Kristi Israel

Christian, storyteller, performer, folklorist, foodie, fangirl of well-told tales...exploring the importance of story in the grander scheme. @theepicarc

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@jk_rowling @HJoyceGender Oh wait, nevermind, I see. This is not an ironic post

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@jk_rowling @HJoyceGender Which one is Fred??? I just can't keep up.

[The Wonder of Tolkien @TolkienWonder]

"So it may be said that the chief purpose of life, for any one of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all the means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks."

- Tolkien
Letter 310

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@CrowdedHead I am here, but I've been a bit lax lately!

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@secretsalesrep1 @consequence He's probably one of the best and most skilled musicians to walk this planet.

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@benonwine HoneyBun- works well!

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WOW! So well-said. Almost like she should be a writer or something 🤔 😌🫶

[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.

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#Survivor49 HERE WE GOOOOOO!!!!!

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I am so stoked about #Andor returning for another season. This trailer is SICK..https://t.co/zrsPUODkiX

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I often yell angrily in my room. My dogs grow concerned until I tell them I'm mad at writers. They seem to get it.

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Just watching Dobby the Elf's death in DH1, and remembering way back to the Chamber of Secrets when Harry said something like, "Dobby, just promise me you'll never try to save my life again." #Rowling writes EPICS, YO!!!! Her brilliant moments are NOT ACCIDENTAL...

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Sorry for all the tens of you who follow me- been gone a minute. Whew! Nice break!!!

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The Aldhani heist is STRESSING ME OUT!!! #Andor

[Will Maddux @MLBMetrics]

Nobody in MLB history had reached 30/60 in a season and Ronald Acuña Jr. is about to get 40/70.

MVP, case closed.

[Blooper @BlooperBraves]

2 home runs on his bobblehead night, 1 more from 40

Ronald Acuña Jr is my MVP

[MLB @MLB]

Ronald Acuña Jr. is the first player to 200 hits this season!

[Braves On FanDuel Sports Network @FanDuelSNBraves]

Ronald Acuña Jr. now leads the National League with 205 hits, 138 runs, 67 stolen bases and a 1.014 OPS.

Did we mention he also has 39 home runs and 100 RBI?

@TruistNews | #TruistPlayerOfTheGame

[The Astra Awards @TheAstraAwards]

The 2023 HCA TV Awards nominees for Best Actor in a Streaming Drama Series are:

Antony Starr - The Boys
Diego Luna - Andor
Dominic West - The Crown
Harrison Ford - 1923
Jack Quaid - The Boys
Logan Lerman - Hunters
Patrick Stewart - Star Trek: Picard
Penn Badgley - You

#HCATVAwards #You #StarTrekPicard #Hunters #TheBoys #TheCrown #Andor #StarWars

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In other news, I'm a little behind, but #Andor is Star Wars Rock and Roll!!!

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Ugh. Every time I want to post here now I feel like I'm opening an app representing the House of Bolton...the flayed man. Ick. I'm trying to move past it. SUCH a horrible rebrand.