Sending out the 🐋 signal to the #monthofdick gang!

A t-shirt featuring the doubloon from Moby-Dick (three mountains and the sun, with the words "Republica Del Ecuador - Quito" around the edge), along with four books: - "Melvill" by Rodrigo Fresán - "Mariners, Renegads & Castaways" by C.L.R. James, with a foreward by @chanda.blacksky.app - "A Whaler's Dictionary" by Dan Beachy-Quick - "Hell's Heart" by @quicunquevult.bsky.social

January may be long over, but #monthOfDick never ends. 🐋

#MonthofDick here on Bluesky (I know, sorry!) has grown from “Let’s meme Moby-Dick” to a regular reading group. People bring jokes, interpretations, and interesting rabbit holes to drop-in but regular conversation about books. Bleak House is up next. (Or Great Expectations, your choice.) Join us?

Loved #monthofdick so much I’m doing it again but with Jean Rhys’ collected novels. I love this way of reading things I always meant to read - just chipping away a little at a time each day.

Pining the end of #monthofdick? We start Leaves of Grass tomorrow! 🐋🌿📖

*finishes moby dick*

whoa. what the hell.

#monthofdick 🐋

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(Less risqué than it sounds, I promise). There is also an annual reading of it in New Bedford.

🐋 If you have enjoyed the illustrations by Matt Kish that I have been posting in this #MonthofDick feed, you might interested to learn that he is on BlueSky; you can follow him at @mattkish.bsky.social.

my dear #monthofdick participants i see the 1956 film 'moby dick' is free on youtube and i'm wondering if we shouldn't have a big ol' watch party together after we finish the novel tomorrow 🐋

only a single chapter left for tomorrow! #monthofdick 🐋

Recent Kindle searches for quotes from Moby Dick, I can't remember half of these: pip, 95, oceanica, jereboam, Bulkington, squeezing, Don Pedro, allegory...

Looks like my recent searches will be my #monthofdick tattoo 🐋

Melville Electronic Library >> Versions of Moby-Dick

#MonthOfDick shipmates! Do you know about the Melville Electronic Library online edition? I just learned from the annotations to the "Symphony" chapter that the 1851 British edition expurgated that very sexy paragraph about the wedding of the sea & air. (But not "A Squeeze of the Hand," go figure.)

I’m thinking #LeftEthics will do something like a short book or a couple of articles per month. I’ve loved sprinting through Moby Dick in 🐋 #MonthOfDick but that’s hard to sustain. And I’d probably set up a Slack or Discord rather than use Bluesky, at least primarily

Closing in on the end of Moby Dick with the #MonthOfDick BlueSky book club (which is an experience I HIGHLY recommend, it's been a total blast exploring this extremely strange landmark of literature with a team of snarky and erudite poasters); I'm also finishing up Senlin Ascends, by Josiah Bancroft

Was Ahab a Wizard? I’m taking a small break from writing about circuits this week in honor of everyone reading Moby Dick to write about an incredibly dumb fan theory, namely that Ahab was a wizard.

I wrote an article about #mobydick for #monthofdick. We all must ask ourselves if Ahab being a wizard dosent explain a lot of the story

open.substack.com/pub/magwhich...

For #monthofdick (from a couple days before the month started), a letterpress print made from lasercut wood made from a 1568 image (ty EEBO!) + quote from @heatherfro.bsky.social (re: her digital humanities text analysis paper repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...)

A white whale! And in the #MonthOfDick, too. (Humpback, though.)

I am EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED to discover that #monthofdick is about a white whale and not about gay hockey.

I wonder if @ryancordell.org might share some of his Moby-Dick tattoos for the #monthofdick crowd? I am not yet inclined to the same but I see the draw… 🐋

Oh heck yes, it's been a very good week for reading. Still working through Moby Dick with the #MonthOfDick BlueSky book club; closing in on the conclusion of Josiah Bancroft's Senlin Ascends; and just finished up Jo Walton's Farthing. Glad there's more to read in the latter two series!

I'm doing the Moby-Dick readalong #monthofdick using a digital library loan! Having a great time with it.

He's definitely gonna fight a whale.

(that joke is also for my #MonthOfDick ppl, don't mind me. 🐋)

Fallen behind on the #monthofdick but should be caught up tomorrow. Feel like so much of this process has been me falling behind and then catching up and getting ahead only to fall behind again. 🐋

Screenshot from Wikipedia page for Scottish-Americans: "Most Scottish Americans had commercial ties with the old country or clan allegiances and stayed true to the Crown.[58] The Scottish Highland communities of upstate New York and the Cape Fear valley of North Carolina were centers of Loyalist resistance. A small force of Loyalist Highlanders fell at the Batle of Moore's Creek Bridge in 1776. Scotch-lrish Patriots defeated Scottish American Loyalists in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780.[59l Many Scottish American Loyalists, particularly Highlanders, emigrated to Canada after the war.[43]"

For #MonthOfDick 🐋 readers wondering why Ishmael keeps going on about Highlanders (beyond the potential for kilts, I assume), some light historical context. They would have been a somewhat distinct population still w/in a century of the story taking place. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottis...

Barry Moser illustration of a whale carcass adrift, scavenged by sharks and birds

Catching up to the #MonthOfDick pod again, so my 🐋 posts may feel like I'm speedrunning Barry Moser illustrations.

This, from the head of Ch 69 (nice) is more impressionistic than any of his stuff thus far. I love the 70s wall art vibe of it and how the whale carcass is just this void in the midst.

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Thank you, you have made everyone in the #monthofdick feed very happy this morning. 😂

I missed talking about The Affidavit in sync with #monthofdick but I love how Ishmael is “god forbid you read this as an allegory” and then loads up so many allegorical details. I also, of course, like a good discourse about old books with notes 🐋

There’s a group read going on - #monthofdick, run by @jacobharr.is , fyi …

My favorite thing about BlueSky is that it's a great resource for readers, and this thread is a perfect example.

For my part, I'm currently halfway through Moby Dick thanks to the #MonthOfDick event; and finishing @bluejo.bsky.social's excellent novel Farthing thanks to @lollardfish.bsky.social!