#dan cody

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The Great Gatsby + Onion/Reductress headlines Part One

[ask-dan-cody]

setting your boat on fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🇮🇹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

CAPTAIN’S LOG, 1911

…hate that goddamn fag. I mean flag. Get it out of my face…

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

I think that would actually be so delicious if @ask-dan-cody ended up being @the-mister-jay-gatsby’s dan instead of @ask-jay-gatsby’s

Like ask-jay had a years-long relationship with dan cody, a much older TAKEN man, where he spent the first few years dodging fists and sharing a bed and ducking liquor bottles and working for NOTHING but the occasional kind word or unwarranted touch

But after one god awful night, new years 1909, dan apparently just saw the fucking light and “got better” and became a wonderful a loving partner to this young man he’s basically held captive since seventeen. So jay in all his stupid goddamn hope-blindness (and after all the mistreatment of his father a la Absolution, and then subsequent years of abuse and manipulation from dan in his more violent years) genuinely thought that this was what love was. You have to suffer first to earn it. Like even going back to his dad as an adult probably confirmed it—his dad had mellowed out so much since he ran away (certainly not because jay offered to buy him a house.)

But like all this to say, jay sat with dan for five fucking years and worked him through sobriety, then nearly dehydrated to death on boston harbor waiting for dan to come back to the boat after that last dinner with ella kaye. Which he never came back from. Jay almost died waiting for Dan because Dan asked him to wait.

And now Dan is back, but it’s a Dan where none of that suffering, that hard work that he believes it takes to build a foundation for a beautiful life, matters at all. Not even a little bit.

Dan finally came back for him. But just like everyone else, it’s not him Dan’s really after.

LIKE IT JUST PISSES ME OFF MAN

[purpetua]

My dad watched the ending of The Great Gatsby movie with me and now he keeps calling me Old Sport

[nick-carra-gay-for-gatsby]

should i make this my new icon

[mu-mimama]

Can someone explain to me what the deal is with Dan Cody. I’ve read the passage a billion times and he seems like a generally shitty dude sure but It seems as if everyone has a really specific view of who he is and how he acts and the like and I’m extremely curious to know where it comes from so I can overanalyze something new /gen

[hana-loves-bumblebees]

Dan in era-accurate drag that’s just Titanic’s Rose’s dress

I’m so sorry gatsbin. But also I’m not.

@more-than-tender-curiosity

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

@vessels-for-good-intent @vehiculartheyslaughter the world if dan robert and jay weren’t so fucked up

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The Great Gatsby + Tumblr Text Posts Part 6

Bonus 1949 Version:

[ask-dan-cody]

...Dan?

I hate to come crawling back to you. But you were right. You always were.

You were right when you told me people would never respect who I chose to be. Even the people I was certain would.

Someone very dear to me called me James on purpose today. You were right. It was only a matter of time.

For all you've done, I can at least appreciate that you've never called me that once.

Would you mind if I joined you for a drink? I- I don't know who to trust anymore... and I miss having you as a safety net. Even after everything you did.

Your boy,

@the-mister-jay-gatsby

CAPTAIN'S LOG, 1911

Ah, well. Can't win 'em all, old sport. There are always going to be the nay-sayers and the so-an'-sos who want what you got.

And you want a drink, eh? Since when? Last time you let me get you drunk, you surely didn't like how it turned out. Can't imagine why. I had a great time.

But you got to remember, my boy. You are who you say you are. Who I say you are. You're my boy first, Jay second, and never whatever the hell slop your parents scribbled down on your paperwork. If there ever even was any.

Forget 'em. I'll help you do that, too.

[more-than-tender-curiosity]

I know Jay has a history withDan Cody but I cannot for the life of me remember much about that man other than the fact that he died at see. If that is true, would Jay, after acquiring wealth, make a tombstone for him? Place flowers and such? Or would he bury that part of him. The past of him and Dan Cody?

Putting this under readmore because it's gonna be a doozy. Spoilers for Gatsby as well

Okay so. One thing I will remind you of is that Jay never really intended for anyone to know about Dan. His only remnant of the man is that one photograph and he hung it up on the wall in his bedroom, where I'm sure he never expected anyone to see it, at least not to a point where he'd have to explain. I don't think Jay was exactly bringing home anybody to his bedroom (until he got back with Daisy, of course)

Remember when Jay had Nick and Daisy over, and they noticed the photo of Dan (and the one of Jay from the same time), he brushed over it pretty fast. Told Nick that Dan used to be 'his best friend' and that he was dead now, and the moment Daisy latched on to that, he instantly distracted her with his weird ass scrapbooks. It wasn't until after everything blew up in his face that Jay told Nick, and only Nick, about everything.

