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y’all I love the great gatsby so much like ahhhhhh I Love It the symbolism and the first gay people know to mankind and the beautiful words and I fucking love it

#the great gatsby #im always saying this

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#the great gatsby #jay gatsby

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Someone: yeah it was so sad when this character died

Me, who’s already read 15 fix-it fics and no longer can tell the difference between canon and fanon: when they what

#the great gatsby

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affirmations for crossing the road:

- i know what i'm doing

- the road will always be clear when i want to cross it

- nobody will ever beep their horn at me because i'm special

- drivers will recognise my divine right of passage and stop for me

#the great gatsby #myrtle wilson

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If anyone has read The Pursued and the Pursuing, PLEASE go vote for AJ. Even if you haven’t read the book WHICH YOU SHOULD GO DO RIGHT NOW. I wouldn’t be here writing for you all if they hadn’t rejuvenated my interest in Gatsby. I’ve given you half a million words—can you guys give them just enough votes to win?

I’ve been nominated as a candidate for Grand Marshal in my local Pride parade this summer! You can vote for me (if you wish) HERE.

#the great gatsby

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"Chrysanthemum Brooch" and "DAisy Brooch" by Tiffany in gold, platinum, diamonds and pearls from Mississipi river USA (circa 1900-04) presented in “A History of Jewellery: Bedazzled (part 6: Art Nouveau 1890-1914)” by Beatriz Chadour-Sampson - International Jewellery Historian and Author - for the V&A Academy online, march 2024.

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #gatsbyverse

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YOU ARE GORGEOUS

YOU ARE WORTHY OF PLATONIC AND/OR ROMANTIC LOVE

YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT ELSE YOU'RE WORTHY OF??

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THAT'S RIGHT.

fourteen dollar

#the great gatsby #robert gatsbyverse

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a normal and average sunday consists of lying on the ground thinking about how much I'd like to go back and do everything again because this time I'd do everything right

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby

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If anyone wants to read the gay gatsby screenplay, here it is. finally. dear god

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway #jordan baker #daisy buchanan

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of course you have red hair and homosexual tendencies

#the great gatsby #chester mckee

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Carey Mulligan and Leonardo Dicaprio in The Great Gatsby (2013)

#the great gatsby #jay…. #come on now babygirl….

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"Welcome to the Theatre": Diary of a Broadway Baby

The Great Gatsby

April 27, 2024 | Broadway | Broadway Theatre | Evening | Musical | Original | 2H 30M

All the sparkly costumes and grandiose set pieces can't disguise this show intellectually and musically filthy core. With a creative team that seems to have missed the entire point of Fitzgerald's book, Bad Gatsby is a Vegas spectacle best suited to theme parks and audiences bereft of critical thought. I have no loyalty to the source material. As a lesbian, I didn't much care for the book and its protagonist who seems disinterested in women, and spent pages waxing poetry about the male physique. But even I know it's a classic brimming with intellectual nuance, while this production is anything but. The relationship between Gatsby and Nick is now only ever a passing acquaintance, rather than the very foundation. The show's aggressive heterosexuality sees Nick and Jordan (a forcibly-feminized, pick-me girlboss type) romping about as Gatsby and Daisy, somehow even duller than the book (and how was that ever possible?) sing power ballads at and about each other that say nothing, and move the plot even less.

This adaptation of the beloved classic novel gleefully excises any and all purpose. Nick's idolization and homoerotic love for Gatsby drives the book's narrative. Here, he's doing basically nothing. My kingdom for a dramaturg who seems to actually like and understand the book, rather than someone who just wants to capitalize on it being newly public-domain. Why, oh why, do people keep adapting classics they clearly do not like? I don't like Gatsby, so I'd never bother to write a musical adaptation of it.

And speaking of music, it's ill-suited to both the period and the story. Everything is all contemporary pop ballad, and as someone who doesn't care about or know much of Jeremy Jordan, it's not working. Perhaps it's my blatant lesbianism and pretentious disregard for the allure of youth, but he's never seemed overly remarkable. He's a white male tenor. There are fifteen-thousand who look and sound just like him. But from the constant shrieking up in the mezzanine, you'd have thought the Beatles had come back for a one-night-only reunion. Thankfully, in my front side-orchestra section, I was surrounded by older patrons who politely clapped and refrained from any such screaming. Also, Jeremy Jordan's accent is all over the place, and I can't imagine why.

The shallow production that sits in the (possibly cursed, at this point) Broadway Theatre, has been robbed of its social commentary, its purpose, its depth. The characters are caricatures, the subtext is spelled out on a chalkboard (A song entitled "The Green Light"???) and is in some fascinating way, a meta commentary in and of itself. A massive budget allows for not one, but two working cars to drive around on stage. The glitz and glam blinded the creatives to anything...creative.

And don't even get me started on the baffling decision to cast a Mexican-Asian woman as Daisy, the quintessential image of white privilege. What are we saying by having Eva Noblezada in that role? It's such a thankless role that it's not like her talents are being utilized. And her character is so weak and dull, even more so than the book itself. And she's out here doing a hit-and-run, and yet we're just gonna...gloss right over that, I guess? And Nick's disgusted by Jordan saying they shouldn't tell the police what they know, but then immediately goes to plead with Gatsby to get out of town? Having done no work in the show to justify this loyalty, it's just inconsistency.

Also, and now I'm just jumping around to things I didn't like, the scene where Gatsby gets shot is staged so that Wilson is pointing and shooting that gun right at the front right orchestra section. And staring down the barrel of a gun is not what I want to be doing on a Saturday evening at 10:30 p.m. He shoots that thing twice while pointed at the audience, and no thanks.

Anyway, the Florence Welch Gatsby is at the ART now, so let's hope that one actually understands the damn book.

Verdict: Someone Put This Dumpster Fire Out

A Note on Ratings

#the great gatsby #finally someone said it

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Ada Limón, from "The Russian River", Sharks in the Rivers

#the great gatsby #jay gatsby #nick carraway

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I’ll never get over the fact that Gatsby is heavily implied to be based on THEEE J. C. Leyendecker like how does that connection not drive you insane 😭

#can you tell me more about this op

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Tobey Maguire in The Great Gatsby (2013)

#the great gatsby #the shit that started it all…

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The inherent homoeroticism in living on another man's property and watching him from afar while he obsesses over your cousin then gets shot because he's really not a good person

Don’t ever speak to me or my literary device of a son ever again /j

#if you so much as breathe in my ink n paper boy's direction i WILL sick my cowriter on you #she got one tooth one working eye no tail but she DOES have a knife

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People liking your personal OCs is still such a crazy feeling, I've been doing this for years and ppl asking about them still fills my entire heart with warmth and idk how to handle it

You enjoy this fictional guy I made up for fun?? Whose only content is random artwork or writing made by me and a handful of other artists at most? They have no show/book/game with a large fandom, it's just one person with an art blog?? I love u

#the great gatsby #clutching my people so close #maggie carraway #e. robert gilman #miss annie #miss penny #not tagging the historical figures I write into the plot #or minor canon characters I have hijacked