#captain ahab

[burningvelvet]

captain ahab 🤝 captain flint

unapproachable terrifying intelligent captains who are viewed as gods of the sea and who bribe their crew with the promise of spanish gold to achieve a years-in-the-making revenge scheme they're utterly obsessed with to the point of madness

#isnt a lot but weird that it happened twice #i love a corrupt captain #literature #black sails #treasure island #moby dick #captain flint #james mcgraw #james flint #captain ahab #piratecore #maritime #nautical #nautical fiction #pirates #media #books #comparison #byronic heroes

[the-golden-vanity]

I can't be the first person to make this observation, but it's just struck me that Captain Ahab from Moby-Dick and Thomas Blanky from The Terror represent the opposite ends of a spectrum—"How well do you cope with losing your leg to a huge white beast that destroys hubristic seafaring men?"

#“from hell's heart I stab at thee” vs. “I feel like we just got engaged” #moby dick #the terror #captain ahab #thomas blanky #boat media #age of sail #age of sail fiction #maritime #nautical #whale weekly

[prokopetz]

The problem with Glitch is that you could play the actual, literary Captain Ahab as a player character with no changes whatsoever, and it would work fine by the rules-as-written, but you'd be up there trying to do a thing about the self-destructive nature of spite and everybody else would just be joking that your Affliction is "dying of whales".

#gaming #tabletop roleplaying #tabletop rpgs #nobilis #glitch #media #literature #moby-dick #captain ahab #death mention

[whitecutterr]

i made something

#limbus company #limbus company fanart #ishmael limbus company #ishmael #ishmael lcb #lcb ishmael #ahab lcb #captain ahab #ahab #i love old toxic women #its my fault

[karhun-kallo]

niche and self indulgent valentines that cater to me specifically (if they cater to you as well, i will be so happy)

#moby dick #herman melville #captain ahab #les mis #les miserables #javert #jean valjean #valvert #lotr #lord of the rings #gollum #ravenous 1999 #my art

[wolvzephyr]

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool!” (ch. 135)

#project moon #limbus company bus #lcb #pm #captain ahab #canto v

[pocketsizedquasar]

what you fear you have become

[ID: An ink drawing of Ahab and Moby Dick. Ahab stands at the bows of his whaleboat with his back to the viewer, holding his harpoon. Behind him, the white whale breaches out of the water. Ahab’s head is replaced by where the whale’s eye is.

the second image is a photo of the drawing including the ink & pens used to make it. the last image is a closeup shot of the drawing.]

#mobydick #moby dick #whale weekly #ahab #captain ahab #melville #herman melville #classic lit #classic literature #ink drawing #dip pen #art #my art

[reasonablyneurotic]

finally drew ahab !

#I Am So excited for captain Ishmael. I need to. Put her in my mouth #And chew #captain ahab #ahab #ahab lcb #ahab limbus company #limbus company #lcb #art #limbus company fanart

[deadbeatescape]

THAR SHE BLOWS

#illustration by jerry dillingham #moby dick #captain ahab #meme #liveposting from the house of usher #jerry dillingham #classic lit memes #classic lit #classic literature #100

[saranilssonbooks]

Sat staring out across the ocean when a man who looked so much like the Ahab of my imagination that it was downright uncanny waded past in the surf. He was also in the midst of smoking one of the fattest joints I've ever seen and it made me think (not for the first time) that things could have ended up quite differently.

#moby dick #herman melville #obsession #literature #classic literature #book characters #captain ahab #anecdote #whale weekly

[burningvelvet]

36 chapters into moby dick. some thoughts:

- take a shot every time he expresses his love for nantucket or whaling trivia

- i know everyone said it was queer and usually i've come to expect that as hyperbole but this time they weren't joking

- CHILDE HAROLD REFERENCE?!?!?!?!?! BYRON QUOTED?!?!?!?! not surprised bc it is the romantic genre which byron & chp helped inspire & he was the best selling writer in early 19c usa & is noted for his oceanic refs & he & esp childe harolds pilgrimage esp are both noted on wikipedia's "nautical fiction" page but like. i had no idea they were immortalized in moby dick

- "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian." AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

- does gay cannibal tumblr know about queequeg & ishmael?

