Thread by @lainasparetime

Okay, we're all updated so how about we look at episodes 31-40 today in #LainaReadsAnne?

#LainaReadsAnne 31 opens with Diana forcing Anne to tell us "what happened".

Also, Anne is wearing a cute little beanie and again I appreciate the continuity. It's very impressive for a webseries made back then.

#LainaReadsAnne Diana asks what Anne and Gilbert talked about when he drove her home from the bus stop

Anne: "Nothing, actually. It was quite an awkward drive. We sat there for ten minutes in silence and then he started to..."

#LainaReadsAnne Diana presses on this. Gilbert tried to apologize again, apparently, and turns out he has been studying about modern day racism and white privilege.

#LainaReadsAnne Diana calls it romantc but I don't think that's his motive. I think he genuinely felt bad and wanted to do better.

I also appreciate that he did all this on his own and didn't ask Anne to educate him. It wasn't just motivated by her, you know?

#LainaReadsAnne Anne isn't impressed, which is fine. She doesn't have to forgive him just because he read a couple books about racism. And she adds, "I don't even like boys! Like him."

Really now? :P

Diana's just done with her XD

#LainaReadsAnne Thirty-two is the first poetry club meeting and I really like Diana's shirt.

And her moon necklace, actually.

#LainaReadsAnne Jane apparently has a cold and couldn't make it.

Ngl I put this episode on 1.5 speed because it was long and I don't really like poetry that much. It was kind of boring XD

#LainaReadsAnne Thirty-three is the visit to Aunt Josephine!

Look at this fancy ass couch.

#LainaReadsAnne There's a fair, they go shopping and to Starbucks, and tbh that sounds like so much fun please take me with you!!!

#LainaReadsAnne Thirty-four is a "life update". Anne, Ruby, and Jane are studying for the Queen's entrance exam, which is now a three-week college prep course in Carmody. I'm fine with that. It's a good update to make sense in a modern setting.

#LainaReadsAnne There's some little rewards for who has the best final grades that give some money for college, and still the Avery scholarship which pays for your first year of university anywhere in Canada. Cool cool.

That's all that's important from the update.

#LainaReadsAnne Episode 35 is another poetry club meeting. Jane is here this time, but not Ruby. I again put this episode on 1.5 speed. Next!

#LainaReadsAnne Episode 36 is another ode to nature video with growing up being a theme. It's spring also. Character building, but nothing plot-related, really.

#LainaReadsAnne Thirty-seven is called "exciting news" and Anne's in her Christmas dress.

She got into the Queen's prep course! They're ven having a little party to celebrate.

Anne tied for first, of course.

#LainaReadsAnne Thirty-eight is Anne doing a little recital all about how much she loves her friends. It's very sweet.

She also looks adorable. I try not to talk about the way people look too much because... children... but she looks very nice here.

#LainaReadsAnne SOMEBODY gives her a little standing ovation until Charlie Sloane yanks him back down

#LainaReadsAnne Episode 39 is another Poetry Club meeting. I appreciate them SHOWING it, but I honestly don't care about these much lol. Nothing happens I need to report here.

#LainaReadsAnne And, our last for today, episode 40 is like a tiny Q&A with Diana. It's only 3 minutes long so not a lot of questions actually happen.

Then someone asks when Anne is going to "confess your undying love for Diana" and Anne makes this face.

#LainaReadsAnne Diana makes a light joke about people always assuming close friends are dating which, true, but Anne seems... uncomfortable.

#LainaReadsAnne Diana: "The one Anne is destined to end up with is Gilbert Blythe."

Anne: "Actually..."

ACTUALLY???

Diana: "Wait, really?"

#LainaReadsAnne Anne rambles that she's not sure if she's confused if what she feels is platonic or not because she's never had a strong friendship before

Diana puts her hand on Anne's shoulder like this and, more gently, goes, "Really? You have a crush on me? I had no idea!"

#LainaReadsAnne Diana says she doesn't have romantic feelings for Anne, but she says how much she loves Anne and they hug and it's very sweet.

Honestly, that's cute and I like it.

#LainaReadsAnne Like an Anne/Diana canon romance would be fun, absolutely. But this is good too. Canon queer Anne, a very accepting Diana, their friendship not being affected at all.

It's really positive and nice.

#LainaReadsAnne And that's it for me for today!! We'll finish the first season on Thursday.

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