#that’s so wild

[momokarp]

Heyyyy I saw your Danny Phantom comic about him reading the Great Gatsby during the fight with Vlad (great art btw), and I was wondering if u could give a long-suffering student a rundown of the themes?

I’m gonna cover the themes I can think of off the top of my head and if you really need me to go into more details, I CAN??? But this is just a quick “it’s 7 in the morning for me and I’m actually gonna hyperfixate real quick” kinda moment.

Yes, there are two kinds of rich people, and yes, one side really doesn’t like the other. It’s apparent in Tom and all of his opinions of Gatsby are later on in the book when he finally attends one of his fancy parties.

Old money gets their opinions and styles and tastes from their parents who got it from their parents. It’s a boys club, if you’re in? You’re in, and it’s hard to get in unless you’re of a certain pedigree.

New money? Loud. Outrageous. Doesn’t even know what to do with all that money and everyone is welcome to enjoy it. Gatsby owns a BRIGHT ASS YELLOW CAR not because it’s of a certain model but because it screams loud and expensive and “look at me” and it’s not just cause he’s trying to get with your wife. He knows how to ACT like old money, to a certain degree, but at the end of the day, he can’t hide that he wasn’t born into it.

An unreliable narrator is usually a story told from a first person point of view and their own biases can often warp the reader’s perspective on the events unfolding. Nick even tries to clarify that he doesn’t judge people. Yeah, OUT LOUD, but he’s judging internally. Which is making you, the reader, judge. Tom has an affair with Myrtle Wilson. Nick IS quietly judging them although he tries not to and how could he not? Daisy is his cousin, and he sees the man she’s married make her move away from Chicago and Tom is not hiding his affair very well, she clearly knows about it and hates it.

Oh but here comes Gatsby, with this beautiful story of how he fell in love and went to war and couldn’t be with her and came back and she’s MARRIED and now he’s trying to win her back- and Nick HELPS HIM. THAT’S NOT UNBIASED. HE IS SWAYED. He sides with Gatsby through and through, even when he starts to see the flaws in Gatsby’s vision, he wants to cheer for him.

We’re going back to the green light here for a minute. Gatsby gets a house DIRECTLY ACROSS the lake from where Daisy’s is. There’s the green light at the end of her dock that flashes, that’s a reminder to Gatsby when he looks out that his dream is just over there. Daisy, the perfect gal, along with acceptance into the fancy rich lifestyle. He wants to meet her parents, he wants to have kids with her, he wants to be a somebody, an established respectable person.

But he’s kind of fooling himself too. He wants too much. It’s not enough to have Daisy, she needs to RENOUNCE her ever loving Tom and then properly marry him. He wants to be a part of the boy’s club, but Tom finds out that he has gained his wealth through the mafia and that’s not very respectable! He wants Daisy to call him in the morning, a call that never comes because she won’t cast aside her lifestyle for him. She was raised to trust and live in the sheltered life she was brought up in, even if she’s unhappy. It’s safer than the unknown. She chooses to stay with Tom, as even she realizes she can’t live up to Gatsby’s ideals.

It’s ironic cause this is the Oxford English Dictionary definition and Gatsby is an “Oxford Man!” Not only has Gatsby idealized on the American Dream, but it’s a dream that was never real. Yes, he did get rich, but not because he had equal opportunities. He got lucky to help out an old rich man on his boat (WHICH HE DIDNT EVEN GET ANY MONEY FROM) to learn the rich social skills, and he worked with the mafia to get all his wealth. Yes, he got Daisy, but not REALLY. He had an affair with her. They didn’t marry properly, didn’t have kids, didn’t move in together. And Daisy never intended on doing any of these things. She wanted to run away.

And Gatsby was never going to get these things because he wasn’t BORN rich. Tom represents the concept of Old Money so well not only in how he lacks any genuine character that isn’t inherited from his father, but how protective he is of keeping the status quo, so that he remains in power and no one who doesn’t fit the club can come in.

