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holding a lightning rod while raving in a typhoon and swinging a harpoon burning with otherwordly fire at his crew: Just Little Ahab Things
Me back in the day, reading Moby-Dick for the first time: Sh*t, another Ahab monologue incoming, better pause to go fetch a bunch of handkerchieves.
Me now a day, rereading Moby-Dick for the [redacted] time: That Ahab monologue incoming today, better load up with a bunch of handkerchieves.
broke: advertising original novels using fanfiction tropes will help market them to younger audiences
woke: booktok and the use of tropes in describing books doesn't actually help the reader and is actively making fiction less original and more tropey
bespoke: using fanfiction tropes in reference to novels is okay but only if done to classic lit. moby dick is an only one bed fic btw.
God i wish i was a super wealthy producer. I want this NOW. RIGHT NOW. Anime about mentally unwell men who haven’t bathed literally ever stuck on a boat with stanky whale carcasses and blood every where?? Yes pls!!
Get in the Pequod Shinji
Someone today will read Shakespeare’s hamlet and say omg he’s just like me fr. Another person will read moby dick and proclaim Ishmael as an adhd king.
A person grieving for their recently deceased lover reads the iliad and they watch as Achilles rages and rages and god how righteous anger fueld by love is so devastating that it’s ramifications still affect the world several thousand years later.
We might one day settle down and read the epic of gilgamesh and watch as a king has to accept the death of the person he loved the most. One of the very first stories ever written and it was about coping with death, and how to grieve.
We don’t read classics because they’re old, we read them because they remind us that we are never alone. That a character created over 500 years ago struggled with the exact same problems we all still have today. That even a king from centuries past had to deal with death just like me. That’s what makes stories so powerful–they prove to us that we are never truly alone in what we are feeling.
Ishmael: Depressed? Contemplating suicide or a homicidal rampage?
Ishmael: have you instead considered
Ishmael: THE SEA?