Chuck Tingle has gone way beyond niche porn into some other dimension. Witness titles like: Slammed In The Butthole By My Concept Of Linear Time, Buttception: A Butt Within A Butt Within A Butt, Breaking The Fourth Butt: Eight Hot-To-Trot Meta Tinglers, Turned Gay By The Existential Dread That I May Actually Be A Character In A Chuck Tingle Book, Reamed By My Reaction To The Title Of This Book, and Living Inside My Own Butt For Eight Years, Starting A Business And Turning A Profit Through Common Sense Reinvestment And Strategic Targeted Marketing
You donât mess with a guy who writes book titles like that.
I already loved Chuck Tingle for his amazing book titles, but I had no idea how fantastic his Twitter feed is. Itâs another universe with his mysterious son, his frozen wife, and his nemesis VOXMAN.
What a great response. I want to hang out with this guy.
Thank you! You just earned Chuck a new follower. What a kick ass Twitter banner he has.
Edited to add: Somewhat related to gamergate. The other day I was at a shop and the person asked if I was a gamer and for the first time in my life I didnât know how to answer. And then I realized I had been standing there for nearly thirty seconds having this internal dialog about if I was a gamer anymore and if so if I wanted to admit it and how weird that was to even have to consider. So then I felt awkward. Laughed more awkwardly and mumbled something about not knowing anymore.
Itâs not an internal awards dynamic - itâs small, outside groups waging cultural jihad the last few years, invading and shitting all over everything because they think they should run things but instead are totally irrelevant. Itâs overlapping groups, first âGamergateâ with video games and now the two âPuppiesâ Hugo awards, with the Puppies being ISIS to Gamergateâs Al Qaeda. They figured out how to sabotage the Hugo voting by exploiting a flaw in the system that allows a tiny but organized group to have hugely disproportionate power.
Iâm still getting caught up on the plot involving his family; apparently his wife is usually frozen at the bottom of a lake, but has recently started visiting him and his son Jon. VOXMAN is trying to tempt him to collaborate on THE MATRIX 3: BIG DAY OUT staring Kenna Reves.
Theyâve changed the system of nominations but the changes canât go into effect until next year. This is a last gasp on the part of the puppies.
In fact, theyâve driven up the registration by fans to vote on Hugos. I joined last year just to act as a counterbalance to their craziness. So did many of my SF reading friends.
These awards havenât been like this before the last year. Itâs the result of a destructive mob recently organized by modern communications. My impression is that this is a kind of internet raised âtall poppyâ-ism because their targets are usually independent creators, reviewers, and awards â anything involving attention they think they deserve instead, despite being apparently unable to produce much beyond memes.
Though granted this weakness requires the internet to exploit, itâs been possible for a while, and whatâs telling is that no one had done it before - nor had anyone thought it would even be an issue. Because these people arenât looking for disproportionate control in and of itself, but simply using that as a means to generally fuck shit up - trolling, in other words.
I find it hard to believe that people like Vox Day would be assholes. Granted, Iâve got kind of an odd superpower. People say itâs more of a curse, but I donât believe them*.
