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What if, instead of going to sleep that second night in the Spouter’s Inn, Ishmael had done something about his husband lacing their legs together and cuddling up to him?
Ishmael may not have much practical knowledge in this arena, but hey. That’s never stopped him before
If Herman Melville wrote porn
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and I only am escaped alone to tell thee by MobyDyke
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
29 Nov 2024
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Ishmael floats.
Despite it all, he floats.
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In the wake of the Pequod’s destruction, the lone survivor is left to his thoughts and the endless expanse of the sea.
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beautiful introspection of ishmael's state of mind during the epilogue, neglected by canon. very cathartic!
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Ishmael didn’t really draw self portraits.
Queequeg wishes he did.
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RAAUGH
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Five times Queequeg listens to Ishmael over the radio, and one time he doesn’t have to.
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Five Times Ishmael Did Not Tell Queequeg That He Loved Him, and One Time He Did; or, The Whale by WithoutAQualmOfConscience
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
07 Dec 2020
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"1923 or 1851 or 1760 or any time before, it doesn’t matter. The ship could be made of pure steel and still, without fail, there it would be. White as a bone, big as the moon, impossible to stop as death."
Ishmael/Queequeg and the existential horror of being constantly reincarnated just to return to the boat.
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"Yet there is hope. Time and tide flow wide."
An alternate universe where Starbuck actually goes through with killing Ahab, saving everyone in the process. Here is what comes after.- Language:
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i really really love this . starbuck is written so incredibly, and so is the ahab that’s his guilt, and the brief interaction w ishmael, and that it was pip that found the body…. really good fic
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A half-hour between Ch. 49 and Ch. 50 of Moby Dick.
If I was to keep a record of every turn of the half-hour-glass on board the Pequod, I should not get this narrative clear of Nantucket-harbour; so the writing of my last will and testament, which, besides, did not figure again, would only make my MSS an intolerable sprawl. It is an appendix of an appendix, and to be considered as such.
Pip had rung two bells by the time I had pen and paper to hand. I could have made out my will in the forecastle, but having spent a night catty-corner to the first mate while I nursed my spleen at him, I had the urge to speak confidentially to my comrade - an urge which on a whaler was so unattainable as to be almost perverse. Insist on your free-will as much as you like; consider yourself an isolato of your own thoughts; before you should even be reminded that you are part of a joint enterprise by any duty to spring to, there are the various leisures, quarrels, accidents and necessities of your fellow-men to draw you in.
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Sweet fic with a harpoon in the last line
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FUCK
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My Boy Carved Coffins by notkingyet for Proud_Human
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
22 Dec 2013
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Ishmael copes with the aftermath of the wreck of the Pequod.
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The Queen of Rokovoko by the_alchemist for notkingyet
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
20 Dec 2013
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A divinely decreed orgy, a ship full of eager men, 200 barrels of sperm oil ... and a captain they decided not to invite. What could possibly go wrong?
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Our Hearts' Honeymoon by lonelywalker for queeshmael
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
25 Dec 2013
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Ishmael may have left out an important detail or two from his most famous work.
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Ishmael and Queequeg. In space.
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Call me Fishmael by the_alchemist for longwhitecoats
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
20 Dec 2016
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Not the cross-species Moby Dick the world deserves, but the one it needs right now.
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Team Squeakeg
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This is a cogent vice thou hast here, carpenter; let me feel its grip once. So, so; it does pinch some.
Oh, sir, it will break bones—beware, beware!
No fear; I like a good grip; I like to feel something in this slippery world that can hold, man.
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all men shall be sailors then until the sea shall free them by strikethesun for Eccentric_Hat
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
15 Dec 2020
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forsaken, almost human, he sank beneath your wisdom like a stone.
Choice vignettes in the life of one first mate Starbuck: two meetings with Ishmael on the deck, a dream, and a nightmare.- Language:
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MANNNN. Starbuck musings on supporting Quishmael and his 'cowardice' in not killing Ahab.
