Mar 25, 2024
The real monster is Man
Except when it's a really big wjale the n it's the whale
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The real monster is Man
Except when it's a really big wjale the n it's the whale
the humble basking shart
Whale posting hours.
Top five times whales looked tuff facing the front.
#5. Imposing. Kubrick stare tilt. Very tuff.
#4. Smug. Challenging. Dominant. I'd say that whale is tuff.
#3. He knows you're looking, and he's looking back. Tuff.
#2. The speed. The power. The intention. He'll kick your ass. That's seriously tuff.
#1. Tuffest whale of all time. Squared up. Ready for anything. Commands the whole sea with his astounding presence.
Whales from todayyy
Look, i just really like whales okay
Was listening to golden brown while drawing this... Now the song is ringing in my head like crazy
prints I made while I was reading moby dick
GODLEVEL MOBY-DICK QUOTES AND MOMENTS - post 5?? i'm in shook. I need a moment. I'm gonna spontaneously combust.
“Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!” deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood. (I do not baptize you in the name of the father but in the name of the devil)
Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee.
“God, God is against thee, old man; forbear! ’tis an ill voyage! ill begun, ill continued; let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it homewards, to go on a better voyage than this.”
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?—Yes, it would make him the wilful murderer of thirty men and more, if this ship come to any deadly harm; and come to deadly harm, my soul swears this ship will, if Ahab have his way.
As for the men, though some of them lowly rumbled, their fear of Ahab was greater than their fear of Fate.
Making so long a passage through such unfrequented waters, descrying no ships, and ere long, sideways impelled by unvarying trade winds, over waves monotonously mild; all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene.
“Great God! but for one single instant show thyself,” cried Starbuck; “never, never wilt thou capture him, old man—In Jesus’ name no more of this, that’s worse than devil’s madness. Two days chased; twice stove to splinters; thy very leg once more snatched from under thee; thy evil shadow gone—all good angels mobbing thee with warnings:—what more wouldst thou have?—Shall we keep chasing this murderous fish till he swamps the last man? Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?
Fool! I am the Fates’ lieutenant; I act under orders.
“Some ships sail from their ports, and ever afterwards are missing, Starbuck!”
“Truth, sir: saddest truth.”
“Some men die at ebb tide; some at low water; some at the full of the flood;—and I feel now like a billow that’s all one crested comb, Starbuck. I am old;—shake hands with me, man.”
Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck’s tears the glue.
“Oh, my captain, my captain!—noble heart—go not—go not!—see, it’s a brave man that weeps; how great the agony of the persuasion then!”
“Lower away!”—cried Ahab, tossing the mate’s arm from him. “Stand by the crew!”
In an instant the boat was pulling round close under the stern.
seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven
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THE WHOLE THUNDER STRIKES THE MASTS SCENE !!! THE APOTHEOSIS OF AHAB AND IT’S ALL IN VAIN AFTER ALL
the whole ”i have children too” starbuck moment !! he knows his days are done!! ahab crying ! He knows his days are done too!!
ahab rolling a d1 on a boss fight he started out of spite and witnessing the whale doing a casual nat 20 and still he continues with it !!! madlad! That FUCKING FROM HELL’S HEART speech and immediately perishing without a sound afterwards !! POETIC FUCKING JUSTICE !!
”The Candles” is the most gothic thing i’ve read in a while, i’m still getting literal damn chills, holy fuck
c h o m p
(Turns the ship around and pretends he saw nothing out of the ordinary. Is still not sure if he'd had a vision or if something has actually happened.)
That's it, I'm calling it. I'm calling it, we're going home. If anyone wants to stay here, be my guest. Take the boat and any lance you want but know it will not be enough. But I'm leaving and I'm taking the ship, too.