#Scott Fitzgerald

[animentality]

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.

[socoolinmypajamas]

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:

[arylleth]

Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

[rosstrytobe]

LOKIUS IN THE '20S

[philosophors]

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

[the-soulwhispers]

Well, let it pass; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice.

~F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Sensible Thing

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

Franz Kafka, Diaries of Franz Kafka (April 8, 1914)

T. S. Elliot, The Wasteland

Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Song of a Second April

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

[editfandom]

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Midnight in Paris, 2011

[tommyxgrace-always]

Nolan to Murphy:

Never thought a Scott Fitzgerald quote would suit these two so much!!

[bl4ckst4rrr]

rip scott f. fitzgerald u would've loved tumblr

[theuntouchableredmoon]

“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

[sinfonia-relativa]

Nuestras vidas se definen por las oportunidades, incluso las que perdemos.

Scott Fitzgerald

[logophilist1982]

F. Scott Fitzgerald

[viv-spn]

Project for the Great Gatsby by Scott F. Fitzgerald

[hekademia]

[portalford-hasadeathray]

The way Scott Fitzgerald describes Tom in the beginning of TGG is WILD