She Who Quotes Moby Dick
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Writer, thesaurus-reader, lover of bees and plants (she/her)
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Writer, thesaurus-reader, lover of bees and plants (she/her)
#WritingBarn #SCBWI #kidlit #amquerying #mobydick
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Was there ever such unconsciousness? He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. He only asked for water—fresh water—something to wipe the brine off; that done, he put on dry clothes,...
#spaghetti #yum #ComfortFood
Was there ever such unconsciousness? He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. He only asked for water—fresh water—something to wipe the brine off; that done, he put on dry clothes,...
#spaghetti #yum #ComfortFood
December 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Was there ever such unconsciousness? He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. He only asked for water—fresh water—something to wipe the brine off; that done, he put on dry clothes,...
#spaghetti #yum #ComfortFood
Was there ever such unconsciousness? He did not seem to think that he at all deserved a medal from the Humane and Magnanimous Societies. He only asked for water—fresh water—something to wipe the brine off; that done, he put on dry clothes,...
#spaghetti #yum #ComfortFood
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵,:
I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved. The greenhorn had gone down. Shooting himself perpendicularly from the water, Queequeg now took an instant's glance around him, and seeming to see just how...
#ChristmasCactus #schlumbergera 🌱 #pink
I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved. The greenhorn had gone down. Shooting himself perpendicularly from the water, Queequeg now took an instant's glance around him, and seeming to see just how...
#ChristmasCactus #schlumbergera 🌱 #pink
December 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵,:
I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved. The greenhorn had gone down. Shooting himself perpendicularly from the water, Queequeg now took an instant's glance around him, and seeming to see just how...
#ChristmasCactus #schlumbergera 🌱 #pink
I looked at the grand and glorious fellow, but saw no one to be saved. The greenhorn had gone down. Shooting himself perpendicularly from the water, Queequeg now took an instant's glance around him, and seeming to see just how...
#ChristmasCactus #schlumbergera 🌱 #pink
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his...
#snow #face #FoundArt
Nothing was done, and nothing seemed capable of being done; those on deck rushed towards the bows, and stood eyeing the boom as if it were the lower jaw of an exasperated whale. In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his...
#snow #face #FoundArt
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Look you," roared the Captain, "I'll kill-e *you*, you cannibal, if you try anyore of your tricks aboard here; so mind your eye."
But it so happened just then, that it was high time for the Captain to mind his own eye. The prodigious strain..
#frozen #bubble #cold #-18C
"Look you," roared the Captain, "I'll kill-e *you*, you cannibal, if you try anyore of your tricks aboard here; so mind your eye."
But it so happened just then, that it was high time for the Captain to mind his own eye. The prodigious strain..
#frozen #bubble #cold #-18C
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
"Hallo, *you* sir," cried the Captain, a gaunt rib of the sea, stalking up to Queequeg, "what in thunder do you mean by that? Don't you know you might have killed that chap?"
"What him say?" said Queequeg, as he mildly turned to me.
"He say,"...
#snow #paw #winter #dog
"Hallo, *you* sir," cried the Captain, a gaunt rib of the sea, stalking up to Queequeg, "what in thunder do you mean by that? Don't you know you might have killed that chap?"
"What him say?" said Queequeg, as he mildly turned to me.
"He say,"...
#snow #paw #winter #dog
December 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure. Queequeg caught one of these young saplings mimicking him behind his back. I thought the bumpkin's hour...
#art #KidArt #scribble
But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure. Queequeg caught one of these young saplings mimicking him behind his back. I thought the bumpkin's hour...
#art #KidArt #scribble
December 2, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me. His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth. On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Miss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived...
#ballons #FoundArt #distinguished
At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me. His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth. On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Miss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived...
#ballons #FoundArt #distinguished
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me. His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth. On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Miss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived...
#ballons #FoundArt #distinguished
At the same foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me. His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth. On, on we flew; and our offing gained, the Miss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived...
#ballons #FoundArt #distinguished
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Miss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar air!—how I spurned that turnpike earth!—that common highway...
#distraught #luggage #face #travel
Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Miss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar air!—how I spurned that turnpike earth!—that common highway...
#distraught #luggage #face #travel
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Miss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar air!—how I spurned that turnpike earth!—that common highway...
#distraught #luggage #face #travel
Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Miss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings. How I snuffed that Tartar air!—how I spurned that turnpike earth!—that common highway...