Obviously for Gatsby I explore their relationship much further. I personally believe (through my years of research into Jay's characterization through the various drafts of this book and the original version of Absolution where it becomes clear that men of a certain persuasion think very much of Jay's good looks, even when he was too young to be viewed as attractive to any healthy person.

Dan was of course an unhealthy man. We know for a fact that he was an alcoholic, and that he was violent but Jay had put it past him/possibly forgiven him if not simply tucked the trauma away so he didn't have to inspect it (chapter nine, "...only the picture of Dan Cody, a token of forgotten violence, staring down from the wall.") That particular quote could simply refer to the violence of the Old West that Dan brought with him, but given again Absolution and Jay's constant involvement with powerful, violent older men, and his desperate pursuit of a woman like Daisy who he presumed to be soft and sweet and totally unable to hurt him, (thus making the irony of the situation that much worse when she contributes however unintentionally to his death) I believe it also refers to the violence Dan inflicted upon Jay during those five years aboard the Tuolomee.

Obviously I have my own opinions about things like Jay's sexuality and why he was so twisted up and obsessive and desperate. Much of what I believe is taken directly from fact and stretched out through interpolation of those facts, looked through a modern lens to an image of masculinity in the years Fitzgerald wrote the books. I think Jay was gay, slipped himself into a sexuality of convenience to further his ideal of a Perfect American Man, and had his wires crossed by his father's behavior so that he searched out a father that loved him—only to be met with another monster who only saw value in him when he gave up his own humanity.

Dan was, of course, that monster. In Gatsby, once we get to 1922, Jay will be wholeheartedly unable to confront the true nature of his relationship with that man. He spent so long believing it was purely romantic and that he had 'cured' Dan of his alcoholism by being good and loving someone who needed to be loved just like he did (with that notion of reciprocating saviorship following him through every other failed relationship not just through Daisy—trying to save her from having to be married off to someone she doesn't love but really just trying to undo the fact that that had, in a way, been done to him—but even to Nick, who is so unable to face himself until, possibly, when it's too late and Jay is dead) that by then, after so many years of his notion of love being clouded by want of Daisy, he's constantly on the cusp of admitting to himself that Dan abused him and he'd 'submitted to it' but he cannot fully accept that fact because if Dan didn't love him, and Daisy doesn't love him, and Nick never will—why the fuck is he even bothering?

Dan has a monument. A beautiful one, actually. A big marble tomb on the grounds of the home he used to share with Ella Kaye, bounded on each side by young willows and seasonal flowers and a plaque written by the woman who would have been his wife. The woman who killed him. Jay got to visit it just once, and spoke with Ella about what happened and why she took Dan from him, and he doesn't want to understand her reasoning because then he has to admit that he had it infinitely worse than her and never had the guts to admit it to himself. Never did anything about it. That tomb—it's a monument to his cowardice, to every opportunity he passed up in his desperation to find someone who loved him.

The photo is enough. Dan still shares a room with him just like he's still there in every 'old sport' and he's always there with his hands on Jay's shoulders any time he goes out on the hydroplane. Some things never change. Jay never stops being 17 and desperate. Nothing went wrong.

The photo is enough.

...

Also, Dan didn't die at sea. He died in Boston, likely either onboard the Tuolomee in the Harbor or, as I assumed, in the city, and Jay wasn't informed because no one knew Dan had left anyone but Ella behind.

[hana-loves-bumblebees]

A few memes for the fanfic Gatsby by @more-than-tender-curiosity

Robert in 1909:

Dan at dinner when Jay sipped the broth:

Me when Dan finally fucking dies in pain:

That’s all for now folks

If you’d also like to suffer, you can find the fanfiction here:

[falafels]

pt.64!! <pt.63 pt.65>

Group chat check for who was at the dorm to watch Matt’s cousin and his options were Neil or Kevin and Matt decided better for the kid to learn how to pop a guy’s eye out with his thumbs than it was to risk turning him into Kevin 2.0 or (more likely) Kevin arguing with a 7 year old and getting so angry at “but why?” repeated that he cries

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[more-than-tender-curiosity]

You are Despicable owdheohddiejod

fucking that twink in positions we dont even have names for

[chaoticace22]

do you know that thing when you open up tumblr and feel deep confusion?

ps. it's just a meme pls don't come after me

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The Great Gatsby + Tumblr Text Posts Part 13