[ SECRET POST #2176 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2176 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

17. http://i.imgur.com/FPueW.png?1

[brightblueink]

They're definitely siblings, but I think I thought they were married at first, too. They're written in a way that old married couples tend to get written and it's a little unusual to hear about siblings living together for that long (particularly in this day and age, I think).

[(Anonymous)]

It's not set in "this day and age". In any case I disagree. I work in older people's social care and see it all the time,

[(Anonymous)]

It's amazing what you can miss as a kid. I didn't know Ella Enchanted was Cinderella until the pumpkins appeared in the end.

If you have the time and inclination, you should really reread the Anne series as an adult. It's still amazing. A couple of years ago I had a college class where the teacher couldn't show up half the time, and I would spend the free period in the library reading their copy of AoGG because I couldn't wait to get back home to my own. And I'd already read it dozens of times (my favorite, btw, is Anne of the Island)!

(The really sad part is I was the only one in there who was reading. Everyone else was on a computer checking facebook.)

[30_rock_office]

Wait, they were siblings?! I had no idea!

[(Anonymous)]

I always loved the fact that they were brother and sister living together like that. I thought it was so sweet.

[comma_chameleon]

You know... now I'm trying to remember if I thought they were married too, or if I realized they were siblings.

I have the six main books that I got as a child, and I used to read them over and over, and I really can't recall whether I even thought about their relationship at all...

[femme_androgyne]

I always thought it was really nice that they got along so well and cared so much for each other as brother and sister. It seems like most sibling relationships in fiction are kind of awful (either antagonistic or full of one-sided, infantilizing, over-protective bullshit), so I like them just the way they are.

[(Anonymous)]

This was actually fairly common for the time period if neither of the siblings was married (or one was widowed). It gave him someone to run his household and gave her someone to support her.

Of course now they'd just do it themselves.

[(Anonymous)]

WAIT, WHAT

I DID NOT KNOW THIS

HOLY SHIT.

ALL THIS TIME I THOUGHT THEY WERE MARRIED. EW.

MY CHILDHOOD. D: D: D:

[rocketgirl]

WHAT.
This thread is teaching me all the things.

[rosehiptea]

I first read the book as an adult and it still took me a long time to figure out they weren't married.

[maverickz3r0]

Nothing to add except drive-by love for a awesome book series.

Also--everyone I knew read those books when we were kids. Yes, even the boys. Maybe it was because we're Canadian and it's a national pride thing ad the library had like ten copies, but yeah. My sister loaned me her copies when I was five and I went through them in like, two weeks.

I...don't think any of us ever mistook Matthew and Marilla for married though? I forget. It's been a long time.

P.S. L.M. Montgomery has other great books beyond just the Anne series! Jane of Lantern Hill and The Blue Castle were the other ones I read and they were excellent too.

[ypsilon42]

They weren't married?

Wow, I never realized that either....

[(Anonymous)]

The book says they're siblings at the very beginning and it's mentioned throughout. But at times I'd forget that and start assuming they were married, so when I got to a sentence about the "Cuthbert siblings" or "Marilla and her brother Matthew" I would be like, oh yeah, oops.

I also did that for the movie Annie with the orphanage lady and her bro, except there I completely missed that they were siblings the first few times, so I guess I assumed they and the brother's actual girlfriend were a threesome before I knew what a threesome was.

[(Anonymous)]

I knew they were siblings, but for whatever reason I was under the impression that they were really young. As in late twenties/early thirties.

When I got around to watching the Megan Fellows (sp?) adaptation, I was like: "buh? Who the heck are these old people?"

[intrigueing]

1. YAY a Anne of Green Gables secret!!

2. Matthew's hilarious epic fail at being able to talk to pretty women made the fact that he and Marilla were single siblings pretty easy to remember in my mind. Also, Marilla had that whole tragic history with whatshisname.

[(Anonymous)]

I swear, between this and finding out that Rabbit was a boy, I feel like my entire childhood was a lie.

[gamma_orionis]

Hee! It's an easy mistake to make, I think - they're so close that (especially for a young kid) it could be kinda hard to tell the difference between sibling-y love and romantic love.

Also, I'd like to add to the general love/nostalgia for these books.

<3 LM Montgomery
<3 Canada
<3 Prince Edward Island

[(Anonymous)]

They were written as siblings from the beginning. Probably to emphasize how loveless and emotionally dried-up their lives were before Anne showed up. (Although they both turned out to be dears, of course ;-)

[lauramcewan]

They are siblings. In the book, first Rachel Lynde makes a note after visiting Marilla to find out why Matthew had driven off to town that: "...It seems uncanny to think of a child at Green Gables somehow; there's never been one there, for Matthew and Marilla were grown up when the new house was built..."

And then the stationmaster, to Matthew, upon having only Anne and no boy waiting: "Guess there's some mistake...Mrs. Spencer came off the train with that girl and gave her into my charge. Said you and your sister were adopting her from an orphan asylum and that you would be along for her presently..."

[(Anonymous)]

There's a tumblr exclusively for An of Green Gables hentai.
...
Yeah, I just needed to get that off my chest after running afoul of it yesterday.

[ladyrogue]

IIRC, didn't Marilla have a suitor when she was younger, but something happened and it didn't work out?? Or am I making that up?

[the_angry_pixie]

i think i thought they were married when i read the story when i was young too. but then i got it when i re-read it when i was older and remember feeling really sorry for Marilla because she had lost love with her suiter when she was younger.

[kamino_neko]

The takeaway from this and the Hilda/Zelda Sabrina secret the other day:

F!S peeps are terrible at telling siblings apart from couples...