Saharzish Riaz

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[Lori Love @thereallorilove]

Erika Kirk has more anger and contempt for Candace Owens than she does for Tyler Robinson.

Why couldn’t she find the time in between her TV appearances to just call Candace and discuss this privately?

Bad look.

[Saharzish Riaz @Saharzish]

@elonmuskTN 39

[Saharzish Riaz @Saharzish]

@jk_rowling Absolutely agree with you!

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.

I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.

Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.

However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.

When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.

The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.

Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?

I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.

The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.

Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.

[The Hunger Games @HungerGamesUK]

This one's for the fans. Thank you.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — only in cinemas November 2023. #TheHungerGames

[Saharzish Riaz @Saharzish]

@MaryamNSharif 😂😂

[Am 🪂🍉🩷 #BinJin @AmLiRa7]

"I'm really thorough when it comes to work, so men don't really like me..."

Son Yejin deserved a man who would support and understand her, and Hyun Bin is everything, her first fan, who never tried to dim her light ❤️

[George RR Martin @GRRMspeaking]

Are those dragons I see?

Yes indeed.

It's May, which means the August 21 premiere of HOUSE OF THE DRAGON is only a few months away.

And HBO has just released a new trailer, to give you another taste of what you'll be seeing.

https://t.co/0ycvRLLEnz

Enjoy.

[George RR Martin @GRRMspeaking]

#TargaryenThursday We’re so excited to announce The Rise of The Dragon, a lavish visual history of House Targaryen – the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon – featuring over 180 all-new illustrations! https://t.co/TxUWpjqQV8

[mau 🍂 @villainsaints]

the urge to read tons of romance books and then cry because my life doesn’t look like any of the plots

[Saqlain Mushtaq @Saqlain_Mushtaq]

Very powerful, very lightning msg. One of my well wisher sent this today and thought to forward you all. Stay blessed.

[Bilawal Bhutto Zardari @BBhuttoZardari]

The Pakistan Peoples Party will be protesting across the country today after Friday prayers. PTI incompetence has resulted in a gas crisis across Pakistan. Prices have gone up by 300% over 3 years & the people still suffer with no gas during the coldest months of the year.

[George RR Martin @GRRMspeaking]

Aerion Targaryen - #TargaryenThrusday
The fourth down the line from Aenar, Aerion was a member of the House during the Century of Blood, the only son of Lord Daemion Targaryen of Dragonstone and father of Aegon, Rhaenys and Visenya.

[Shadow And Bone @Shadow_AndBone]

We’re getting a Grishaverse graphic novel! Demon in the Wood will be a prequel about The Darkling! 🖤

[George RR Martin @GRRMspeaking]

Kicking off #TargaryenThursdays with Aenar Targaryen, The Lord who Left or Aenar the Exile. In 114 BC, 12 years before the fall and after a prophetic dream from his Daughter, he fled Valyria and moved the Targaryen name to a new land and establishing Dragonstone.

[Saharzish Riaz @Saharzish]

Is that even a question? Aidan. Of course Aidan!

[E! News @enews]

Let's Debate: Who Was the Better SATC Boyfriend for Carrie, Aidan or Big? https://t.co/fS0l2K0YyZ

[VANITY FAIR @VanityFair]

Scarlett Johansson says we find Natasha Romanoff in "a moment of real crisis" in #BlackWidow: "She actually kind of comes through on the other side and is able to sort of reset into a space where she's a more grounded, self-possessed person." https://t.co/OYtqNl67OZ

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

Word of the day is ‘clinomania’: the excessive desire to stay in bed.