i have been constantly in tears over this newly hatched duck i found on instagram last night

This is like the greatest animal ive ever seen

Happy 32nd birthday to my sibling @awesomepaste who requested Boromir and Faramir being happy for their birthday present. And why shouldn't they get to be happy?

So I’ve begun reading Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Theater of Love, by Chuck Tingle...

If only every author gave approximately this number of fucks.

I’m about...5? Chapters in? My impression so far is that one is better than the first one (Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus, for the uninitiated).

A lot of parody works don’t stand all that well on their own as stories, but as batshit fucking insane as this parody is, it is somehow not one of them. It’s got genuinely interesting worldbuilding and a relationship at the core of it that you can genuinely root for (or at least *I* am).

Like, the healthy communication, mutual respect, boundary setting, it’s so??? Good???

This is not batshit crazy dino porn.

This is batshit crazy dino ...mutually respectful, openly communicative, healthy love???

I have the overwhelming need to communicate to you that when I say “worldbuilding,” I mean it’s implied that Harriet’s last spell, which closed off the last book, was internationally banned by the United Nations because it threatened to crash the global economy.

And also this.

No one is doing it like Chuck Tingle.

“The readers should know to use plenty of lube.”

This book is an experience impossible to describe. The fourth wall breaks work, and they’re so goddamn funny, and somehow make it acceptable to receive a PSA from a sexy dinosaur about the importance of lube.

Okay, so, I last read this when I was in school and lowkey having a breakdown, but now I’ve decided hey, it’s a good time to come back and finish it!

Chuck Tingle delves more deeply about his magic system and how it relates to his characters than JKR does in any given equivalent amount of words

It has happened.

I have purchased Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus

Will provide updates

IT’S HERE

I’m going to start it pretty soon. I’m for some reason locked out of my student account and email and IT was no help as usual, so what is there to do except read a parody romance novel written specifically to spite J.K. Rowling?

Chuck Tingle has more or less become a meme because of his bizarre titles and covers and because of the Hugo fiasco, but I’ve heard relatively little about what it’s like to actually read his work and I frankly have no idea what to expect or if I should go into this with expectations at all

This book is...surprisingly easy to take seriously as a book. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. But it’s like. A Book and not just an extended joke. Like on some level it’s not particularly terribly written nor does the plot like, completely exist in service to the...whatever humor is derived from the self-aware absurdity of the premise

AFSGFBCHH??

I love that he’s not even described as a humanoid dinosaur. He’s just sexy goth tattooed Severus snape and he’s also a parasaurolophus and we are left to just figure it out

I have to talk about what is going on with the worldbuilding. Like this is a parody. Of Harry Potter. But there’s an entirely different magic system and....everything???

In summary

...Warlocks in this world get their powers from a pact with Chuck Tingle

The fourth wall break is killing me.

The sexy dinosaur is also trans

As much as I love skillfully crafted satire that takes deft jabs at the flaws of the thing it’s lampooning, there’s also something charming about how every character in this book has a name blatantly and hilariously derived from a Harry Potter character regardless of how most of their roles in the story barely resemble anything like characters in Harry Potter.

...You know, I’m not even sure Chuck Tingle has read Harry Potter.

I’m back to reading. Does chocolate milk have intoxicating effects on sentient motorcycles??

...sentences I never thought I’d write

chuck tingle’s magic system is unironically better than jk Rowling’s I’m sorry

I’m so sorry to sample the sex scene but. “sexualis secondus” just killed me. I have been pronounced dead by this book. im obliterated this is indescribable

I.

I literally have no idea how to describe what I’m experiencing right now. Like this is a somewhat poorly edited parody adult dinosaur romance novel but. It’s genuinely?? Creative?? In a lot of ways???? And there’s a lot of heart to it, a lot of genuine powerful messages about identity and about art and creativity and the fourth-wall-breaking device is...I can’t explain it because that would spoil it but it’s actually pulled off so well?????

This is not like, a humorous joke story this guy did for Being a Little Shit and Spite reasons, it’s like actually in its themes and message a genuine “fuck you” to j.k. Rowling’s transphobia even though it’s this absolutely wild janky batshit story and I have never experienced anything like this in my LIFE

I did not expect my adhd little heart to be touched by understanding of my fears about creativity and writing and its place in my life. Not like this. What the fuck. What the fuck.

FGDHXWGBKVGSSHBIIDQTVJKBSZVYSTVJKJVBXSGHXHVN

the idea of public restrooms as "women's spaces" continues to confound me. you know who I hope is in a public bathroom when I go in?? no one. I would prefer no one else be in the bathroom. and if someone else is in the bathroom I am going to ignore them as much as possible. I did not go into the bathroom to connect with other women. I went into the bathroom to piss and/or shit. it's a toilet's space, not a women's space. shut the fuck up and let trans people piss and shit in peace. let's all continue to avoid eye contact with each other and any and all interaction in the toilet's space.

