Jack Pownall

@CormStrikeFan I wonder if he did that on purpose seeing as the fact it’s a trailer has been confirmed 😅

“I should not have said that…” 😂

@That_N8 Right??? I have a feeling that this series is going to leave us with nothing but nitpicking in terms of complaints. So gorgeous.

I can’t process this. The colours, the textures. The world feels lived-in. It’s already portraying a very different vision of this world from the films. I’m loving it. #HarryPotterHBO

@Jebadoo2 I love how you can see her have to stop herself from adding the hand gestures to the joke 😅

LOL

@jk_rowling @NotHackingIt “Parroting”? You couldn’t possibly be suggesting those celebrities have never mustered up an independent thought of their own and instead merely follow the latest trends, could you? 🤭

@NotHackingIt Whistleblowers inside the medical profession have been raising the alarm for years now, but there were more social media likes in parroting the nice easy slogans.

And it will forever be appalling to me that a bunch of celebrities with influence over young people used their platforms to amplify unevidenced claims for the benefit of transitioning minors while smearing those urging caution as bigots.

@jk_rowling It’s astounding how caution became a supposed dog-whistle and risk became an egalitarian virtue.

Please, protect these young women. @FIFAcom @FootballAUS @OfficialFUFA

@IrisThinksMeh @kenzjones93 At this point, I think we may just have to name you the Grand High Alchemist of the Strike fandom ❤️

I was on my way home from a Jungian masterclass yesterday when listening to this podcast. @kenzjones93 mentions a quote from The Running Grave: “Yet she was scared. She doubted she’d ever be able to communicate to Strike – her touchstone, the person who was keeping her sane – just how intimidating the atmosphere was at Chapman Farm, how frightening it was to know you were surrounded by willing accomplices, or how unnerved she now felt at the prospect of the Retreat Rooms.” In this masterclass we’re discussing Jung’s Red Book and watching Murray Stein’s seminar on it. Coincidentally he mentioned the touch stone that day. It’s a black basanite stone jewellers use to scratch gold, and check with a chemical if it’s real or fool’s gold. The psychological or spiritual process of testing the soul’s gold (have you become whole or is your ego inflated?) is very a prominent concept in Jung’s work. So there’s your Jungian alchemy link for this Sunday 😋

@IrisThinksMeh @beatricegroves1 @TheSEFilesPod If I remember correctly: microwaved food and then they couldn’t even get a dessert because “the pastry chef had gone home”

@JIPTranslation @beatricegroves1 @TheSEFilesPod My brain: Jack's parents were banned from Rokeby's restaurant? 🤭 What was their complaint?

My Valentine's Day blog for Sleep Tight, Evangeline! Butterflies, charms & the Pursuit of Love in Strike 9. Many thanks for posting @TheSEFilesPod 🦋🦋🦋 thesefilespod.com/blog/chasing-c…

@IrisThinksMeh @beatricegroves1 @TheSEFilesPod My parents were once banned from his restaurant for complaining, but I doubt that has any relevance 😅

@beatricegroves1 @TheSEFilesPod I'm rereading THM and forgot about the Damien Hirst butterfly mandala in Rokeby's home that Strike stares at in chapter 105. I can't really make anything of it though.

Honestly, the number of 'Can't the disabled man stay at home and live a less full life in case his disability offends others?' takes I've read from people who probably think they're progressive and kind today is fucking mind-blowing.

Happy Birthday to you, Squashed tomatoes and stew You do not have to say anything But it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court and anything you do say may be given in evidence against yoooooou.

"Sorry, can't, scrolling Twitter for Andrew tweets, bye" #PrinceAndrew

@TheAkoFiles Between Megxit and the various Andrew scandals, the Royal Family have certainly been making some valiant efforts to encourage the series’ return 😅

Netflix frantically rewriting the next season of The Crown as we speak.

While I’d never feel sorry for that repugnant man, I’m certainly never going to complain about my birthday ever again.

