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1 year, 2 months ago

dreaded allegations of self-pity and navel-gazing

Let us explain. Throughout our reading we noticed an interesting trajectory in your protagonists’ relation to you, the author. We have a straight white male, a straight white woman, a gay Thai American man, a wealthy white man, and a person of undecidable identity. We’re not questioning your right …

—p.249 Rejection Re: Rejection (249) by Tony Tulathimutte
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1 year, 2 months ago

dreaded allegations of self-pity and navel-gazing

Let us explain. Throughout our reading we noticed an interesting trajectory in your protagonists’ relation to you, the author. We have a straight white male, a straight white woman, a gay Thai American man, a wealthy white man, and a person of undecidable identity. We’re not questioning your right …

—p.249 Re: Rejection (249) by Tony Tulathimutte
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1 year, 2 months ago

because, first and most importantly, lol

Now why am I rehashing years-old Twitter wank? Because, first and most importantly, lol. But also, I was behind the whole thing. I generated the profile pics, I made the Pornhub accounts, I wrote the fanfic, I hired the actor who streamed as Chumpa. I wrote many of the outrageous takes about the in…

—p.229 Main Character (170) by Tony Tulathimutte
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1 year, 2 months ago

the shitpost is the opposite of self-expression

I started with the alt account I’d been using for years, @MadonnaHaraway, and soon achieved the amount of lvl. 99 brain where you can look at or9hniffva13n\qd0j3nf and as;kk jfdnakdjasjdfwda and tell which one is misspelled. I developed a palate for content, the highest caliber being the shitpost—t…

—p.217 Main Character (170) by Tony Tulathimutte
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1 year, 2 months ago

to exist without ordering the prix fixe

Fuck me, I just wanted to exist without ordering the prix fixe, be more than an infinitesimal coordinate in a million-dimensional matrix of demographics—identity, and its convenient synergy with personal branding, the caricature of you it puts in other people’s heads. Suppose it’s true: this idea t…

—p.211 Main Character (170) by Tony Tulathimutte