Pretty doesn’t seem the right word to use, nor beautiful, either. They don’t go far enough. It’s…wonderful. Wonderful.

“It doesn’t make sense that girls aren’t allowed to do farmwork when girls can do anything a boy can do and more!” Anne with an E (2017)

I am determined that I shall be obedient, and dutiful and yet lively enough so as to lighten up the place after you’ve lived for so many years without the delights of a happy child and the scope of her imagination.

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• the feeling of nostalgia that immediately grips you when you watch it
• MATTHEW CUTHBERT
• the sheer pureness of all the children
• “It doesn’t make sense that girls aren’t allowed to do framework when girls can do anything a boy can do and more!”
• THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS THAT ABUSE VICTIMS EXPERIENCE FROM SUCH A HUGE AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL AND MENTAL ABUSE
• the immediate urge that you get to reread aLL THE BOOKS
• the little innuendos and jokes that are slipped in every once in a while that you can only get if you’re about 14+ years
• anne is so intelligent and strong at an early age and the show does sUCH A GOOD JOB OF PORTRAYING THAT
• “first, you can get married any time in your life if you choose to do so.”
• “two, if you choose a career, buy a white dress yourself, have it made to order, and wear it whenever you want.”
• “i’m going to be my own woman.”
• the rare pure and sweet moments between anne and marilla
• gilbert
• UM? THE BEAUTIFUL SHOTS????!!?
• the moments where tears will slip out of your eyes because anne has been through sO MUCH
• anne and diana :’)
• the moments where tears will slip our of your eyes because kids can be such bitches *cough cough JOSIE PYE cough*
• “i believe the worst is over” “i believe i need a brandy”
• the development of family bond between anne, maxilla, and matthew
• MATTHEW CUTHBERT
• the books take place in a time where feminism was only just starting to grasp the world’s attention and you get to see people grappling with that idea of women being educated and independent
• “CARROT HAIR”
• MATTHEW CUTHBERT
• anne defiantly standing up for herself when people push her around instead of moping and making you want to throw your computer across the room
• “anne? you’re crying on your potatoes.”
• knowing exactly what’s coming next but still sitting in awe because IT’S! SO!! BEAUTIFUL!!!
• JERRY