#MobyDick

[pocketsizedquasar]

[ID: A digital drawing of Ishmael sitting on the beach and writing/drawing in a notebook. The top left of the image has handwritten text that reads “Moby Dick: or, the Webcomic // 4 years.” More detailed ID in alt text.]

It’s Moby Dick: or, the Webcomic’s 4th birthday today! So so delighted and excited to have made it this far, and for everything still to come.

Just about a week ago, (about when I thought I would), I finally finished the thumbnails for ch3! It’s gonna be a long one, but I’m so so excited for it. Can’t wait for y’all to meet one of my favorite characters. Can’t wait for the juicy drama. Can’t wait for y’all to see an actual proper whale hunt! And more shenanigans, nautical nonsense, queer delight, and other such miscellaneous happenings.

We’re still shooting for / on track for an initial start date of sometime this summer, and I will absolutely update with a more specific start date as soon as I have a better idea of that, but yeah! Chapter 3 pages are properly underway!

extremely excited for chapter 3, and the rest of this story. thanks so much to everyone for reading 💖💖🐋🐋

#mobydick #moby dick #whale weekly #ishmael #herman melville #melville #classic lit #classic literature #litblr #bookblr #webcomic update #comic update #sort of lol #art #my art #happy birthday to my baby <3 she’s old enough to be in preschool!!!! #so proud of her

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID in Alt Text]

strolling in fashionably late to the two year anniversary of the greatest musical adaptation of Moby Dick of all time, Caleb Hayashida's 'Moby Dick or the Whale'. I've been thoroughly enamored with this album for over a year now and it only felt right to do a tribute for its birthday :)

now, go do yourself a favor and listen to Sea Fever 💙💙

some notes about the details I added under the cut!

Some notes on this as a tribute!

Firstly, as always, my Ishmael design is stolen from the beloved @pocketsizedquasar :3

Secondly, the primary songs captured by this piece are meant to be 'Interpretation', 'Whiteness of the Whale', and 'Whaleman's Hymn'. Interpretation is primary, since that song refers directly to the painting at Spouter Inn, and Ishmael's attempts to interpret it. (Aside: it's a brilliant song that foreshadows chords repeated during the chase, it confuses and delights the listener much like book Ishmael's ramblings do, and it odes to the album itself being an interpretation of a novel. also it's a bop. I fucking love it.) The whale in the picture is, you guessed it, the whale song. That one I felt was important to center as Hayashida himself intentionally put that song at the center of the album as a focal point for the rest to follow around (and for the narrative to break inside - give it a listen, the end is incredible). It's literally the centerpiece. And finally, the lyrics are from Whaleman's Hymn, the gorgeous ode at the end of the album.

Ishmael is also posed as both moving and stagnant in the center as a reference to the cyclical nature of Hayashida's album. It ends with the same lyrics it begins with ("I must be out to sea"), and so here, Ishmael meant to be caught in the space between both of those songs. Moving and yet unable to move from where he is.

The watery effect was particularly inspired by Drifting, as that song fills me with an immense sense of peace and gives me the feeling of laying down at an aquarium watching the light of the water dance around. It also helps make the mood of the piece a bit more dynamic, as the looming painting, dissonant colors, and heavy shading all feel a bit foreboding, and the water effect both enhances that by giving an unnatural feel, and subdues that by communicating a semblance of peace and muting the colors.

The oil effect and jagged colors of the piece itself are references to the official album cover art! The flaming harpoon's colors are mimicked in the red light at the top of the painting, and the bright teal/white is mimicked in the whale at the bottom. They're also positioned over each other, just like on the album cover.

The painting itself is also supposed to be reminiscent of The Chase, in all its chaotic glory. Hayashida has an INSANE stroke of genius with that song where, at a certain point, two different time signatures overlap to show the whale opposing the crew/Ahab. The blend is so smooth that it's easy to miss if you aren't looking for it, and yet so brilliant that it makes you anxious for the buildup and final clash. The saturated opposing colors are supposed to be something of a nod to that, as well as the nature of the painting being a sinking ship and a white whale lol

So, yeah those are my notes! :D thank you for reading and definitely give this masterpiece a listen!! 💙💙

#moby dick #caleb hayashida #mobydick #mobydick art #whale weekly #melville #herman melville #moby dick art #ishmael #ishmael mobydick #ishmael moby dick #moby dick or the whale #classic lit #classic literature #litblr #described #accessible art #mossy art #ONE DAY LATE BUT IT'S FINEE #photoshop was not letting me finish this yesterday rip #Spotify #album recommendation

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

genuinely very tragic and upsetting that for like 200 years Ahab has been talked about as the mad wild captain when in reality, yes, his violence dooms the narrative, but at the core of his character, he is just a deeply lonely, deeply hurt, disabled and traumatized man who is trying to make sense of his pain in a world that would rather leave him bleeding in the streets :(

being forced back out to a rigorous, deadly job after being freshly impaled on your own mobility aid would make anyone insane, I think.

