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Ooooh here she goes

Watch out boys, she'll eat you up

Oooh here she goes

She's a manticore

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Hey, what's your favorite dungeon meshi ship?

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Rarijack love languages.

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I've had this idea in my head for a while for Cecil doing an analysis on anons as a species of magical creature.

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i’m so glad earth only has one moon, if there were more i’d have to pick a favorite and that sounds too emotionally taxing to even fathom

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"I think I'm going to listen to my night owl playlist!"

*opens will wood's artist page on spotify*

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Just finished chapter 5. We can literally change nothing for the highschool AU and still have it work perfectly.

Change tea to Mario Kart. That's it.

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Just finished chapter 4! Here's the breakdown:

Change Nick describing everyone who went to Gatsby's party that one night to him going through all the people who posted #GatsbyParty on Instagram or Twitter or something that night

The speak easy being a speak easy can be changed to just a regular restaurant, I feel. Someplace classy but maybe still a chain. My mind keeps going to Applebees? Mostly because it would be funny

The war medal can be a high marks certificate from his old school

Idk what to do about Wolfsheim fixing the World Series at all.

Let's say Jordan and Daisy met in elementary school and Daisy and Gatsby knew eachother in the summer between 5th and 6th grade before he got shipped off to private school

Instead of Daisy being arranged to marry Tom, let's just go with love bombing

I feel like everything Gatsby did because of Daisy can be boiled down to constantly checking her socials and uuuh... just everything I did about my crush in freshman year.

Like I said in my last post about this, I'm always open to suggestions and ideas on how to improve or change things. I hope you liked this and if you don't want this series on your feed anymore, the tag to block is 'moony's Gatsby yap'

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Ya think HS!Nick participates in the stock market game?

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People seemed to like my great Gatsby high school AU idea so I guess I'll go chapter by chapter explaining what would happen in the AU equivalent. Let's start by going rapid fire on the chapters I've read so far:

Chapter one:

This one can go mostly unchanged, I think. Probably a smaller place since huge, lavish houses aren't really a thing anymore.

"He's got a sneaky link! She goes to another school!"

Change Jordan to an influencer instead of a golfer

Tom is a jock, of course

I have no idea how to adapt Daisy talking about her kid

Where are Tom's parents? His dad works late and his mom agreed to mostly leave them alone besides cooking dinner.

Replace "Nordic race" with a more modern pseudo science. Tom probably saw it on Reddit or TikTok or something

Chapter 2:

I have no clue for a lot of this tbh?

Change the apartment to an abandoned place that Tom and Myrtle chose to be their secret spot?

Other than that I think a lot of it can stay the same...?

The thing I'm most sure on is changing Mckee's photography to SoundCloud music

Chapter 3:

This one can stay mostly the same too

Jay is home alone, as per usual, and throws another party, like he's always doing.

Nick is invited via Instagram dm

The two servings of dinner can be changed to ordering pizza

The full orchestra can be replaced by an actual DJ

The car crash scene can go completely unchanged.

Idk what we change the war to

That's all I've read so far! If you have any of your own ideas, let me know. This is really fun and part of me is fully considering writing an actual book about this idea now that the book is in the public domain, or even making a movie about it like all of those high school retelling of Shakespeare and cyrano!

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Great Gatsby highschool AU where Gatsby is some rich kid whose parents are never home.

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A few years ago I was hanging out at a friend's house and her little brother had some friends over as well.

There was this one little girl who clearly had some undiagnosed stuff going on and was always trying to get my attention and impress me.

I found it deeply irritating, if a bit endearing, and it was only later on the car ride home that I realized this was probably exactly how the CITs I latched onto at summer camp felt.

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I like the idea of two bros joking around like

"Yeah bro, we're totally soulmates, touch my soulmate mark" and then the mark actually does light up and they're both like "oh shit... what now?"

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Sometimes I worry about 4 dimensional creatures that I can't perceive reaching into things and messing with them

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We're reading the great Gatsby in class! I really like it so far.

The issue is, I'm playing chess while the rest of my class is playing checkers.

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Interaction I overheard today

Girl A: you look like a Dr. seuss character.

Girl B: who?

Girl A: exactly

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