GENEVIEVE ANGELSON as PATTI ROBINSON in GOOD GIRLS REVOLT S1 (2015-2016)

➻ costume design by Laura Jean Shannon

GENEVIEVE ANGELSON as PATTI ROBINSON in GOOD GIRLS REVOLT - 1.02 “The Folo” (2015)

“My mom makes dinner for my dad every night. I don't think he knows how to work the appliances in the kitchen. ‘What? Like the toaster?’No, like the......blender. I don't know. It's frustrating. And if the grandkids are home, he'll just walk in, step over their toys. But I have never, and I will never see my mom stop......and step over their toys. No. She will pick them up every time.’ ... ‘Maybe your dad figures he works all day. He's done his job, and she is a homemaker. That's her job.’ But she didn't know that she had the choice to do anything else.

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I’m so glad you sent this because it gives me a chance to talk about the dair good girls revolt AU that I’ve become obsessed with and desperately want to write once I have time again.

Okay, so Good Girls Revolt is a show set in 1969/1970 about a feminism movement that takes hold at a magazine (based off a real story - Nora Ephron is a character but like…that’s the worst thing about the show cause Nora worked at Newsday back in the early 60s not late 60s I hate inaccuracies like that especially when Nora didn’t even have to be a character but anyway anyway). Basically all the reporters are men and all the researchers are women and the men get all the credit for the stories even when the women do all the grunt work and the men often take paragraphs verbatim from the women’s work. And the women aren’t allowed to become reporters. So they end up teaming up with the ACLU and file a lawsuit at the end of season 1 but then it got cancelled. :(

Anyway there’s this pairing I became obsessed with, Sam/Jane. Sam is a reporter and Jane is a researcher and they’re basically partners. Sam is a Jewish boy from the working class Bronx and Jane is WASP to the bone. And I’m sure you’re starting to see where this is going…there’s obviously a flirtation between them but Jane’s parents have very specific expectations of her and are also anti-Semitic and yeah.

Jane is also engaged to be engaged to her fellow waspy boyfriend Chad (cough Nate cough) who dumps her on NYE after she gives him an ultimatum and then she goes and loses her virginity to her neighbor (Carter Baizen).

Of course, in the show this isn’t the main focus, Jane is just one of the central trio. There’s also Patty (Serena) who is in a relationship with her reporter, Doug, who’s from a wealthy background but likes to pretend he’s more bohemian than he seems (Aaron Rose) but she also has a flirtation going with the married Editor in Chief (Tripp van der Bilt). There’s also Cindy (Nelly Yuki) who starts out meek and in a bad marriage but has an affair with the photo editor (tbd). And Patty and Cindy are kinda the catalyst for the lawsuit after Nora quits and hooks them up with Eleanor Holmes Norton, an ACLU activist (Vanessa) but they eventually get Jane on board and get her to be the face of the lawsuit knowing her image will help people take them more seriously.

I haven’t decided if I’m gonna include chippy but there is a friend of the editor who’s brought in who ends up sexually harassing Jane so…

Anyway, yeah! It would probably be more loosely inspired, cause obviously the show got cancelled before Sam and Jane actually got together. I’ve been thinking about it sooooo much. I really wanted to do a dair reporter AU and then I realized I wanted to do it in the 70s though and then I realized Sam & Jane were already so Dair like and then everything kinda started to fall into place after that. But I still have to write it hahaha

Put "📓" or some other version of a book emoji into my inbox and I'll explain the plot of a fanfiction that I haven't written but daydream about.

The male subplots in Good Girls Revolt are like: In the main plot, Patti has a get-together, tells Jane about the discrimination complaint she and other women at work are going to file, and considers how she might succeed after the complaint.   In the B-plot, Finn and Gregory piss on a beach. 

6, 19 and 51 for the ask game!

Hi!

6 which shows do I think are underrated and deserve more love?

Bored to Death- it is very Rian Johnson meets Arthur Conan Doyle vibes; iZombie would be another one

19 which shows are on my to-watch list?

Veronica Mars, Checkmate, The Twilight Zone, On My Block... Just to name a few

51 which TV cliche you despise?

