Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I have discovered the very wholesome subreddit r/DeTrashed and now I’m Inspired 000
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reading Dracula…it’s fun to observe what pieces of lore didn’t stick. For example, I did not realize he is canonically mustachioed and can crawl down walls like a lizard 140
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Extremely late to discovering How To with John Wilson…what rich depths of humanity it plumbs 010
Reposted by JinjinMoby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Life folded Death; Death trellised Life; the grim god wived with youthful Life, and begat him curly-headed glories. 2867
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Both Moby Dick and Monte Cristo feature… - Sailors unhealthily fixated on an all-consuming quest for vengeance - Symbols of death (a shroud/a coffin) ultimately bestowing life - A fundamental goofiness that you wouldn’t expect from such august classics 5/5 stars to each 130
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Count of Monte Cristo is such a messy bitch who lives for drama 160
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Now that I’m through Moby Dick, I’m ready to read The Count of Monte Cristo alongside @schlage.town 020
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Took a looong break from my reread of Moby Dick and finally finished—I’d stopped right when they begin the last doomed chase. Those last few pages are relentless—sucked me in then spat me out as abruptly as Queequeg’s lifebuoy coffin 🐋 270
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Pregnant with a toddler during a stressful period at work…the dentist now feels like the spa 130
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026If any of you had watched The Minions Movie’s hilarious opening sequence with the reverence and attention it deserves you’d already know they were indeed frozen in that ice cave. Media literacy is dead 010
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Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I for one love that our basketball team is named after pants 030
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I love drawing because the way simple marks build up into something greater than the sum of their parts is like God’s greatest magic trick. Making the marks is meditative, it feels good. When they click into a convincing image the sense of accomplishment is unparalleled. GenAI bypasses all of that 160
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026I used to draw with a poorly thought out audience of “whoever’s on the internet” in mind….I’ve since pivoted to creating for one client only—my child—and I’m one million times more fulfilled 180
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 30/03/2026What we’re witnessing is a major wreck and subsequent brawl here at the intersection of Art and Technology 120
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Living near a DSNY garage and following @nycsanitation on Instagram has turned me into a Sanitation Dept Stan 110
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Not Ahab demanding his harpoon barbs be tempered in fresh pagan blood 😭🐋 040
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026Queequeg, such a legend…saves himself from death by suddenly remembering he has unfinished business on shore…I wish this method worked for me 🐋 180
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 13/02/2026I fell behind with my reading and posting…in fairness to myself, knowing what comes next, I was loath to depart the peaceful verdure draped whale skelly in the arsacides 🐋 0110
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026What if we kissed inside the whale skeleton draped all over with fresh verdure, where Life folded Death and Death trellised Life? 🐋 0213
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Ishmael slyly bragging that Tranquo, king of Tranque, invited him to stay for the holidays as a special guest and they went to see a whale skeleton together…sounds kinda romantic if you ask me 🐋 0141
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Partial list of silly names from Moby Dick: - the learned Fogo von Slack - Dr. Bunger, ships surgeon with a dent in his head - Fitz Swackhammer - Dr. Snodhead, prof of Low Dutch and High German - Tranquo, king of Tranque 🐋 1171
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“You Bunger! Was there ever such another Bunger in the watery world? Bunger, when you die, you ought to die in a pickle, you dog; you should be preserved to future ages, you rascal” Feels like I am reading Tom and Greg dialog from Succession and not Moby Dick 🐋 1140
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“Great pains, small gains for those who ask the world to solve them, it cannot solve itself.” 🐋 050
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026So many deep ponderings on the doubloon, but imo the Manxman has the biggest galaxy brain take with his assertion that the doubloon is the ship’s belly button 🐋 080
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026If you like me are loving the descriptions of how whaling work actually gets done (with accompanying metaphors on how it’s all a microcosm for life itself), may I recommend Emile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart series 🐋 2131
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026TFW you are a mariner going about suffused in unctuousness 🐋 190
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Not Ishmael staring too long at beautiful Queequeg in the try-pot flames, going into a trance, and nearly capsizing the ship 🐋 0140
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026WHY is Ishmael fantasizing about Louis Le Gros thigh tartare 😭 🐋 190
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026What if we kissed over the polished iron lips of the try-pots 🐋 1120
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Ishmael gazing moonily into various crewmembers’ eyes while gently squeezing their hands in a vat of unctuous spermaceti is beautiful…like a Whaler’s version of The Artist is Present 🐋 290
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Ishmael saying Pip lost his mind but reached transcendence when abandoned in the ocean, then revealing that he himself met the same fate…does it mean this whole time we’ve been reading the ramblings of a madman who happens to have beheld the face of God? (The God being an aggro white whale, ofc) 🐋 2170
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The violence that brought the crew to this sight aside—the newborn whale, nursing, still crinkled from the womb, umbilical cord unspooling lazily in the clear seawater, protected by a seething pod, was absolute beauty 🐋 190
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Ishmael really missed his calling as a marine biologist…he doesn’t really seem like a big fan of the violence of whale hunting (though he is a fan of athletic harpooneers) 🐋 090
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Maybe Queequeg keeps Ishmael around bc he enjoys his discursive rambling as much as I do, they bonded over a book after all 🐋 080
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026A very long time ago, I did a project of illustrated quotes from various classics. This line always stuck with me 🐋 280
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Sorry the image of St George riding a large seal to do epic battle w a beached whale is soooo funny? Melville never shy to exercise his powers of imagination 🐋 1110
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 20/01/2026My brave Queequeg! Diving naked into the sea to perform a c-section on the leviathan’s head, rotating Tashtego from breech before delivering him from a sac of amniotic spermaceti…worst water birth ever…🐋 0110
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026“O Nature, and O soul of man! How far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! Not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.” Well there’s the whole MO of the book right there (and I can’t get enough) 🐋 030
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The whale line! Reminded me of the zigs and zags of thread through a sewing machine…except the whale line is also low key a memento mori 🐋 050
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026That first successful whale chase is Mad Max-ian in its speed, action, and violence—all the shouting, long spears, unsavory eccentrics. Just missing a doof warrior 🐋 030
Jinjin @jinjin.bsky.social · 18/01/2026The encounters with the Goney and Jereboam both feature such compromised communication, like Zoom calls on terrible WiFi. Something very funny but also deeply melancholy and wistful about it 🐋 0100
