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[postmail]

harpooner friendship

tashtego is assembling his team of chaos bringers weed smoking girlfriends harpooning buddies

[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]

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)

[saltavenegar]

!!PEOQUOD LINEUP!!

or as many of them as I could reasonably fit

[swan2swan]

The other night at trivia, there was a question about Moby Dick.

While everyone considered their answer, the DJ played "Remember the Name" by Fort Minor.

The moment I heard those opening strings and the steady, solid, wooden cadence of the beat as my mind thought of a surging ship over a cold, gray sea broken by the white flukes of foam and leviathans...I need a new Moby Dick movie made As Soon As Possible, and I need that song over a whaling montage.

[twofoursixohjuan]

look if somebody had told me moby dick had a scene where ahab summons the entire crew for the purpose of screaming his whale feelings at them like, i kid you not, "a moose" and then they do shots and the narrative shifts to stage directions while the crew have an impromptu dance party and talk about boobs...

[ronk]

[microcosme11]

Misc.

I was looking for the name of a Moby Dick harpooner that I couldn’t remember (Tashtego) and it was bothering me. I saw this description of Captain Ahab and thought it was like Napoleon!  

The egomaniacal captain of the Pequod. Ahab lost his leg to Moby Dick. He is single-minded in his pursuit of the whale, using a mixture of charisma and terror to persuade his crew to join him. As a captain, he is dictatorial but not unfair. At moments he shows a compassionate side, caring for the insane Pip and musing on his wife and child back in Nantucket.

[dolokhoded]

thinking about song of the ocean from dimitris papadimitriou's moby dick musical... girl.....girl.....

[postmail]

‘the monkey-rope’ chapter is very interesting... everyone always talks about ishmael’s part in it, what with their fates being tied together, but while thats quite interesting in its own right, i also cant help but wonder about the roles of tashtego and daggoo - them hurling the lances in an attempt to help queequeg, whilst actually putting him in more danger for it. theres something in that, cant quite say what yet, but its very potent, i guess - theres something there, i just cant place my finger on what! definitely something to think about

[mossy-rainfrog]

hello everyone, I made a series of doodles to put inside of my copy of MobyDick and I would like to share them :3 pls enjoy:

[ID: Two traditional drawings. Ahab shows off his new pegleg with a flourish. Ishmael infodumps about whales to a fond Queequeg. End ID.] [More detailed ID in ALT.]

New Leg Goofin is for chapters 108-9, when Ahab gets fitted with his new leg! it's right before a super devastating chapter so i needed to make myself laugh lmao

Wikipedia Page About Every Whale is for the whole goddamn book, honestly, but I chose to put it at the beginning of ch.32, Cetology, where Ishmael really does try to explain every whale ever

[ID: A comic of Stubb and Flask bursting into Ahab's quarters, thinking the Captain is in danger, only to find Ahab and Fedallah playing a game of cards. End ID.] [More detailed ID in ALT.]

This gem belongs to p.344 where Stubb wonders if Fedallah means to kidnap Ahab, which was such a baffling ridiculous concept that I couldn't help but make fun of it. literally Ahab snuck this man on board bro, what the fuck is fedallah going to do to him. they're playing uno. shut up

[ID: Two drawings, with the first showing Pip after being cast away, haunted and alone on the deck of the Pequod. The other shows Ishmael and Queequeg homoerotically grasping hands while processing whale sperm. End ID.] [More detailed ID in ALT.]

this goes out to chapters 93-95, because the UNREAL whiplash from "a child was just abandoned at sea" to "hey let's be horny about whale sperm" is still the most insane transition of all time. Ish, what the fuck

[ID: A simply doodled meme diagram for how to greet a fellow amputee. The "wrong" answer shows Captains Ahab and Boomer shaking hands, while the "right" answers show Ahab in a handstand and then kicking his leg up high, both times to cross his prosthetic with Boomer's. End ID.] [More detailed ID in ALT.]

this goes out to p. 454. every interaction between these two absolutely delighted me but my mental image for the specific line about them "crossing ivory limbs" got. very silly.