“If you have time to watch Netflix you have time for a side hustle” my side hustle is relaxing so that my body and brain can heal from by this nose-to-the-grindstone bullshit. I refuse to feel guilty for being a human with the need to relax sometimes. my side hustle is no.

whenever i hear about hustle culture i always think about this post on r/antiwork

Welcome to the age of enthusiasm.

Unironically love this

I think I’m going to think about this youtube comment forever

Pizza VS Flower with bee on it VS Bisexuality VS Wind turbine

For anyone who doesn't want to watch the video, he used a list of things from Wikidata, pared it down to about 8000 things that most people would have heard of, and made a website where people voted for the best option in randomly selected pairs of things.

Pizza was voted the 9th best thing, making it the best food. Bees weren't in the top 10 best things, but they won 77% of matchups to be selected as the best creature, followed by emperor penguins and hedgehogs. Bisexuality didn't place in the top 10 either, but it won 73% of matchups compared to heterosexuality winning only 45%. (Orgasms were the highest ranked sexual thing, and were miraculously ranked at number 69.) I think the windmill is supposed to stand for electricity, which was the second place winner. And the winner of "best thing" was sleep.

... honestly, I would agree with that list more or less.

love how pizza just outranks privacy. very real.

An excerpt from the trial of Elinor Crane, who was arrested in Middlesex in 1693 on suspicion of burglary. A witness claimed one of the burglars was a woman in men's clothing, and Elinor had previously been seen in the area dressed as a man.

"But the Court asking her why she went in Mans Apparel, the Prisoner replyed, She went to Wooe a Widow. Upon the whole Matter the Jury brought her in not Guilty."

(source: Old Bailey Proceedings: Accounts of Criminal Trials, April 26, 1693.)

#'why were you wearing pants?' 'hot milfs in my area' 'understandable - next case'

People against piracy fail to realize that no, I can’t just ‘buy it.’ They stopped making DVDs and Blu-Rays. They’re barely offering digital copies for download. I am not spending money I could use for food or bills to pay for a subscription service just so I can always have access to a beloved piece of media. Especially not when the service will remove media on a whim without concern for how the loss of access to that piece will make its artistic conservation nigh impossible.

For example, I recently learned that Disney+ had an original film called Crater. It’s scifi, family friendly, and seems cool - I would love to buy it as a holiday gift for my little brother! But: it’s exclusive to D+ and THEY REMOVED IT LITERALLY MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE.

The ONLY way I can directly access this film is through piracy. The ONLY available ‘copies’ of this film are hosted on piracy websites. Disney will NEVER release it in theaters, or as something to buy, and it may NEVER return to the streaming service. It will be LOST because we aren’t allowed to purchase it for personal viewing. If I can’t pay to own it, I won’t pay for the privilege of losing it when corporate decides to put it in a vault.

So yes, I’m going to pirate and support piracy.

Addendum: This is also a really good reason to support trust-busting. A lot of this obnoxious behavior is only possible because corporations wield monopoly power.

another addendum: most modern (4K UHD) blurays use a form of online DRM that requires the player software to access a server to get title specific decryption keys. you don't really own a film on one of those disks any more than you do on streaming, the only way to truly preserve it is to rip off the disks or from streaming, not even the physical media you can "buy" can necessarily be preserved anymore.

PIRACY ALWAYS HAS BEEN AND ALWAYS WILL BE MEDIA PRESERVATION

It's a good thing to bear in mind that just because someone is correct doesn't necessarily mean that they are right. For example, it's true that in order to maintain consistent work, you've got to have a consistent routine. A good routine consisting of good habits is as vital to consistent work as building a sturdy foundation is important to a house. It doesn't matter how good all your other plans are - no foundation, no house. This is correct.

However, a sturdy foundation requires solid ground to build upon. And sometimes, some people just don't have that. Sometimes you've just got a swamp for a brain. You can try to build foundations, over and over again, but that isn't going to work. All your fine stonework and masonry is just going to go to waste, sinking before it settles. and you've tried doing that so many times that you know that it isn't going to work. The rocks just disappear.

And people who don't understand what the fuck you're even talking about think you're lying. Solid stonework house foundations don't just magically disappear on their own. So they tell you to try again, accusing you of being lazy for being unwilling to keep doing work that you know is futile and achieves nothing. You cannot explain what the problem is to people who have never experienced it, and people who don't understand the problem can't help you.

But just because you can't do shit their way doesn't mean that you can't do shit. Problems nobody else has require solutions nobody else does. If you've got to build a house on a swamp, you've got to put that thing on stilts.

1963 Refrigerator 🤔

Look what they took from us 😭

I am drooling

This gets me more excited than anything smart refrigerators can offer. I want to learn refrigerator repair just so I can buy one and maintain it for all eternity.

source: [rosecutclothing] posted Nov 30, 2023