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J.K. Rowling has flooded Twitter with otters for all the right reasons

This is otterly uplifting.
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J.K. Rowling has flooded Twitter with otters for all the right reasons
"Come, my otter brethren! We must find J.K. Rowling and comfort her!" Credit: Tony Moir/Solent News/REX/Shutterstock

Good old J.K. has never shied away from political comment on Twitter, but this morning she seemed ready to pack it all in.

Luckily, the internet was on hand to help heal her world-weariness.

Preparing for Ottersplosion in 3... 2 ... 1...

Think those are good? How about a whole BUNCH OF OTTERS.

And of course, someone had to state the obvious.

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Historian Tom Holland even provided an archeology-inspired otter.

Someone tried to go slightly off-book...

...But J.K. does not suffer fools lightly.

She really could not have been clearer about wanting otters.

For too long politics has been an arid, otter-less desert -- no longer! Thanks to the woman who has already brought us so much joy with her writing, a healing rain of otters has fallen into our bleak, grey lives...


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