Udue exception. She felt. Necessary. For the first time Stephen King shared on Twitter a photo of him. With a specific goal: stand in favor of Ukraine and say no to war.
Stephen King and his Twitter photo
This is not just any shot. Posing in front of the home library in the classic jeans-baseball cap uniform, the writer also wears a t-shirt with an unmistakable slogan (in yellow and blue): “I stand with Ukraine” (“I am with Ukraine“). It is also the first photo of Stephen King on social media, in the sense of a photo posted by him. “I don’t usually post photos of myself, but today it’s an exceptionHe wrote, and the exception to which he refers is obviously Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
Tweets about Putin
With 6.6 million followers, King talks about everything on social media: from books to movies to politics. But since the beginning of the Ukrainian invasion war became the main topic. Which also includes many digs at the Russian president: “For the first time in a long and infamous career, Putin looks stupid. It must be a shock to him“.
Or it shares the status of other intellectuals, thinkers and writers committed to manifesting, such as Margaret Atwood on the streets of Toronto with the Ukrainian flag.
On the side of the smallest
Its position on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is therefore clear, and elsewhere it sounds like interventionist. “What most of us learned as kids on the playground: don’t watch while a big boy beats a child “is a tweet that leaves little doubt.
“You could take a punch or two – continues King -, making the big boy stop, but that’s the right thing to do“.
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