G. Willow Wilson: Hey I just met you I'm off to hunt whale but here's my novel so call me Ishmael

Hey I just met you I'm off to hunt whale but here's my novel so call me Ishmael

Never quite finished this: 1/2 Whiter shade of whale Went and danced last night with Queequeg You can call me Ishmael Got our drinks with Starbucks Then we hoisted up the sails

I went to see the captain Was the strangest I could find Had a leg was missing been tangled in a line Asked him what we're hunting And he looked up from his ale with his face at first just twisted said "A whiter shade of whale" 2/2

Didn't know "Ship Of Fools" could be improved.

Argh, the "Whiter Shade of Whale" was meant to be separated by a blank line, and "Starbuck" isn't supposed to have the "s" at the end but my fingers know how to spell the coffee vendor.

it's still good

T.Swift Feat. Moby Cuz the whalers gonna whale! (whale x 4) But I know they’re gonna fail! (fail x 5) Cuz im gonna catch their trail! (trail X 4) Gonna break ‘em up! Break ‘em up!

Well done, well done.

It’s possibly the only relatively modern pop song I know the lyrics to..🤷🏽

What's happened?

It’s #MobyDickaSong day apparently. I dunno why. 🤷🏽⛴️🏹🐳

Okay

Willow. I'm not yelling, but now I really wanna see what you'll do with the whale anatomy digression chapter. 🤣

wondering what pop song has the architecture to support this challenge

This is the story of a whale Ventral grooves and a waggy little tail with it's Tubercules and Dorsal fin I really wanna stab him... With a spear.

I don't know, but Jim Steinman wrote it

Valid argument.

Bohemian Rhapsody.

I see a crazy man nailing up a coin Captain Sir, Captain Sir, will we really have whale pelt? Look, his eyes are frightening, really are enlightening me! Grab a spear now, Grab a spear now, Grab a spear and let's away Oh what a day, ayyy ayyyy ayyyy ayyyyy Call me Ishmaael, I'm the story-teller. 😁

He's just the spectator, giving up the mystery, spared from the sea 'cause he's just a lucky man! 😁

Here he comes, white as snow, he's not letting go! And no! He is not letting go! Let him go! Oh, Ahab, he is not letting go, let him go! Oh, Ahab, please just let him go! Let him go! Oh, Ahab, he would not let him go! Would not let him go! Would not let him, would not let him goooooooo! 😁

bravo!

I think that might be the only song that can handle an infodump of that magnitude. Of course, I consider it more "classic rock" than "pop" as a general rule, but I guess at one point it was pop?

You want an infodump you go with We Didn't Start the Fire or Ridin' Dirty

Those're straight-up infodumps themselves; we just want enough structure to hang some Melville on it without utter collapse.

I'm deeply sloppy with my music classifications. If I tried to come up with something definitely pop, I'd still likely be 20 years out of date.

I'm still coming to terms with Nirvana being considered "classic rock" ... in other news, 1993 was not "10 years ago," but I think it wants its stuff back anyway. 🤣

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I see so little spoken of Cetology Linnaeus, Linnaeus will you separate whale from fish? Sharks and shad and herring, all very generically Book 1 Folio (Book 1 Folio) Book 1 Folio (Book 1 Folio)

This'll keep me giggling for weeks.

This is why you are a professional writer.

For a long time, before I actually read the book, I was convinced the first line was “Call me Fish Meal.”

grrr, whales are MAMMALS very misleading

You will note that it was common in the 19th c. (and in whaling circles) to call them fish.

Plus, I never let mere accuracy get in the way of a bad joke.

Exactly. There's a whole debate mid-book about what type of creature a whale is. The current scientific taxonomy didn't develop until after Moby Dick was written.

And Melville had his own opinions on the subject, too; in the unabridged edition there's a snarky footnote aimed at people who wish to categorize pinnipeds within the same group as whales.

I learn stuff every day! Thx.

You are making me need to go read that glorious novel yet again. How that thing was published I do not know, but in the year of our Lord 2023, it's beautiful.

but is a bat a bird

New Zealand's Bird of the Year Is... a Batwww.smithsonianmag.com The winged mammal is critically endangered and won the award to raise awareness about their existence and importance to the island ecosystem

okay, harpooned by my own petard

Chapter 32 would like a word with you.

Roses are red Violets are blue Whales are white And they’re coming for you.

Used to be you could devote your life to an existentially-empty revenge hunt of a mindless beast, projecting malice on it to try and make life seem less random and chaotic. But you can't do that anymore. Because of woke.

@mobydickatsea.bsky.social

Thanks. Now that ear whale will be in my head the rest of the day.

@swordsjew.bsky.social I feel like you will appreciate this.

10/10; no notes

Your stare was holdin' Ripped jeans, pegleg showin' Hot night, there she’s blowin' Where you think you're going, Ahab?

Moby Dick the Musical really could have used this song.

Imagine a Musical about a whale. It was….long

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