#moby dick #mobydick #captain ahab #ahab #i am so upset about chapter 106 dude #herman melville #classic lit #litblr #mossy speaks #:((((

[davescheapgarage]

#porsche #935 #longtail #mobydick

[pocketsizeddick]

merry christmas ya filthy animals have some sketches from a few weeks ago i kept forgetting to post

full / uncensored version in rbs

#ahab #captain ahab #starhab #starbuck #moby dick #mobydick

[sucka99]

#moby dick #mobydick #ghostbusters

[briandupont]

#drawing between abyssalpelagic and haldalpelagic. Work in #process. . #art #contemporaryart #abstractart #mobydick #Melville #workinprocess #wip https://www.instagram.com/p/CoiBnRSrtTy/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#drawing #process #art #contemporaryart #abstractart #mobydick #melville #workinprocess #wip

[sun-graph]

ジョン・ヒューストン監督、グレゴリー・ペック主演『白鯨（原題：Moby Dick）』BD/DVDのデザイン

白鯨に復讐に取り憑かれ魅了されたエイハブ船長。取り憑かれたがゆえに怨念と云うファンタジーになっていた。時として怨念というのものは人を魅了する。一度、怨念の魅力に引き込まれると抜け出しにくい。他人事だった怨念は己のアイデンティティとなり確立されてゆく。そんな、船長と船長の怨念に引き込まれた船員たち（職が選べない時代の人たち）の航海と白鯨との死闘の物語。 まだまだ人類は惨敗する。惨敗のあとには何時もと変わらぬ何食わぬ顔した大海原に悠々と泳ぎ消える白鯨の姿。そのカラダにはエイハブの亡骸があった。 地球は静かである。自然は様変わる。人類だけが物騒で騒々しい。という様を惑星の爆発よりも高いエネルギーで、星が誕生する引力のように魅せてくれる。 観た後は何かしれない高鳴りと清々しい無力感、もうクタクタである……。

だから私もデザインで応えたい。受けたエネルギーに応えよう！エネルギーだけは雄弁だ！シレッともサラっとしないでエネルギーを人類に還元しよう！それは暑苦しいかもしれない。でも、そうなのだから仕方がない。ということでアートワークに落とし込みました。

ちなみに、この映画を観るのは約40年ぶりになる。子どもの私はアーネスト・ヘミングウェイ著『老人と海』と勘違いして観たので「えっ！」となり、そして、非常にカロリーを消費してクタクタになった記憶がある。それ以来ということになる。

#白鯨 #ジョンヒューストン #グレゴリーペック #mobydick #gregorypeck #johnhuston

[universalzone]

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville Mug.

#moby dick #MobyDick #herman melville #thewhale #books #book club #bookworm #bookstore #books & libraries #bookaholic #book quotes #books and reading #book #universal zone #UniversalZone #univrsalzone #book reading #reading books #bookish gifts #bookishlife #literary gifts

[saintcentury]

Oh yeah? If you're so sure about that, why don't you put it in a glass bottle and throw it in the ocean?

#wanderlust #penpals #mobydick #cringefail #givingseasaltngl

[pocketsizedquasar]

whale weekly folks are at the squeeze of the hand chapter happy gay whaler sex saturday to all who celebrate. happy have an orgy on deck day

#hope y’all are having a good one #whale weekly #mobydick #moby dick #squeeze of the hand #ishmael #chapters of all time. truly #quasartalks #herman melville #melville #happy gay whaler sex day

[mossy-rainfrog]

[ID: A digital painting of Captain Ahab from Moby Dick standing in a storm and wielding a burning harpoon. He stands near the railing of the ship as a wave breaks over the bulwarks, and scowls fiercely towards the viewer, mouth open as if in mid-speech, akin to a snarl. He holds the harpoon in both hands, and waves the burning barb of it in front of him. The light reflects off of his eyes, his face, and the droplets of water on his skin. Behind him, huge waves surround the ship. The next three images are closeups of the drawing: on his hands, his face, and the harpoon itself.

