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WHERE ARE ALL THE LM MONTGOMERY BLOGS ON THIS WEBSITE
Valancy Jane Stirling should be grateful that her story is set in [redacted] and not in the 2020s. Can you imagine how insufferable the Stirling clan would be on Facebook?
OH MY GOD
you are so right about Olive. RIP olive you were born too soon to be an #influencer. (EXCEPT i wonder if her being very pretty and sought after in the context of a small town would mean she didn't quite hack it--big fish in a small pond kinda thing. Which means she might actually be an "#influencer" with like 2000 followers, half of whom are paid accounts.)
As for the fake uncle benjamin thing, I'd just screenshot you my own MAGA uncle's profile except we've mutually blocked each other.
Uncle Benjamin on facebook:
Valancy Jane Stirling should be grateful that her story is set in [redacted] and not in the 2020s. Can you imagine how insufferable the Stirling clan would be on Facebook?
OH MY GOD
you are so right about Olive. RIP olive you were born too soon to be an #influencer. (EXCEPT i wonder if her being very pretty and sought after in the context of a small town would mean she didn't quite hack it--big fish in a small pond kinda thing. Which means she might actually be an "#influencer" with like 2000 followers, half of whom are paid accounts.)
As for the fake uncle benjamin thing, I'd just screenshot you my own MAGA uncle's profile except we've mutually blocked each other.
thinking of what @daydreamingandprocrastination said about Barney after reading this passage from Elizabeth Rollins Epperly:
“We must be guided by developments,” said Uncle Benjamin. “It is”—solemnly—“easier to scramble eggs than unscramble them. Of course—if she becomes violent——”
funniest moment in the book idc
CHAPTER 12 THOUGHTS 🩵😿
The attack she had when she thankfully reached the shelter of her own room was the worst yet. It was really very bad. She might die in one of those spells. It would be dreadful to die in such pain. Perhaps—perhaps this was death. Valancy felt pitifully alone.
The pain left her and she lay on her bed, spent, exhausted, in a cold perspiration. Oh, that had been horrible! She could not endure many more attacks like that. One didn’t mind dying if death could be instant and painless. But to be hurt so in dying!
To laugh at her clan as she had always wanted to laugh was all the satisfaction she could get out of life now. But she thought it was rather pitiful that it should be so. Might she not pity herself a little when nobody else did?
“I wish,” she said whimsically, “that I may have one little dust-pile before I die.”
That's all what I have to say about this chapter.
Valancy Jane Stirling should be grateful that her story is set in [redacted] and not in the 2020s. Can you imagine how insufferable the Stirling clan would be on Facebook?
OH MY GOD
today I learned there is a strong likelihood i have a rare degenerative skin disease that could progress to cancer if untreated, and today I also found a wasp in my house. guess which of the two I am more stressed about right now
okay you were right, Blue Castle WAS life-changing
join the book club!!
am I too late?
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whenever you discuss the South it fascinates me, because as someone who grew up and lives in the US South (but not deep South) I can trace some of the thread but not other ones. the culture of the south really fascinates me (atlanta vs. west virginia vs. new orleans vs. texas etc etc all are different, and I know I'm mixing states/cities but still) because it tends to get painted with a wide brush, but it's a lot more knobbly than that. I grew up with sweet tea (which I find disgusting, don't kill me any sweet tea fans reading this) and I have a trace of an accent and I recognize the southern beauty queen trope from my surroundings and I knew people who did cotillion even though I did not--but also, I read stuff about other parts of the south and can be bewildered.
“‘A fellow by the hand of nature marked, Quoted and signed to do a deed of shame’,” declaimed Uncle James. He looked enormously pleased over managing to work that quotation in at last. He had been waiting all his life for the chance.
Uncle James sucks, but it IS so satisfying to work in a fitting quotation that you've been wanting to use for a long time 😂
When she could think at all she wondered what it would be like to have some one with her who could sympathise—some one who really cared—just to hold her hand tight, if nothing else—some one just to say, “Yes, I know. It’s dreadful—be brave—you’ll soon be better;” not some one merely fussy and alarmed.
Good advice for me to remember when I can’t fix things for people.
Chapter 11 - some more thoughts
We discuss how the family controls and bullies Valancy and can't deal with her change, but my question is - what if any other person from the family changed their way of behaving and role in the family? Would others freak out as well?
#i would like to humbly submit my “olive gets tainted by scandal” fic idea to the group (tag from @batrachised)
Isn't Olive already somewhat tainted by scandal? The inappropriate love affair and now the long engagement? But she is forgiven them because she is pretty and rich and they're 'appropriate' scandals for a girl like that to have (especially because she has lots of proof of being wanted by a man, apparently the highest honour for a Stirling woman). So are you thinking of a bigger scandal (e.g. Cissy Gay levels of scandal or something in between)?
