#gatsby speaks

[you-are-constance]

one of my favorite things about a lot of different musicals is when they have their opening number reprised in their finale, the same melody and lyrics having an entirely new meaning to them thanks to the context of the rest of the show.

and obviously there are a Ton of examples (Wicked, Come From Away, The Outsiders, SpongeBob... i know there are others i can't think of them), but there are two specific shows that I genuinely think are examples of the absolute best use of this.

to me, those two examples are Cabaret and The Great Gatsby.

like the other examples listed, each time this sort of thing happens, there is new meaning given to the same song thanks to the rest of the show happening in between, but both Cabaret and Great Gatsby have it in like... a very chilling way.

In Willkommen and Roaring On, these are both somewhat upbeat songs, introducing the club, the parties, the energy that the audience is Supposed to feel at this point. nothing else matters in the world, only the thrill of endless entertainment.

but this isn't what these shows are about. there are much darker stories going on underneath, and by the time we get to the finale, the audience is changed along with the characters - but the song is the same. Nothing else Matters. only the thrill of Endless Entertainment. We have No Troubles Here.

but another thing that i find so musically fascinating is that it's not just the audience's perception of the song that changes, no the music itself helps to drive the audience to those realizations. at the orchestra's break in Willlkommen (finale), it begins very similar to the opener, but gradually adds more and more dissonance, making it harder and harder to even bear listening to. In Roaring On (finale), the ensemble lines are just slightly more staccato, slightly more dissonance, slightly more unnerving to listen to.

it's just so fascinating to watch a musical, and have the same song mean something so incredibly different, just because of the context it exists within, and very slight musical changes.

[int3rnztstar]

book rec drop!! currently reading ‘speak’, to be finished tomorrow! I’ve been told the ending leaves much to be desired but i’m not so sure just based off what I’ve read (like 150ish of 198 pages) tbd tbh

bye! 🤟

[myokk]

My writing/reading question of the day:

Do you prefer present tense or past tense? Or something entirely different like future tense? For writing AND reading🫶

The more I write (I wish I realized how fun it was before this year😭😭😭) the more I realize I like to play around with language & tense choice can have such a profound impact on how your writing comes across & even how I feel as I’m writing. With my oneshots I’ve been playing around with only present tense & my main fic is past tense (but present during the flashbacks - idk don’t ask it just felt right😆).

Or does nobody else think about tense and I’m just alone in this😆😆😆 LANGUAGE IS JUST SO COOL !!!!

[inkbug0]

Ik a lot of people talk about Jason’s mischaracterization in the Batman comics recently but I never really hear people talking about how they made him a dumbass when he’s a really smart guy. Not just cause he canonically reads classic lit but because he was able to become gothams TOP CRIME LORD within like a week. He knew how to get on the nerves of the people he needed to exploit. Not only in UTRH but also in Lost Days. He infiltrated and studied the group and then did his thing. Recently comics have been kind of the making him the “brute” brother which is kind of stupid considering he’s definitely a valid asset to the batfam. I very rarely see a Jason as he was originally meant to be written which sucks cause he’s actually so interesting.

[ethersierra]

I need lady godwin to hit gatsby with a car. it would be so beautiful and symbolic

[the-great-kazooy]

“It’s starting to collect dust, yknow.” SLEEP IN MY BED OLD SPORT

[stirlinqs]

new additions to the corner of my room :) do we like the wreath?

[artisticallygay]

My husband is annotating The Great Gatsby for the Book of Bill I love him

[wheelie-butch]

"Nick Carraway is gay but he is unaware of it" is such a funny academic take, bro he has gay sex on page 34 i think he knows

[danopdf]

the great gatsby but it’s rich elusive recluse Lewis Nixon and small-time reporter Dick Winters, who become unlikely friends at one of Lew’s parties, and from there…who knows???

[flipflopfish1876]

from the great gatsby on broadway

gatsby is me when i want a cookie so effing bad…

[heyyesimtrash-whatofit]

Completely out of left field here, but I can’t let yall forget that I’m fandom trash so easily. That being said, Gatsby people-

I completely understand the appeal of sweet little nervous Nick Carraway (especially when considering ship stuff, I see the appeal) HOWEVER, I would like to remind everyone that this is the man who gets practically no sleep throughout the events of the book because of everyone else’s bullshit. This man is sleep deprived and, supposedly in his own words, honest. Please please please, particularly in all of our dear fix it AUs, let us see more extremely sleep deprived and brutally honest because of it Nick.

But J! I hear you ask, what about the sweet nervous idiot of the friendship/relationship? My answer is simple: Jay Fucking Gatsby. This idiot almost fell down the stairs because his crush looked at him, he is downright horrible with anxiety, for god’s sake listen to Only Tea- you want a nervous stuttering idiot in that duo/ship? It’s Jay Gatsby. I don’t make the rules and honestly I want to see more of it rather than him always being the super confident one because he just. Wouldn’t be. That would be Nick through and through

TL:DR- give us more blunt honest Nick and nervous Gatsby, especially when it comes to Natsby bullshit. Thank you and goodnight!

[you-are-constance]

hey guys have you heard of that great gatsby musical starring jeremy jordan and eva noblezada

yeah. im there at intermission rn

[beheadedcousins]

i had a blast when I went to nyc! can't wait to go back!

[nico-theniner]

You really shouldn’t use the word “debauchery” in a modern setting. Debauchery is reserved for the masque of red death and jay gatsby. If it’s past the 1930s that’s no longer debauchery you’re just a fuckboy.

[the-great-kazooy]

I had the dumbass idea

So it’s modern day, right? Nick and Jay are roommates (omg they were roommates)

And like— Nick is a fucking gamer. Bc ofc he fucking is. So one night he’s playing Undertale and he’s fighting sans or some shit. But he can’t get past him so he rage quits. Jay is over here like “buddy, are you ok???”

Nick is like “no this stupid skeleton keeps HANDING ME MY ASS”

And so Gatsby’s all like “whyyyy don’t you let me try.”

Let me tell you, Nick is hesitant at first. This is the very same man who was raging at animal crossing but he decides “why not??”

He defeats it on the first try. He was all like “AHA! This how you show a skeleton a bad time, old sport.” And just walks off like nothing happened