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“They say he’s third cousin to the Kaiser and second cousin to the Devil!” -Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby

This was meant to be a single doodle. As you can tell, it did not end that way. So uh. Demon Gatsby or smth like that. Honestly I just thought of the quote and went “haha imagine” then remembered I’m an artists and can do that. I blame that dang Art Deco design for it taking as long as it did to complete cause wow did that take forever for me to like how it looks

Tada!!

C’mon babe, why don’t we paint the town…

And all that Jazz~!

Me: *hasn’t done any big art pieces lately*

Me: I should do one for Little Shop now that I’m in the show!

Brain: animatic

Me: what?

Brain: Full Length Animatic of Feed Me (Git It)

Me: no.

Brain: too late

Time to spend the next 4+ hours making the RTC kids in the sims because I lack the motivation to draw 😌

Completely out of left field here, but I can’t let yall forget that I’m fandom trash so easily. That being said, Gatsby people-

I completely understand the appeal of sweet little nervous Nick Carraway (especially when considering ship stuff, I see the appeal) HOWEVER, I would like to remind everyone that this is the man who gets practically no sleep throughout the events of the book because of everyone else’s bullshit. This man is sleep deprived and, supposedly in his own words, honest. Please please please, particularly in all of our dear fix it AUs, let us see more extremely sleep deprived and brutally honest because of it Nick.

But J! I hear you ask, what about the sweet nervous idiot of the friendship/relationship? My answer is simple: Jay Fucking Gatsby. This idiot almost fell down the stairs because his crush looked at him, he is downright horrible with anxiety, for god’s sake listen to Only Tea- you want a nervous stuttering idiot in that duo/ship? It’s Jay Gatsby. I don’t make the rules and honestly I want to see more of it rather than him always being the super confident one because he just. Wouldn’t be. That would be Nick through and through

TL:DR- give us more blunt honest Nick and nervous Gatsby, especially when it comes to Natsby bullshit. Thank you and goodnight!

I forgot how fucking good Scooby Doo is.

More Gatsby Reincarnation AU bullshit while I work on a piece for the show I’m in rn:

It’s a long ahh list so here’s a cut to save ur dash :)

Gatsby and Daisy absolutely love Grease. Yes the movie. Yes they force everyone to watch it at least once every four-or-so months during group movie night, yes they sing the whole thing

Everyone begrudgingly has their song in Grease. Jordan’s is Danny’s part in summer nights (with Gatsby as Sandy funny enough), Tom’s is Greased Lightning, Jay’s is Raining on Prom Night (although Daisy joins him 90% of the time), Daisy’s is There Are Worse Things I Could Do, and Nick’s is Beauty School Dropout!

Nick has the voice of an angel. Literally. First time he really sang Beauty School Dropout left everyone floored

For my fellow Natsby Shippers: Already was Jay entranced by Nick’s voice, but things got worse when Nick turned his performance of said song above on him during their obligatory watch. Dude bluescreened hard and it took a minute before they could continue the movie

Speaking of movie nights, the gang does movie nights! With how available it is nowadays why not? Sometimes it’s twice a month, sometimes it’s once, sometimes it’s every other month. Really just depends on how often they can

Meyer is here too everyone! He’s a teacher at a nearby high school (although you’re a fool to think that’s his only job). While he originally taught economics, he got roped into using his double major to teach English. Specifically Junior Year. The Great Gatsby unit is always awkward

Nick has a Tumblr! He’s flat out said multiple times on said blog that he is Nick Carraway reincarnate. Through some simple proofs his followers have accepted that yup, that’s Nick Carraway back from the grave. It’s like how we have Neil Gaiman here, but with Nick.

Jordan has a blog too, but only to fuck with Nick. That’s it, that’s the only reason. Their followers love watching them fight online lmao

Nick uses his blog to update everyone on the gang and answer questions. Yes, TGG was gay. So is he. He’s answered this a million times can we get a new question please??

One of Meyer’s students showed him said blog, at which point his student teacher George Willows (Wilson) pointed out that he knew Nick back in high school and offers to set up a meeting

That meeting was awkward as fuck. Nick and George just stared at each other, both knowing, until George ran out of the room, at which point Meyer took to testing Nick. The two shot references back and forth until Nick cracked

Nick has a therapist. He was pushed to get one after a rather bad crack in his own mind after Jay remembered (I’ll explain in a minute). He tiptoed around his real problem for ages, not wanting to be seen as insane (again), until his therapist asked him one day about a book. See its uncut pages? Do you know what that means, Nick?

