#glynis

1923-2024

Johns is probably best remembered for playing Winifred Banks in Disney's Mary Poppins (1964). Although it was a mainstream hit for Judy Collins, Johns introduced the song "Send in the Clowns" in the Broadway musical A Little Night Music (1974) for which she won a Tony Award.

On August 5, 1963, CBS' "Vacation Playhouse" aired an episode titled "Hide and Seek," which was the pilot for "Glynis", a sitcom starring Johns and Keith Andes, who played the male lead in Lucille Ball's 1960 Broadway musical Wildcat and would go on to appear on "The Lucy Show." The series' working title was "The Glynis Johns Show", but eventually it was shortened to the star's first name. The series was produced by Desilu and created and executive produced by Jess Oppenheimer, one of the original creators of "I Love Lucy". A month later "Glynis" earned a spot on CBS' fall schedule, but only lasted 13 episodes.

Johns was nominated for an Oscar in 1961 for The Sundowners. She worked with a lot of the same stars as Lucille Ball, although the two never acted together. She was in The Court Jester (1955) with Danny Kaye, Papa's Delicate Condition (1963) with Jackie Gleason, and Mary Poppins (1964) with Dick Van Dyke. Like so many of Ball's colleagues, she played a villain on "Batman": Penelope Peasoup in 1967.

Glynis Margaret Payne Johns (October 5, 1923 - January 4, 2024) Film, stage and television actress, dancer, musician and singer. In a career spanning eight decades on stage and screen, Johns appeared in more than 60 films and 30 plays. She has received various accolades throughout her career, including a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, a National Board of Review Award, and a Laurel Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. She is widely considered as being one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood and classical years of British cinema.

Johns made her television debut in 1952 with Fletcher Markle's Emmy Award-winning series Little Women. She appeared in just one episode: season 4's "Lilly, the Queen of the Movies" as Lily Snape. Her television credits of the 1950s include brief appearances in the Hollywood anthology series Lux Video Theatre (in the 1953 episode "Two For Tea"), Errol Flynn's anthology series The Errol Flynn Theatre (in the 1956 episodes "The Sealed Room" as Lou McNamara and "The Girl in Blue Jeans" as The Girl Susan Tracey), CBS's anthology series Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (in the 1957 episode "The Dead Are Silent"), and ABC's variety and drama series The Frank Sinatra Show (in the 1958 episode "Face of Fear" as Christine Nolan)

Johns was cast in 1961 in the ABC/Warner Bros. crime drama The Roaring 20s. She portrayed Kitty O'Moyne, an Irish immigrant who falls overboard into the harbour as she arrives in the United States. Johns guest-starred in the CBS anthology seriesThe Lloyd Bridges Show in the episode "A Game for Alternate Mondays" of the 1962–63 television season, playing widow Leah Marquand, with Leslye Hunter as her daughter Isabella. On 5 August 1963, Vacation Playhouse premiered the episode "Hide and Seek" as the pilot of her eponymous CBS television series Glynis. The original working title for the series was The Glynis Johns Show; in it, Johns played the neophyte mystery writer and amateur sleuth Glynis Granvile. In the autumn of that year, Glynis officially premiered, starring Johns and Keith Andes as a married couple, Glynis Granville and Keith Granville, a criminal defence attorney. Due to pressure from NBC's The Virginian and Bill Cullen's The Price Is Right game show on ABC, the programme was cancelled after thirteen episodes. In 1965, when CBS reran the series as a summer replacement for The Lucy Show, Glynis ranked #6 in the Nielsen ratings. Johns remained busy on screen, appearing as Steffi Bernard in the episode "Who Killed Marty Kelso?" of ABC's detective series Burke's Law opposite Gene Barry. In 1967, she appeared in four episodes of the Batman television series as villainess Lady Penelope Peasoup, one half of the evil duo with Rudy Vallée as her brother Lord Marmaduke Ffogg.

