Realism and Romance
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Deep and Inscrutible Singular Name by Alinya
Fandoms: Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
15 Jan 2024
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- Part 4 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
- Part 1 of Realism and Romance
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By 1923, Jims Anderson and family have had several years to settle into Toronto life. But when one starts out as a war-baby in a soup tureen, there are some things one inevitably catastrophizes. Like new babies. Even if the catastrophizing isn't strictly necessary. But tell that to Jims.
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- Part 2 of Realism and Romance
- Part 6 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Matrilineal Kinship Tables: A Study by Alinya
Fandoms: Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery
09 Feb 2024
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It's a grim, grey November day when Rilla has her second child. Unremarkable, even. Unless you are one Persis Ford, charged with the care and well-being of the other two Ford children. In which case, it's one exceptionally memorable Sunday in November.
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- Part 3 of Realism and Romance
- Part 10 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Dinner was inedible. This was not, Jims would afterwards explain to her, Madrun's fault. The formidable Maple St housekeeper had prepared a beautiful golden-brown chicken that verily melted in the mouth and trimmed it with all the right things.
That this particular dinner goes wrong hinges on a variety of factors, but food isn't one of them. Even the asparagus isn't to blame. When Jims and adoptive siblings set out in search of an edible meal and a comfortable home, it has everything to do with atmosphere and nothing whatever to do with what's on the plate.
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- Part 4 of Realism and Romance
- Part 12 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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It's one of those languid, summery days when the thought of travelling across the city is unthinkable. Unless you are so nearly thirteen that you call yourself that, as is one Jims Anderson on the afternoon he sets off to visit his aunts. Well, adoptive aunts, but who's keeping track? Jims never has, and the Blythes and Fords are about as bad on that score.
It's on this hot, languid, start-of-summer Toronto day that a revelation strikes Jims. An unlikely day for it, but appropriately, it arrives at the college library. Anne Shirley would approve.
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- Part 5 of Realism and Romance
- Part 18 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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Jims Anderson sets out to learn to cook. Like Rilla before him, he finds it harder than expected. But at least there's no one to accuse of tampering with failed cream puffs.
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- Part 6 of Realism and Romance
- Part 19 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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- English
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- 1/1
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On a warm summer evening, Rilla's children ask their aunts to tell them a story. But not just any story. It has to be a love story, and it has to be theirs. The catch? How on earth do you tell a story like that to precocious young children with Anne Shirley's loquaciousness?
With extreme difficulty, that's how.
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- Part 25 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
- Part 7 of Realism and Romance
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In 1935, Rilla and her family embark on a holiday at the Inn at Lake Devine, where the Adirondack chairs are red, the water is warm, and the islands aren't really islands so much as rocks. Susan is beside herself - a Yankee holiday spot! - but the American resort turns out to be the least of the Ford family revelations. Just ask Jims...
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- Part 8 of Realism and Romance
- Part 35 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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"Don't worry,' says Jims Anderson, flanked by the little Fords as he waves Rilla and Ken off on a European holiday.
"We'll be fine. Absolutely fine."
He means it too. There's one minor catch; It's June of 1937, and Toronto is rife with polio...
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- Part 9 of Realism and Romance
- Part 40 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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- English
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- 5,591
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- 1/1
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- 5
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Rilla and Ken set off on a summer holiday to Europe. They go at entirely the wrong time of year, if one trusts the word of Katherine Brooke, but Rilla's inclined to take this with a pinch of salt.
Oh, Venice hurts a little, because she can't show it to Walter, but it's otherwise a perfectly incandescent holiday. At least it is until word comes from Jims to say one of the children isn't well...
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- Part 10 of Realism and Romance
- Part 41 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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- English
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- 7,030
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- 1/1
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When Sissy Ford, cherished daughter of hte house of Ford, catches polio in summer of 1937, the whole family is harrowed. Gilbert thinks he should have stopped it because he's a doctor. Her parents think they could have stopped it by - well, but every parent thinks they should be able to save their child.
But Sissy survives. And it turns out that's an awful lot harder than succumbing to illness. So very much harder.
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- Part 11 of Realism and Romance
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Jims didn't mean to say anything. Certainly not anything earth-shattering. Defiitely not about what Jem Blythe in boyhood would have called "the mushy stuff."
But on this particular afternoon, he and Amanda Meredith were judging a sandcastle. It was a very long, very hot afternoon. They had to talk about something. In retrospect, Jims would not have picked "the mushy stuff." Also in retrospect, it's entirely possible that neither would Amanda Meredith. But here they both were, talking love and romance by the edge of the sea.
Oh? The sandcastles? Someone won, probably. Neither of the judges ever remembered who.
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- Part 12 of Realism and Romance
- Part 8 of The Wandering Merediths
- Part 42 of Warp, Weft, and Twine
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In September 0f 1938, Rilla Ford gives one of her famous dinner parties. Very nice. Very elegant. Highly catastrophic for several members of her family.
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- Part 13 of Realism and Romance
- Part 43 of Warp, Weft, and Twine