ifeeltheblame: gelbraddy:the homoerotic undertones of moby dick are ridiculous so i made it worse by

ifeeltheblame: gelbraddy:the homoerotic undertones of moby dick are ridiculous so i made it worse by turning the whale into a merman and therefore reframing ahab’s obsession with hunting him. k gnight [Image description: A thirteen panel comic that’s a homoerotic version of Moby Dick where the whale is a merman. First shot is a side profile of Ahab with a full brown beard and mustache, sea blue eyes, and wearing sailor’s attire, with a large blue scarf around his neck engulfed in a grey sailor’s jacket with an upturned collar, complete with a sailor’s cap, captioned, “On the subject of hubris” Cut to the second panel zooming into his eye, continuing, “the captain knows no yield.” Cuts to the third panel which is from behind Ahab as he looks out into the outcropping of a misty sea to spy the stout figure of the merman, whose long white hair floats about him in the wind, as if part of the mist itself, captioned, “He thinks too much.” Cuts to the fourth panel show the same scene from behind the merman’s shoulder, long white hair across half the panel but the other taken with the view of the oncoming ship, captioned, “And believes the chase gives reason to desire.” Cuts to a longer fifth panel that first shows Ahab looking out at sea through a telescope with the words, “To know of something so beyond your comprehension.” Blending into our first closeup of the merman who has a chubby rectangular build with grey/blue skin speckled with different sand-colored and dark blue spots, a teal blue tail, with a pleasant smile seen through the whisps of his long hair floating in the mist, the tips of fin like ears also visible with the words, “and hating it because you yearn to understand.” Cuts to the sixth panel, also longer, spiced between two contrasting images. On the upper left, Ahab’s face is close cropped just above his nose with the accompanying text, “Wishing to behold it.” in the middle of the panel the text continues, “closer.” and then fully in the merman’s section, showing him looking up with an amicable smile as he gazes up through the mist, text continuing, “but you can’t.” The seventh panel is spliced diagonally into four frames of close quick action between the characters. A closeup of Ahab’s lower face shows him gritting his teeth reading, “You’re just a man.” The next frame shows him from behind, obscured as he is throwing or shouting overboard continuing, “And so is this.” The next frame shows a closeup of the merman shying away in concern with the text, “So is he.” The fourth cut frame shows just the tail, disappearing into the dark sea. In the eighth panel is completely in black with white lines as night has plunged the ship in darkness with nothing but the light of the full moon and Ahab stares out to sea with the text, “The creature that alludes your advances and has the gall to deny you his trophy.” The nineth panel shows the left side of Ahab’s face with his eyes closed, multiple shots of the merman’s face floating around captioned, “His plucked ivory skin and eyes like cave walls swim through your mind.” The tenth panel is back to black with white lines in the night, though Ahab is still dreaming as he’s shown leaning over the side of the boat with his arms crossed casually on the edge as he looks down at the merman’s head floating just atop the water, hair out all around him, text reading, “Parting the inky pools within you. Feeling as though you’ve already sunk.” The eleventh frame is back in color, the upper half a profile of Ahab looking down, captioned, “He is a monster” fading to a shot of the merman looking up, captioned, “You are a coward.” The twelfth panel shows Ahab leaping out of the boat with spear in hand, crying out as he attacks the merman, only seen from behind, “You pray. And you pray.” Cut to thirteenth panel which is split between two images of the merman, one rearing back in fear with the text, “That one day your suffering will end.” then the second a closeup of the lower half of the merman’s face as he falls backwards, spear at his neck, mouth parted in fear, captioned, “with his frame in your lap. And your blade in his chest.” The fourteenth and last panel shows a zoomed out shot as Ahab is plunging the spear in captioned, “Ahab in anguish.” pans down to the silhouettes of them onboard the ship forehead to forehead captioned, “lay stretched together.” End ID] -- source link
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