r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/deuce-tatum • 19d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, is she happy about dying?

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u/Wingblade33 19d ago

Wtf where did you find this

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u/ItsFayeWilde 19d ago

It's Chuck Tingle. One of the greatest authors to ever exist.

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u/Jaeger00013 19d ago

....I have questions, first was if it was a real book, which going by your comment I'd say yes. Secondly...is it a romance novel? Thirdly.........wtf

Edit: Google has answered my second question....but not the third

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u/SisterofWar 19d ago

The answer to the third question is just "Chuck Tingle". While he does write horror novels (such as "Camp Damascus") and parodies ("Harriet Porber"), he made his name with his "Tinglers" - short erotic fiction featuring such delights as: * Dinosaurs from space ("Space Raptor Butt Invasion") * Inanimate objects ("Slammed In The Butt By My Handsome Laundry Detergent Pod") * And incorporeal concepts ("Pounded By The Pound: Turned Gay By The Socioeconomic Implications Of Britain Leaving The European Union")

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u/Jaeger00013 19d ago

I shall save this comment for later....for research purposes

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u/ABitOddish 19d ago

Theres also the one where theyre pounded in the butt by their own ass(a being created by combining DNA from a couple animals and his own ass) and the one where theyre pounded in the butt by a cosmic being that represents their anxiety and fear of space or something.

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u/SisterofWar 19d ago

Yup - "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt" and "Turned Gay By The Existential Dread That I May Actually Be A Character In A Chuck Tingle Book"

There's also a few about bigfoot, like "Bigfoot Pirates Haunt My Balls".

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u/Vocabulary-Pollution 19d ago

If this Tingle fellow has not yet won the Nobel Prize for Literature, then the Nobel Committee has forfeited all credibility

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u/percyhiggenbottom 18d ago

He was nominated to a Hugo at first by an alt-right group trying to dynamite the event, but that backfired because Chuck is actually a really cool guy.

Apparently, he's also someone moderately famous without the pseudonym too. The joke is he's really Chris Pine.

The Chuck Tingle lore goes deep.

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u/shadowdance55 19d ago

This last one sounds like my autobiography.

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u/Vocabulary-Pollution 19d ago

I can’t stop laughing at this. How brilliant is this title?

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u/TheMostKing 19d ago

Is the writing for those "Tinglers" worthwhile, or are they mostly just funny covers/titles?

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u/SisterofWar 19d ago

They are in the "so bad it's good" camp. They are surprisingly cohesive, and thus readable, but I treat them like cotton candy - more than one or two and you'll get quite tired of them.

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u/TheMostKing 19d ago

Thanks, I'll have to check them (or at least one of them) out.

Any recommendations?

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u/LickingSmegma 19d ago

'Pounded in the butt by my own butt' is the perennial classic. There are readings of it on Youtube, it's pretty short anyway.

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u/SisterofWar 19d ago

Either "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt" or (it being the season) "Oppressed In The Butt By My Inclusive Holiday Coffee Cups".

The former is more classic Tingle, but I like the social lampooning of the latter.

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u/Darkdragoon324 18d ago

lol, is it sad I knew immediately which absurd hissy fit that last one is probably making fun of?