Celebrating 100yrs Of The Great Gatsby🦚

Vincent Benítez is an old man fucker bc he thinks there is nothing more beautiful than to live and to thrive despite everything and to have the privilege of carrying your life upon ur face and body

Mundane things about my version of the Gatsby gang

Nick sometimes sleeps on the ground instead of his bed. He sleeps more soundly that way

If he isn’t needed, Gatsby sleeps in til past noon if he can, he has the WORST sleep schedule

Tom and Jordan- even if in the same room- will almost never engage with the other unless to talk about sports, the funny pages (something they both like reading), or to jeer at someone else’s expense between whispers and laughs

Meyer has that grandfatherly “Have you eaten? Are you hungry? Come let me fetch you something” way about him around Gatsby (he’s partially the reason Gatsby has put on extra weight but Gatsby himself over indulges in food)

Daisy is the only one who doesn’t smoke

But Daisy can throw back straight whiskey and keep her demeanor well enough(Tom likes that about her)

Daisy can actually shoot really well and knows how to ride side saddle (Tom REALLY loves that about her)

Nick and Daisy- despite being raised Catholic- are both atheists. Daisy won’t bring it and Nick occasionally mocks believers under his breath

Gatsby legally shouldn’t be on the road….

Gatsby will pronounce the same word differently throughout a conversation

Nick can’t hear that well out his scarred ear

Jordan has a strong sweet tooth

Gatsby has a fear of dogs

Tom is a momma’s boy, big time

Daisy doesn’t like blondes and that they get so much attention for being blonde

Despite seeming tough, Jordan scares easily. She would not last in a haunted house attraction

Nick studied Law before switching to English for his degree. That’s actually how he met Tom, by sharing some classes together. Despite arguing Nick should’ve stayed in Law, Tom does often ask how Nick’s writing is coming along

Meyer doesn’t like pets at all, just finds them dirty

Nick can’t pick Gatsby up but Gatsby can easily pick up Nick

Nick caught on quickly to Gatsby’s Sunday workout routine and spies on him from the foliage border between their houses. Gatsby does feel he’s being watched but never sees who it is

i think i’d rather be taken out back and shot like a lame horse than call myself “neurospicy”

the fact that sex played such a huge role in Mickey 17 isn't just a fun hot little addition to a good movie about antifascism - it's intrinsic.

They want your sexuality repressed unless you're procreating the "right kind" of babies.

Nasha wants Mickey to be able to grow old with her so that she can suck him off for the rest of her god damned life. Nasha wants to know the name of every sexual position so intimately that her sopping wet boyfriend and her can use the names as a secret code in public. Nasha wants to have sex to feel ALIVE and full of joy. Nasha is going to break federal law to have a threesome with her boyfriend and his clone and she's gonna be high as a fucking kite when she does it. Sexual expression IS resisting fascism because the joy of fucking connects us and gives us something to fight for. Nasha is a hero and her sexuality is intrinsic to it.

obsessed with aldo bellini. he wants to reform the church but won’t carry his own luggage. he organizes secret stairwell conspiracies. he wants women in the curia (he’s never spoken to a woman in his life). he’s worsties with the cuntiest evil vape user of all time. he won’t say he wants to be pope but he has his name picked out. he’s a nervous wreck. he’s practical and clever. he’s too practical and too clever. he has the best ideas for what he’d do as pope but he’d be a terrible pope. he wants progress but he’s horribly flawed. he was even bald

the bunnies did the lady and the tramp kiss. help i’m crying

🍓&🍮🥛 + 🚬

Fictional stabbing, torture, cannibalism, stalking, and murder are all fine but you draw the line at rape, incest, and underage ships?

Why???

I don't want anyone to get stabbed irl just like I don't want anyone to get raped irl and reading about either one of them isn't going to change my mind on that.

All of the above topics are dark and taboo things that make people uncomfortable. They also all have a right to be explored in fiction in all different ways.

Why is violence so normalized that even the most staunch anti can have fun playing with the dark themes of murder but when it comes to rape, exploring it in fiction makes you a criminal?

They always go for the old excuse of "you can portray this but only in certain ways or else you're normalizing/glamorizing/romanticizing/fetishizing it which is bad" but ONLY when it comes to sexual things.

Horror movies? You can woobify the killers, ship them together, joke about them, and write killer x reader fanfic til your fingers fall off. That's all okay, everyone knows that watching a horror movie or crushing on a fictional killer won't turn you into an irl murderer. Duh!

So why can they understand that for violence but not other controversial topics? If you can understand that watching a slasher movie or writing Billy Loomis x reader fanfic doesn't turn you into a murderer, then why do you think someone who reads for Billdip or ships Katara x Sokka is a real life sex criminal?

I doubt we'll ever get a real answer because there isn't one. It just boils down to "taboo stuff I can handle is fine and can be explored freely, taboo stuff I can't handle is gross and has no place in fiction".

Ah yes, the duality of man or the most diabolical vape hit in history

I dedicate the Bellesco part of this to @eeriedragone <3