She visited my primary school in Edinburgh shortly after releasing TPS. The girl in front of me (my friend and train-to-school comrade) was Southeast Asian and has an incredibly elaborate sounding name. When Joanne screwed up her face when my friend gave her her name for the signature, I laughed. This is how she decided to sign my copy.
Based on what was written and OP's explanation, it seems like a lighthearted way to make fun of herself. Her last name rhymes with bowling.
I disagree with the position she has taken on people who are trans, but that doesn't mean that everything she has ever said was cruel and malicious.
People are complicated, and most people are a mix of good and bad. A lot of the lessons in her book were about kindness and acceptance. That doesn't make her position on people who are trans any better, but it also doesn't mean that everything she has ever done is bad or malicious.
It'd be a lot easier if people were all good or all bad, but that's not reality.
Edit: and yes, this is Reddit, so I'm ready for the downvotes to any comment suggesting that a person can be wrong on one issue and right on others, and that the world doesn't just exist in black and white.
Well lucky for us she has made it abundantly clear that she doesn't give a fuck about how using the wrong names makes other people feel, so Joanna Rawlings can just suck it up.
Cue the lowball flippers that come out of the woodwork that Googled other asking prices for signed Stone. BTW, this also is what a first edition title page looks like.
Would need to see more info on the book. Within first edition, you also need to know which print run/impression and if it is hard or soft cover. Looks soft cover by the image. Also need to know the overall condition of the book.
If we assume it is a soft cover, which will be a later print run, in good condition with just a generic signature they seem to go for $2000-$3000. Hard covers later print run go $3000-$6000.
On the other end of the spectrum, a signed manuscript of the philosophers stone sold for ÂŁ35,000.
In general for signed, a highly desirable inscription with the signature would be expected to increase the value by 3 to 4 times. I wouldnât expect it to come anywhere near the value of a signed manuscript though.
So my zero-antiques-road-show-experience estimate is $7500-$10000 for a book with this inscription if it is a soft cover, up to $15,000 if it is a hardcover, up to $20,000 if it is a hardcover from very early print run.
Yeah... I'm nonbinary. I understand what you mean.
Maybe considering donating it to a trans rights charity to auction? They'd probably be able to get decent money from the spectacle, and it would help to undo some of the harm.
I also went to primary school in Edinburgh, and around the time that JKR released The Tales of Beedle the Bard, we were invited for a reading of one of the short stories.
I was the only ginger lad in the class, and what else could she think to write in the first page, than "You look like a Weasely".
Needless to say, being ginger in primary school in the mid 2000s was not particularly brilliant, my name was Weasely for a good week or two afterwards.
Call me Kevin is one of the funniest youtubers Ive ever watched. Guy has so much fun just fucking around in-game. It's truely how games like the Sims are meant to be played.
I've noticed that as well. I'm hoping it's just that he isn't putting on his "YouTuber facade" so to speak or just where he's editing less stuff out. That said I can't imagine that the vast free time he has being retired at like 30ish is helping. At the risk of sounding parasocial and arm chair psychologist, given what he's said about his mental health issues I imagine he struggles to find goals or aims at this point since he doesn't really NEED to work towards anything and that probably does a number mentally.
Last month he put out a video where he talked about how his house was basically on the verge of total collapse for the last several months, dudes been going through it. Hes got an action plan apparently, so i expect his on-screen mood will be less "im trying to not acknowledge the sound of my roof shifting in a bad way, and my floor moving under me as i breathe... and i dont have the energy to keep up the vibes under these circumstances" in due time.
Ok but to make the irish character have a really stereotypical name and love blowing things up is too much. She might as well have called him Paddy MacCarbomb
It's really true about Irish names. I'm running a dnd campaign and the party is in this feywild/material plane liminal space that is both and neither, and everything is very fantasy-Irish. I've introduced them to like, four or five key NPC's for this place so far, and with each one they've said some variation of "that's the most Irish sounding name I've ever heard." And it's like. Siobhan MacDonough and Rory Finnegan.
Zhou Zhang (which is how you render that in modern pinyin, as opposed to wade-giles, which was the romanization scheme for chinese extant when the books were being written) is an incredibly common chinese name. Look it up, there are maybe literally a million Zhou Zhangs. It's another stereotypical name like Seamus Finnegan, tentamount to naming an american character something like "Jessica Smith", but not really beyond the pale.