To answer the original question, I think it would depend on the person and their existing position in the family and, possibly more crucially, their gender. Valancy has a low position (which has made her always meek and compliant) and is a woman - so her change is very shocking and possibly a sign of lunacy (according to the family). I don't think a male relative changing as much would meet the same type of scrutiny, but I think other women in a weaker position definitely would (Mrs Frederick, Cousin Georgina, Cousin Sarah, etc).
I'm thinking of a bigger scandal - like Olive gets pregnant ala Cissy Gay with her first fiance or with Cecil, because I like to consider how it would change the family dynamics.
Mrs. Frederick said the greatest happiness was to spend your life in loving service for others, and Cousin Stickles and Aunt Isabel agreed with her—Aunt Isabel with a resentful air, as if she thought Mrs. Frederick had taken the wind out of her sails by saying it first. “We are all too prone,” continued Mrs. Frederick, determined not to lose so good an opportunity, “to live in selfishness, worldliness and sin.” The other women all felt rebuked for their low ideals, and Uncle James had a conviction that the conversation had been uplifted with a vengeance.
OK SO this is every fucking church youth group ice-breaker I’ve ever been part of. “What’s your favorite book?” Or “what one thing would you take to a desert island?” Or “what is your favorite thing to do?” And it’s all fun & games until someone says “the Bible” or “reading the Bible” and then every single other person after ALSO has to say the Bible and the ppl who went before interject uncomfortably that they are all going to bring the Bible too and they’d like a do-over because they didn’t realize the Bible was an option. Then there’s a whole judgmental moment from the later group like
I recently watched a recorded staff meeting I’d missed and even in a completely non-church setting the last 5 women to answer the ice breaker said they were bringing their Bible to a desert island if they can only take one item. And then, predictably, two women who went earlier said they wanted a do-over and they were also bringing their Bibles.
Not to be like a violent persecutor of the faith or anything but fyi answering like that sucks ass and you’re ruining everything for everyone.
“The greatest happiness,” said Valancy suddenly and distinctly, “is to sneeze when you want to.”
I love her so much.
My Christian culture pet peeve is "the kid who brings the guitar to every social occasion and turns it into a hymn sing" I just wanted to catch up with a friend but now I have to go sing all of the campfire hymns you know, and it feels weird and awkward to carry on a conversation while everyone else is singing, and there's that same worry that you're being unholy for not wanting to sing. . . I brought an atheist friend to a party at a Christian friend's house once, and of course one kid brought the guitar, and I'm over there trying to make sure my friend isn't feeling attacked as some other guy is trying to prove that young-earth creationism is the only way using an example that doesn't work like he thinks it does. . .
anyway this is way off-topic but when I saw this post it brought back The Guitar Kid so viscerally that I had to sit down and write it out. It's been languishing in my drafts for a while, but I'm curious if anyone else feels the same way about The Guitar Kid.
Studies of Zainab Jiwa as Barbie!
I made an October cake for a group of us with October birthdays.
The base is Scientifically Sweet's chocolate cake.
There's also raspberry cream cheese filling, chocolate ganache frosting, Swiss meringue buttercream flowers, and white chocolate skulls.
Low-key very thrilled with the way the decorations turned out.
Adding a couple of February cakes to this list.
The first was a lemon yogurt cake with white chocolate ganache and macerated strawberries for my dad's birthday.
The second was Scientifically Sweet's chocolate cake again with a basic chocolate ganache and whipped cream for a friend I was seeing after many years.
A March cake: carrot with candied walnuts and brown butter cream cheese frosting.
To celebrate my grandmother's birth anniversary, which is coming up, and also, because it feels seasonally appropriate.
An April cake, just because: lemon chiffon with a lemon glaze and lightly torched (canned) peaches.
I don't have the right kind of pan, so my cake isn't as tall as it should be. However, it's a good recipe that wasn't too fussy.
Also, I used a couple of lemons from my own (not Meyer) lemon plant and I'm soooo smug about it.
Taking a break from Valancy-posting to talk about my May cakes.
May was a busy month for me, but luckily, there was lots of cake.
First up, a beach-themed coconut cake with a mango chilli filling, and Italian meringue buttercream for a mango party hosted by some friends.
Then, there was this vanilla cake with vanilla buttercream and fresh mulberries and blueberries, to welcome an aunt who's visiting us for a couple of weeks.
Finally, a lemon cake with a mascarpone and whipped cream frosting, and buttercream flowers for a family lunch my parents hosted.