#happy birthday joan!

[1976desire]

joan baez performing “diamonds and rust”, from renaldo and clara, 1975

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[joanhicksonsdaughter]

Happy 117th birthday to my irreplaceable & perfect heroine, Joan Hickson. I shall celebrate your birthday every year because you shall always be a light in my life, a sweet breath for my unhappy days and especially an example that I shall take with me every year. I love you and I shall continue loving and admiring you forever!

[up-beattt]

Joan Baez and Bruce Springsteen during the Human Rights Now! Tour in Philadelphia (September 19, 1988) and Oakland (September 23, 1988). Top photo by John Roca.

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez, 1977 © Norman Seeff.

[holyrosemary]

♱ Happy birthday, St. Joan of Arc .ᐟ .ᐟ

May your devotion to faith and your courage remain an eternal example to us all. We pray that you will continue to intercede with the Lord for us, inspiring us to do righteous deeds and to have strong faith

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

Joan of Arc + Sam Winchester: PURITY/TRANSCENDENCE

John Everett Millais, Joan of Arc, The Maid of Orleans | 2.13 (trans.), "Houses of the Holy" | Luc Besson, Joan of Arc (1999) | 5.14, "My Bloody Valentine" | 8.23 (trans.) "Sacrifice" | Pascal Laugier, Martyrs (2008) |

[joanieebaez]

happy 83rd birthday to joan baez

happy birthday to someone who has done so much for so many communities, as well as blessed the world with her music and her voice.

[foolscapper]

Saint Joan of Arc, Patroness of Servicewomen

Feast Day: May 30th

From the SAINTS FOR GIRLS STICKER BOOK

[girlniall]

[cressus]

Has he promised you the world, too? He means nothing to me.

JOAN CRAWFORD and STEVE COCHRAN in THE DAMNED DON'T CRY (1950)

[escapingpurgatory]

Happy Birthday, Joan!

[onefootin1941]

Joan Blondell with husband Dick Powell, 1939

[tedkennedyswife]

Happy 88th birthday Joansie!!  🎉🥳 🤩🎊 

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Joan Baez, illustrated by Uli Knörzer.

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

JOAN OF ARC + SAM WINCHESTER: POSTMODERN MARTYRS

Luc Besson, Joan of Arc (1999) | Panthéon, "Jeanne d'Arc ayant la vision de l'archange Michel" | 1.14, "Nightmare" | Anne Llewellyn Barstow, "Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman" | Susan Visvanathan, "Representing Joan of Arc" | 2.13, "Houses of the Holy" | Robert Bresson, The Trial of Joan of Arc (1962) | John Everett Millais, "Joan of Arc" (1865) | 11.02, "Form and Void" | 1.11, "Scarecrow" |

This is incredibly self-indulgent, but there's an interesting comparison to be made here I think, between Joan as a cultural symbol and Sam as a variant on her. like her - his character also consists of ambiguities. He is both hero and monster/witch, saviour and pariah, transgressive while still fitting into the traditional mold of heroism. And because of their ambiguities, they're also both outsiders.

Joan is isolated because of her steadfast faith, and she's punished for it. She saves France as a young girl in men's clothes, hearing the voices of angels, and gets put on trial as a heretic by the very same Church that would later burn her at the stake. The very same institution to later saint her. Only in death does she get to become a holy martyr, no longer ambiguous. She is the hero with a thousand faces; Catholic saint, patriotic icon, queer symbol.

Unlike Joan, however, Sam's narrative is a horror story on failed martyrdom. He is the saint who never gets to die. His sacrifices never end in closure, not really. he's either stopped at the last moment, or retrieved from the depths of hell. He's denied the certainty that comes with dying, the nobility that comes with becoming immortalised as a memory. His faults are laid out on the altar, time and again, but he's not granted the crowning reprieve that death would afford him.

He holds onto hope and belief in others, clings onto faith in a higher power, whether that power be God or his family - his brother. He keeps faith in others in order to keep faith in himself. And he's let down over and over by that faith. His brother betrays him like a man; his visions come from a demon, the voice of God is really Lucifer in his ear. His own story turns on him like a pillory, trapping him before a jeering audience, unsympathetic to his suffering.

Sam, the heart of it all, more scapegoat than sacrificial lamb. In the end he only gets to exit the story by choosing to trust himself, and live.

[morally-earl-grey]

as of last night, i have seen pulp and I am very abnormal about it.