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[gogandmagog]

Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery 🌷

[lmmontgomerypolls]

Which Montgomery hero was the best between the sheets?

Gilbert Blythe

Ken Ford

Teddy Kent

Barney Snaith

Hilary Gordon

Andrew Stuart

Voting ended onMay 13, 2025

Post submitted by 👤anon, thank you!

Anon said: “I’ve posted this on my own blog before but it was over a year ago and I think you might get a wider response 🤣. Gilbert is going to win but I’m curious about who will be 2nd.”

🚨TW: this is a poll with mentions of adult content. If this is something you don’t wish to see on your dash, please let me know and in the future, I can put polls of this nature behind a “read more” cut. Thank you!

[carlmeredith]

[gogandmagog]

Official thoughts on AWAE?

[jomiddlemarch]

Anne of Green Gables Pet Peeve: naming of the Blythe children (but also, most of the children of that generation)

Anne, who spent SO MUCH TIME longing to be called Cordelia, who is often Miss Whimsy and Sunburst Halls, basically gives up after Jim is born and all her kids have these very basic honor-names EXCEPT THAT GILBERT AND HIS FAMILY ARE LEFT OUT.

I know there are loads of Gilberts "and a tiny Gilbertine" in Four Winds since everyone loves Dr. Gil, but Anne and Gilbert don't name any of their kids after him.

I get this when Diana is the one doing it, but Anne is more imaginative and has a lot more opportunities to name people. And they named their first daughter Joyce, which was after NO ONE.

Re-reading Anne's House of Dreams, it struck me they could have named one of their daughter's after Captain Jim's Lost Margaret.

I also spent my entire childhood boggling at the idea that Rilla would want to be known as Bertha.

[gogandmagog]

I think it’s right around when Joyce is born that Anne says they had “so many” people they wanted to name their children for, that they basically deferred their (in)decision, since they couldn’t arrive at one lmao. (Yes, here it is!: “There were so many we would have liked to name her for; we couldn't choose between them, so we decided on Joyce—”) And I know it doesn’t help or improve the matter but I think this pretty well demonstrates Anne and Gilbert’s intent, that they thought long and hard about naming their kids, and that a whole bunch of honour names (predictable as they maaaay be) were inevitably coming down the pipe. 🤓

Joy, the exception, was meanwhile specifically named so by Maud, as a type of symbol/device imo, because with the death of the baby Joy, also comes the (thankfully temporary) death of emotional/heart joy for Anne and Gilbert. The wee white lady’s name is loaded with double meaning, and her going signifies/pushes a lot of things (allows for Leslie to open up to Anne), and speaks to harrowing sorrow and recovery and also to Anne and Gilbert’s rock solid foundation (that they leaned into each other in their grief, instead of away – how else would Jem have appeared eleven months later, if not 🫢, and how about poor tear-blind Anne professing to love Gilbert ‘more than ever’ after?).

Elsewhere, I totally get it and agree that it seems like Gilbert’s family was left out of the honour namings but I personally make myself feel better about this by assuming that Gilbert himself would probably think it was enough that every single one of these children would wear his surname. And I think there was probably also consideration that Anne’s “line” disappears with her this way (as does Matthew and Marilla’s). There’s no one to remember Walter and Bertha Shirley by, for instance, if those names aren’t given precedence. Because they’re already gone (while Gilbert’s parents lived to see all but Rilla), and Anne was their only, and she’s a Blythe now. I also can’t be convinced that Shirley’s middle name isn’t John (since it sounds best lmao, and also because Gilbert reflects on how much Shirley reminds him of his dad), or that Nan or Di don’t have Gilbert’s mum’s mystery name as a middle name (least of all because she was at Ingleside when they were born, and are her favourites)! I also have a personal and utterly unproveable theory Gilbert named the twins, not Anne (who would’ve put her foot down at least about saddling the twin who already had her red hair with also her name) – who hated her own name, after all – and that he thought he was very funny for so doing (all this to basically say; I think he had the opportunity and probably ultimately passed on any Juniors).

ALSO agree about Rilla preferring Bertha, but tbh then I remember that Maud also named all her sexy man-stealers ‘Ethel,’ and I’m like… this is fine, Bertha is fine. 😅

Anyway, I do tend to get annoyed x2 when Anne and Gilbert’s grandkids double down on giving recycled names too! Holy cow. I guess the War lends some forgiveness to the sentiment but man does it make things even more confusing. Although it’s through this that we fiiinally get another Gilbert (Ford).

[glennotes]

This used to bother me too but it IS a good point that all their kids had Gilbert’s last name by default and that all of Anne’s relations had no one to carry on their names. Where do we find out about a Gilbert Ford?

[lmmontgomerypolls]

Pick a favorite crack!ship, round 2!

Una Meredith x Shirley Blythe

Marilla Cuthbert x Rachel Lynde

Jane Stuart x Jody Turner

Emily Starr x Walter Blythe

Leslie Moore x Jonas Blake

Pat Gardiner x Teddy Kent

Faith Meredith x Bertie Shakespeare

Muriel Stacy x Cornelia Bryant

Charlotta the Fourth x Davy Keith

Valancy Stirling x Jem Blythe

Voting ended onMar 2, 2025

* poll submitted by multiple 👤anonymous users and a few non-anonymous users that I did not ask for consent in tagging, so I’ve declined including them. DM me if you do want credit however.

Please remember these ships are crack ships! They are harmless and not meant to be taken seriously.

[gogandmagog]

Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

[lmmontgomerypolls]

Favorite L.M. Montgomery Rival:

Charlie Sloane

Roy Gardner

Neil Gordon

Dean Priest

David Kirk

Voting ended onDec 25, 2024

submitted by 👤anonymous, thank you!

