#rilla

More tpp:sc unfinisheds from last year. Another rad bouquet baby, this one from when we thought Rilla and Arum were going to create a magic swamp science baby. And an older version of my other rad baby.

Round 1 — 87 / 278 — Rilla vs. Poko

ok ykw I'm going to ask for Readying Rilla for my birthday this year I want to Know(tm)

"there was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced" ... "a very sweet girl even if she were not so clever as Nan and Di" oh Rilla. I kind of really love her now because as amusing as it is you just have to give it to her for being 14 and the unambitious (+spoiled) baby of a family who just wants fun and knows she's pretty and she's not ever forced out of it

Gertrude's friendship with Rilla is certainly fascinating. Do I think her visions are melodramatic? yes. (literally what is that premonition of the war... but ofc the foreshadowing had to be there) is she just such a Maud character? also yes. She's so ... compelling (Maud and her supernatural encounters and broken childhoods !) Also I forgot that she was close to both Rilla and Walter. There's an intriguing dynamic between the three of them for sure.

kind of really want to read the Rosamund sonnets now. TBAQ's poems are lovely but nothign special enough to really stand out as Walter's creations you know especially with such high praise from Gertrude

of course it is funny that Rilla would want to be called Bertha I thought that was ridiculous when I was younger lmao

"Rilla was as fond of italics as most girls of fifteen are" I thought this wasn't entirely true until I realized my version of Rilla's italics was capitalizing random words for emphasis. same difference I fear. Unfortunately I can only think of the one girl from Anne of Windy Poplars who spoke in so many italics and then turned on Anne when she tried to solve her love story problem LMAOAO (Hazel that was her name)

there's like, no sisterly bond between the twins and Rilla at all in this book. Not the least bc Rilla is (definitely) jealous of Di for Walter but also bc they're off studying and she's so unambitious--but they exist in separate worlds. The same goes for Jem and Shirley--Rilla is just so alienated from the lot of them and Walter is the only one who bridges that and part of me wonders if it's somewhat about the admiration he gets from it but that's also not entirely fair (I have no older siblings how does this work)

"I even show him my diary" ouch lmao I understand the desperate hope for reciprocating confidences. Gertrude's shot at Wordsworth and Tennyson is hilarious though as someone who likes both

Dog Monday I love you forever and ever amen

"Hasn't June been a delightful month" meanwhile it's one hundred degrees farenheit where I am < mad about it

"Taste life! I want to eat it" girl me too