[ SECRET POST #3800 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3800 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Killing Stalking]


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03.
[The 100, Echo and Bellamy]


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[Anne (the new remake of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables)]


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05.
[Pokémon ORAS]


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[Homestuck]


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Comments

[fscom]

04. http://i.imgur.com/2VcmsoH.jpg
[Anne (the new remake of L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables)]

[(Anonymous)]

This is a really dumb, petty thing to nitpick.

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, nitpicking is petty per definition.

[(Anonymous)]

Not all companions hated their job. I think you're looking for thngs to be bent out of shape about.

[(Anonymous)]

It's still not quite the same as a best friend, is it?

[(Anonymous)]

For children in this position the line could get quite blurred. For someone like Anne, from what I remember, it could disappear entirely

[(Anonymous)]

And some people might've enjoyed being a maid and waiting hand and foot on their mistress. But let's be real, situations like that aren't the norm and a friendship like that has a major power imbalance.

[(Anonymous)]

Life is full of power imbalances. It doesn't mean that interactions can't be pleasant or meaningful despite them.

[(Anonymous)]

Breath slowly, powerplay anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Did anyone say it was impossible? I don't think they did? But it makes more sense to acknowledge that such a relationship isn't a given and question how likely it was that someone whose entire livelihood depends upon the goodwill of their richer, more powerful employer could have a genuine friendship with that employer under those circumstances.

[(Anonymous)]

You're right. It's much, much better to assume the worst about all employer / employee relationships despite whatever the story is attempt to portray.

[(Anonymous)]

wasnt the person being talked about basically her life partner/spouse/whatever. i think that's the closest word a kid would reach for.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, no. A ladies' companion isn't the same thing as being someone's life partner or spouse. Like the secret said, it's a paid position, like being someone's maid or valet. I haven't watched this show so I don't know if the person in question was also a close friend as the context is implying (I think?) but they're not necessarily the same thing.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but in this show that's their cover for a lesbian relationship. Secret is out of context.

[killaurey]

I mean, it's not the technical definition to ladies' companion, but it really does seem like something Anne would make out of the concept and feels perfectly IC to me that she'd describe it that way.

[(Anonymous)]

except in this version it's heavily implied (basically said outright by the aunt in question) that the woman was actually her life partner and they just passed themselves off as two unmarried friends. it makes sense that diana would say it even if it doesn't quite fit the situation, especially to anne, who doesn't know shit about wealthy life. and also the word "companion" carries an instant meaning to modern viewers that makes sense to us—a friend (or "friend") who lives/spends most of their time with someone.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

+1 ^

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was implying they were a couple, "boston marriage" style

[(Anonymous)]

Bosom friends, "Boston friends", details, schmetails.

[(Anonymous)]

It definitely was, and what Anne and Diana say about it makes perfect sense from their POV. It would even if them being a couple wasn't implied, TBH.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

With the context that Aunt Josephine's companion was alluded to in another scene, it was implied that it was Josephine's life partner, which would actually fit rather well with Josephine's rather progressive views-- especially when she asked Anne if she could be fufilled without marriage. So I am going to have to side with all the other anons who caught the allusion as well.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd like to point out how later in the series Marilla and Mrs Lynde move in together, as friends. With Marilla's eyesight failing and Mrs Rachel having become a widowed empty-nester, it made perfect sense for the two to live together (and jointly raise Davey and Dora while Anne pursued her career). Also they were best friends, so...

Yeah, if the original books don't bat an eye at the idea of two ladies living together because they're friends and it works, I don't see why we have to think of Aunt Josephine's "friend" as having been a paid subordinate to her. "Companion" wasn't exclusively a job title even back then.

[arcadiaego]

It's later confirmed that the 'companion' was Josephine's romantic partner. I think she show was just using the word as a euphemism, not in its correct historical sense.

[sugar]

Not only is it later revealed in this episode that the woman in question was Aunt Josephine's longtime same-sex life partner, but the word companion can simply mean a person with whom one spends a lot of time. Even when employing lady's companions may have been common, that wouldn't have been the only way that word was used.