*no further specifications given so vote with your heart

[felicitykings]

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1934) dir. George Nicholls Jr.

[dead-west-podcast]

Don't get me wrong, I love October but there is something so beautiful about November in North America. The world around me transitions into another beautiful version of itself, shedding it's skin in it's annual dance towards death and subsequent rebirth. Quote by L. M. Montgomery

[gogandmagog]

Ophelia by Gaston Bussière, circa 1900

Gilbert Blythe, Anne of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery

Was thinking today of Gilbert’s propensity for calling Anne “wife’o’mine” or else, as above, the way he reverently publicly refers to her as such in the company of friends.

And reflecting on this drew me immediately back to Anne playing at the Lily Maid (and herself nearly accidentally meeting the same fate as Tennyson’s Elaine), and the first time Gilbert saves her life (and the beginning of her softening on her grudge against him)… only to remember/realise;

Lancelot and Elaine (or the Lily Maid) by Lord Alfred Tennyson

So basically, I would bet my whole entire life that “wife of mine” is actually an in-joke, meant and originating as a private call back to Avonlea’s own Lily Maid of Barry’s Pond. 🥹🥹🥹 It’s even extra layered with meaning when we consider that the Lily Maid is essentially the story of a girl dying at the ‘hand’ of unrequited love. (Elaine professes she loves Lancelot [whose life she had a saved], but alas – he only wishes to be her friend. And then, of course, Elaine, weaken, later dies from her broken heart. If we reverse these roles, exactly who does that all sound like btw?)

[lmmontgomerypolls]

Would Emily and Anne, meeting as their book one selves, like each other?

Yes. They would like each other.

No. They wouldn’t *like* each other, but it wouldn’t be a *dislike* either.

Emily would like Anne, but the feeling wouldn’t necessarily be mutual.

Anne would like Emily, but the feeling wouldn’t necessarily be mutual.

They would actively *dislike* each other.

Nuance/see results

Voting ended onOct 23, 2024

submitted by 👤anonymous

[gogandmagog]

I know the most popular fanon take about Shirley Blythe’s name is justifiable by reason, and is honestly the most obvious conclusion to reach – that Anne was so close to dying after he was born, that of course they’d name him after her – but for me, I’ve actually decided that I reject this logic, lol. 🙃

As far as I’m concerned, Shirley was predestined for this name; it was picked out before he was born (for a boy or a girl, it is after all a gender neutral name), and was not a choice made in panic. He got it as an ongoing testament of how much his dad had love for even the tiniest parts of his mother, but most especially including all the things she famously didn’t like about herself (exactly like how we know he’s super into the colour of her hair and the precisely seven freckles that she thinks ruin her nose), right down to the first name she’d always worn and the surname she’d once worn.

To Gilbert, “unromantic Anne [Shirley]” was the most romantic/distinguished/elegant name possible. Besides, he’d probably been thinking how well the names ‘Shirley’ and ‘Blythe’ go together, how nice they sound in sequence of each other, since way back at the Avonlea schoolhouse. And since they already had a small Anne Blythe… it was about time to immortalise the Shirley-Blythe union too.

[e-louise-bates]

Rebecca Dew is not my favorite character in Anne of Windy Willows/Poplars, but she does have some amazing gems, such as:

"I pity you if you take that iceberg and nutmeg-grater combined home with you for Christmas."

I mean. Have you ever heard a better description of a standoffish, universally-disliked, prickly person?

[lmmontgomerypolls]

In a reaping, which Montgomery character would stand the best chance of winning the Hunger Games*?

Anne Shirley

Emily Byrd Starr

Jane Stuart

Valancy Stirling

Patricia Gardiner

Marigold Lesley

Sara Stanley

Kilmeny Gordon

Voting ended onOct 9, 2024

poll submitted by 👤anonymous

* these characters would not be competing against each other, they’d be competing against other tributes from panem districts

** emily gif from @emilyofnewmoongifs, anne gif from google

[abigailspinach]

Gilbert stretched himself out on the ferns beside the Bubble and looked approvingly at Anne. If Gilbert had been asked to describe his ideal woman the description would have answered point for point to Anne, even to those seven tiny freckles whose obnoxious presence still continued to vex her soul. Gilbert was as yet little more than a boy; but a boy has his dreams as have others, and in Gilbert’s future there was always a girl with big, limpid gray eyes, and a face as fine and delicate as a flower. He had made up his mind, also, that his future must be worthy of its goddess. Even in quiet Avonlea there were temptations to be met and faced. White Sands youth were a rather “fast” set, and Gilbert was popular wherever he went. But he meant to keep himself worthy of Anne’s friendship and perhaps some distant day her love; and he watched over word and thought and deed as jealously as if her clear eyes were to pass in judgment on it. She held over him the unconscious influence that every girl, whose ideals are high and pure, wields over her friends; an influence which would endure as long as she was faithful to those ideals and which she would as certainly lose if she were ever false to them. In Gilbert’s eyes Anne’s greatest charm was the fact that she never stooped to the petty practices of so many of the Avonlea girls—the small jealousies, the little deceits and rivalries, the palpable bids for favor. Anne held herself apart from all this, not consciously or of design, but simply because anything of the sort was utterly foreign to her transparent, impulsive nature, crystal clear in its motives and aspirations.

But Gilbert did not attempt to put his thoughts into words, for he had already too good reason to know that Anne would mercilessly and frostily nip all attempts at sentiment in the bud—or laugh at him, which was ten time worse.

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

when l.m. montgomery made gilbert blythe a doctor and then had him marry anne shirley, and then anne's husband was her doctor and her doctor was gilbert blythe? go off.