Yup.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 April 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Basically I'm hoping the AMA is not a lie because pretending to suffer from mental health problems for a laugh is pretty reprehensible. If, on the other hand, it is true, then it's kind of heartwarming, as well as hilarious and weird.
― emil.y, Thursday, 28 April 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
I want to believe
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
I hate that it seems so unlikely, because it would be pretty sweet if it were real, but the verification is...a link to the Chuck Tingle twitter saying he has a son. idk.
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
there's like no way that this is real? i haven't read the books but his twitter sounds exactly like 50% of weird twitter
― yellow despackling power (Will M.), Thursday, 28 April 2016 22:56 (seven years ago) link
I posted those images before reading the AMA, but I agree with JCLC and Will M.: the AMA seems like another (more distasteful) layer of fiction, and it's very hard not to read his twitter as a sustained performance.
― one way street, Thursday, 28 April 2016 23:53 (seven years ago) link
it is ironic that the most offensive thing done by the author of "pounded in the butt by my own butt" is the positing of a metafiction in which the author is autistic, but it's also true. like, the titles/books are funny, but if "I'm his son! he's autistic!" is part of the gag, I find it p. gross
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 29 April 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
his twitter sounds exactly like 50% of weird twitter
Well, yeah, which tallies with my initial assumption that the series was a 'joke' (using scare quotes because it's hard to quantify joke here - 'exercise in surrealist erotica wherein the author is fully aware of its absurdity' is a bit long-winded). But I thought the AMA was very consistent and constantly emphasised the humanity of the author (cf "laughing with not laughing at" etc), so I have to say it did change my mind. Basically if "I'm his son! he's autistic!" is part of the gag, I find it p. gross is exactly my feeling, and I'd kind of rather be naïve and gullible in this instance.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 April 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
Feeling really sad and shitty about the world now.
― emil.y, Friday, 29 April 2016 00:28 (seven years ago) link
listen to some Wesley Willis and feel better imo
― μpright mammal (mh), Friday, 29 April 2016 01:15 (seven years ago) link
Not Tingle but I admit I laughed
http://67.media.tumblr.com/0d63bf20e0b76ea90b3dea67931b3ae7/tumblr_o7hg1ioyhd1uorx89o1_500.jpg
― “Play shuffle board and drink bear!” (seandalai), Friday, 20 May 2016 23:05 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CvKeZgyVYAEEU9e.jpg
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 19 October 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
DOMALD TROMP JR. SLAMMED IN THE BUTT BY SECRET RUSSIAN MEETINGS AND GROSSLY INCOMPETENT COVER UP SHORTLY THEREAFTER https://t.co/q5RHfj34sF pic.twitter.com/XAZ1hRinZ2— Chuck Tingle (@ChuckTingle) July 17, 2017
Chuck Tingle for poet laureate
― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 17 July 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/
― mark s, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/9OkGXe1.png
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 28 June 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link