- utterly obsessed with captain ahab for numerous reasons but does anyone else notice how similar he is to captain flint from black sails? like he's literally him but a bit older & combined with silver's leglessness.

- the part where ahab calls stubb a dog lmao

- ishmael getting worried for queequeg when he couldn't find him omg...

- "Where's that girl ? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and tell him to paint me a sign, with — 'no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in the parlor;' — might as well kill both birds at once." MRS. HUSSEY!!!!

- i'm sure that all the focus on queequegs spirituality & his consultation with his god yojo wherein he was informed that ishmael had to pick their boat bc yojo demaded it TOTALLY won't prove to have any prophetic and symbolic consequences later on or anything

- love how the chapters are nice and short but on the flip side that means theyre tricking me into thinking i have less to go than i actually do... as long as i get more ahab i'm good i guess

-melville, at random: and now we take a break from our regularly schedule programming to give you . . . WHALE FACTS! [whips out multiple books on the history of whales and whaling, begins to recite]

#moby dick #currently reading #book reviews #book thoughts #book opinions #literature #american literature #classic literature #herman melville #childe harold’s pilgrimage #captain flint #captain ahab #ishmael #queequeg #lit #classic lit #novels #books

[paig-does-it]

AHAB (Assigned Hater At Boat)

#moby dick #captain ahab #limbus company

[idliketochill]

Ahab (assigned hag at birth)

-my friend enjoying gilfs

#limbussy #captain ahab #ahab lcb #ahab #limbus company #lcb ahab #lcb #my friend wanting them gilfs #toxic old women yuri #lap pillow #canto v #canto v spoilers #I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO TAG SPOILERS WHOOPS #too distracted by insane gilf

[captainsvscaptains]

Round 2 Part 7 Poll 4

Propaganda

Crozier has alcohol problems but stands up when he's needed; he and everyone he answers for are stranded in the coldest place of the Earth after he's warned the previous captain of the expedition to find the north-west passage; yet he /still/ rises up for the occasion eventually for damage control; he has a noble heart; he commands one of the most beautiful warship of the 19th century; he is a little bit cringefail; his love life is a drama; he opens up to his second in command when all is mostly lost; he tries so hard to save the crew; he fails.

what is a captain tournament without ahab tbh? moby dick (whale) bit his leg off in true dick fashion and ahab ditches all efforts of actually whaling to kill him for it. (well not ALL efforts but like. quite a few.) the pettiest bitch ever. had a new leg made out of whale bone SPECIFICALLY. has a hole in the deck where he just. pivots from. loser. has gay tension with his first mate starbuck also i don't know if that matters

(bear in mind i haven't actually finished the book yet ^^ so this may be slightly inaccurate)

#battle of the captains #tournament polls #round 2 #francis crozier #general crozier #the terror 2018 #the terror amc #the terror #captain ahab #ahab #moby dick #herman melville #bookblr

[dotversion2]

re: Moby Dick & Limbus Compny

I appreciate that LC both understands that the White Whale is just the embodiment of Captain Ahab's obsession and could be literally anything AND that we can make the White Whale a terrifying cosmic horror. The villain of the story isn't the whale, it's Ahab. In that sense, the parallels between Ahab and the Whale as beings that twist and consume those around them before throwing them away shows how the monster is man. The Whale is just an animal but humans are only ever a few steps away from being animals themselves.

That said holy shit the Pallid Whale and its spawn are so fucking cool.

#limbus company #moby dick #captain ahab #ishmael

[unfortunately-a-fangirl]

I moby on my dick until she sights the white wale

#original art! #captain ahab #moby dick