The Anne with an E Library

She said she’s never been to the coast, and he volunteered to take her, because he’s an idiot with no filter and because he selfishly, despicably, wants (needs) all of her firsts to be with him.

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or Gilbert Blythe decides to take Anne Shirley on a road trip, and hates himself for it.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, Roy Gardner, Mary Lacroix, Sebastian Lacroix

Post Season 3 one-shot. Takes place four months after the 3.10 finale.

Relationships: Gilbert Bylthe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert 

She took you to a party when you were young.

This, like many things you say, is a lie. This, unlike many lies you tell, is a lie that makes you happy. There was a party, yes, and it was a glorious party, and you danced and she read and you saw the world, which had seemed so small before, unfold like a blanket before you. It was a party so perfect it made you sick.

But she did not take you. She took herself and you took yourself, plain as plain.

Relationships: Diana Barry/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Diana Barry, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

A series of Gilbert’s thoughts regarding Anne.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

“Do we have a deal then?”

She seemed to think on it a moment, face unreadable.

“Okay,” she said finally, “Okay.” Then quietly, under her breath, “God help me.”

He flashed her a sideways grin, dimples peaking out to say hello, “Alright, Carrots. This time tomorrow, we’ll be an official couple.”

Her face soured, blue eyes darkening. Him and that damned nickname...

“I hate you.”

The laugh that escaped him was breathy, but genuine “I know you do.”

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the enemies to lovers fake dating shirbert au nobody asked for

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, Gilbert Blythe, Diana Barry, Royal Gardner, Winifred Rose, Cole MacKenzie, Sebastian Lacroix, Marilla Cuthbert, Matthew Cuthbert

He says it completely out of the blue. They’re walking somewhere, God knows where. He likes walking around town with her, visiting cafés, parks, ice-cream shops, the movies, the book-store and a weird antique-store he thought she’d like, one time.

"I love you."

Diana almost spills the rest of the mulled-wine in her mug on her new winter boots.

"Oh. Ok."

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Jerry confesses his love for Diana, who promptly panics and jumps out of his car. Or not quite…

Relationships: Diana Barry/Jerry Baynard

Characters: Diana Barry, Jerry Baynard, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

OH MY GOD CONTEMPORARY! THATS THE WORD! NOT CONTEMPORAIN! I'VE ONLY LIVED IN QUEBEC FOR 4 YEARS AND IM ALREADY LOSING MY ENGLISH PLEASE FORGIVE ME! 

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hello! sorry that we didn’t get to this before now! there are a couple that i can recommend! 

remylebae’s Imagining Something Worthwhile (our very own mod beef) is a wonderful story! it’s one of the longest in the fandom and i love it a lot! any list of modern au for anne would be incomplete without ISW! Anne is a teacher trying to make it, and she falls in love (spoiler alert) with medical student Gilbert. It’s a sweet and funny read written by a great person :) I’ll give it its own post in the next couple days. 

another fic is one we’ve already posted about, and it’s not strictly modern au-- half of the story is, and the other half isn’t. @royalcordelia‘s Time Turns to Amber is one of my favorite stories in the fandom! Anne (from the 1900s) switches places with Ann (from 2019). Highly recommended. Here is our post about it, if you’re looking for tags and trigger warnings and such. 

lollercakes on ao3 is particularly skilled at write modern au shirbert fics! 

there’s a couple more in our modern au tag as well!

It’s not quite a text fic but I’m a fan of this social media AU!

I love this concept!!! It frames her relationship with Billy in an interesting way in my opinion!

Anne joins Gilbert in his orchard to help with harvest, but soon realizes that it is hard to be around him given her realization of her love for him and his imminent engagement to someone else. Things quickly reach a T as she tries to leave, and some honest confessions ensue. Gilbert gives Anne his mother's ring to wear as a charm on her bracelet until she is ready to take the next step.

Basically the product of my complete marriage to the idea of a love confession in the orchard. Omg just read this and imagine it with me, ugh *chef's kiss*

Written post 3x08.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

In which Gilbert discovers he missed a very vital piece of information sitting on his kitchen table.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne-Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

He’d overheard her talking once with Diana Barry. He hadn’t meant to eavesdrop but it couldn’t be helped given their proximity. He’d heard it, the bride of adventure, the wife of nature.

And how fitting is it that she who has chosen nature as her most fitting suitor is more beautiful than any earthly thing he’s ever known? The freckles on her face are fit to rival all the stars in the sky. Her eyes are oceans overflowing, they are rippling streams and shining waters. She could torch him with her hair and he would happily turn to ashes, to be the Earth, to be loved by her just once.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, Winifred Rose, Diana Barry, Sebastian “Bash” Lacroix

Gilbert goes to help Anne after a sledding accident and, as always, learns something from the fire-haired girl.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Diana Barry, Sebastian "Bash" Lacroix (Anne with an E), Ruby Gillis, Marilla Cuthbert, Matthew Cuthbert, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Anne and Gilbert attend their first academic conference together, where Anne blazes trails and Gilbert is thrilled to walk beside her.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

For weeks, Gilbert has resigned himself to the impending inevitability of a future with Winnie in the distant city of Paris. However, he begins to realise that such a future might not be an inevitability after all - or at least doesn't have to be.

Relationships: Gilbert Blythe/Anne Shirley-Cuthbert

Characters: Gilbert Blythe, Anne Shirley-Cuthbert, Winifred Rose

The two mods that run this blog both live in America, so we totally understand not wanting to wait!

The way Mod Beef and I have been watching (as well as the rest of the non-Canadian fandom, if I understand) is by downloading a VPN and streaming it through the CBC Gem website. We use Windscribe, which is free and acts as a Chrome extension.

From there, set your location to somewhere in Canada. Montreal works best for me but another friend of mine uses Toronto. You’ll have to create a CBC account to access the show, but it’s not hard. They’ll ask you for your name, email address, and zip code I think. For the zip code, google one that’s in the city you specified. You should then be able to stream season 3!!

The best thing is about this method is that it gives Anne with an E views that help get us a season 4! I hope this works well for you, and thanks for your support of the blog!!!