(Timeline Tuesday #141)
Cluebick’s are a mysterious creature from a distant layer of reality. From our perspective, they are almost unrecognizable as a lifeform, defying categorization in many ways. It is unknown how or where cluebicks gain sustenance, and they do not appear to have a lifespan or a clear reproductive process.
This species is a wall of floating cubes in a four by four arrangement. Cluebicks hover anywhere from an inch to five feet off of the ground, and ...
2024-04-09 14:03:08 +0000 UTC
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GREETINGS BUCKAROOS. today marks the release of new audiobook for LADYBUCK ON LADYBUCK: SEVEN LESBIAN TALES OF THE TINGLEVERSE VOLUME 4 and as tradition that means i will take a story from this collection and put it up here on patreon. i started going through the titles, however, and had a slow creeping realization. HAD ALL THESE ONES ALREADY BEEN POSTED?
as i trotted down the list and checked i actually skipped over MY MACARONI AND CHEESE IS A LESBIAN ALSO SHE IS MY LAWYER because i th...
2024-04-08 18:08:04 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #140)
(AUTHOR'S NOTE: this timeline tuesday trotted in a DAY LATE i am sorry buckaroos its been busy here in the tingleverse. got a lot of projects cookin up. that is the thing about timelines though sometimes they trot along ahead of schedule and sometimes they are slow and show up a day behind. LOVE IS REAL)
Eye-eye-eyes are a bizarre species of spherical, floating observers from a distant timeline. They are approximately five feet across, alt...
2024-04-03 14:42:51 +0000 UTC
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Polly is feeling uninspired, not just with her art, but with her whole life. Fortunately, she’s got an Easter breakfast to attend with some friends, and she’s hoping a little socializing will kick her inner muse into high gear.
The party features and adult Easter egg hunt, and soon enough Polly finds herself frantically searching for these small plastic eggs that have been hidden around her f...
2024-03-31 14:39:54 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #139)
For as unique as they are, pillbugs hail from a surprisingly close timeline. These creatures are small insects with semi-oval, pill-shaped bodies that measure approximately half an inch long. They have ten pointy legs, five on each side, which carry them across various surfaces in a slow, crawling wave. The front of a pillbug hosts eight yellow eyes and a small mouth, and their color depends on the specific breeding circumstances of each creature. They a...
2024-03-26 15:03:42 +0000 UTC
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as a buckaroo who does not have what you would call TRADITIONAL DAY JOB, weekends do not have the same meaning to me that they do for most of my buds. the majority of buckaroos wait with excitement for these days of freedom to arrive, but when saturday and sunday roll around what i usually think is: ‘dang i cant go to the grocery store today because its gonna be too busy’ or ‘ill save that postoffice trip until tuesday afternoon.’ in other words weekends are kind of a dang bummer for ...
2024-03-24 16:03:23 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #138)
Despite appearing similar to the natural books of our timeline, hookbooks are actually a species of hard-shelled invertebrate. The creatures can range in coloration, but are usually found in a distinct shade of blood-red. Their dimensions can also vary, but rarely do they stray from what’s expected of a standard hardcover book. When a hookbook is lying in wait and disguising its true nature, there is not much else to describe. The only giveaway is that...
2024-03-19 14:14:37 +0000 UTC
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Mark doesn’t think much about the "Twenty-Two and You" kit that he sent off a few weeks ago. He know that he comes from a long line of Buckarooians. When the results arrive, however, Mark is shocked to discover that he’s actually an Irish American.
Struggling to find his place within this new identity, Mark goes all out for St. Patrick’s Day, but after the dyed food makes everyone si...
2024-03-17 13:56:43 +0000 UTC
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old chuck has been planning to post a classic tingler on here (i try to make sure there is a tingler every week along with timeline tuesday. sometimes that is NEW tingler and sometimes that means a classic revisit). anyway i was thinkin on: what book should i post today? and that has been my morning way
chuck has huge folder of all my dang tinglers and it is pretty fun to look at this folder fill up over the years, but it is also not the easiest to actually SEE what the heck is in there...
2024-03-13 21:08:42 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #137)
Sadas are an incredibly unique and bizarre species of sentient object from a nearby timeline. In many ways they resemble a standard living coda can, and those with an untrained eye may assume that’s exactly what they are. However, sadas are much more.