Itâs meant to be stereotypical? The whole point is that a child reader, or anyone, can immediately tell he is Irish. This is what literary tropes and things like that are used for.
Honestly, youâd swear this people would rather he be called Jesus Rodriguez yet still be Irish or something. Seamus Finnegan is an Irish name, itâs not absurdly stereotypical - if she were going to go âhaha letâs stereotype himâ the only option she could choose would be Paddy âO something.
You're just fishing for any little thing that can be considered bad about Harry Potter lol. I don't think they're pivotal literature, but they were good books to grow up with and it's ridiculous how much everyone tries to hate them now.
They all seem normal to me. Like woah, you mean to tell me the magical school that finds young wizards all over the world wouldnât have names from all over the world?
Didn't someone do a write up on Reddit about how, while it would definitely be a very uncommon name, its still a (potential? reasonable? Unsure of how to word it) Chinese name.
âOur servants are biologically predisposed to that lifestyle and mostly donât want to be freed. We treat them very well which shows weâre the good ones.â
I had an artist's team write me a nastygram once in a merch order accusing me of "screwing over the artists" by not adding the check-box for the dedication add-on. Something which was only possible because their site let you request a dedication without checking the box. No error. No indication you need to check the box to do a dedication. Nothing.
They also never reached out to say hey, we see you missed this, would you like us to send you a custom order for the add-on pricing, or just cancel your order?
(I'd actually checked that box, too, then clicked away from the page, came back, and refilled it, but forgot to check it the second time."
Sent the artist a note about how maybe he didn't want to be represented by people like that. He wrote me back even nastier. I trashed the item since it was no refunds and stopped supporting him through a subscription service, so he lost more than the $10 it would've netted him. đ
Yep. Not surprised. I sent him (Jeph Jaques) a message asking him why he didn't denounce incels reordering a comic of his (can't find it now, referred to rape) and his reply was totally shitty.Â
Ahh that's so sad, my high school years coincided with the start of his webcomic and I've always liked his stuff (as you can probably guess from my username).
Seems like a lot of the webcomic creators from the mid 2000s turned out to be jerks :'(
They ordered merchandise (given it's from a webcomic, probably some sort of book) that had the option to add a printed dedication.
The order page was not constructed correctly. Customers could access the text field to enter their desired dedication without first checking the box that would append the surcharge, essentially turning it into a trust system where you could 'steal' the dedication.
The team chose to react spitefully when it would have been more diplomatic to explain the mistake, cancel the order and offer OP the opportunity to reorder correctly.
It's neoliberalism distilled in a bottle. See a brown person - have a racist thought - project your racist thought onto a child - power trip trying to humiliate the child - preen at how morally righteous you are.
Such a selfish response from her. She noticed you laughing and instead of dismissing it as unrelated to her, or realizing it was because she made a face, she instead assumed you had a similar reaction as she had to the name (negative, thinking its a weird name) and laughed. She didn't think about the fact that most kids know each other at elementary schools, or would line up with their friends. At the very least, this wouldn't likely be the FIRST time you heard her name even if you were not close. She didn't have enough empathy to realize your perspective and experience was different and instead of just letting it go, decided to make it a "learning moment." Bet she was really proud of this too.
Probably thought she was an expert on kids interacting with each other after imagining them doing it in her head for years.
If I'd been given this I'd have straight up said "I wasn't laughing at [name]'s name, that's my friend" and JK would probably have lectured that I was since she's incapable of being corrected on anything. That would've put me off her books instantly.
My favorite Harry Potter adjacent fact is that when Voldemort appears in The Lego Batman Movie, he's voiced by a trans person (Suzy Eddie Izzard) lol. My favorite version.
TIL the original UK version was called the Philosopherâs Stone. I only knew of the Sorcererâs stone. Which is dumb they changed it for the US version.
Okay, but that is not a bad thing though. She thought you were laughing at someone's name, so she wrote a message saying not to. She may have done some slightly odd stuff since, but that does not mean that literally everything she has ever done must be evil in some way.
I do not agree with her and I am not hugely fond of her writing, but this is just silly.
This wasn't only a dick move but also demonstrating a general lack of thought behind it.
You see a kid laughing so it must be laughing at someone's name?
If it was the kid's first time hearing a strange name, perhaps. But they're classmates. Classmates aren't meeting for the first time. They've obviously heard the name before, and unless they're giggling every single time it comes up, it makes no sense.
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