#anne of the island

[petaltexturedskies]

And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

L.M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

#l.m. montgomery #anne of the island

[anneofgreengablesthings]

this is so poorly made and i'm sorry but I just HAD to make it

#anne of green gables #anne shirley #gilbert blytbe #shirbert #anne x gilbert #anne of avonlea #avonlea #anne of green gables things #anne of the island #anne of green gables the continuing story #megan follows #jonathan crombie #do it for him

[shirleyjblythe]

I love your work! Jw if you ever drew or draw Shirley’s parents. 😆

Gilbert drew her close to him and kissed her. Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.

From Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery

Oh absolutely I have drawn Anne and Gilbert. I love them more than any other couple in literature. This is the first I could find from an old charcoal class final and I think I gave my version of Gilbert Jonathan Crombie’s overalls from the sequel, although looking back that doesn’t make a lot of sense since I’m sure he didn’t go propose in work clothes. I added Anne’s pink enamel heart necklace to the scene for a bit of creative license. :)

#who is prettier: anne or gilbert #fucked up on: anne’s dress and elbow #had to fix gilbert’s lapel too #still doesn’t look right #charcoal is unforgiving #charcoal on paper #and charcoal pencil for beginning outline #anne of the island #anne x gilbert #l.m. montgomery

[valoftheisland]

Gilbert Blythe being like "guess I'll die" after the girl of his dreams rejects him and then actually almost dying for real is the most iconic thing I've ever seen. Bare minimum if you ask me

#anne of green gables #aogg #shirbert #anne shirley #l m montgomery #anne of the island #lm montgomery #lucy maud montgomery

[dubiouslymortal]

Need a man to fall in love with me and pine for me for years, and when I reject his first proposal, his health gradually declines, until I return home one day to the news that he doesn't have long left to live, and it's on his death bed that I realise I've loved him the entire time, but it's okay because my friend has sent him a letter telling him that if he proposed to me again he'd likely get a different answer, and the glimmer of hope that I might love him back sets him upon a rapid, miraculous path of recovery

#anne shirley #gilbert blythe #shirbert #anne x gilbert #anne of the island #anne of green gables

[gogandmagog]

it wasn’t all anne media but i have submitted anne media in the past, i usually use the procreate program. i will share here. top is anne and gilbert in the anne of avonlea book setting. below is a redmond era fantasy that anne got her head out of her arse sooner rather than later which makes for why redmond is in the background. i’ve also done blue castle art.

MYSTERIOUSGREG I AM BEGGING; STOP BEING SO MYSTERIOUS AND START BEING PUBLIC SO THAT YOU MIGHT BE PROPERLY APPLAUDED HELLO THESE ARE GORGEOUS AND I WANT TO CRY???? THEY ARE SO GOOD? I honestly cannot decide which one I like more?!! I AM OBSESSED.

Also. also. ALSOGWLAHS I think there’s some kind of Blue Castle art challenge that recently went off here on tumblr??? Consider submitting??? I’m sure it’s never too late for such things!

#I LOVE THESE WITH ALL MY HEART #GILBERT #AND ANNE #SO PERFECT #redmond too #anne of avonlea #anne of the island #kinda! #anne shirley #gilbert blythe

[dailyshirbert]

“I don’t want sunbursts and marble halls. I just want YOU. You see I’m quite as shameless as Phil about it. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well, but there is more ‘scope for imagination’ without them. And as for the waiting, that doesn’t matter. We’ll just be happy, waiting and working for each other - and dreaming. Oh, dreams will be very sweet now.”    Gilbert drew her close and kissed her. Then they walked home together in the dusk, crowned king and queen in the bridal realm of love, along winding paths fringed with the sweetest flowers that ever bloomed, and over haunted meadows where winds of hope and memory blew.

Chapter XLI. {Love Takes Up the Glass of Time} ANNE OF THE ISLAND

#anne of green gables #perioddramaedit #periodedit #periodgif #aoggedit #shirbertedit #tvedit #filmedit #userbennet #catalinabaylors #userseeleybooth #userpavlova #userperioddrama #userdraconis #userbeccaa #tusergabriela #aogg #aogg 1987 #anne of the island #anne x gilbert #anne shirley #gilbert blythe #megan follows #jonathan crombie #gif #*

[metamorphesque]

��� L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

[text ID: I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.]

#l.m. montgomery #anne of the island #summer #june #quotes #literature #classic literature

[batrachised]

Watching Anne of Avonlea (through sheer determination and after a series of events that involved unsuccessfully digging through the website's source code, I managed to rent it), and it strikes me how (in this instance, similarly to the book), Anne repeatedly crushes any romantic advancements on Gilbert's part. In the book, Anne avoids being alone with Gilbert and begs him not to propose to her. It makes me wonder: why did Gilbert think proposing to her would work? Is it because he wanted a sense of finality? Because he did genuinely think he had a chance? He does say this:

“There isn’t anything to forgive. There have been times when I thought you did care. I’ve deceived myself, that’s all. Goodbye, Anne.”

This implies that he did think a yes was possible. Yet I find this difficult to believe, because while we all know Anne does in fact care that way for Gilbert and doesn't know it yet, Anne has also been pretty blunt about how she doesn't think she does. Anne of the Island's first chapters are filled with Anne thinking about how awkward walks with Gilbert are now, or with her crushing any overtures he makes. Exhibit:

Gilbert suddenly laid his hand over the slender white one lying on the rail of the bridge. His hazel eyes deepened into darkness, his still boyish lips opened to say something of the dream and hope that thrilled his soul. But Anne snatched her hand away and turned quickly. The spell of the dusk was broken for her. “I must go home,” she exclaimed, with a rather overdone carelessness. “Marilla had a headache this afternoon, and I’m sure the twins will be in some dreadful mischief by this time. I really shouldn’t have stayed away so long.” She chattered ceaselessly and inconsequently until they reached the Green Gables lane. Poor Gilbert hardly had a chance to get a word in edgewise.

