Thread by @lainasparetime

Okay, are y'all read for a #LainaReadsAnne thread? We're going to be finishing Project Green Gables season one today!!

#LainaReadsAnne Episode 41 starts with Anne saying thanks to people (basically us, the audience) for being cool after the last video where she "came out", though she's not a huge fan of the term in general.

#LainaReadsAnne She says, "I wouldn't even have to come out of a closet, if it wasn't built around me by people who assume me to be straight in the first place."

(Ergo quotes on the term when I normally wouldn't use them.)

#LainaReadsAnne Anne's a bit bummed about the whole Diana crush thing, but she appreciates Diana's friendship more and is generally fine.

Except. Turns out Mrs. Barry has been watching Anne's vlogs and has banned Diana from seeing Anne "for her own good".

#LainaReadsAnne So Mrs. Barry can fuck right off with that bullshit.

Marilla is fully supportive, also, and tried to tell Mrs Barry off over it. 10/10 for Marilla

#LainaReadsAnne Episodes 42, 43, and 44 are a series of video "letters" from Anne to Avonlea while she's at Queen's. Basically travel vlogs.

They're sweet, especially the parts talking about Matthew and Marilla saying goodbye before she left.

#LainaReadsAnne It's a fun way to adapt the Queen's chapters.

Also, Anne's outfit here is really cute.

#LainaReadsAnne There's a mildly awkward conversation where Jane is like "so are you bi or what?" and Anne is like, "Can we not?"

We also meet Anne's new friends Stella and Priscilla. Priscilla likes Charlie Sloane, I guess.

It's also kind of awkward lol XD

#LainaReadsAnne Also Aunt Jo is still fully Team Anne and called Mrs Barry a fool for being queermisic.

We love her.

#LainaReadsAnne We're going very by the book, including Anne being calm after the exam, but remember, we're skimming for length here

Cut to Anne NOT being calm as Gilbert Blythe has won a bunch of prizes. But, of course, Anne has won the Avery scholarship!!

#LainaReadsAnne Episode 45 is an immediate mood drop. Matthew passed away a few weeks ago, and Anne hasn't vlogged since.

Obviously she's devastated. It's a really beautiful episode, really well-acted.

#LainaReadsAnne Marilla and Anne have grown even closer. Marilla has been telling Anne stories about when she and Matthew were little. Big props to them for this one, it's really good.

#LainaReadsAnne Marilla is having money issues because of the bank (you know the drill) and might lose the house.

#LainaReadsAnne Apparently local schools on the Island are implementing a tutoring program where high school students help kids who are struggling. Anne's applied to several, but things are still uncertain.

#LainaReadsAnne Episode 46 is a "Dull Life Update". Things are moving along how life tends to do. Not normal, but "a new kind of normal".

Which is a phrase no one in 2016 knew would be so loaded in 2021.

#LainaReadsAnne Recently on the way home from a church youth group thing, Anne ran into Minnie May Barry, who is 14, completely drunk. And not accidentally on not-raspberry cordial, if you know what I mean.

#LainaReadsAnne She was really out of it and not sure where she was or how she got there, so Anne took her home on the bus.

#LainaReadsAnne The public transport in PEI must be really good because small town Saskatchewan does not have buses.

Or this was written by Europeans who have functional public transport and didn't realize how rare that is in North America XD Who can say, really.

#LainaReadsAnne Anne got a tutoring job in White Sands which isn't great with the bus trip, since she's still in school herself. She's going to be in grade 12 now, I think. They say junior and senior, which we don't really do in Canada.

#LainaReadsAnne Gilbert, of course, got the Avonlea High job

And episode 47 is our season one finale!!

#LainaReadsAnne And Diana's back! Mrs. Barry sent a basket of muffins and let Diana see Anne again in gratitude of taking care of Minnie May that night.

Diana's still kind of mad at her mother, which, fair. Me too.

#LainaReadsAnne She tells Anne that Gilbert gave up the Avonlea position so Anne could have it.

And it ends there!!

That's the end of the season!! Nice little cliffhanger.

#LainaReadsAnne This season is a really good adaptation of the first book, and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Next time, season 2!!

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