Hopefully figuring this out soon bc I have lovely photos for it but oh gosh the dimensions 🫡

Trying to fix a new header on Instagram 🫡 I’m sure it will be lovely. But if you see me go on private/post 8000 times understand I am literally 🐙 wrestling with 🌊 ⛵️ 🌊 🙏 and no 🗺️ 😭

You can’t tell this #Seagull what to do for Alan’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #PowerPose #Seabird #birds #wildlife #photography #Florida #Beach #scape #nature #outdoors #thelittlethings #photohour #EastCoastKin #TidesOutTuesday #ColorADay #BlueTue @alan678.bsky.social

Trying to fix a new header on Instagram 🫡 I’m sure it will be lovely. But if you see me go on private/post 8000 times understand I am literally 🐙 wrestling with 🌊 ⛵️ 🌊 🙏 and no 🗺️ 😭

“My lord, autumn soon merges in winter, but the spring has all the seasons before. The full-blown rose is nearer withering than the bud. The faint morn is a blossom: the crimson sunset the flower.” Chapter 50, Mardi. #Melvillemonday #naturesky #bloomsky #spring #classiclit

But look! fathoms down in the sea; where ever saw you a phantom like that? An enormous crescent with antlers and a Delta of mouths. Slowly it sinks, and is seen no more. Doctor Faust saw the devil; but you have seen the "Devil Fish." Mardi I/XIII Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.“

whaleauboutism 🐳💙 #MelvilleMonday

#MelvilleMonday "There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual impartiality should be confounded with political trimming, or why serviceable truth should keep cloistered because not partisan." - Melville, c. 1866

Even many of the more considerate and industrious of the citizens . . . yielded to the ascendancy of curiosity over interest, and strayed from their shops, and their work-yards to gaze upon the noble spectacle of a moving ship. #MelvilleMonday James Fenimore Cooper The Red Rover

#MobyDick #HermanMelville The cabin; by the stern windows; Ahab sitting alone, and gazing out. I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail. The envious billows sidelong swell to whelm my track; let them; but first I pass. #MelvilleMonday 🐳

“As a general thing, therefore, you must first get to a whale, before any pitchpoling comes into play.” #MelvilleMonday

“My lord, autumn soon merges in winter, but the spring has all the seasons before. The full-blown rose is nearer withering than the bud. The faint morn is a blossom: the crimson sunset the flower.” Chapter 50, Mardi. #Melvillemonday #naturesky #bloomsky #spring #classiclit

"No sensible man given to quiet domestic delights, would exchange his warm fireside and muffins, for a heroic bivouac, in a wild beechen wood, of a raw gusty morning in Normandy; every knight blowing his steel-gloved fingers, and vainly striving to cook his cold coffee in his helmet." #melvillemardi

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HECTOR (to Achilles) O, like a book of sport thou’lt read me o’er; But there’s more in me than thou understand’st. #Troilus_2026 Act IV s5 (239-240) #TheBard_ProblemPlays

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Come Wuther the Heights with us at the Spring conference! #writingcommunity #booksky #wutheringheights

Read my new story about life and death at a community garden. GOD OF THE COMMUNITY GARDEN at the one and only @burialmagazine.bsky.social

“Once upon a time,” said Frog, “there were two good friends, a frog and a toad.”

seasons turn a spent firework goes off again #haiku #fireworks

Conference announcement…soon 🖤✨🥀🕯️🌹

"there shone certain mild gleams of a newly developing bloom—the spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February’s snow." Chapter 8, the pulpit #melvillemonday #bloomsky #nature #mobydick

#MobyDick #HermanMelville “He's a queer man, Captain Ahab- so some think- but a good one. Oh, thou’lt like him well enough; no fear, no fear. He's a grand, ungodly, god-like man, Captain Ahab….” #MelvilleMonday 🐳

“Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled.” #MelvilleMonday

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳

#MelvilleMonday For how, otherwise, could it have entered the builder's mind, that, upon the clearing being made, such a purple prospect would be his! — nothing less than Greylock, with all his hills about him, like Charlemagne among his peers. - The Piazza Mount Greylock, 1873, by Jesse Talbot.

“Shall I call that wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it.” (Moby-Dick, 99) #MelvilleMonday 🐳

#MelvilleMonday "And beauty is like piety—you cannot run and read it; tranquillity and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed." - Melville, The Piazza (1856) [+]

I think I’m in love With this gorgeous #map Illustration of #whaling from Map of North Atlantic by Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius circa 1592.

*cheers* SNOWHALESNOWHALESNOWWHA--

Archiving is going really well (very rewarding and great to do before opening subs and hosting more events in late 2026/early 2027) but we accidentally found three or four more books so now poetry is taking up the majority of February and non prose non poetry stuff is going to March instead. 📚 📚

Happy Friday! We are still archiving (will discuss this more later) but just wanted to come on here and remind anyone if you need anything (reposts, interviews, book reviews, snow removal, whales, etc.,) let us know 💙✨🐳🐋

We opened our digital doors to the community on October 23, 2023 and this month… we hit 500,000 all-time checkouts. Five! Hundred! Thousand! In less than two and a half years, we’ve circulated queer stories over half a million times.

Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on

Ahoy, Shipmates & Friends! Happy #MelvilleMonday ! 🐳 Moby bonsai

“Pierre little foresaw that this world hath a secret deeper than beauty, and Life some burdens heavier than death.” (Pierre; or, The Ambiguities) #MelvilleMonday 🐳

“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” #melvillemonday #snow #winterstorm ❄️ 🐋 🐳 ❄️ (This weeks storm was over two Moby Dick’s tall!)

Happy #MelvilleMonday 🐳 ! „It had just such a happy, careless, innocent look; and every happy little wave seemed gamboling about like a thoughtless Little kid in a pasture; and seemed to look up in your face as it passed, as if it wanted to be patted and caressed.“ REDBURN His First Voyage. XII

I have been more blockish than a block; I am mad to think of it! Pierre. Book XXV. Happy #MelvilleMonday, dear friends!

“Heave and fall, old sea!” #MelvilleMonday

“There she blows!-there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” #melvillemonday #snow #winterstorm ❄️ 🐋 🐳 ❄️ (This weeks storm was over two Moby Dick’s tall!)

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