[ID: A digitally drawn photo of Queequeg and Ishmael from Moby-Dick, kissing. Ishmael is a lean white man with short, wavy blond hair and sideburns. He is wearing gray pants and a gold wedding band. Queequeg is a muscular Māori person with warm brown skin, short, curly hair in a top knot style, and many intricate tattoos over his face and body. He is wearing dark pants and a gold wedding band. Both are shirtless.
Ishmael is sitting on Queequeg's lap, with a hand on his face and the other on his chest. while Queequeg holds him with one hand on his neck and the other on his back. They are kissing each other with lips parted in tender smiles. End ID.]
sooooo this was partially inspired by finding an adaptation of MobyDick that refered to these two as friends rather than a canonically married couple lmfao and I Needed to draw them being gay about it. congrats to the canon homosexuals in mobydick
anyways. this is what friends are for 😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖😍🙏🕊✝️💖amen
I wanna say hello to the fandom for the literary classic Moby Dick and pre-emptively apologise for the fact that the Limbus Company iteration of Queeshmael might invade ur spaces and I actually wanna open up diplomatic relations with you guys and ask if you have any requests as to how we should tag our queeshmael so you can block the tag (or just have it aside so it doesn't, you know, impede on the OG queeshmael tag, you get me)
should we tag it LCB Queeshmael? Do we do something else?
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!
the thing is, ishmael is probably the only person in the whole world who’d share a bed with a stranger for convenience and come out of that experience concluding that they’re married. except not, because he somehow managed to find the only other person on earth who thinks that too, and they decided to just go for it. that’s divine intervention if i ever saw it
So, we get this screen play of all the sailors kicking it in the forecastle at midnight, and Tashtego and Daggoo are also hanging out.
And who doesn’t get mentioned at all? Our boy Ishmael or his husband Queequeg, who deeeeeefinitely didn’t sexile the other two harpooneers from their quarters, right?
(And this is why we’re getting the narration in such a different format, because Ishmael is getting the play by play from someone else the next day. This is canon, and I will not be convinced otherwise.)