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sky // 26 // any pronouns // this is my blog for Moby-Dick! My main blog is rated-r-for-grantaire. I also have a twitter, an ao3, and an Instagram. There's more social media/sideblogs too but like...don't worry about it lmao

[romanceyourdemons]

funniest moment in moby dick is when they meet another captain who lost a limb to the white whale and ahab goes like “and dost thy blood not boil, aye, and the very marrow of thy bones too, to know that the wretched creature and very devil of the sea that harmed us both still draws breath??” and the ship captain is like no i’m fine, it wasn’t the whale’s fault or anything. i mean imagine actually holding a grudge against a fish lmao that’s actually the funniest thing i’ve ever heard and ahab goes you don’t know what the FUCK you’re talking about. and stamps his foot so hard he breaks his ivory leg

[milfsisyphus]

*catches your white whale easily and by accident*

[funeral-clown]

ah the gender euphoria of dying gruesomely at sea

[makingqueerhistory]

Two of my favourite buttons from the Arquives so far.

[areax]

“ugh why is moby-dick so long”

ishmael is telling you a story about how all his friends died and how he was the sole survivor of the disaster, why wouldn't he want to delay getting to that point of the story as long as possible?

the odyssey

the length of the book parallels the long amounts of time that whalers were away from home with long periods of boredom punctuated few and far between by brief bouts of frenzied action

you don't like cetology? whalelore? kys

since when have you ever complained about a dick being long. ungrateful

[drumcaper]

Everyone who reads Moby Dick instantly turns into a fanatic about it and its making me realise that you all would all go buck wild at the opportunity to go whaling to help some old man fight God. You would all cheer for the dabloon that would mark your final throes.

[remarkablecows]

[rated-r-for-grantaire]

surprise little gift for everyone on Dave Malloy day!

[catilinas]

[saranilssonbooks]

Just a picture of Gregory "Ahab" Peck getting soaked.

[houseofcucci]

Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

[beggars-opera]

I'm personally after the white whale that took my leg

[dajo42]

a video that starts "how to dress to make your man OBSESSED with you 😍" and it abruptly cuts to somebody dressed as a huge and uncannily realistic white whale

[queenklu]

so i hear tumblr's dying and this moby dick meme idea has lived in my head for literal years...

[partwayinlovewithtragedy]

i genuinely think boats are such good places to set a story because it automatically gives you a set of really interesting circumstances -- boats are transitory, you are not meant to stay on them forever, there is an automatic assumption of ending up somewhere different from where you started...characters are forced into close proximity, stakes are higher, etc. boats also just look cool, so that's always a plus

[many-bees]

The thing you have to keep in mind about Moby Dick is that it’s an explicitly anti-racist text written by a white guy in the 1850s. So you end up with stuff like Ishmael spending an entire paragraph complimenting a Polynesian guy on his skull shape.

[vector-field-outpost]

by @kleefkruid

[r0sierosierosie]

one thing i love about dave malloy that not many other writers do is that he adds explicitly queer characters to his work but doesnt make it their only character trait , or make them the butt of the joke .

his characters are queer , but theyre also fully fleshed out with complex storylines .

dave malloy i love you so much .

[depsidase]