Where Can I Find Crossover Nick X Gatsby Fanfiction With Other Fandoms?

Alright, so I was actually searching for this exact thing a few months back. It's a pretty specific craving, right? Crossing 'The Great Gatsby' with other stuff, but throwing Nick into the mix instead of the usual Gatsby/Daisy or Gatsby/Myrtle focus.

Honestly, Archive of Our Own is your foundational starting point. The tagging system is a lifesaver. You'll want to search for 'Nick Carraway' as a character tag, then filter by 'Crossover' in the categories. The fandom tag for 'The Great Gatsby' there is pretty active. I found a few with 'Bridgerton' of all things, exploring societal masks across centuries, and a surprisingly poignant one with 'The Secret History' where Nick and Richard Papen just... vibe about being passive observers to tragedy.

Don't sleep on FanFiction.net's classic literature section either, though it's harder to sift through. Sometimes you get these gems where Nick ends up in a noir detective universe, or a 'Peaky Blinders' crossover where Tom Shelby and Jay Gatsby are rival bootleggers and Nick's just caught in the middle, documenting the whole mess. The crossovers aren't always tagged perfectly, so following author bookmarks or reading lists of people who write good Nick-centric stuff can lead you down the rabbit hole.

Wattpad's algorithm is hit or miss, but I've had luck searching phrases like 'Nick Carraway crossover' or 'outsider pov fanfiction'. The quality varies wildly, but the quantity is there if you're willing to dig.

A weird tip: look for crossovers with 'Death Note' or 'Monster'. Sounds bizarre, but writers love pairing Nick's moral ambiguity and narrative passivity with characters like L or Tenma, creating this strange dialogue about witnessing evil without acting. It's a niche within a niche, but when it hits, it really works.

Tried this search recently and hit a wall on main platforms. The tag combinations get too diluted. My workaround: find a standout Nick-centric one-shot in the 'Gatsby' fandom on AO3, then check that author's 'Bookmarks'. Often, they'll have saved similar outsider-POV or period-piece crossovers. I found a fantastic 'Gatsby'/'Interview with the Vampire' fic that way—Nick meeting Louis, two chroniclers of doomed glamour. It wasn't tagged as a crossover with anything else, just filed under 'The Great Gatsby', so it never showed in my filters. Sometimes the best crossovers are hiding in plain sight, just badly tagged.

I'm gonna be the contrarian here and say you might be looking in the wrong places if you're only checking the big archives. This pairing is so dependent on a very specific character interpretation—Nick as this unreliable, potentially queer-coded observer—that it thrives in smaller, more curated spaces.

Tumblr blogs dedicated to literary fanfiction or 'The Great Gatsby' metas often have writers who do crossovers as a side project. They'll write a thread about Nick meeting, say, Will Graham from 'Hannibal', and the whole thing unfolds in a series of posts. You have to search through tags like '#nick carraway fanfiction' or '#gatsby crossover', and it's messy, but the analysis is often sharper. These writers aren't just mashing universes; they're asking what it means for Nick to witness Hannibal's artistry or to be another of Sherlock Holmes's landlords.

Discord servers for classic lit or period drama fandoms sometimes have dedicated channels for fic recs and snippets. I got invited to one after commenting on a 'Gatsby'/'Downton Abbey' crossover on AO3, and someone linked me to a Google Doc for a WIP where Nick corresponds with Matthew Crawley about inherited wealth and new money tensions. It was unfinished and rough, but the character voice was perfect.

The thing is, Nick/Gatsby crossovers with other fandoms aren't usually blockbuster, trope-heavy stories. They're quieter, more psychological. You're more likely to find them appended to longer, gen fics or as experimental one-shots buried in an author's portfolio. I gave up on direct searches and just started reading everything a few talented Nick-perspective writers bookmarked.