It's not exactly a cliche, but overreliance on physical chemistry in couples - I saw this in Varchie (from Riverdale), Chuck and Blair (Gossip Girl)... Another would be the unlucky gay pal (Kevin from Riverdale? Classic example)

Thanks for the ask! 😃

can we talk about the katniss/lucy gray parallels (or lack thereof) for a sec?

they're superficially the same, because of the things we talk about all the time: they're both female victors from 12. there are things that come with that culture and background -- the mockingjay, the plants, the songs. those similarities aren't so much between them as people, as individuals -- they're born of coming from the same culture. the most significant thing they share is their resilience; their spirit of resistance and rebellion. their defiance.

but really, all those things they share, only serve to demonstrate just how different they are as individuals (because personality is different from upbringing or values).

we parallel their sarcastic bows, but they're so so different. lucy gray is a performer mockingly curtseying and saying "kiss my ass", where katniss is a hunter who doesn't have time for this society bullcrap.

they both sing the hanging tree, but as i've ranted about, their renditions show how different they are: lucy gray, again, a performer with a spirit unbroken, loud and charming and sassing right to the capitol's face, daring them to defy her, daring them to look away. katniss, again, a hunter, quiet but unyielding, sparking rebellion under the capitol's nose.

they both won their games, but in such different ways. lucy gray charmed the snakes (both literal and in the form of one coriolanus snow), while katniss threw down with weaponry.

lucy gray said look at me, care about me. katniss said fight for me, fight with me.

and so what we see is that they are not at all the same person, but that's what's so important. because it's not just one person or one type of person that puts their foot down and rebels. we don't need a specific kind of Chosen One to light the spark -- anyone can.

there are a few things Max does that make El absolutely melt (letting her listen to her heartbeat, playing with her hair, saying she loves her, singing to her) and if Max accidentally does them all at once El ODs on serotonin and dematerializes into confetti like when she killed the demogorgon

SORRY I AM THINKING ABOUT NANCY SAYING COPY/PASTE FOR HER AND JONATHAN'S DAUGHTER AGAIN AND IIIII

The problem with being a book nerd is that throughout the whole AGGGTM series I was picturing Jason Bell as a older man 50s to early 60s dad, and now I come to find out he’s not as old as I thought…he’s young and not revoltingly old and sweaty…now he’s a younger equally revolting sweaty man (coughs..DT…) Still pictured him as the late Mr McGregor from the Peter rabbit film) don’t ask me why…I just casted him that way in my head.

HUNTER PARRISH AND GENEVIEVE ANGELSON IN GOOD GIRLS REVOLT (2015-2016)

Genevieve Angelson protesting outside of Amazon Studios wearing a Good Girls Revolt shirt

When I was a teen, I read this book where two captive lovers were forced to torture each other and that rearranged my brain chemistry, I'm ngl

just started reading your good girl’s revolt dair fic and i’m loving it so far!!! it has me curious about the actual show - i know it got cancelled, but i’d love to hear some of your thoughts on sam/jane and where their dynamic might/should have gone had it kept going!!

Thank you, thank you! Well, obviously I really love Sam/Jane lol. I never got into the Doug/Patti/Finn love triangle or Ned/Cindy mess. Frankly, I think Doug and Ned are both kinda trash, and while Finn is very charming, he also seems to have a self destructive streak and him and Patti seem like they would've flamed out spectacularly. But Sam...I mean I did tone down his flirting for the fic a bit cause it could be a little too much (but also was probably period appropriate), but he really seemed to be different than the other guys. He always seemed to have a genuine respect for Jane, even when he was mad at her, he seemed to think of her as a real partner and not a subordinate. Like while Doug and Patti had a good working relationship, they wanted very different things from a romantic partner and they could never work that way imo. But Sam and Jane, at least from what I've seen, seem to want similar things, which is a romantic partner who is always an intellectual equal. Which they have in each other.

I'm putting the rest under a cut, just in case people want to remain unspoiled for the fic lol

I think things would've been a mess in s2 between Sam and Jane. We do get a little hint at Jane finally acknowledging her attraction to Sam, but he's slept with Naomi. Not to mention the Noah of it all, he'd be in such a bad place. And add in the fact that Jane is now the face of this lawsuit that she never even told Sam about.

And I do think Sam would be one of the few guys in the office who would've been totally in favor of letting the women write, no hang-ups about it whatsoever. But Jane not telling him about it before she went on TV and did that...I think he'd react very similarly to how he did when he found about Chad and shut her out a bit. Plus, he's already so emotionally fucked up about what happened with Noah, I think he'd shut pretty much everyone out.

And the Naomi bit...I go back and forth on that one. Cause like, I do think she still really loved her husband (the image of her smelling the dirt from Vietnam is soooo haunting) but also she like...low key gets off on bullying Jane (I'll give you one guess what GG character she's gonna be), I could also see her rubbing it in Jane's face that she's slept with Sam. Which would of course really piss Jane off and make her and Sam even more distant.

But I also very much do think they were setting them up to be an endgame relationship and Jane & Sam would've ultimately gotten their shit together and ended up together. Especially cause a big part of them getting together would be Jane going through the process of separating herself from her parents' worldview which we do start to see at the very end of s1, but that's going to take a lot more time. It would really just be a slowburn for them, you know?

Anyway, go read @senbons incredible Sam/Jane fic Oh, oh, I'm on Fire!!!!!

Girl help I got Matilda Musical songs stuck in my head again

WHO THE FUCK TOLD TUMBLR I LIKE WEDNESDAY??😭😭

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