And Gatsby pays the price of his affair while Tom gets away with everything. How is this the American Dream? It isn’t.

Okay, that’s my stuff. I can go into symbolism on the yellow car and big billboard and all that other stuff if this was helpful at all. I hope it is helpful???

[ohhtobeagooner]

teef’s gnashers really be gnashing

[disneyprincessdxminatrix]

bed comfy and warm and rain outside 🥺 how the hell am supposed to get up and ready for work under these circumstances

[awesomefringey]

Hello,

I saw something about followers of Harry and I send you screenshots from last November and March. (I left the dates of the pictures taken in the screenshot)

I think the loss of followers is also because he is not on tour and doesn’t post at all. But i don’t know if a million is normal in fluctuation of being on tour and off tour?

Heyyy, thank you dm’ing me and sending me the ss. So according to that Harry has lost a million followers in about 5 months? 😲

It could be the lack of content but then again, don’t you rather forget that you follow someone when they don’t post anything? Maybe there were a lot of non-fandom people who didn’t like that one Pleasing post in November. 😅

April 2024 - 47,8 M (-100k)

March 2024 - 47,9 M (-900k)

November 2023 - 48,8 M

In reference to this.

[r0semultiverse]

Adding one more moot to the mental list of moots I’ve had visual parasocial crushes on before. This makes.... shit, I’m bad at math & numbers, but at least like 5 people! Something like that! 😳

ANYWAY HI! 👋

[thexianzhoujade]

ah yes, the way i lit up when i see another epic enjoyer on my dash.

help me pls i've listened to done for and wouldn't you like on repeat stop meeee.

ANOTHER EPIC ENJOYER SQUEALS

aine omg aine the whole circe saga has been on repeat i’ve been so excited for it eeeeeeee !! it’s been so rewarding to support jorge from the beginning i’m so glad epic is growing the way it is *sobs*

[griancraft]

you are not twitter user griancraft... you are tumblr user griancraft... and that is a very important distinction..... but wilbur soot reading out twitter @'s of people who bought wu&io on stream and saying "griancraft" I jumped. I did a double take i was like WHATTTTTT 😲

OH MY GOD….

[ember-not-amber]

OH MY GOD MR. DARLING ACTUALLY CANONICALLY STAYED IN NANA’S DOG HOUSE😭

[duckmumbo]

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1. How long ago did you start reading fanfiction? Writing fanfiction?

ok listen. none of you are allowed to make fun of me ok. but my first time reading and writing fanfiction was in like. 2012/2013 with one direction fanfiction. i never actually posted anything i wrote at that time, so my first time actually posting fics was probably in 2014?

3. Are there any fics that inspired you to write what you do?

I don’t really think there’s any one specific fic? It’s honestly been just about every fic I’ve read, from the marvel ones to the batman ones to the mcyt ones to those handful of ATLA fics I read that helped me realize what tropes I like best and what kind of writing style I aspire to have.

11. How do you come up with your fic titles?

I wish I knew gkdhdkfhkf. Like 70% of the time it’s either song lyrics (Underground, Have No Mercy, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, etc.), me stealing lines from canon (Don’t Call Ms Son and that Mumbo fic I’m working on), or working titles that I got too attached to (Bees Aren’t Good Friends, that really long one with Loki in the title). I’m really bad at naming things so if I name it something original it’s usually something simple

fic writer ask game

[islanddads]

writing fic for not one but two already canon ships is another thing i just didn’t have on my 2022 bingo card

[lesbianralzarek]

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Must be a Sugondese joke.

[sirsheoth]

I kiss you with tongue and as that happens I slide an ibuprofen in your mouth since you have a headache

[laur-rants]

I love when my borzoi does the thing

[gaylactic-fire]

The Curse

Aka Hylia's favourite transmasc gets amnesia and forgets what periods are

[their-name-is-fake]

Can’t believe OJ is dead