@JournalismSEEN @BBCBreakfast I’m so fed up with this “Equalities Act” nonsense. It’s so omnipresent amongst politicians that it makes you wonder if they do not sincerely want to install an Orwellian climate of “everyone’s equal, but some people are more equal than others”.

Sir Keir Starmer explaining how devoted he is to women’s rights this morning on @BBCBreakfast This is in response to Reform saying they want to repeal the Equality Act (not the Equalities act as Keir calls it)

@implausibleblog This would be impressive if “the Equalities Act” existed and was not a misrepresentation of the Equality Act 2010. “Equality” because everyone is equal under the law, not “equalities” because some people are more equal than other…

The Green Party's Caroline Lucas humiliates Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #Newsnight "Your position is utterly incoherent" "You have provided no evidence that it's the Equalities Act that discriminates against white working class boys" "And when it comes to the wider issue of taking your word on anything you've said, it seems to be a muddled message" "When you said something about Robert Jenrick a few years ago, we are not to take it seriously, whereas now we are to take you seriously" "We've got Reform UK's Suella Braverman ripping up the Equalities Act" "We've got Richard Tice suggesting people will end up with far more expensive energy bills because he wants to go drilling in the north sea rather than using renewable energy" "Reform UK pretends to be an insurgent party, an anti establishment anti elite party, yet it's stuffed full of old Tory retreads" "It just doesn't add up" "People looking at this press conference this afternoon are going to feel that Reform UK doesn't know what its doing" "The interesting thing of course was Nigel Farage was trying to present the other spokespeople as a way of saying that it's no longer just about me, its' about all of us" "All of you were asked by the press 25 questions, and Nigel Farage answered all of them"

@IrisThinksMeh @HuskSenpai @kendalljayyzhxu There’s also the ambiguity of “I enter a room with 50 people” which could either mean “I enter a room with 50 people in it” or “I and 50 other people enter a room”. In the latter case, there could be any number of people already in the room.

@HuskSenpai @kendalljayyzhxu What if the I is the killer?

How many people still in the room ? 🤔

@IrisThinksMeh @sahsmum1 Ooh I’ll have to see if I can grab a copy or an ebook

@JIPTranslation @sahsmum1 It's Alchemical Imagery by Lyndy Abraham. A dictionary and rabbit hole :-p

So, random quick post of the day. Other people have spotted it as well: in Troubled Blood there's mention of astrologer Evangeline Adams, and her book Your Place In The Sun. (I love the mention of Sun, because some of us, me included, see Robin as silver and Cormoran as Gold when read through astrology or alchemy symbolisms.) One of her clients is said to have been Joseph Campbell (mythologist and one of the first writers publishing about of the Hero's Journey in A Hero with a Thousands Faces). She was arrested and tried for fortune telling, and worked on several books with English occultist Aleister Crowley. I would love some more occult themes in a Strike novel, but this could very well be a coincidence. Right? #SleepTightEvangeline #CormoranStrike #RobertGalbraith #JKRowling

@IrisThinksMeh @sahsmum1 Ooh, which book is this?

@sahsmum1 Found something 😋

@MoxxieShotFirst @tara_kaufmann @tree_180 @cavakaggyreborn @LindsayMLand @IndiaWilloughby @jk_rowling “[A] plot that could have been the most worthless pornography becomes, in Nabokov’s hands, a great and tragic love story.” The full quote certainly reads as a compliment on the writing, not the paedophilic abuse depicted within it, as you seem to suggest.

@tara_kaufmann @tree_180 @JIPTranslation @cavakaggyreborn @LindsayMLand @IndiaWilloughby @jk_rowling Yes, the point of Lolita is that we're supposed to find Humbert awful. However, the fact that Rowling called Lolita "a tragic love story" indicates that she doesn't see it that way.

TRAs trying to intimidate me by using my full name that they copy/pasted from the website that's linked in my bio. They try so hard, bless them!