#great gatsby headcanons

[cameronsactivities]

of course i hc that gatsby is trans. he literally has a dead name. is the aforementioned name "james?" yes but he's also known to be a massive liar

[sanguine-prince]

i’m sure i’m not the first to say something like this, but let me tell you about my poc-passing-as-white jay gatsby headcanon!!

for some background, in the 1920s there was an interesting shift regarding (white) skin tones. previously, tans were viewed as a sign that a person worked out in the fields, and therefore a trademark of the lower class. however, slowly after the industrial revolution, it increasingly became a representation of luxury, since the rich upper class would have the time to lounge about and sunbathe at their leisure.

i say all this to show that a poc gatsby would have the ostensible class and wealth for a tan, which would ‘excuse’ a slightly browner skin tone in the public eye.

(the 20s was also the setting of passing by nella larsen, so that’s neat.)

in my vision, he’s biracial (maybe his mother was black & his father was a german immigrant) with skin light enough to pass for white.

the fact that nick states that gatsby keeps his hair neatly groomed and cut might be to prevent it from curling up.

additionally, i think it could contrast tom’s white supremacy & his fear of poc social progress.

it would also create a deeper divide between gatsby and daisy, and once again the contrast between him and tom. in my mind, daisy wouldn’t know about it until the point where tom reveals everything about gatsby’s bootlegging etc. with jay revealing it to her in the car ride back (oops then she hits myrtle).

then, when she chooses tom and the life of comfort, wealth, status, etc that their marriage offers, she also rejects not only gatsby’s new money but also his race.

it’s a lot more thematically significant for the american dream as well—it’s still unattainable and essentially tainted by capitalism, and it also emphasizes that it’s restricted to the white upper class. social mobility only becomes available to gatsby when he disguises his racial identity.

similarly, it fits with gatsby’s identity reconstruction—the quintessential american is white, rich, and educated.

daisy and tom have that ticket into society because they have that inherent thing that he will never have—pedigree, in both class and race. that’s something that even nick has.

(in my mind, he tells nick all about it the night before he dies & nick understands as best he can and doesn’t think less of him, because it further highlights the differences between his & gatsby’s relationship v. gatsby’s relationship with daisy; namely, the transparency -> acceptance give-and-take that he and daisy never had. because of having to hide himself from daisy in order to maintain her affection, he builds an expectation that he must be someone that he is not as well as developing a transactional definition of love (he gives, and people love him as long as he can continue to give) in order to be loved. therefore, nick’s immediate curiosity and fascination with who he truly is is foreign to him. not to get too into their dynamic lmao i just think it’s really interesting.)

finally, the very last part where nick is sitting and looking at the bay and thinking about the first immigrants and their dreams and how gatsby embodied the purity and naivety of those dreams is further exemplified by his racial ‘otherness.’

and there’s,,, technically nothing in the book to explicitly refute this from what i remember!

(n.b.: it has been a hot second since i’ve read tgg, so lmk if i’ve got anything wrong!)

[moo9395]

Give me characters pretty please.

Stuff I could do (off the top of my head):

Supergirl

Ghosts

Tangled the series

Sanders sides

Gatsby

Musical theatre characters

Yonderland

Bill (2015)

MCYT (Hermitcraft, Empires, Life series)

A list of characters I've already done + links is in the reblogs of this post :)

[the-great-kazooy]

I had the dumbass idea

So it’s modern day, right? Nick and Jay are roommates (omg they were roommates)

And like— Nick is a fucking gamer. Bc ofc he fucking is. So one night he’s playing Undertale and he’s fighting sans or some shit. But he can’t get past him so he rage quits. Jay is over here like “buddy, are you ok???”

Nick is like “no this stupid skeleton keeps HANDING ME MY ASS”

And so Gatsby’s all like “whyyyy don’t you let me try.”

Let me tell you, Nick is hesitant at first. This is the very same man who was raging at animal crossing but he decides “why not??”

He defeats it on the first try. He was all like “AHA! This how you show a skeleton a bad time, old sport.” And just walks off like nothing happened

[alchemicalwerewolf]

Do you want to yell about Jeremy or White Collar or Psych or anything else you'd like today? 👀

*ahem* might I just say you are so cool and yes. Yes I would.

So in Only Tea, Gatsby keeps his silly accent for some of the song, but it slips off at other parts. Some could call this Jeremy slipping up. But I, the one who has listened to this song on loop since before its official release, has decided it is not. Aha!