Character design: Ahab is an older chubby and muscular Persian man with short curly greying dark hair, a pointed beard, a lightning scar across his face, and a scar across his nose and lip. He wears a high-collared red coat over a light colored undershirt. End ID.]

"All your oaths to hunt the White Whale are as binding as mine; and heart, soul, and body, lungs and life, old Ahab is bound. And that ye may know to what tune this heart beats; look ye here; thus I blow out the last fear!" - Moby Dick: Chapter 119 ,The Candles

FINALLY finished this tribute to my favorite Ahab moment in the whole entire book. HOT MEN PUT DOWN A MUTINY SINGLEHANDEDLY WITH A BURNING HARPOON!!!! GAH!!!!!!!! special thanks to unsplash for all my color references, to my computer for putting up with this file, and @pocketsizedquasar for the most gorgeous and grand Ahab design of all time. Go read their webcomic.

#moby dick #mobydick #moby dick art #captain ahab #ahab #whale weekly #whale weekly spoilers #melville #herman melville #classic lit #classic literature #described #accessible art #mossy art #GAHHHH I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR MONTHS AND I LOVE HIM SOOOOOOO MUCH. LOOK AT THAT MAN

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Still losing my mind over how well Ahab's disability is handled in Moby-Dick, a novel from 1851 that handles a bunch of other topics on a wide scale of okay/good to very very bad, like????????

The way his prosthetic and disability are always a very visible, audible, notable thing about him but they don't subtract a milimeter from his incredibly powerful, commanding presence??? Even when he pities himself, the narrative itself never frames him as weak or incapable.

He's in constant pain, sure, and he has physical limitations, but he's also massively capable, capable enough to join whale hunts and put down a mutiny with a flaming harpoon and eventually drive a ship of 30+ people to their graves. He is powerful, he moves the narrative. His disability does not make him lesser than.

The way even when his leg breaks, when he has to be supported by Starbuck, or when he can't climb the mast himself and needs to be lifted, or other kinds of accommodations, the narrative backs him up in lending him support and power. It still sees him as whole and commanding and powerful, even though he needs help. What an insane concept from a christian American novel about capitalism like????????? needing help for being disabled doesn't make you less worthy???? HELLO???

The way he also has a super relatable disabled moment where he gets too excited and jumps onto a rope ladder before like. realizing his pegleg can't get a grip on that thing and he can't climb up gbdjxjdj LITERALLY the disabled experience of forgetting ur disabled and being like "oh fuck. help" is SOOOOO FUN, and even that isn't treated with disdain! He has his 'oops' moment, then gets properly accommodated, and 2 seconds later he's triumphantly crossing prosthetics with another captain, not the slightest bit emasculated.

Idk man I see disabled characters treated with less respect TODAY than Captain Ahab was in fucking 1851 and it kind of astounds me. 10/10 for this particular bit, Melville

#moby dick #mobydick #ahab #captain ahab #canonically disabled character #mossy speaks #im just thinking abt him #that bit on the ladder is SO dear to me im in love with him actuallh #even the little things melville gets wrong are like. just innocuously inaccurate not ever super malicious #fascinating

[groenewold]

Sin poder escapar el Ajolote fue capturado! 🔥💀🎣 . . . . #ajolote #ajolotes #axolotl #axolote #fishing #pesca #catrina #calavera #skull #skeleton #dead #illustration #engraving #grabado #arte #art #mobydick #sea #hunt #procreate #mexico #xochimilco #visitmexico (en Xochimilco) https://www.instagram.com/p/CplEE6kv9iC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[pocketsizeddick]

(full version in RB)

i gift u. colorful smut.

i hate these two stupid old men. why do they drive me so insane. i’m so normal about them /lying

#mobydick #moby dick #starhab #ahab #captain ahab #i hate them #bare chest #partial nudity

[mossy-rainfuck]

(full version in RB)

kicked out of the group chat (inst×gram) for saying what i would do to that old man. anyways i remembered i can post lineart without colors 😎

who up being normal about men :)

#hiding from god (tumgl) #mobydick #starhab #moby dick #shirtless #ahab #starbuck #where is starbuck you ask? well. look at rb :)