#PIKER

[neil-gaiman]

I'm listening to the audiobook of Neverwhere on Audible and I was very surprised to find a casual racial slur in the prose. I checked a pdf online (sorry), and saw the text was different and had replaced the word "piker" with "pipsqueak" in chapter nine.

I'm glad edits like that can happen. Is it usually your idea, or the publisher? I can't imagine you'd be endlessly checking your old books to edit.

I've never heard of "piker" used as a racial slur. The only definition I've ever run across was that of someone who does things, especially financial things, in a small way -- per Dictionary.com it's

a person who does anything in a contemptibly small or cheap way.

a stingy, tight-fisted person; tightwad.

ORIGIN OF PIKER

1275–1325; Middle English: petty thief, equivalent to pik(en) to pick1 + -er1; compare dial. (N England, Scots, Hiberno-English ) pike to pick

And Per Miriam-Webster:

1: one who gambles or speculates with small amounts of money

2: one who does things in a small way

Etymology

pike to play cautiously, of unknown origin

(Both of them are good at warning you if you are using an offensive term, and neither of them do.)

I checked Wiktionary and found many more definitions, none of them racist or offensive:

I changed it to pipsqueak because I liked the word better, and because more people knew it in the UK.

[harpyco]

behold

TEA

LEMME JOIN U

[makymakvrchat]

Elon Musk vs Hassan Piker

[primepaginequotidiani]

PRIMA PAGINA De Morgen di Oggi venerdì, 09 maggio 2025

[gaybuckybarnesss]

HASAN PIKER Twitch 4/12/25

[radfemyjasdottir]

here we go again. moid who loves visiting brothels, dates and fucks porn stars, and brags about having sex with over 1000 women is defending sex work.

fucking kill yourself hasan.

[alonewithdestiny-blog]

YOU CAN NOW WATCH P0*N ON TWITCH!?

[internetstuds]

Hasan Piker and AustinShow

[daddyish]

hasan

[political-us]

[harpyco]

think i should tell you how cool you are :3 i always enjoy playing sky with youuuu

Hehehe and so you are

It’s been very fun with you :>

[makymakvrchat]

Hassan Piker

[unstablecryptid]

[squinch-depraved]

p! link masterlist ✧*̣̩⋆̩☽⋆゜

!!! submissions are open if you have a link you'd like to share !!!

꒰ thank you to everyone who sent stuff for this, i hope to continue adding to it !! ꒱

✦jschlatt:

the one that started it all

sitting on his lap

short but sweet

i could totally see him waking you up like this

he would absolutely film this you can't convince me otherwise

unpaid intern schlatt 1

unpaid intern schlatt 2

vid for this fic

✦ted nivison

him holding you in his lap and playing with you

making him eat you out while you read

just kinda grabbing him

bathroom sex

ted and his stupid little apple watch

✦charlie slimecicle

lazy sex with charlie

slow and romantic

pounding up into you from behind

you cannot tell me he wouldn't be into this

teasing you

jerking him off like this>>>

✦cooper cscoop

this is so cooper coded icl

this is also very cooper coded

buzzcut! cooper coded

this is so fuckin perfect omg

everything about this !!!

✦hasan piker/hasanabi

bulge thread !!