He only kinda has it at the beginning. It’s an emotional moment, he’s mostly alone. He gradually picks up the accent as he comes closer to nick, and as he tries to calm down. Every time he starts to get emotional you can see it start to drop. Generally he picks it right back up, but you can catch the slips. Especially when he’s in the really slow part, you know the one. It’s just so AHHHHHHHHHHH GREAT ACTING AHHHHHHHHHH

What I’m trying to say here is that the voice, the posture, all of it, is part of his persona. A persona he’s only built to keep himself together. When he tries to pull himself together, that’s what he goes to. The persona has to fall though, which is why the accent lessens when he’s alone, or beginning to fall apart. So yeah :)

me trying to put this into words be like:

[armorangels]

i want to talk about todd & neil’s parallels to nick carraway and jay gatsby

[it-happened-once-in-a-meme]

Romantic Valentine's Day Date for Partners in Crime 💞🗡

Holding writers at gunpoint and forcing them to make our favorite ships canon (don't worry writers, this is a joke) 😂

Oswald: I don't care that Jay Gatsby was iN LoVE with Isab-I mean Daisy, he was in love with a memory, not her! Besides, he and Nick had a thing going!

Ed: Yep, I have the spreadsheet right here.

Tabitha: Exactly. And while you're at it, give Zelda Fitzgerald some credit.

Barbara: And make Daisy leave Tom for Jordan or something.

[ticklepicklepirate]

hey chat just a silly thought not at all srs but jay gatsby is totally trans because of his dead name and he wears suits for gender euphoria… he really ran away from home not bcus his parents were poor but theyre transphobic and kicked him out

[everyonesonthespectrum]

Today’s Autistic character of the day is:

Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby

[the-big-gatsbi]

Seriously considering making some little imagines and headcanons for The Great Gatsby… 😳 🙈🫣🤫

I just really like this book and i wanna be submerged into it like so far into almost as if I’m living in it myself. Tho the 20s mostly sucked tho but hey at least i got to see the fashion in person and my beloved characters be idiots in person teehee 🤭

[cameronsactivities]

idk why but i imagine nick's bed horizontal against the wall under a big window so he can look out at gatsby's mansion at night

also the curtains go around his bed like how shower curtains go around the tub if that makes sense

[gremlinschaos]

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[moo9395]

Gatsby sexuality headcanons

This is just a thing I do now apparently. Can’t believe I haven’t done Gatsby yet.

Nick Carraway - GAY also ace spec

Jay Gatsby - Bi, literally the most bi guy ever, maybe somewhere on the aro spectrum as well, probably Demi?

Jordan Baker - Lesbian (romantically), we can all agree on this one I think. Also pansexual icon.

Daisy Fay - Bi, in an ideal world her and Jordan get to be together.

Tom Buchanan - Hetero. Homophobic but in the ‘I slept with guys in college’ kind of way.

Myrtle Wilson - Hetero.

George Wilson - Bi. I don't have anything to add. Not sure where this came from really.

Meyer Wolfsheim - Screw it we'll make him aroace. He's married to the grind.

Mr Mckee - Gay homo guy.

Mrs Mckee - Pan girlie.

Catherine - Lesbian. She said she was living with a girl in a hotel and that she went to Monte Carlo with another girl. So...

Bonus bits:

Jordan and Nick have a lavender partnership.

Nick doesn’t know this so he’s trying to convince himself he’s straight while feeling guilty about leading Jordan on and Jordan is having the time of her life.

Mr and Mrs Mckee also have a lavender partnership.

[the-great-kazooy]

GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS

that’s right, it’s ✨random Gatsby headcanon corner✨

I’m your host, Mr. Kazooy! Here to bring you headcanons that seep out of my brain. ANYWAY—

To the headcanon

I feel like Gatsby would hug things in his sleep. Whether it be pillow, blanket or ahem Nick. Depending on his mood, is how escapable his grasp would be.

If he’s in a good mood, you can probably go to the bathroom without a hitch. Really good mood? Might be a little trickier. You would probably need a pillow to disguise you’re gone. But if he’s sad? Especially if he had a nightmare? No way in hell you’re leaving that bed. You are trapped there until the morning.

Nick honestly doesn’t mind it most nights (he kinda even likes it!) though it can get really annoying if he needs to go the bathroom.

[elvenmoe]

I have the strong desire to reverse 1999 au danganronpa because maybe then I could get well written lesbians. If no else will do it I will do it myself I NEED AOI AND SAKURA TO THRIVE AS MY OG DOOMED YURI SHIP I SHIPPED THEM BEFORE I WAS INTO FANDOMS

I should calm down. Or should I??? 2.2 has me enraged and danganronpas fandom ignored yuri so I want to make everything more tragic so everyone shares my misery. (Why am I having a villain monologue rn? I am unwell) I AM IN PAIN. Physically and the only thing that could bring joy is making tragic yuri more tragic.

[juliette-cai-enthusiast]

wait can someone explain the autistic nick carraway thing im confused. jay it makes sense but not so much with nick

Well you see, it’s very simple. I’m autistic and like his vibes so therefore he’s autistic too.