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Excerpt from "'The Land of our Marital Bliss': Same-Sex Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Whaling Communities?" by strikethesun for Dendroica
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
17 Jan 2025
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Perhaps most interesting to a twenty-first-century reader encountering this narrative is the rather blunt and unabashed depiction of what appears to be a homosexual, and homoromantic, relationship between the sailor Ishmael and his Pacific Islander shipmate, Queequeg.
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10 Feb 2026
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Ishmael cleans Queequeg off after aiding Tashtego.
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10 Feb 2026
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If, as ye take this broad recounting, aught has looked odd in the culture of whalemen— indeed, should you be anything less than a salt-seasoned veteran of that most noble fishery, and particularly to that fellow among ye whose feet have never left the hard-packed soil of his native land, that veritable tree of devout landsmen from whom roots may well spring into the earth or all life exist in a bulb beneath its surface— to you most especially, it may be necessary to preface the next recounting with an explication of the whaleman’s notion of the holiday.
During the search for the leaking barrel of whale oil, a detour becomes necessary.
A light-hearted vignette inserted into the story of Moby Dick, fulfilling that fundamental human desire to give the crew of the Pequod a beach episode to relax.
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24 Jan 2026
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Chapter 110.5: Ishmael and Queequeg Below. by strikethesun for theseconddoctor
Fandoms: Moby Dick - Herman Melville
15 Dec 2025
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ISHMAEL: I do not need to imagine what you might say to me; I have sufficiently taxonomized myself, in addition to our captain, as belonging to my own original species of madman.
A brief respite between the duties of sea life. Two monologues that never quite become a dialogue.
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25 Dec 2025
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On the second night I floated in the sea, a ship sailed out of the darkness to me.
Or, what became of me after the sinking of the Pequod and how I came to find Queequeg again.
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25 Dec 2025