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guys wake up new exclusive footage of lilith from the frasier reboot has emerged!!!

source: https://www.etonline.com/frasier-reboot-kelsey-grammer-shares-behind-the-scenes-look-at-remarkable-new-series-exclusive?amp

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Tried my best to recreate the masterpiece that is Gwendoline 🖤🤍

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WORD!

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I'm going to think a lot about these Gwen's pictures through this week

Ya know, when I saw these pictures yesterday the only word that crossed my mind was "raven" bc that's what this magnificent dress reminded me. And now I can't stop thinking that Gwen looks like an evil goddess/raven queen. What's that? Idk either.

But in my mind she's in her way to dominate an entire kingdom after being expelled from it, she commands a raven's army and knows a lot of dark magic (that's why she was expelled from the kingdom) and, by the power this look holds, I can tell you that she will win every single battle.

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- nadine tolliver + glasses (madam secretary)

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Fucking brilliant!

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This is breathtakingly beautiful and meaningful.

everytime I remember that lesbian couple that have a marble statue of the two of them embracing and sleeping on a bed together over where their graves will be because the artists didn’t believe they would be able to be married before they died, so what they couldn’t have in life they could have in death, I fucking breakdown

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So pretty!

not judith and/or blanche, but this is the first julia edit i’ve ever seen anywhere via the very talented @nileslilith on twitter, and i had to share it here for anyone who might also be excited like me - if you’re on twitter go give them some love there!

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She could have married him, but she loved being a Princess more than him.

Princess Margaret (Lesley Manville) and Group Captain Peter Townsend (Timothy Dalton) in The Crown Season 5. Orig. photo: Keith Bernstein/Netflix ♚

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can’t stop reading this over and over

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Beautiful!

R.I.P. Nichelle Nicholas (1932-2022)

Art by Bill Sienkiewicz

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Yes!!! I‘m here for Gwendoline, no matter what, she‘s perfect for that role.

Misunderstanding Lucifer from the Sandman series and why Gwendoline Christie is the right choice (an art historian and occultist's opinion)

I am writing this post as I'm absolutely baffled by the issues people seem to have with the portrayal of the character of Lucifer in the Sandman series. For some reason people find it problematic that the fallen angel is played by Gwendoline Christie, a powerful and androgynous-looking woman, but there is seemingly no problem with Lucifer being played by a black-haired man in the nightclub business (Tom Ellis in the Netflix series 'Lucifer'). Don't get me wrong, Tom Ellis is entertaining and wonderful to watch, but that particular version of Lucifer is neither canon when it comes to the comics nor does it have anything to do with the actual angel Lucifer.

Angels are genderless beings and they have always been portrayed as androgynous in the history of art. Multiple literary sources, including grimoires (books with supposed instructions on how to summon these beings and many others), state that angelic beings as well as demons are able to change their appearance. Many of those forms they might take aren't even humanoid and they can choose not to show any physical form at all. They aren't corporeal beings, the fact that they do take on any resemblance of a physical form is just so humans can understand them better. That's why we've been painting them as human-like ever since the early times of human civilization. What we make to be similar to us is what makes it comprehensible. Portraying beings from other dimensions/realms as human-like but with androgynous features is a way to show they don't belong in the physical dimension, as gender is likely a non-existent concept in other realms of existence. Androgyny of mythical beings, therefore, emphasizes the fact they are different than physical beings such as humans.

Therefore, when portraying an angelic being in art, or in any type of media, making them androgynous is making way for their essence to come through. In a way, the same applies to the way elves are portrayed as ethereal and androgynous since they don't have to be corporeal beings at all, at least when it comes to folklore. I know this opinion might not be understandable to others or it might sound controversial, but I believe that not portraying an angelic being as androgynous and not showing any signs of their divine origin (these include mannerisms that emphasize their etheriality for example, a cadence in their voice that is different etc.) is a huge missed opportunity that might rob these interesting mythical beings of what they are. Not making angels feel like angels beats the point of having an angel character (in a movie, series or video game for example) in the first place.

This is why Gwendoline Christie is the right choice. At a height of 6′ 3″ (1.91 m), captivatingly pale. androgynous with a powerful specific sort of grace and presence - a perfect 'vessel' for the Morning Star. What's more, she understands the importance, complexity, grandeur and the mythical dimension of the figure of Lucifer, as well as the whole 'spirituality' of the Sandman universe which is rather evident from her approach to this role and the interviews she has given so far. I might go so far to say that, even though the Sandman series isn't even out yet (though there is some footage available already), the casting of Gwendoline as Lucifer feels right just as the casting of Lee Pace as Thranduil in the Hobbit felt right and I consider the character of Thranduil to be the best portrayal of a humanoid mythical being on TV. Lee felt like an elven king, moved like an elven king, spoke like an elven king and radiated an energy of the dimension the elven king might have come from (I'm talking about the folkloric 'Otherworld' where elves supposedly live). I feel the same might apply to Gwendoline and Lucifer.

As an occultist, art historian, anthropologist and someone who is rather fond of the figure of Lucifer, I am looking forward to seeing how Gwendoline interprets him. Finally, we might get something completely different from a frequently portrayed 'demonic' side/version of this important mythical character. We might just see the Light Bringer who has not forgotten his divine origin.

- Heidi (@theatrum-tenebrarum)

Gwendoline Christie as Lucifer (The Sandman series on Netflix, out 5th August 2022)

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Did you get deja vu...

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not judith and/or blanche, but this is the first julia edit i’ve ever seen anywhere via the very talented @nileslilith on twitter, and i had to share it here for anyone who might also be excited like me - if you’re on twitter go give them some love there!

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Pro-lifers feed off the destitution they create.

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Love of my life.

Thank you, Eve. I’d like a martini, very dry.

BETTE DAVIS as Margo Channing in

ALL ABOUT EVE (1952) dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz