been spending my time listening to various podcasts instead (namely WOE.BEGONE, Wolf 359, The Bright Sessions, The Penumbra Podcast, WTNV, Re: Dracula, Monstrous Agonies, Greater Boston, and TAZ: Steeplechase). I had been watching the latest series of The Great British Sewing Bee but the final was last week. Uhhhh I watch Countdown fairly religiously when I'm not busy in the afternoons, does that count? lol

currently reading: Again I've been in a massive reading slump this summer for some reason, although I've been keeping up with all my classic book email newsletter things (the ones for les miserables, moby dick, pride and prejudice, and dracula). Over the last week I started reading Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott and resumed reading Black Water Sister by Zen Cho, and my library loan of the ebook of Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire has just come through on my Libby app so I'll probably start that soon

oh and of course I'm reading way too many webcomics lmao

latest obsession: hmmm my concentration and energy has been a bit uhhh not great recently so don't really think I've been enjoying anthing to an obsession level per se, but I've definitely been getting back into podcasts in a big way (especially WOE.BEGONE!)

also I recently went through a period of creating really specific/niche spotify playlists, like every song I'd liked that had a person's name in the title, or adding every song I could find on spotify that had the title "worm". is that anything

tagging (no pressure oc !!) : not sure how people feel about being tagged but if you're reading this and you want to take part consider yourself tagged! I'd love to hear more about you especially if you're someone I see pop up in my notifs every now and then 🥰

[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 💖

[taleweaver-ramblings]

I posted 5,427 times in 2022

That's 1,988 more posts than 2021!

171 posts created (3%)

5,256 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 5,112 of my posts in 2022

Only 6% of my posts had no tags

#from the queue - 2,820 posts

#art - 545 posts

#dracula daily - 416 posts

#dracula - 402 posts

#fanart - 317 posts

#memes - 305 posts

#language warning - 272 posts

#the lord of the rings - 264 posts

#tumblr culture - 218 posts

#humor - 212 posts

Longest Tag: 140 characters

#we literally cannot eat peanut butter and chocolate in the same meal without my parents joking about 'you got chocolate in my peanut butter'

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

I'm two episodes into Over the Garden Wall, and Beatrice is honestly a Mood.

96 notes - Posted October 20, 2022

#4

Not to be dramatic, but I would die for Maia Drazhar.

103 notes - Posted June 21, 2022

#3

Finally watched Encanto and I am very confused why everyone is obsessed with "We Don't Talk About Bruno" when "Waiting On a Miracle" is right there. Y'all sleeping on the good stuff.

116 notes - Posted March 13, 2022

#2

Just finished rereading the Daughter of the Lilies webcomic (because the writer and artist are posting remastered pages with commentary while they're on hiatus) and I have two things to say:

(A) storms it's so good.

(B) I have never wished for October so hard in my entire life.

278 notes - Posted May 31, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Just a PSA for my fellow Dracula Daily fans — I have discovered a host of similar daily-dose-of-classic-literature-in-your-inbox subscriptions, and I thought others might be interested too! We have:

The Penny Dreadful: Starts on October 1, features various gothic tales originally sold as serialized Penny Dreadfuls. Authors include "J. Sheridan Le Fanu, John William Polidori, Lord Byron, James Malcolm Rymer & Thomas Puckett Prest, Florence Marryat, Bram Stoker, and many others."

Edgar Allan Poe Daily: A companion to Dracula Daily! This sends out Edgar Allan Poe stories and poems on the weekdays that Dracula Daily does not update.

Letters from Dr. Watson: Dr. John Watson does not actually have a blog, but as of January 1, 2023, he WILL have an email newsletter keeping us all up to date on the cases of his detective roommate.

Frankenstein Weekly: Starts February 2023. What it sounds like.

Whale Weekly: This one's already been going around Tumblr a bit, but I wanted to include it for anyone who missed previous posts. Read Moby Dick in bite-sized portions over the course of four years! Starts December 2022.

347 notes - Posted June 21, 2022

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[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digital painting of Captain Ahab from Moby Dick standing in a storm and wielding a burning harpoon. He stands near the railing of the ship as a wave breaks over the bulwarks, and scowls fiercely towards the viewer, mouth open as if in mid-speech, akin to a snarl. He holds the harpoon in both hands, and waves the burning barb of it in front of him. The light reflects off of his eyes, his face, and the droplets of water on his skin. Behind him, huge waves surround the ship. The next three images are closeups of the drawing: on his hands, his face, and the harpoon itself.

Character design: Ahab is an older chubby and muscular Persian man with short curly greying dark hair, a pointed beard, a lightning scar across his face, and a scar across his nose and lip. He wears a high-collared red coat over a light colored undershirt. End ID.]

"All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that ye may know to what tune this heart beats; look ye here; thus I blow out the last fear!" - Moby Dick: Chapter 119 ,The Candles

FINALLY finished this tribute to my favorite Ahab moment in the whole entire book. HOT MEN PUT DOWN A MUTINY SINGLEHANDEDLY WITH A BURNING HARPOON!!!! GAH!!!!!!!! special thanks to unsplash for all my color references, to my computer for putting up with this file, and @pocketsizedquasar for the most gorgeous and grand Ahab design of all time. Go read their webcomic.

[archaic-stranger]

this is random but since you planned whale weekly you probably have enough interest in moby-dick, so i would just like to introduce you + whoever is reading this to the fact that someone's been working on a webcomic adaptation of the book! (currently on hiatus tho, but around chapter 31's equivalent). moby dick-the comic .c o m/ com ics/ (but remove the spaces). just wanted to share HAHA

omg it's lovely thank you for sharing!