aliceinpunderland

in honor of the 90th anniversary of The Great Gatsby, why not stop quoting lines Fitzgerald probably plagiarized from his wife anyway and spend some time googling how Fitzgerald plagiarized from his wife and was a massively abusive dick in general (intentionally [seriously he had a SYSTEM] triggered her schizophrenic [possibly bipolar] episodes, made her have an affair so he could research it and then put her under house arrest when she tried to leave him, blamed her for literally everything that went wrong with his life while at the same time personally striving to crush her dreams of writing and dancing, absolutely refused to grant her a divorce despite her YEARS of petitioning for one, and many other easily google-able horrors)

also consider that it’s just kind of a shitty book like jfc Gatsby is based on HIM Gatsby is a self-insert he is Gatsby and Daisy is his wife and there is literally a scene in this book where the narrator YELLS TEARFULLY THAT THE AUTHOR’S SELF-INSERT IS THE BEST AND ONLY DECENT PERSON IN THE BOOK

I mean can we just stop calling this the great American novel please this man is a fucking embarrassment

sweet-apple-analysis

boy would i LOVE any semblance of factual sources on this post being spread around
since yall love to reblog shit like this without even bothering to see if it’s true
if you wanna throw shit like this around it is your responsibility to have the burden of evidence, not mine.

aliceinpunderland

translation: I ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to spend a maximum of ten minutes googling this thing, yet feel entitled to snidely blame you for my resulting ignorance. CHECKMATE.

scientia-rex

As Sagan said, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence… and saying that an entitled white dude from the era when women had JUST gotten to VOTE was a huge abusive dickwad to his wife is noooooooot that extraordinary of a claim.

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