What if we kissed inside the whale skeleton draped all over with fresh verdure, where Life folded Death and Death trellised Life? 🐋
January 26, 2026 at 4:58 AM
What if we kissed inside the whale skeleton draped all over with fresh verdure, where Life folded Death and Death trellised Life? 🐋
Ishmael full-body tattoo reveal (Queequeg’s influence?) 🐋
January 26, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Ishmael full-body tattoo reveal (Queequeg’s influence?) 🐋
Ishmael slyly bragging that Tranquo, king of Tranque, invited him to stay for the holidays as a special guest and they went to see a whale skeleton together…sounds kinda romantic if you ask me 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Ishmael slyly bragging that Tranquo, king of Tranque, invited him to stay for the holidays as a special guest and they went to see a whale skeleton together…sounds kinda romantic if you ask me 🐋
Partial list of silly names from Moby Dick:
- the learned Fogo von Slack
- Dr. Bunger, ships surgeon with a dent in his head
- Fitz Swackhammer
- Dr. Snodhead, prof of Low Dutch and High German
- Tranquo, king of Tranque
🐋
- the learned Fogo von Slack
- Dr. Bunger, ships surgeon with a dent in his head
- Fitz Swackhammer
- Dr. Snodhead, prof of Low Dutch and High German
- Tranquo, king of Tranque
🐋
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Partial list of silly names from Moby Dick:
- the learned Fogo von Slack
- Dr. Bunger, ships surgeon with a dent in his head
- Fitz Swackhammer
- Dr. Snodhead, prof of Low Dutch and High German
- Tranquo, king of Tranque
🐋
- the learned Fogo von Slack
- Dr. Bunger, ships surgeon with a dent in his head
- Fitz Swackhammer
- Dr. Snodhead, prof of Low Dutch and High German
- Tranquo, king of Tranque
🐋
“You Bunger! Was there ever such another Bunger in the watery world? Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in a pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal”
Feels like I am reading Tom and Greg dialog from Succession and not Moby Dick 🐋
Feels like I am reading Tom and Greg dialog from Succession and not Moby Dick 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
“You Bunger! Was there ever such another Bunger in the watery world? Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in a pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal”
Feels like I am reading Tom and Greg dialog from Succession and not Moby Dick 🐋
Feels like I am reading Tom and Greg dialog from Succession and not Moby Dick 🐋
“Great pains, small gains for those who ask the world to solve them, it cannot solve itself.” 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 6:54 PM
“Great pains, small gains for those who ask the world to solve them, it cannot solve itself.” 🐋
So many deep ponderings on the doubloon, but imo the Manxman has the biggest galaxy brain take with his assertion that the doubloon is the ship’s belly button 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 6:53 PM
So many deep ponderings on the doubloon, but imo the Manxman has the biggest galaxy brain take with his assertion that the doubloon is the ship’s belly button 🐋
If you like me are loving the descriptions of how whaling work actually gets done (with accompanying metaphors on how it’s all a microcosm for life itself), may I recommend Emile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 4:51 PM
If you like me are loving the descriptions of how whaling work actually gets done (with accompanying metaphors on how it’s all a microcosm for life itself), may I recommend Emile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series 🐋
TFW you are a mariner going about suffused in unctuousness 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 2:48 PM
TFW you are a mariner going about suffused in unctuousness 🐋
Not Ishmael staring too long at beautiful Queequeg in the try-pot flames, going into a trance, and nearly capsizing the ship 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Not Ishmael staring too long at beautiful Queequeg in the try-pot flames, going into a trance, and nearly capsizing the ship 🐋
WHY is Ishmael fantasizing about Louis Le Gros thigh tartare 😭 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 3:37 AM
WHY is Ishmael fantasizing about Louis Le Gros thigh tartare 😭 🐋
What if we kissed over the polished iron lips of the try-pots 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 AM
What if we kissed over the polished iron lips of the try-pots 🐋
I’m sorry, they do WHAT with the whale penis skin??? 🐋
January 25, 2026 at 3:29 AM
I’m sorry, they do WHAT with the whale penis skin??? 🐋
Ishmael gazing moonily into various crewmembers’ eyes while gently squeezing their hands in a vat of unctuous spermaceti is beautiful…like a Whaler’s version of The Artist is Present 🐋
January 24, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Ishmael gazing moonily into various crewmembers’ eyes while gently squeezing their hands in a vat of unctuous spermaceti is beautiful…like a Whaler’s version of The Artist is Present 🐋