[ID: A small comic of Ahab asking the Harpooners to give him blood to temper his harpoon in. They stare back at him with varying expressions of confused, uncomfortable disbelief. End ID.]

the last one, for p.504. yknow that feel when your boss just walks up and asks you to bleed on his custom made harpoon??? yeah uh. normal workday things

anyways thank you for reading, I had a delightful time making these and am so very fond of them all, so yea :3

credit as always for the designs goes to the darling @pocketsizedquasar , as well as credit for pricelessly annotating my copy of MD and thus getting me to actually read it, love youuuu💙💙

[firestorm09890]

just some rambling about lcb’s canto v part 3 things vs the source book

It felt like they combined the personalities of Starbuck and Stubb, and then they replaced Stubb’s personality entirely with Flask’s (the third mate), who was always the one described as irritable while Stubb was the jovial one.

Book Stubb was also pretty uncool, despite being so casual. Pip had to be the replacement oarsman in both cases, but the reason Pip’s sanity snapped in the book was because he jumped overboard out of fear once, Stubb told him they’d just leave him behind if he did it again, and then when it happened again, Stubb did leave Pip behind, and those few hours out at sea before the Pequod rescued him were what broke him; here, Stubb saved Pip from a fate worse than death, and then what happened to Stubb after is what broke Pip.

Speaking of Pip, weird choice to make them want to be a landlord. That’sss all I’ll say about that

Also, RIP Tashtego. Constantly got the short end of the harpoon in Moby Dick (basically first to slay a whale on the voyage but Stubb got all the credit, fell into a whale and almost died, saw the White Whale at the same time as Ahab and should’ve been awarded the gold doubloon for it but Ahab insisted he was first) and the trend continues here by giving his incredibly homoerotic moment of being saved from drowning in the whale by Queequeg to Ishmael instead, with him just not showing up at all… actually maybe Tashtego won in this case lol

The flashback with Ishmael going into Ahab’s cabin made me think that they would give her the dilemma of “should I kill her right now in her sleep”, similar to what Starbuck had in the book, but nope.

There’s a huge difference in the way Starbuck butted heads with Ahab in the book vs in Limbus. Book Starbuck definitely had a lot less faith that the captain was steering them right- forget “after we kill the Pallid Whale it’ll all be okay” that Limbus Starbuck thought, no, book Starbuck repeatedly told Ahab to please, turn around, please stop trying to go kill the White Whale, your revenge quest is meaningless because it’s basically just a force of nature and you can’t get revenge on nature, we can just go home, we've had bad omen after bad omen, don’t you see you’re leading us to doom- and he did this from the very beginning all the way til the very end, when they literally saw the beast. However, despite his pleas and disagreements, he did still follow the authority of the captain (can’t have a mutiny when it’s just you who disagrees; can’t shoot a man while he’s sleeping when you have too much of a conscience and a fear of going to hell to justify becoming a murderer) and inevitably helped Ahab get what he wanted. That’s something both Starbucks share.

Overall… it’s probably because they had a different story to tell. They had to make Ahab worse™️ than in the book so everyone surrounding her had to be changed to facilitate the fact that she had such a hold over all of them

The thing with Ahab promising gold coins to the crew (with it being clear to the audience that they’d never get them) was the progression of the book’s singular gold doubloon, which was promised to whomever saw the White Whale first. In the book, it was merely a symbol, with a bunch of different characters attempting to analyze its symbolic meaning in-universe (mostly in an astrological sense) and not really wanting it for monetary reasons (Flask even says that it’s just worth $16 and could buy 960 cigars. of course, that was in 1851, and inflation is one hell of a problem…) Here, that promised money is worth a lot more, both monetarily and as something to keep the crew going.

And then! The cult-like aspects. Kromer had her inquisitors with artificial brainwashing and it’s very stereotypically cult-like, but Ahab’s crew was a lot more accurate to how real-modern-day cults work. The recruitment of Ishmael made that clear. Here, she was at a low point in life, with no idea where she should go, and then boom, Ahab steering her. In Moby Dick Ishmael already wanted to go on a boat, as did every other sailor there. None of them even knew who their captain was until after they’d been out at sea for weeks because Ahab is weird like that. He got all his sailors into a disturbingly powerful fervor one night about the White Whale but for the most part they seemed to be mostly in it for the whales they encountered along the way. Book Ahab even recognized that in order to keep his crew from mutinying, they had to pick up some other whales- and unlike the gold coins keeping the crew motivated in Pequod Town in Limbus, this was an actual, tangible thing. More of a compromise to keep the crew happy than a lie.

