Diana: Soo Gilbert What's Your Type?

Diana: Soo Gilbert what's your type?

Gilbert: Someone who can keep up with me intellectually and who is good at debates. In fact, someone who would debate me for fun. And, most likely, someone cute, oblivious, who loves nature, adventurous and a free spirit.

Anne: Hahaha, that sounds like me?

Anne: Too bad I'm not cute

Gilbert:

Diana:

The fandom:

Gilbert: Did I mention oblivious?

Anne: yeah?

Gilbert: okay, just making sure

Listen y’all, here’s the tea. Gilbert Blythe is a young man who likes to do things for all the right reasons. He takes care of his father when he’s ill because he loves him and it’s the right thing to do. He becomes passionate about medicine to serve people and end pain, even the pain for marginalized people whom no one will treat. He’s not racist and he’s supportive of the women in his life because he recognizes that they rightly deserve respect. 

So naturally, Gilbert Blythe wants to court a nice girl that looks like the ideal woman any doctor might have. She’s got a pleasant family, she presumably comes from money, and has connections to a big fancy medical college. Aside from the fact that she’s not as colorful as Anne is, she’s really quite lovely and good for him. He can see nothing bad about courting Winifred, but can probably think of a few reasons not to court Anne (ruining their friendship, assuming she wouldn’t like him, etc). 

But if there’s anything I know about Gilbert, it’s that his heart belongs on the island. That’s just where it has to live. Winifred’s family might be nice, but the Cuthberts will always be family just a little bit more. There might be connections to a good college, but he’s going to succeed to great heights at Queen’s and be satisfied there. And as lovely as Winifred is, she’s not Anne. Gilbert Blythe will be a good country doctor, a father of seven children, and a loyal husband. He will love that life for himself. I don’t think he’d have it any other way.

Anne isn’t the only one with ideals, and Gilbert has to realize his aren’t what he expected. Once he realizes that, I think he’s going to free himself to love Anne and his home the way he has all along.

Shirbert wedding edit

I’m sad Gilbert never saw story club house

Thanks a lot Billy

I think Gilbert would have loved it. How cute would it have been if they had their first kiss there. BIG SAD

WAIT. Gilbert isn’t a take notice guy allegedly. But oh boy oh boy if he somehow rebuilt that thing...he wouldn’t be the one proposing

Let’s face it, he would totally do it

“Gilbert Blythe would stand on his head if I asked him to”-Anne Shirley-Cuthbert