[Gilbert asks] “And after those four years—what?” “Oh, there’s another bend in the road at their end,” answered Anne lightly. “I’ve no idea what may be around it—I don’t want to have. It’s nicer not to know.

“I wonder if I can ever make her care for me,” he thought, with a pang of self-distrust.

“If I had my way I’d shut everything out of your life but happiness and pleasure, Anne,” said Gilbert in the tone that meant “danger ahead.” “Then you would be very unwise,” rejoined Anne hastily. “I’m sure no life can be properly developed and rounded out without some trial and sorrow—though I suppose it is only when we are pretty comfortable that we admit it. Come—the others have got to the pavilion and are beckoning to us.”

Anne was never attended by the crowd of willing victims who hovered around Philippa’s conquering march through her Freshman year; but there was a lanky, brainy Freshie, a jolly, little, round Sophomore, and a tall, learned Junior who all liked to call at Thirty-eight, St. John’s, and talk over ’ologies and ’isms, as well as lighter subjects, with Anne, in the becushioned parlor of that domicile. Gilbert did not love any of them, and he was exceedingly careful to give none of them the advantage over him by any untimely display of his real feelings Anne-ward. 

The only set up we get is this:

Gilbert, to be sure, was still faithful, and waded up to Green Gables every possible evening. But Gilbert’s visits were not what they once were. Anne almost dreaded them. It was very disconcerting to look up in the midst of a sudden silence and find Gilbert’s hazel eyes fixed upon her with a quite unmistakable expression in their grave depths; and it was still more disconcerting to find herself blushing hotly and uncomfortably under his gaze, just as if—just as if—well, it was very embarrassing.

My guess is that based on the paragraph above, Gilbert thought he had a chance - that and his line about how "things can't go on like this any longer." It's still odd to me in the context of the larger pattern of behavior though. Not in a bad way, more in a "tumblr, please provide your thoughts because batrachised's brain cell has quit its job without notice" way

#i am slowly absorbing myself in shirbert #time to dig into this #aogg #anne of the island #anne shirley #gilbert blythe #anne x gilbert

[the-moral-of-the-rose]

“What are you going to do with that ten dollars, Anne? Let’s all go up town and get drunk,” suggested Phil."

Anne of The Island by L. M. Montgomery

(Not something that I would have ever expected from Montgomery's books!).

#lm montgomery #anne of green gables #anne of the island

[darkpoetrynprose]

“March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.”

― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of the Island

#chaotic academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #dark academic aesthetic #dark academia #darkacademic #poetry #light academia #light acadamia aesthetic #poem #english literature #prose #march #march8th #march 2024 #lm montgomery #anne with an e #anne of the island

[petaltexturedskies]

L. M. Montgomery, from Anne of the Island

#typography #l.m. montgomery #anne of the island

[bethanyeliseart]

philippa gordon & anne shirley — anne of the island

#anne of green gables #anne of the island #anne shirley #philippa gordon #anne with an e #anne of green gables fanart #their dynamic is one of my favorite things from this series #like they’re so funny together #also I love gilbert but I was getting a vibe from them in this book 👀💓 #anne’s blouse is pulled straight from the 1985 movie! #bethanyeliseart

[ariadnethedragon]

— Anne of Windy Poplars, Lucy Maud Montgomery

#anne of green gables #anne of avonlea #anne of the island #anne of windy poplars #Anne’s house of dreams #anne of ingleside #lucy maud montgomery #l m montgomery #anne shirley #anne shirley cuthbert #gilbert blythe #anne x gilbert #anne with an e #books #book quotes #quotes #romance quotes #love #dusk #words #english literature #literature #litedit

[valoftheisland]

#anne of green gables #anne shirley #aogg #shirbert #aogg 1985 #anne of avonlea #anne x gilbert #l m montgomery #lm montgomery #anne of the island #Gilbert Blythe

[anneofgreengablesthings]

so @shirleyjblythe posted a super fun poll to guess Shirley's middle name so of course I decided to research all the Blythe children's names bc apparently I don't know what to do with myself until school starts again!! give them a follow bc I am HERE for the Shirley appreciation

Joyce Blythe (deceased) is the only Blythe child not named for someone else. Anne wanted to call her Joy bc she was overjoyed at having a baby.

ok so Jem is actually James Matthew Blythe but they call him Jem (after Captain Jim and Matthew, in House of Dreams Anne says they were the two best men she knew outside of Gil)

Walter is apparently the next oldest, which I never put together - he is older than the twins. He is Walter Cuthbert Blythe in honor of Matthew and Marilla, and the Walter is in honor of Anne's father, Walter Shirley, who died shortly after her birth.

The twins are Anne and Diana (Nan and Di for short) after Anne and Diana of course. We don't learn their middle names.

Shirley is named after Anne's parents (Walter and Bertha Shirley) but we don't learn his middle name. Maybe something for Gil's side of the family?

Rilla is Betha Marilla Blythe, after Anne's birth mother (Bertha Shirley) and adoptive mother (Marilla Cuthbert)

#the blythe children #shirley blythe #walter blythe #anne blythe #diana blythe #jem blythe #anne of green gables #anne shirley #anne's house of dreams #anne of the island #rilla of ingleside #anne of ingleside #gilbert blythe #avonlea #anne with an e #lucy maud montgomery