Gatsby Fic: The Pursued and the Pursuing (Nick/Gatsby, R)
Title: The Pursued and the Pursuing
Fandom: The Great Gatsby (the novel, but effectively the film, too)
Pairing & Characters: Nick Carraway/Jay Gatsby, Others
Rating: Very definitely R, perhaps evasively NC-17.
Warning: Period racial and sexual slurs, alas.
Notes: In spite of the fact that not a single character in it is fully admirable, I've loved this novel for a long, long time, and I suppose the film coming out finally gave me a good excuse to do something more productive than marvel at Fitzgerald's prose on rereading. You all know I've got a thing for meddling with endings, especially sad ones (to varying degrees of success, I'm certain), and this particular tragic ending has been waiting since my sophomore year of high school. That's a long time for a pair of characters to knock around in my head and in my heart; whether they'll speak as clearly on the page for me as they do in those places is, of course, another matter.
Summary: The past is both behind us and ahead of us, patiently looming
( Read it @ LJ)
(Read it @ AO3)
Fandom: The Great Gatsby (the novel, but effectively the film, too)
Pairing & Characters: Nick Carraway/Jay Gatsby, Others
Rating: Very definitely R, perhaps evasively NC-17.
Warning: Period racial and sexual slurs, alas.
Notes: In spite of the fact that not a single character in it is fully admirable, I've loved this novel for a long, long time, and I suppose the film coming out finally gave me a good excuse to do something more productive than marvel at Fitzgerald's prose on rereading. You all know I've got a thing for meddling with endings, especially sad ones (to varying degrees of success, I'm certain), and this particular tragic ending has been waiting since my sophomore year of high school. That's a long time for a pair of characters to knock around in my head and in my heart; whether they'll speak as clearly on the page for me as they do in those places is, of course, another matter.
Summary: The past is both behind us and ahead of us, patiently looming
( Read it @ LJ)
(Read it @ AO3)