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CORMORAN STRIKE and ROBIN ELLACOTT in Strike: The Ink Black Heart, episode 3 (2024)

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Every other author sells those rights away too… jk just hit the jackpot. She didn’t do anything that 99% of trad pub authors didn’t. They all hope to be able to one day have movie/tv adaptations, merch, etc. she just WON at how many ppl were pulled in.

I do not care if JKR as an individual "won" at capitalism or not. The capitalist system should not allow someone to "win" at the expense of others. And a true philanthropical or socialist spirit within an individual will not lead said individual to such possession of private wealth. If she is profiting from the global private wealth disparities, then she is as guilty as the cogs and machines that have allowed her to do so. Authorial intent does not matter.

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Robin: Can I have ago?

Strike: No it's MiNe.

Also he looks like he was just defending the Middle Earth or Hogwarts????!?!

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🖤 BONUS OUTTAKE! 🖤

In celebration of the fabulous BBC adaptation of The Ink Black Heart being released, here's a short clip of us talking about the great interviews from show leads Tom Burke and Holliday Grainger.

We are so grateful to have them playing the parts of Strike and Robin and can't wait to see them in The Running Grave! 🖤

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The novelist learnt during her research for the programme that her great-grandmother, Lizzie, her great-great-grandmother, Salomé, and her great-great-great-grandmother, Christine, raised their children alone.

Her maternal grandmother, Louisa, is also believed to have been born out of wedlock.

Rowling, whose personal wealth is thought to be half a billion pounds, wrote the first book of the Harry Potter series following her divorce while living on benefits in a cold Edinburgh flat with her baby daughter. The experience left her clinically depressed.

“What I’m very struck by is how many single mothers I’m descended from in this line of the family,” she said in an interview for the programme. “Twenty years ago, I was teaching and writing in my spare time and was very skint. And not long after that, I became a single mum, so I feel the connection.”

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Petition to have The Running Grave as 6 episodes please…!? 🙏🏻✍🏻🤞🏻

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Strike | The Ink Black Heart It wasn't just a door.

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In light of Brian Thompson being shot dead on my birthday (🎉🥳🎂) I'd like to share a personal story about UnitedHealthcare.

During the peak of COVID, my family all got sick. I couldn't be on my parents' insurance because they were both older and on Medicare. So, I had insurance through my University: UnitedHealthcare.

For some reason, rather than roll-over each year, I got a new plan each year that ended after May and didn't start until August, so I was uninsured for the summer months, but it was a weird situation that the university denied, and told us we were supposed to be insured year-round, it was messy.

Both of my parents went to the hospital, and I got sick too. I had to take care of my pets, and myself, and try to stay alive and keep my pets alive when I was so weak I could hardly move. When my parents came home, my condition got dramatically worse (I think my body knew it couldn't give out, because there was nobody to take care of me, so once my parents were okay, it completely crashed and failed.)

I started experiencing emergency symptoms. It was a bit hard to breathe, my chest hurt, and I was extremely delirious. I wanted to call my insurance to see if I was covered (this was during the summer) and I was connected to some nice person, probably making minimum wage, who told me with caution in her voice that my plan was expired. I had no active insurance, but she urged me to go to an emergency room. I remember saying something to the effect of "You just told me I don't have insurance, I can't go to the hospital, I can't afford it."

She sounded so genuinely worried and scared. I remember she said "You really don't sound good, you sound really sick, please call 9-1-1" and I think I just said "I can't afford it without insurance, don't worry, I think I'll be okay."

And she paused and said "I don't want to hang up the phone with you like this." And it sounded like she was holding back tears. And I don't remember what I said, I think that I would be okay, and I hung up.

I still think about her. I wonder if that phone call haunted her, or if she had dozens of calls like that a day. I wonder if she thinks about it at all, if she wonders if I died after she told me I didn't have insurance and therefore couldn't go to the hospital without incurring a tremendous financial burden. I wonder if she feels guilt or blame-- of course she shouldn't, it wouldn't have been her fault if anything had happened to me. Maybe it's self-centered to wonder if she thinks about it. I'm not the main character and it was just her job. But, still.

I think about how evil it was that we were put in that situation. Because offering year-long continuous coverage through the university plan would maybe cut into profits, maybe not benefit shareholders enough, maybe cut into Thompson's $10 million salary. While his minimum wage administrators have to feel afraid to hang up the phone, because on the other line someone might be dying, and they wouldn't know. While his patients hang up and decide to take their chances rather than put their family through that trauma.

This is UnitedHealthcare. This is Brian Thompson's legacy. This is why, understandably, an entire nation is jubilant that he was gunned down like the vermin he was. I don't care about his widow. I feel pity for his children, despite the fact that they will inherit millions, but I feel more pity for the children of his victims patients who are gone because they didn't want THEIR children to inherit crippling debt. Brian Thompson got what he fucking deserved. I pray that he not be the only one. I pray for continued safety, peace , and anonymity for his killer.

American healthcare is a disease.

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Tom Burke talking about Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) with special guests, his eyebrows and hands.

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Detective Gene?

John H Watson (photo below, right)

Invalided out of the army from Afghanistan, and becomes a biographer and partner of a famous private detective.

Cormoran Strike (photo below, right)

Invalided out of military service after losing half of his right leg in Afghanistan, and becomes a famous private detective.

Over a century apart.

But thirst for seeking truth and adventure runs in family...

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I`m supposed to look after myself.

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