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I'm a hobbit, I study at Hogwarts, I go to Camp Half-Blood in the summer, I train with Will and Jem at the London institute and I am secretly in love with Newt (and Thomas Brodie-Sangster) In brief, books are my life. *** I try not to post spoilers, but if you're really trying to avoid them, you shoudn't be on the Internet in the first place! *** This is really a multiple fandoms blog... I'm in so many I've lost count *** Talk to me, send me questions, I won't bite I promise :)

[taciturn-nerd]

I’ve been tempted to think of the Anne of Green Gables books as nothing but happy fluffy stories. And it’s definitely full of happy endings and great if you want a break from grim-dark stories.

But I realized I would have been like Katherine Brooke in Anne of Windy Poplars who at first mistakenly thinks Anne has it so easy and is so easily loved by everyone and just naturally has a hopeful joyful outlook on life.

Knowing Anne’s first eleven years were full of abuse and neglect and feeling like no one wanted her and no place she lived was truly family or home, helps us see that Anne being who she is, is nothing short of a miracle. She isn’t jaded and bitter about life. She developed a vivid imagination because she was friendless and lonely and hoped against hope for a better life. When she finally found a home and family and friends, she loved them fervently.

When she steps out of her comfort zone to try to befriend and understand the grumps in Windy Poplars, even the ones with a lot of social power over her, that was so brave. Couldn’t be me. You mean everyone in town hates me for some reason and there’s a few especially mean people? I wouldn’t have the guts to talk to them!

Anne is so full of hope and love for others and it’s so inspiring. It’s not like all the mean and grumpy people change because of her, but I love that her attitude is always to try.

And the books still have death. There’s still losing loved ones and losing homes. There’s lost time and lost loves, but there’s love delayed and found again. There’s still hope.

[gogandmagog]

L.M. Montgomery’s “Anne”, by Ephraim Weber, the Dalhousie Review April 1944.

[blythegilbert]

anne of green gables (1985) deleted scene

[lillipad72]

girls don't want boys they want the $22,000 first edition anne of green gables from argosy book store

[cassandracalin]

Merry Christmas, friends! Be well and stay cozy ❤️🎄

[mizutoyama]

Je me souviens

Today is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. Why today? Because 35 years ago, a gunman decided to go on a killing spree at Polytechnique (engineering school in Montreal) and killed 14 young women simply because they were women. An antifeminist atrocity, all because a man blamed his own lacking on women and feminists.

35 years is a long time and yet… With the hyper masculine influencers gaining more and more followers, with a rapist becoming the “leader of the free world” along so many other things, feels like society has barely evolved…

https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/allison-hanes-dec-6-reflection

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[auntiefragile]

“Memory and Delusion” by Shirley Jackson

[gogandmagog]

One of my favorite things about The Blythes are Quoted is the way that Gilbert Blythe will so gladly read and discuss Anne’s post-war poetry with her, yes, but also the way he uses her writing as a type of barometer for her emotional needs. If she’s written something he perceives as unusually dark (of course a little dark is not irregular), he’ll literally be on the page thinking to himself, “I imagine it’s time Anne had a trip somewhere” and it’s back to Avonlea.

And I think that’s really interesting to compare to Lucy Maud, who always betook herself back to Cavendish and PEI, when she needed spiritual refreshment (and later emotional regulation or reprieve from her depression) and to return, “back again in a world where happiness reigned and problems were non-existent—for me at least […] and slipped back into the Eden of childhood.”*

* Montgomery journal entry, dated March 1, 1925

[batrachised]

i fear this instagram comment is the funniest joke ever made

[girpgorp]

decided my fetal kwamis deserved a little lore

[gogandmagog]

Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery, feat. painting ‘Flower and Feather Caps’ by Fabio Cipolla

[batrachised]

you know i think we've all been well in body but considerably rumpled in spirit

[batrachised]

"Well, let us see. What do I like?

I like my own children and all nice, fat, clean babies anywhere. I like all kinds of books if they're well written whether they are religious or philosophical or sentimental or cynical or humorous or exaggerated or indecent. I like writing books myself. I like cats and horses and some dogs. I like curling breakers, woods and mountains and stars and trees and flowers. I like nicely furnished houses. I like good Victrola records and the music of the violin. I like pretty china and glass and old heirloom things. I like a cosy bed and a tight hot water bottle. I like to be kissed by the right kind of a man. I like jewels and pretty clothes. I like doing fancy work and I like cooking and I like eating the nice things other people cook. I like motoring and driving and walking. I like a systematic life with occasional dashings over the traces. I like open fires and moonlit nights. I like nice chatty letters. I like compliments. I like to see a person I dislike snubbed. I like my own looks when my hair is dressed a certain way. I like a snack at bed time. I like going out to dinner. I like helping other people and I like to be very independent of help myself. I like sunsets and pictures and sea bathing. I like keeping a journal. I like reading old letters. I like housecleaning-I do! I like entertaining the race of Joseph. I like day-dreaming. I like going to concerts, good movies and plays. I like-or used to like before I wedded a minister-dancing and playing whist. I like reading the Bible-most of it. (I like the folk-lore of Genesis and the drama of the Exodus and the gorgeous furnishings of the tabernacle and the doings of the kings and the good maledictions of the Psalms and the warm imagery of the Song of Solomon and the cynicism of Ecclesiastes and the worldly wisdom of the Proverbs and the idyll of Ruth and the blazing fire of the prophets and the wonders of Jesus' teaching and the poetry of Revelations.) I like listening to good sermons. I like gardening. I like good spruce gum. I like my husband. I like people to like me. I like a good joke. I like rainy days. I like old homesteads. I like people who agree with me. I like chocolate caramels and Brazil nuts. I like-or liked in pre-prohibition days-Miss Oxtoby's dandelion wine. I like perfumes. I like a little gossip with carefully selected people. I like shopping at Eaton's.

There now, Ruskin, tell me what I am..."

-LM Montgomery, in her journal

[chic-a-gigot]

Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme, no. 67, vol. 6, juillet 1906, Paris. Groupe des membres du Ladies' London Fencing Club à Londres. Photo Bullingham (Londres). Bibliothèque nationale de France

[gatsbynouvel]

Behind the Scenes: Anne of Green Gables (1985) and Anne of Avonlea (1987)

[gogandmagog]

–The Blythes Are Quoted by Lucy Maud Montgomery, feat. portrait by Paul César Helleu

[gogandmagog]

–‘Anne of Ingleside’ by Lucy Maud Montgomery feat. portrait by Paul César Helleu