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.

Group call

there's a lot of talk out there on the blogosphere about people misreading/misinterpreting the great gatsby as an endorsement of gatsby's mindset and lifestyle, but imo the person who misread the book the WORST was none other than one nick carraway. dude met a living metaphor and took him completely at face value 😔

gay people will say anything but i love you. the fuck do you mean “they’re a rotten crowd. you’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”

I really should draw more of my Nick and Gatsby tbh

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❓❓

Nick Carraway really said: I don’t like people but have I mentioned 💖💕💖Gatsby 💖💗💕

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

so the thing about what might happen if jay got to read tgg (the book as if nick wrote it) is that there’s 6 billion ways for it to go and they’re all fucking funny. these are examples of things i think jay would say to nick, especially if natsby happened

1. “You call me gorgeous three times in this book.”

2. “Do I really say old sport that much?”

3. “Nick. I would say you complimented me more than once.”

4. “Were you—Nick, were you trying to say ‘I love you’?”

5. “What happened between you and Mckee?”

6. “I think you judge people a lot more than you think you do.”

7. “Why are you talking about your cousin’s husband like this?”

tobey maguire was great as nick caraway because he had that insane haunted look in his eyes that being gay in the 1920’s will give you

When I was a senior in high school I wrote a meaningful letter in my best friend’s year book and signed off with “they’re a rotten crowd. You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together”…

HOW DID I NOT KNOW I WANTED TO KISS WOMEN?!?!?!?!?

Drawing in different styles is so fun (I consider this to be my “chibi” style rhhru)

green light

headcanon that nick has hazel eyes that light up green in the sun

my roman empire is reading classic literature involving two male protagonists and yelling "GAYYYYYYYY" at the poor unsuspecting pages

Do you guys think that if Nick, Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, Jordan, Myrtle, and the others were put into a high school setting, all the girls would start noticing that Nick and Gatsby are a bit too close?