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Where There's a Whale There's a Way: or, How to Kiss a Harpooneer in Ten Leagues by Icarus_Isambard for Sunchales
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
18 Dec 2019
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When Ishmael angsts over never having kissed his bosom friend Queequeg, the crew of the Pequod rally around his increasingly desperate efforts, serving up a cavalcade of romcom clichés in their misguided attempts to find Ishmael his happily ever after. They’re serious about putting romcom back into Romanticism—and if there ain’t no extravagant musical number sung in the shadow of a breaching whale, then by Neptune it ain’t love.
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FF Bookclub week 22: Classic Lit
this was like? Really good?
> “You have gazed into the starry void that is my very soul.” Ishmael wiped the scratchy wool sleeve of his sweater across his brimming eyes, then sneezed. “But what can I do?”
the perfect combo of sweet and also just silly as hell> “Steady, Ishmael.” Queequeg seemed even more serious and focused than his typical serious, focused self.
aww and lol 10/10makeover scene I love it
> Starbuck pulled a little book out of his pocket, its cover protected by brown paper and the handwritten inscription “Starbuck’s book! Keep thine hands off!” and read
skjdfhksdfh> Starbuck saluted. “Aye, sir. She was an Ess Doubleyew Two One Three Nine Shipyard Gray.”
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> “Not Ess Doubleyew Seven Five Six Three Restful White? Are ye certain?”
10/10> When he lifted his head, the phrase “I <3 Queequeg” was printed backwards on the top of the railing. It was like a message from Providence, and it lit his heart anew.
this is SO goodTHE CALL ME MAYBE
> Queequeg crouched next to Ishmael, put an arm around him, and held the mug to his lips.
> “What’s this?”
> “Coffee. Starbuck’s. Flat white.”the combo of INCREDIBLE writing, little references, the historical dialogue... this is the best thing I have read in a while
"I never read the book in the first place, but now I feel like I don't have to, because it could not live up to this"
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Tilting at Millstones by notkingyet for paramountie
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
18 Dec 2019
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Queequeg teaches Ishmael how to handle his harpoon.
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Since they'd started fucking, which was about three days after they'd met, the harpoon jokes had been pretty much constant-- but the skills really did transfer. Hashtag coffin porn, hashtag sea blowie.
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or, the complete lack of Whale by PlinytheYounger for Jougetsu
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
09 Dec 2018
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In which Moby Dick, to almost everyone's disappointment, eludes the "Pequod" completely, and its crew following an unfortunate if not fatal accident must work out what to do with themselves.
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This is the exact style of the original book and I couldn't be more impressed
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A Captain’s Choice: or, the writing of Mocha Dick by the_alchemist for saturnina
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
16 Dec 2023
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Starbuck loves Ahab profoundly (though surely not, he tells himself, in an Ishmael-and-Queequeg-ish sort of way). At the beginning of the voyage, when Ahab is mysteriously incapacitated in his cabin, that love means offering help, support and comfort. But what does it mean toward the end, when it comes into conflict with Starbuck’s love and duty towards the rest of the crew, himself, his family and – above all – God?
Canon divergence from the time the Pequod meets the Rachel. Starbuck gets his Quaker on with some non-violent resistance, but in the chaos that follows Ahab hits his head and loses his memory of all events since just before his first encounter with Moby Dick. Or so it seems … Is it really amnesia, or is it a way of backing down from his doomed quest without losing face?
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Starbuck loves Ahab, but when Ahab loses his memory might there be a chance to pry him away from the whale? Lovely, layered, beautifully done.
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An addendum to ch. 77 "The Great Heidelburgh Tun".
It is an ironic circumstance, that men often receive the pleasures of life when they are least positioned to enjoy them; thus the Marquis de Lafayette, in the flourishing of his fortune and with an overladen table, received an abounding Nantucket cheese for lighting up the streets of Paris with whale oil, and was only inconvenienced; this was mighty bad timing; had but a crumb of that monstrous cheddar been lowered down to him in his prison-cell, that poor Frenchman would have wept! - and just the same, the fine cheese laid before Ahab at table could have been vermescent hard-tack; it penetrated him mechanically, but that inward Bastille of the heart received no provision.
And so Ahab left his fare half-tasted, and his officers under the still spell of that silent glance no more thought of eating the remnants than of seizing the sextant from him.