Tales From Nameless Places/Powerful Spaces

& Other works by someone who writes way too much to not try to make it a thing. 2021 Schedule: "The Kishu Ken", a breed history and resource in the English language. (Non-Fiction) "Tales From Nameless Places/Powerful Spaces", a collection of suspenseful short stories with supernatural elements involving liminality, nature, and the unknown. (Fiction) Tentative: "Kishu Ken: History & Illustrated Standard", a history of show winners, foundation dogs, and an illustrated standard for the international market. Outline and research in progress. 2 untitled urban fantasy novels to be released as companion pieces, still in outline and first draft.

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It has happened.

I have purchased Trans Wizard Harriet Porber and the Bad Boy Parasaurolophus

Will provide updates

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IT’S HERE

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I’m going to start it pretty soon. I’m for some reason locked out of my student account and email and IT was no help as usual, so what is there to do except read a parody romance novel written specifically to spite J.K. Rowling?

Chuck Tingle has more or less become a meme because of his bizarre titles and covers and because of the Hugo fiasco, but I’ve heard relatively little about what it’s like to actually read his work and I frankly have no idea what to expect or if I should go into this with expectations at all

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This book is…surprisingly easy to take seriously as a book. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. But it’s like. A Book and not just an extended joke. Like on some level it’s not particularly terribly written nor does the plot like, completely exist in service to the…whatever humor is derived from the self-aware absurdity of the premise

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AFSGFBCHH??

I love that he’s not even described as a humanoid dinosaur. He’s just sexy goth tattooed Severus snape and he’s also a parasaurolophus and we are left to just figure it out

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I have to talk about what is going on with the worldbuilding. Like this is a parody. Of Harry Potter. But there’s an entirely different magic system and….everything???

In summary

there doesn’t appear to be a statute of secrecy type thing magic is just fully integrated with the modern world and modern technology

Harriet is a wizard, but that means that she creates spells by typing them out in long manuscripts, which on one level is a nod to the book publishing industry but on another level is kind of interesting in of itself

there’s a??? spellcasting industry??

there are different types of magic users other than wizards, and they appear to be based on the d&d classes

or at least, bards exist and they are distinct from wizard

the dinosaur is a bard

Bigfeet exist and they are integrated with modern society

there are sentient motorcycles and no one finds this in any way unusual

THE DINOSAUR IS A BARD?!?!?!

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…Warlocks in this world get their powers from a pact with Chuck Tingle

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The fourth wall break is killing me.

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The sexy dinosaur is also trans

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As much as I love skillfully crafted satire that takes deft jabs at the flaws of the thing it’s lampooning, there’s also something charming about how every character in this book has a name blatantly and hilariously derived from a Harry Potter character regardless of how most of their roles in the story barely resemble anything like characters in Harry Potter.

…You know, I’m not even sure Chuck Tingle has read Harry Potter.

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I’m back to reading. Does chocolate milk have intoxicating effects on sentient motorcycles??

…sentences I never thought I’d write

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um im lowkey getting feels from this like there are some genuinely emotionally resonant bits in here what the fuck

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chuck tingle’s magic system is unironically better than jk Rowling’s I’m sorry

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I’m so sorry to sample the sex scene but. “sexualis secondus” just killed me. I have been pronounced dead by this book. im obliterated this is indescribable

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I.

I literally have no idea how to describe what I’m experiencing right now. Like this is a somewhat poorly edited parody adult dinosaur romance novel but. It’s genuinely?? Creative?? In a lot of ways???? And there’s a lot of heart to it, a lot of genuine powerful messages about identity and about art and creativity and the fourth-wall-breaking device is…I can’t explain it because that would spoil it but it’s actually pulled off so well?????

This is not like, a humorous joke story this guy did for Being a Little Shit and Spite reasons, it’s like actually in its themes and message a genuine “fuck you” to j.k. Rowling’s transphobia even though it’s this absolutely wild janky batshit story and I have never experienced anything like this in my LIFE

I did not expect my adhd little heart to be touched by understanding of my fears about creativity and writing and its place in my life. Not like this. What the fuck. What the fuck.

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[gertiecraign]

I think we should all get some of Chuck’s books and start writing fanfic in the Chuck Tingle fandom to honor this glorious human’s work.

[cjmightwrite]

Just when you think you've escaped the pressures of office life, you gotta get hit with this long suffering stare from your own dang dog.

[cjmightwrite]

“The Kishu Ken”, a breed history and resource by C.J. McCammon, tentative release Fall 2021

[cjmightwrite]

The trees watched with unblinking eyes. Staggered footfalls broke twigs and dry leaves underneath their heavy weight. Kelly thought there was a quiet and judgmental intensity to those eyes as they tracked his progress through the forest. He was keenly aware they weren’t the only ones watching him struggle. That knowledge alone could have made him sweat with anticipation… but he knew that wasn’t the only reason his collar and sides were damp. Kelly looked down to his arms and adjusted his cargo. It was a bundle of spindly limbs and a grossly elongated torso which resolved into the shape of another man who could have afforded to be twice his size by any measure. Harlan was unnervingly light but the journey had been long and there had been some time since Kelly had last managed any hike, let alone one over hills and streams and into the crags.

Tales From Nameless Places/Powerful Spaces: August, 1st Draft

[robertmitchum]

what do you do for a living?

I exist against my will.