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partiallypearl · 2 months

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then it is.

#anne shirley cuthbert #diana barry #anne x diana #green gables #anne with an e #dailyshirbert #awaeedit #perioddramasource #annewithaneedit #gifs #gif #*mine #anne and diana are so special to me #they are my faves #bosom friends #annewithanesource #figured out new colouring + new text html in this gifset!#v proud #yes that is a gmw quote thank u for noticing

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thehobbitchronicles · 5 months

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“because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while” — Anne With An E

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greengableslover · 1 year

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Wilt thou give me a lock of thy jet-black tresses? But I don’t have any black dresses. Your hair. All right.

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES (1985) dir. Kevin Sullivan

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iamfarfromvibingrightnow · 7 months

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On this day, September 23rd 2023, Bisexual and Biromantic Visibility Day, you, Anne of Green Gables, are very visible.

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sapphicisland · 8 months

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Petition to make all those deeply homoerotic friendships on tv into slow burn gay romances because as a lesbian the straights are exhausting me.

#wenclair #merthur #supercorp #anne x diana

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wednesdaysfullofwoe · 6 months

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I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers

L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables 🍁

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swiftlark · 6 months

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your braids like a pattern, love you to the moon and to saturn

eliza’s top 100 ships 42/100: diana barry + anne shirley cuthbert

#diana barry #anne shirley #anne shirley cuthbert #anne x diana #anne of green gables #anne with an e #eliza’s top 100 ships

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invisible-pink-toast · 7 days

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interactions / relationships that i was waaay too captivated by growing up that i honestly can't believe i ever thought i was straight

+bonus definitely not a ship thing but also i think these awakened something in me

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banquisefond · 1 year

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Why do I think Diana Barry is a lesbian ?

First of all, I'd like to note that I totally understand if anyone disagrees. What will follow is solely my very personal interpretation of Diana's character arc. Also, this only applies to the "Anne with an E" version of the character, I have never seen any other adaptation so I can't speak for it.

Diana is a young girl who's been raised in a rural and conservative environment. Even though her family is rich and gave her an education, the very fact of her living in the countryside has forbidden her have an open perspective on the world. Until Anne arrives in her life, she knows no better than what her family, church and conservative neighbors taught her. Throughout the seasons, her character is developed around the journey she takes to break from that pattern. Step by step, she lifts the veil that was tied before her eyes, proving that despite her "perfect daughter to become perfect spouse" appearance, she is, in fact, different. She's different from what was planned for her, but she's also different from the people of Avonlea. Her perspective and dreams are.

Her difference is already implied at the core of her character. Have you ever noticed how she is the only character (or almost) with a non-christian name ? Now, I know, this is reaching, I promise that I have more solid arguments for later, but hear me out on this one. I could list an enormous enumeration of names from that show that have christian roots (Anne, Matthew, Mary, Sebastian etc.). While this difference is never addressed in AWAE, it is in the first book, by Matthew. I won't have the quote right because I own the books in french so let me resume it. Matthew tells Anne about Diana when she first arrives in Avonlea. Anne gasps because she thinks Diana has a beautiful name. Matthew later on complains on it non being christian and that her parents better have named her Jane or something. She was named that way because the Barrys hosted a professor by the time of her birth. Eventually, they let him name their newborn for some reason. So, he choose "Diana", which is inspired by the roman goddess "Diane". Firstly, I think this can be interpreted as a sign her path isn't traditional education, intended by her parents who wants to send her to Paris but rather an actual education, which she'll choose by attending college. Moreover, we can go further by acknowledging that a named inspired by Diane says a lot too. Diane is the goddess of hunt, and protector of young women (in other words virginity). Diane's entourage was strictly feminine, men weren't allowed. Now, some people assume that Diane and her companions were in fact sapphics. Anyway, Diane is the symbol of independents women who don't require men to live to the fullest.

After some subtext, we now can lean on the actual events of the show.

As we previously established, Diana is, at the beginning of the show, still oblivious of the outside world and as Anne would say, the possibilities. Her very first breakthrough is the first encounter between she and Anne.

Anne is a free-thinker. Her only education she ever had is from the books she read and her own imagination. That makes her this very unique character full of open-mindedness and creativity. This is the first time Diana met someone so different from what she knows.

I'd like to focus on that one scene in the 03x01 episode when Anne makes Diana swear solemnly on their friendship. When Anne first come up with the idea, Diana is firmly closed because she's been taught by her religious background that swearing is a sin. Anne, who has always known the term "swearing" trough literature, proceeds to explain Diana what it means to her, and how beautiful that is.

"Shall we swear we’ll be best friends, for ever and ever ? (...) - Let’s imagine that it’s night time and that this path is a stream. Hold this. Twist your finger around mine (...) I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend Diana Barry for as long as the sun and the moon shine”

This quote speaks for itself on how magnificent that scene was. Anyway. This moment is immensely important for Diana. It is also for Anne, but from her perspective, she sees it more as an occasion to live in her fantasy world full of poetry. For Diana, it represents the beginning of her change and growth. She opened her mind about something she thought was immoral, only to find out it's actually beautiful. At this moment, we can see in her eyes that she's falling in love. Not necessarily with Anne but with her freedom. This is the realization that she could be way more.

