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Need more proof, (pg. 283, The Winter at Queen's, Anne of Green Gables)

"Boys were to [Anne], when she thought about them at all, merely possible good comrades."

Honestly surprised the queer community hasn't brought up more about Anne and Diana:

"Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together for ever."

(Pg. 239; The Queen's Class is Organized; Anne of Green Gables)

For a book written in 1908, two "Bosom Friends" (refer to each other as this in the book multiple times) who promise to never marry and live together for the rest of their lives is like as gay as gay could be, and this was said right after Anne was saying how much she hates how Ruby is constantly talking about boys all the time and then this was followed by saying that Diana is having second thoughts because she believes it would be "nobler" to "reform" a wild man for a husband, a.k.a. the only reason she isn't doing it is because society finds it better she marry a man to fix him than marry her best friend because at the time it was a woman's job to fix a man.

Time for AWaE comparison and rant (lots of salt) so if you don't wanna read this long rant, now's the time to move on to a new post

Anne with An E wanted to touch on a lot of modern day issues but they had a queer relationship right there and instead they decided stubborn Anne won't spend a long time hating Gilbert and Diana is gonna get in some weird relationship with Jerry the hated help that doesn't even play a role in the book, like as much as I enjoyed the TV show as a stand alone, when tied with the books, I was kinda expecting... More. Or at least different things when they said queer relationships and feminism. I thought they would mean more important characters rather than Aunt Josephine who they saw once or twice (and who I'm still angry about because I headcannoned as Aroace and now if I try to do that, people say I'm homophobic because the TV show made her a lesbian when in the book she was so clearly aroace) and Cole the made-up character they abandon at Aunt Josephine's place so they didn't have to deal with continuing his gay arc they formed. Like I get why they wanted to make Gilbert and Anne endgame, as many people grew to love that ship over the books, but I definitely woulda enjoyed to see a poly Anne Diana and Gilbert, with Diana and Gilbert talking about how much they both love their neurodivergent girlfriend Anne (she clearly has ADHD and we love her for it) and they all live happily ever after in a poly relationship envied by all, and definitely not turning into a Cordelia Geraldine and Bertram situation (Although that woulda been a tragical romance if Anne turned out like Bertram, Diana turning into Geraldine and Gilbert turning into the jealous Cordelia [if confused, see chapter 26: The Story Club is Formed). Poly Anne Diana Gilbert woulda been a much more interesting dynamic than the Shirbert and Derry relationships we saw in AWaE (I mean enemies to lovers AND friends to lovers, like how could you not want both in the same relationship). Like AWaE prided (no pun intended) itself on having queer relationships. I get why Montgomery, a woman living in the 1900s before women even had the right to vote and people would kill homosexuals purely for their sexuality, would abandon the concept of a main gay couple, but the TV show very well could have done something more with this and it just makes me upset that with all of this right here, they are still getting brownie points for queer rep when they literally made up a side character they said moved in with Aunt Josephine so they never had to deal with his gayness again (ALSO REALLY SALTY THEY TOOK MY AROACE REP CAUSE AUNT JOESPHINE WAS SO AROACE AND TO TAKE THAT AWAY SO YOU DONT HAVE TO MAKE MAIN CHARACTERS GAY WAS REALLY MEAN) and idk disagree with me if you want, but I was just kinda hoping for more from them than what we got, the TV show just felt very heteronormative, monogamous, and amatonormative (not just Josephine, they shoved Mariella and Matthew into romances as well) for a show that was getting so much praise for queer relationships and rep, even the book written in 1908 showed less of these things than the show (except the book was still pretty monogamous). Well anyways, I've rambled enough, so I guess that's it for my controversial queer take for the end of June, LGBT+ month is almost over and I'm sad to see it go.

#anne of green gables #aogg #anne with an e #awae #awae spoilers #queer representation #literary analysis #gay #lesbian #aroace #polygamy #lgbt+ #lgbtqia #rant #long post

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Caption: a book cover featuring the evolutionary sequence of whales from four-legged land animals to modern whales. The book is titled “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway.

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my dad says this isn’t funny, can you guys like it so he feels stupid?

#to be fair #that actually was funny though man #i laughed #oscar wilde #puns

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"Not all men" you're absolutely right, Matthew Cuthbert of Green Gables Farm would never do this.

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Honestly surprised the queer community hasn't brought up more about Anne and Diana:

"Diana and I are thinking seriously of promising each other that we will never marry but be nice old maids and live together for ever."

(Pg. 239; The Queen's Class is Organized; Anne of Green Gables)

For a book written in 1908, two "Bosom Friends" (refer to each other as this in the book multiple times) who promise to never marry and live together for the rest of their lives is like as gay as gay could be, and this was said right after Anne was saying how much she hates how Ruby is constantly talking about boys all the time and then this was followed by saying that Diana is having second thoughts because she believes it would be "nobler" to "reform" a wild man for a husband, a.k.a. the only reason she isn't doing it is because society finds it better she marry a man to fix him than marry her best friend because at the time it was a woman's job to fix a man.

