I know it made it up to #6 at one point. Being a pre-existing fan of both Trigun and This is How You Loose the Time War made this especially enjoyable.
I’m just going to add some more Twitter screencaps I pasted into the groupchat.
The producer of Trigun Stampede. (No word from Nightow yet, I checked.)
A literary agent. To be precise, the agent of at least one of the authors of Time War.
Slate, posting their article about the whole thing.
A frenzy of mutual adoration and signed hardcover offers.
Other authors want in on the Bigolas Dickolas goodness.
Dongwon again.
Saw this on Twitter and HAH.
Bigolas Dickolas is now Alexander the Great.
And finally, the forecast is good for a livestream of Max and Amal watching Trigun.
This is apparently still unfolding! Tumblr “news” is sometimes 5 years old so I wasn’t sure 😂 The latest - it’s up to #3!!
LMFAOO YEAH I JUST SAW IT HIT #3 been trying to keep this post updated but didn’t want to spam, and the speed at which these things have been happening is beautifully astounding so:
trigun, following bigolas dickolas, has also become a trending topic in business and finance
and the situation very much escaping online confinement xD
A significant number of hours later (and too much to summarize):
Time War summary: reached #3 on Amazon overall, #1 (and 2, And 3) in science fiction romance, #3 in lit and fiction, social media presence overseas, and-
printing with a bigolas dickolas sleeve and so much more
And then after tweeting @ dark horse for a potential trigun maximum (trimax) reprint due to the eng verison being out of print for several years by this point:
so everything can now basically be summed by by this tweet!
(I don’t know if i’ll keep updating this thread considering how many branches there are and idk how much more this can escalate, but I’m keeping an eye on the situation so we’ll see!!)
For those asking what time war is about, per Mr. Bigolas’s post: DO NOT look up anything about it. Just read it.
For those asking about trigun, it is an amazing manga, anime adaptation, and new reboot anime.
Matilda (movie) remake where Trunchbull looks like one of those hyper feminine bleach blonde Republican women you see on talk shows as the token girl/eye candy. And then Miss Honey is a soft-hearted, handy, tie-wearing Butch.
It is so so important that Miss Honey is also fat.
There are disabled people who can’t brush their teeth, wash their faces, brush their hair everyday. Who can’t shower often. Who don’t always have clean clothes to wear because they can’t keep up with laundry. They deserve respect and support.
A housewife takes a lover during the day, while her husband is at work. Not aware that 9 year old son was hiding in the closet. Her husband came home unexpectedly, so she hid her lover in the closet. The boy now has company.
Boy: ‟Dark in here.” Man: ‟Yes it is.” Boy: ‟I have a baseball.” Man: ‟That’s nice.” Boy: ‟Want to buy it?” Man: ‟No, thanks.” Boy: ‟That’s my dad outside.” Man: ‟How much did you say the baseball was again?” Boy: ‟$250.”
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the mom’s lover are in the closet together.
Boy: ‟Dark in here.” Man: ‟Yes, it is..” Boy: ‟I have a baseball glove.” Man: ‟That’s nice.” Boy: ‟Want to buy it?” Man: ‟No, thanks.” Boy: ‟I think I just remembered something I needed to tell my dad.” Man: ‟How much did you say the glove was again?” Boy: ‟$750.” Man: ‟Fine.”
A few days later, the father says to the boy, ‟Grab your glove. Let’s go outside and toss the baseball!” The boy says, ‟I can’t. I sold them.” The father asks, ‟How much did you sell them for?” The son says, ‟$1,000.” The father says, ‟It’s terrible to over-charge your friends like that. That is way more than those two things cost. I’m going to take you to church and make you confess.”
They go to church and the father alerts the priest and makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and closes the door.
The boy says, ‟Dark in here.” The priest says, ‟Do not start that shit again.”
