5/20/2019 c5 47oz diva
Ok I really laughed at Rilla eating a kebab, being compared to, well you know what. What a muckraker, that’s scraping the bottom of the barrel. I hope it escapes Marilla and John, I wouldn’t want that comment in any scrapbook.

You’ve really broadened this media world surrounding Rilla. Things I liked: Rilla watch, with point scoring. I can see that happening. The insinuation that her two male ‘friends’ are more than that. The idea that a girl her age shouldn’t be out partying with her friends.

This whole thing really captures the way the media follow her every move, whipping the most innocuous movement into something awful. And the public for the most part laps it up.

It’s great the way you follow Kslchen’s story, I do hope the Daily Tatter doesn’t follow up the visa issue. Vile the way folk will try to make some money in that situation.

Great work guys.

5/16/2019 c4 10Excel Aunt
That National Enquirer is trash. I refused to believe that they've got a quote from Queen Leslie. I am sure there is some sort of improvement project going on at Buckingham Palace but I very much doubt that the legend of the Avonlea cows had any relevance.

Jordan Montgomery makes a lot of assumptions. In the story, Rilla is worried that the press will make those conclusions. I'm almost wondering if Rilla can play their game a little bit and led them on. It might make her feel more in control. Of course, she cannot be too mean about it either. At any rate, the empire waist is about as ugly of a design as possible. The fact that Rilla looks good in it tells me she's too slender.

In the middle of all this opinion is the most factual book list. "The Fearful Cake" by Anne Shirley has a such a terrible title. It doesn't sound very romantic. I wouldn't know that this is a children's story based on the others listed.

Mrs Donnell has a point, I think. I know Canadian is part of the UK, but if Ken is into commoners, why not find one more local? It will be interesting if Mrs. Donnell has more to say later on.

Kudos to the Canadians for concluding that Carl Meredith was once Rilla's boyfriend. They probably have better footing for publishing that mention, even if there's no confirmation cited.

I actually think Pip has about 500K subscribers, each with four sock accounts. Are the boots the equivalent of the hat Rilla was determined to wear and not replace from RoI? I cannot read "PK" and not think of the guinea pig I knew with the same name. #2 really isn't that inspired. I doubt Pip would be seen dead in a Thrift Store.

5/14/2019 c4 19Alinya Alethia
Well done on thing this to the wonderfully chaotic chain story! Triple bonus marks for that alone, I feel. Maybe a journalistic award. I shall speak to people who do these things. What’s particularly brilliant here is that the shock isn’t for the metamorphosis, because clearly that stuff happens, Kafka wrote a whole book on it, you know, but on the accidental nudity. Oh, the horror!

Meanwhile Jordan Montgomery is still the world’s most audacious reporter, as fashion choices now determine the state of Rilla’s potential offspring and their chances at existence. Couple that with a conversation with her grandmother and it’s a particular kind of journalistic maths where two and two add to make 18. The correction is a brilliant touch. Long may Montgomery need correcting. (It feels, intentionally or not like homage to the nonsensical actual maths of canon. I am delighted.)

Mrs H B Donnell writes a suitably Indignant Letter, and now I am eagerly waiting for the nonsensical counterpart from a Mrs Trellis of North Wales :) And the year Book profile works well at giving us a bit more insider knowledge on Rilla’s life without tapping into her social media.

But it’s Miss Pip of the A.V.I.D. Blog that really steals the show, here. You clearly speak fluent teenage/university girl, because this is pitch perfect. The language, the italics, the taste in clothes. (And I love that she singles out the fur of the coat as being all fashion, no rumour. Pip has my sort of taste!) It’s exuberant, and ebullient and nicely winks at our Phil without replicating her exactly. More of her, please!

5/7/2019 c2 MrsVonTrapp
Oh, dear. I checked back how long Twitter has been with us (since 2006, bygosh!) just to see how long our social commentary has been served up in these often acerbic bite-sized chunks. Even back in 2011 there were enough armchair critics, it seems...

I do like how you caught the dividing of ranks already, oz diva, between the supporters, the voyeurs and the bitter naysayers, and that focus on appearance, which even at this earliest stage is unsettling.

5/6/2019 c3 47oz diva
Funny to see everyone referred to by their full names, I wasn't sure who Anne was at first.

Is she from one of Halifax's most prominent families, it seems like a meagre claim to fame, clutching at straws, People Magazine?

This was so much fun.

5/6/2019 c3 Jxuan
Ahhahahahaha. The descriptions on her family just about cracks me up. This is seriously good stuff, more please!

5/6/2019 c3 Alinya Alethia
Now there are definitely shades of the New Yorker’s The Corrections. Love ‘Titian amour’ as a descriptor. It’s over-the-top in just the right way.

Loved the People insider info piece, too. The pictured snowball fight is the perfect metaphor for the way thus is snowballing -sorry, escalating -out of Rilla and Ken’s control. There are cp-style things I could tease, but honestly, the chap thought Rilla was Torontonia before he ran revisions. Press style is negligible. I shall assume the editors and subs have been slashed at as per everyone else and his paper. (NB, Jordan will agree with me that this is why you don’t make the writer do everything.)

I’m entertained too that our correspondent is using everyone’s full names. He’s found out Nan is Nan but apparently no one else gets a look-in. I’m intrigued. Do we think Di is only Di to family? The ‘close female friend’ and ‘feminine name’ for poor Shirley were great lines. And I had to laugh at them failing to get a photo of Walter. Bet he’s got good at dodging them!