Nick X Gatsby - Tumblr Posts
ok, so Nick is DEFINITELY not Straight™
the dude has fucked men, I’m just stating the obvious
literature is fun when you ignore your teacher’s analysis of the situation and make your own up
Yes, yes, I'm aware that the Great Gatsby is supposed to be a tragedy, a commentary on the unssustainability of the American Dream and it ruins it if Gatsby moves on because the point is he CAN'T
But also Nick x Gatsby would be funny and I wish I could have seen the Buchanan's and everybody else in high society be absolutely HORRIFIED that those two disaster gays are being incredibly open about it.
There is something so very interesting about Gatsby. You love a girl when you're poor and she loves you back. You build a life around this girl, she is the foundation of your heart, and you are just a summer romance. You throw grand parties as a way of saying "look, look, i'm here, I became all this for you" and she never comes. Her husband actively disdains you. Her cousin is one of your closest friends and you've only known him for a summer. You finally get a chance to talk to her and beg her to leave with you, and she allows her husband to frame you for murder. Her cousin is the only one that seems to care about you, but you are wrapped up in memories of her. When you finally start to let go and focus on her cousin, the husband of her husband's mistress(bare with us, it's very complicated) shoots you dead in a pool at the end of summer.
Her cousin remembers you years later and scorns his inlaws for you even when you're dead and gone. He wrote a story about you. He is the only one besides your father to show up at your funeral.
Something about wanting to let go and never getting the chance to. There's just something so compelling about watching a man realise that he built his life around a woman, and just when he starts to untangle what he is from what he thought she wanted, her husband doesn't let him go.
oh the irony
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.
NOOO WAYYYY MY ENGLISH TEACHER MADE THIS AN OPTION ON A TEST, I FUCKINGG LOVE HIM (he also spelled nick's last name wrong)
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❓❓
Drawing in different styles is so fun (I consider this to be my “chibi” style rhhru)
The beard couple of all time
how to know if you’re in love with your neighbor
Page 2: You speak on your knowledge and regret regarding judgement and suppression.
Page 2: You call him, or some part of him, gorgeous.
Page 45: You are one of the few guests who was actually invited to his party, and you’re overly honored.
Page 52: You have a gay time talking to him.
Page 52-53: You write a whole paragraph about his smile alone and how it comforts you.
Page 58: You feel a pleasant significance in being among the last to go, as if he had desired it so all the time.
Page 72: You say anything can happen, including him.
Page 76: You agree that he’s handsome and a perfect gentleman.
Page 95: You go with him and his love interest to tour his house, upon his invitation and adamency.
Page 102: You sadly and regretfully leave him and his love interest alone in his house.
Page 112: You describe his dancing as graceful.
Page 114: You defend him.
Page 117: You seem jealous at how often he speaks of his past with his love interest.
Page 118: You find [your love?] for him uncommunicable.
Page 150: You can’t think about anything except the luminosity of his pink suit under the moon, and you feel a little weird about it.
Page 172: You’re alone on his side.
Page 172: You promise him you’ll get people to attend his funeral.
Page 173: It’s him and you against everything else.
Page 188: You spend Saturday nights reminding yourself of him.
Page 189: Your final statements about him are exclusively you and him.
guess whos back with more
ok bye lol
more Great Gatsby + Natsby edits
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I made some Natsby edits
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Agreed
That’s it. “Old Sport” is officially a gay term, and a gay term only.
Do any of you Great Gatsby fans want to give me your perspective on Gatsby and Nick being gay for my research paper on them being gay? Because
1, I think it would be really funny to reference a Tumblr post in a research paper
2, I want more perspectives and analysis that aren't just weird stiff politically correct answers
and what if I said richard was nick and henry was his gatsby