Physically, these creatures stand at approximately five feet tall. They are cylindrical in shape, with a long, rounded body that’s constructed by aluminum. Sadas sport arms and legs in the places ...
2024-03-12 16:30:10 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #136)
Orms are a species of enormous, spherical beings who have evolved from citrus fruits to create a highly intelligent species of psionic entities. When born, they are approximately the size of a basketball, but a fully grown orm will typically measure five feet across. Orm bodies are a hue of deep orange and they are covered by thick leathery skin. The creatures have large lips, which rest parted just enough to see a long row of enormous, white teeth. Thei...
2024-03-05 15:10:06 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #135)
Angler ducks are a species of subterranean, aquatic bird that arrived on our timeline several decades ago and have since integrated into our ecosystem. They are covered in feathers and, in many ways, behave similar to the natural ducks of our timeline. This species features two webbed feet which are useful when swimming, and a long flat bill for catching their prey of small amphibians, insects and fish. Angler duck coloration is always a deep shade of sl...
2024-02-27 17:37:18 +0000 UTC
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GREETINGS BUCKAROOS as you may have heard CAMP DAMASCUS is nominated for a bram stoker award this year. this is biggest literary award in horror and i am so deeply moved by this recognition. thank you horror writers association you have prov...
2024-02-22 16:15:16 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #134)
Targon Blooms are a dangerous and invasive intelligent fungus from the “Targon” timeline, which is a name chosen by the targon bloom itself. This species is slow growing, requiring plenty of moisture but very little sun to replicate. The caps of this fungus sport a distinct color pattern that alternates between orange and light blue.
This particular pattern is the most power feature of a targon bloom, creating a hypnotic effect on anyone who wi...
2024-02-20 13:39:11 +0000 UTC
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It’s Valentine’s Day and, after a terrible shipping mishap, Morbo is on the hunt for another gift before this evening’s big date. Fortunately, Morbo manages to pull some strings and suddenly finds himself with a sentient rose and violet who are excited to make this Valentine’s Day a special one.
As the night goes on, however, it quickly becomes apparent that Morbo’s date is not a...
2024-02-14 15:19:18 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #133)
Xelprex are an enormous species of predatory, carnivorous insect. As adults they stand approximately twenty-five feet tall, and are covered in a hard, protective carapace. Their bodies are long and slender, featuring a long tail that extends behind the creature and is often used to spear and whip their prey. The creatures legs have barbed claws, and their arms extend into similar hooks that serve to tear and slash. The head of a xelprex is flat and round...
2024-02-13 14:48:05 +0000 UTC
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hey there buckaroos. i will go on record as saying i am partial to way of VALENTINES DAY. most (maybe all) major holidays at this point have evolved into massive rumbling corporations drivin by devils to sell as much PRODUCT AND CONTENT as possible, so i cannot really call out valentines day for this way because it is true of them all. i still enjoy holidays on a personal level regardless, moved by the way we have these SPECIFIC DAYS where everyone agrees to come together and celebrate someth...
2024-02-07 15:43:47 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #132)
Dreamkeepers are large mammalian creatures hailing from a nearby timeline. They are approximately fifteen feet tall, but seen from the ground it is often difficult to determine a dreamkeeper’s actual size. This species is covered in bright pink fur, sporting a humanoid body with two arms, two legs and a single head from which their long, floppy ears hang. Some have said that dreamkeepers bear a distinct resemblance to rabbits, although it might be more...
2024-02-06 16:43:18 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #131)
Jarlarks are a species of small, semi-transparent humanoids standing anywhere between two to ten inches in height. They come in a variety of shapes, but the most common forms are cylindrical and cubic. Still, there are several features that remain consistent across the species. Jarlarks have two arms and two legs, each sporting three fingers or toes and featuring a pale blue hue. They have no mouth, nose or ears, but have a pair of orange eyes set agains...
2024-01-30 16:39:41 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #130)
Moworms are large, invertebrate herbivores from a nearby timeline. They are long and flat in structure, with bodies that are approximately two feet wide and eight feet long. They are pale yellow in coloration, with a lumpy, multi-humped back. The creatures have large green eyes on either side of their head, and enormous nostrils positioned at the front. Their teeth are razor sharp, positioned flat against the ground.