@lgbtqcreators creator meme: [5/8] lgbtq+ celebs “I had to free my own mind of what, at that time, what I felt like masculine adrogynous energy looks like. I was living in my own binary, and I was like there’s no way that I can be androgynous with bigger boobs now. How I feel inside is the thing that I needed to work through.” — JANELLEMONÁE
Anyway I’ll never forget that 22 hour bus ride to Alabama to help my friend get married and one of the legs of the journey I was on the bus with my (clearly labelled, well behaved) service dog at my side and people were throwing a huge stink about the fact that I had my dog and then this ancient dude in a wheelchair, double amputee both legs, pipes up and tells them to shut the fuck up and leave me alone because Creed was obviously trained and then once everyone quieted down and I was able to take a seat, asked me quietly if I was okay.
He also could have been a cartoon character because I could have sworn there were little winged hearts floating above his head as he told me he’d always liked dogs but of course now he’s old and can’t walk so he can’t get one anymore but he could tell how much Creed loved me and I him etc etc
He never asked me once what my disability was. He spoke up for me when he didn’t have to. A truly old white man in Georgia saw a young black person with a “dangerous dog” breed and spoke up in my defense.
If you want to claim to be a disability advocate, that means you kind of have to. Advocate for each other. For the next 4 or so hours, this man and I had each other’s backs. Two disabled people on a Greyhound filled with ableist passengers who were not happy we couldn’t exist somewhere they didn’t havr to accomodate. It didn’t matter what our pasts or our diagnoses were. We were stronger together, so that’s what we stayed. Together.
Two people banded together and the rest of the bus shut their mouths. Imagine what we could do with more of us.
hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)
First of all, how do you think Pride events fund themselves and stay free for attendees? O.o Vendor fees aren’t all of it - a lot of money comes from sponsors - but like… we paid $1300 to vend at Seattle Pride this year. That’s the money that pays the people who work to make Pride happen. That is not free. Pride as an event does not just magically happen. A lot of people work really hard to make Pride happen and to clean up after it.
We’re a small trans-owned company and 100% of our employees are trans & queer. We jokingly refer to Pride as “Gay Christmas”. The money we make during Pride means we stay open, Pride events get vendor fees, and our employees get paid for the rest of the year. This company does not exist without Pride events. The only reason we survived as a company during COVID is because my wife has a stable, good IT job.
This shit isn’t free to do. It does not just magically happen. Performers need to get paid. Tech crew needs to get paid. Equipment needs to be rented for performers. Stages need to be rented. Electrical services need to be paid for so food can happen. Ice and water cost money. Trash pickup costs money.
A lot of people volunteer and donate, but festivals and big community events? They cost money, and the money we pay to be able to vend is part of how Pride events happen. Without that, small queer businesses like @nerdykeppie don’t survive and the only people putting their money in to make this happen, AND MONEY NEEDS TO CHANGE HANDS FOR EVENTS TO HAPPEN, are Smirnoff and fucking Wells Fargo.
For fuck’s sake. Y'all want small queer businesses, but you really don’t want us to actually survive, do you?
I think that commenter is confused about what rainbow capitalism actually is.
Rainbow capitalism is when uncaring corporations blast rainbow things on their products to get queers to buy them, while not actually doing anything to help queer people. Rich cishets getting millions of off a minority group.
Meanwhile, in regards to nerdykeppie? A small business owned by queer people, that makes products for the queer community that the people involved are a part of. Buying their stuff is supporting the queer community, which is a GOOD thing to happen during pride month.
And for fuck’s sake, where else are we supposed to find things that help us proclaim who we are if not by buying them from independent queer-run businesses? I mean, I’ve got a shirt that tells people I’m a genderqueer bisexual Star Trek nerd, and I promise you Target isn’t going to sell that- but when I emailed NerdyKeppie about the possibility of getting one of their designs done for that, I literally got an email back an hour later saying “Here you go, it’s up on the website to buy it.” Shouting down people making a living by giving the community what it wants and needs is just not a helpful way to do anything.
