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“…You don’t find it right out at first, as in Matthew’s case, but after a while you come to see it. Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.  It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world…"  

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It's not about Anne With An E just being cancelled. It's about the fact that every Anne of Green Gables installation is about Anne and Gilbert and their story and for once, it was about more than that, it was about the consequences of racism and physical/sexual assault, indigenous history and residential schools, slavery and bullying and knowing your past and exploring it, it was about understanding your own beauty and living it and it was about friendships and it was wholly, completely about a girl way a head of her time. But they still managed to make the finale about Anne and Gilbert and now there are storylines, important storylines, in this show that'll never be addressed, that are just hanging there waiting to be completed and I just can't seem to understand why they cancelled a show that still had so much to talk about.

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Gilbert and Anne running to each other in 3x10

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DIANA BARRY HAD THE TIME TODAY

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This is the tweet i am most proud of so far:

https://twitter.com/awaeplease/status/1199153863816695809?s=21

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Prissy Andrews in “A Strong Effort of the Spirit of Good" 

“Now that you mention it, I can think of one smell that’s worse than male desperation. Hypocrisy.”

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aunt jo every time she visits avonlea

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One of the things Anne with an E does best is represent intentional families.

AwaE is fantastic for portraying that nuclear families (Dad + Mom and 2.3 kids) are not necessarily the ideal we should be striving for. In fact, all the families that are blood-related, and therefore forced to be a family, have major relationship issues - think the Pyes, the Barrys, or the Andrews. Let’s look at a few intentional families in the show:

The Cuthberts

Matthew and Marilla are siblings who, for one reason or another, never married or had children. As would have been socially acceptable at that time, they lived together because Marilla wasn’t able to be on her own as an unmarried woman. They acquire Anne by accident, and come to love her almost immediately. Although they have their fair share of squabbles, the three of them support each other through a multitude of issues - from health problems and financial instability, to identity crises and romance troubles. They may not be conventional parents, but Matthew and Marilla raise Anne the best they know how, and with all the love they have to give. 

The Blythe-LaCroix Family

Perhaps the ‘oddest’ family portrayed by the show, we have Sebastian Lacroix, a labourer who has emigrated from Trinidad; Gilbert Blythe, an orphaned teen whose father left him a farm; and Delphine, the infant daughter of Bash and his late wife, Mary. Gilbert and Bash call each other ‘brother’, and to Delphine, Gil is referred to as ‘Uncle Gilby’ by others. Initially, they worked together on the boat, and later on the Blythe farm. Now, they live together as a family, cook and share meals, and provide emotional support to each other as they face many hardships. The death of Bash’s wife hits the entire family hard, and they are forced to accept help from many women in their community to raise Delphine. While they have occasional arguments (usually related to miscommunication), Gilbert and Bash are the ultimate example of intentional family. 

Josephine Barry + Cole Mackenzie

An elderly ‘spinster’ (widowed after the death of her female life partner) and a gay teen runaway make the perfect pair. After growing up in a working-class family, and struggling to be himself in a closed-minded community, Cole heads for Charlottetown, and is welcomed, as well as unconditionally accepted for exactly who he is, by Josephine. She has company after being alone for many years, and he has someone he can relate to. Also, it helps that Aunt Josephine has money, so they can have extravagant parties with all their flamboyantly gay friends. It’s beautiful, and I love it.  

In conclusion, Anne with an E features beautiful relationships between people who are a family because they choose it daily, not because it is required of them because of their genetics. 

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Anne With An E Season 3: Shirbert

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only gilbert blythe could be told by anne’s best friend that ‘ANNE IS IN LOVE WITH YOU FOR GOD’S SAKE’, run around charlottetown in a frenzy looking for anne, finally kiss anne passionately where she kisses him back, and then still panic going ‘BUT WAIT DO YOU HAVE FEELINGS FOR ME IS THIS LEGIT DO YOU LOVE ME HELP’

i stan one soft boi

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Gilbert:

Diana:

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Anne: I have follow up questions

Gilbert: so do I

Awae fandom: SO DO WE

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Friendships between women are often the deepest and most profound love stories, but they are often discussed as if they were ancillary, “bonus” relationships to the truly important ones. Women’s friendships outlast jobs, parents, husbands/wifes, boyfriends/girlfriends, lovers, and sometimes children. (insp.)

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If you ever doubt that Gilbert Blythe is as dramatic as Anne Shirley Cuthbert, please recall that he was in the middle of talking to Moody at a building site where he was volunteering and he just WALKED AWAY. MID CONVERSATION. PEOPLE WERE TALKING TO HIM and he was like “gotta go have emotions,” except he DIDN’T EVEN OFFER THAT EXPLANATION HE JUST NOPED OUT OF THERE.

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The funniest thing about the finale

We thought we were finally free from the clownery.

BUT THEN WE WERE CLOWNED IN THE WORST WAY POSSIBLE.

(not a big fan of this meme, but couldn't resist pointing out the irony)

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So excited Sara Bareilles is coming back to the diner!! #WaitressPromo #WaitressMusical #PieBaker

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Watch Sara Bareilles and Jason Mraz sing "It Only Takes A Taste" from Waitress The Musical. Can't wait for Sara to pick up a 2nd shift in Waitress Jan 16 - Feb 25! #WaitressContest