I went with these two because for one I just don’t meet many other inquisitors, and two because I’ve written really only one thing from Emblyn’s perspective, and that was her killing herself, so I haven’t really figured out her normal voice yet when she isn’t despairing over her bad choices. This is good oppertunity for that.^^

Emblyn about Glynis: “I’m glad for any of my siblings in faith, and especially for those so willing to share their faith with others. I wish her all the best on her journey and may she never find herself stumbling in her faith.”

Ohhhhh this one was fun! “The beginning of all things are small” - in this case, specifically, the beginnings of a priestly career, and of a friendship. :-D

OCtober Day 11: Soul’s Meeting

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Ianthinarepeated once more the words of the prayer, without even a glance at the textopen in front of her – fruitless her efforts might be, but at least she hadthe thing committed to memory many tries ago – and once more tried to weaveher fingers in the pattern the instructor had shown. Nothing happened. Her huffof frustration stirred a lock of hair fallen loose from her braids. She tuckedit behind her ear and tried again, just a little louder, in case the gods werehard of hearing.

The invocation, simple though itseemed, still failed to produce the flare of light that it had summoned whenthe instructor demonstrated. Ianthina sighed, shoved the book forward upon thedesk, and leaned over it, resting her forehead on her hands and her elbows onthe desktop as she read over the text once more.

For the first time in the pasthour, a voice other than her own broke the silence of the deserted dining hall.“Having trouble?”

Ianthina sat up, looking around forthe speaker. 

“Sorry to interrupt,” the voice added,and at that Ianthina turned and looked down to see an orlan, ears lowered alongwith her gaze, hands tucked behind her back. She wore an acolyte’s robes muchlike Ianthina’s own, though smaller. Auburn fur, just a tad pinker over herface, made her seem to blush as she peeked up at Ianthina again, with wide,violet eyes somewhere under that shock of fur. Or perhaps she wasactually blushing?

“It’s all right,” Ianthinaanswered. “You’re not exactly interrupting anything much, as I suppose you’vealready noticed. I don’t know what I’m missing, but it just won’t work for me.”

The orlan nodded, eyes flicking tothe prayer book. “The prayer for light, if I recognized the invocation?”

“Allegedly so,” Ianthina said.“Well, to be fair, it certainly produced light when the instructor did it.”

The orlan nodded again, and then,without a glance toward the text, recited the same short prayer that had burnedits place in Ianthina’s memory, wove the same hand movements, and gracefullysummoned a swirling spark of light to hover just above her hand. Then shewinced, catching sight of Ianthina’s expression. “Sorry, again. I don’t mean toshow off; that was quite rude of me.” With a wave of her hand, the lightsnuffed out. “It’s your first spell, right?”

“Is it that obvious?”

“Well, the instructors tend tostart with something like that. The first one is always the hardest,regardless.” She shrugged, tucking her hands behind her back again and shiftingslightly from foot to foot. “Maybe I can help you?”

Ianthina bristled for a moment. Shehad the words all right, the movements, everything – she was sure of it. Whathelp could this stranger offer that she hadn’t already tried? And yet…somethingwas missing, and the orlan acolyte clearly had that something. “I…would appreciatethat, yes,” Ianthina finally admitted. 

The orlan brightened, ears flickingin delicate arcs along with her smile. “Great!” She climbed up onto the benchnext to Ianthina, pulling the text back towards them and then proceeding toignore it as she turned and held out an auburn-furred hand, smiling up at her.“Oh, and it’s very nice to meet you! I’m Glynis ix Llewi.”

Ianthina looked at the outstretchedhand a moment, then clasped it carefully. “Ianthina.”

“You’re new, right? Well, obviouslyyou are, if it’s your first spell. I mean, I don’t think I’ve seen you aroundbefore.”

“A week. Nearly two, in fact.” Shedrew her hand back and looked away. “The early training was no difficulty. Iknow how to study; I have several of the litanies of the gods by heart already.But the spells, prayers of invocation…” She crossed her arms. “I don’t know whythis eludes me.”