Limbus Ahab’s boat was completely Ahab, with desires completely Ahab, completely enrapturing her crew. Book Ahab’s boat was The Pequod, a whaling ship that just so happened to have a monomaniac at the helm. Limbus’s Pequod crew had faith in Ahab until they died by her hands; book Pequod crew eventually recognized how completely fucked up Ahab was and how screwed they were, but to quote the book itself, “their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear of Fate.”

that’s about all the braincells I have for this

[pocketsizedquasar]

It’s my birthday!!! And also here’s a very long overdue update to the pequod squad lineup that i’ve been meaning to do for ages. happy birthday to me! read my Moby Dick webcomic if you feel so inclined :] link in bio

[shranstan]

Moby Dick Modern AU

Captain Ahab isn't actually a captain but instead a professor in the marine biology department. He does, however, answer to "captain" instead of "professor", and will never call the captain of the ship he is currently on the captain.

Ahab is obsessed with the white whale in that he's been trying to put a GPS tracker on it for years but it always fails someway. Moby Dick is such a distinctive whale, and he really really wants to study it, but it just keeps getting away or moving at the last moment so that the suction cup gps doesn't stick...

The Pequod is a research vessel owned by Ahab's university, Starbuck is the actual captain, but is called the first mate by Ahab because.. Ahab is Ahab. So, the others started calling him that, too.

Ishmael is also a marine biologist by trade however because of his controvertial opinion (whales are fish! most species we consider fish aren't that closely related anyways! it's a description of ecological, not genetic, importance! so whales should be considered fish, too!) he has been largely shunned/considered of no importance in the scientific community. He teaches biology at a highschool instead.

Ishmael is also a trans man. That is also canon to Herman's novel but I need to underline it here bc naming yourself basically "Is-male" is such a funny joke.

Ishmael signs himself up for a research cruise under the guise of not being a biologist but a simple sailor - this ruse is discovered incredibly quickly (it only takes one infodump).

Pip is one of those brilliant kids who skip 5 grades. He's 16 and in the final year of writing his bachelor's thesis. Ahab is his supervisor.

Queequeg is the ship's chief engineer, making him 3rd most important person on the ship (after the captain and first mate; source: my childhood bff's father was one) and also making him a lot of money. The university's usual chief engineer was unavailable and Ishmael was hyped to get his hubby on the same expedition as him.

Speaking of, Ishmael and Queequeg met at a motel in Vegas, got high, cuddled all night, and then got married the next day.

Queequeg usually works on all sort of ships, spending a couple months home with Ishmael and then doing engineering for the next couple months away on the sea.

Tashtego is working on his master's in marine biology and unfortunatelly Ahab's his supervisor same as Pip except Ahab loves Pip's ideas but hates Tashtego's

Daggoo is on a scientific exchange from a university from his home country, he's just a researcher (as in, doesn't study or teach)

Fedallah is there even though he's like. Completely unrelated to marine biology. He's like a professional olympic-level archer but Ahab forged his papers to bring him aboard so that he can finally put that tracker on the Moby Dick.

The rest of the crew are a combo of researchers and regular sailor folk who are, y'know, needed for the ship to function as a ship.

Pip falls into the ocean multiple times while trying to take samples but is saved quickly every time. They just force him to essentially wear buoy marker attached to him at all times in case he was submerged and unseen.

[resident-dumb-fuck]

LIBERAL moby dick:

Ishmael

Ahab

Moby Dick

Starbuck

Queequeg (IF MELVILLE COULD BE NORMAL ABOUT UM. PASIFIKA PEOPLE I THINK. I FORGET WHERE QUEEQUEG WAS FROM SORRY MAN. IF HE WAS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE OR IF I SPELT THAT WRONG I APOLOGIZE)

Tashtego (IF MELVILLE COULD BE NORMAL ABOUT NATIVE AMERICAN PEOPLE)

Daggoo (IF MELVILLE COULD BE NORMAL ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE)

Pip (ALSO IF MELVILLE COULD BE NORMAL ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE I THINK. I DO NOT REMEMBER)

Fedallah (IF MELVILLE COULD BE NORMAL ABOUT FARSI PEOPLE)

Stubb (HE WAS REALLY SHITTY BUT I CAN'T THINK OF A FUNNY JOKE FOR THIS POST. USE YOUR IMAGINATION)

FlASSk. or something.