#melville

[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

[priestess-draws]

its 3 am my hand hurts and like maybe 5 people know who this is

#i mean even i kinda dont know #melville #mahou shoujo ikusei keikaku #magical girl raising project #kuji mashiro #mashiro kuji #gee i wonder if she likes cranberry. #mahou shoujo #magical girl #my art

[heinrichheineee]

Nathaniel Hawthorne writing about Herman Melville. Journal entry date: November 12, 1856

“It is strange how he persists — and has persisted ever since I knew him, and probably long before”

Source: Jay Leyda, The Melville Log, A Documentary Life of Herman Melville: 1819-1891, vol. II

#Nathaniel Hawthorne #Hawthorne #Herman Melville #Melville #american lit #american literature #literature #romanticism #1800s #19th century lit #19th century literature #1800s literature #journal #The Melville Log #jay leyda #leyda

[empirearchives]

Herman Melville on Napoleon’s love for Ossian

Context: Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian.

“I am rejoiced to see Hazlitt speak for Ossian. There is nothing more contemptable in that contemptable man (tho' good poet, in his department) Wordsworth, than his contempt for Ossian. And nothing that more raises my idea of Napoleon than his great admiration for him.—The loneliness of the spirit of Ossian harmonized with the loneliness of the greatness of Napoleon.”

Melville wrote this around 1862 in the margins of his copy of Hazlitt’s Lectures on the English Comic Writers and Lectures on the English Poets

Source: Hershel Parker, Herman Melville: A Biography - Volume 2, p. 436

#Herman Melville #Melville #Napoleon #napoleon bonaparte #Hershel Parker #Herman Melville biography #Herman Melville: A Biography #Hazlitt #Lectures on the English Comic Writers #Ossian #romanticism #napoleonic era #napoleonic #american literature #American lit #american renaissance #Wordsworth #the poems of Ossian #celtic mythology #fingal #temora #british literature #Scottish #scottish literature #Scotland

[weil-weil-lautre]

So far tens of millions of Americans can understand Ahab. They have worked under such men. A smaller but not insignificant number have gone through his experiences. The Diesel engine and now atomic energy face the vast majority with the same problem that he faced: the obvious, immense, the fearful mechanical power of an industrial civilization which is now advancing by incredible leaps and bringing at the same time the mechanization and destruction of human personality. Men who are thinking like that, classes of people in a nation who are thinking such thoughts, are being steadily prepared for desperate action. If now there descends upon them a violent catastrophe that ruins them and convinces them that the life they have been living is intolerable and the grave doubts that have previously tormented them are justifiable, then they are going to throw aside all the traditional restraints of civilization. They are going to seek a new theory of society and a program of action and, on the basis of this theory and this program, they are going to act.

CLR James, Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In

#clr james #james #herman melville #melville #moby-dick #literature #american literature #quote #archivist

[unteriors]

Fontenot Street, Melville, Louisiana.

#Melville #Louisiana

[the-moby-dick]

─ ; “Heeyy Mister Melville! Since you're here, Have you heard about the members dating each other? Like Ranpo from the Armed Detective Agency and Poe! Then there's Steinbeck and Lovecraft. And the newest couple, Hawthorne and Miss Margaret! They're such a cute couple, aren't they~?”

( @guilds-best-sniper )

I have heard about these things, yes. I'm happy for them.

#ooc: my guy feels so single #bsd roleplay #bsd #roleplay #melville #melville bsd #herman melville #bungo stray dogs #bungou stray dogs

[mrsq8geek]

The Talos Principle 2 + cheesy pick up lines ❤️

bonus below the cut:

Mayor ruins environment! Read all about it!

#the talos principle #the talos principle 2 #featuring #byron #yaqut #alcatraz #rand #thecla #helga #lynerks #herman #al again #doge #melville #chancey #neith #taking requests #give me pick up lines! #and the characters #is it just me or #do these keep getting thirstier with each one #welp #nothin doin

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

24 heures de la vie d'un clown (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1946)

#24 heures de la vie d'un clown #Jean-Pierre Melville #Melville #quote #short film #night #morning #sleep #black and white #1946 #24 Hours in the Life of a Clown #Jean Pierre Melville #Clown #Vingt-quatre heures de la vie d'un clown

[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

[thefisherqueen]

“It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude,” So much alliteration. Yet it still is beautiful prose

#whale weekly #moby dick #melville #chapter 51

[detournementsmineurs]

“Les Enfants Terribles” de Jean-Pierre Melville (1950) - adapté du roman éponyme de Jean Cocteau (1929) - avec Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermit, Jacques Bernard, Renée Cosima, Adeline Aucoc, Maurice Revel et la voix-off de Jean Cocteau, mars 2024.

#films #spirit #fairies #Melville #Cocteau #Stephane #Dermit #Bernard #Cosima #Aucoc #Revel

[coulson-is-an-avenger]

Chapters: 1/1

Words: 11,234

Fandom: Moby Dick - Herman Melville

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Starbuck/Mary Starbuck/Original Female Character(s), Captain Ahab/Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Mary Starbuck (Moby Dick), Starbuck/Original Male Character(s), (it's a polycule but it's mid-expansion and also during the 1840s so it's a bit messy, but they're working it out) - Relationship

Characters: Starbuck, Mary Starbuck, Starbuck's Son, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Captain Ahab (mentioned)

Additional Tags: Pre-Canon, Polyamory, Polyamorous Character, Polyamory Negotiations, Queer Awakening, Bittersweet, Depressed Starbuck (Moby Dick), Hurt/Comfort, Alcohol, cowboy, Brief Sexual Content, Starbuck is a sad wet cat who sucks and I like him so much

Summary: The sea has taken all that Starbuck has ever known: his father, his brothers, his wish for a peaceful future with the woman he loves. Now, he fears, it has taken his only friend as well.

He misses Ahab, so much that it is sending him spiraling away from all his known lovings and comforts. He misses Ahab, so much that he would do anything to feel that even a piece of him is still here. He misses Ahab, and he burns. Oh, how he burns.

Or: The Cowboy Fic :3

special thanks to @pocketsizedquasar for getting me into MD, as usual, but also for putting up with me talking abt this fic for months, as well as beta reading it for me, and for @comfycouchcat who helped me with some LOAD bearing plot and character decisions <3

#moby dick #mobydick #starhab #the great nantucket polycule #starbuck #melville #herman melville #moby dick fic #mobydick fic #classic lit #litblr #my writing #mossy writes #HAPPY THANKSIGIVNG I FUCKING GUESS LOL I AM MAKING IT A TREND FOR THIS QUAKER TO BE IN SITUATIONS ON AMERICAN HOLIDAYS #mossy speaks

[nakanosorami]

前描いて放置してたクラムベリーにボコられるメルヴィルです by obb_osk

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#mahou shoujo ikusei keikaku #magical girl raising project #melville #restart #fanart #posts #q