I've been thinking about Jane Andrews lately (I'm just loving all the L.M. Montgomery discussions and posts, you guys have no idea how happy it makes me to finally be able to talk about LMM, even though I probably don't interact as much as most of you, I very much appreciate it). Jane's not a character I ever have thought much about, but the post I made recently about wanting to marry rich brought her back to mind.
Jane is mostly described as plain, not so much in looks (though that too), but in personality. Yet towards the end of AOGG, on their way back from the hotel concert, she expresses a wish to be rich and have diamonds. (To which Anne has a great answer, but that's not what I'm talking about here.) So, Jane works as a teacher for 3 years, first in Newbridge, then in Avonlea, and then, when Anne comes home from college for her fist summer holiday, Jane has resigned her job to move to another teaching position in West in September. Rachel Lynde comments that this is bc she can't find a husband in Avonlea.
Anne defends her friend, saying that Jane is a nice girl and not attention seeking, but Rachel retorts:
“Oh, she never chased the boys, if that’s what you mean,” said Mrs. Rachel. “But she’d like to be married, just as much as anybody, that’s what. What else would take her out West to some forsaken place whose only recommendation is that men are plenty and women scarce? Don’t you tell me!”
I think Rachel is being unjust here. Bc like... so what if Jane wants to go West to find a husband? You can't have it both ways. You can't mock a woman for being an "old maid" and at the same time criticise her for taking steps to find a guy to marry. Jane is moving West to work as a teacher, not sit around to be courted by men. And she's not sitting at home, crying and feeling sorry for herself like some Bridget Jones character waah I can't get a maaaan waaaaaah, but she's actively getting off her ass to seek an opportunity.
Also, she's moving half a fucking country away! There were plenty of places nearer her home where she could have gone. Anywhere else on the Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, or even Ontario. But she's going to a place where it will take her days to travel (even nowadays, according to my google search, PEI to Winnipeg is an 8.5 hour flight). I think leaving her home and family and everything she knew to travel such a faraway place where she didn't know anyone, as a young woman, was an incredibly brave thing to do. She knew about a place that had more men than women, so she went there to get herself a man.
Next we hear about Jane, three years later, is when she's getting married to a millionaire. So she got exactly what she wanted. You can say, like Valancy, she chased her dream. (Her mother is being insufferable about it, but that's hardly Jane's fault, I suspect one of Jane's reasons was to get away from her mother! Mrs Harmon is one nasty woman.) We know from AHOD that her marriage is happy and I have nothing to say other than Good For Her.
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Since it's Valentine's Day, imagine your Professor Layton OTPs taking part in the Riverside Festival Show of Devotion.
How do they take part? Do they take it seriously and declare their love for one another across the river? Do they get all embarrassed and flustered? Do they do it as a joke, thinking it's cringe? Maybe they skip out on it all together and get a pizza.
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this will probably makes me a horrible person cuz i love louis with me entire soul, i really do. But atp i hope everything gets exposed and blows out one way or another. There are a hundred things he could be doing to mantain his closeting, flying a kid to the UK for more than a week and allowing his sisters to post him all over social media its not one of them
Same, anything to free that kid (and Louis at this point, bc it’s clear they’re not planning on doing it themselves)
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My boss was so happy that his wife got him an iPhone he texted his iPhone-having employees Merry Christmas, waited for us to text back, realize it was blue now, and text again to comment on it, just so he could sling his lil "thank you, my wife got it for me so I can be cool" line, drop a lil moji, and bounce
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