#tashtego

[mercury50]

RIP Ishmael, you would've loved Urban Dictionary, Sufjan Stevens, and Heartstopper

RIP Ahab, you would've loved moveable prosthetics, Life360, and anger management classes

RIP Starbuck, you would've loved the DSM-5, HR, and the phrase "shut the fuck up"

RIP Stubb, you would've loved ASMR YouTube channels, brain rot humor, and starting flame wars on Twitter

RIP Flask, you would've loved platform boots, saying "bro it's not that deep", and prepackaged sticks of salted butter

RIP Fedallah, you would've loved the gift of prophecy awarded to people on tumblr, not having a phone, and 2020 COVID lockdown

RIP Queequeg, you would've loved Obergefell vs. Hodges, sweatpants, and having personal beef with the Duolingo owl

RIP Tashtego, you would've loved cotton candy vape, trolling people on the internet, and calling things "white people nonsense"

RIP Daggoo, you would've loved not playing basketball (out of spite), offering "uppies", and work visas

RIP Pip, you would've loved child labor laws, kazoos, and water wings

[pocketsizedquasar-3]

[ID: A series of Moby Dick themed Valentine’s cards. each has a drawing accompanied by some phrase and “To: / From:” fields. More detailed IDs in alt text for each.]

A day late but happy belated Valentine’s Day 🥰🥰🥰 normally i just repost my Moby Dick Valentines (or Whale-entines, if you will) that i made um. oh god. five years ago. jesus christ. anyway normally i just repost those, but a) those are on my old deleted blog (rip) and b) an upgrade / remaster w my current skills has been long overdue, so here that is, plus some new additions :) so have some new whalentines💖🥰 some cursed, some wholesome, some both. go forth and enjoy

some fun little notes for those interested:

“i’ll make you a pint of sperm richer — but he won’t” in ch 35 ‘the mast head,’ ishmael, referring to himself, warns ship captains to never hire any “romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men” (such as himself) (which, also, that’s a valentine in itself tbh. new tinder bio whomst) who spend their watches at the masthead daydreaming rather than looking for whales; they’ll “tow you round the world and never make you one pint of sperm the richer”

“there’s hogsheads of sperm ahead” Is actually a line said by starbuck (despite being the repressed little protestant loser he is /affectionate), in a completely normal context (re: the sperm whale oil they’re hunting). but in This context he’s a little 🧍 standing man emoji. 😌squirm little quakerman squirm

my tash is aroace and they & dag are in a lovely QPP 💖 we love platonic love!!

she moby in my dick until i sperm whale. that’s all

[ambigg]

tashtego’s decent

[tiessunnyskies]

love love LOVE ur moby dick art, it’s so cute and honestly so close to how i imagine the characters in my head <3

Ah heck! Thank you :3

Sorry for the slow reply, but here's a lil Daggoo and Tash, they're playing a card game I don't understand, and I imagine they'd be playing yu-gi-oh if it existed back then

[devilfokke]

I'll follow him around the Horn, and around the Norway maelstrom, and around perdition's flames before I give him up.

Moby Dick - John Huston (1956)

[twofoursixohjuan]

ishmael: surely drowning inside the head of a whale is the most beautiful and glorious way to go

tashtego, semiconscious: uh no. no fun.

tashtego: zero stars

[jorrmungandr]

Chapter 122: Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning

Ahhh, it’s amazing what a shift in the weather can do. And also just getting out of the apartment, I suppose. We had some awful hot, muggy weather the last few days, but today is nice and cool again. Went for a walk around the city, got some teriyaki for lunch. I feel like I’ve spent too much time since I moved cooped up in here, between being sick and the weather. I’m no longer in inhospitable…

[ronk]

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: Three digital drawings of characters from Moby Dick. The first drawing shows Tashtego and Daggoo cuddling in their bunk, with Tashtego asleep on Daggoo's chest. They are both dressed down in underclothes. Daggoo is wearing a sleeping bonnet and smiling softly as he runs a hand through Tashtego's hair. The drawing is lit in warm, earthy tones.

The second drawing shows Daggoo, Queequeg, and Tashtego all hugging each other, with Queequeg in the middle. They are all hugging tightly and Daggoo's face is the only one visible, with his eyes shut and his face pressed into Queequeg's shoulder. The drawing is lit in warm, lifting warm pinks and reds.

