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okay to understand why I laughed at this you first need to know that the French word for "pencil" is "crayon"
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So that recent VOTN update :(
#voyage of the nautilus#votn#twenty thousand leagues under the sea#20000 leagues under the sea#tkluts#captain nemo#fish art
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#polls#substack#letters from watson#war and peace (& emails)#whale weekly#the beetle weekly#dorian gray weekly#votn#frankenstein weekly#dracula daily
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The lad was thirty years old, and his age to that of his employer was as fifteen is to twenty. Please forgive me for this underhanded way of admitting I had turned forty.
sir you are writing a journal entry
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OH NO NOT AGAIN
#voyage of the nautilus#votn#like! comment! subscribe and RING THAT BELL!#I thought I had removed these by this point but apparently not. sorry everyone
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So what I do is I read books that came out this year exclusively in print and I read decades-old classic literature in my emails.
Mainly I do this in order to defy god’s will.
#reading#reading life#dracula daily#whale weekly#jekyll and hyde weekly#votn#voyage of the nautilus#meanwhile my library queue is all books that came out in 2022#and despite all the emails I refuse to become an e-reader#I can only read on screen for small chunks#idk I just find the juxtaposition funny#old methods for new books and new methods for old books#mix and match#defy god’s will
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The new years’ Voyage the Nautilus update threw a complicated layer in to my silly lighthearted Ned/Conseil ship
They were already opposites attract, but now they want opposite things. Ned is dying to leave, Conseil is content to stay.
Conseil takes a very calm approach to it: at least no matter which happens, one of them will be happy. The idea of Ned being happy is enough of a comfort to soothe the loss of the underwater wonderland he’s fallen in love with.
I strongly doubt it’s the same the other way around, though. Conseil and Aronnax may mostly notice Ned complaining about having to eat fish all the time, but that’s probably just the surface expression of a more deeply-rooted strain. He’s trapped, and has been told that the ship will one day be his coffin. He just missed a celebration that he loved, and is homesick. Aronnax and Conseil don’t seem to have family to return to, but we don’t know about Ned! He’s probably used to going for long stretches of time without seeing them, but at least he could look forward to it—now it’s you’ll never see anyone you knew before again.
I started shipping this because “hehe wouldn’t it be fun to have a drama-free background couple watching the Nemo and Aronnax slowburn” and then they hit me in the face with THIS
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Profile of the man the myth the legend captain Nemo
#tkluts#twenty thousand leagues under the sea#20000 leagues under the sea#who lives in the nautilus under the sea cap tain ne mo#the nautilus#voyage of the nautilus#votn#art
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I rather expected this escape attempt to not pan out, given that the title is 20,000 leagues and we've apparently only gone a bit over 10,000
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Nemo literally taking Aronnax on a midnight hike to Atlantis and showing him his secret sanctum at the bottom of an extinct volcano like what in the blatant romance tropes
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VOTN: The Last Words of Captain Nemo, Part 2
This is the part where I start crying.
I felt myself being drawn into that strange domain where the overwrought imagination of Edgar Allan Poe was at home. Like his fabled Arthur Gordon Pym, I expected any moment to see that “shrouded human figure, very far larger in its proportions than any dweller among men,” thrown across the cataract that protects the outskirts of the pole!
Aronnax being torn apart by stress over his current situation but still finding the ability to go "wow, this is just like what my favorite author wrote :) i'm like one of his characters", Find me a more relatable protagonist.
As for Captain Nemo, he was no longer in the picture. As for his chief officer, the same applied. Not one crewman was visible for a single instant. The Nautilus cruised beneath the waters almost continuously. When it rose briefly to the surface to renew our air, the hatches opened and closed as if automated. No more positions were reported on the world map. I didn’t know where we were.
The image of Aronnax wandering through this empty, seemingly abandoned submarine is so atmospheric and uncomfortable -- I love it. I'm finding myself going back to reread the segments where Nemo shows Aronnax around the Nautilus to appreciate the contrast.
I’ll also mention that the Canadian, at the end of his strength and patience, made no further appearances. Conseil couldn’t coax a single word out of him and feared that, in a fit of delirium while under the sway of a ghastly homesickness, Ned would kill himself. So he kept a devoted watch on his friend every instant.
And now I'm sad again :( But I do like how this shows Conseil's loyalty doesn't just extend to Aronnax.
I returned to the lounge, dreading yet desiring an encounter with Captain Nemo, wanting yet not wanting to see him. What would I say to him? How could I hide the involuntary horror he inspired in me? No! It was best not to meet him face to face! Best to try and forget him! And yet . . . !
Aronnax . . . honey . . .
My anxiety and agitation would certainly have given me away if Captain Nemo had seen me. What was he doing just then? I listened at the door to his stateroom. I heard the sound of footsteps. Captain Nemo was inside. He hadn’t gone to bed. With his every movement I imagined he would appear and ask me why I wanted to escape! I felt in a perpetual state of alarm. My imagination magnified this sensation. The feeling became so acute, I wondered whether it wouldn’t be better to enter the captain’s stateroom, dare him face to face, brave it out with word and deed!
