#queequeg x ishmael

[libraryofandrasta]

Someone really needs to write a book that does for Ishmael and Queequeg what The Song of Achilles did for Achilles and Patroclus. 🙏

[itsaventingmachine]

Let’s be clear about something here. Queequeg is shawty. Ishmael is babygirl. No I will not be taking criticism, in this essay I will

[swokeeon]

just a bunch of lazy stuff i made this month while conquering the limbus plot (i'm sorry for having the worst taste in ships ever) also too lazy to translate some of them

[dlphondawall]

together

[haewelmann]

Me everytime anything ever happens in Moby Dick

[softdedue]

a secret chord

4k | pwp | queeshmael

a little interlude in the inn the night after our boys agree to be each other’s one and only

These two have been rattling around in my brain for ages but seeing you guys posting your whale weekly stuff made me inspired to write a little thing about them for the first time!

[charliethomascoxuniverse]

💕 Charlie Cox as Ishmael 💕

Moby Dick (2011) Pt XXI ~

[postmail]

queequeg encounters the horrors of 1850s dental hygiene.

[roseunspindle]

Queequeg figured in the Highland costume—a shirt and socks—in which to my eyes, at least, he appeared to uncommon advantage; - Ishamel

[forestal-ramblings]

Why didn't anyone tell me the start of moby dick is so fucking romantic?.

I mean it's practically a fic , there's literally one bed, Ishmael is forced to share with a hot pacific islander prince. There's even accidental marriage.

Let's not forget how they are practically soulmates and how Ishmael gets crazy worried about queequeg fasting.

[rosy-avenger]

I began to be sensible of strange feelings. I felt a melting in me. No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world. This soothing savage had redeemed it. There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits. Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him. And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me. I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. 

That's called being in love.

[emilydickinsonsghost]

Sooo fellow classic literature gays, we got a ship name for Queequeg and Ishmael from Moby Dick yet or…? What about whale husbands? I think it should be whale husbands!

[itsaventingmachine]

And the award for best homoerotic undertones in a piece of classic literature goes to…

[imogenlefay]

For some ungodly reason, and don’t ask me why, and probably it’s twitter’s fault, I’ve started reading Moby Dick. 

...so, was anybody going to tell me it starts out as a “And There Was Only One Bed” rom com, or was I supposed to find that out by myself?

[tridenopmoth]

My constant reaction when I see Queequeg and Ishmael together (that emoji) It's hard for me to explain how I feel about them, except that I always want to cry.

And Cathy x Heath, I just want to say that I respect these couples (I want to say by this that, I do not ignore their past relationship, I like to study the character of Ishy and Heath through the prism of their partners) but anyway I'd like to see them on a double date.

Also fuck your shiping wars here Cathy x Queequeg

[complete-utter-fandom-hell]

I HAVE AN IMPORTANT QUESTION

IS HEATHCLIFF/ISHMAEL A VALID SHIP.

I started shipping them in like Canto IV but I feel weird about myself after Canto VI but NGL Cathy seems less like a viable love interest and more of a plot point and an important beat in Heathcliff's backstory (you could argue the same for Queequeg too but also she's dead)

I think their pairing is interesting and they work well together in the sense of "they hate each other but their obsession on each other doubles back to romantic feelings"

But also I took a screenshot of every notable shipping moment in Canto VI and only found like 10— I think it's just over but I'm never letting this shit go

Best example I could find— their experiences mirror each other in some regards so seeing the other make their same mistakes makes them angry

They just have good personality chemistry in general. Even platonically they're silly.

Okay today's rant's over, I've been thinking about this one for a while 💜