i may have made this exact post before but guys. god.
Queequeg’s face when he thinks that Ishmael doesn’t want to ship out with him:
Queequeg’s face when Ishmael assures him that he does indeed want to ship out with him:
seconds later:
what conclusion would YOU draw from this
Well I certainly don’t object to the notion of them as lovers. And if there are any fanfics that get them together, then I’ll happily read them.
But on screen. I think they’ve simply found themselves ‘a brother from another mother’.
Clearly Queequeg’s been whaling for some time and so he’s quite used to people like Ishmael.
But this Ishmael, rather than the merchant sea man of the book is a teacher who’s never been on board ship in his life. So people like Queequeg might as well be from another planet.
Yet as soon as he gets know this new companion he likes him and it’s mutual.
well, fair
i did make the post sort of open ended but my point was that to me this absolutely reads as romantic and imho so does every iteration of these characters i've come across