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parasect

Thanks, tumblr mobile, for unintentionally making this even funnier

po-acus

Just as I said, “is this ever going to load?” One gif loaded and honestly it answered my question perfectly.

sternenhimmel-mond

Together they create the full set.

bartziefluff

saw this again on my dash after reblog and…

tuntematonkorppi

tumblr black out poetry

star-anise

Modern Anne of Green Gables AU where Anne has always desperately wanted a pair of pre-ripped jeans.

morvidra

I now have the delightful image of Mrs Rachel with a pair of scissors knowing full well that she is about to Annoy The Crap Out Of Marilla but damn if she isn’t going to get Anne the most stylish and fashionable pair of jeans Ever.

star-anise

Imagine her at a mall, anxiously asking a sales clerk, “What’s the raddest pair of jeans you have? I’m shopping for a 14-year-old girl, and she wants to look very cool.”

star-anise

I am a FOOL. @mihrsuri suggested “A pair of Converse sneakers or Doc Martens” and “being able to paint her own room a wild colour”

Which are WAY more in character for a modern foster kid who’d be able to rip her own jeans if she really wanted, but might not have much experience with costlier brands or being able to spend money changing her room in a permanent way that landlords might not allow.

Those are WAY better interpretations.

vassraptor

I love this and would read it, but I can’t figure out how the premise works in the present day. In the original, Marilla and Mathew send away for an orphan boy (stipulating white, Anglophone, Canadian-born, old enough to be useful right away) to use as a farm labourer in return for food, board, and schooling, and due to a mix-up are met with a girl instead. In this AU, they apply to be foster parents because…?

Re painting her room: would this be modeled on the hair dye saga, or the Avonlea Improvement Society and the blue shed? I vote the shed, both so she can still fuck up her hair with a home dye job as in canon and so she can order a tasteful pale spring green accent wall as approved by Marilla, then due to a mix-up at the paint shop, end up with BRIGHT ELECTRIC BLUE.

star-anise

I’m modeling painting her room on the puffed sleeves, actually: Something frivolous she desperately wants, that Matthew and Rachel make happen for her, causing extreme bliss.

I’ve thought about this a lot and you do have to change some of the really basic dynamics a little. Orphans like Anne in late 19th century Canada were basically indentured labourers; you have to change it up.

Also, I’m reaching deep into my children’s lit study of AOGG. You see, the underlying dynamic of AOGG is that Matthew, Marilla, and Avonlea think they know what virtue, morality, and Christianity are all about. They have very specific ways of doing things and very established notions of what a good, respectable person looks like.

Anne is, on the surface, not at all a good or respectable person. She’s a hoyden. But she does value virtue. At the beginning she tells Matthew she’s considering whether she should want to be “divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good “

But by the end of the book, she proves that she is already inherently all three–her beauty is compared to a woodland deity; she’s the top of her class; and she has a spirit of love and kindness that so radically breaks Avonlea conceptions that she also turns the people around her into better, kinder people as well.

Matthew and Marilla would sign up to be foster parents because their church is encouraging people to foster children in care and sponsor refugee families and things like that. They’re kind of staid white liberals in middle age who want to do the right thing, like making sandwiches for the homeless on Thursdays in the church basement. But they care more about appearing correct than breaking out of their shells.

And they were expecting a child. Their concept of fostering and adoption is still kind of old; they were both adopted as infants by their parents, so they think a foster child coming to your home is going to be, if not in a crib, still at the blocks and Sesame Street age. They bought a little bed. Maybe they’d already fostered a little kid or two.

But then their caseworker calls them up and tells them about Anne, and whomp, they’ve got a trans preadolescent.

And Anne has a ton of psychiatric diagnoses and a regiment of meds, and you could see her as a walking behavioural disaster even after she’s taken her Ritalin, but she’s also so friendly and so kind, and she’s the one making fast friends with the eldest girl of the Syrian family the church has sponsored into the neighbourhood, she’s talking to and getting to know the homeless, she’s trying to save the whales and navigate the complicated ethics of the seal hunt and sometimes she lies awake at night crying about wild bee populations and gay men in Chechnya.

