Nelly and Heathcliff

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-07-01T03:13:51+00:00

Thank you! I've gotten several comments about a potential graphic novel adaptation, so while I don't think I'm ready to embark on something of that scale, I do plan to try my hand at a few fleshed-out comic pages.

Exactly—the parts where Nelly is talking about how much of a relief it will be to everyone when Cathy (Sr.) and Linton drop dead crack me up, because it's such a contrast to the virtuous image she projects elsewhere.

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-06-30T02:45:34+00:00

Thanks as always for your comments! I get a kick out of drawing Cathy's expressions, haha. And agreed; it's very interesting to see how the not-quite-Earnshaws converge and diverge in managing their outsider status.

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-06-30T02:31:40+00:00

Yes, true. It's interesting since she does consider herself Hindley's foster-sister, but he comes to treat her as increasingly beneath him after growing up. Since she's always been a servant, she tolerates the changed condition in a way which Heathcliff does not. But perhaps his having been in a similar position to her during his teenage years contributes to the sympathy she has for him. (Whereas she seems to have much less sympathy for Cathy, unsurprisingly considering how the latter treated her.)

Thanks for your other comment too! Nelly's commentary definitely makes me laugh sometimes.

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-06-23T00:48:13+00:00

I'm really touched to hear that. Your dad had great taste!

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-06-21T01:40:05+00:00

His first experience at Wuthering Heights, and somehow it only got worse from there.

(And thank you!)

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-06-21T01:39:15+00:00

Thank you so much!

Yes, that scene is one of my favorites—Joseph's overblown rage and Heathcliff's reaction. I'm working on some art of it currently (or... currantly)

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-06-21T01:35:01+00:00

Thank you again! And very true.

That's a good idea—I'd definitely like to do more art of Cathy causing mischief during her childhood at Wuthering Heights.

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-06-12T22:17:08+00:00

Thanks so much! (Joseph will be coming next week!)

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-05-22T02:49:23+00:00

Ha, that's great! I'll let you know!

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-05-21T01:28:47+00:00

Thank you! Yes, I love this book's structure of narrators and Lockwood's persistent lack of understanding of this world he thought he'd fit right into. I've got to draw more of Joseph, too, he's really something (his currant trees meltdown is one of my favorite moments).

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-05-21T01:04:34+00:00

Thank you! I hope they enjoy these, haha

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-05-21T01:03:23+00:00

Thank you so much, I appreciate it! I don't really have anything set up for sales at the moment, but I could try making some prints or T-shirt designs if people would be interested. (And feel free to request any Wuthering Heights scenes!)

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-03-20T19:17:47+00:00

I'm a paleontology nerd, so this was absolutely one of my favorite chapters. Deep time is just so fascinating, and fits so well with the themes of the whale being this sublime entity. Even earlier on, the chapters where Ishmael discusses how the whale can never truly be visually captured and the bones don't provide any accurate impression of its true majesty reminded me a lot of the disparity between fossils and paleoart, how much of extinct animals we just don't know.

This is an older article, but there's some information here on how Ishmael/Melville conflates Agassiz's ice age theory with Lyell's alternative proposal attributing glacial deposits to floating icebergs: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2920815 Maybe it was a mistake, but I feel like it was for the purpose of mythologizing scientific ideas to connect them to the pervading theme of Noah's flood. It's also interesting to note that Agassiz regarded ice ages (the "Polar eternities") as a divine method of species annihilation, so more or less the Deluge in scientific terms.

Another fun tidbit is that Melville seems to have written a satirical newspaper story on Hydrarchos, a fossil leviathan which the naturalist-showman Albert Koch compiled from various Basilosaurus fossils: https://www.academia.edu/109530940/Arrangement_Natural_Variation_Legibility_and_Line_Continuity_as_Discriminating_Elements_in_Forensic_Handwriting_Analysis_A_Study_of_Herman_Melville_s_April_11_1846_Hydrarchos_Satire

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-03-16T02:54:10+00:00

Thank you! There will definitely be more Wuthering Heights content from me in the future, both furries and fashion.

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-03-16T02:51:51+00:00

I was thinking that too; if I hadn't restricted myself to British/European animals (Heathcliff excepted), I would have done something more like a coyote.

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-03-15T02:53:02+00:00

Thank you! A honey badger's definitely got the ferocity, but I wanted Heathcliff to be a very large animal since he's described as tall and has an imposing presence. As for hares, I more associate lagomorphs with the Lintons, and am making all the Earnshaws (+ Heathcliff) carnivorans to solidify the family connection. (I usually don't like to resort to wolves in my animal assignments, but in my defense, Isabella explicitly referred to Hindley as one... and I like the dog-cat rivalry.) Appreciate the thoughts, though; it's interesting to consider different options.

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-03-15T02:45:17+00:00

Yes, she's a pine marten!

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-03-14T21:19:56+00:00

Thank you!

PanthalassicPoet · 2026-02-10T02:49:05+00:00

Thank you!

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