Yo for real on Sunday night when I was guarding our stuff during load out so Evie and Emet could go get the van and all, I sat on one of the benches at Seattle Center & watched a flock of seagulls and a murder of crows flutter down and start picking through the drifts of trash left behind for stray French fries and bits of bread and other food. There was so much trash scattered across the ground.
And that’s not… like… an indictment of queers in specific (though, truly, clean up after yourself) but that’s just what happens when there are thousands of people in one place. People drop things and don’t realize it, drop a piece of paper or food and then go “ew, it’s gross now, I don’t want to pick it up” or just don’t give a fuck.
Someone has to clean that up. That costs money, because the someones cleaning that up deserve to be paid.
We’re planning on going to a smallish Pride event in September in coastal WA. We’ll pay $30 in vendor fees but we’ll probably also drop a couple hundred bucks on sponsorship, bc that’s us giving back to the community that supports us.
Y'all have GOT to learn how to separate “rainbow capitalism” from “intracommunity support.” If your money isn’t going back into the community, it’s going out of the community.
Glad this is being talked about. Our local trans pride org did not get city council funding this year. They will go ahead and run events, but they’re having to fund-raise and clearly there’ll be significant limits to what they can do.
I think people don’t always realise how tenuous the public funding and even corporate sponsorship for these things can be, especially in a climate of redoubled transphobia. We’ve already seen some big brands climb down or be ambivalent in promoting their own Pride collections this year.
Also, re: artists and makers and service providers: there is a ton of disability, neurodivergence and mental ill health across our community. It’s not cheap being disabled, and yet contrary to the media stereotypes of well-heeled gay people, most community members I personally know are just getting by.
I know a lot of queer and trans folks who have jobs making stuff not just for the love of it, but because they can’t rely on stable employment from organisations (and not just the obviously capitalistic ones - it’s also the universities, and the health sector, for example) that may turn their logos rainbow in June, but maintain ableist hiring, disciplinary and firing policies year-round. I am seeing this dichotomy at work very painfully in the lives of loved ones at the moment.
Supporting disabled queer and trans artists and makers to pay their bills isn’t rainbow capitalism, it’s praxis, AND you get cool things to wear to Pride, which from what I’ve seen online this year, are often a lot more interesting from a design point of view, and more representative of intersectional identities, than the big brands’ Pride gear.
They’re also often where you will find subtle Pride stuff if safety is a big consideration (I think that’s true for a lot of us) and you want to be visible only to the right people. That’s not a thing I’ve seen in the chain store Pride collections…
This bit, but also - even if you’re not immediately part of a community, it’s worth exploring ways to make money go into it.
Also like I’ve had one person my own age say to me that she thinks that if pride gets big enough for sponsors that it shouldn’t happen.
I think that rainbow capitalism is an issue but like it costs over £1,700,000 to put on pride in London, the mayor provides some money but like, it’s one of the biggest free events in the world now with over 1.5 million people attending. Even if you cancelled most of the events there would still be a lot of rubbish and professional stewards needed (though most are volunteers) Pride is not a profit making institution (C. I. C.) they use all the funds to put on pride and have started a unity fund to donate to smaller pride organisations.
The more people a company has the more it costs them to be in the parade, community groups get in for almost free. Fundraisers wander the crowds for donations.
I think that you can’t make something of this size entirely community funded, unless very rich gays wanted to (pls Elton?) because like, even though if only half the attendees donated £5 it would be totally funded, people just don’t donate. One year it struggled so much with funding that floats were basically banned which is bad for disability.
There should always be more community driven things and big prides need to listen to the community (this year the theme of pride in London is “never march alone - we stand with our trans family” and the cops no longer march in the parade since last year) but we have to understand the limitations of when things get large compared to small events. People thinking that events management is easy is how fyre fest and dashcon happened.
I gotta emphasise that even the pretty harmless big businesses in the parade do look like big stupid adverts, but if you think of them as big milkable cash cows who splash their gay milk all over the place so that the pups, lgbt travelers and dykes on bikes have a big safe parade to wave their flags around, then it’s at least a bit better, for a single day.
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