#moby dick posting

[simplepotatofarmer]

i finished reading 'moby dick' and it's basically like 400 pages of a guy talking about whales and how everything is a loose-fish and bitching about poorly drawn whale paintings except for the first fifty or so pages which is him having a gay love affair with some dude he just met and the last forty pages in which he finally remembers it's supposed to be a novel and novels need a story so he just wraps it up with 'then they all died the end'.

10/10 no notes, never read this

[runninghands]

[nonebinary-leftbeef]

Trying to make friends but all I know how to talk about is the fart joke in moby dick

[simplepotatofarmer]

your recent posts inpsired me so hear me out: moby dick crivals duo au...

OKAY BUT GENUINELY

unironically there's a place for c!dream as ahab. someone who is obsessed with getting back what he lost, going back to something he can no longer have, to the point of self-destruction. the desire to punish, himself included, for the pains given to him. the fact that he still cares despite it all and the fact he can't really let go is what leads the people he cares for (though he says/acts like he doesn't) to their doom.

it's a thought that's been bouncing around in my head because i've seen people do that 'variant' thing and i'm like 'no wait this could work'.

anyway, techno would be a little harder to do a one-for-one with but sometimes it's fun to just make up a role for a character within the universe and i absolutely could do that here......

also sorry it took me a bit to answer! i'm just slow right now <3 <3

[simplepotatofarmer]

hot take from 'moby dick': all dragons from myth were probably whales, actually because whales are way cooler. whales are planets and books and dragons are just stupid snakes. also knights probably were riding large seals and not horses but people back then were just too stupid about whales and stuff to know this so they called them dragons.

[runninghands]

There is so much chatter about searching for “hidden meaning” and symbolism in Moby Dick but I have been finding that Melville more often than not will very plainly explain his symbolism (sometimes immediately after doing the symbolism) in plain terms. Tashtego gets stuck in the decapitated and now sinking whale head so Queequeg dives in to pull Tashtego headfirst from the leviathan’s skull?

Did that passage sound like birth by cesarian? Melville immediately says yeah, we’re talking about obstetrics ya’ll! Everyone man should learn how birthing works. He’s putting a lot of symbolism in this beast but he’s not hiding it.

[runninghands]

Holy shit I finally finished Moby Dick.

[runninghands]

This book is so obsessed with the damned nature of masculine relationships. How the Pequod, an ivory boat the perfect mirror of the white whale Moby Dick. The men inside that boat yearn for glory through conquest and the white whale can only promise their destruction through this pursuit.