#scott fitzgerald

[unleashed-imagination]

I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[socoolinmypajamas]

Every chapter in Reverse 1999 is based on a book title:

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

Tender is the Night by Scott Fitzgerald

Nouvelles et Textes pour Rien by Samuel Beckett

El Oro de los Tigres by Jorge Luis Borges

And I want to point out that Tender is the Night is a story based on the author's tumultuous relationship with his wife who, btw, looked A LOT like a certain someone:

[animentality]

Was reading up on the homoeroticism between Nick Carraway and Jay Gatsby and remembered several things. First off, that Nick was implied to have had sex with a feminine man at an orgy. Second, that Jordan Baker is described as a masculine and free spirited kind of woman, one who pursues sports and competition, the way women were not typically allowed to do.

And third, that Fitzgerald originally had a passage about Nick being "amorously pursued" by a former male acquaintance, but deleted it.

So.

Nick was very gay/bisexual.

And then I went further into that rabbit hole and found out that Fitzgerald's wife thought he was gay and claimed he had an affair with Ernest Hemingway. And also that he flirted with men and described himself as "half feminine."

Which was wild to find out, btw. They didn't teach me that in ap lit.

[arylleth]

Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

[rosstrytobe]

LOKIUS IN THE '20S

[kcuf-ad]

Imagine being this man for a moment.

Some random white man opened your door for no reason, closes it, and then walks in, sits on your damn floor saying "Excuse me." after thinking the entire building his new place for the Guild and then starts laughing at the show you are watching.

That must have been so weird.

[berrimoone]

Rereading Gatsby! (Cause I’ve been listening to the musical nooooonstop :) )

Took it as an opportunity to try out some new texture brushes. I guess this is loosely how I saw them back in like… 2015 when I read it in English Lit haha.

But in order we got: Jordan, Gatsby, Daisy, Nick, and Tom! :D

👁️👁️

[archangel-lucerys]

Marguerite Steen // I, Carrion (Icarion), Hozier // The Matrix Revolutions (2003) dir. The Wachowskis //f. scott fitzgerald // wendell berry, the fall of icarus

[acinematicworld]

The Great Gatsby (2013)

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (April 8, 1914)

T. S. Elliot, The Wasteland

Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Song of a Second April

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

[philosophors]

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[the-soulwhispers]

Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[logophilist1982]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[bookworm6]

[besotted-with-austen]

Tom Buchanan: Nick! Long time no see!

Nick Carraway: go away, Tom.

Tom Buchanan: come now-we have not seen each other due to unexpected circumstances, but would you hold a grudge over that?

Nick Carraway: you and Daisy caused Gatsby’s death and didn’t even have the decency to come to his funeral. I am not holding a grudge, I hate you.

Tom Buchanan: I didn’t remember you were so lively! Wow, I really haven’t seen you in a while!

[theuntouchableredmoon]

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby