#tashtego

[mobynick]

trying to pull intellectual baddie on board the Pequod

[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

and read my mobydick webcomic!

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

[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)

[sweetsurrenderbyjohndenver]

Breaking my silence to say that tashtego can absolutely get it

[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.

[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