Only Molly Gibson

I find Dr. Redfern very entertaining because he’s so different from all the other characters in the book.

He was rather dreadful and loud—and—and—dreadful. But there was something about him she liked.

He’s rich and has no taste and is utterly discordant with Valacy and Barney’s life in the woods, and has nothing in common with them personality-wise – but Valancy likes him because there’s no fakery in him interpersonally (despite his whole business being built on fakery). His emotions may not be deep but they’re real: he cares about his son, he likes Valancy, his behaviour is relaxed, and all this contrasts with Valancy’s rigid, repressed, artificial family. The sole point of connection is that he’s not a part of the conventional respectability that is the villain of the book.

Even with all of Valancy’s understandable hang-ups about self-worth, I find it unbelievable that learning that Barney spent $15,000 on her necklace doesn’t even budge her assumption that he doesn’t love her and is angry to learn she’s not terminally ill. That’s got to be hundreds of thousands, at least, or even over a million, in our day’s money (i.e. inflation-adjusted). Plus revealing his location after concealing it for six years! That’s not the kind of thing a man does for a woman he just feels sorry for and is happy to hang out with for a year.

A question for consideration: what would Dr. Redfern be if converted into the present day? It would need to be something where he’s very rich; not just his name but his image is familar to most people; and it’s not deeply wrong but is embarrassing. (I think fake patent medicines were very much unethical, but the book doesn’t care about them in that way.)

I another saying all supplements are quackery but I could definately see

A man with a fake medical degree leaning on his phony credibility to sell medicines, supplements and hair care products

Him making a fortune off things that are a household name and beloved by the older generation

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply

Category: F/M

Fandom: Blue Castle - L. M. Montgomery

Relationships: Barney Snaith/Olive Stirling; Barney Snaith/Valancy Stirling

Characters: Barney Snaith; Valancy Stirling; Olive Stirling; Dr. Redfern (Blue Castle)

Additional Tags: please do not think too hard about timelines; Lucy Maud didn't bother so I shan't either

Chapters: 3/4

Summary: Really, Valancy owed it all to Will Desmond. Had he lived, Olive would have married him at 19, clad in satin and lace, in a church festooned with white roses. Valancy would have watched from the pews, wearing her drab brown silk, seated between her mother and Cousin Stickles, secretly seething at the whole affair. There would have been no cause for Olive to go to Montreal or for Augusta Green to share her unfiltered opinions at an inopportune moment, and Valancy would have been stuck at home, clad in brown silk, between her mother and Cousin Stickles for the rest of her life. Olive Stirling meets Bernard Redfern. The rest, as they say, is history.

i think i found my new favorite artist on twitter

If you are a socially anxious person, you have to socialize. Your panic/anxiety attacks will only get worse and trigger more frequently if you constantly avoid contact with The Public. Not saying that you need to be a social butterfly- but there is a genuine problem with not being able to order your own meal at a restaurant. And it cannot be solved by always having someone else do it for you.

"I mean, what's with those helmets that batters wear? It's so unfashionable. Those have got to go. And those pants are so restrictive. I'm going to show that the protagonist is a rebel and an independent thinker by having them wear cut-off jeans and run to third base instead of going to first. They'll also have waist-length free-flowing hair that they never tie up when the run."

"What? No, of course I didn't read up anything about sports history or the rules of baseball."

I can't find the artist for the life of me to give credit, which I'm sorry for. Maybe someone recognizes them? But this just caught my eye. Let's not be that little fella, let's have charity, understanding, patience, and endure all things.