“I could never love anyone as I love you Anne - Wait, you love me ? - Off course I do (...) - I thought you liked me of course, but I’ve never hoped you loved me - I love you devotedly Anne” - (1x5)

Diana directly confess her love for Anne. Of course, it is displayed as a platonic love, and it probably is for Anne, but I just want to slid it in there.

Now, let's dive in, as I call it, the "Party at aunt Joséphine/homophobia" arc. Again, there is this display of the duality between what she's intended to be and what she could be at the beginning, when she meets this famous pianist who recommend her to start a career as a musician. Diana seems almost offended because playing piano other than for recreational purposes was never a possibility for her. Then, she founds herself surrounded by a diversity of people (queer people, independent woman etc.) before learning that her aunt was, in fact, a lesbian. Then the internalized homophobia knocks in and Diana is very upset. She feels kind of betrayed by the truth, to find out that the world is wider than she knew it to be.

This series of events leads to this very emotional scene between Cole and Diana. While Diana stands firmly that same sex relationships are wrong, Cole gives her the most adorable speech. I'll let his words speaks for me :

“If your aunt lived her life feeling something was wrong with her, that she was...broken, defective, or unnatural...then one day, she met someone that made her realize that wasn’t true, there was nothing wrong with her and she was fine. Shouldn’t we be happy for her ? - I think it’s spectacular”

Does that rings any bells ? I'm not gonna over-explaining this. Diana basically discovers that omg gay people exists !!! And that it's not inherently a bad thing.

It is time to dismantle the Jerry allegations.

This "romance" takes place at the very fateful moment of Diana character arc, when she have to choose between 2 futures. The one her parents decided, and the one she truly wants, alongside with aunt Jo and Anne.

First thing about teenagers who plans to go against their parents for the first time, is that they'll try to experience rebellious acts in a smaller scale, to know how it feels. This is exactly what Diana did with Jerry. He is the closest boy she knows while being the only one her parents don't know about. She wants to feel forbidden love, but, she soon finds out that she doesn't feel anything for Jerry. There is no passion, she is not intellectually triggered with him neither. After realizing that, she ditch him pretty rudely. She knows she was wrong from the beginning and that all this just wasn't for her.

Finally, Diana reaches the acceptation of who she is by the end of the third season. She knows what she wants and got to finally attend to Queen's college after secretly taking the exams.

This represents her embracing being different. She choose to go against traditional ways. She choose to get an education, despite the remonstrances from her family. This is the end of her journey to find herself and the beginning of a new one where she can fully be herself.

I see this development as a really accurate parallel with the lesbian experience. Of course, you're free to see it as it is stated in the show. I just want to share :)

I doubt anyone read this until the end but, if any of you have a good fanfic about Diana finding a girl in college, I'm open lol.

#anne with an e #anne shirley cuthbert #diana barry #awae analysis #jerry baynard #wlw #wlw post #women loving women #sapphic #sapphism #lesbian #anne of green gables #anne x diana #gilbert blythe #josephine barry #aunt josephine

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colins-bridgerton · 2 years

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kate’s thirty, flirty and thriving results

top 30 television friendships

28.) diana barry&anne shirley-cuthbert (anne with an e)

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thehobbitchronicles · 1 year

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i cried so much during this scene .. i was emotional every episode, i love this show so much 👒🍂

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greengableslover · 2 years

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“Oh, Diana, will you promise faithfully never to forget me, the friend of your youth, no matter what dearer friends may caress thee?” “Indeed I will,” sobbed Diana, “and I’ll never have another bosom friend - I don’t want to have. I couldn’t love anybody as I love you.”

Chapter XVII.｛A New Interest in Life｝Anne of Green Gables

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steadystrength · 10 months

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“Birds and bees are all well and good, but give me wild wolves, soaring eagles, and blue crested herons up in the canopy. Oh to be the bride of adventure is so much more thrilling.” - Anne Shirley Cuthbert

Anne with an E | 3x05

#anne with an e #awae #anne of avonlea #anne of green gables #anne shirley #anne shirly cuthbert #diana barry #anne x diana #cottagecore #naturecore #nature

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homosandhomies · 2 years

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"I could never love anyone as I love you, Anne. Thou."

"Wait. You love me?"

"Of course I do. Why don't you know that?"

"Well, I thought you liked me, of course, but I never hoped you loved me."

"I love you devotedly, Anne."

"Then I will always love thee, Diana. In the years to come your memory will shine like a star over my lonely life. Let us offer each other locks of our hair to treasure evermore... I bestow upon thou this symbol of my enduring love."

"Fare thee well, dearest Anne of Green Gables. Henceforth, we must be strangers living side by side."

#summer says stuff #anne with an e #anne shirley #anne shirley cuthbert #diana berry #anne x diana #diana x anne #dianne

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wednesdaysfullofwoe · 1 year

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𝐴𝑛𝑛𝑒, 𝑚𝑦 𝐴𝑛𝑛𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑒.

𝐼𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢.

𝑊𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒, 𝐺𝑖𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑡

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wolfstrela · 1 year

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tell me this isn't a love triangle poster

netflix knows.

#anne is canonically bisexual fight me #anne with an e #anne x diana #anne x gilbert #anne and gilbert #anne and diana #anne shirley cuthbert #anne shirley #anne of green gables #diana berry #gilbert blythe #bisexuality #bisexual

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