#dr. tingle

[punkahudsonia]

I am about one third of the way into Camp Damascus and I feel so goddamned seen. As a neurodivergent Queer girl from Montana, as the survivor of an especially heinous and weird sect of Christianity, as a child whose sin and salvation was curiosity, as someone who had to survive all her frameworks crumbling under the weight of their untruths, I feel so goddamned fucking SEEN

And to know that I can trust @drchucktingle to tell this kind of story, to acknowledge all the ways my growing up was a kind of horror story, to scare and unsettle me and do it in a way that honors his Queer protagonist and all of us who were once in her shoes? You better fucking believe that this proves love.

#Camp Damascus #Dr Chuck Tingle world's greatest author #I would take a goddamned bullet for man name of Chuck

[charliejaneanders]

The latest episode of Our Opinions Are Correct is about queer horror...It's a scary time for LGBTQIA+ folks — and many of us are seeking out queer horror stories to help us get through it! To find out why, we talk to @drchucktingle, author of the upcoming Bury Your Gays. Plus what makes a soundtrack scary?

#podcasts #horror #queer horror #lgbtqi #lgbt #lgbtqia #trans #gay #chuck tingle #dr chuck tingle #bury your gays #camp damascus

[ahoymultiships]

"You seem to know what you're talking about, so have an offer l'd like you to consider," Ally starts. "Through my own current program, I'm eligible to sign up ten other recruiters under what's called a multi-level model."

Cracking up brb

#Camp damascus #Camp damascus spoilers #I'm so so happy I'm reading this book #Other reason: learning facts like why vultures tend to be bald #How fucking cool thank you dr chuck tingle

[tooquirkytolose]

I can't get up the courage to send an ask off anon, but I hope you had a good day today and also who's your current favorite character?

Currently as of this moment it's Rose Darling, the protagonist of Camp Damscus which I am currently reading because she is just SOO 😩👌

Neurodivergent queen, making note cards with fun facts for small talk at parties, very obviously gay and shoving it down, I'm only a quarter of the way thru the book but I hope she gets out of her weird christian cult town fingies crossed for my girlie ❤️

#dr chuck tingle is so fucking big brained for writing her like this

[power-handmaiden]

Day 35: Angry Man Pounded By The Fear Of His Latent Gayness Over A Dinosaur Transitioning Into A Unicorn

I love how much contempt for its characters this tingler starts off with. We have the iconic man/woman couple who are always the subject of conservative boomer humor about relationships, the emotionally unavailable man and his overbearing shrill wife, who don't even like each other, let alone love or show any attraction to each other. It feels like a caricature but it actually makes more sense when the man turns out to not actually be attracted to women, honestly.

This tingler aged... interestingly. The protagonist's crisis of sexuality is brought on by his attraction to Bort Jenkins, a unicorn athlete and reality TV star who was born as a dinosaur and recently transitioned to a unicorn. Clearly a stand-in for Caitlyn Jenner. (If my rudimentary research is correct, Bort's resemblance to her deadname is because this was written in that specific time period where she had come out as trans, but not publicly revealed her name yet.) She's a controversial figure for many reasons that I'm not going to get into now, but this comes from a time when people were pretty much just laser-focused on the trans thing. Bort isn't really a character who does anything in this story anyway, more of a news item for characters to discuss.

Another present day context that really changes how I read this story is the conservative furry panic of the past few years. Yes, the "if people can identify as other genders, what if they start identifying as ANIMALS?" dumbfuck made-up problem is much older, but it's really having a moment now. This story was an absurd concept when it was written but now we have real elected officials in the USA freaking out over the idea of people "identifying as" different species, bringing this story a whole lot closer to realism than anyone would've expected in 2015. To me, the message of this one feels closer to the conservative furry strawman than it does to real trans issues, especially with the whole "you're gay regardless of whether you're into human, unicorn or dinosaur men" thing; we're dealing with an issue of species transition where gender is static. (Truth be told, I don't think it was the best move to make a comparison to a real-life trans woman and make this point in association because I've seen how people misinterpret such things... but I'm sure Tingler readers in particular understand the abstraction and that this isn't applicable directly to the real person) I feel like a version of this story could be written today with the message of "what if the conservative strawman version of the furry fandom was real and not just a way of targeting queer people without saying you're targeting queer people? Would it really be that bad or even different of a world to live in?"

I'm interested to see how Dr. Tingle tackles trans issues in the future. Despite a couple things that read as dated to me I see a good foundation here from someone who is still working through his own feelings about gender identity. I know that future tinglers will have explicitly trans characters and the perspective of a trans author who has explored and introspected on his own gender identity more thoroughly.

(Also there's a tingleverse connection in this one: mention of the "first human player in the UFL" refers to the events of "Pounded By The Gay Unicorn Football Squad")

#chuck tingle #2024 tingles my butt #Every time I bring up Dr. Tingle's trans identity I have a little ??? moment on the pronouns I'm using #If I understood his post on preferred pronouns correctly then he/him is what he prefers still #It just. Feels like I'm doing something wrong when I'm explicitly referring to someone's transfem identity #But that's a me problem.

