#f: jay

[arobinwithoutbatman]

@the-mocking-robin continued from [x]

A laptop is rested on his legs, he doesn't mind the extra weight, it's kind of soothing actually. The tap to his knee had him looking up and then thinking over Jay's words.

It was true, things had been... he wasn't saying the q word, never say the q word. But Jay was right, nothing had happened and Tim was unfortunately struggling with making a new transporter that would allow Jay the option of going home. He hated being the one to unintentionally take the choice away. Everyone deserved a choice.

But Jay didn't seem all that concerned about going home...

"If that's what you want, I won't stop you." Tim slowly replied. "I think you're pretty cool and everyone here likes you. Are you absolutely sure, though?"

[redxxstrings]

that one picrew but make it my legacy heirs ♡

[linnytheseagull]

More classic literature YouTubers because it's so funny to me

Bonus content:

[iamnotshazam]

there is something deeply wrong with nick carraway in gatsby. motherfucker has been disassocating probably since the end of the war. he watches a marriage almost implode in front of him and in the stunned silence afterwards tells the awful husband, "oh yeah i just remembered today's my birthday"

i dont think casual and high school level discussions focus on how deeply weird nick must be in person and how that affects scenes? i vaguely remember analyses usually focusing on daisy and tom and gatsby but they all use nick as a barely functioning soundboard for horrible behavior and when he doesn't say anything are probably thinking "well nick seems so chill he would stop me if this was Truly Weird" and nick is meanwhile staring off into the distance thinking about what he ate last tuesday and that green eyed bilboard

edit: right and the accident literally happens next page so the weirdness of nick is probably skipped over by most readers

[avephelis]

highly requested

[anneeeboleyn]

society if jay gatsby fell in love with nick carraway :

[sanguine-prince]

i’m sure i’m not the first to say something like this, but let me tell you about my poc-passing-as-white jay gatsby headcanon!!

for some background, in the 1920s there was an interesting shift regarding (white) skin tones. previously, tans were viewed as a sign that a person worked out in the fields, and therefore a trademark of the lower class. however, slowly after the industrial revolution, it increasingly became a representation of luxury, since the rich upper class would have the time to lounge about and sunbathe at their leisure.

i say all this to show that a poc gatsby would have the ostensible class and wealth for a tan, which would ‘excuse’ a slightly browner skin tone in the public eye.

(the 20s was also the setting of passing by nella larsen, so that’s neat.)

in my vision, he’s biracial (maybe his mother was black & his father was a german immigrant) with skin light enough to pass for white.

the fact that nick states that gatsby keeps his hair neatly groomed and cut might be to prevent it from curling up.

additionally, i think it could contrast tom’s white supremacy & his fear of poc social progress.

it would also create a deeper divide between gatsby and daisy, and once again the contrast between him and tom. in my mind, daisy wouldn’t know about it until the point where tom reveals everything about gatsby’s bootlegging etc. with jay revealing it to her in the car ride back (oops then she hits myrtle).

then, when she chooses tom and the life of comfort, wealth, status, etc that their marriage offers, she also rejects not only gatsby’s new money but also his race.

it’s a lot more thematically significant for the american dream as well—it’s still unattainable and essentially tainted by capitalism, and it also emphasizes that it’s restricted to the white upper class. social mobility only becomes available to gatsby when he disguises his racial identity.

similarly, it fits with gatsby’s identity reconstruction—the quintessential american is white, rich, and educated.

daisy and tom have that ticket into society because they have that inherent thing that he will never have—pedigree, in both class and race. that’s something that even nick has.

(in my mind, he tells nick all about it the night before he dies & nick understands as best he can and doesn’t think less of him, because it further highlights the differences between his & gatsby’s relationship v. gatsby’s relationship with daisy; namely, the transparency -> acceptance give-and-take that he and daisy never had. because of having to hide himself from daisy in order to maintain her affection, he builds an expectation that he must be someone that he is not as well as developing a transactional definition of love (he gives, and people love him as long as he can continue to give) in order to be loved. therefore, nick’s immediate curiosity and fascination with who he truly is is foreign to him. not to get too into their dynamic lmao i just think it’s really interesting.)

finally, the very last part where nick is sitting and looking at the bay and thinking about the first immigrants and their dreams and how gatsby embodied the purity and naivety of those dreams is further exemplified by his racial ‘otherness.’

and there’s,,, technically nothing in the book to explicitly refute this from what i remember!

(n.b.: it has been a hot second since i’ve read tgg, so lmk if i’ve got anything wrong!)

[fabtastic123]

Confession time: the only reason English teachers teach The Great Gatsby is so we can continue to fuel the Nick/Gatsby ao3 tag. It is our lifeblood.

[birdsflypiecemeal]

Thinking about Chip JRWI "everyone i love either dies or leaves me"

Thinking about how he died as soon as he started to love himself

[dreamweave01]

Shhhh! They're sleeping!

They snuggle a lot instead of being in their own beds.

I mean, the beds aren't much different than the floor tbh.

It's also very comforting to know that you have somebody there in case you have a nightmare or something.

Which happens a lot to these bois.

J3 always sleeps in someone's lap, and it usually ends up being C1, since he's the biggest.

C1 usually ends up being in the middle actually.

Z2 usually looks more like he's meditating than sleeping (can't see it too well in this tho haha)

And K4 does his own thing. He's a pretty restless sleeper.

Is a very messy doodle but I love it much <3

[rejaytionships]

cannot believe i gotta say this but please don't follow me if you're comfortable selfshipping with canon racists. i don't care if you headcanon them as otherwise, because if their racism against a real group of people is a key facet of their character (much less incredibly important to the telling of the story that this character is a racist) then i do not wanna see it. this is not the safe space for you

[susiephone]

when you're forced to read the great gatsby in high school, one of four things will happen to you.

you don't actually read it

you read it, hate it, get through the unit, and move on, but always resent f. scott fitzgerald a little bit for writing the book nearly every american teenager is forced to read

you read it, like it, and feel very smart because of this. depending on other aspects of your life and personality you may get 3% more annoying as a result

you read it, like it, and feel very smart because of this... and you're also gay. you definitely become at least 5% more annoying because of this, and nick carraway owns a bit of your soul forever. you have thoughts on this book that would make f. scott spin in his grave but you don't care because that fucker deserves it for what he put zelda through.

i barreled through door #4, as did a lot of us on this website.

[bizlybebo]

would this jrwi character call you a faggot except im not elaborating on any of it

[thegreatgatzbi]

I really should draw more of my Nick and Gatsby tbh

[going-down-to-orlando]

"He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced-or seemed to face, the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favour. It understood you so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey." Nick Carraway about Jay Gatsby, 'The Great Gatsby'

This is a PARAGRAPH about Gatsby's smile. Not even Gatsby, just his smile. Nick wrote 2 sentences about Jordan and his thoughts on her appearance. Jordan, his supposed "love interest".

This shows us two things. Firstly, Nick is definitely not a good, unbiased narrator. Secondly, Nick is a flaming homosexual.

[toastybugguy]

had an assignment based on Gatsby where we have to pick a quote we feel has the most emotional weight and make a drawing or collage to reflect it and sadly it is now the most gorgeous piece of art I’ve made in 10,000 years. shoutout to them 1920s queers❓❓