wait doesnt rohan call avery love? or is that just a name that he calls everyone😭🙏

oh no, he's falling in love... -l.k × g.h

Grayson sat up against his headboard, phone in his hand, continuously swiping his thumb right. He was looking at pictures he’d taken during the game, but mostly, he was looking at pictures he’d taken of one particular player; Lyra Kane. The girl who’d called him months back. “What begins with a bet? Not that.” Were the first words Lyra Kane had said to him when she first called him. She was insanely stubborn, yet also independent– that’s probably what made her stubborn. She was also breathtakingly gorgeous. Stunning. Pretty. Beautiful. He couldn’t find any words nor synonyms to truly describe her beauty. Her laugh was contagious- She herself is contagious. Her laugh could somehow make him smile, to turn his lips upwards rather than his usual frown. And just right now, he found himself smiling at the thought of her. See, contagious. It’s not like what he felt for Emily. Emily was something he competed with Jameson for. To claim. It isn’t like what he felt for Avery either. For Avery, he felt a need to protect her. At all costs, but– that isn't what The Heiress wanted. But Lyra– Lyra, she was entirely something else for Grayson. What he felt for her felt like things his brothers had talked about. Grayson would listen while they go on and on about their loves, and Lyra felt like every bit of what his brothers said. Lyra once told Gray everything. Like, everything, from her childhood, to then. Even if she didn’t show it, some part of her is still deeply wounded, broken, lost. Much like Gray himself. He found himself relating to her in multiple ways. They both used cleverly crafted masks to hide their broken past selves. They were only two damaged people, trying to heal each other. And perhaps that’s why Grayson found solace in her. He could only hope she did in him as well. Perhaps the fact that they’ve snuck out for their little rendezvous gave him a little hope. They’ve gone to the island’s beach, coffee shops, movie theaters, and dinners. Grayson eventually told Jamie about it. “You’re in love, Gray, and it's not like when you liked Emily. It’s better, I can most definitely promise you that.” Jamie said, and maybe for once Grayson did believe him. Maybe he is in love with Lyra Kane. Grayson Hawthorne is most definitely in love with Lyra Kane.

Nick carraway is so gay that it makes him look stupid.

There, I summarized the Great Gatsby for you

The only moment in the entire show where Sherlock doubted John.

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?”

"I'm afraid my brother can be very intransigent."

"The Great Game" S1E3 - Sherlock (2010 - 2017)

The “really” is everything to me.

the world if f scott fitzgerald wasn't a pussy

@giftober2023 | Day 22: Yellow 🙂.

redraw of a piece from a few years ago. if it happens to be on here. please dont look at it thanks

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!)

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nick carraway you and your homosexual tendencies will always be famous ❣️

For @sherlockchallenge​​ previous prompts LAMP and PAPER

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UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE C

Nick Carraway Propaganda:

Nick describes himself as being “one of the few honest people I have ever known.” His need to describe himself this way makes the reader question how much Nick can actually be trusted. (Not all that much...remember that he has been dating several girls in Minnesota potentially at the same time? And he's also unreliable because of his fondness for Gatsby, which is contrasted by his clear distaste for the other characters in the book. He sees Gatsby as a symbol of hope, which makes his perspective biased.)

Biased in favor of Gatsby (gay)

Minimises Gatsby's shittyness bc he's in love with him. Minimises his own part in events that lead to Gatsby's death. Cheating is fine if you are really really in love??

He starts the book by saying he’s unbiased but is biased throughout the whole thing. He spends the book continually judging his cousins husband Tom but excuses when his friend Gatsby does the exact same things. He describes Gatsby as different from the other rich people around him, but Gatsby does the same stuff everyone else is (to an arguably worse degree).

Eugenides Propaganda:

the entire plot hinges on a detail he lets the reader (and every other character) assume is true. I don't want to spoil it because it's a really fun reveal but he is lying from the first second he appears on the page and you can't trust him to tell the full truth about ANYTHING related to himself and his goals. he mostly does it to keep his advantage and not have other characters be suspicious of him but it's just so fun when you realise he's been lying the whole time