#also. fully not that fedallahs rep in book was good at ALL

[pocketsizedquasar]

this is my fault for bringing the musical up again in the discord but i truly lose my fucking shit every time i remember dave malloy was fully like “i’m going to make moby dick more relevant to modern day america, and so i’m going to take this persian zoroastrian character and make him a Black (& not persian also) muslim character”

essentially writing off an entire ethnicity and our religion as “irrelevant” 

#mobydick #moby dick #moby dick: a musical reckoning #moby dick musical #mdamr #fedallah #herman melville #dave malloy #i'm tagging this with the musical tags actually because Fuck this #quasartalks #also. fully not that fedallahs rep in book was good at ALL #it wasnt #it was a grossly orientalized caricature #but the solution to that isnt to ERASE his race and culture??! #like #in what world #does that make sense #also making him do an Exotic Middle Eastern Accent TM?? #fucked up