Sorry about my postshttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3ml4mpmfjgc2dI 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 that05 May 2026 16:37 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml4mpmfjgc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mjsfrnmews2vTulip close ups18 Apr 2026 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsfrnmews2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mjsff2vd722vHard to resist taking pics of peak bloom cherry blossoms18 Apr 2026 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjsff2vd722vhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3miumvvb5is26I 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 fulfilled07 Apr 2026 01:29 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3miumvvb5is26https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mibtmyzqyc2qWhat we’re witnessing is a major wreck and subsequent brawl here at the intersection of Art and Technology30 Mar 2026 14:09 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mibtmyzqyc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mfiiirgkcs2sLiving near a DSNY garage and following @nycsanitation on Instagram has turned me into a Sanitation Dept Stan23 Feb 2026 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfiiirgkcs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3meqrguebmc2oNot Ahab demanding his harpoon barbs be tempered in fresh pagan blood 😭🐋13 Feb 2026 14:59 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqrguebmc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3meqpkjw7422oQueequeg, such a legend…saves himself from death by suddenly remembering he has unfinished business on shore…I wish this method worked for me 🐋13 Feb 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqpkjw7422ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3meqp7jnmh22oI 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 🐋13 Feb 2026 14:19 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3meqp7jnmh22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdchh2okgk2gWhat if we kissed inside the whale skeleton draped all over with fresh verdure, where Life folded Death and Death trellised Life? 🐋26 Jan 2026 04:58 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdchh2okgk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdc2vdzij225Ishmael full-body tattoo reveal (Queequeg’s influence?) 🐋26 Jan 2026 01:13 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdc2vdzij225https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdbh6cnktk2hIshmael 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 🐋25 Jan 2026 19:20 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbh6cnktk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdbgboxslk2hPartial 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 🐋25 Jan 2026 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbgboxslk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdbfx2bre22h“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 🐋25 Jan 2026 18:58 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbfx2bre22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdbfqddfwk2h“Great pains, small gains for those who ask the world to solve them, it cannot solve itself.” 🐋25 Jan 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbfqddfwk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdbfnfzg6c2hSo 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 🐋25 Jan 2026 18:53 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdbfnfzg6c2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdb6uqovns2hIf 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 🐋25 Jan 2026 16:51 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdb6uqovns2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mdaxylhn5s2hTFW you are a mariner going about suffused in unctuousness 🐋25 Jan 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdaxylhn5s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3md7snjc6qc22Not Ishmael staring too long at beautiful Queequeg in the try-pot flames, going into a trance, and nearly capsizing the ship 🐋25 Jan 2026 03:40 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7snjc6qc22https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3md7shijwx222WHY is Ishmael fantasizing about Louis Le Gros thigh tartare 😭 🐋25 Jan 2026 03:37 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7shijwx222https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3md7sb3qvok22What if we kissed over the polished iron lips of the try-pots 🐋25 Jan 2026 03:33 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7sb3qvok22https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3md7rzt4ym222I’m sorry, they do WHAT with the whale penis skin??? 🐋25 Jan 2026 03:29 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7rzt4ym222https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3md7akrnuc224Ishmael 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 🐋24 Jan 2026 22:16 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7akrnuc224https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3md7a2cjgas24Ishmael 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) 🐋24 Jan 2026 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3md7a2cjgas24https://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mcxwb4cslc2uThe 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 🐋22 Jan 2026 00:23 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcxwb4cslc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mcx5wx3dcc2nIshmael 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) 🐋21 Jan 2026 17:08 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcx5wx3dcc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mcx4z6wq6k2nMaybe Queequeg keeps Ishmael around bc he enjoys his discursive rambling as much as I do, they bonded over a book after all 🐋21 Jan 2026 16:52 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcx4z6wq6k2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mcwucxwdmc2nA very long time ago, I did a project of illustrated quotes from various classics. This line always stuck with me 🐋21 Jan 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwucxwdmc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mcwpr53poc2nSorry 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 🐋21 Jan 2026 12:54 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcwpr53poc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jinjin.bsky.social/post/3mcu76trpak2lMy 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…🐋20 Jan 2026 12:53 +0000at://did:plc:6w7bu4aoshhsdvmwyfeb64d3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcu76trpak2l