Human garbage pile/fantasy author Vox Day evidently thought he was being very clever when he included the gloriously weird, butt-obsessed (world’s greatest) author Chuck Tingle in his Rabid Puppy slate for the Hugo Awards, assuming that a Hugo nomination for the man behind such ridiculous and hallucinatory metafiction as Pounded in the Butt by My Own Butt would make the evil Social Justice Warriors see red.
Then Tingle out-trolled Vox — VOXMAN, in Tinglespeak — by announcing that, as he wouldn’t be able to attend the Hugo awards himself he would be sending “true buckaroo ZOE QUINN” to accept the award for him.
Tingle has now expanded his crusade against VOXMAN and his soft devilman agenda by putting up a site mocking the Rabid Puppies at the URL TheRabidPuppies.com. Because VOXMAN — oops! — didn’t think to register that domain.
As Tingle explains, in his inimitable style,
sometimes devilmen are so busy planning scoundrel attacks they forget to REGISTER important website names. this is a SOFT WAY of the antibuckaroo agenda but is also good because it makes it easy for BUDS WHO KNOW LOVE IS REAL to prove love (all).
please understand this is website to take DARK MAGIC and replace with REAL LOVE for all who kiss the sky.
To further thwart VOXMAN’s “scoundrel attacks,” Tingle is using the page to promote the work of some of VOXMAN’s least favorite people. He recommends the Hugo-nominated The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin, the target of one of VOXMAN’s most notorious racist attacks.
Tingle also promotes the Crash Override network, the anti-harassment initiative of his new “best friend zoe quinn,” declaring it a “nice network to give MEAN BULLIES the boot this is good place to donate and PROVE LOVE REAL.” (Seriously; it’s a great resource.)
And he puts in a plug for “If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love” author Rachel Swirsky’s “posteriors for posterity” fundraiser for lgbtq health.
Oh, and the Billings, Montana public library. (Tingle says he lives in Billings.)
It’s almost as if LOVE IS REAL.
H/T — WHTM commenter Lady_Zombie
I had never heard about Chuck Tingle before this whole thing, and now I want to support his weird, surreal erotica. I’m totally behind* his pro-LOVE agenda.
*get it???
Oh also, thank you BritterSweet, for the perfect addition to this post!
Tina Belcher sums it up.
Also, that guy with the unicorn head is…kind of hot really…
(Sorry; had to.)
“Meet Worldcon 2015. WorldCon 2015 was a cluster** best characterized by its unofficial slogan, “Seriously?”, moustache-twirling, and sympathetic hugs to the brave.
This could have been avoided if it had a sassy gay friend.
What I wish I knew is how it is that Chuck Tingle can write in his charming idiolect as well as in perfectly straightforward grammatical English in his books.
Thanks for this. My husband and I were able to distract ourselves while waiting for a sick kitty to be triaged in the ER last night by reading through Dr Tingle’s lovely writings. <3
guest:
Because he’s WORLD’S GREATEST AUTHOR, of course! It says so, right there on the poster!
Chuck Tingle is also a prophet! I mean, how did he know humanity needed shirts for hard buds and true buckaroos to prove LOVE IS REAL!
Thank you, Doctor.
https://teespring.com/stores/chuck-tingles-shirts-for-buds
It’s a good example of code-switching, isn’t it?
I kind of hope the dude wins a Hugo now. He’s cheered so many people up.
OT, but this is something of a feel-good thread, so I’ll post it here:
The Senate has passed the Sexual Assault Survivor’s Rights Bill with a nearly unanimous vote (an almost unheard-of victory in itself these days, given the divisions between the parties), and it now moves to the House.
Key provisions:
1: Rape victims are entitled to request a forensic rape kit, without charge.
2: Rape kits must be kept intact, without charge, for the entire statute of limitations for sexual assault in that state.
3: If the state intends to destroy a kit for any reason, they need to notify the victim and permit an appeal.
It also has a big section on creating a ‘working group’ of experts to develop a best-practices approach to helping survivors of assault.
There’s even a bit at the end that politely urges prosecutors and police to not charge rape victims for minor crimes (such as underage drinking), especially if the evidence for it comes from their testimony about the rape, or from the forensic exams–and to reassure the victim about that point. (They can’t actually forbid doing so outright, but they included ‘sense of Congress’ language that could be used to advocate for changes in state law to this effect.)
If you’re a U.S. citizen, please contact your House Representative to urge them to pass the bill and send it to Obama.
Haven’t yet read the comments here yet, but thought all y’all would be amused by the ad I saw running on this page: a Tough Mudder ad, with the tag lines ‘Go Hard Together’ and ‘Get Filthy’. Given the subject of this post, I found that funny, at least.
Naughty fun and kind of sexy. This is the best kind of revenge. ;>)
I’m not usually big on butt pounding, but I’ll happily make an exception in true buckaroo, Chuck Tingle’s case. Going to keep my eyes open for N. K. Jemisin’s work, too.
@aunt podger, I think YOU win the thread, that was perfect.
I love everything about this.
Tingle is a really cool guy. Love how he has turned this all around on Vox. Vox needs to realize that all White men do not share his racist, sexist, homophobic viewpoint.
Mostly because Chuck Tingle is just a character, but the implied in-character reason is that when his adult son edits his books he does most of the writing.