The third drawing shows Ishmael writing on a small book, while Queequeg hugs him from behind and rests a chin on his shoulder. Tashtego then leans over both of them from behind, with their arms draping over both of them, and behind them, Daggoo hugs onto Tash's back, resting his chin on Tashtego's head. The image is lit in sunlight yellows over a purple background, with doodles of harpoons around them.

Character designs: Tashtego is a Wampanoag person with long, dark hair, wearing blue clothes. Daggoo is a Black man with a short afro and wearing golden hoop earrings and a dark suit. Queequeg is a Māori person with a curly topknot hairstyle, tattoos on his face, and he is wearing cream colored clothes. Ishmael is a white man with blond hair, wearing a white shirt under a vest. End ID.]

Harpooners squad art dump🥺🥺🥺. I feel sooooo normal about this beloved QPR found family aboard the most doomed voyage of all time. god. they're family. they love each other. hhghghghghgg.

designs as always from the delightful, lovely @pocketsizedquasar and their beloved Moby Dick webcomic with so much lovely content for these guys, ough I love them

bonus art of Tash from cistern and buckets under the cut (cw blood)

[ID: A digital close up drawing of Tashtego, labeled as "almost drowned in the head of the whale". They are wide-eyed with shock and horror, their hair undone, and their face and body covered in thick, dark blood. Daggoo's hands are holding their face as he cries out "TASH!" End ID.]

CISTERN AND BUCKETS MOMENT BECAUSE GOD POOR TASHTEGO MY LOVE

[thalassous]

fuck you! (fwb connotations)

[ ID: Two full bodied, fully coloured and shaded drawings of Tashtego and Daggoo. Tashtego is leaning forward on his tip-toes, and looking at Daggoo on his right. He is almost biting his right thumb, and his left fist is at his sides. He looks upset, but is blushing furiously. Daggoo is facing the front, but looking at Tashtego with a smile, and blushing as well. His left arm is almost elbowing Tashtego. Daggoo is bent down to match his height. The background is a dark rectangle that depicts an imitation of a sea at night. END ID ]

[pocketsizedquasar-3]

i was Instantly compelled i had to do this immediately

i’m including “really hates whales” in the “attracted to whales” category, as in a literal attraction as in being pulled towards/chasing/hunting them. gay as hell to be obsessed to the point of all consuming hatred and vengeance

ishmael is squarely in the middle because he is the most homosexual man alive (every single man he meets is described in extensive attractive detail) but also have you SEEN the way he talks abt whales. he’s obsessed and enamored. love him.

more explanation under the cut bc i took this shitpost way too seriously /lh but honestly this speaks for itself and is way funnier just as is. 👍

the rest in order: queequeg is very chill and normal about whales. he hunts them but has no particular animosity nor affection for them. he is very queer (my qq is bi but on this scale he’s in the Into Men category). starbuck would be very uncomfortable by this question and his placement on it but he’s definitely into men (he is also bisexual but he won’t admit it <3), but there’s a few moments where he gets a little weird about the whales sure. fedallah is primarily into men (ahab) but due to ahab’s pull to moby dick he’s also pulled in that direction. daggoo is gay and into men but maybe he’s also a big fan of whales idk. the pequod is obviously attracted to whales but she also needs men to make that attraction a reality. and also what’s gayer than a ship and her crew. ahab is A Gay Man who is unfortunately Extremely Attracted (in the most literal sense of that attractive or magnetic force/pull) to Moby Dick. stubb really loves killing whales and flask really really really hates whales (and so loves hunting and killing them). tashtego is aroace and would like to be left alone, thank you.

any of the nonwhite characters are basically my own characterization (heehoo comic) bc melville didn’t rly give them any

moby dick kinsey scale that arranges the characters on a spectrum of how attracted they are to other men versus how attracted they are to whales

[pocketsizedquasar-3]

oh, fedallah

(various fedallah-centric doodles. IDs in alt text)

[ambigg]

MOBY DICK MAJOR CHARACTER DESIGNS

[string-star-lights]

designing every other moby dick crew member part 1: pip and the harpooners

[rugwurm]

i cant believe they put ishmael in the bible

[jorrmungandr]

Chapter 135: The Chase.—Third Day

Alright, I’ve delayed enough, let’s finish this monster up. I’ve had a real sense of impending doom lately, had some sleepless nights due to anxiety and whatnot. There are things I can do to combat that, and I know that I am in fact given to seeking out portents of disaster and using that as an excuse to take refuge in paralysis, but it would also help a lot if the country I live in wasn’t…