#I miss Joan

[bird-likes-to-fandom]

what do you mean sanders sides is eight years old.... what do you MEAN.

[loganslowdown4]

Some old pictures I found 😄💙

[federalchickensoup]

The MET is tomorrow. Will any of the gang be there? (Oscar, Zendaya, Chris (? Let me dream?), Sebastian (mans come and go 🤭)). I’m actually excited for TEMS (for the love of God be there), Doja, Ashton, & Rih.

[theflashjaygarrick]

People have spent so much time fleshing out random background male characters and so for feminism I am going to give one of DC's under appreciated female characters this treatment . I am absolutely fascinated by Joan Garrick as a character. DC is not. But who am I to let that stop me.

So what are some things we know about Joan Garrick (née Williams). One is that she met Jay Garrick when they were both students at college. More potential context was given by Millar and Morrison in the iconic Jay focused Flash (vol 2) #134. Here we learn that at the present time she is teaching microbiology and based on the fact that in my experience a specific microbiology subject is more common in university and she's heading in for specific classes not the school day I can infer she is a lecturer/professor. These few facts paint a picture of an awesome and boundary breaking woman in her own right.

We can assume she was in college in the 1930s. This makes sense. After all the 30s was the first generation where (almost entirely white and middle class) women attended colleges in greater numbers and with more social acceptance then before. They became symbols of newfound female independence and education. But at the same time they faced a lot of obstacles , particularly in co-ed institutions like Midwestern University. She still had to navigate her way through a very male dominated institution that did not take her seriously if they wanted her to be there at all. Along with the change in female education came cultural backlash both within and outside the academy. Misogynistic (and racist) detractors viewed female higher education as frivolous, unsuitable for women's 'fragile physiology' and even saw it as the 'suicide' of the middle-class white American family. Yeah these people were the fucking worst. Anyway, being a female student at a university in that era meant dealing with and overcoming all kinds of bullshit from exclusion to outright harassment (even more than it does now).

And then there is the fact that she apparently studied biology (or microbiology more specially) in a time where most women pursued degrees in teaching or nursing (if they planned to use it vocationally) or liberal arts (if they did not). Women were actively discouraged from taking science courses and Joan would have been trying to enter an even more hostile boys club whilst fighting against even greater social pressure. But despite it all she seemingly did succeed and presumably help break barriers for women in science which is awesome.

And we can see this refusal to back down in her personality. Joan's kindness is matched by her tenacity and her 'do first, ask for permission later' personality, which whether forged through her experiences in academic or before-hand helped her persevere overcome the many obstacles she would have faced. She's an absolute badass.

Now this is not strictly relevant but she also knew Jay was the flash the whole time which is really sweet. I personally like to think she figured it out because he kept asking her really specific questions about human metabolism and the like (biology seemingly is Jay's scientific blindspot) and she put two and two together. Also he just innately trusts her with his secret which is cute considering how much secret identity drama silver age couples went through.

[raffycomorafah]

the Alexa Chung of it all.

[sugar-tooth]

flustered JFK >>>>

[claudia-kishi]

What is different now?

[a-spacecadet]

Joan of Arc Art Films 📽️🎞️

[probablygayattorneys]

-Tina Tran, Even If We Did Things Differently, I Still Would Have Chosen You

[mttonex]

sleepover episode if it was good

jk that's one of my favorite eps

[normasshearer]

I'm not being sorry for myself. I knew it would be like this. It's just that I'm tired. That's all. Tired and through.

JOAN CRAWFORD as Daisy Kenyon in DAISY KENYON (1947) dir. Otto Preminger

[lost-gp]

lie to girls x motogp

[enchantederidian]

obvious gore warning bc its alien

do we fw the nostromo crew edit i made in about 20 mins!! 💔

[bophertus]

dedicated to @tophabes the realest of us all. the greatest to ever do it. shout out fwct

[jayydeng]

Tophabe edit for the gals who still think about them…

I miss them so so much..and I love them.

I am a season 1 Joan lover..sorry season 2/3 Joan..

[wackydoggs]

season 2 of clone high might have killed joanfk and spat on its corpse but i still love this ship with all of my heart, even if the show does not LOL