#distraught #luggage #face #travel
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Are you a crafty creative who sells *non-digital* stuff online that might appeal to holiday shoppers? Pls post a link to your shop in the replies! NOTE: If you only ship to certain locations, please give specifics (to save people time). Thx!
#CraftSky #HolidayShopping #ShopIndie
#CraftSky #HolidayShopping #ShopIndie
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet River. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge...
#night #gothic #spire
At last, passage paid, and luggage safe, we stood on board the schooner. Hoisting sail, it glided down the Acushnet River. On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air. Huge...
#night #gothic #spire
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms...
(I've never seen a #wheelbarrow in this city. #Queequeg #ArtMeetsLife )
The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms...
(I've never seen a #wheelbarrow in this city. #Queequeg #ArtMeetsLife )
November 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms...
(I've never seen a #wheelbarrow in this city. #Queequeg #ArtMeetsLife )
The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms...
(I've never seen a #wheelbarrow in this city. #Queequeg #ArtMeetsLife )
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding-house. Not...
#rainbow #prism #sun
Shifting the barrow from my hand to his, he told me a funny story about the first wheelbarrow he had ever seen. It was in Sag Harbor. The owners of his ship, it seems, had lent him one, in which to carry his heavy chest to his boarding-house. Not...
#rainbow #prism #sun
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf. As we were...
🌱 #green #pathways #closeup #alocasia
We borrowed a wheelbarrow, and embarking our things, including my own poor carpet-bag, and Queequeg's canvas sack and hammock, away we went down to "the Moss," the little Nantucket packet schooner moored at the wharf. As we were...
🌱 #green #pathways #closeup #alocasia
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
CHAPTER 13
WHEELBARROW
Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my comrade's money. The grinning landlord, as well as...
#what #why #Disney #SoConfused #hermanmelville
CHAPTER 13
WHEELBARROW
Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my comrade's money. The grinning landlord, as well as...
#what #why #Disney #SoConfused #hermanmelville
November 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
CHAPTER 13
WHEELBARROW
Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my comrade's money. The grinning landlord, as well as...
#what #why #Disney #SoConfused #hermanmelville
CHAPTER 13
WHEELBARROW
Next morning, Monday, after disposing of the embalmed head to a barber, for a block, I settled my own and comrade's bill; using, however, my comrade's money. The grinning landlord, as well as...
#what #why #Disney #SoConfused #hermanmelville
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future movements. He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation. Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket,...
#snow #silly #FoundArt
I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future movements. He answered, to go to sea again, in his old vocation. Upon this, I told him that whaling was my own design, and informed him of my intention to sail out of Nantucket,...
#snow #silly #FoundArt
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
By hints, I asked him whether he did not propose going back,vans having a coronation; since he might now consider his father dead and gone, he being very old and feeble at the last accounts. He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful...
#winter #cozy #oak
By hints, I asked him whether he did not propose going back,vans having a coronation; since he might now consider his father dead and gone, he being very old and feeble at the last accounts. He answered no, not yet; and added that he was fearful...
#winter #cozy #oak
November 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
But alas! the practices of whaleman soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked; infinitely more so, than all his father's heathens. Arrived at last in old Sag Harbor; and seeing what the sailors did there;...
#Raindrops #glitter #puddle
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
November 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not. Struck by his desperate dauntlessness, and his wild desire to visit Christendom, the...
#cat #dish #silly #breakfast
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with...
#snow #maple #red #nature
But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the island. On one side was a coral reef; on the other a low tongue of land, covered with...
#snow #maple #red #nature
November 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of...
#snow #winter #pumpkin #Melville
When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of...
#snow #winter #pumpkin #Melville
November 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote :
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote :
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
CHAPTER 12
Biographical
Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are.
#rose 🌱 #pink #bloomscrolling #HermanMelville
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I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage far away to far distant scenes, I know not; but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go ahead and tell it. He gladly complied.
...
(Ever seen #violet #seeds ? 🌱)
Whether it was that this undulating tester rolled the savage far away to far distant scenes, I know not; but he now spoke of his native island; and, eager to hear his history, I begged him to go ahead and tell it. He gladly complied.
...
(Ever seen #violet #seeds ? 🌱)
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them. ...
#sunset #silhouette #nature
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Today's #MobyDick quote 🧵:
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱
We had been sitting in this crouching manner for some time, when all at once I thought I would open my eyes; for when between sheets, whether by day or by night, and whether asleep or awake, I have a way of always keeping my eyes shut, in order...
#rose #RoseWednesday 🌱