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If you asked me about The Great Gatsby I would say Nick had a big fat homosexual crush on Gatsby. If you really asked me I would say

“it’s clear in the text that Nick is obsessed with Daisy in such a way that he leeches onto her. This could also be said of how he views Gatsby. One could say that Nick is just jealous of Gatsby but his inner monologue doesn’t reflect this sentiment. Just as Nick does Daisy he latches onto Gatsby’s social circle and life,attending his parties,following him to other sorts of activities and gatherings and some such things like that. Given all my conclusive evidence I think that Nick was just as infatuated (more so in a romantical/the way he romanticized jays life)with Gatsby as he was Daisy”

Which is basically the same thing but like with more yap. Anyway sorry if that was too much yap.

Good Omens Hamlet

Do y’all ever think about what David must have had to deal with listening to that awful rendition of to be or not to be I mean hell, the actor had some of the words wrong and was terrible lol. I know it was purposeful but like as a Shakespeare geek seeing the supposed Richard Burbage be such a bad actor physically hurt me. I can’t imagine what David, a classically trained actor, who played Hamlet on the West End, must have felt.

When I say I read classic literature I don’t mean I read it and think I’m better than everyone I read it the same way I used to read wattpad at two am.

I have no life

dear john (taylor's version) (4 hour version) (5 act stage play) (iambic pentameter) (from the vault)

any female born after 1830 can't cook...all they know is brontë sisters, pad they bustle, ill-fitted corsets, get tuberculosis, and die.

sometimes i wanna post serious takes ab lit on this blog but then i realize if i try to use it for a class i could get checked for plagiarism

and im not ready to have my professors know about all the dumb shit i say here

i make fun of horatio for finding the most dramatic person he could and just enabling his behavior

and then i look in the mirror like "huh shakespeare in the park is looking a lil different this year"

hamlet: makes everything infinitely more complicated than need be, spends half his time wallowing and procrastinating

me:

me at any character whos supposed to represent the american dream

Dorian Gray after one (1) conversation with Lord Henry

quarantine is making bertha rochester a much more relatable character, ngl

Hercule Poirot: shockingly, M. Ratchett is actually the infamous killer Cassetti!

everyone else on the Stamboul-Calais coach:

i know theres a "gay best friend" trope but i feel like we need to formally acknowledge the "due to unfortunate circumstances i am gay for an absolute bastard" trope

now this is, of course, just another excuse for me to point out how gay nick carraway and horatio are

Greek gods & heroes as bdg 2

Sisyphus:

Demeter:

Practically all of the gods at some point or another:

rochester trying to justify himself to jane

greek gods & heroes as bdg part 1

hades:

hermes:

odysseus:

Apollo: Hey, Hermes, I've got something to tell you. I'm pan.

Hermes: Ha, I knew it! I've never seen you and goatboy in the same place at the same time!

Apollo: No, godsdamn it I-

boys night 😊

benvolio, mercutio, horatio, and ophelia all have a group chat called "bastard-free zone." sometimes they go out to brunch just to get away from romeo and hamlet's bullshit

Dorian Gray's the type of person who goes around calling himself a "social media influencer" after getting more than 10 likes on Instagram.

the first 10 likes were all Basil

Victor Frankenstein, playing god and defying all rules of ethics:

Witnessing the use of AI illustrations in my class literature presentations has had, besides plunging me ever deeper into despair, the fascinating effect of having me taking in increasingly Timothée Chalamesque versions of Dorian Gray

periods of my life are defined by which gay classic literature couple i'm reading smut about on ao3

is it bad that i read the smutty gay fanfics before i actually read the book

Can’t believe I’ve resorted to reading smutty gay fanfics about characters in classic literature