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In the Same Manner – seashadows – Moby Dick – Herman Melville [Archive of Our Own]

Or, the Queeshmael/Moana crossover fic that I definitely wanted.

Summary:

Maui was flooded with relief when he saw the man paddling, or rather trying and failing to paddle.

(A thousand-year-old friendship brings a demigod out to save a harpooneer, and one less canonical death results.)

Or, Queequeg is a descendant of Moana a thousand years down the line, and Maui keeps his promises.

In the Same Manner – seashadows – Moby Dick – Herman Melville [Archive of Our Own]

So I kindled the shavings; helped prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world. But we did not go to sleep without some little chat.

How it is I know not; but there is no place like a bed for confidential disclosures between friends. Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts’ honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg—a cosy, loving pair.

Chapter 10, Moby Dick

@silver-and-ivory

Moby Dick excerpt.

Maybe you’re right and this isn’t meant to be gay. But you’ve got to admit, it’s pretty gay.

(via atrahasis)

queeshmael:

windandwater:

shredsandpatches:

Paging sirken (idek if you drink or not, but I saw this and thought of you :D)

#ishmael is out shopping for liquor to drown his post-Pequod angst #sees this bottle #bursts into tears #and/or flips the shelf over #depending on his mood #and whether or not it’s November

laughing and crying at the same time

# ishmael buys it anyway but he keeps his head down he can’t even look up # but when he does # there’s queequeg # just grinning at him # and then ishmael’s laughing and crying at the same time too # no shut up you cannot stop me from making this happy # DEATH CANNOT STOP TRUE LOVE