“It isn’t the words,” Glynis said.“I heard you saying them. A few times, in fact,” she grinned. “I couldn’t quitesee your hand movement, but I think that’s probably just fine too. It’s justthat we aren’t wizards, Ianthina.”

“What?” She frowned at Glynis’earnest expression.

“Quite simply, any miracles we doare down to faith,” Glynis said with a shrug. “You believe in the gods, I’msure, or you wouldn’t be here.”

“I…yes,” Ianthina murmured,twisting at the bracelet clasped round her wrist beneath the robe’s sleeves,with its iconography of skull and key. “I am quite convinced of theirexistence.”

Glynis laughed, a shock ofmerriment that turned Ianthina’s eyes back to her. “Oh, I don’t mean belieflike that,” she corrected. “I mean faith. Youknow the gods exist, but do you trustyour god? Do you know thatinvocation will bring light, because you will it and you are your god’s andthat is as good as your god willing it?” She looked Ianthina over thoughtfully.“Speaking of which, have you sworn to a god yet? Or decided which one you’llswear to, at least? I know the early training is very ecumenical; I supposeI’ve been ministering to Eothas long enough to forget those days of studyingthe whole pantheon till one in particular calls to your soul.”

Ianthina nodded slowly. “Not swornofficially, no – in fact no one’s said anything about that yet, about when weare to do so. But if anyone calls my soul, it is Berath.”

“Then,” Glynis said, “your miracleswill come from your faith in Berath. It really is that simple. However,” sheadmitted, reaching over to pat Ianthina’s hand, “putting faith into action thatfirst time still isn’t easy.”

“Certainly not,” Ianthina grumbled,looking over at the prayer text again. “Perhaps it was easier for you? Light isyour god’s domain, after all.”

Glynis cocked her head and one earin consideration. “I suppose, maybe so. But my god is not stingy with hislight, really. They teach that spell early on because it’s not restricted toone cult over the others. You can do it, Ianthina.” She smiled, patting Ianthina’shand again. “I have faith in you.”

Ianthina snorted a laugh at her newfriend’s enthusiastic confidence – and then paused to wonder at how quicklyshe had allowed her the name of friend. Probably it was too hasty: Glynis was doing her akindness now, which for an Eothasian priest was quite normal after all, but itwas help with a tricky spell she had offered, not friendship. Or was it?

Still, Glynis was smiling up at heras if they were friends of so many years as to justify the faith she had justclaimed. If a near-stranger could so easily find faith in a raw recruit who hadthus far demonstrated a complete lack of magical ability, how hard could it befor Ianthina to put into practice the faith that had brought her here to trainfor holy orders?

She looked at the text one moretime, though it was from her soul’s memory, not from the book before her, thatshe read the prayer, so brief and yet so difficult for her beyond the page. Sheclosed her eyes and raised a hand. As she spoke the prayer, as she made themovements, she thought of Berath, of all that she had learned about her godsince coming here. And then she thought of that day she had first learned ofher god’s existence, that day that had consigned her parents to Berath’s carein the way that all the world must go, sooner or later, while it consignedIanthina herself to Berath’s service. She lived on for a reason. She was sureof that.

She finished the invocation, tracedthe last of the movements, and opened her eyes. At her startled gasp, the lightshining over her fingers nearly winked out, but Ianthina scowled at it andwilled it to remain. And so it did. 

While this isn’t all my babes for Pride, this is a good portion of them!  I kept forgetting to make this, and I’m so sorry it’s so shoddy, but I love them anyway! As shown:

Yseult: Transgender Lesbian

Dalla: Transgender Lesbian

Helynae: Aromantic Lesbian

Kinsii: Demisexual Lesbian

Ferro: Transgender Lesbian

Glynis: Asexual Lesbian

Kerra: Transgender Lesbian

Sybil: Transgender Demisexual Lesbian

Reyna: Genderqueer Lesbian