Time for AWaE comparison and rant (lots of salt) so if you don't wanna read this long rant, now's the time to move on to a new post

Anne with An E wanted to touch on a lot of modern day issues but they had a queer relationship right there and instead they decided stubborn Anne won't spend a long time hating Gilbert and Diana is gonna get in some weird relationship with Jerry the hated help that doesn't even play a role in the book, like as much as I enjoyed the TV show as a stand alone, when tied with the books, I was kinda expecting... More. Or at least different things when they said queer relationships and feminism. I thought they would mean more important characters rather than Aunt Josephine who they saw once or twice (and who I'm still angry about because I headcannoned as Aroace and now if I try to do that, people say I'm homophobic because the TV show made her a lesbian when in the book she was so clearly aroace) and Cole the made-up character they abandon at Aunt Josephine's place so they didn't have to deal with continuing his gay arc they formed. Like I get why they wanted to make Gilbert and Anne endgame, as many people grew to love that ship over the books, but I definitely woulda enjoyed to see a poly Anne Diana and Gilbert, with Diana and Gilbert talking about how much they both love their neurodivergent girlfriend Anne (she clearly has ADHD and we love her for it) and they all live happily ever after in a poly relationship envied by all, and definitely not turning into a Cordelia Geraldine and Bertram situation (Although that woulda been a tragical romance if Anne turned out like Bertram, Diana turning into Geraldine and Gilbert turning into the jealous Cordelia [if confused, see chapter 26: The Story Club is Formed). Poly Anne Diana Gilbert woulda been a much more interesting dynamic than the Shirbert and Derry relationships we saw in AWaE (I mean enemies to lovers AND friends to lovers, like how could you not want both in the same relationship). Like AWaE prided (no pun intended) itself on having queer relationships. I get why Montgomery, a woman living in the 1900s before women even had the right to vote and people would kill homosexuals purely for their sexuality, would abandon the concept of a main gay couple, but the TV show very well could have done something more with this and it just makes me upset that with all of this right here, they are still getting brownie points for queer rep when they literally made up a side character they said moved in with Aunt Josephine so they never had to deal with his gayness again (ALSO REALLY SALTY THEY TOOK MY AROACE REP CAUSE AUNT JOESPHINE WAS SO AROACE AND TO TAKE THAT AWAY SO YOU DONT HAVE TO MAKE MAIN CHARACTERS GAY WAS REALLY MEAN) and idk disagree with me if you want, but I was just kinda hoping for more from them than what we got, the TV show just felt very heteronormative, monogamous, and amatonormative (not just Josephine, they shoved Mariella and Matthew into romances as well) for a show that was getting so much praise for queer relationships and rep, even the book written in 1908 showed less of these things than the show (except the book was still pretty monogamous). Well anyways, I've rambled enough, so I guess that's it for my controversial queer take for the end of June, LGBT+ month is almost over and I'm sad to see it go.

#anne of green gables #aogg #anne with an e #awae #awae spoilers #queer representation #literary analysis #gay #lesbian #aroace #polygamy #lgbt+ #lgbtqia #rant #long post

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god i love reading about stupid drama in ancient greece. like there was an athlete named theagenes who was so good at every kind of athletic contest that when he died, one of his opponents would go to beat the shit out of a statue of him out of spite, but then one day the statue fell on the guy and killed him so the greeks took the statue to court for murder, convicted it, and threw it into the sea

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Something I think about a lot was how when Anne found her dream boy, she ended up rejecting him.

Roy Gardner was everything young Anne dreamed of in a man. Romantic, wrote her poems and brought her flowers. Even how they met was something out of her favourite novel- to make her feel like her own heroine !!.

But she still turned him down. Why? I asked myself. He was the perfect guy. He wasn't pretentious about it. He's well liked too. Why? I turned the page and realised.

Gilbert was human. Roy felt like a fever dream, the whisper of youth. Blythe felt like forever, someone she could constantly match her wits to. Gardner was a blast of fresh air on a hot day. But Blythe? Blythe was the palm tree that shaded her. Constant. Unwavering. Anchoring Anne.

I like to believe THATS when Anne outgrew her fantasy of living everything like the characters in her books- or she would've picked Roy.

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absolutely living for the canon knowledge that when gilbert became a doctor, anne read the same medical papers that he did, and understood the academia to the point that they made married couple inside jokes about it

anne shirley, BA, top of her queens class, icon of redmond, mrs doctor dear. you go girl.

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there will never be a messier main character than anne shirley. like she literally a) got diana drunk on wine she thought was raspberry cordial, b) baked a cake with liniment instead of vanilla, c) dyed her hair green accidentally, and d) almost drowned in a river and got saved by her mortal enemy/love interest just to name a few (in the first book only)

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"anne of green gables is saccharine and childishly optimistic" yeah well. i'm glad to live in a world where there are octobers. and furthermore, dear old world you are very beautiful and i am glad to be alive in you. did you think about that

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast all speak to one of humankind most consistent questions;

can French men be loved?

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I found this youtube comment and honestly,,,, true

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This is the single best twitter thread I have seen in a long long time

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You know those modern Romeo and Juliet AUs where it’s all via social media? That, except Juliet isn’t real and it’s just Tybalt catfishing Romeo

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shakespeare’s julius caesar but instead caesar says, “et tu, bestie?” when he gets stabbed

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There’s so many good parallels between Squidward + Spongebob and Marilla + Anne lol

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the Creature: sometimes a family is a scientist and the creature that he made

victor frankenstein: sometimes a family isn't