[memefever]

me after one good day

#meme #memes #funny #positive memes #funny memes #niche memes #memefever #196 #r196 #this meme might have been unconsciously influenced by chuck tingle because i love dr. tingle and his positivity posts <333

[thesnadger]

I perform two public services in this world. I make moderately short people feel tall, and I evangelize to people who only know Chuck Tingle as an internet meme that his work is unironically good.

#because it is #chuck tingle #dr tingle is a national treasure

[vunderjoy]

love wins(?)

#sonic the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #the ultimate life form #metal sonic #eggman #dr ivo robotnik #dr ivo eggman robotnik #ivo eggman robotnik #eggman robotnik #ivo robotnik #professor e gadd #elvin gadd #professor elvin gadd #luigi #luigi mario #luigis mansion #gooigi #gooigi mario #tingle legend of zelda #tingle #sonic.exe #orbot #cubot #orbot robotnik #cubot robotnik #wedding #just married #love wins #just hitched #gay love

[aurumacadicus]

Me: I want to like horror novels so badly 😭 But I'm so scared 🥺

Friend: Oh, well, if you want me to ease you into it, Stephen King has a lot of--

Me: This is about Chuck Tingle. I will not be reading Stephen King.

#me #real life tbh #books #reading #dr tingle im so scared but i want to read camp damascus so badly

[beardedmrbean]

#doge #le dr chuck tingle's english class has arrived

[stinkybreath]

“Dr Smith’s writhing is fairly stream of consciousness, documenting a scribbled impression of each session and marking a date at the top to keep things orderly. That’s all well and good for a therapist, but within seconds of reading through the freehand pages it becomes clear something unusual is going on.

These notes seem deeply preoccupied with my connection to the church, rather than any internal connection to myself. Dr Smith also appears completely unaware of my place on the autism spectrum.

My conscious mind was ignorant to the fact that I’m gay, but even I knew I was autistic.”

Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

#camp damascus #chuck tingle #YEEHAW I LOVE DR TINGLE

[chiropteracupola]

"LOVE IS REAL AND MOTHMAN IS REAL ALSO"

[some discussion with @natdrinkstea yesterday has led to the imagining-up of a Quest For A Legendary Chuck Tingle-Related Artifact, and who am I but a guy who cannot resist a silly idea when they see one?]

#em draws stuff #this is. sillygoofy. #but one must sillygoof with friends - what is more wonderful than that! #thought I ought to maintain some fidelity to the esteemed dr. tingle's style so the background Is an unsplash stock photo #and the mothman has both Defined Muscle and Jorts #but also it is an image that I was the the one constructing and so I could not resist a touch of roller skate knight magical-girl flair #despite the fact that This Is Nat the mothman here is Not me. is just a mothman. #under the readmore there is also a version without the background/text/sparklies as I am very very proud of this!

[krokodilsredimudil]

The Pumaman (1980) | Stranger things

It's the mind that controls (the powers), not the muscles

#stranger things #the pumaman 1980 #the pumaman also has a headache if he senses danger #something something will's neck tingles #also dr.cobras' mind control vs the shadow and its puppets #and the whole dr cobras 'you belong to me pumaman' is giving vecna-will (if we count the VR game as canon) #also the shadow-henry #'i've taken his will his powers but he's still resisting me' #also vecna-max #'when you die you don't suffer anymore' #thirddufferbrothering

[humanjeff]

today's pornbot

pounded in the ass by the abstract concept of evolution

#apologies to dr chuck tingle #the bots are using up all the good names at an alarming rate #todays pornbot

[willsweedwords]

i think chuck tingle should be president and tj klune should be vice president because dr tingle would lead with love and tj klune would fight anyone that tried to get in his way

#weed thoughts #tj klune #chuckle tingle #dr. chuck tingle #happy thoughts #in a perfect world

[power-handmaiden]

Day 32: Professor T-Rex Teaches Me Gayness

This is an interesting twist on the teacher/student fantasy, since the protagonist is not an enrolled student taking Professor T-rex's class for a grade, so the usual power imbalance of this kind of fantasy isn't there (either an upgrade or a downgrade depending on one's personal preferences, I suppose, but I'm into it.)

We also get a mention of bisexuality for the first time! And lesbianism, but that's not as relevant to the central story. Still happy to see an early acknowledgment of lesbians in the Tingleverse though! (I won't get to read a lesbian tingler til June. Keep me in your thoughts and prayers... the one that just released today looks SO GOOD...) Nice to see that Professor T-rex's scope of Gayness Studies extends to multiple identities.

Also. THE BUTTON from Shared By The Chocolate Milk Cowboys. Well, not the exact same one, this is clearly a different era in a different timeline... but it seems that the mechanics of the button rely some common law of gayness/physics in multiple layers of the Tingleverse and the president ordering the creation of the button is a specific event that both of these layers independently arrived at. Interesting.

#2024 tingles my butt #chuck tingle #This took a while to type. I originally expounded more from the bisexuality mention and talked abt older perceptions of Dr. Tingle #But talking abt identity like that is a minefield on queer internet #And also I felt conflicted on dredging up how shitty people were about not having a clear read on Dr. Tingle's sexuality back in the day #I think contrasting the context we had back then vs now is interesting esp wrt stories about being “turned gay” #But I don't trust myself to communicate clearly enough to do it justice