Call Me Ishmael

Mike Wheeler apologist first, human being second

[mendedrum]

Stubb uniquely performing de facto marriages on the Pequod via tying the harpooneer and the holder on both ends of the monkey rope /jk

[cinocappu]

chapter 123 the musket my favourite chapter of anything everrrrrrrrrr

[kazz-brekker]

i like overanalyzing minor characters from middle-earth and westeros as much as the next person but sometimes trying to find content for much less popular but also good fantasy books does feel like wandering a barren wasteland searching for scraps of food while knowing that somewhere nearby people are enjoying a lavish feast

[violentdevotion]

rip tom joad you would've killed henry ford, j paul getty, sam walton, bill gates, warren buffet, jeff bezos and elon musk with your bare hands or maybe a shovel

[the-golden-ghost]

My really serious "what the hell was School of Mystery" theories now that I'm done with it

Logico dropped acid for the first time. Didn't go well

Logico had one of those fucked-up waking dreams where you experience years of your life and then wake up and it all gets erased and you have to grapple with the unreality of your existence. So he published it to cope

Logico wanted to write a I'm Cool AU but it turned emo somewhere along the way (irrepressible urge to be a noir detective. sad)

Irratino was like "astral project into my bizarro puzzle world :) " and Logico's like "okay :) " and then that happened. i.e. Irratino just creates whole multi-year-long multi-dimensional dream escape room scenarios for the sake of entertaining his boyfriend. And they say romance is dead

Onyx used the wrong kind of herb on the Institute's Formal Winter Dinner Party and. well

That actually all happened, implausibly. And then Logico got amnesia from the train accident in early volume 1 (case 5) and forgor the whole thing. Until post vol-2

Logico just wrote that entire thing in therapy while working out his issues. Did it help? Unclear

Post vol-3 Irratino really DID propose marriage and Logico's like "idk... we're really different... we don't get along... maybe... we're just Not Meant To Be" and then wandered off to brood and take a nap and subconsciously came up with a whole whirlwind romance scenario in which the foundations of reason and mystery are inextricably linked and to live without the other is to live an incomplete and unfulfilled existence. And then he woke up and said yes

Rare example of Logico trolling

[mercury50]

Fever dream

[the-golden-ghost]

Ok I know this wasn't how it was supposed to come off but the part where Irratino's sitting there shamefacedly not looking Logico in the eye while Night's sitting around smug displaying Irratino's signature Ruby Pin just kinda reads like Night and Irratino fucked behind the bleachers

[angelsflungme]

they should mass produce queequeg merch

[sparvverius]

it is very fun that ahab is so obsessed with having symbols Mean Something and yet he ignores what other people see as obvious omens that moby dick is going to fucking kill them all and god wants them to go home

[mercury50]

Ahab: This must Mean Something

Starbuck: This means we are all going to die

Stubb: Maybe this means something, maybe it doesn't, whatever

Flask: This doesn't mean anything

[greatestgargadon]

I don’t think everyone should read Moby-Dick, but I do think it should be adapted into every possible medium.

I want to see Moby-Dick: The Musical. I want the Midnight, Forecastle chapter performed on stage in drag. I want an Ishmael dating sim. I want Moby-Dick as a D&D campaign. The Whiteness of the Whale as an abstract painting. The Whale’s Skeleton as a children’s play structure. Anything, everything, big as you can make it

[burntuprelics]

the moby dick musical is fascinating to me like imagine hamilton is all the rage and you decide to write an avant garde musical about how america is and has always been racist but you are some white guy who only kind of understands all that and you think that the best way to do that is for sure an adaptation of moby dick. the book about the whale. and there is a scene where the diverse and inclusive crew is singing about touching whale sperm 💯

[burntuprelics]

the moby dick musical is fascinating to me like imagine hamilton is all the rage and you decide to write an avant garde musical about how america is and has always been racist but you are some white guy who only kind of understands all that and you think that the best way to do that is for sure an adaptation of moby dick. the book about the whale. and there is a scene where the diverse and inclusive crew is singing about touching whale sperm 💯

[spider-artdump]

[bodhrancomedy]

Me: *Reads HG Parry’s Declaration on the Rights of Magicians and then proceeds to fall totally and completely in love with her writing.*

Also me: *Fully aware she wrote other books but just never picked them up for the next four/five years.*

Me: *Bawling on a train having finished The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep*

[the-golden-ghost]

Ok fine. Top ten funniest momence in Murdle: Volume 1:

(Contains spoilers so watch out if you're not done)

"I'm the world's greatest detective, Deductive Logico, and this is my partner, Inspector Irratino, he's also a detective. Just not the world's greatest"

Obsidian leaving Logico a "hey loser I faked my death and I'm coming back in chapter 4" note which Logico proceeds to Not Read and then react with Shock and Awe when she turns out to be alive

The part where they go to a hotel in the middle of nowhere and there's a whole convoluted love-and-vengeance driven tragic murder-romance playing out and they solve it and then leave and it turns out the hotel Closed Thirty Years Ago! and this is evidence of GHOSTS so they go back and the hotel is GONE and replaced with an EMPTY LOT and Logico's like "idk. Might have been swamp gas"

Irratino like "I can find a murder using astrology :) " and then he uses astrology to pick a spot and Logico calls him a moron who uses fake methodology and they drive all the way out there and there's actually a murder there

One of the reoccurring suspects is Dracula. Just like, casually

A penguin gets murdered and Irratino's so distraught by that he calls out to God and God actually responds. Nobody else can talk to God btw

Irratino sending a text that says "idk lol" thanks man👍

Logico failing to solve a major plot point for like 23 straight cases cause he was holding the clue upside down

Irratino coming up with something that was already IN the clues like ok THANKS my guy I owe you one. HUGE help could not have solved that without Occult Intervention

House Arrest Divorce Arc that turns into the House Arrest Flirting Arc

Runners-up:

One of the Actually Serious Plot-Relevant puzzles has two kids in a trenchcoat as a suspect

Irratino's Evil Henchmen who are supposed to, in theory, be private investigators or something. Despite this they murder people all the time off the clock. None of them get fired for this

[crimsonrainsoughtflowerrs]

hi murdle community first post here kinda nervous

may i interest you in the oxymoron miis. miixymoron. oxymiiron. whatever you'd like to call them.

i dont believe either of them have. canon appearances besides the hair + eye color so I took my own creative liberties with them ehe

[lowriderr1]

I've gotta post my guys, Exhibit A is Logico, Exhibit B is Irratino, Exhibit C is my queen Obsidian, Exhibit D is Logico and Tino's son Chris, and Exhibit E is Dame obsidian's son Hikaru

[ghoul-icious]

Something of note:

Hey have you noticed that Logico doesn’t get described ever

the guy is never really described in the books except for a select few times when his info card is shown. He’s not in the suspect art museum. We don’t even get a throw-away line about it from Irratino!

But it does mean that with every fic, the readers may all be envisioning an entirely different person. I myself write Logico with no set design in mind at all lol, maybe I should come up with one

Everyone has their own unique descriptors and fanart for him, iirc there are a few bits of fanon. It’s fun ^_^

[lazy-toad]

The thing is that I get how someone could get frustrated or bored with all the side tangents in Moby Dick but I think the book being written in first person just makes it rather endearing to me. This isn't just Herman Melville trying to stuff in as many whale facts as could possibly be relevant into the book, no. This is Ishmael taking us aside and going "hey, here's some context that might prove useful to have :]" and "I love whales and I hope you can understand why" and I just go omg thank you Ishmael, my good friend Ishmael wants me to know these whale facts.. wow :]