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27th April 2016

Link reblogged from Wertrationalität with 110 notes

Slammed In The Butt By My Hugo Award Nomination - Kindle edition by Chuck Tingle. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com. →

dimitriarkady:
wirehead-wannabe:
oligopsony:
I must reluctantly admit that Vox Day’s influence on the world has not been ENTIRELY negative
“When Tuck Bingle receives and email explaining that he’s been nominated for science fiction literature’s most prestigious award, he’s left utterly confused. On one hand, Tuck is a successful writer of gay, science fiction erotic, but on the other, this email is addressed to someone by the name of Chuck Tingle.
Tuck replies, but his message is not delivered because the recipient exists in another layer of The Tingleverse, a revelation that will take Tuck on a journey into the deepest realms of his butt’s heart.
Soon, Tuck is breaking fourth-walls and anal limits, pounded hard by a handsome sentient Hugo Award nomination named Kelpo and learning the true meaning of homoerotic love!”
I don’t know who writes these, but they’re amazing and I wish them the best of luck in their weird homoerotic endeavors.
Tingle’s schtick is that he writes high modernist gay porn. The weird thing about his getting a Puppy nomination is that this is simultaneously exactly the sort of the thing the Puppies were (originally) complaining about with “politically correct degenerate art house nonsense” and a refutation of the supposed dichotomy between that and “rollicking good fun.” Vox’s other choices, and the fact that he didn’t go for (say) “Pounded in the Butt by my own Book, ‘Pounded in the Butt by my own Butt’” shows that he’s just including it as another throwaway joke at the expense of the process rather than putting much thought in at this level. (And of course Tingle IS a writer of throwaway jokes, just like say dril or Mallory Ortberg are. They’re still influential and justifiably so.) (Tagging
@prokopetz
because he’s the person I most trust to have something interesting to say about the intersection of nerd cultural politics, SFF history, and high modernist gay porn.)

The Space Raptor Butt Invasion nomination is making fun of “If You Were A Dinosaur, My Love”, which won the ‘13 Nebula for short story and was nominated for the ‘14 Hugo. A lot of the Puppies are of the opinion that it wasn’t even a story, let alone an SF one, let alone a good one, and that it was so accorded for Correct ideological box-checking. It’s the distilled symbol of what they stand against.

The joke is “Oh, you like dinosaurs-and-gayness themed crap? Well, this one’s at least got fucking space in it.”

Tagged: hugo awards sad puppies rabid puppies culture war chuck tingle