\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTingle\u2019s 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 \u201cpolitically correct degenerate art house nonsense\u201d and a refutation of the supposed dichotomy between that and \u201crollicking good fun.\u201d Vox\u2019s other choices, and the fact that he didn\u2019t go for (say) \u201cPounded in the Butt by my own Book, \u2018Pounded in the Butt by my own Butt\u2019\u201d shows that he\u2019s just including it as another throwaway joke at the expense of the process rather than putting much thought in at this level.\n\n(And of course Tingle IS a writer of throwaway jokes, just like say dril or Mallory Ortberg are. They\u2019re still influential and justifiably so.)\n\n(Tagging @prokopetz because he\u2019s 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.)\n\n\n\n\n\nI must reluctantly admit that Vox Day\u2019s influence on the world has not been ENTIRELY negative
\u201cWhen Tuck Bingle receives and email explaining that he\u2019s been nominated for science fiction literature\u2019s most prestigious award, he\u2019s 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.
\nTuck 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\u2019s heart.
\nSoon, 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!\u201d
\nI don\u2019t know who writes these, but they\u2019re amazing and I wish them the best of luck in their weird homoerotic endeavors.
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The Space Raptor Butt Invasion nomination is making fun of \u201cIf You Were A Dinosaur, My Love\u201d, which won the \u201813 Nebula for short story and was nominated for the \u201814 Hugo. A lot of the Puppies are of the opinion that it wasn\u2019t 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\u2019s the distilled symbol of what they stand against.
The joke is \u201cOh, you like dinosaurs-and-gayness themed crap? Well, this one\u2019s at least got fucking space in it.\u201d