#project green gables

[panneshirley]

giftober 2023 | day 7: water

call me katie / project green gables / twelfth grade (or whatever) / project dashwood / the autobiography of jane eyre / lovely little losers

[lauraeklundnhaga]

Demi & Ace Episode 1

Guys Guys Guys!

It’s here! Demi & Ace premiere’s tomorrow  (26th of June) I can’t wait T_T

I set out to create a show that was by aroace people for aroace people and I really hope it resonates, makes you laugh and feel seen in a way mainstream media rarely allows us to.

Please watch and share and tell your friends. This kind of thing has definitely never been done before, and my wish is for it to reach any and every aroace person who feels invisible this Pride month.

[blithe-and-bonnyy]

the way i miss the fanmix and gif edits era of the liw fandom

[wbywebseriesreviews]

today I’m thinking about Gay Mean Girls, Project Green Gables, Rational Creatures, and Horizons - 

all webseries with very different stories and character arcs and themes; all crafted with love and immense talent. 

I so glad we live in a world with passionate and creative people who enjoy bringing stories to life. 

[myclutteredbookshelf]

Please reblog for a larger sample size.

[fairmerthefarmer]

So far Blackmoor Manor is still the top Nancy game for both my sister and I. Other games have better characters I think and even better plots maybe, (or better culprit reveals) but the vibes and music are STRONG. (Both TRT and CUR made us feel nostalgic for the game even though we never played it before. But like, it felt like to both of us as if we had memories of playing it before it was magic)

I think being fans of the Secret Garden and stuff like that as a kid is why we like that vibe so much.

I’ve always wanted to explore a giant old mysterious house. Books like that and even the beginning part of the lion the witch and the wardrobe make it seem so fun.

Also loulou. Love loulou so much.

[redeemed-wren]

Every single character I have ever obsessed over falls into one of four categories:

Kid with no one in his corner who's used to looking after himself realises that (often despite his best efforts) people actually care about him and he has a support system.

Older brother type vibes who is the comic relief and painted as dumb or clueless but actually has deep insecurities and is so so smart in other ways and has a fiercely protective streak.

Young (though not always) woman who has been through a rough time and has Trauma but is still strong and refuses to let her past define her and makes an effort to be kind. (this character tends to become part of my soul)

Loser man become dad.

Also bonus points to trope voted Most Relatable but is never my favourite character:

5. Kid who has had a reasonably trauma-less life compared to friends and feels a bit like a sidekick and maybe doesn't consider their problems worthy when their friends have been through so much more

[bluecastlecomic]

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[flutishly]

GGF rewatch, part 1

Confession: I actually started the next rewatch in my Great Webseries Rewatch series a few weeks ago. And then I paused, not because I wasn't enjoying it but because I was traveling. And now that I'm back home, I intend to continue and so it seemed like the right time to start writing up my impressions from the first batch of episodes that I saw.

Let's start with the fact that I even chose to rewatch Green Gables Fables next, after LBD. When I was imagining which show would be second, I kept asking myself whether I'd go with my personal successor to LBD, the show that got me into Tumblr in the first place, or whether I should just continue with the Pemberley Digital set of shows. And then... I ended up going for something else entirely. I picked GGF almost intuitively, thoughtless, just because.

It was a pretty great choice, honestly.

GGF is one of those shows that I watched consistently as it was airing. I reblogged posts about it and I followed all the creators and I got excited over it and I loved it and felt so much from it. But I didn't write all that much about it. It's not that I didn't write about it at all, of course I did. (I wrote and rambled quite a lot in those days, after all...) But it was never the dominant show in my orbit and in a way I felt like I always sort of forgot about it. Every time I watched it, I'd be like "oh right, this is great!" and then it would again just sort of... fade into the background. Part of this has to do with the fact that it originally aired alongside shows that would become among my all-time favorites. Part even has to do with the fact that its second season aired alongside another excellent Anne of Green Gables adaptation (Project Green Gables), which I found somewhat easier to write about.

Anyways. It's time to give GGF its due, because... yeah, this was and remains a good show. And yes, I do love it.

