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:
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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.
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rip scott f. fitzgerald u would've loved tumblr
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“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
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Nuestras vidas se definen por las oportunidades, incluso las que perdemos.
Scott Fitzgerald
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Project for the Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald
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The way Scott Fitzgerald describes Tom in the beginning of TGG is WILD
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I don't care which Great Gatsby movie you liked more, the song "a little party never killed nobody" being on a Great Gatsby soundtrack is so hysterical.
Like is it on the nose???
Sure.
But so were those huge fucking glasses on that billboard.
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the gay gatsby 🥰
been meaning to draw these dummies. :) we had to read great gatsby recently for school and good lord you would not know how much of my friends have been litrally going insane at nick and gatsby being a couple.
i really wanted to see how these two would’ve looked in my style, honestly really proud of how they turned out! loving the thought of nick hardcore CRUSHING on gatsby, gatsby almost being oblivious to it until he realizes later on 😭💪💪💪
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