New profile pic! Thank you to @rossydoesdrawings.bsky.social for the lovely artwork!

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SO to @remapradio.bsky.social for letting me go extremely long and self-indulgently about ZERO PARADES FOR DEAD SPIES, a game that knocked me fully on my ass again and again. 100/100 👉🏽🐬s Go read it!!! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 remapradio.com/articles/zer...

Titanium Court is so good

InterfaceX26 starts today! a Steam event of games featuring fake and fictional OS. "Everything is going to be ok" is part of it. interfacex.net "More than 150 developers and publishers have come together to launch InterfaceX26, a week-long Steam sale and livestream running from April 27 to May 4."

Shout-out to the Sham Hatwitch

Before reading, I had the notion there was some cat-and-mouse play throughout the book with various sightings of the white whale and failed attempts on Ahab's part to catch it. Not sure why. Now as we get to the end, I won't be shocked if we never actually meet the whale, only hear tell of it. 🐋

Ok finished reading and also want to double back and say the whole scenario with The Virgin and guy mocking them with the oil can was also very funny. Also, is that really a thing with some whales sinking after death while others float? I am curious about how that works. 🐋

Currently reading ch 82. Obviously Ishmael is seeing whales everywhere but I had to set my reading down and laugh when he declared that dragons are actually whales. 🐋

Had a busy day today and even more to do tomorrow, so I'm curled up with some hot cocoa and tearing through both today and tomorrow's readings in one go! 🐋

Ch 54 is my favorite chapter so far and likely will remain such. Sorry to all other chapters, but this one talks about my dearly beloved Great Lakes. I think Ishmael (and maybe Melville too) would have loved The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. 🐋

Ok this, ch 40/41, is where the book would lose me if I was trying to read on my own. Not even that one or the other chapter is bad on its own necessarly but to have the play bit and then be like "and now a very lengthy rambling about this whale and ahab" was a bit hard on the tonal whiplash. 🐋📖

The Cetology chapter wasnt bad, it struck me as similar to the part of How to Train Your Dragon where it goes over the different types of dragons. Esp the bit with the razor back whale, very much like the night fury. I wonder if Cetology inspired that? Dragons, Leviathans, here there be monsters! 🐋📖

I feel like Moby Dick and Shakespeare are of a kind where they have this reputation of being classic literature so they're assumed to be flowery and serious, and they do have those moments, but a lot more of it is very pulpy and just outright funny. Not like The Scarlet Letter or something. 🐋📖

Having chowder for lunch and skimming back through ch 15 to confirm that yes, Ishmael claims the inn's cow wears cod's heads on its feet and I didn't just have a weird dream making that detail up. 🐋📖

Can't sleep, so here I am at 3 in the morning reading the next batch of chapters and developing a massive craving for chowder... 🐋📖

One my friends told me about the whole marriage thing but it was somehow even more blatent than I thought. And before they even get on the ship! I am truly baffled by how many of the few things I have seen quoted before are happening before we even set foot on a ship! 🐋📖

Today I was horrified to learn about pea coffee 🐋📖