Absolutely No Thoughts Of Pounding During My Fun Day With This Kind T-Rex Because I'm Aromantic And Asexual And That's A Wonderfully Valid Way Of Proving Love Is Real

by Chuck Tingle

Michelle has been tasked with watching her friend’s dog, Lucky, over the weekend. It’s a simple task, but when Lucky escapes, things get complicated. Fortunately, Michelle finds help in a kind T-Rex named Lara, who accompanies Michelle on her journey across town in search of this missing pup. The quest brings these two into contact with all kinds of romantic tropes, from a bouquet of flowers, to a box of chocolates, to an evening at a gorgeous vineyard. Of course, none of that matters because Michelle is proudly aromantic and asexual, and soon enough she’s proving there are plenty of ways to find love, joy, passion and adventure without a shred of romantic love. Now the walls of meta reality are breaking down in a firm reminder that aromantic adventurers prove love is real in important and powerful non-romantic ways! This important tale is 4,500 words of blossoming platonic friendship between buds, including learning about each other, sharing a fun dinner with a box of chocolates as an appetizer, and riding a Ferris wheel at night without a shred of romance.

Genres: LGBT, Fiction, Short Stories, Humor, Asexual

39 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2021

About the author

Chuck Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Chuck was born in Home of Truth, Utah, and now splits time between Billings, Montana and Los Angeles, California. Chuck writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Chuck is true, but the important parts are.

Management and general inquiry: infotingleverse@gmail.com

Literary agent: DongWon at dongwonsong.com

Reviews

[S. Wigget · Rating 5 out of 5]

A few typos, but such fun.

[lil · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sometimes you find a corner of the internet that is so silly and wholesome and stupid and that corner is this book.

[dobbs the dog]

Oh dear, I don’t even know what to say about this book…
It was definitely something I read… Though I’m not sure if it’s a good representation of a Chuck Tingle book. I may need to read more to see…

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

As an aroace reader, I appreciate Tingle including people like me and educating his readers about is. However, this story doesn’t paint aros in the best light, featuring them screaming at people who don’t understand them and have probably never heard of their identities rather than educating them. (I mean, honestly, even an aro is going to assume a pair of people who show up for a wine tasting with a heart shaped box of chocolates is a couple.)

The back up story continues an uncomfortable scene copying an earlier book with an asexual character: the deliberate sexualization of a nonsexual scene. I know this part of the parody, but I believe it crosses a line of propriety when you’re pushing sexual things on your asexual characters so you allosexual audience can laugh about it.

[Maja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chuck Tingle as an author and their entire list of works is a piece of queer metatextual literary performance art that must be read to be believed. I had a great time with this and I wish all the best to all aroace people out there 💚🤍🖤

[Ulysses Bougie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Okay I’m definitely writing a short essay on this masterpiece of aromanticism and posthuman kinship

[Mia · Rating 5 out of 5]

What an absolute meme of a book. And, yes, I'll be counting it towards my reading goal because arbitrary limits are for the weak.

[Amanda Romreader · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another lovely little read by Dr Tingle. I especially loved how the bonus still gave us the classic Tingle ‘exertion scene’ without bringing anything sexual into it!

[Andrew Kline · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading about Chuck Tingle for about 15 minutes online this morning, I decided to give one of his asexual writings a try, and it was a delight! Gleefully meta, you can't help but smile at the blunt affirmations and blatant cracks at the expense of our culture of compulsory sexuality. I'm not sure his erotica would interest me much, but I'll definitely be checking out more of his plutonic fiction and his more recent novels.

[bella · Rating 1 out of 5]

.... no idea what i just read but i appreciate the author for writing a story with an aroace character :)

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[Ellis Billington · Rating 4 out of 5]

For most of this story, I thought I would just rate it a fun and fluffy three stars, but the ending was so Chuck Tingle in the best possible way that I’m bumping it up to four. Cute little romp!

[Hebep]

I have no words or ratings for this, just WTF 😂

[Paxton Orchard]

Huh.
That sure is a title.

[Beth Wiegand · Rating 5 out of 5]

😅

[Aria · Rating 4 out of 5]

This actually was the most educational book my group has read.

Romance can be anything, love can be anything. And being asexual and aromantic is valid. Until it turned meta. So meta even spiderverse side eyed it. You lost one star for that tingle. Overall good story.