11yo me in english lit class: giggling nervously when our teacher has to delicately explain to us that shakespeare was making a dick joke
current me in english lit class: describing ariel as “prospero’s twink”, getting into a debate with my teacher over the importance of an author’s sexuality in understanding their literature, the whole class agreeing that nick was super gay for gatsby, spending so much time discussing feminist/post-colonialist/freudian theory for critical interpretations, our teacher confessing that she doesn’t understand ts eliot’s poetry either,
I was always glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever paid him.
The Great Gatsby (2013)
Two bros, chilling on West Egg, Five feet apart cos their not gay.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dream is dead and love is false
Me, beating him with a stick: You fool. You absolute fuckin moron. All this could have been avoided if you just put nick and gatsby together
I was always glad I said that. It was the only compliment I ever paid him.
The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann
reading classic novels outside of school is gay culture you can’t read the classics if you’re straight
The Great Gatsby au where everything’s exactly the same every instance of “careless” is replaced with “straight”
“they were straight people, tom and daisy”
“it was rather straight of me to make such a wrong guess”
“i hate straight people. that’s why i like you”
