Writing About Writing About Writing

[mark_asphodel]

 I was going to talk about kids in fanfic, but this is something else I'd had on the back burner.

Anne Shirley, the beloved and iconic red-haired Canadian girl from the Anne of Green Gables books, is a writer.  She never becomes a career journalist or novelist or anything like that, but that's besides the point.  She's a writer.

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[hooves]

I...love you forever

[mark_asphodel]

First, the quote (Gil, right?) from your LJ Cut.

No, in the books it was cranky old Mr. Harrison... one of my favorite characters, really. Montgomery has such convincing adults.

This was a really thoughtful piece you put together here

Thanks. It'd been percolating in the brain for sometime, and it surprised me a little that nobody in this circle had done it yet. But I guess fewer people read the Anne books than I'd imagined.

She did some terrible things, but she wasn't a bad person.

I don't see the Mary Sueness of a character who's so often wrong-- sometimes humorously, sometimes bitterly-- and who actually learns from it. Sues don't learn! Emily, OTOH, creeped me out. I think the pointed ears had something to do with it. Pointed ears!

and brings them to Gilbert when he's dying of TB

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Gilbert died?

GILBERT DIES?!?

NOOOOOOOOOO. He never died in the books! Evil cruel movie adaptation!

But trying is all that matters.Trying and paying attention to at least some of the people who are trying to help you! Which is

[hooves]

Cranky old people are THE BEST.

And no, Gilbert doesn't die! But they think he's going to. iirc, Montgomery wrote about TB quite a bit, as it was being learned about more and more as she was writing books.

But yeah, if Gilbert died I wouldn't like the series at all. LMAO. He's too awesome to die. D:

[mark_asphodel]

And no, Gilbert doesn't die! But they think he's going to

Oh, maybe that was based on the scene from the books where he nearly kicks it from typhoid fever, then. That's OK.

Montgomery wrote about TB quite a bit, as it was being learned about more and more as she was writing books.

Yeah, there's a really good examination of it that you can get through Google books. Fascinating.

He's too awesome to die. D:

Indeed.

You know, I think the Anne books left me with a lasting distaste for the name "Roy." ;P

Not that Roy Gardner was a bad guy. He just wasn't Gilbert!

[hooves]

Typhoid fever! That must be it. I can't remember if they even SAY what he has in the movies-- it's just dramatic is all I remember.

Haha NOBODY could match up to Gil. :D

But the Anne books really made me like his name.