Ishmael saying Pip lost his mind but reached transcendence when abandoned in the ocean, then revealing that he himself met the same fate…does it mean this whole time we’ve been reading the ramblings of a madman who happens to have beheld the face of God? (The God being an aggro white whale, ofc) 🐋
January 24, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Ishmael saying Pip lost his mind but reached transcendence when abandoned in the ocean, then revealing that he himself met the same fate…does it mean this whole time we’ve been reading the ramblings of a madman who happens to have beheld the face of God? (The God being an aggro white whale, ofc) 🐋
The violence that brought the crew to this sight aside—the newborn whale, nursing, still crinkled from the womb, umbilical cord unspooling lazily in the clear seawater, protected by a seething pod, was absolute beauty 🐋
January 22, 2026 at 12:23 AM
The violence that brought the crew to this sight aside—the newborn whale, nursing, still crinkled from the womb, umbilical cord unspooling lazily in the clear seawater, protected by a seething pod, was absolute beauty 🐋
Ishmael really missed his calling as a marine biologist…he doesn’t really seem like a big fan of the violence of whale hunting (though he is a fan of athletic harpooneers) 🐋
January 21, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Ishmael really missed his calling as a marine biologist…he doesn’t really seem like a big fan of the violence of whale hunting (though he is a fan of athletic harpooneers) 🐋
Maybe Queequeg keeps Ishmael around bc he enjoys his discursive rambling as much as I do, they bonded over a book after all 🐋
January 21, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Maybe Queequeg keeps Ishmael around bc he enjoys his discursive rambling as much as I do, they bonded over a book after all 🐋
A very long time ago, I did a project of illustrated quotes from various classics. This line always stuck with me 🐋
January 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
A very long time ago, I did a project of illustrated quotes from various classics. This line always stuck with me 🐋
Sorry the image of St George riding a large seal to do epic battle w a beached whale is soooo funny? Melville never shy to exercise his powers of imagination 🐋
January 21, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Sorry the image of St George riding a large seal to do epic battle w a beached whale is soooo funny? Melville never shy to exercise his powers of imagination 🐋
My brave Queequeg! Diving naked into the sea to perform a c-section on the leviathan’s head, rotating Tashtego from breech before delivering him from a sac of amniotic spermaceti…worst water birth ever…🐋
January 20, 2026 at 12:53 PM
My brave Queequeg! Diving naked into the sea to perform a c-section on the leviathan’s head, rotating Tashtego from breech before delivering him from a sac of amniotic spermaceti…worst water birth ever…🐋
“O Nature, and O soul of man! How far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! Not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.”
Well there’s the whole MO of the book right there (and I can’t get enough) 🐋
Well there’s the whole MO of the book right there (and I can’t get enough) 🐋
January 18, 2026 at 9:45 PM
“O Nature, and O soul of man! How far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! Not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.”
Well there’s the whole MO of the book right there (and I can’t get enough) 🐋
Well there’s the whole MO of the book right there (and I can’t get enough) 🐋
The whale line! Reminded me of the zigs and zags of thread through a sewing machine…except the whale line is also low key a memento mori 🐋
January 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The whale line! Reminded me of the zigs and zags of thread through a sewing machine…except the whale line is also low key a memento mori 🐋
That first successful whale chase
is Mad Max-ian in its speed, action, and violence—all the shouting, long spears, unsavory eccentrics. Just missing a doof warrior 🐋
is Mad Max-ian in its speed, action, and violence—all the shouting, long spears, unsavory eccentrics. Just missing a doof warrior 🐋
January 18, 2026 at 9:24 PM
That first successful whale chase
is Mad Max-ian in its speed, action, and violence—all the shouting, long spears, unsavory eccentrics. Just missing a doof warrior 🐋
is Mad Max-ian in its speed, action, and violence—all the shouting, long spears, unsavory eccentrics. Just missing a doof warrior 🐋
The encounters with the Goney and Jereboam both feature such compromised communication, like Zoom calls on terrible WiFi. Something very funny but also deeply melancholy and wistful about it 🐋
January 18, 2026 at 9:11 PM
The encounters with the Goney and Jereboam both feature such compromised communication, like Zoom calls on terrible WiFi. Something very funny but also deeply melancholy and wistful about it 🐋