Hey bestie cool boat you got there would be a shame if I made it disappear and never to be seen again.

Moby dick but eldritch (as if the way he was described wasn’t eldritch enough). Also, the design is mostly based on the Limbus Company depiction/adaptation he just looks so cool there :D

I need to [remembers I shouldn't make suicide jokes] join a whaling crew

wait a second -

MOBY BARBIE??? IN MY BARBIE MOVIE????

a whale of a good time🐋

“ugh why is moby-dick so long”

ishmael is telling you a story about how all his friends died and how he was the sole survivor of the disaster, why wouldn't he want to delay getting to that point of the story as long as possible?

the odyssey

the length of the book parallels the long amounts of time that whalers were away from home with long periods of boredom punctuated few and far between by brief bouts of frenzied action

you don't like cetology? whalelore? kys

since when have you ever complained about a dick being long. ungrateful

Merry whales in the log of the ship Susan, kept by Reuben Russell. Nantucket Historical AssociationPublic Domain

Artist Showcase: Daniel Warren Johnson (Here There Be Giants)

More Moby Dick fanart but this time it’s actually Limbus Company.

A personal redraw of that cutscene from canto 5. Like seriously I love that scene. And surprisingly I barely ever see actual art for the pallid whale. Come on guys he’s so cool!! He’s literally Moby!!

Original image.

I’m not exactly happy with the result of this one either but I will keep experimenting with more styles. And that means more whale art on the way for sure. Maybe even Ishmael some day?

Someone today will read Shakespeare's hamlet and say omg he's just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.

A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it's ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.

We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.

We don't read classics because they're old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That's what makes stories so powerful--they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.

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God this is a gorgeous way to start a book. I wish more authors and publishers had at least a little bit of fun with their typesetting like this.

hello fellow dickheads (<- new name for moby dick fans)

making up a guy to get mad at can actually be really lovely and rewarding like for example i was feeling understimulated so i crafted an alternate world where moby dick was super popular on tumblr and the most popular ship from moby dick was ahab x humanized whaleboy merguy moby dick who was always drawn as like a skinny little white guy with white hair and sharp teeth and sort of unusual eyes like maybe with black scleras or something. and it was literally inescapable and people made like hannigram aus where will was ahab and hannibal was moby dick and people also made human!boatless!modern! aus of ahab x moby dick where they were just like normal guys as well. and the moby dick fandom all thought they were so cool and countercultural because melville's unfinished novella billy budd was also really popular and the billy budd fans were at odds with the moby dick fans because billy budd fans described it as like a heartfelt queer story in comparison to moby dick being toxic and soulless (because ahab was trying to kill moby dick in canon) and moby dick fans described billy budd as basically steven universe but none of this ended up mattering because in four years the meteors came and all life on earth was lost

if you are reading this please donate to $trextalents on cashapp; he is a disabled fx artist active in my city’s horror scene who is in a bad situation and needs financial aid. if you cannot donate, please reblog my pinned post with more information. the world of this post is not real, but logan is.

at the request of @fierifreak, here is a chart i originally posted on twitter that inexplicably did numbers (credit to OP of the blank graph in the corner!)