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lit meme: 5/10 series or books

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

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The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. by Baz Luhrmann

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The Great Gatsby Sentence Meme

“All I kept thinking about, over and over, was ‘You can’t live forever; you can’t live forever.”

“Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”

“Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!”

“Human sympathy has its limits.”

“'I’d like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around.”

“I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.”

“I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”

“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.”

“I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person, I thought it was your secret pride.”

“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”

“I’m inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.”

“I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.”

“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.”

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

“It makes me sad because I’ve never seen such- such beautiful shirts before.”

“It takes two to make an accident.”

“It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.”

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”

“Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back.”

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon, and the day after that, and the next thirty year?”

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

“You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

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PLOT IDEA: Muse A goes to the countryside on summer vacation with her family as a small child. They don’t like it there very much, and are extremely grumpy about it. Then they meet Muse B, who’s been living there all their life in a house next door to the vacation home. The two become inseparable friends— running barefoot through tall grass, playing pranks on everyone, picking wild strawberries, building a hidden hideout so they can hang out there. Then Muse A is taken away back to the city, and the two are devastated, pining for each other’s company for months after the separation. Years pass and they forget that summer. They’re now grownups, and Muse A is a successful business owner in the city, while Muse B takes up an artistic job ( musician, painter, poet, etc. ) near his home. So one day, a bad breakup leaves Muse A heartbroken, and when their work goes downhill, they decide they need a break and go to the countryside. In the same rental vacation home from all those years ago, they spend their days trying to chill. Bad memories and nightmares wake them up from sleep and they take a walk through the grounds around them when they hear music//see someone?? They follow everything to their old hideout, where Muse B, too, has been spending a restless night in need of inspiration. Muse A watches them for a while in secret, but then something scares them or they trip on something, and the two just go Whoa, hello..?! and Muse B offers their hand to Muse A…. and then realizes that birthmark//scar on their hand looks familiar??

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someone give me a plot where muse a is living in this nyc apartment complex, and the apartment across the hall from her has always been empty, until one day she finally sees someone moving in. she introduces herself to the guy moving in, muse b, and is immediately attracted to him. before long, they end up going on a few dates, although muse b is hesitant at first, and at the end of the third date, muse a tries to invite muse b into her apartment for the night, but he declines. she’s confused and initially embarrassed, until he tells her that she should come into his apartment, because he has something to show her. they walk in and there’s a teenage girl on the couch. muse a is extremely confused now, especially when muse b introduces the girl as the babysitter. it isn’t until a tiny little two-year-old comes toddling around the corner that she realizes that muse b is a single father.

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About TGC: I also think a lot of the former stans pushing around arguments without context (that Mandy/Dave/Rachel are to blame, that the casting was bc of intentional racism, etc) were so quick to turn and skip straight past valid complaints about the racism of the biz into faux-activist nonsense bc of a serious inferiority complex brought on by black-and-white viewpoints about what is "diverse" and trying to push GC as a show that earns them Woke Points then being let down, if that makes sense

No no I get that. Here’s how I see it:

The ATW didn’t feel like being progressive this year (because they never are, hello people). They choose the show they think will make them money. Tbh it’s not really about who deserves what. It’s all business. But the reason nobody’s been significantly pissed about it in awhile is because money and deserve lined up for a few years there, namely with Hamilton.

But that era is over. We’re back to money. And a diverse cast singing five different genres of music just was too out there for them. And like they lowkey always have in the past, the ATW proved themselves to be pretty damn racist (literally only two actors/actresses of color nominated?? Are you literally fucking kidding me?).

Fast forward to this week. The ATW decision to not give The Great Comet any awards lessened audiences enthusiasm for the show. Now they only want to see it because Groban’s there. Groban leaves, Ingrid comes. Ingrid leaves, Oak comes. But it’s not enough. Sales still plummet. Not because of Oak, but more because people simply lost interest. How good could this show actually be if it lost all its awards to the pop show of the season? So the show gets desperate to stay on because they worked too damn hard to give it up. Mandy Patinkin wants to do it. It’ll basically save the show, but he can only do it Oak’s last three weeks. They make the tough call, and Oak steps back.

What they didn’t consider (and completely 100% should have) was they were stripping a black man of a lead role and replacing him with a famous white man. It was completely insensitive and yes, racist to do so. And they definitely deserved the backlash and Oak deserved the support.

But they don’t deserve to close for this.

It seems like they’re willing to learn from their mistake. They’ve apologized and it seems pretty genuine. Mandy has stepped down from the role. They shouldn’t have done this, and it’s absolutely horrible they did, but this one Tumblr post keeps popping in my mind throughout this whole shitshow. It was a post I read a few days ago before this all went down and it was talking about the differences of being an openly discriminatory show and being a show that tries to be inclusive.

Now this post was referring to TV shows (and I’m pretty sure it was going around because of the Supercorp debacle), but I think the point is important to mention in this situation. Shows that are aiming for (in this case) white audiences, don’t have to worry about whether it will look bad if they replace a cast member with a white cast member. Shows like Phantom of the Opera, Wicked, Les Mis, Dear Evan Hansen, etc? They don’t have to worry about diversity issues because they never bothered to worry about them in the first place. If they do put a minority in as a character, the next cast could be white as ever and no one would even bat an eye, because we all knew the diversity wasn’t permanent.

However, shows that aim to be diverse often get a bad rap. They often make mistakes, and you’re right that’s not okay. They should be held accountable for those mistakes. But they shouldn’t go down because of them. There are things shows do that make us angry because they didn’t realize it would make us angry. And they should do better to realize those things. But if we look at every diverse show and take them down every time they make a mistake, we’re not going to have any diversity left. We’re going to be left with all white shows with occasional diversity because for some reason we’ve decided that better than someone who tries and messes up.

Pretty soon people are going to stop trying.

When diverse shows make mistakes, we should absolutely get angry and tell them they did something wrong. But then we have to realize that a show that is trying to be inclusive is worth sticking with and helping them do it the right way. Phantom will never do diversity right. Wicked will never do diversity right. Les Mis will never do diversity right. But The Great Comet can. We have the opportunity to have a great diverse show, and some people are willing to throw it away because they made one mistake.

The ATW was racist towards this show a month ago; in turn, the producers stupidly and frantically did something racist to save the show. Neither was right and both deserve backlash, but one was obviously the cause and one was obviously the effect.

TL;DR The ATW was racist first, but it doesn’t excuse the decision on Oak; however, we can’t let diverse shows sink because of one mistake when non-diverse shows are constantly making mistakes and we let them thrive.

Also: rereading this ask I have no idea if I even responded to it, I’m so tired