posts on the first page of ishmael’s blog

eglantinebr:

titusnowl:

1. a photograph of a very nice scrimshaw piece 
2. a 19th century oil painting of a dramatic shipwreck, with a whale in the background; the tags give ish’s best guess at identifying the whale’s genus and species, and a lot of snark about how the artist had clearly never actually seen a whale himself
3. a photograph of queequeg: viewed from the back and almost silhouetted against a window, purportedly to show the t-shirt he is wearing, which came from a restaurant in nantucket and has a novelty whale on it
4. four paragraphs about lobster-fishing, which includes something queequeg once said on a related topic
5. a photograph of a lobster-fishing boat in maine, originally posted by a menswear blog that just liked the fishermen’s sweaters (source listed as pinterest)
6. a photograph of queequeg: posing like napoleon in his winter coat
7. a selection from a walt whitman poem
8. one of those “food porn” photos of an omelette, with two paragraphs added beneath it to share a story about queequeg’s breakfast opinions
9. a photoset of antique harpoons, with a paragraph and an additional photo added in the comments to show a harpoon queequeg made himself
10. a photograph of queequeg: standing on a pier and looking nobly out to sea. the tags on this are embarrassing tbh

This is so true.Absolutely right.