Using their incredible sense of...
2024-01-23 16:42:44 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #129)
Vortraxes are a species of sentient energy from a distant timeline. It is believed their home reality is a place without physical matter, a plane constructed entirely from energetic forces colliding and rupturing. Vortraxes are visually represented in this reality as a constantly swirling disk of force, a light blue display of energy with a soft yellow interior. It is believed by some that staring into a vortrax long enough will reveal the vague semblanc...
2024-01-16 14:08:56 +0000 UTC
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as you buckaroos probably know chuck has had a HECK OF A WEEK. all kinds of things have been swirling around me like a tornado and you can read about them in this post. while i have personally had some great times trotting around texas in my younger days, i would prefer not to think about ...
2024-01-14 16:33:29 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #128)
Birghtbulbs are a humanoid species from a distant timeline, and while their existence is quite different from humans in many ways, they are also incredibly similar in others. From the neck down, the bodies of this species are almost indistinguishable from our own, featuring two arms, two legs, ten fingers, ten toes, and a covered by a similar mammalian skin. They walk upright, and have a similar size and posture to natural humans. The most apparent diffe...
2024-01-09 23:46:20 +0000 UTC
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just when you buckaroos thought 2024 would be a break from book drama, here comes chuck tingle in the mix. recently i was asked to be a featured speaker at the TEXAS LIBRARY ASSOCIATION annual conference. a few days ago they rescinded my invitation. here is what happened.
i would like to start off by saying it is not my intent to...
2024-01-09 19:43:00 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #127)
Steam lizards are small reptilian creatures from a nearby timeline. As the name implies, they are lizards, and for the most part this species carries all of the usual characteristics you would expect from this family of animals. They are relatively flat, with four legs and a long tail that extends behind their scaly bodies. They are cold blooded, and lay eggs as part of their natural lifecycle.
Steam lizard diets consist of insects and small rodent...
2024-01-02 18:51:02 +0000 UTC
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it is that time of year buckaroos, that long moment between christmas hoiday and new years where everything seems to enter a strange limbo of cold nothing. well of course it is not ACTUALLY nothing, i have peeked at nothingness before (name of THE VOID) and it is no dang fun, so that is a bit of an exaggeration because life trots on and there is still plenty of fun to be had.
in fact, it is ALL a bit of an exaggeration. the world has not stopped and the cold is no more bitter than befor...
2023-12-28 23:11:48 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #126)
Phaseloks are strange, pale green humanoids from a distant, unknown timeline. They stand at approximately five feet tall and sport eight jointed appendages, two of which they use like legs for walking, and six more that act as arms. Despite this, the construction of each limb is exactly the same, and each of these arms or legs ends with two digits at the terminus. They have remarkably spherical heads, which feature four evenly placed eyes at the front in...
2023-12-26 18:18:35 +0000 UTC
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Monica is traveling home for the holidays, and this year she’s ready for all the chaos this trip entails. Unfortunately, nothing could’ve prepared Monica for just how wild this journey really is, and soon enough she’s locked in a dangerous race to the airport with little time to spare.
When Monica arrives she finds utter pandemonium, along with a sentient plane who’s just trying he...
2023-12-20 22:56:16 +0000 UTC
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(Timeline Tuesday #125)
Hailing from the same timeline as snowsharks, the snowsquid is a massive invertebrate predator that should be considered extremely dangerous and avoided at all cost. These creatures appear similar to the squids of our reality, although they are much larger in size, sometimes reaching lengths of seventy feet. These creatures are stark white in coloration, which allows them to blend with their surroundings. They have a flat body that leads to the creature...
2023-12-19 18:47:16 +0000 UTC
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When Jenny notices mistletoe hanging at the Christmas party she’s attended, a thought suddenly crosses her mind: mistletoe is a little problematic, isn’t it?
Demanding people kiss just because they’re caught under this holiday plant seems wrong to Jenny, and she’s determined to set things right by hanging a sign that explains the kissing part is optional. Unfortunately, when Jenny ...
2023-12-14 14:57:58 +0000 UTC
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