Aronnax . . . honey . . . (x2)
Just then I heard indistinct chords from the organ, melancholy harmonies from some undefinable hymn, actual pleadings from a soul trying to sever its earthly ties. I listened with all my senses at once, barely breathing, immersed like Captain Nemo in this musical trance that was drawing him beyond the bounds of this world.
Then a sudden thought terrified me. Captain Nemo had left his stateroom. He was in the same lounge I had to cross in order to escape. There I would encounter him one last time. He would see me, perhaps speak to me! One gesture from him could obliterate me, a single word shackle me to his vessel!
This! This is a gothic romance disguised as a seafaring adventure science fiction novel - are you kidding me?
How come I haven't seen any adaptations include Aronnax trying to sneak out of the Nautilus behind Nemo while he plays the organ? It's so cinematic and tense and I think it would adapt extremely well to a visual and auditory medium.
I was about to open it when a gasp from Captain Nemo nailed me to the spot. I realized that he was standing up. I even got a glimpse of him because some rays of light from the library had filtered into the lounge. He was coming toward me, arms crossed, silent, not walking but gliding like a ghost. His chest was heaving, swelling with sobs. And I heard him murmur these words, the last of his to reach my ears:
“O almighty God! Enough! Enough!”
Aronnax . . . Nemo . . . honey . . .
(gothic romance)
I felt Ned Land sliding a dagger into my hand.
“Yes,” I muttered, “we know how to die!”
Ned is leaving Aronnax to defend them.
They're fucked lol.
The Canadian paused in his work. But one word twenty times repeated, one dreadful word, told me the reason for the agitation spreading aboard the Nautilus. We weren’t the cause of the crew’s concern.
“Maelstrom! Maelstrom!” they were shouting.
I love the way Verne writes action and tension so much ;-; The main characters are trying to escape, Nemo is going down with his ship, the crew (who can finally be understood) are freaking out. There's so much going on and I love it.
What a predicament! We were rocking frightfully. The Nautilus defended itself like a human being. Its steel muscles were cracking. Sometimes it stood on end, the three of us along with it!
I also love it whenever the Nautilus is personified like this. It seems to tie in really well with the reading that the ship is an extension of Nemo himself. And they're both not doing too hot.
He hadn’t finished speaking when a cracking sound occurred. The nuts gave way, and ripped out of its socket, the skiff was hurled like a stone from a sling into the midst of the vortex.
My head struck against an iron timber, and with this violent shock I lost consciousness.
It would suck if Aronnax woke up and forgot everything lol
#voyage of the nautilus#twenty thousand leagues under the sea#votn#votn spoilers#suicide mention#professor aronnax#conseil#captain nemo#ned land
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do you think professor aronnax’s university misses him 😢 do you think they read out his will and realized he left everything to conseil and/or the university 😢 do you think someone told the babirusa that aronnax was lost at sea
#voyage of the nautilus#like for sure they all think he and Conseil and Ned Land is dead#and I made myself sad this morning by thinking. hm. they probably organized a funeral or at least a remembrance already#votn#POV you get back from winter break and your fun marine biology professor died at sea
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Voyage of the Nautilus will return tomorrow!! Let’s see what the boys have been up to!
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“What are my discoveries to date? Nothing, relatively speaking—since so far we’ve covered only 6,000 leagues across the Pacific!”
Ooooooh! Not 20,000 leagues below the surface of the sea, but rather a journey of 20,000 leagues that takes place at varying depths but all of it “under the sea” !!
I’ve spent my entire life mis-understanding this title and then I continued to mis-understand it through 46% of the novel, but now I see the light!
🌈the more you know🌈
#voyage of the nautilus#votn#twenty thousand leagues under the sea#20000 leagues under the sea#and look: I suspected it when they were talking about the seas’ depths#and none of them came CLOSE to 20k#but I assumed that at some point we’d explore the Mariana’s trench or something#but NOW I get it!!
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I also found it interesting that Conseil has a want of his own that he’s expressed, while Aronnax isn’t sure for himself. It’s a flip of their early dynamic where Aronnax is bouncing off the walls to go monster-hunting, while Conseil is just “sure whatever you want.”
He’s still a very passive character, but I’m glad that it’s the sort now to say, “I’m happy here and want to stay,” vs. hiding his opinions and deferring to those around him.
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it looks as though you're letting go
and if it's real, i don't want to know
#about to be sobbing my eyes out and comatose on the bathroom floor AGAIN once votn wraps up#the mark of a great book#art#litblr#20000 leagues under the sea#voyage of the nautilus#captain nemo#pierre aronnax#m1nty fresh hall of fame#nemonax
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