Boy was it a relief to be able to actually talk about his struggles with reincarnation after that

(TW: Derealization, just in case) Nick’s Mental Crack, as mentioned above, happened on his first birthday after Jay remembered everything. He vanished for a few days, only to be found unresponsive by his friends. When he finally did respond, it was only to repeat that they (the gang) weren’t real, something drilled into him from his time at the sanatorium and his last 60-ish years of isolation in his first life. For a few more days he did little more than stare into the bathroom mirror, repeat that phrase, or gently touch at his eyes. When he finally did come to, the first thing he did was turn to Jay and ask “Is this real?” There was. A lot of crying from all parties following. And therapy.

Listen, dealing with grief in the 20s already sucked. He got sent to a sanatorium for Christ’s sake! That, paired with what I imagine to have been spending the last 60+ years of his life in self isolation AND being the first to remember their past lives? That ain’t easy man. He could use a little help

He does get better tho. Things get easier. Maybe a little too easy because one day, when a mutual friend(s) of all of theirs outright stops them and asks if they’re the reincarnated cast of Gatsby, he just says yes. Straight up. “Yup. Took you that long?”

Meanwhile everyone else (except for Jordan honestly) is trying to deny it and failing miserably

Back to movies and film! Nick likes Sci-fi things alongside historical stuff that he can laugh at being wrong, Jay enjoys romance (specifically shit like the Bachelor tell me I’m wrong-), Jordan is a fan of of mysteries, Daisy enjoys horror films purely because of the kickass final girl most of them have alongside a fair share of musicals, and Tom likes Sports films like Happy Gilmore and Benchwarmers

To my fellow Natsby ppl again: Gatsby is shorter than Nick. Was back in the 20s and is now! When hugging or cuddling, Nick could absolutely smother Jay. He is a small fella, very holdable

Every time they rewatch the 2013 Gatsby, Jordan has a tendency to say either “that’s gay” or “that’s homophobic” at respective times. Nick keeps a tally on how many times she says each every watch

And that’s all I think I have again for now. Thanks again for @writerinconstantcrisis for helping with most of these and this AU as a whole really. Until next time nerds!

FINALLY! FINALLY I BRING YALL-

OC Rambles

This is MC.

Yes, MC. Yes, as in ‘Main Character’. Any pronouns apply.

As guessable from my first piece with them, they were based off of ‘The Main Character’ by Will Wood

MC is a self aware beacon of chaos and distraction with a roulette wheel for a moral compass and void where their common sense should be. Once upon a time they had their own story, their own life, but becoming self aware through an incident I haven’t yet thought of kinda screwed that up. Since then, he’s spent his time hopping from story to story, stealing any type of aspects from said tale’s characters (costumes, traits, backstory- you name it) before leaving the world in shambles. They stick heavily to the “It doesn’t matter what I do, cause I’m the main character which means you’ve gotta like me” mindset, which makes for a deadly (sometimes literally) combo with her childish nature. They jump into/out of stories and just around in general by book- yes, book. Books are like portals to them, little doorways they can run through. Paintings are also an option, but books are much preferred. If there’s a book, MC has an escape route.

This is Dexter

He/they pronouns.

Nicknames (most if not all given by MC) include- Dex, D-Man, Dr. D, Doc, Death, Grim, and more to come for sure)

Based off of ‘Memento Mori: the most important thing in the world’ also by Will Wood, his character centers heavily around death. While they aren’t Death itself, they are one of the many embodiments of it. With heavy inspiration from the skeletal Grim Reaper and dapper clothing, we get a silly little dude who is far too upfront about the dead honest truth; that being that we all die in the end. With a mini scythe as a cane and his ever ticking stopwatch, Dexter travels reminding those who’ve forgotten about ‘the most important thing’. A firm believer of the ‘life was ment to be lived’ mindset, he tries to keep their little lessons upbeat but to the point. No use sugarcoating the facts, after all. They’re calm yet charismatic, joyful yet morbid. In terms of travel, they kind of just appear when needed. Nothing fancy, maybe a poof of smoke or some sparkles here and there but still tame nonetheless.

Reblogging this cause I’m actually so proud of it yall don’t understand

🩸🪴FEED ME🪴🩸

ITS DONEEEEEEE

After a week and a half of work I’ve finally done it. My first animatic fittingly for my favorite song from one of my favorite musicals.

I’ve been a huge fan of Little Shop pretty much my whole life so it only felt right that my first animatic be for it. Additionally, I’ve just been cast in a production of it and I needed to do something huge for the show. What started as a little 30 thing turned into this 5 minute love letter to this stupid song.

Hope yall enjoy it as much as im proud of it :)

Also have the high def version of the thumbnail