So Matthew and Marilla have to slowly come around to thinking: We can try to squash all the abnormal out of this girl and make her as “functional” as possible, or we can accept that she’s going to be a wild anarchic SJW goblin, and help her be the best one she can. Which also spills over into academics: They have to push the local school to accommodate the way she learns, because when she’s accommodated she’s so smart, but stuck without supports in an ordinary classroom, she’s a living nightmare and getting suspended all the time.

They theoretically know that it’s good to be good to people and you should work to make the world better, but Anne really challenges them to decide between comfort and normalcy, or supporting their queer trans neurodivergent activist girlchild as much as they can.

skypirateking

This last bit lost me as soon as they started throwing every mental issue into the bucket just because they could.

Throwing that much “bad stuff” into the character would make it nearly impossible to do anything with that character. Pick one or two issues. Run with those like mad, but choose: the mind is not a clown car! You don’t stuff it to the brim with mental disorders and hope for the best. Doesn’t work that way.

star-anise

LMAOWTFBBQ

I’m a mental health therapist and I’ve worked as a caregiver in foster homes. I’m literally basing this Anne on my friends, people I know, the kids I’ve cared for in foster homes, and kids I’ve worked with as a therapist.

(”How dare you put Anne Shirley on Ritalin!” I’m not saying I think she ought to be, though I’m not saying she shouldn’t be either, but in 21st century Canada, in the foster system? She’d be on Ritalin.)

Stressful early childhood experiences, like lack of a stable parental figure, leaves kids hugely at risk of mental illnesses and learning disabilities. Dealing with transphobia all the time also puts someone at serious risk of mental illness and trauma. It’s not a clown car, it’s a spiral of risk factors that need to be dealt with through loving, stable care and creative problemsolving.

And oh boy are you wrong if you think neurodivergent, learning disabled, mentally ill children cannot be fucking amazing people with incredible lives ahead of them.

star-anise

If anyone wants permission to write this: Please please write this. The world needs it.

pipuhattar

I wrote the fic. Here it is!

#anne of green gables

actuallyjoebiden-deactivated202

If I ever doubt myself I just ask “WWDDOOTDDD?” (What Would Doug Dimmadome Owner Of The Dimmsdale Dimmadome Do?)

dankmemeuniversity

jamieisamess

Im fed up of seeing this fucking post

lmao haven't been here in a long while Today I offer: Howl's Moving Castle redraws

#howl's moving castle #Q'd

upschittcreek

SCHITT’S CREEK CELEBRATION

seven scenes | moira and david in family dinner

pixelprofligate

"youd do numbers on tumblr" girl i am on tumblr and the numbers? 4

theacepie-rate

A compilation of some of my favorite quotes from Howl’s Moving Castle

“‘I feel ill,’ he announced. ‘I’m going to bed, where I may die.’”

“It seems as if those of high ability cannot resist some extra, dangerous stroke of cleverness, which results in a fatal flaw and begins a slow decline to evil.”

”’Is that all you can do in the face of tragedy?’ Howl asked. ‘Make toast!’”

”’Dear Sophie,’ he said. ‘Always busy. You were hard at work yesterday, weren’t you, in spite of my advice? Why have you made a jigsaw puzzle of my best suit? Just a friendly inquiry, you know.’”

”Howl‘s voice was presently heard shouting weakly, ‘Help me, someone! I’m dying from neglect up here!’”

”’Dear Sophie, do please tell me how you bully a fire demon into being that obliging. I’d dearly love to know!’”

”’Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!’”

“‘Aunts are terrible. They go for you with hat pins.’”

“‘Yes, let’s admit it,” she told the skull. ‘I snoop.’”

“‘You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.’”

“‘I’m dying of boredom,’ Howl said pathetically. ‘Or maybe just dying.’”

#howls moving castle

felliss00-deactivated20170331

when you’re on a roll drawing even though you have no idea what you’re doing

lex-tc

jimmy-the-frog

[ID: A picture of a gecko on a wall, with digital drawing added to make it look like Dracula. He is wearing a black coat and has long white hair, eyebrows, and a long white mustache. End ID]

#haha

jeejyboard

god please can someone help me find the gif of the white $20-banana looking-lady from like, an 80s show it looks like, she’s stumbling around in a downtown area looking disoriented and keeps seeing gay signs like “LEBANESE” and “CURRY PUFFS” please i need it