Title: Still He Offers the Sea Shell
Fandom: Anne of Green Gables
Pairing: Anne/Gilbert
Categories: AU, Romance
Length: Medium (5,100 words)
Warnings: None

Author on LJ: poor_choices
Author Website: NA

Summary: Gilbert Blythe is back from his semester abroad, and he wants to meet this Anne Shirley he's heard so much about.

Review:
Whose first ever ship isn't Anne and Gilbert?

This was the first Anne of Green Gables fic I'd ever read, because -- Anne and Gilbert in a modern college AU? I thought it'd wreck my sentimental memories of Anne and Gilbert in the 1900s. I admit I clicked on it more in bewilderment than excitement. But as I read it, I was astounded by how the author made this work. She manages to update the scenario while still keeping the initial misunderstanding between Anne and Gilbert, Diana as Anne's bosom buddy, and the secondary characters and relationships between them. Gilbert and Diana and even Josie Pye are just as recognisable as they were in the books, despite the 100-year time jump, and Anne is every bit the romantic with independent ideals in a modern world.

Still He Offers the Sea Shell