Right from the onset, Mandy Harmon is excellent in how she presents Anne. The filming style is youthful, quippy, a little messy, imperfect, and so utterly Anne. I thought this when the show was airing, that something about GGF's flaws consistently made it better as an adaptation. In a lot of regards, GGF was one of the best in having realism in webseries literary adaptations. Not only did the story easily lend itself to bite-sized episodes (Anne of Green Gables itself being very episodic), but there was a concious effort to make Anne's world fully populated. Anne is thoroughly present online as an aesthetics blogger (excellent adaptation choice), befriending Diana through Tumblr (a nice wink to much of the fanbase itself, and a bit to the way the show developed), and there is a rich and real transmedia experience that I think ended up blowing pretty much every other show out of the water. All these years later, I still marvel over how characters were introduced to the story seamlessly through their online personas, without it necessarily being "plot relevant" for Anne's videos. They simply existed and as such they also occasionally existed in Anne's immediate (filmed) orbit.

But since I'm not reviewing the transmedia (and never really tracked it much when it was live either), let's get back to the show itself: Dang, it's good.

The pacing is great. The acting is great (if a little uneven when Diana is onscreen, though this isn't so much because of bad acting as much as a reflection of the character's relative discomfort/unease onscreen). Most of the adaptational choices are great (I still don't much love the Diana-getting-drunk plotline, which was the last episode I watched, but it was a lot less painful this time around than the first, and better than I remembered). The sense that Anne lives in this fascinating little town is beautifully conveyed in-story and I love how open everything is. Anne doesn't hide her videos and she addresses her mistakes on camera (particularly as relates to being mean or snarky about individuals) and there's none of the awkward work-arounds to explain why some people know certain things. The story just... is.

I'm still at the very beginning, of course, but I find myself wanting to write about the show in a lot more depth than I ever did while it was running. I find myself wanting to talk about how Anne's dramatic filming style feels less like old vlogs and less like new TikToks/Reels and more like the transition from the old world to the new, in how they're so fluid yet dramatic. I find myself thinking about how Anne's loneliness comes across so beautifully in the first few episodes and how she takes a little while to settle into her Avonlea life. I find myself loving how Anne's anger with Gilbert is so freshly realistic, that it's easy to forget that the story is over 100 years old.

I don't know how much I'll actually end up writing as I go through. I meant to pause and write up my thoughts as I was watching the first batch of videos, but I just got wrapped up in it and couldn't stop; the episodes flow seamlessly and warmly and the show feels like I really am just catching up with some teen vlogger from a decade ago. But again: I'd like to make the effort. I hope to pick up my rewatch next week, so let's see how that goes...

[redheadgleek]

I am so close to being done with these dolls. Maybe this week and I'll be done?

Still to do:

Sew pockets on the jacket for Gilbert

Make hair piece for Gilbert

Create eye sockets and embroider the eyes (trying to decide if I want to make the eyes different colors +/- black pupils or just dark brown and call it good.

Make noses

Sew eyebrows

Sew mouths

Sew ears on Gilbert? (I've made them but they seem a bit large)

Sew on Anne's hairpiece

Add buttons: dresses, aprons, vest, and jacket

Curl Diana's hair

Ribbons for hair

Ribbons for dresses

Add lace to the bottom of the dresses as petticoats

Ruffles on Diana's apron/apron sleeves? Or maybe sew on lace?

Iron it all and tack down the collars

Make a tie for Gilbert?

[lightgaswaterelectricityrent]

I don't want to be dramatic but I literally want to kill the person who wrote this

[vittusirkus]

Reminder that the pilot is out guys! You can find The link @demiandaceshow page, and you should really follow us on tiktok @demiandacesow because our social media person is really going for the memes!

I feel bad that most of the photodumps are on insta, so I'm leaking some out of context pics from Demi and Ace to our Tumblr peeps!

That being said, follow us on @demiandaceshow to keep up to date :)

[greengableknits]

Thought this would be a nice project especially if I made Colorblock Mittens (seen below) I think Gilbert Blythe would approve.

Green will make up the top portion while Red and either the tan brown or an eggshell white will make up the cuff

[greengableknits]

Update, I have decided to make the Bow Wrist Warmers with these colors and use the Colorblock mittens for some other color scheme

‘True friends are always together in Spirit’ —Anne of Green Gables — L.M. Montgomery.

Here’s the color scheme I have for a new project (just have to pick the yarn up at Joann’s soon) but I can’t decide on what I should make. I’m thinking either a nice set of Bow Wrist Warmers or Colorblock Mittens (Patterns below) I’ll be adding the orange yarn (Called Carrot 🥕) into the pattern because it goes well with the other colors and works with the story (Anne’s hair was very orange to the point where Gilbert Blythe called her carrot, little knowing she was self conscious of that fact.)

The green yarn is called Tea Leaf, the Brown is Cafe, the Orange is called Carrot, the Yellow is Cornmeal, and the White Yarn is Aran Fleck.