@gamerchad's comment on ':marseyelliotrodger3: If you haven’t spent four years throwing elaborate parties :marseyparty: to get her attention :marseycheers: you may be a fakecel :marseyblops2cel:'

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/style/andrew-quintero-sophia-babai-wedding-plaza-hotel.html

Gift link :marseychristmasgift: filtered by @Aevann so maybe copy/paste it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/style/andrew-quintero-sophia-babai-wedding-plaza-hotel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JE4.MtZP.t1oAwjqrvh1H&smid=url-share

My friend sent this to me so now you have to read it. This story reads like a red flag came to life and just got married.

I leave you with this INSANE kicker

"Mr. Quintero said he pursued Ms. Babai because he believed in making choices to find love: "It doesn't just happen.""

Oh. Em. Gee. I can't wait to read the five year follow up when she divorced him for being a controlling monster.

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The great gatsby was not meant to be an endearing tale! Yikes. 😬

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The Times editors know this sort of article will do numbers, because the clueless richie-riches who star in it will be flattered, and the university-degreed progressives will quote-dunk it to death among themselves

I always assumed the Times nuptials section was aimed at people like me to hate-read and hate-share.

Like, no way would they share the love story of two nonwhite non-Ivy League grads without the stalker element.

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This is not a meet-cute, this is scary. Rich people are weird.

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3mo ago #6992539

Hopefully this neighbor does a great gatsby and gets shot in his pool too

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Redactor0 naori/oppa Darklands shill, do not engage PAW 3mo ago #6992558

Wow, thanks for ruining it! What if at this point in my life without a teacher to force me to, I decided that suddenly I want to read The Great Gatsby? :marseysmughipskorean:

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gamerchad psi/pi Psychic Omnikineticist Redactor0 3mo ago #6992653

Jokes aside, it wasn't ever a book worth reading for the plot or deep themes. It was always for the prose, which was quite interesting for its time (and basically a masterpiece by current-day standards). It's depressing pulp romance slop with a class-warfare slant to it, but still somehow better than any popular book released in the last 20 years. If you wanted a masterful story with genuine literary kino, there are dozens of English-language books written in the same time period that mog it to oblivion.